Undergraduate Program

Course Placement

Students who have completed two or more years of high school foreign language and who wish to continue their foreign language study at the University will be placed in appropriate courses based on their scores in the proficiency exam. Placement exams are administered during pre-enrollment periods as well as during regular enrollment periods.

Native Speaker Policy

The Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics defines a native speaker of a language as any individual who has graduated from a high school in which that language is the primary language of instruction. A native speaker may not enroll in any undergraduate skills course in his or her native language, with the exception of the course in Advanced Composition 3423. Undergraduate skills courses include all courses in which the primary goal is language usage, i.e., all elementary and intermediate courses, and all composition, conversation and phonetics courses.