Languages

Ohio State offers almost 30 languages, many of which have majors and/or minors for students wishing to pursue their language study beyond the three-semester General Education Requirement. OSU's language departments offer a variety of study and work abroad programs in the languages they teach. These programs can be short-term trips that follow a culture course, summer study abroad programs, semester- or year-long programs, as well as international internships.

OSU Language Departments

American Sign Language Program (ASL)

Department of Classics

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL)

Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Department of French and Italian (FRIT)

Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures (Germanic)

Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures (SEELC)

Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPPO)

Languages taught at OSU

American Sign Language, from the American Sign Language Program.

Arabic, from the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.

Chinese, from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Czech, from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.

French, from the Department of French and Italian.

German, from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Ancient Greek, from the Department of Classics.

Modern Greek, from rhe Department of Classics.

Hebrew, from the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Hindi, from the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Italian, from the Department of French and Italian.

Japanese, from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Korean, from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Latin, from the Department of Classics.

Persian, from the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Polish, from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.

Portuguese, from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Quechua, from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Romanian, from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.

Russian, from the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures.

Somali, from the CLLC African Languages.

Spanish, from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Swahili, from the CLLC African Languages.

Swedish, from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures.

Tibetan, from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures.

Turkish, from the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Urdu, from the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Uzbek, from the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA)

Yiddish, from the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures