VIRGINIA Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg Hampton Institute, Hampton St. Paul's College, Lawrenceville WEST VIRGINIA Alderson-Broaddus College, Philippi Morris Harvey College, Charleston WISCONSIN Edgewood College of the Sacred Heart, Madison 5 Holy Family College, Manitowoc Wisconsin State College and Institute of Technology, Platteville II. COLLEGES ADDING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IV. COLLEGES DROPPING THEIR FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS SINCE 1957 V. COLLEGES DROPPING THEIR FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS SINCE 1957 NEW JERSEY College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station OHIO Findlay College, Findlay VI. COLLEGES STRENGTHENING THEIR FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS SINCE 1957 VII. COLLEGES STRENGTHENING THEIR FOREIGN LANGAUGE DEGREE REQUIREMENTS SINCE 1957 VIII. COLLEGES REQUIRING MORE THAN TWO UNITS OF A LANGUAGE FOR ENTRANCE CALIFORNIA St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park CONNECTICUT Albertus Magnus College, New Connecticut College, New London Trinity College, Washington FLORIDA Rollins College, Winter Park Barat College of the Sacred Heart, Maryknoll Seminary, Glen Ellyn St. Mary's College, Notre Dame KENTUCKY Ursuline College, Louisville 2 MAINE Bowdoin College, Brunswick MARYLAND Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg MASSACHUSETTS Brandeis University, Waltham Emmanuel College, Boston Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley Smith College, Northampton Maryville College of the Sacred NEW JERSEY Caldwell College for Women, Cald- College of St. Elizabeth, Convent Georgian Court College, Lakewood NEW YORK Brooklyn College, Brooklyn 10 City College, New York 31 College of Mount St. Vincent, New Columbia College, New York 27 Manhattan College, New York 71 Queens College, Queens St. John Fisher College, Inc., Roch- St. Joseph's College for Women, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs Appendix E: Foreign Language Entrance and Degree Requirements for the B.S. Degree 1 By WARREN J. WOLFE A Survey Conducted for the FL Program 1 IT HAS now been 6 years since the publication, by Prof. William R. Parker, of the survey, "Foreign Language Entrance and Degree Requirements for the B.A. Degree" (PMLA, September 1953). The statistics gathered at that time have been frequently revised, the fifth revision having appeared in the September 1957 Supplement to PMLA. The findings published in that study have given teachers and administrators a clear picture of the national pattern of foreign language requirements for the B.A. degree. The statistics below provide a similar picture of language requirements across the Nation for the bachelor of science degree. The term "B.S. degree" is here used in a restricted sense referring only to the 4-year liberal arts science degree, that is, the degree frequently granted to undergraduate liberal arts students who major in the principal natural sciences or in mathematics. It does not refer to specialized degrees such as the B.S. in Business Administration, the B.S. in Education, or the B.S. in Home Economics. Questionnaires were sent by the Modern Language Association in April 1958 to registrars of 1,005 accredited 4-year colleges and universities. Of the 1,005 institutions listed below, 437 do not offer the B.S. degree in the restricted sense explained in the preceding paragraph. Of the 568 offering the B.S. degree, 393 (or 69.2 percent) require foreign language study for the degree, and 131 (or 23.1 percent) require foreign languages for entrance. The comparable percentages for the B.A. degree are 83.9 and 28.3 percent. These figures do not, however, give a clear picture, since many of these institutions listed as not having a degree requirement do, in fact, have such a requirement in a number of the major fields. Some of these variations have been indicated in footnotes. It should also be kept in mind that a large number of institutions which do not grant the B.S. degree do provide 1 Reprinted from PMLA, 74: 34-44, September 1959, Part 2, by permission of the Modern Language Association of America. |