Department of Languages

In memoriam: Robert Mixon, professor emeritus

Robert Mixon

Robert Floyd Mixon, 85, widower of Louise Brown Mixon, died Sunday, February 19, 2017. Born in Clemson, he was a son of the late George Floyd and Mildred Cochran Mixon. Bob was a graduate of Calhoun-Clemson High School. He was a 1954 graduate of Clemson University and earned a Master’s Degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. A U.S. […]

Clemson ranks high in African Americans who earn language degrees

Study Abroad in Ecuador

Clemson ranks 16th in the nation in the number of African American undergraduate students earning a foreign language degree in 2016, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Clemson ranked 19th in 2015 and 35th in 2013. Since 2010, the magazine has published rankings of the top 100 institutions that confer the most degrees to minority […]

In memoriam: Roger Simpson, retired faculty

The Department of Languages mourns the death of Roger Simpson, a retired Senior Lecturer of Spanish. He passed away on February 4, 2017 at the age of 62. Roger was a graduate of Clemson University, where he received his Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages and M.Ed. After having taught Spanish at the high school level […]

L&IH students do internships at Seville hospital

L&IH students at the Victoria Eugenia Hospital in Seville.

Language and International Health (L&IH) students studying abroad in Seville, Spain through the Centro Internacional de Estudios Culturales (CINECU) have the opportunity to do internships at the Victoria Eugenia Hospital. The three-month, 135-hour internship allows students to directly observe the structural and functional organization of the healthcare system in Andalusia. These internships were facilitated by the Institute […]