UCL modern foreign language requirement

UCL Academic Regulations 2012-2013

UK Domicile Applicants Extant Language Entry Criteria

i) For the admission of UK domicile applicants all UCL undergraduate programmes require a GCSE or equivalent pass in a language in common use i.e. in an extant language.

ii) UK domicile students who do not have a GCSE or equivalent pass in a language in common use upon entry must select 0.5 course unit of an extant language offered in their programme diet. 

iii) In instances where programme diets do not offer such a choice students are expected to register for an adapted course unit in an extant language offered by the Centre for Languages & International Education (CLIE, formerly Language Centre) and studied in their own time.

Language course units available to meet the modern foreign language entry criteria

The UCL Centre for Languages & International Education provides language course units for both cases ii) and iii):

ii) if you CAN take a language 0.5 course unit as part of your programme diet:

  • you should register for and attend a regular 0.5 language course unit (0.5 credit option).

iii) where you CANNOT take a language 0.5 course unit as part of your programme diet:

  • you should register for and attend a specially adapted language course unit studied in your own time (0 credit option).

Languages available

Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish

Teaching and assessment

Both options have the same teaching hours and assessment (two pieces of coursework, an Oral Examination and a Reading and Writing Examination).

Registration

Please come to the CLIE to meet a tutor for the language you wish to study between Monday 01 October and Friday 05 October 2012.

Classes and timetabling

Both options run over both terms (i.e. October to March) and consist of two hours tuition every week.

  • 0.5 language course units are scheduled around students’ availability and take place between 09:00 and 17:00.
  • 0 credit language course units to be studied in your own time will take place 17:00-19:00.

Each CLIE course unit is scheduled around the availability of those students who register to take it; you therefore must attend the timetabling session for your course to have an input in when your class is scheduled. You will be given the time of your timetabling session at the interview with a language tutor.

Timetabling sessions take place on 03 October 2012.


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