<p>So I was recently admitted to CAL for the fall 14 term and have a dilemma. I intended to fulfill my last portion of IGETC, the foreign language requirement, by having a proficiency test administered by a faculty member of a regionally accredited community college, or university. In my case, it will be a Hindi-Urdu instructor who currently teaches at CAL and will be conducting an Oral proficiency with me to see how advanced I am in Hindi, and Urdu in the coming week. Just to make sure that all bases were covered since I do know that it is the community college that certifies the IGETC I went ahead and talked to a few counselors at my community college in regards to the path that I was taking. </p>
<p>This is where the problem begins. All of them were clue less as to fulfilling the IGETC language requirement by a proficiency test and even told me to submit a partial IGETC instead (Yes, I told them that CAL doesn't accept partial IGETC). Their reasoning is that this proficiency test must be administered by a faculty member from the community college, which I attend and won't be accepted if it's from another University, or community college. </p>
<p>This is the IGETC excerpt form from my local community college (Laney College), "Satisfactory completion of a proficiency test administered by a community college or university in a language other than English." Clearly it states that I have the choice to fulfill the last IGETC requirement by completing a proficiency test. </p>
<p>I have went ahead and contacted my REP from CAL, and am awaiting to hear back on what she has to say. I was also given the IGETC certification officers email from my local community college and I'm awaiting to see what she has to say. </p>
<p>Have any of you fellow members gone through a similar ordeal? Any suggestions, or advice would be helpful. My heart is burning :( </p>
<p>I haven’t had to do anything like that but I think you are on the right track with contacting your Cal Rep. I think they would be more knowledgable than your CC counselors for this special case concerning the IGETC language requirement.</p>
<p>This is how I fulfilled my language requirement and in the description of who can administer the test, located on the ig etc form itself, it states that it must be done by a California community college instructor. doesn’t say it needs to be a professor from your school but yes from a community college. Call the school and ask. Or contact the transfer center at your school</p>
<p>I know for a fact that if someone at your college is not proficient, someone else is found that has some association with any community college. That’s pretty vague. Definitely go through this with the UC for direction.</p>
<p>UPDATE: I need to backpedal a bit. @lamelcriada is right. It needs to be a faculty member somewhere. However, my hunch is they will give you a break as you have someone at UC to administer it. They will probably make you do it in summer in case you fail.</p>
<p>Hey guys, My IGETC was accepted by UC Berkekey and here is a little twist to the story. Because I attended elementary school from 1st to 7th grade in another country, Fiji, my community college accepted my Language courses from that country, I took Hindi/Urdu courses there for four years. </p>
<p>Hindi and Urdu classes will probably still satisfy your IGETC language requirement. </p>
<p>University of California won’t accept credit for language courses if they’re taken in a school where the primary language spoken is the same one as that studied in your language courses.</p>
<p>For example, if you took Hindu and Urdu classes in India, where those languages are commonly spoken in the classroom(Well, probably Hindu more so, but still), you won’t get foreign language credit for it. Fiji, on the other hand, doesn’t have(to my knowledge, anyway) schools where Hindi/Urdu are primarily spoken. If I’m wrong, just correct me.</p>
<p>Another example would be getting foreign language credit for English if the language spoken at the school was English. University of California wouldn’t accept that, either. However, if the language spoken at the school was not English, then that English class could be used to satisfy the requirement.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that I think you’ll be fine.</p>