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The Department of Central Eurasian Studies

The Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University was founded as an Army Specialized Training Program for Central Eurasian languages in 1943, then formally organized as the Program in Uralic and Altaic Studies (from 1956 to 1965) and later the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (from 1965 to 1993). It was renamed the Department of Central Eurasian Studies in 1993. The department has long been one of the world’s leading centers of academic expertise on Central Eurasia and the sole independent degree-granting academic unit staffed with its own faculty of specialists.

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Indiana University’s Center for Languages of the Central Asian Regions (CeLCAR) was founded in 2002. It is one of fourteen Title VI Foreign Language Resource Centers in the United States.

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Offering intensive summer language training at the Bloomington campus of Indiana University since 1950, SWSEEL provides over 200 participants in Slavic, East European, Middle Eastern, and Central Asian languages the opportunity to complete a full year of college language instruction in eight and nine-week summer sessions.

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The Language Flagships are undergraduate programs at Indiana University in Bloomington designed for students who wish to achieve advanced professional proficiency in a language while pursuing a degree in their chosen field. The Flagships are rigorous programs of study offered in Arabic, Chinese, and Russian language to enable highly-motivated students to become global professionals.

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