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Foreign Language Entrance and Degree Requirements for the B.A. Degree

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This is a fifth revision of statistics first published in the Supplement A to the September 1953 number of PMLA. The original listing was based on institutions offering the B.A. degree and listed as accredited in the American Council on Education's American Universities and Colleges, 1952. At that time, questionnaires were sent to the registrars of 767 colleges and universities granting the B.A., and replies were received from all.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 72 , Issue 4-Part2 , September 1957 , pp. 33 - 51
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1957

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* Compiled by Ella Decker. Others who have worked in the past on this annual compilation are C. Grant Loomis and Donald D. Walsh.

1 American International C, Dillard U, Notre Dame C (N.Y.), Oglethorpe U, Princeton U, Queens C (N.C.), Stanford U, U of Washington, Washington & Jefferson C, & Whittier C.

2 All freshmen in the following institutions, which have no FL entrance requirement, offered 2 or more units for admission in 19S3: Boston U, Chatham C, Goucher C, Johns Hopkins U, Skidmore C, Sweet Briar C, Wheaton C (Mass.), William Smith C. Other outstanding examples of the deceptiveness of categories: Bryn Mawr recommends 6 units of foreign language for admission, in view of its degree requirement of proficiency in 2 foreign languages. Percentages of entering freshmen who offered 6 or more entrance units: 1949, 68.6%; 1950, 67.5%; 1951, 56.1%; 1952, 54.2%. In 1952 only 5 freshmen presented as few as 2 units; the average was 5.67 units. Columbia admits only 2 or 3 freshmen out of 600 without at least 2 years of foreign language study. At Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences only 1 or 2 accepted applicants fail to present at least 2 units, and many present 5 units. Wellesley recommends 5 units, 3 in Latin or Greek, 2 In modern languages; 95% of accepted candidates for admission meet this recommendation.

3 Since April 1951 the California State Board of Education has decreed that “no foreign language shall be required by a state college as a condition to graduation.”

4 An affiliate of the YMCA of San Francisco, offering education chiefly in law and business administration, with the BA. awarded only to majors in Economics.

5 Students in the Division of Education excepted from the requirement.

6 Entrance requirement noted in 1957, to be effective Sept. 1960.

7 Education majors excepted from the requirement.

8 Increase from 8 semester hours voted in 1957.

9 Elementary Education and Home Economics majors excepted from the requirement.

10 Elementary Education majors excepted from the requirement.

11 Offers only the upper 2 years of college program.

12 Except for A.B. in Education.

13 Business majors excepted from the requirement.

14 For B.A. in Education: only 1 FL 14Hs.

15 Degree requirement abandoned 1947, restored 1956 (May),

16 New entrance requirement effective 1960.

17 For B.A. for non-science majors.

18 Education and Physical Education majors excepted from the requirement.

19 Entrance and degree requirements become effective May 1958.