• Foreign Languages
• Area Studies Centers and Programs
• Globalism at Home and Abroad

Foreign language requirement:
All BA and BFA students in the College must demonstrate proficiency equivalent to 4 semesters of foreign language study. Although there is slight variation among the BS degrees, most require 3 semesters of foreign language study. In addition, some degrees, such as the BA in International Studies, require 6 semesters of foreign language study.

Foreign Languages offered with a consistent 4-semester sequence (thus allowing the language to work for the degree requirement) = 40 languages:

• American Sign Language
• Arabic
• Bambara
• Chinese–Mandarin
• Croatian
• Czech
• Dutch
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek (Classical and Modern)
• Hausa
• Hebrew (Biblical and Modern)
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Lakota (Sioux)
• Latin (Classical)
• Mongolian
• Norwegian
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Sanskrit
• Serbian
• Spanish
• Swahili
• Tibetan
• Turkish
• Twi
• Urdu
• Uzbek
• Yiddish
• Zulu

Additional languages taught in the last 10 years at IUB = 37 languages. Some of these languages are taught only in the summer or only for two semesters. New languages are constantly added to the curriculum.

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Amharic
• Azeri
• Bengali
• Bosnian (with Croatian and Serbian)
• Bulgarian
• Cantonese
• Catalan
• Danish
• Georgian
• Haitian Creole
• Kazakh
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Luganda
• Macedonian
• Middle High German
• Nahuatl
• Navajo
• North African Arabic
• Old Church Slavonic
• Old High German
• Pashto
• Quechua/Inga
• Setswana
• Slovak
• Slovene
• Tajik
• Tatar
• Turkmen
• Ukrainian
• Uyghur
• Wolog
• Xhosa
• Yoruba
• Yucatec Maya

TOTAL NUMBER OF LANGUAGES = 77