Middle Eastern Languages
- Beginning to Advanced Levels
- Grounded in Cultural Contexts
- Provides an Immersive Learning Experience
With the ever-increasing importance of the Middle East in business and international affairs, Arabic and Persian are valuable languages to master. These courses allow you to establish, enhance, or perfect your reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. Expand your understanding of dialect, grammar, intonations, and word usage while improving idiomatic and grammatical conversational abilities.
Arabic: Modern Standard I
Begin learning Arabic in this introductory course, which is designed so that linguistic and cultural aspects are taught in tandem.
Arabic: Modern Standard III
This dynamic and interactive course takes the Arabic language off the page through lively classroom practice in cultural contexts.
Advanced Reading and Writing in Persian
Improve your reading comprehension, advance your writing ability, and enhance your speaking and listening skills in Persian.
Arabic: Modern Standard II
This course focuses on all four core Arabic language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), taught within a cultural context.
Arabic: Modern Standard IV
Continue to expand the range of your lexical and grammatical skills while advancing your core skills, as well as your pronunciation.
Persian II
Continue studying Persian in this class that covers most of the grammar and verb tense structures needed for everyday conversation.
Persian III
Continue to master Persian pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary in a cultural context.
Persian Intermediate Conversation
Improve your speaking, listening, and reading skills in Persian through the use of intermediate language exercises, role-playing, audio, and video.
Conversational Arabic
If you have had some prior exposure to the Arabic language, then this high-beginner-level course will help you to build upon that knowledge.
Persian IV
Deepen your knowledge of Persian grammatical structures such as subjunctive, passive, and conditional, while practicing more complex sentences.
Persian Reading and Writing for Heritage Speakers: Beginner
If you understand and speak Farsi but don’t have reading or writing skills, take this course to round out your overall Farsi proficiency.