Language Plan

Once you have applied for a degree program, the Language Plan will help ensure that you are on track to successfully pass the language placement exam administered at new student orientation. This form should take you about 15 minutes to complete.

Before submitting this form, please take the self-administered Diagnostic Language Test to help evaluate the current level of your language skills. If you have no language background, simply fill out the form below.

For Arabic, French, or Spanish you must be ready to start at the second-year college level. Successful applicants will have had at least one recent academic year of beginning language courses, or one summer of intensive language the summer prior to enrolling in the degree program. In other words, you may propose to begin studying Arabic, French, or Spanish during the summer prior to your enrollment.

For Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and all the other languages, you must be ready to start at the third-year college level. Successful applicants will have had at least two recent academic years of language courses, or one recent academic year plus one summer of intensive language the summer prior to enrolling in the degree program.

Upon request at the time of admission, other language study may be arranged to fulfill your degree requirements. The non-regular language courses offered in 2014 were: Portuguese, Korean, German, Persian Farsi and Turkish. For more details, please contact Professor Naoko Matsuo at nmatsuo@miis.edu.

Please note that your application will not move forward and your admission decision will not be made until we complete this language proficiency review process.