Foreign Language Requirement

General Education Foreign Language Requirement

All students entering SUNY Brockport in the Fall 2006 semester are required to complete the 112 level of a foreign language for the General Education program.

Students may satisfy the requirement in one of the following ways:

Credit:

Successful completion of two semesters of a foreign language course at Brockport 111 and 112.

Successful completion of one course numbered 112 or higher (e.g., SPN 112, Beginning Spanish II)

Successful completion of 6 credits in a college-level program of study abroad of at least five weeks duration in which the language of instruction is other than English.

Waiver:

Placement at the third semester level or above on the SUNY Brockport Foreign Languages departmental exam. Placement exams are offered in Spanish, French, Latin, Italian and German. All students are encouraged to take the exam to determine their level and to enhance advisement.

A score of 3 or higher on the foreign language Advanced Placement (AP) exam*

A 50% or better score on a foreign language CLEP exam* The CLEP must be taken before taking 300-400 level courses.

Students for whom English is a second language need to document their study of a language other than English by bringing a copy of a diploma or certificate proving that they have studied in that language to the Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

Transfer credit:

Transfer credit at appropriate level from college-level language study.

To continue with the language studied in high school, you must take the SUNY Brockport placement exam. The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures administers placement tests on a regular basis throughout the academic year, beginning the first week of classes. Please consult the department’s home page for the test schedule http://www.brockport.edu/~forelang/requirement.html. Click on Current Test Dates for the schedule). To register for a placement exam, contact Ms. Raquel Quinones

If you wish to take a language in which you have no prior study, you may register for a Beginning I section of that language. SUNY Brockport offers courses in the following languages:

American Sign Language Japanese

Russian French

Spanish Italian

350 New Campus Drive
Brockport, NY 14420-2977

Director of Language Placement:
Donna Wilkerson-Barker
dwilkers@brockport.edu