With the start of the academic year comes the annual ritual of promoting the study or languages and recruiting students. The College at the University of Chicago requires students to demonstrate competency in a second language. This is not an uncommon graduation requirement for most institutions of higher education in the U.S. What is unique about the University of Chicago is the number of languages one can study to meet this requirement. The following is a list of languages one can study at the University of Chicago to meet the second language competency requirement:
Akkadian
Albanian
American Sign Language
Arabic
Arabic, Colloquial Egyptian
Arabic, Modern Standard
Aramaic/Elementary Syriac
Armenian
Assyrian
Aymara
Old Babylonian
Ne-Babylonian
Balochi
Bangla/Bengali
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Coptic
Czech
Demotic Egyptian (Hieroglyphs)
Middle/Late Egyptian
Elamite
English, Old
Frence
Ge`ez
Georgian
German
Greek, Attic
Greek, Modern
Gujarati
Hebrew, Classical
Hebrew, Modern
Hieratic
Hieroglyphic Luwian
Hindi
Hittite
Italian
Japanese
Kazak
Korean
Latin
Lycian
Lydian
Macedonian
Malayalam
Marathi
Maya, K`iche’
Maya, Yucatec
Nahuatl
Norwegian
Old Norse
Pali
Persian (Farsi)
Phoenician
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Sanskrit
Slavonic, Old Church
Slovakian
Spanish
Sumerian
Swahili
Tamil
Targum
Telegu
Tibetan
Old Turkic
Turkish
Turkish, Ottoman
Ubaritic
Ukranian
Urdu
Uzbek
Yiddish
John Boyer, Dean of The College at The University of Chicago, on importance of foreign language study and study abroad via his blog Spacious Ideas http://bit.ly/e1hJpI
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