Home >> Reference >> Education >> Colleges and Universities >> North America >> United States >> Illinois >> University of Chicago >> Departments and Programs >> Humanities Division Department of Classical Languages and Literatures A department in the Division of Humanities featuring the study of Greek and Roman languages, literature, philosophy and culture. Department of Romance Languages and Literatures A department in the Division of Humanities that offers programs in French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese literatures of both Europe and the Americas. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures A department in the Division of Humanities offering programs in Balto-Slavic Linguistics, Czech, General Slavic, Polish, Russian and South Slavic. Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations A department in the Division of Humanities that offers instruction in two classical languages (Sanskrit and Pali), six modern (Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Tamil, Tibetan and Urdu) and courses that place their literatures and cultures in critical and comparative contexts. Center for East Asian Studies A center for the promotion and advancement of research and teaching on East Asia. Committee on the Visual Arts A program that offers an undergraduate concentration and graduate degrees in the visual arts. Center for Middle Eastern Studies Promotes the study of the region extending from Morocco to Kazakhstan since the rise of Islam. Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World A program of study that utilizes faculty whose fields of study, ranging from the ancient Near East to late antiquity, adjoin and overlap chronologically and geographically. Department of Art History A department in the Division of Humanities. Department of Linguistics The oldest linguistics department in the United States, offering a wide range of approaches to the study of language.
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