For-Credit Classes
Along with providing the first-year language experience for students, the Center for World Languages and Cultures has three primary for-credit programs for you to explore during your First-Year Experience at DU. After your first year, the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and the Department of Spanish Language, Literary & Cultural Studies offer traditional credit-bearing undergraduate courses in many languages that can count toward a major or minor.
Our three programs include online/hybrid courses, Directed Independent Language Study, and our Cultures and Languages Across Curriculum courses.
Traditional Undergraduate Language Courses for Credit
First-Year Experience
Undergraduates at DU must complete their Common Curriculum requirements, which include an elementary sequence of a foreign language or one four-credit course at their level if they place beyond the elementary sequence (level 2001 or higher). See what credited courses we offer using the link below.
After Your First Year...
Beyond your first-year experience at the Center for World Languages and Cultures, you can continue your traditional language courses in one of DU's language departments. They offer major and minor courses in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian and Spanish. They also offer intermediate classes in Arabic and Arabic culture courses taught in English.