Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures - Foreign Language Degree Requirements

Foreign Language Undergraduate Curricular Requirements

A maximum of 15 transfer credits and/or credits earned through study abroad may be applied toward the upper-division requirements for the B.A. degree in French, Latin, and classical studies. A maximum of 18 such credits may be applied toward the upper-division requirements for the B.A. degree in Spanish.

Students who receive a C or D in their first upper-division language class are required to pass an oral and written proficiency exam to meet minimum departmental proficiency standards before being allowed to register in other upper-division language classes.

A student must receive a C or better in a upper-division course in the appropriate target language to count towards the major.

Before going on a study abroad program, students must have the approval of their major adviser to ensure that their proposed program meets with departmental approval. Upon returning to U of I, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures will evaluate the students' oral and written proficiency and determine which classes studied abroad may count towards the major.

Foreign Languages (B.A.)

Required course work includes the university requirements (see regulation J-3), the general L&S requirements for the B.A. degree, and:

One foreign language, elementary and intermediate (16 cr)
Third-year language courses (Fren 301-302, Germ 321-322, Latn 365-366, Span 301-302) (6 cr)

And one of the following options:

A. Business Option

Designed to provide the student majoring in foreign languages with a liberal arts background and a component of business courses that will form a good beginning for entering a program leading to the degree of Master of Business Administration.

Approved upper-division foreign language courses (including one FL business course or approved alternative) (15 cr)
Acct 201-202 Introduction to Financial Accounting and Introduction to Managerial Accounting (6 cr)
BLaw 265 Legal Evironment of Business (3 cr)

Either the College of Business and Economics Integrated Core (Bus 340-345*) or the following (15 or 18 cr)

Bus 301 Financial Management (3 cr)
Bus 311 Introduction to Management (3 cr)
Bus 321 Marketing (3 cr)
Bus 350 Management Information Systems (3 cr)
Bus 380 International Business or Bus 482 International Marketing or Econ 446 International Economics or Econ 447 Economics of Developing Countries (3 cr)
Econ 272 Foundations of Economic Analysis or Econ 201, 202 Principles of Economics (4-6 cr)
FLEN 307 European Union (3 cr)
Stat 251 Principles of Statistics or Stat 271 Statistics Inference and Decision Analysis (3-4 cr)

* Students completing Bus 340-345 must take Stat 271 and, therefore, either Math 160 or Math 170.