Languages at Columbia

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<p>Well I am really interested in languages (I speak French, Spanish, and Italian) and I was just wondering how well-known/respected the language/linguistics department are at Columbia.</p>

<p>Also, I've been looking into University of Chicago too (gotta love the big city schools....) and I was just wondering how UChi and Columbia can compare, not only with the language department, but with everything else.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>There is no linguistics department, though there is a linguistics program that allows one to major in such and it is being slowly rebuilt. There is, however, a vast range of language courses at Columbia, perhaps wider than at the vast majority of other schools. </p>

<p>This article from the Blue and White, an undergraduate magazine, explores the more obscure options:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=1538%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=1538&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>...while this one describes the history of Columbia linguistics:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bwog.net/publicate/index.php?page=post&article_id=6&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>There isn't a linguistics program currently, as far as I know. But the variety of languages is absolutely awesome; Columbia's home to a lesser-taught language institute, so you can study Hungarian, Romanian, Finnish, all kinds of cool languages. I got spoiled and was crushed to find that even Harvard doesn't offer ANY of those.
For a taste of the more exotic languages available:
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/sel/LRC_Fall2006.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/sel/LRC_Fall2006.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>haha, I'm too slow.</p>