Languages at Berkeley

• Akkadian (listed under Cuneiform)
• American Sign Language (listed under Linguistics)
• Amharic (listed under African American Studies)
• Arabic
• Aramaic (listed under Semitic)
• Armenian
• Bengali/Bangla
• Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian
• Burmese
• Cantonese
• Catalan
• Czech
• Chinese/Mandarin
• Danish
• Dutch
• Egyptian
• English as a Second Language (listed under College Writing)

• Filipino
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek, Ancient
• Greek, Modern (listed under Comparative Literature)
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Igbo (listed under African American Studies)
• Irish, Old, Middle, and Modern (listed under Celtic Studies)
• Italian
• Japanese

• Khmer
• Korean
• Latin
• Mongolian
• Nahuatl (listed under Spanish)
• Norwegian
• Old Norse (listed under Scandinavian)

• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Punjabi
• Russian
• Sanskrit
• Spanish
• Sumerian (listed under Cuneiform)
• Swahili (listed under African American Studies)
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Tibetan
• Turkish

• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Vietnamese
• Welsh (Modern and Middle, listed under Celtic)
• Yiddish

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Study abroad is highly advised for all students studying the Arts & Humanities, especially students interested in majoring or minoring in a language. Financial aid and scholarship opportunities are available. Berkeley Study Abroad also offers advising for undocumented students.

The UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) is the University of California's official study abroad program, offering a wide variety of summer, semester, and year options in over 40 countries.

Berkeley Summer Abroad offers dozens of programs in the summer, including several programs sponsored by Arts & Humanities departments.

The Berkeley Global Internships summer program offers project-based in-person and virtual academic internships in a variety of industries in both domestic and international locations.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide funding to students to encourage the study of critical and less commonly taught foreign languages in combination with area studies, international studies or international aspects of professional studies. The purpose of the FLAS program is to promote the training of students who intend to make their careers in college or university teaching, government service, or other employment where knowledge of foreign languages and cultures is essential. At UC Berkeley, funding for FLAS Fellowships is available from eight Title VI National Resource Centers representing various world areas: Africa, East Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Russia/Eastern Europe/Eurasia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Europe.

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a fully-funded overseas language and cultural immersion program.

The Huang Scholars Program(link is external) provides the opportunity for Chinese language instruction at UC Berkeley and in China, covering travel and living expenses as well as partial tuition.

Research on various regions of the world is facilitated by ten interdisciplinary international and area studies centers and institutes, many of which are in Global, International & Area Studies. These programs support both contemporary and historical research on every region of the world, advancing the work of more than 800 affiliated faculty and visiting scholars, hundreds of graduate students and thousands of undergraduates across the campus.

• Center for African Studies
• Canadian Studies Program
• Institute of East Asian Studies
• Institute of European Studies
• Institute of International Studies
• Center for Latin American Studies
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
• Institute for South Asia Studies
• Center for Southeast Asia Studies

The UC Berkeley Library provides access to materials in all modern and ancient languages taught at UC Berkeley. In fact, nearly half of its print resources are in languages other than English, more than 400 languages in all. Online, the Library offers e-books, e-journals, streaming video, as well as current and historical newspapers from across the world. Find the most printed material in languages other than English in the Doe Library, Gardner (Main) Stacks and NRLF. Other campus libraries known for their rich language collections are: the Art History/Classics Library, Bancroft Library, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Ethnic Studies Library, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library, and South/Southeast Asia Library.

Librarians with linguistic and subject expertise curate these distinguished collections, provide research consultations, and teach research workshops. Librarians also create informative Global and Area Studies subject guides for all regions of the world and their associated languages.

The Cross-Campus Enrollment System allows UC students to access a number of high-demand online courses offered across the UC campuses. These courses are developed and taught by UC faculty and instructors and will earn UC unit credit, with the potential for GE, pre-major or major credit based on your departmental and programmatic requirements.

To search for currently available online cross-campus courses being offered, please select the campus where you are enrolled and the Term & Year in UCOPS's cross-campus enrollment catalog: https://search.uconline.edu/. Select the subject area "Languages and Literatures."

UC Berkeley Extension's Concurrent Enrollment program provides an opportunity to enroll in UC Berkeley campus courses on a space-available basis without formal admission to the University. Approval of class applications is at the sole discretion of the campus academic departments.

Concurrent Enrollment is available in fall and spring terms. If you’re interested in attending a campus course during the summer, check out Summer Sessions.