Within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), language instruction in 18 modern languages is offered, regularly or semi-regularly, on campus or through collaborative, long-distance learning consortia:
- 1 African (Swahili)
- 4 Asian/Eurasian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi)
- 1 modern Middle Eastern (Arabic)
- 7 European/Slavic/Latin American (Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Russian, Czech)
Several less commonly taught languages (including Kannada) have been offered in the past thanks to support from Title VI (NRC and UISFL) funding.
The Croatian Ministry of Education has helped to support the teaching of Croatian on campus as well as student participation in an intensive language immersion program in Zagreb for the past several years.
Modern Hebrew I and II have been offered on a pilot basis, through the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, funded as a Saturday and Evening course.
