<p>I just got off the phone with a UCLA rep last night, and I was informed that level 3 of a foreign language is required to graduate... is that true for every student? I don't want to spend a whole year taking language classes if I can help it. If I've only taken one semester of a foreign language @ CC, do I have a good chance of placing into the 2nd or 3rd level?</p>
<p>I think the foreign language requirement is university wide, so it applies to all majors.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as you, I’ve only got spanish 1 under my belt. I think I might do the second half over the summer at my JC if I can’t get into any of my major classes over the summer at UCLA. Why not just take it over the summer if you can manage it? I think you probably already know where you’d place if you took the placement exam…but the foreign language requirement is such a nasty thing to have hanging above your head after you transfer.</p>
<p>I have the same problem. I am in French 1 right now and was going to take French 2 over the summer but LACC is cutting most of their summer courses. I am probably going to end up just buying something like Rosetta Stone to learn more to be able to place at a higher level.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t you be exempt from it if you fulfilled IGETC or did 3 years of foreign language in high school?</p>
<p>you guys i think IGETC covers it. I believe you just need to take one FL class. You might be looking at Freshman information. I could be wrong though…</p>
<p>I just checked and I think you are right. I was thinking of UCSD and how they would have required me to take a literature course in a foreign language as a Lit major which definitely requires more knowledge of a language than one introductory course. </p>
<p>Regardless, I emailed UCLA to make sure my admission won’t get rescinded since I stated I would be taking French 2 over the summer but can’t now.</p>
<p>IGETC requires SPAN/FRENCH/GERMAN 2. the first course doesn’t cut it. I thought it did but I was sorely mistaken. That said, I was taking spanish2 anyway, so go me.</p>
<p>What if I’ve taken only 2 French classes, didn’t have any SAT language tests, but Im an international student and i was graduated from a Chinese high school? Could it stands for a “two years foreign language study in high school”?</p>
<p>Or you can take UC foreign language test to bypass the requirement if you already fluent in another language.</p>
<p>ucla let’s you take placement test and you can definitely test out of Chinese</p>
<p>IGETC requires Spanish 1, that’s it.</p>
<p>NCB is right…you guys are mistaken or just really baked</p>
<p>The IGETC foreign language section varies between the community colleges. Mt. SAC only requires the first class (SPAN 1, etc), and their foreign languages are 4 units.</p>
<p>Here’s the part of Mt. SAC’s catalog dealing with IGETC:
<a href=“http://www.mtsac.edu/catalog/2009/section09.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mtsac.edu/catalog/2009/section09.pdf</a></p>
<p>Pasadena City College’s foreign language program, surprisingly, requires the second level of the foreign language, even though each class is 5 units. So at PCC, you need to take 10 units of foreign language.</p>
<p>PCC’s IGETC:
[Pasadena</a> City College - Transfer Center - IGETC Requirements](<a href=“Which PCC Courses will Transfer? - Transfer Center - Pasadena City College”>Which PCC Courses will Transfer? - Transfer Center - Pasadena City College)</p>
<p>Similar differences exist at all community colleges.</p>
<p>My community college requires two semesters, so I opted to take foreign language (and some other classes) at another community college. This means I’ll need to get my IGETC certification from the college at which I took the foreign language class, since the reciprocity agreements between community colleges (normally, if a class satisfies an IGETC section at one college, all others will accept it for that section) doesn’t apply to foreign language.</p>