Welcome to Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
The Chair of NELC is Professor Scott Noegel. Please click on the welcome message to learn more about the vitality and vision of NELC at UW. Please also feel free to read our departmental Fact Sheet.
Summer 2010 Offerings
Earn a year's worth of language credit in 9 weeks! Study at the University of Washington during the beautiful Seattle summer! We are offering full term courses and courses that are A-Term or B-Term only, spanning from Elementary Uygur to Sex and eroticism in the Ancient Near East. Click here for more details.
Department Highlight
NELC Advising Blog: NELC's Undergraduate Advisor, Amy Oates recently created a blog for the Advising Department, primarily to forward to students the many opportunities/announcements from across the University without clogging the students' email accounts. Please click here for more information about the blog.
Recently, NELC was featured in a special podcast presentation administered by the UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs Office, under the UW Advising Podcast program. NELC's Undergraduate Advisor, Amy Oates, spoke briefly about the Department, its history, and what it has specialized in for the past 100 years. To listen to Amy's podcast, please click here.
The Chair of NELC is Professor Scott Noegel. Please click on the 
Earn a year's worth of language credit in 9 weeks! Study at the University of Washington during the beautiful Seattle summer! We are offering full term courses and courses that are A-Term or B-Term only, spanning from Elementary Uygur to Sex and eroticism in the Ancient Near East. 
Recently, NELC was featured in a special podcast presentation administered by the UW Undergraduate Academic Affairs Office, under the UW Advising Podcast program. NELC's Undergraduate Advisor, Amy Oates, spoke briefly about the Department, its history, and what it has specialized in for the past 100 years. To listen to Amy's podcast, please click