Statewide conversations about high school graduation requirements could spur changes to programs that advocates say are applicable to many careers: world languages. The Indiana Department of Education ...

Before coming to Penn, I made the goal for myself that by the time I graduated college, I would be, at the very least, trilingual. I am a native English speaker, studied Mandarin for 15 years from ...

Among the eight undergraduate colleges at Cornell, the College of Arts and Sciences holds the most robust foreign language requirement. Students can fulfill the requirement in two methods — either by ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, on Oct. 4, 1957, it did more than spark fears about America’s ...

However well intended, Trinity's three-semester foreign language requirement is unnecessary, and there are much better ways to achieve its stated purpose of fostering “global understanding,” as ...

A notorious part of being an undergraduate student at the LSA is the infamous language requirement. If you’re lucky enough to be admitted into the college, you are welcomed with the burden of having ...

American Sign Language (ASL), used by half a million Americans, is the fourth most studied foreign language at colleges and universities. Despite its critical role for those who can't use spoken ...