Placement for Language Courses

Students have to be placed considering prior evidence of language experience in Arabic, American Sign Language, ESL, Chinese, French, Italian or Spanish. This review would include: number of years of high school foreign language, grades earned and Advanced Placement scores. After the first week of each class, the Department reserves the right to evaluate the students' language credentials and to re-assign them to a class more suited to their ability and performance. Courses are usually taken in sequence.

Prior to the beginning of the semester, all new Majors will take a placement test consisting of a written part and an interview with a faculty member of the Department of Modern Languages.