Students are expected to have completed two years of high school study of a foreign language prior to entering college. Students who have not fulfilled this expectation will be required to complete a one-year, elementary, sequential course (6 credits) in a foreign language offered by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies. The department offers such courses in Arabic, Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. A placement exam, administered by the department, must be taken before registering for a foreign language course.
Students with prior familiarity with a language are encouraged to contact the department chair person to discuss placement prior to initial enrollment in the relevant language course sequence. Students enrolling in the lowest level course at the elementary level in any language must complete 6 academic credits of coursework to receive any degree credit at all.
For additional information on the specific courses that fulfill this requirement, consult the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs (http://www.rutgersnewark.rutgers.edu/dsanwk/gened.html).
