Second language study contributes importantly to a liberal education, not only as a means of access to the cultural and intellectual heritage of the world's non-English-speaking majority but also as a way to gain a new reflective understanding of the structure and complexity of English itself.

Fourth-term proficiency in a language other than English is required and may be met by any one of:

  1. Certified proficiency on a University of Michigan reading and/or listening test. Students with previous experience in the language they plan to use to meet the language requirement must take a language placement test. A student may not elect for credit a language course below this placement level without departmental permission.
  2. Credit for a University of Michigan fourth-term language course listed below with a grade of C— or better.
    • African Languages (CAAS 226)
    • American Sign Language (LING 251)
    • Arabic
      • Classical (AAPTIS 582)
      • Modern Standard (one of: AAPTIS 202, 204, 205, 216, 218, 419, 420)
    • Armenian
      • Eastern (AAPTIS 282 or ARMENIAN 282)
      • Western (AAPTIS 272 or 273, or ARMENIAN 272 or 273)
    • Bengali (ASIANLAN 286)
    • Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian (BCS 232 or 225)
    • Chinese (ASIANLAN 202, 203, or 204)
    • Czech (CZECH 242)
    • Dutch (DUTCH 232)
    • Filipino (ASIANLAN 212)
    • French (FRENCH 230 or 232, or RCLANG 290)
    • German (GERMAN 230 or 232 or 291, or RCLANG 291)
    • Greek
      • Classical (GREEK 301 and 302, or 405)
      • Biblical (GREEK 307 and 308, or ACABS 307 and 308)
      • Modern (MODGREEK 202)
    • Hebrew
      • Classical (ACABS 202)
      • Modern (HJCS 202)
    • Hindi (ASIANLAN 216 or 217)
    • Indonesian (ASIANLAN 222)
    • Italian (ITALIAN 232 or 230)
    • Japanese (ASIANLAN 226 or 227 or 229, or RCLANG 296)
    • Korean (ASIANLAN 236 or 237 or 238)
    • Latin (LATIN 232 or 233 or 295, or RCLANG 295)
    • Ojibwe (AMCULT 323)
    • Persian (AAPTIS 242 or 243)
    • Polish (POLISH 222)
    • Portuguese (PORTUG 232 or 230)
    • Punjabi (ASIANLAN 246)
    • Russian (RUSSIAN 202 or 203 or 223 or 225, or RCLANG 293)
    • Sanskrit (ASIANLAN 252)
    • Spanish (SPANISH 230 or 232, or RCLANG 294)
    • Swedish (SCAND 234)
    • Tamil (ASIANLAN 256 or 257)
    • Telugu (ASIANLAN 282)
    • Thai (ASIANLAN 262)
    • Tibetan
      • Classical (ASIANLAN 468)
      • Modern (ASIANLAN 266)
    • Turkish (AAPTIS 252 or 255)
    • Ukrainian (UKRAINE 252 or 203)
    • Urdu (ASIANLAN 272)
    • Vietnamese (ASIANLAN 276)
    • Yiddish (YIDDISH 202 or JUDAIC 202)
  3. Credit for a University of Michigan language course which presumes a fourth-term proficiency in a language (except for 305 and/or 306 in French, German, Italian, and Spanish, Spanish 290/American Culture 224, and Spanish 308).

Students must earn a grade of C— or better in the prerequisite language course to proceed to the subsequent course.

Any exception to this rule must be granted by a designated faculty representative in the department.

The final course in an elementary language sequence used to satisfy the Language Requirement must be elected on a graded basis.

The language requirement cannot be satisfied by out-of-residence credit which is elected after the student has begun degree enrollment in LS&A unless the appropriate language department has approved that plan in advance.

Students who wish to meet the requirement with proficiency in a language not listed in the table above should contact the Academic Standards Board. A student whose first language is not English and who attended a high school where English was not the language of instruction is considered to have met the requirement.

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