<p>Can American Sign Language be used to satisfy the CAS foreign language requirement. The different sites say different things on the BU site.</p>
<p>there is a foreign language requirement?!</p>
<p>yea for CAS: <a href="http://ling.bu.edu/major/caslr%5B/url%5D">http://ling.bu.edu/major/caslr</a>
This one says that ASL can be used but other ones say no. For Spanish and French you take an exam online before Orientation and for others you take it at Orientation</p>
<p>go to <a href="http://www.bu.edu/bulletins/und/%5B/url%5D">http://www.bu.edu/bulletins/und/</a> and on the left, click on your school. then see if u can find info about language requirements. not all schools have a foreign language requirement. i know that CAS requires 4 semesters and COM requires 2. i think CGS, ENG, and SAR are some schools that don't have any (i may be wrong).</p>
<p>also, the day u take the foreign language diagnostic test depends on what school you're in. CAS students take it before orientation. COM students take the spanish or french test at orientation and any other language tests after orientation.</p>
<p>and i'm not sure about whether sign language can be used for CAS students fulfilling their foreign language. i know it cannot fulfill the requirement for COM students though.</p>
<p>Actually . . . some languages don't have tests. You get placed by talking to the department and that may be on SAT2 or AP score. Asian languages, for example. If you take one of these other languages, you should call the department before orientation because you'll need to reserve a spot for that level in your schedule. A language like Chinese or Japanese won't have as many times to choose from.</p>
<p>What about the African languages? What exactly is the requirement for how much time/ how many courese you have to have in a language to fulfill the requirement. I know it says on one of the links listed above that African languages like Yoruba, Swahili, Hausa, Zulu, etc can be used to fulsill the requirement but on the site that says the series of courses you can take, none of those courses are listed. I'm wondering if this had something to do with the fact that course offerings in those languages are still fairly limited, but as I said, I don't know the exact requirements. Any information?</p>
<p>Must ask department or your college. Better to ask before orientation - and now, while everyone is around, is not a bad option.</p>