Foreign Language Study Opportunities
The Penn Language Center offers over 40 world languages per semester to both undergraduate and graduate students and is a leader in the field of language education and pedagogy training language instructors in language methodology in accordance with the National Standards.
Penn Language Center: plc.sas.upenn.edu
Some schools have foreign language requirements. Information about requirements and options for foreign language study varies by school:
- College of Arts and Sciences
- School of Engineering and Applied Science does not have a language requirement.
- School of Nursing
- The Wharton School
The Penn Language Center maintains a list of languages offered at Penn:
- Afrikaans
- American Sign Language
- Amharic
- Bengali
- Cantonese
- Chichewa
- Chinese
- Czech
- Filipino
- Hausa
- Hungarian
- Igbo
- Indonesian
- Irish Gaelic
- Japanese
- Judeo-Spanish
- Kannada
- Korean
- Malagasy
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Modern Greek
- Panjabi
- Pashtu
- Persian
- Polish
- Quechua
- Setswana
- Shanghainese
- Shona
- Spanish
- Sudanese Arabic
- Swahili
- Taiwanese
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tigrinya
- Turkish
- Twi
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Wolof
- Yoruba
- Zulu