Languages Taught at Berkeley

This list links to a related course page or to the list below.

A-E Akkadian American Indian American Sign Language Arabic Aramaic Armenian Avestan Bengali Bosnian/Croatian/ Serbian Breton Bulgarian Burmese Catalan Chichewa Chinese Coptic Creole Cuneiform Czech Danish Dutch Egyptian English (As a Second Language) English (Old)

F-M Filipino Finnish French German Greek Hebrew (Biblical) Hebrew (Modern) Hindi Hittite Hungarian Icelandic Indic Indonesian Iranian Irish (Modern) Irish (Old & Middle) Italian Japanese Kanji Khmer Korean Latin Mandarin Mongolian

N-S Nahuatl (Ancient) Norse (Old) Norwegian Pahlavi Persian Persian (Middle) Pidgin Polish Portuguese Punjabi Russian Sahitya Sanskrit Sastraic Scandinavian Languages (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) Slavic (Old Church) Sogdian Spanish Spanish (Chicano Studies) Sumerian Swahili Swedish

T-Z Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Turkish Ugaritic Urdu Vedic Vietnamese Welsh (Middle) Welsh (Modern) Wolof Yiddish Zulu

Finding Languages

Many languages taught at Berkeley are housed under larger departments and can be hard to find, so we created this list below.

Akkadian

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CUNEIF 100A	Elementary Akkadian	5
CUNEIF 100B	Elementary Akkadian	5
CUNEIF 101A	Selected Readings in Akkadian	4
CUNEIF 101B	Selected Readings in Akkadian	4
CUNEIF 200A	Advanced Akkadian	3
CUNEIF 200B	Advanced Akkadian	3

American Indian

Course List

Code	Title	Units
LINGUIS 175	American Indian Languages	3

American Sign Language

Course List

Code	Title	Units
LINGUIS 1A	American Sign Language I	5
LINGUIS 1B	American Sign Language II	5
LINGUIS 2A	American Sign Language 3	5

Aramaic

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SEMITIC 100A	Aramaic	3
SEMITIC 100B	Aramaic	3

Avestan

Course List

Code	Title	Units
IRANIAN 201A	Iranian Philology	3
IRANIAN 201B	Iranian Philology	3

Breton

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CELTIC 102A	Elementary Breton	4
CELTIC 102B	Advanced Breton	4

Chichewa

Course List

Code	Title	Units
AFRICAM 30A	Elementary Chichewa	4
AFRICAM 30B	Elementary Chichewa	4
AFRICAM 31A	Intermediate Chichewa	4
AFRICAM 31B	Intermediate Chichewa	4

Coptic

Course List

Code	Title	Units
EGYPT 102A	Elementary Coptic	4
EGYPT 102B	Elementary Coptic	4

Creole

Course List

Code	Title	Units
LINGUIS 152	Pidgin and Creole Languages	3

English (Old)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
ENGLISH 104	Introduction to Old English	4
ENGLISH 105	Anglo-Saxon England	4
ENGLISH 205A	Old English	4
ENGLISH 205B	Old English	4

Hebrew (Biblical)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
HEBREW 106A	Elementary Biblical Hebrew	3
HEBREW 106B	Elementary Biblical Hebrew	3
HEBREW N106	Elementary Biblical Hebrew	6
HEBREW 107A	Biblical Hebrew Texts	3
HEBREW 107B	Biblical Hebrew Texts	3
HEBREW 111	Intermediate Biblical Texts	3
HEBREW 201A	Advanced Biblical Hebrew Texts	3
HEBREW 206	Ancient and Modern Hebrew Literary Texts	3

Hittite

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CUNEIF 106A	Elementary Hittite	4
CUNEIF 106B	Elementary Hittite	4

Indic

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SANSKR 206	Middle Indic	4

Irish (Modern)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CELTIC 15	Elementary Modern Irish	4
CELTIC 85	Intermediate Modern Irish	4
CELTIC 145A	Intermediate Irish Language	4
CELTIC 145B	Modern Irish Level Four	4

Irish (Old & Middle)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CELTIC 105A	Old and Middle Irish	4

Kanji

Course List

Code	Title	Units
JAPAN 1AS	Supplementary Work in Kanji	1
JAPAN 1BS	Supplementary Work in Kanji	1
JAPAN 10AS	Supplementary Work in Kanji - Intermediate	1
JAPAN 10BS	Supplementary Work in Kanji-Intermediate	1

Mandarin

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CHINESE 1X	Elementary Chinese for Mandarin Speakers	4
CHINESE 1Y	Elementary Chinese for Dialect Speakers	5
CHINESE 10X	Intermediate Chinese for Mandarin Speakers	4
CHINESE 10Y	Intermediate Chinese for Dialect Speakers	5
CHINESE 100XA	Advanced Chinese for Mandarin Speakers	4
CHINESE 100XB	Advanced Chinese for Mandarin Speakers	4
CHINESE 161	Structure of the Chinese Language	4

Nahuatl

Course List

Code	Title	Units
ILA 180	Advanced Studies in Indigenous Languages of the Americas	3

Norse (Old)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SCANDIN 101A	Introduction to Old Norse I	4
SCANDIN 101B	Introduction to Old Norse II	4
SCANDIN 201A	Old Norse	4
SCANDIN 201B	Norse Literature	4

Pahlavi

Course List

Code	Title	Units
IRANIAN 110A	Middle Persian	3
IRANIAN 110B	Middle Persian	3

Persian (Middle)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
IRANIAN 110A	Middle Persian	3
IRANIAN 110B	Middle Persian	3

Pidgin

Course List

Code	Title	Units
LINGUIS 152	Pidgin and Creole Languages	3

Sahitya

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SANSKR 101C	Intermediate Sanskrit: Sahitya (Literary Sanskrit)	5

Sastraic

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SANSKR 101B	Intermediate Sanskrit: Sastraic (Scientific) Sanskrit	5

Slavic (Old Church)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SLAVIC 210	Old Church Slavic	4

Sogdian

Course List

Code	Title	Units
IRANIAN 201A	Iranian Philology	3
IRANIAN 201B	Iranian Philology	3

Spanish (Chicano Studies)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CHICANO 5	Intensive Elementary Spanish Language and Latin American Culture	5
CHICANO 10	Intensive Intermediate Spanish Language and Mexican Culture	5

Sumerian

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CUNEIF 102A	Elementary Sumerian	4
CUNEIF 102B	Elementary Sumerian	4
CUNEIF 103A	Selected Readings in Sumerian	3
CUNEIF 103B	Selected Readings in Sumerian	3

Swahili

Course List

Code	Title	Units
AFRICAM 10A	Intermediate Swahili	4
AFRICAM 10B	Intermediate Swahili	4
AFRICAM 11A	Elementary Swahili	4
AFRICAM 11B	Elementary Swahili	4
AFRICAM 12	Intensive Elementary Swahili	8
AFRICAM 15A	Advanced Swahili	4
AFRICAM 15B	Advanced Swahili	4

Ugaritic

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SEMITIC 205A	Ugaritic	3
SEMITIC 205B	Ugaritic	3

Vedic

Course List

Code	Title	Units
SANSKR 203	Vedic Sanskrit	4

Welsh (Middle)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CELTIC 146A	Medieval Welsh Language and Literature	4
CELTIC 146B	Medieval Welsh Language and Literature	4

Welsh (Modern)

Course List

Code	Title	Units
CELTIC 16	Introduction to Modern Welsh	4
CELTIC 86	Intermediate Modern Welsh	4
CELTIC 144A	Modern Welsh Level 3	4
CELTIC 144B	Modern Welsh Level 4	4

Wolof

Course List

Code	Title	Units
AFRICAM 7A	Elementary Wolof	4
AFRICAM 7B	Elementary Wolof	4
AFRICAM 8A	Intermediate Wolof	4
AFRICAM 8B	Intermediate Wolof	4
AFRICAM 9A	Advanced Wolof	4
AFRICAM 9B	Advanced Wolof	4

Zulu

Course List

Code	Title	Units
AFRICAM 13A	Elementary Zulu	4
AFRICAM 13B	Elementary Zulu	4
AFRICAM 14A	Intermediate Zulu	4
AFRICAM 14B	Intermediate Zulu	4
AFRICAM 19A	Advanced Zulu	4
AFRICAM 19B	Advanced Zulu	4

Academic Opportunities

Berkeley Language Center

The Berkeley Language Center (BLC) is a department in the Division of Arts and Humanities of the College of Letters and Science. The BLC’s mission is to support the learning and teaching of heritage and foreign languages on the Berkeley campus. Students have access to Weekly Film Clips offered in 15 languages, Online Language Lessons, and Lecture Series.

Study Abroad

The Berkeley Study Abroad Program offers opportunities to study in over 45 countries for one semester, for one year or for the summer.

Given the increasing globalization of the world, living abroad helps expand students' understanding of diverse, culturally rooted attitudes and behaviors. Studying abroad enhances cross-cultural awareness, competency, and adaptability. Students find that living and studying abroad expands their perspective, improves critical thinking, increases independence and better prepares them for a career in an increasingly competitive world.

Interested students should obtain the relevant information early in the semester preceding the one in which they plan to go abroad from the Berkeley Study Abroad office, located in 160 Stephens Hall, 510-642-1356, studyabroad@berkeley.edu.

Students should consult with their Undergraduate Adviser before going abroad (whether through Berkeley Study Abroad or through non-UC sponsored programs) in order to determine whether their program of study will count toward their degree program(s).