BENGL at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 7 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate BENGL coursework.

• BENGL 1122Elementary Bengali IIopens 4 courses (1 directly)
• BENGL 2201Intermediate Bengali Iopens 3 courses (1 directly)
• BENGL 2202Intermediate Bengali IIopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• BENGL 3301Advanced Bengali Iopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate BENGL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 7 BENGL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 6 more BENGL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in BENGL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at BENGL 3302

  1. BENGL 1121Elementary Bengali I
  2. BENGL 1122Elementary Bengali II
  3. BENGL 2201Intermediate Bengali I
  4. BENGL 2202Intermediate Bengali II
  5. BENGL 3301Advanced Bengali I
  6. BENGL 3302Advanced Bengali II

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on BENGL sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Razima Selim Chowdhury

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under BENGL yet.

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Department events

BENGL does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.