Languages and Literature Studies in the Division of Arts and Humanities

Words, words, and words....

The study of languages and literatures in the Division of Arts and Humanities encompasses stunning variety. This division offers language-related majors in Celtic Studies, Chinese, Classical Languages, Comparative Literature, Dutch, English, Film Studies, French, German, Greek, Hispanic Languages and Bilingual Issues, Iberian, Italian Studies, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latin American, Luso-Brazilian, Near Eastern Studies, Rhetoric, Scandinavian, Slavic Languages and Literatures, South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Spanish and Spanish American.

Further specialization is offered within these majors. For example, the Department of South and Southeast Asia Studies offers intensive training in Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit, Hindi and Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil, Malay/Indonesian, and Thai. A full list of the languages taught in units within Arts and Humanities would comprise sixty-some tongues:

• Asian Studies: Tagalog, Vietnamese
• Celtic Studies: Irish, Welsh, Breton
• Classics: Greek, Latin
• Comparative Literature: Modern Greek
• French: French
• German/Dutch: Afrikaans, Dutch, German, Yiddish
• Italian: Italian
• Near Eastern Studies: Arabic, Akkadian, Coptic, Egyptian, Hebrew, Hittite, Persian, Sumerian, Turkish
• East Asian Languages and Cultures: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mogolian, Uighur, Tibetan
• Scandinavian: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
• Slavic Languages and Literatures: Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian
• South and Southeast Asian Studies: Hindi-Urdo, Indonesian, Nepali, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai
• Spanish and Portuguese: Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese

In addition, the Linguistics Department of the Division of Social Sciences offers access to numerous Native American languages as well as the following African languages: Amharic, Bamanankan, Chichewa, Hausa, Setwana, Shona, Swahili, Tigrinya, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

Meanwhile, the English Department features 11 areas of concentration: anglophone and multicultural studies, cultural theory, folklore, genre studies, linguistics, literary theory, popular culture, sexual identites/gender studies or emphasis in one of five historical periods.