Language Placement: Introduction
Whether you are an entering freshman, a transfer candidate, a new graduate or certificate student in the department, or a researcher in an affiliated discipline interested in beginning or continuing your study of the ancient languages, proper course placement is essential to your development and progress.
The department has detailed guidelines to help determine the best path to your success, but the basic position on placement can be summarized as follows: no student with fewer than five semesters of study at the university level in a given language may enroll in a course above elementary without presenting a test score. This test score may take the form of an AP exam or an SAT II in the case of incoming freshmen who have studied Latin in high school; for more advanced students, the department administers its own placement exams. All language certificate students and graduate students in the Department of Greek and Latin also take these placement exams prior to beginning their programs.
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