All students who have studied a foreign language in high school for two or more years and within the past five years must take a placement exam if they want to continue that language.

The placement exam may be the CEEB-AP or our in-house test. The placement exam may be taken only once. Students must take completed form 231 to exam.Students with college credit may not take the exam. Native speakers are not to take the placement exam. The Purdue exam is free of charge.

Students with background in Modern or Classical Arabic, Chinese, Classical Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese should see the appropriate Language Chair in the fall. Students with background in languages not offered at Purdue may be sent to the FLL advisor for guidance.

The results will be sent to academic advisors via e-mail. The least prepared students will be placed in FR, GER, JPNS, LATN, RUSS, or SPAN 102. Upon successful completion of 102 the student will receive departmental credit for 101 that will be 3 or 4 hrs depending on the language.

Normally the department reserves 101 for true beginners of a new foreign language. Students with previous foreign language experience who want to start over in 101 will have their appeals reviewed during the second week of the fall semester by the Course Coordinators.

Students with college transcript credit in a foreign language may not take the placement test in that language. They should be placed at the next higher level at Purdue, unless the Language Chair or the FLL Academic Advisor recommends remediation.

Heritage Speakers

• These are students who have acquired some oral language skills from home or other sources but have graduated from a secondary school where the main language of instruction was English.
• Spanish Heritage Speakers should be enrolled in SPAN 305.  Contact: Prof. Sonia Gonzalez (songonza@purdue.edu).

Spanish for Heritage Language Students

• Chinese Heritage Speakers should be enrolled in CHNS 107.  See additional memo provided or contact Prof. Daniel Hsieh (dhsieh@purdue.edu) or Prof. Wei Hong (hongwei@purdue.edu).

Conversation Courses

Do not enroll any student who has completed 202 (Level IV) in 112, 211, 212. As their titles indicate, these are elementary conversation courses. They should accompany 102, 201, 202, respectively.

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• Advanced Placement (AP) College Board
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June 13, 2008