For Advisers
Curriculum, course numbering, class meeting patterns, contact hours, and placement and registration processes vary by language. The following links are provided for language study advising:
Quick Reference
- FlowChart : Find a pathway that best fits your student's background and interests.
- Language Placement Test Information: Placement procedures vary by language. Placement results may expire, and the length of validity also varies by language. Please review this page carefully.
- AP and IB Language Credits: See whether certain AP or IB scores may be used in lieu of a placement test.
- Language placement results: Students can check their placement results.
- New Transfer and First-Year Students' Registration: Whether new students need a permission number to register language classes.
- Information on where to find placement results and how to obtain a permission number: See Language Placement Contact Information for Advisers
- Language Requirements: Links to undergraduate schools language requirements and related policies. For Weinberg's two-year language requirement, please also see:
- Study of Languages not Offered at Northwestern : Students may be able to study a language not offered at Northwestern through BTAA CourseShare. Please read all notes carefully.
- Where to contact: Please see the Language Program Contact page.
Advisers can find additional resources on language study at Northwestern on the Office for Undergraduate Studies and Advising (OUSA) Commons page below (NetID required).