Foreign Language Requirement

All Carroll School of Management students may demonstrate proficiency by:

• Achieving a score of 3 or better on the A.P. exam (French, German, or Spanish) or a score of 500 or better on the SAT II (French, German, Italian, or Spanish) reading exam. Starting with students entering in the fall of 2005, students must receive a score of 550 or better on the SAT reading exam in French, German, Italian, or Spanish.
  
• Achieving a score of 4 or 5 on the A.P. exam or of 600 or better on the SAT II reading exam in Latin or Greek.
  For languages other than French, German, Italian, and Spanish: By passing one of the proficiency tests administered by the departments of Classical Studies and German Studies. Tests may be given in other languages by special arrangement in the Slavic Studies Department.
  
• Successfully completing course work through the second semester at the intermediate level or one semester above the intermediate level.
  
• Passing four years of high school language study (which need not be the same language, e.g., two years of Latin and two years of French would fulfill the language requirement).
  
• Taking one year of a new language or by completing two semesters of an intermediate level language if the Carroll School of Management student enters Boston College with three years of a foreign language.

Students wishing to demonstrate proficiency in a language other than those listed above and those for whom English is not their first language, should consult the Associate Dean.

Language courses will count as Arts and Sciences electives. Students with documented learning disabilities may be exempt from the foreign language requirement and should consult with the Associate Dean. Fulfillment of the proficiency requirement by the examinations listed above does not confer course credit.