Languages Offered
The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages (FCCSWL) offers courses in less-commonly taught languages for Five College students. Courses are taken for academic credit and are part of a student's regular course load. Five College students are not required to pay any special fees or tuition in order to enroll. Students submit an application to the Center in order to get permission to enroll.
Course sessions meet in small group and/or one-on-one sessions. Courses meet on all five campuses. Most session times are scheduled based on schedule information submitted by students. Courses are offered at the elementary-level for most languages. Intermediate and advanced levels of study are available in many languages. Contact the Center for details by language.
This list may be altered if the availabiltiy of instructional resources changes. Languages may be added; some languages we anticipate offering may become unavailable. Contact the Center for current status of languages and to inquire about languages not listed here.
For commonly-taught languages offered by Five College language departments and programs, see the Five College Language Portal. The portal also contains links to information about some less-commonly taught languages offered by language departments and programs such as Catalan, Yiddish, and Quechua.
Languages Available
Folllow the format link for each language for details and application instructions for that language. "Limited availability" means we can only accept a very small number of students. "Uncertain availability" means that we do not have conversation partners available or there is some other barrier to making the language available. Sometimes an "uncertain availability" language will become available to a limited number of students before the start of the semester.
- Afrikaans – limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Albanian - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- American Sign Language – Level III and Level V for Fall 2017. ASL course information.
- Amharic - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Arabic - Egyptian dialect - limited availability 2017-2018, Spoken Arabic Independent format
- Arabic - Gulf dialect – experimental course Fall 2017, see Spoken Arabic Independent format
- Arabic - Levantine dialect (Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and Syrian) - available 2017-2018, Spoken Arabic Independent format
- Arabic - Moroccan dialect -available 2017-2018, Spoken Arabic Independent format
- Arabic - other dialects - sometimes other dialects may be available in the Spoken Arabic Independent format, check with the Center for details
- Bangla/Bengali - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian – limited availability 2017-2018, Independent Plus format
- Bulgarian - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Burmese - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Czech - availability uncertain for 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Danish - availability uncertain for 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Dari (Afghan Persian) - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Dutch - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Filipino/Tagalog – limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Finnish - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Georgian - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Greek (Modern) - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Haitian Creole - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Hindi - available 2017-2018, Hindi course information
- Hungarian – limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Indonesian - available 2017-2018, Independent Plus format
- Irish (Modern) - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Khmer/Cambodian - uncertain availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Lao - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Malay - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Macedonian - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Mongolian - uncertain availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Nepali - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Norwegian - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Pashto - uncertain availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Persian -available 2017-2018, Persian course information
- Romanian - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Shona – not available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Sinhala - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Slovak - not available 2017-2018, contact the Center for more information
- Swahili - available 2017-2018, Swahili course information
- Tajiki - not available 2017-2018, contact the Center for more information
- Tamil – not available for Fall 2017, contact the Center for more information
- Thai - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Tibetan - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Turkish - available 2017-2018, Turkish course information
- Turkmen - not available 2017-2018, contact the Center for more information
- Twi - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Ukrainian - uncertain availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Urdu - available 2017-2018, Independent Plus format
- Uzbek - not available 2017-2018, contact the Center for more information
- Vietnamese - available 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Wolof - limited availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format
- Xhosa - not available 2017-2018, contact the Center for more information
- Yoruba - limited availability 2017-2018, contact the Center for more information
- Zulu - uncertain availability 2017-2018, Supervised Independent format, contact the Center for more information
The Five College Language Portal
For lists of all languages offered across the Five Colleges (academic year and summer) with links to all language departments and programs, see the Five College Language Portal.