University of California

Haas School of Business

Junior transfer students must fulfill the requirement before admission. Students may satisfy the foreign language breadth requirement in any of the following ways:

1. A letter grade of C- or higher in the third year of a high school foreign language;
2. Demonstrated proficiency in foreign language by exam. For additional information, please visit haas.berkeley.edu/undergrad/foreign_language.html;
3. Grade of at least C- in the third quarter or second semester of foreign language, comparable to an equivalent course taught at UC Berkeley. (The Haas School will also accept a grade of Pass.) Foreign language requirements and recommendations for majors in the College of Letters and Science are described below.

Asian Studies

Required: One year (two semesters) of a language (Chinese or Japanese) appropriate to the area of regional specialization.

Astrophysics

Recommended: Reading knowledge of at least one of the following languages: French, German or Russian.

Comparative Literature

Required: Students must have completed work in at least one foreign language sufficient to complete a minimum of two upper-division literature courses in that language by the time of graduation.

Development Studies

Required: Students must be able to demonstrate proficiency in a modern language other than English, equivalent to four college-level semesters (or the fourth level of high school courses) by their last semester of senior year at Berkeley.

English

Recommended: Study of a foreign language.

Film Studies

Required: Third college-level semester of one foreign language or second college-level semester of two foreign languages. All natural languages are acceptable. Only courses that include reading and composition as well as conversation may be used.

Integrative Biology

Recommended: Further study of a foreign
language.

Latin American Studies

Required: Students must attain an intermediate level of competence in a primary language (either Spanish or Portuguese) equivalent to four college-level semesters of instruction and an elementary level of competence in a secondary language equivalent to two college-level semesters. They must be prepared to take two literature courses in their primary language (Spanish or Portuguese) at Berkeley.

Linguistics

Required: Appropriate ancient and/or modern language as determined by consultation with an adviser.

Middle Eastern Studies

Required: Four college-level semesters of a Middle Eastern language appropriate to the area of concentration.

Near Eastern Studies

Required: An elementary course in one of the following languages: Arabic, Persian, Hebrew or Turkish.

Peace and Conflict Studies

Required: Students must be able to demonstrate proficiency in a modern language other than English equivalent to four college-level semesters (or the fourth level of high school courses) by their last semester of senior year at Berkeley.

Political Economy

Required: Four college semesters, or approximately five years of high school foreign language. High school credit satisfies the foreign language proficiency requirement only if the student was educated outside the U.S. in a system where the language of instruction was not English.

Religious Studies

Required: For an honors degree or for students planning graduate studies only, upper-division coursework in a language pertinent to a religious tradition: for Christianity, Latin or Greek; for Judaism, Biblical Hebrew; for Hinduism, Sanskrit; for Buddhism, Tibetan, Chinese or Sanskrit.

South and Southeast Asian Studies

Required: Extensive training in the major language of the area studied.