2000-2001 Undergraduate Catalog
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Students in the colleges of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and Humanities and Social Sciences must demonstrate an intermediate level of foreign language proficiency as a college requirement for graduation. They may choose any of the languages offered, including self-instruction in the Critical Languages, described below. Intermediate-level foreign language courses in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish will also count as Liberal Studies electives.

For students with previous foreign language instruction or experience, individual placement into foreign language courses may be done during placement testing and registration prior to the first semester at IUP. Students whose placement test demonstrates competence equivalent to the intermediate level are considered to have fulfilled the foreign language requirement. Students with no previous foreign language background will take entry-level courses, which may be counted as free electives in the total required for graduation.

Any foreign student, registered as such at IUP, whose acquired native language is other than English and who demonstrates an acceptable proficiency in English, is exempt from the foreign language requirement if the department of the student’s major does not require a specific foreign language.