Bosnian Croatian Montenegrin Serbian
This group of related languages which is often collectively referred to as "BCMS" is spoken widely throughout the Balkans and belongs to the South Slavic language family.
Program Overview
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures teaches first-year and second-year BCMS. In addition, the department offers an undergraduate major in Eastern European Languages, Literature, and Culture, and minors in Slavic languages & literatures.
Degree availability: B.A. Eastern European Languages, Literature and Culture, B.A. Global Literary Studies; Minor in Slavic Languages and Russian and Slavic Literatures
Years offered: 2 years
Contact: Slavic Department
Course Information
Course Catalog
- BCMS 401 First Year Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- BCMS 402 First Year Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- BCMS 403 First Year Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- BCMS 404 Second-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- BCMS 405 Second-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- BCMS 406 Second-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- BCMS 410 Intensive Third Year Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian
- BCMS 420 Literature, Film, and Culture of the Former Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor State
Faculty's Recent Research
Publications
- “Tinova pjesma drveća: drevna budućnost i avangarda antropocene” [“Tin’s Poem of the Trees: Ancient Future and the Avant-Garde of the Anthropocene”]. Bojan Jović and Bojan Čolak, eds., A(tra)kcija Ujević: avangarda, angažman i revolucija u delu Tina Ujevića [A(tra)ction Ujević: Avant-Garde, Engagement and Revolution in the Opus of Tin Ujević]. Belgrade and Zagreb: Institute for Literature and Arts & the University of Zagreb, 2022.
- Gender Nondiscriminatory Language Debates in Present-Day Serbia:אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשֶׁמֶשׁ.
Cetinjski filološki dani III. 31-55. 2022. - BCMS Clitic Deprivation. Lingua Montenegrina. 14.1.27: 21-38. 2021.
- Gordana P. Crnković: Literature and Film from East Europe’s Forgotten “Second World”: Essays of Invitation. New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- The Synchrony of the Serbian Infinitive: A Syntactic Perspective. James J. Pennington, Victor A.
Friedman, and Lenore A. Grenoble (Eds.), And Thus You Are Everywhere Honored: Studies Dedicated To Brian D. Joseph. Slavica. 29-40. 2019. - Protecting the Privileged: Cultivating and Caring for the Serbian Language in Serbia. Donald
L. Dyer and Jane Hacking (Eds.), ЧЕКАJ: Papers for Christina E. Kramer on the Occasion of Her Retirement. Balkanistica. 32.2:1-14. 2019. - Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian in U.S. College Classrooms. Lingua Montenegrina. 10.2.20: 65-76. 2017.
- Уникатна контрола у савременом српском језику: инфинитив и презент са свезицом да. Serbian Studies Research. 5/1:253-267. 2014.
- Gordana P. Crnković, Aida Vidan, eds. In Contrast: Contemporary Croatian Film Today. Zagreb: Croatian Film Association, and New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012.
- 1850-1950: A Century of Letters among the Bosniaks, Croats, Montenegrins, and Serbs. Bernhard Brehmer & Biljana Golubović, eds. Serbische und kroatische Schriftlinguistik. Hamburg: Verlags Dr. Kovač. 2010. 11-29.
- AB OVO: When OVO and OVO are Different. Balkanistica 23:1-20. 2010.
- Ovo vs. ovo. Raecke, Jochen and Biljana Golubović, eds. Bosnisch/Kroatisch/Serbisch als Fremdsprachen an den Universitäten der Welt. München: Verlag Otto Sagner. 2008.
- Minor Paucal in Serbian. Zybatow, Gerhild et al., eds. Formal Description of Slavic Languages: The Fifth Conference, Leipzig 2003. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008. 258-269.
- Gordana P.Crnkovic, Imagined Dialogues: Eastern European Literature in Conversation with American and English Literature. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2000.
More About BCMS
Global
- Bosnian speakers (worldwide) 3,119,530; Croatian 6,451,070; Montenegrin 272,780 & Serbian 8,255,086
Learning
- One Language, Multiple Countries: Learning any one of the languages (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin) gives a significant head start on the others due to their high similarity.
Culture & Diplomacy
- Essential for roles in international relations, intelligence, and security in Southeast Europe.
Travel & Career
- Navigate the Adriatic coast and Balkan hinterlands with confidence.
Discover Why Learning BCMS matters
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Starimost Bridge in Old Town Mostar, Bosnia
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Belgrade, Serbia with a light dusting of snow. There is a view of the river in the bottom left of the photo.
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View of Visovac Island, National park Krka, Croatia
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Kotor, Montenegro, photo of mountains and a town surrounding a small inlet with cruise ships