An Australian-first alliance between Queensland's three largest universities will expand higher learning in a range of Asian and European languages.
The University of Queensland (UQ), Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will pool teaching of at least nine languages so that their students may learn them as part of formal studies.
Students at all three institutions will be able to major in Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Spanish. None of the universities in the alliance currently offers this range of languages and students will benefit from the wider choice that will become available to them.
To improve convenience for students who want to study a language offered by a University other thant their own, the universities will establish a shared web portal. Ongoing collaboration between the three universities will result in higher visibility of all nine languages at each university. Where numbers make this possible, classes will be offered on more than one campus, but students may have to travel to another campus to study languages with smaller enrolment numbers.
To facilitate enrolments in any of the nine languages, the three universities are working to streamline the existing cross-enrolment process.
Information for QUT students
QUT students of French
QUT students of Japanese
QUT students of German
QUT students of Indonesian
Other QUT cross-institutional students
Visiting students enrolled at QUT
Information for Griffith students
Griffith students of German, Indonesian,French or Russian
Griffith students of Korean
Information for UQ students
UQ students wishing to cross-enrol in Italian at Griffith University