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Chloe Lew: Standardize UC foreign language reqs across the board

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It is difficult to grade someone’s ability to hold a conversation when you have never heard them speak. Yet several University of California campuses look at foreign language education the same way many students look at their least significant classes: “pass” or “no pass.” Although the foreign language requirement is firmly rooted in UCLA’s College of Letters and Science graduation prerequisites, several other UCs allow students to waive the requirement – if there is one at all – with evidence of having passed three years of one foreign languag in high school.

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Chloe Lew: Standardize UC foreign language reqs across the board

By Chloe Lew

April 3, 2014 12:00 a.m.