Foreign Language Requirement

Admission to Bowling Green State University includes a requirement for a language other than English. The foreign language requirement applies only to students seeking a baccalaureate degree. The requirement is typically satisfied through completion of two units of the same language other than English in high school. 

If this requirement is not fulfilled at the time of admission to the University, it may be satisfied in one of two ways. 

• For those students who have not completed study of a language other than English in high school, satisfactory completion of two semesters of the same language (other than English) at the university level. 
• For students who have acquired a language other than English through experience (e.g., heritage speakers) or who have learned it through prior study (e.g., classical language in a foreign school), credit by examination may be used to fulfill this admission requirement. 
• The following conditions and stipulations also apply: 
• Students who have a documented (through Disabilities Services) learning disability in acquisition of a new language may substitute courses taught in English from BGSU’s existing list of acceptable substitute courses. 
• American Sign Language will fulfill this admission requirement. 
• Computer programming languages will not fulfill this admission requirement.
• The Foreign Language Admission Requirement will apply to transfer students who have completed fewer than 30 semester hours of credit-bearing, post-secondary courses but will not apply to those students who have completed 30 or more semester hours of credit-bearing, post-secondary courses at BGSU Firelands or at another college or university (as per the Transfer Students policy).