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The University of California at Berkeley on Tuesday announced plans to spend more than $500,000 to add more than 30 foreign language courses, beginning in the next academic year. The additions are part of a broad effort at Berkeley to add sections of courses needed by freshmen and others to launch themselves in various courses of study. Sections will be added in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese. The news from Berkeley comes at a time that a number of public universities are scaling back language offerings, frequently citing the relatively small number of majors in various programs. The Berkeley announcement noted that the university's analysis has found that only a small minority of language students at the university are language majors, but that the instruction is essential for many courses of study and careers.
