The courses below are suggestions; students should inquire with the DUS about other options, as this list is not complete:
| COMP LIT 108: Translating World Literature |
| COMP LIT 108X: Translating the World |
| COMP LIT 109: On Translation |
| COMPLIT 260: Literary Translation: Advanced Workshop |
| FRSEMR 36G: The Creative Work of Translating |
| GEN ED 1057: Poetry Without Borders |
| GERMAN 111: Translating German: Theory and Practice |
| SPANISH 165: Bilingual Arts |
| SPANISH 80t: Words of Which History is Made |
| SPANISH 80TS: Translating Boundaries in Spain |
| Translation Studies 260: Literary Translation Workshop |
| Translation Studies 280: Exploring Translation Studies: History, Theories, the State of the Art |
| COMPSCI 252R: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages |
EASTD 260: The Lotus Sutra: Texts, Narratives, and Translations |
| ENGLISH 102: Introduction to Old English: Heroes, Heaven, and Hell |
| ENGLISH 102E: Introduction to Old English: Landscape, Seascape, and Early Ecologies |
| ENGLISH 103: Old English: Working with Manuscripts |
| ENGLISH 103W: Advanced Old English: Wisdom Poetry |
| FRENCH 16: Reading, Understanding and Translating Written French for Research |
| GERMAN 111: Translating German: Theory and Practice |
| GREEK, LATIN, MODERN GREEK: All 100-level courses |
| ITAL 16: Understanding and Translating Written Italian for Research |
| JAPAN 106A: Classical Japanese |
| JAPAN 106C: Later Classical Japanese |
| LING 90A: Advanced ASL Tutorial I |
| LING 90B: Advanced ASL Tutorial II |
| RUSSIAN 102: Advanced Russian: Introduction to the Language of the Social Sciences and the Media |
| SPANISH 109: Displacing Spain: Translating Transatlantic Poetry on 20th- and 21st-Century Spain |
| SWEDISH 20A: Intermediate Swedish: Childhood in Swedish Literature and Culture |
| SWEDISH 20B: Intermediate Swedish |
| TIBET 102A: Intermediate Classical Tibetan |
| TIBET 102B: Intermediate Classical Tibetan |
| VIETNAM 130: Advanced Vietnamese |
| ANTHRO 1640: Language and Culture |
| AFVS 215: Critical Printing |
| COMPLIT 120: Argentine Tango: Poetry, Music, and the Dance |
| COMPLIT 121: From the 1001 Nights to the Arabian Nights: Adaptations, Transformations, and Translations |
| COMPLIT 134: World Cinema |
| COMPLIT 210Y: Transmediating Love Literature |
| COMPLIT 238: After Orientalism: Writing across Arabic-Ilsamic Contact Zones |
| COMPLIT 252: The Literatures of Medieval Iberia: Approaches to Translation in their Comparative Study |
| COMPLIT 277: Literature, Diaspora and Global Traumas |
| COMPSCI 181: Machine Learning |
| COMPSCI 187: Computational Linguistics |
| EABS 256R: Chinese Buddhist Texts–Readings in Medieval Buddho-Daoist Documents |
| ENG 290MH: Migration and the Humanities |
| FRSEMR 62T: Migrants in Fiction and Film |
| FRSEMR 64O: Migratory Identities |
| HIND-URD 123: Bollywood and Beyond: Commercial Cinema, Language and Culture in South Asia |
| KOREAN 214: Korean Writers and Their Books |
| LING 101: The Science of Language |
| LING 102: Sentence Structure |
| LING 106: Knowledge of Meaning |
| LING 112: Syntactic Theory |
| LING 83: Language, Structure, Cognition |
| PHIL 147: Philosophy of Language |
| SAS 183: The Vernacular in South Asia |
| SLAVIC 177: Fugitives from Utopia: Polish Poets Across the Iron Curtain |
| TDM 147: Deconstructing a Novel into a Dance with Mario Zambrano |
| TDM 147L: The Processes of Inter-Media and Choreographic Exchange |
| TDM 169C: Uproot Aesthetics: Interdisciplinary Temporalities in Performance with Jace Clayton |
| TDM 169L: Immersive Storytelling Using Mixed Media with Young Joo Lee |
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