<p>From what I understand by looking at their website, GW does not require Foreign Language courses in their General Education Requirements. Is this true? The only reason I ask is that most/all of the other schools I'm looking at require a language and I thought maybe I misunderstood something.
Thanks!</p>
<p>I was talking to a girl from the Elliot School and she says that her School specifically requires fluency and proficiency in at least one language when you graduate from George Washington University.</p>
<p>the only school wide gen ed requirement GW has is university writing. Everyone in the Elliot school (international affairs) must take three years (or that equivalent in proficiency) of a language.</p>
<p>Keabie18’s correct. This just changed the past year for CCAS. I personally disagree with the policy change of relaxing the foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>I’d recommend all students take and become proficient in 1 additional language other than English.</p>
<p>A lot of Grad Schools require foreign language proficiency.</p>
<p>So, plan accordingly, not just based on the new GenEd requirements.</p>
<p>CJ</p>
<p>CJ - CCAS didn’t require foreign language prior to this year either. They used to require 2 courses either in foreign language or foreign culture. S fulfilled the requirement with comparative poli sci courses.
However, some majors in CCAS may require foreign language or at least strongly encourage it.</p>
<p>Agree with strongly encourage for all! It’s a global world. Proficiency in a second language can only increase your job marketability. Given the current dismal jobs outlook - the students need every option they can get!</p>
<p>Encorage all undergrads to review grad school requirements - if that’s at all in their future. it would be ashame for an undergrad to be applying to grad school in their senior year only to find out the grad program they’re applying to requires a 2nd language proficiency.</p>
<p>Once again - a pet peeve of mine! Sorry</p>
<p>CJ</p>
<p>No apology necessary. The point you make is valid, especially regarding grad school requirements.
My son had taken 5 years of Spanish through HS, got a 4 on the AP exam (taken the first year of a revised exam when teachers barely knew how to prep students for it), but got no credit for it at GW because they required a 5. He felt he was proficient in Spanish & didn’t want to start with a new language, especially when many foreign languages at GW are 4 credit classes and he already had more than 15 credits per semester with his music minor. Had that not been the case, he may very well have taken up a new language.</p>