While India may be best known in the West for its religious leaders from the Buddha to Gandhi, it has excelled in fields from logic to music. Sanskrit literature, both sacred and secular, is immensely rich and varied. While the course concentrates on the Sanskrit language, students also specialize in a subject area of their choice. Although Turkish is structurally unrelated to Arabic and Persian, the Ottoman language is written in the Arabic alphabet and includes thousands of Arabic and Persian loan-words. Modern Turkish is written in the Western alphabet and differs considerably from Ottoman.
Many courses allow for, or require, an appropriate additional language.