The Graduate Center: A Look at Languages on Campus

The graphic below demystifies the various words decorating the pillars on the second floor of the University Library (Lib 200 - the graduate student "reading room"). The two pillar faces on the left list the word "graduate" in various languages, with each word numbered and labeled below. The two pillar faces on the right list the word "home" in various languages. These pillars represent the Graduate Center's commitment to providing a welcoming and supportive home for graduate studies at CSULB. Following the graphic is a text-based list of the languages represented on each pillar (that is, the text of the graphic is reproduced below the graphic). 

Pillars that are decorated with non-English words for "graduate" and "home"

Text of the graphic:

Graduate Translations

  1. Swahili
  2. Amharic
  3. Farsi
  4. German
  5. Mandarin
  6. Arabic
  7. Russian
  8. Hebrew
  9. Swahili
  10. Korean
  11. Mandarin
  12. Spanish
  13. Amharic
  14. Korean
  15. French
  16. Spanish
  17. Yiddish
  18. Arabic
  19. Farsi
  20. Mandarin
  21. Italian
  22. Russian

Home Translations

  1. Nahuatl
  2. Korean
  3. Navajo
  4. Maori
  5. Arabic
  6. Basque
  7. Mandarin
  8. French
  9. Japanese
  10. Amharic
  11. Turkish
  12. Czech
  13. Finnish
  14. Spanish
  15. Swahili
  16. Yiddish
  17. Danish
  18. Armenian
  19. Hindi
  20. Portuguese
  21. German
  22. Hebrew
  23. Latin
  24. Swedish
  25. Tagalog
  26. Arabic
  27. Russian (Latinized)

 

 

The Graduate Center is open and available to all, regardless of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin.