Develops all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Introduces the phonetic system and the Vietnamese script. Fifteen dialogues contain situation-based conversations which introduce basic vocabulary and grammar. Each lesson contains several culture notes about the country and its customs. Not open to native speakers.

A continuation of Elementary Vietnamese. Develops all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Introduces the phonetic system and the Vietnamese script. Another fifteen dialogues contain situation-based conversations which introduce basic vocabulary and grammar. Each lesson contains several culture notes about the country and its customs. Not open to native speakers.

Conversational fluency, orthography, and grammar. Not open to native speakers.

A continuation of Intermediate Vietnamese. Further develops conversational fluency, understanding of orthography, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Not open to native speakers.

Focuses on building advanced-level vocabulary and grammar knowledge in Vietnamese for a variety of verbal and written communications. Not open to native speakers.

A continuation of Advanced Vietnamese I.

An introduction to Vietnamese literature, including Vietnamese newspapers, poetry, short stories, folk literature, and excerpts from classical and modern Vietnamese writings.

An in-depth study of Vietnamese language, literature, and culture in consultation with a faculty member.

Readings in Vietnamese, Chi Nom, and modern Vietnamese.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.

Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires students to gather, analyze, synthesize, and interpret data and to present results in writing and other relevant communication formats.