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Five College Language Departments and Resource Centers

Amherst College

• Asian Languages and Civilizations (Arabic, Chinese and Japanese)
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• French
• German
• Russian
• Spanish
• Media Center in Frost Library

Hampshire College

• Hampshire offers courses in Spanish and Chinese. For current offerings search the Five College Course Guide
• For other literature and culture courses at Hampshire visit the main Hampshire College web site
• Also of interest is the National Yiddish Book Center

Mount Holyoke College

• Asian Studies (Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit)
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• French
• German Studies
• Jewish Studies (Hebrew)
• Romance Languages and Literatures (French, Italian, and Spanish)
• Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Spanish
• Italian
• Language Resource Center

Smith College

• Classical Languages and Literatures (Greek and Latin)
• East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)
• French Studies
• German Studies
• Italian Language and Literature
• Jewish Studies Program offers Hebrew
• Religion offers Arabic
• Russian
• Spanish and Portuguese
• Center for Foreign Languages and Cultures

University of Massachusetts

• Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese and Japanese)
• Classics (Greek and Latin)
• French and Italian Studies
• German and Scandanavian Studies (Dutch, Finnish, German, and Swedish)
  see also The DEFA Film Library Cinema of East Germany
• Judaic and Near Eastern Studies Studies (Arabic, Hebrew and Yiddish)
• Linguistics
• Slavic Languages and Literature (Russian and Polish), for current offerings search Five College Course Guide
• Spanish and Portuguese
• Translation Center
• Foreign Language Resource Center (useful reference links, the FLRC was closed in June, 2002.

Five College Language Programs

• Five College Supervised Independent Language Program Bulgarian, Croatian (Serbo-Croatian), Czech, Dari (Afghan Farsi), Modern Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Persian (Iranian Farsi), Romanian, Serbian (Serbo-Croatian), Slovak, Thai, Twi (Ghana), Turkish, Turkmen, Urdu (Pakistan), Vietnamese, Wolof (Senegal), Yoruba (Nigeria)
• Five College Mentored Arabic Courses
• Search the Five College Catalog for current classroom course offerings in Arabic (Enter Arabic as the search term.)
• Five College Mentored Hindi and Supervised Independent Urdu Courses
• Five College Mentored Swahili Courses
• Five College Mentored Turkish Courses
• Five College German Studies Web
• Five College Center for the Study of World Languages

Quick Links

Five College Supervised Independent Language Program

Five College Mentored Language Courses

Language and International Opportunities Web

LangMedia: The Five College Foreign Language Media Archive

Five College International and Regional Studies

Five College Language Departments

Language Resources on the Web

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Five Colleges, Incorporated is the consortium of Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.