<p>so i will need to make it to 203 then?</p>
<p>I've been assuming you're an Arts and Sciences person - I'm not sure of the requirement for every school, I think business, for example, only needs two semesters. But for A&S, you will definitely need 203.</p>
<p>The Renewal Plan dropped the language requirement to 2 semesters from 3 to allow for the newly required 2 semester community service requirement. That probably does not affect transfer students.</p>
<p>lol, so you are POSITIVE i only need to make it to the 102 level?</p>
<p>Jayhawk, please get your information from an advisor at Tulane, not here on a faceless message board, before you make any decisions based on it.</p>
<p>While I would be the last person on earth to advise you to actually beoieve a word that comes out of Scott Scowen's mouth or appears over his signature jayhawk303 I am only telling you what is in the official Tulane Renewal Plan. Go to <a href="http://renewal.tulane.edu/students.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://renewal.tulane.edu/students.shtml</a>, click on the Renewl Plan tab on the lefthand side of the page, go to page 3 of that official Tulane University document and you will see that the foreign language requirement is 8 hours which is two semesters.</p>
<p>I would however strongly encourage you to ask your asvisor. If he gives you a different answer you might want to ask him if his information is more accurate and current than the published information on the Tulane website. </p>
<p>BTW advisors are responsible for advising but they don't make the requirements. If they misinterpret or misunderstand those requirements that does not let you off the hook anymore than if I do.</p>
<p>this means if ive completed 2 semesters that transfer as 101 and 102 i have completed the foreign language requirement right?</p>
<p>No, it says one course must be taken at Tulane, so you will need to take one additional Spanish course and pass it at Tulane to meet the FL competency.</p>
<p>"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: </p>
<p> An Advanced Placement score of 4 or better, or
An SAT II Subject Test score of 640 or above, or
A passing score on a Tulane-administered test, or
A passing grade in language courses at the 102 level or 112 level. "</p>
<p>So even though you will get transfer credit for two classes, you will have to take and pass a course at Tulane to satisfy the FL requirement. Vinin had it right for incoming students. My confusion was that my D took Spanish at the local college during high school that would have fulfulled Tulane's requirements, if she had taken them at Tulane, but she had to take an additional course at Tulane to complete the requirement. Is this as clear as mud?</p>
<p>It can be confusing even though ThatMom's info sounds very good. That is one reason why some of us keep telling you that it is necessary to get your information from a Tulane advisor. You will have it in writing and, if they do things the way I was required to do them when I did college advising, they will have to sign the advisement form, thus taking responsibility for what they tell you. So, again, please go to the source before making any decisions.</p>
<p>The published requirements in a universities catalogue are legally binding no matter what a college advisor tells you, puts in writting, or signs in blood. Universities protect themselves from potentially incompetent employess this way. It keeps costs down for the schools so they don't have to train or screen as thoroughly.</p>
<p>There have been quit a few problems post-katrina with academic advisors not knowing what the rules are, misinterpreting them, and sometimes giving outright incorect information. The reorganizations in the advising system post-katrina and after the abolition of Tulane College and Newcomb College have been extensive with a lot of staff turnover. Presummably by this Fall they should have all the kinks ironed out, but a lot of the "reforms" weren't thought out in great detail before being signed into law so to speak.</p>
<p>My best advice to you would be to talk to your advisor AND read the catalogue yourself. If what you read doesn't seem to comport with what you are being told keep moving up the foodchain and asking the same question until they do.</p>
<p>The last thing you want to do is be a last semester senior and find out you don't pass a graduation audit. If you get there the nicely signed guarantee from your advisor who has since moved on to Delgado Community College won't be worth the scrap of paper it is on.</p>
<p>From a personal perspective I am very happy my son is graduating under the requirements in place in 2003. They were a lot clearer.</p>
<p>PS - For anyone thrilled at the prospect that I might not be posting on this board much longer I've got some bad news. Son starts Tulane Law in the Fall so I will be around for the forseeablt future.</p>
<p>The relative competence of university advisors aside, my main concern is that Jayhawk seems to be looking for the answer that best fits his desire to take as little of a foreign language as posible. Yes, it's best to get it in writing, and "in writing " means in the catalogue. Each semester, you need to get your schedule signed off on by an advisor, and that should match, ultimately, the catalogue because that catalogue will be the basis for your graduation audit. </p>
<p>But the immediate problem I see here is someone looking for information in the wrong place--here--because he's getting the answer he wants instead of asking for it where it might be more accurate but not quite what he wants.</p>
<p>Please let's not throw in personal distractions that get in the way of pointing him in the direction of solid information. The essence of what HL just said is what he needs to hear--go to the catalogue and get anything beyond that in writing that matches up with that contract.</p>
<p>I'm not 100% sure about this because I looked at it a few months back....</p>
<p>Be careful about those "new" requirements under the Renewal Plan.
Best I could tell, for some of them, there is a new overall core set of requirements. However, just when I thought I understood things, I found that one of the requirements (can't recall whether it was for Writing or foreign language) was greater if you declared a major in the liberal arts college.</p>
<p>The advisement my son's received hasn't been great thus far. Alot of that could be his fault. But he's been assigned to at least 3 different advisors since he's been there and he's only a 2nd semester sophomore.</p>
<p>Advice given here to THOROUGHLY review the catalog is key.
In the end, whatever rules were in place at the time you begin there will be applied, no matter what you might have been "told".</p>
<p>im assuming that the catalog isn't talking about transfer students, or it would have said all transfer students must take such and such as well...hopefully 101 and 102 will be enough.</p>
<p>I have the same problem as curiouser's son, I have had a different advisor every semester I have been at Tulane. That makes 4 different advisors now including the lagniappe session where I did have a different advisor. I've come to not really try to get to know them, and that is kind of sad.</p>
<p>Well the advising is supposed to be THE big improvement in the undergraduate experience that the Renewal Plan is bringing about.</p>
<p>Can you not get someone in your major to stay with? I believe that's what my son's done. We're here with him now, and he seems to have done that with good results.</p>