Texas Language Gateway
Faculty in the University's College of Liberal Arts teach more than three dozen global languages. Through the Texas Language Gateway (TLG) partnership with University Extension, many of those languages are now available to learners everywhere.
UT Austin is your connection to university-level language courses.
Earn UT Austin credit with courses offered through University Extension (UEX). Courses offered by UEX provide college credit, are transferable and appear on an official university transcript. For several of the languages listed below, we offer a three-course series to help students achieve intermediate proficiency, covering two years of material in three semesters, thus fulfilling most college language requirements.
Who Should Enroll
- College students without access to these courses at their home institutions
- High school teachers needing to increase their familiarity with AP languages
- Anyone considering a post-graduate credential related to globalization
- Researchers working with material in these languages
UT admission is not required, but some courses have prerequisites.
Summer Language Institutes - Application Required
Arabic Summer Institute
The Arabic Summer Institute (ASI), offered the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, provides an intensive 10-week language and culture program for beginning, intermediate and advanced students of Arabic. The program is open to anyone and confers academic credit to participants.
Hebrew Summer Institute
The Hebrew Summer Institute (HSI), also offered the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, is an online program designed to help students reach the intermediate level of modern Hebrew in ten weeks of intensive instruction. HSI students earn 12 hours of lower-division Hebrew Language credit. HSI is open to all interested students. You do not need to be a student of UT Austin to apply, and no Hebrew experience is required.
Pashto Online Summer Institute
The Pashto Online Summer Institute (POSI) is an online, non-credit program designed to equip its participants--primarily teachers, administrators, social workers, and volunteers who work with native Pashto speakers--with fundamental Pashto communication skills. No prior Pashto experience is required.
South Asia Institute
In collaboration with the South Asia Summer Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, each summer UT Austin's College of Liberal Arts offers online courses in the South Asian languages, including Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu. This intensive program is open to anyone, and it confers academic credit.
