Dutch Language & Culture

Culture Courses: May 11-15
Language Courses: May 18-July 10

Students at Indiana University learn Dutch to achieve a wide range of goals, for example, exploration or cultivation of family heritage, enhancement of qualifications for international business, direct access to a prominent cultural tradition, and skills acquisition for research in academic fields such as European history and art history.

Dutch is spoken by approximately 21 million people in Western Europe alone and by people in the Dutch Antilles, Aruba and Surinam. Dutch is also an important source language in countries as Indonesia. It is the language spoken throughout the Netherlands and in the northern part of Belgium, where Brussels, the capital of the European Union, is situated. Dutch is also the language of The Hague, home of the International Court of Justice. Afrikaans, spoken in South Africa, grew out of seventeenth-century Dutch and is similar to modern Dutch.