Imagine a Hillsdale that taught the “Aeneid” without training students in Latin, or read the “Iliad” but didn’t encourage the study of Greek, or assigned short stories from Jorge Louis Borges but never led students to delve deeper into the study of Spanish. 

Now remember that Hillsdale students will often study the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Machiavelli solely in translation. The college doesn’t yet count proficiency in Italian towards fulfilling the core curriculum’s BA language requirements, let alone offer an Italian minor or major.