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Departments, Programs, and Centers

John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies

The WCAAAS supports Yoruba Studies through programming and events centered around diasporic Yoruba Culture.

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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 European and Eurasian Studies

The Department of European and Eurasian Studies covers a wide range of language and cultural studies including French, Italian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Yiddish, German, Bosnian, Crotian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Czech, Polish, Russian, and others. Area studies centers such as the Center for European Studies and Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies offer academic talks, cultural events, and social gatherings to supplement what you learn in the classroom.

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DEU

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 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

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