Ohio University's Modern Languages Department designed two sequences of courses in French and Spanish for students in journalism and communication. The six-course programs provide curricula based on print and broadcast media, and stress listening, reading, and speech skills. The program was begun to encourage journalism students to pursue professionally useful language study and to coordinate with the incentive provided by journalism school and language department foreign internships. Enthusiastic support was found in the journalism school, and a federal grant was obtained to implement the program. Other preparations included coordinated scheduling with the journalism program, production of a recruitment brochure, preregistration advising, and participation in precollege orientation. Retention during the program's first year has been good. Instructional techniques use video recordings from satellite transmissions, audio recordings, foreign newspapers and magazines, the computer laboratory, and a review grammar text in a variety of exercises. Guest native speakers and journalists with international experience are also invited to address and participate in classes. The program has been found to a strong student motivator, to have brought visibility to the language department, and to have produced a frutiful collaboration with the journalism school. (MSE)