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INFORMATION ON LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
AND PLACEMENT
The Fall
2008 Polish language placement and proficiency tests
will be held on:
TBA: time and location
No registration is necessary. For further
information, please contact please contact Prof. George
Gasyna: ggasyna@uiuc.edu
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The Fall
2008 Russian language placement and proficiency tests
will be held in August. Two timeslots will be available:
Friday, August 22nd, 10:00 AM
to 12:00 PM in G30 Foreign Languages Building
(in the basement)
Monday, August 25th, 2:00 PM to
4:00 PM in G30 Foreign
Languages Building (in the basement)
No registration is necessary. Students
can come to either of the two time slots. Test results
will be emailed to you no later than the day following
the test. For further information, please read the explanation
below or contact Prof. Valeria Sobol: vsobol@uiuc.edu
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Every semester, the Slavic department
offers placement and proficiency examinations in Russian
and Polish (for information on exams in other Slavic languages,
please see below).
For questions regarding Russian placement,
please contact Prof. Valeria Sobol (vsobol@uiuc.edu);
for questions regarding Polish placement, please contact
George Gasyna (ggasyna@uiuc.edu
).
The placement
exam covers the first and second year of
language instruction (equivalent of 101,102, 201, 202);
students who place "beyond the 4th semester" of the language
fulfill their college foreign language requirement.
The proficiency
exam covers the third and fourth year of
language instruction. This exam is intended for students
majoring or minoring in Russian or Polish, or for students
going on to advanced study in the language who are unsure
of their placement. This exam does not give credit to
non-majors or non-minors.
The Slavic department no longer offers retroactive credit
for language courses.
For placement in languages other than Russian or Polish,
please contact the following instructors:
Bulgarian: Richard
Tempest
Czech/Slovak: David Cooper
Serbian/Croatian: Tatiana
Kuzmic
Ukrainian: Dmitro Shtohryn
or Volodymyr Chumachenko
The Slavic Department does not currently
offer courses in Belorussian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian,
Lithuanian and Romanian and does not offer placement/proficiency
exams for these languages. Please contact the International
Studies Building (333-6104) to learn whether these languages
are possibly available elsewhere on campus. If not, try
the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.
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