The Source Language Teaching Unit offers language courses for beginners and at the intermediate level based on student needs (this can include Ancient Greek, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbia, Classical Syriac, Hungarian, Latin, Modern Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Yiddish). Advanced reading classes are offered by faculty members with relevant linguistic expertise. Recently, these have been:
- Ottoman Texts - 19th Century
- Advanced Russian Source Reading in Historiography
- Advanced Hungarian Source Reading in Historiography
- Advanced German Source Reading in Historiography
- Advanced Source Reading Class in Arabic Historiography
