<p>I have been taking Spanish for 4 years.</p>
<p>Scored 770 on the SAT II.</p>
<p>I don't want to take anymore Spanish language courses because I want to learn French, but I do want to take Spanish literature courses.</p>
<p>Would it be possible to do that after 4 years of high school Spanish?</p>
<p>How difficult is the online placement exam administered by the Spanish department?</p>
<p>You'd probably place into Advanced II. And have at least another course before you hit real literature classes. </p>
<p>You can actually place yourself wherever you want to, though, but you're going to be contending with native speakers at the upper end.</p>
<p>I am a Spanish Major, and went into the Advanced Spanish with a much lower SATII than that.</p>
<p>I do know that the placement exam placed me perfectly, so I would highly recomend that you do your best (cold) and go into the class that it recomends. I would bet you make into Academic Writing which is the last semester class before the more extensive Spanish lit classes open up. </p>
<p>GL
Tortuga</p>
<p>Is the placement test written, oral, or listening? Or is it a combination. I'm pretty good with spanish grammar (verb tenses, etc.), but i'm not that strong of a speaker or listener. I'm afraid if it is all written and i do well that I would be lost in the classroom.</p>
<p>I believe that the placement test online has listening, grammar, vocab etc. althought there is one on campus the first week of classes that may only be grammar, vocab and reading comp. The only skill it really fails to consider is speaking. I still recommend that you take the class the exam places you in. If you are able to complete the tasks honestly online, than you should be fine in class and improve your speaking skills much faster than you would taking a lower level class.</p>
<p>Very few people place straight into a literature class, unless they spent an entire year in a Spanish-speaking country as an exchange student in High School or took a year off between college. Most people, with 4 years of high Spanish place into Advanced I. I placed into Advanced II after 6 years of Spanish and going to Ecuador for a month, but decided to skip up and take Spanish Academic Writing, which is required for taking any upper-level literature classes. You don't necessarily need to take what you place into, but I wouldn't recommend taking anything higher than Academic Writing for your first semester.</p>