arabic?

Transfer Students
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<p>i'm looking into transferring to a liberal arts school that offers Arabic, but thus far have only found Middlebury. Any suggestions?</p>

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<p>university of beirut?</p>

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<p>Georgetown and the University of Texas, Austin, from what I've heard, have excellent Arabic programs. (I'm currently taking Arabic at my current school and it is lacking).</p>

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<p>my friend is taking arabic at harvard</p>

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<p>Colgate
Grinnell
Bard
Wesleyan
Pomona & Claremont colleges (new)
Hamilton & Amherst & Smith & Mount Holyoke
Williams
Vassar (SI)
Davidson (SI)</p>

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<p>Mount Holyoke and Amherst do not offer Arabic. The students from those schools have to come to UMass just to take it. I doubt Smith does either.</p>

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<p>trinity (ct) does as well</p>

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<p>janel, Arabic is offered through the Near Eastern Studies program of the Five College consortium. Usually it's offered at U Mass and one of the other colleges. This year, that's Moho. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/asian/courses.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/asian/courses.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>OK, there is no intro though. Only advanced courses in Arabic.</p>

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<p>What career will a language degree lead you to?</p>

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<p>Translator.</p>

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<p>In reality, will a student (assuming holding a degree in another major) who can speak 2-3 languages fluently like a native speaker, and read and write decently, be qualifying as a translator as well?</p>

<p>For example, an American Born Mexican, who of course understand Spanish very well while being educated in the U.S. school system, can literally be a very good translator for Spanish-English or English-Spanish even though that person holds a degree in another major other than language. Yeah?</p>

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<p>thanks to all the suggestions. i'll check them out.</p>

<p>kevin101, i'm not interested in a language degree at all. my intended major is actually chemistry or philosophy, but i would like to learn arabic for personal reasons.</p>

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<p>when i went to American U. to visit...my tour guide stressed that arabic is now the most taken language at American. You might want to check it out.</p>

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<p>For those of you asking, there's actually quite a bit you can do with a degree in a foreign language. You're not just learning the language, you're also examining the culture and literature of that language. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/language.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.uncwil.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/language.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>William and Mary offers Arabic</p>

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<p>Grinnell does not have "standard" courses in Arabic. It is my understanding that they are part of the Alternative Language Study Option program which involves primarily self study with books and language tapes along with some tutoring by students who are native speakers of Arabic. Grinnell does not have professors of Arabic.</p>

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<p>i know a good university in afghanistan that teaches arabic. go there</p>

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<p>If you're doing it for personal reasons I'd try Rosetta Stone. The government and many journalists use Rosetta Stone. </p>

<p><a href="http://www2.rosettastone.com/en/individuals/languages/arabic%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www2.rosettastone.com/en/individuals/languages/arabic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Elementary Arabic is offered at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and UMass every fall. There is then a very extensive Five College Middle East studies program, far more extensive than you'll find at Middlebury or at any of the other LACs.</p>