Foreign Language Study Opportunities
The Penn Language Center offers over 40 world languages per semester to both undergraduate and graduate students and is a leader in the field of language education and pedagogy training language instructors in language methodology in accordance with the National Standards.
Penn Language Center: plc.sas.upenn.edu
Some schools have foreign language requirements. Information about requirements and options for foreign language study varies by school:
- College of Arts and Sciences
 - School of Engineering and Applied Science does not have a language requirement.
 - School of Nursing
 - The Wharton School
 
The Penn Language Center maintains a list of languages offered at Penn:
- Afrikaans
 - American Sign Language
 - Amharic
 - Bengali
 - Cantonese
 - Chichewa
 - Chinese
 - Czech
 - Filipino
 - Hausa
 - Hungarian
 - Igbo
 - Indonesian
 - Irish Gaelic
 - Japanese
 - Judeo-Spanish
 - Kannada
 - Korean
 - Malagasy
 - Malayalam
 - Marathi
 - Modern Greek
 - Panjabi
 - Pashtu
 - Persian
 - Polish
 - Quechua
 - Setswana
 - Shanghainese
 - Shona
 - Spanish
 - Sudanese Arabic
 - Swahili
 - Taiwanese
 - Tamil
 - Telugu
 - Thai
 - Tibetan
 - Tigrinya
 - Turkish
 - Twi
 - Ukrainian
 - Vietnamese
 - Wolof
 - Yoruba
 - Zulu