<p>does anyone know what the foreign language requirement is? i know the class of 2008 and earlier has to complete 3 semesters...however i read somewhere that it had been shortened..if i take elementary spanish I and elementary spanish II at a community college will this fulfill the requirement?</p>
<p>Even if your question is answered here, you shouldn't assume the answer is correct, and no one else who reads the answer should make that assumption, either (which is why I'm writing this post). This is the sort of question that must be answered by those who are responsible for such things at Tulane, not here at a faceless discussion board.</p>
<p>From the catalog posted on the tulane.edu website - note that it requires both competency and at least one course at TU, so you can make an educated guess, but like ctymomteacher says, we don't know the answer, since it is unclear on transfer credits - but your advisor will. That said, taking courses at a CC is certainly not going to hurt with the proficiency exam, and at minimum would likely get you into a higher level class, which is generally smaller (my D, with an AP 5 in her language, which she was considering minoring in, got into a 300 level class): </p>
<p><a href="http://www.tulane.edu/%7Eadmincat/2006/%5B/url%5D">http://www.tulane.edu/%7Eadmincat/2006/</a> - from here, click on Newcomb-Tulane College then, on the next screen, on Core Curriculum and Programs of Study:</p>
<p>Foreign Language (4-8 hours)* ? The study of foreign languages is an integral part of a undergraduate education, and a knowledge of foreign languages is essential for having a broader perspective of our increasingly globalized world. All students must take at least one foreign language course at Tulane University and demonstrate competency in that language. Competency in a foreign language may be achieved by:
? An Advanced Placement score of 4 or better,
? An SAT II Subject Test score of 640 or above,
? A passing score on a Tulane-administered test, or
? A passing grade in language courses at the 102 level or 112 level.
NOTE: All courses completed in order to fulfill the foreign language requirement must be taken in the same language.
*Candidates for the Bachelor of Science majoring in Biomedical Engineering or Chemical Engineering degree are exempt from this requirement.</p>
<p>well i dont think this is taking into account transfer students...i think it just means in college a student must take a foreign language to graduate from tulane.</p>
<p>Perhaps. And perhaps not. That is why you must get your information from the source, regardless of of CT2010dad's kind research. </p>
<p>Another relevant thought: Although my son entered Tulane with no intention of studying any particular language for a purpose, he is now not only studying one at a higher level and going to take courses this summer in a country that speaks it but studying it for the medical sciences as a premed student. You may well find that there are good reasons to know things a year or two from now that you don't even know exist at this point. Don't close doors before you find them.</p>
<p>Actually it is likely that even your advisor at Tulane won't know what the requirement is vis a vis a transfer student. They will probably be figuring it out as they go along. These changes were not particularly well thought out or considered by the faculty. It was one of those top down things. They watered the academic requirement down to make room for the new two semester community service requirement, and that is the one you should be worried about as a transfer student. You haven't as much time to fullfill it, there are not that many offerings, and there will be a lot of red tape involved in availing yourself of some of them.</p>
<p>i just wonder what it will be, because i really struggle in it...im not worried about the community service scholarship i do a lot of that anyways</p>
<p>I'd still ask the advisor. Their job, as official representatives of the school, is to either give you an answer or find out the answer if they don't know. And, like anything that is not yet a policy, it would be wise to get an answer in writing, not just verbally.</p>
<p>It is not doing the community service that will be the problem so much as finding an open course to do it in and having required paperwork in place to perform the community service. For the most part the faculty is still designing these courses and trying to find organizations which are interested in having pretty transient volunteers who themselves have tight schedules. For instance imagine you are the head pf the physics department looking for community service that involves physics and actually promotes your education in physics in a meaningful way.</p>
<p>The community service requirement is not a simple go spend x number of hours reading to the kids or cleaning up the park. This Spring there were a fair number of courses offered but as you might guess a lot of departments including Music hadn't come up with anything yet while the sociology, ethnic and womens studies, bio and bio-engineering departments were able to do much better as they have subject matter of more direct application to community needs. I don't know how much the community needs Philosophy:-)</p>
<p>Also the large number of educationally meaningful slots that will need to be created will actually put a bit of a strain on the organiztions that will be hosting these volunteers. When the administration thought this requirement up they were more interested in selling the sizzle than the steak and left the details to be hashed out by the faculty.</p>
<p>I don't have as much inside information as higherlead seems to, but I do know that my own son did volunteer service (without being required to, BTW) as a percussion teacher in the charter school. So I guess there's something Music people can do, after all.</p>
<p>I'll bet even philosophers are capable of something. (Like the seminarian my husband used to be and the philosophy minor my son still is. Both manage to perform quite a lot of service. I'd leave it to the people running the departments to worry about the paperwork, I think.)</p>
<p>Actually some of the paperwork will be the students responsibility. </p>
<p>There is a difference between community service and the Academic Service Learning requirement Tulane has instituted.</p>
<p><a href="http://cps.tulane.edu/gradRequirements.cfm%5B/url%5D">http://cps.tulane.edu/gradRequirements.cfm</a></p>
<p>Additionally depending on the organization the students ends up working with there may be state, local, or even federal requirements that must be met before you can even volunteer. Be cause the sponsoring organization ends up assuming some liability for the volunteers and because of the aforementioned regulatory requirements you may need to furnish things like health certificates, police reports, driving records etc etc. Because you are transfer students you are going to have less time to complete these requirements than say incomming freshmen so I would make it a point to get myself informed unless you want to end up spending an extra semester as an undergraduate.</p>
<p>The policy was clearly written for incoming freshman ("Successfully complete one service learning course at the 100-, 200-, or 300-level before the end of their sophomore year or fourth semester on campus") and I suspect the university is not going to go out of its way to penalize transfer students (let me qualify this as a personal opinion from someone who both works in a large organization and manages a number of people, and not with any special insight into the TU administration) so long as they demonstrate good intent and keep records. </p>
<p>That said, in the absence of a written policy for transfers, it would make sense for you to get - in writing as I noted below (a good policy in dealing with any institution) - an official position on what your graduation requirements will be. You may, in fact, help formulate the policy!</p>
<p>As a transfer student who works in the language lab:</p>
<p>2 semesters of spanish will definitely not cover it. You will probably be placed in third semester spanish - 203 - which is the minimum exit level semester. But everyone has to take one language class at 203 or higher. </p>
<p>Service learning requirements are still being figured out, really. I haven't done mine yet. But while you may not find one in your major, you can combine them with other Tulane distrubution requirements. (A writing-intensive class, a cultural traditions class, ect.)</p>
<p>ur positive that 2 semesters wont cover it for the class of 2010?...for those other classes does one have to be very good at spanish to succeed in them?</p>
<p>My daughter is the class of 2010, as I understand it, hedgejess is correct. You must pass the 203 class as the minimum to satisfy the foreign language requirement.</p>
<p>I think it has changed for new non-transfers. I think you only have to go to the 102 level now. Of course, it would stll be best to ask someone who knows better. I am only saying this because if I run an audit through a different grad year than my own, the audit says I would have only needed two courses in foreign language.</p>
<p>yea i thought it was just 2 semesters....so if im transferring ill only need to complete the 101 and 102 correct?</p>
<p>Vinin - Do you mean "non-transfer" or transfer? My D is not a transfer and I am pretty sure the 203 is the required level, but I have never looked at the transfer requirements.</p>
<p>As far as my current understanding of it, I thought new students (ie. freshman) only had to complete up to the 102 level of any given language. This is different than what current students had to do (203) and what transfers have to do (203) because transfers come in under some of the old rules.</p>
<p>I could be wrong though, just trying to help.</p>
<p>From everything I have looked at for the current freshman, they have to go through 203, unless I'm looking at old data. But my daughter didn't want to take the foreign language placement test and had taken the equivalent of Spanish 112 through dual enrollment and they placed her into 203 and said that completion of 203 satisfied the foreign language requirement. </p>
<p>But as to the online degree audit, my daughter has used it looking at different majors and it will show different general requirements with different majors. I think there is a glitch in the programming. She's been trying to determine if she had met all the general requirements before she did next semester's schedule and she finally had to get her advisor to confirm that she had.</p>