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John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies (WCAAAS)

The research, programming, and community engagement division of the Black Studies Collective at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Warfield Center

American Sign Language

The signed language program is housed within the Department of Linguistics.

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TLC

Department of Asian Studies

The Department of Asian Studies offer courses in nine Asian languages: Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Urdu. 

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Asian Studies

Department of Classics

The Department offers a major in Classical Language, an excellent fit for students most interested in the literature and linguistics of Latin and/or Greek. 

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Classics

Department of French and Italian

The Department of French and Italian offers nnovative instruction and research in literature, language, and linguistics, as well as in cultural and visual studies. 

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FRIT

Department of Germanic Studies

The Department of Germanic Studies offers language and culture courses in German, Swedish, Yiddish, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian.

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Germanic Studies

Department of Middle Eastern Studies

The Department of Middle Eastern Studies offers first- through third-year courses in Arabic, modern HebrewPersian, and Turkish

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MES

Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies

In collaboration with the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), the Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies (DSES) at UT Austin offers language courses in Bosnian, Crotian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian, and Ukrainian.

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Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

The Spanish and Portuguese Language Program focuses on the development of multilingual literacies through the analysis and use of Spanish/Portuguese as a second language. 

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Spanish and Portuguese

Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS)

LLILAS Is a designated Title VI National Resource Center for Latin American studies and languages.

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LLILAS

Center for European Studies

The Center for European Studies (CES) promotes the study of Europe in the form of: language study; providing courses on European culture, history, economics, business, and politics.

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CES

South Asia Institute

A central mission of the South Asia Institute is to promote the study of contemporary South Asian languages in cooperation with the Department of Asian Studies and the Hindi-Urdu Flagship Program

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South Asia Institute