Where to study the Welsh language in the US?

anhydrite
Tue, 10 Feb 2015 05:02:14 +0000

Very interesting question. If you broaden out to include Celtic Studies, and perhaps even Anglo-Saxon, you may unearth a few more possibilities. You may also broaden in the direction of Comparative Literature, depending on your degree goals, etc., and include Welsh as one of your reading languages – but this would still require Welsh language offerings somewhere. Certainly at Harvard this should be possible, for example.

I don’t think anyone has posted this link yet, international links (from Australia):

http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/opinionated-celtic-faqs/celtic-studies/

UW-Milwaukee has an established Center for Celtic Studies, with an extensive links page:

http://www4.uwm.edu/celtic/links/programs.cfm

Bangor University seems to be an (the?) established Welsh center for North American Welsh studies. Though based in Wales, at least a few of the board directors are located in North America, e.g. University of Michigan-Flint. And possibly more leads to Welsh study within North America.

http://www.naaswch.org/

The program list Disneydad provided indeed has some of the best language learning colleges / universities in the country, though I’d also add UC-Berkeley. These probably don’t all offer Welsh, unfortunately.