Establishment of the Department

• Initially, Japanese was the only Department set up in 2007

• Chinese, Korean and Persian introduced in 2010

Responsibilities of the Department

The Department of Asian languages teaches Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Persian. As these departments were set up recently (except Japanese), the focus is on proficiency development in the above-mentioned languages.

Programmes/ Courses conducted by the Department

Japanese
• Proficiency Courses (Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma)
• B.A. (Hons.) in Japanese
• M.A. in Japanese

Chinese
• Proficiency Courses (Certificate and Diploma)

Korean
• Proficiency Courses (Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma)

Persian
• Proficiency Courses (Certificate and Diploma).