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SNU Notice

Restrictions on Registering for Foreign Language Courses

Difficulties have arisen in running and evaluating students in foreign language courses due to registration of those who are already fluent in the language. Therefore, restrictions on the registration of introductory and intermediate level courses of foreign have been enforced since the fall semester of 2008. Please refer to the following.

ㆍStudents who have entered the university as “foreign language specialists,” “international students” or “foreign students” are prohibited from taking introductory and intermediate level foreign language courses of their corresponding languages.

ㆍIn addition, all students are prohibited from taking foreign language courses in reverse level of difficulty. (For example, students cannot take intermediate level courses of a language after having taken advanced level courses, and introductory level courses can not be taken after taking intermediate level courses.)

The above restrictions take effect for the following language courses:

General Education Courses in Foreign Languages such as: Classical Chinese, Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and all other foreign and classical language courses.