1) Language Departments / Placement :
If you have concerns about courses that you are currently taking (or would like to take) through the departments of Romance Studies – RS (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish) or Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures – MLCL (Arabic, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Turkish) or Classical Studies – CS (Latin, Modern Greek) or School of Education, Deaf Studies (American Sign language).
If you have questions about placement at the appropriate level of language study, please contact the Heads of the Language Programs and course coordinators. All contact information for all faculty members is available on departmental websites. Each language section has a placement procedure, please refer to the appropriate language departmental website.
2) Requirement :
If you have questions about ways to fulfill the CAS language requirement (including through AP, SAT test scores as well as through GCE/HK/IB exams at the advanced level), please click on the following links:
Advanced credit guide : PDF
3) Major / Minor
If you are wishing to pursue a major or a minor :
in French, Italian, Linguistics, Spanish
in Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian
4) Study abroad
If you are interested in studying abroad, please talk to your professors and visit the Study Abroad website.
5) Language Resources on campus
For students wishing to take advantage of the many opportunities available to them to practice or get help with a specific foreign language:
– you can join small, informal conversation groups led by native and accomplished speakers (in 12 different languages) at the Educational Resource Center (language link)
– you can set up appointments with peer tutors at the ERC as well (peer tutoring) (to seek tutoring with a professor, contact jbreines@bu.edu)
– you can use learning tools at the Howard Thurman Center (HTC)
– you can take non-credit, informal classes in 8 different “critical-need” languages with the Project Go!
6) Living in a Language house
If you would like to live at a Specialty house, visit the Specialty Community residence webpage.