World Languages & Cultures
Foreign language requirement
All BA and BFA students in the College must demonstrate proficiency equivalent to 4 semesters of foreign language study. Although there is slight variation among the BS degrees, most require 3 semesters of foreign language study. In addition, some degrees, such as the BA in International Studies, require 6 semesters of foreign language study.
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Foreign Languages offered with a consistent 4-semester sequence (thus allowing the language to work for the degree requirement) = 46 languages:
- Akan
- American Sign Language
- Arabic
- Azeri
- Bamana
- Chinese–Mandarin
- Croatian
- Czech
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek (Classical and Modern)
- Haitian Creole
- Hausa
- Hebrew (Biblical and Modern)
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kazakh
- Korean
- Kurdish
- Lakota (Sioux)
- Latin (Classical)
- Mongolian
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sanskrit
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Tibetan
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uyghur
- Uzbek
- Yiddish
- Zulu
Additional languages taught in the last 10 years at IUB = 31 languages.
Some of these languages are taught only in the summer or only for two semesters.
New languages are constantly added to the curriculum.
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Bengali
- Bosnian (with Croatian and Serbian)
- Bulgarian
- Cantonese
- Catalan
- Danish
- Georgian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Luganda
- Macedonian
- Middle High German
- Nahuatl
- Navajo
- North African Arabic
- Old Church Slavonic
- Old High German
- Pashto
- Quechua/Inga
- Setswana
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Tajik
- Tatar
- Wolog
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Yucatec Maya
TOTAL NUMBER OF LANGUAGES = 77
