<p><a href=“http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/courses.php[/url]”>http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/courses.php</a></p>
<p>does Penn offer beginning mandarin? Because I dont see it. I only see business Mandarin and that’s for people who already know 3 years worth. I also don’t see Russian although it’s on the drop down list of languages. Is it new?</p>
<p>Also, I see a lot of obscure languages and not a lot of standard ones. Like french…its not there. o_o</p>
<p>That's the Penn Language Center. They have tons of lanuages there that you can use to fulfill the language requirement or to learn as an elective, but those aren't the normal majors and minors. Those are listed here</p>
<p>Chinese is in the East Asian Languages and Cultures department. Russian falls under the Slavic languages. French has it's own department but is part of the Romance Languages department, too.</p>
<p>Yea I dont want languages as major/minor. More for fun really. So I'm guessing no beginner mandarin or russian for electives and only for major/minors? Or yes becausse of the One University policy? <em>confused</em></p>
<p>Yes they do. They have four semesters worth of beginning Chinese which fulfills the language requirement (CHIN-011, CHIN-012, CHIN-111, CHIN-112).</p>
<p>/\ awesome sn /</p>
<p>oh yeah, i'll have a minor in russian, if i get in, but i can tell you that you can certainly take it as an elective...i'm pretty sure you can take any plc language as an elective</p>
<p>And you can always get a language certificate, too. You don't need as many c.u. to get them. That's probably what I'll do for a few languages, instead of minoring in them.</p>
<p>ohhh! they have business chinese? does that include traditional character study or whatever? and what constitutes "3 years" of chinese? (sorry, too many questions)</p>
<p>anyone know the language certificates are good for? credentials for grad school/jobs or something? or just to hang on your wall and feel good about?</p>
<p>I'm sure they could help in getting a job. If that job were specific work in the language, it'd probably be better to minor or major in it, though.</p>
<p>what about ARABIC?</p>
<p>nvm got it</p>
<p>wow, so 2 years of a foreign language is the requirement?</p>
<p>bada$$ boys and girls</p>
<p>what?? we need to take langauges?? even for SEAS??</p>
<p>500th post <3</p>
<p>501 now :( lol, anyway..............NO. there's a language requirement, but believe it gets waived with a 650 SAT II, or a 4 on AP. 4 won't get u AP credit, but it will waive the requirement, if memory serves. And you can take the SAT II over the summer, if u like, or even (though i'm not 100% sure about this) take no language fall semester (at penn), and then take the SAT II in December to waive it, and if u miss 650 you can take it in the spring. </p>
<p>but why would you even consider it? the plc is so awesome, u should be fluent in at least one loopy language by the time u graduate</p>