Institute of Modern Languages

Institute of Modern Languages, Dhaka University
Established	July 1974
Focus	Modern languages
Director	Dr. Razaul karim Faquire
Adjunct faculty	Rokeya Hall
Formerly called	Department of Foreign Languages (1964)
Address	Nilkhet Road, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000
Location	University of Dhaka , Dhaka , Bangladesh
Coordinates	23°44′01″N 90°23′39″E / 23.733589°N 90.394110°E / 23.733589; 90.394110[1]
Website	Official site

The Institute of Modern Languages (IML) is an institute of the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh dedicated to teaching various modern languages including Bengali, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Hindi.^[2] Four levels of certificate courses are offered for each language, Bengali being the only language exclusively reserved for foreign international students. B.A Honours programs in English, French, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese have been recently added to the curriculum, where an additional Masters program was added to the English curriculum. For junior courses, a student must obtain at least G.P.A. 2.5 in higher secondary exam. For upper certificate courses, he must pass admission test. Anyone passing DU admission test from B unit will be eligible to enroll for honours courses.^[3]

History

In July 1947, the Department of International Relations was established at the University of Dhaka,^[4] where courses for Chinese and French were introduced the next year. The year after the Language Movement of 1952, German was added to the courses. In 1964 these courses were separated from International Relations, and a Department of Foreign Languages was established. Russian and Turkish were introduced in the next year, and Japanese in 1972. In 1973 Spanish was introduced to bring the total number of languages taught to six.^{[citation needed]}

On the first of July 1974 the Institute of Modern Languages was established as an integral part of University of Dhaka, incorporating the Department of Foreign Languages of 1964 into its constitution.^[2]

In recent years the number of students has been declining.^[5] However the Korean language department was expanded in 2014.^[6]