All UIUC students are required to fulfill the General Education Language Requirement, regardless what their native language might be.

If your native language is not English, you can fulfill your language requirement in this way:

• If you are entering the College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Media, or the Division of General Studies, you must have successfully completed four years of your native language and four years of either English or English as a Second Language at the upper secondary level (i.e., senior high school).

• If you are entering any other college, you must have successfully completed four years of English and three years of some other language in senior high school.

If your language requirement is fulfilled, you would take a foreign language placement test ONLY IF you plan on studying the foreign language at UIUC. Online tests are available in French, German, Latin and Spanish. For any other language, contact the department that is responsible for teaching the language.

If your language requirement is not fulfilled, you should contact your academic advisor in your college to learn what your options are. Sometimes excellent performance on a proficiency test in your native language can serve to fulfill your General Education language requirement by exempting you from language study at the third- or fourth-level. You do not necessarily earn any course credit. Please discuss this thoroughly with your advisor.

Questions about whether or not you have fulfilled your foreign language requirement (and hence, whether or not you need to take a foreign language placement test) should be directed to your college academic advisor.

Questions concerning logins or computer problems may be sent to pnp@uiuc.edu or you may call 217-244-4437 during normal business hours.

 
Last updated April 25, 2008