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Students entering the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, whether as a freshmen or transfer student, need to satisfy the Weinberg College language requirement.
Before graduation students must demonstrate proficiency in a classical or modern foreign language equivalent to the work covered in a second-year college level course.
Language proficiency may be demonstrated by achieving a high enough score on a College Entrance Examination Board Advanced Placement Examination (AP Exam); by passing a proficiency examination administered by the respective language departments; or by successfully completing course work at Northwestern University.
Students with prior knowledge of a language
who have not taken the College Entrance Examination Board
Advanced Placement Examination (AP Exam) and would like to
continue their language studies, will have to take a language
placement exam to determine appropriate placement. Language
placement exams are given over the summer or during New Student
week. For an overview of location and times, click on the
exam schedule below. For information on each particular language,
click on "WCAS languages" in the menu on the right.
Placement procedures, including explanations for language examinations, are described below. Some departments have special qualifications for the placement exam and may have other requirements for placement. Be sure to read this information carefully.
Placement exams for the following languages are available online and you are required to take them before you arrive on campus:
Arabic, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Latin, Spanish, and Swahili
Placement exams for Japanese and Russian must be taken online once you have arrived on campus.
For technical support, please e-mail:
pthelp@mmlc.northwestern.edu
or call 847/491-7761
(9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. CDT)
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE ONLINE PLACEMENT EXAMS AND VIEW INSTRUCTIONS
Students who believe that they are proficient in reading, writing, speaking, and the culture of a language not regularly taught at Northwestern University may petition to the Council on Language Instruction for a proficiency exam in that language. Petitions should be filed during a student's first quarter in the Weinberg College.
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