Foreign Language requirements and exemptions based on AP test score OR CLEP or SAT 2?

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<p>Hi all. I have a question for science majors. Is there a foreign language completion requirement for a Bio/Chem/Physics major at UF? I am NOT talking about the FL requirement in high school for UF admissions but the FL requirement that is for the college graduation. For instance, my daughter, who was in the College of Journalism, had a choice of doing 2 semesters of a foreign language OR 3 semesters of a quatitative class (math or computer). Do the science and/or premed type majors have such a requirement and can you place out of it (like with a certain score on the AP Spanish exam OR the SAT 2 or CLEP)? </p>

<p>My son will be applying this summer for summer 2012 admission. He is not sure if he passed the AP Spanish Lang exam last week. If he didn't, is there any value to his taking the SAT 2 in Spanish? </p>

<p>A friend told me that a score of like 430 on the SAT 2 could exempt him from Spanish in college but I need confirmation before adding that to the busy Fall schedule!</p>

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<p>Okay, I did manage to find the information myself for the CLA BIO major but still cannot find the info for the BLY major through CALS. </p>

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<p>NOTE: there are two ways to major in Bio at UF, via the college of liberal arts OR the college of agriculture an life sciences…both have different FL requirements but I cannot find out what they are.</p>

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<p>I am a bio major in the college of liberal arts and sciences. The difference between Bio in CALS and the College of agricultural and life sciences is: in Liberal Arts you have to take 8-10 credit hours of a foreign language. And in Agricultural and Life sciences you take speech and i think economics (not sure about this one) but no foreign language is required. I decided with since I had 6 years of spanish under my belt to go with CALS. You can either do spanish 1 in one semester and spanish 2 in another semester, or you have the option to do the accelerated option of spanish 1 and 2 combined over 1 semester. It’s 5 credits, pretty simple, everyone in my class passed with As and Bs and the class ranged from little spanish to fluent in spanish.</p>

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<p>jsnapp - Do you know of any other differences between being in CLA vs. CALS for Biology at UF? I don’t think my son will need to take Spanish at ALL, since he finished 5 years of high school Spanish (through AP). I was just trying to figure out how he gets the credit for it, should he not pass the exam.</p>

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<p>My son will be a freshman next fall - majoring in Chem. He took SAT2 in Spanish a couple years ago, and did well enough to to meet the threshold score for CLAS foreign language requirement. However, he has not yet gone up for Preview - so I don’t know what documentation UF requires to verify his score. I assume that UF will ask him to have College Board send a score report.<br>
Also, although I’m not familiar w/ requirements for Bio majors, I did learn that for Chem majors who wish to obtain the ACS certification on their degree, “The language requirement must be met in German, French or Russian.”</p>

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<p>I am at preview right now and today an academic advisor said that they just recently decided to drop the language requirement for CLAS. So if you have credit either AP sat or placement test you do not have to take a language.</p>

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<p>If they are dropping the language requirement, wouldn’t that mean that they no longer even need to see “proof of proficiency” in a language?</p>

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<p>What about for sociology majors?</p>

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<p>Seiclan
From what I understood, but I guess I worded it wrong, is that they are only requiring a language if there is no proof of proficiency. In other words they will take the scores/credit from AP or IB or SATII to fullfill the language requirement. All these questions can be asked specifically at preview.</p>

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<p>This is only in reference to majors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.</p>

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<p>I’d take the CELP Spanish exam if I were you. It’s a fairly easy test. I got an 87 on it and they gave me 12 Spanish language credits.</p>

<p>After reading the post by seiclan they seem to have changed a few things. I got a 7 on my Spanish IB Subsidiary exam, but that was not enough to give me an exemption.</p>

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<p>how hard is spanish CLEP. I have only taken spanish one and two in highschool during freshman and sophomore year but I really dont want to take it in college too for psychology major</p>

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<p>Yo pienso que el CLEP de Espa</p>

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<p>lol btw, your syntax is wrong. You don’t say “cuan”. You say: ,“pero eso depende de tu fluidez en el idioma”</p>

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<p>ME? wrong is syntax? you are making me laugh. Amigo(a) m</p>

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<p>You really don;t want to go down this road.</p>

<p>Not to trump your “Cuban” status, but I happen to be a Spaniard from Spain.</p>

<p>What you just stated is linguistically incorrect.</p>

<p>Real Spanish is Castellano, and not your odd Cuban Spanish dialect.</p>

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<p>I’ll change your sentence for you so that it actually makes more sense:</p>

<p>"Yo pienso que el CLEP de Espa</p>

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<p>What makes you think that Castilian is the right/correct Spanish? the fact you guys have the RAE doesn’t mean it’s right, nothing is linguistically incorrect if it can be understood and the words are written correctly. I hope you take SPN3700 Dr. Rothman will explain you that. And BTW Cuban Spanish is not an odd dialect, Castilian maybe, sometimes it’s hard to understand the movies that are dubbed in Castilian.</p>

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<p>When it comes to linguistics, the dialect used by academics is Castellano. That’s what you are graded on when you take any real Spanish course on the planet. IB, AP, UG, Graduate etc… All Castellano.</p>

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<p>Hmmmm, you really need to take a real linguistic class. You are literally saying that for example “vos” o “vosotros” conocido normalmente como “voseo” is wrong because is not pure Castellano hablado en Espa</p>