Criteria for Foreign Language Co-requisite
The ICS major requires two years (four full courses) of university courses in one non-English language used in a part or all of the geographical region of concentration.
College Board, IB, or other pre-university language courses, knowledge, or exams cannot be counted toward this co-requisite.
Language courses in fulfillment of the co-requisite can begin at any level. Barring other restrictions, students should count toward the ICS major the most advanced university language courses taken.
Barring other restrictions, unlimited content courses offered in one foreign language can count toward the Foreign Language co-requisite.
Although the language co-requisite itself is not flexible, there is reasonable flexibility in regard to the courses used to fulfill it in certain cases, such as when a student is fluent in a non-English language widely used in the chosen Region concentration. In such a case, one of the Foreign Language course co-requisites can be met with a research methods or research analysis course. As needed, further alternative approaches to satisfying the Foreign Language co-requisite can be developed in consultation with the student's ICS advisor.
