The African Language Program at MSU offers the following languages through the supervised, tutorial mode at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels:

Acholi, Akan/Twi, Amharic, Arabic*, Bambara/Mandingo, Bemba, Fulfulde/Pulaar, Ganda, Hausa*, Igbo, Kikuyu, Kpelle, Krio, Lingala, Luganda, Malagasy, Mende/Bandi/Loki, Nyanja/Chewa, Ndebele, Oromo, Ruanda/Rundi, Rwanda, Shona, Somali, Swahili*, Swazi, Temne, Tigrinia, Tsonga, West African Pidgin English, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.

*Beginning and Intermediate classes are taught in the classroom mode with advanced classes taught in the supervised mode.

The faculty-trained, on-demand tutorial involves individual (or small-group study) with a tutor who is a native speaker of the language under the guidance of a faculty language supervisor who has a structural knowledge of the language and an understanding of the language learning process. In this mode, the learner takes the primary responsibility for organizing and managing the study of the selected language as well as other responsibilities.

Courses offered through the supervised, tutorial mode are available on a demand basis to graduate students upon approval of the supervisor, provided that specific conditions have been met.

Meeting times for all supervised tutorials are arranged.

Financial aid opportunities are available for graduate students.