<p>Can anyone tell me if they have any russian,spanish,japanese,hebrew classes and are they any good?</p>
<p>I’m a prospective Arabic major, and I talked to a current Arabic major at open house. He said the Arabic department/faculty is absolutely fantastic. I personally saw the Arabic library…WOW! Broad selection. I don’t know about any other languages, but the Arabic program is excellent.</p>
<p>That is not answering my question.No offense but don’t reply if your information is irrelevant .</p>
<p>The title of your thread is “How good are the languages?”</p>
<p>It’s best to look at the contents of a package before buying it.I am not mad at you or anything just saying.</p>
<p>I want to major in Japanese, but Binghamton’s course offerings for it are pretty terrible. The only language classes they have are beginner, intermediate, and advanced. So if I’ve taken Japanese for 4 years what will I do? Every other college has like 5 years of classes and then kanji, advanced conversation, business Japanese, and more :P</p>
<p>A simple Google search with the format (w/o quotations): “Binghamton insert language here” will answer the first part of your question.</p>
<p>Spanish and Hebrew are pretty extensive here. </p>
<p>Also, be aware that for some languages (German for example, since I’m taking it) the intro courses (101,102, etc) are often taught by TAs, not professors. These TAs are either native speakers (my teacher is from Berlin) who are grad students in other departments and get paid to do this as part of their stipends or they are just really good at the language.</p>
<p>This is mostly directed at CSIHSIS</p>
<p>I am taking Japanese right now, and I"ll tell you this. Do not be decieved by the fact that we don’t have many classes.</p>
<p>Four years at high school is roughly equivalent to four semesters at college. So don’t think that just cause you took it means you already finished the curriculum.</p>
<p>So you have two more semesters of the language learning classes to go. Although, passing a placement test for the 3rd year classes is pretty fracking hard if you’re coming in with only high school level Japanese. My friend was in Japanese 101 this semester after four years of high school Japanese. And he said Japanese 101 was still hard. Thats because if your Japanese isn’t PERFECT… hahaha good luck getting an A. </p>
<p>After you’ve mastered the language to moderate L2 fluidity, you then have all this if you still wanna study more:
AAAS 210 Introduction to Japanese Culture
AAAS 219 Structure of Japanese
AAAS 250 Japanese Cinema
AAAS 271 Japan to 1600
AAAS 251 Classical Japanese Literature and Culture
AAAS 252 Medieval/Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
AAAS 350 Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
AAAS 351 Pacific War Experience in Japanese Literature and Film
AAAS 371 Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1868
AAAS 372 20th Century Japan
AAAS 414 Economic Development in East Asia
AAAS 430 War Crimes Trials and Justice
AAAS 452 Sōseki/Modernization of Japan
AAAS 450 Women in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture
AAAS 451 Fictions of the Samurai</p>
<p>However, if you are really set on Japanese being you ~major~ I wouldn’t advice making Binghamton one of your top choices. Quite frankly, I think majoring in Japanese at any American university is a poor use of your tuition money. You would get more if you put that tuition money into buying a one-way ticket to Japan and becoming a Japanese hobo.</p>
<p>If there’s anything else which interests you, you should major in that something else and then minor in Japanese.</p>
<p>Or if you are really into the whole “foreign language” thing, you could do linguistics, which is an interesting and legitimate major.</p>
<p>Or if you are ABSOLUTELY set on Japanese, apply to universities in Japan.</p>