Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
Policy statement and purpose
This university policy is part of the
undergraduate catalog. The undergraduate catalog provides university academic
policies and information about program requirements. The undergraduate catalog
is updated each semester and can be found at http://www.bgsu.edu/catalog/academic-policies.html. Colleges and departments may have additional or more
specific requirements or policies that relate to an individual program.
Students are advised to become familiar with the undergraduate catalog as well
as specific requirements and policies related to their degree
program.
(B)
Policy
Admission to Bowling Green state
university includes a requirement for a language other than English. This
requirement applies only to students seeking a baccalaureate degree. The
requirement is typically satisfied through completion of two units of the same
language other than English in high school.
(1)
If this
requirement is not fulfilled at the time of admission to the university, it may
be satisfied in one of three ways:
(a)
Students who have not completed study of a language
other than English in high school, may successfully complete two semesters of
the same language (other than English) at the university level.
(b)
Students who have acquired a language other than English
through life experience or who have learned it through prior study may take
credit by examination.
(c)
International students whose native language is not
English may be exempted by proficiency or by successful completion of ESOL
1000, ESOL 1010, ESOL 1030, and ESOL 1040. A student's score on the English
proficiency test determines the required courses in this sequence. For more
information, see the international students admission policy, which is
available here.
(2)
The following
conditions and stipulations also apply:
(a)
Students who have
a documented (through disabilities services) learning disability in acquisition
of a new language may substitute courses taught in English, from BGSU's
existing list of acceptable substitute courses.
(b)
American sign
language will fulfill this admission requirement.
(c)
Computer
programming languages will not fulfill this admission requirement.
(d)
The
foreign language admission requirement will apply to transfer students who have
completed fewer than thirty semester hours of credit-bearing post-secondary
courses, but will not apply to those students who have completed thirty or more
semester hours of credit-bearing post-secondary courses at BGSU Firelands or at
another college or university (as per the transfer students policy).
The foreign language admission
requirement is to apply for students admitted for fall semester 2007 and
thereafter.
Date: November 1st, 2013
