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Center for Language Studies

Ray T. Clifford, Director
3086 JFSB, (801) 422-1201

College of Humanities Advisement Center
1175 JFSB, (801) 422-4789

General Information

To make the exceptional foreign language capabilities of BYU available to a large audience, the Center for Language Studies offers a variety of language courses during the summer term (mid-June to mid-August) as well as during the academic year.

Summer intensive courses include:

Advanced language/culture courses for returned missionaries (and others of comparable ability), especially in less commonly taught languages. Some of these courses will fulfill the general education language requirement.

Foundation courses covering the equivalent of a full academic year of study in a major language.

Students may earn up to two semesters of academic language credit for an intensive summer course. Students need not be regular BYU students to enroll and receive credit during the summer term. Student demand and availability of qualified faculty determine which languages are taught each summer.

Interested students and potential adjunct faculty are requested to register their desires to participate in summer programs as early as possible by completing the survey form on the center's Web page, http://cls.byu.edu, or by contacting the office at 3086 JFSB.

Language and culture courses for returned missionaries (see departmental pages for additional language courses):

Note: Some of the following courses are designated as "culminating courses" to fulfill the general education language requirement. Returned missionaries should receive advice from the relevant department when multiple classes in the language of their interest are listed.

Academic-year courses include two categories:

  • Established courses taught as regular daytime classes.

  • On-demand courses that are taught if sufficient student demand and qualified teachers are available. Enrollment in these courses is generally through the Division of Continuing Education, Evening Classes. Most of the less commonly taught languages are listed under the general title Foreign Language (FLang).

Courses offered:

Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature
Dansh 340.
Finn 340.
Norwe 340.
Swed 340.

Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Cant 202.
Chin 102, 112, 202.
Japan 221.
Korea 202.

Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages
Bulgn 330.
Czech 330.
Dutch 340.
Germ 330.
Hung 330.
Polsh 330.
Russ 330.
SrbCr 330.
Ukrai 330.

Department of French and Italian
Fren 202, 321, 340.
Ital 321, 340.
Rom 340.

Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Port 315.
Span 321.

Center for Language Studies

The center offers the following courses—often in collaboration with language departments—depending on demand and availability of qualified faculty. The number and types of classes vary. (Students should check with their major advisement center to determine whether the class offered fulfills the GE Foreign Language requirement.)
  Afrikaans Haitian Creole Norwegian
  Akan Hawaiian Polish
  Albanian Hebrew Portuguese
  Arabic Hindi Quechua
  Armenian Hmong Quiche
  Aymara Hungarian Rarotongan
  Basque Icelandic Romanian
  Bicolano Ilangot Russian
  Bulgarian Ilocano Samoan
  Burmese Indonesian Serbian
  Cakchiquel Italian Slovene
  Cambodian Japanese Spanish
  Cantonese Javanese Swahili
  Catalan Kazakh Swedish
  Cebuano Laotian Tagalog
  Croatian Latin Tahitian
  Czech Latvian Taiwanese
  Danish Lithuanian Thai
  Dutch Malagasy Tongan
  Estonian Malay Trukese
  Farsi Mandarin Turkish
  Fijian Maori Ukrainian
  Finnish Mrshallese Urdu
  French Maya Vanuatau
  Ga Mongolian Vietnamese
  German Navajo Waray-Waray
  Greek Niuean Welsh
  Guarani Norse  

Less commonly taught languages listed under the general title FLang 330R may also fulfill the GE Foreign Language requirement.

Upon completion of an approved culminating language course that fulfills the foreign language general education requirement, returned missionaries and others with comparable skills may receive additional graded credit by examination for classes leading to the level of the culminating course (up to an additional 16 credit hours). In some cases, up to 12 credit hours may be earned by examination without taking the culminating course, but all such credit will be pass/fail credit. An examination once taken for pass/fail credit cannot be retaken or reevaluated for graded credit. Contact the College of Humanities Technology and Research Support Center for information about these examinations. All language credit earned by enrollment on campus will be graded.

 
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