About West European Studies (WEST): Indiana University Bloomington

IU's language departments are nationally recognized for their high quality. Offerings consist of over 40 modern languages, ten of them spoken in Western Europe - Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Portuguese, Spanish, Yiddish - and since 2003, Norwegian. Students of Western Europe or the expanding European Union also have the opportunity to bridge the gap between East and West by studying Slavic or Uralic and Altaic languages, representing the entire geographical range of European tongues, from Finnish in the north to Turkish in the Mediterranean, as well as Bulgarian, Romanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Albanian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Russian, and Arabic.

Non-language course offerings span 8 schools and 20 departments; WEST affiliated tenured and tenure-track faculty number over 100. Students and faculty have access to the Herman B Wells Library, which is both an EU and a UN depository and houses approximately 1,403,258 serials and monographs relating to Western Europe.