Directed Independent Language Study
With the approval of the director of the Center for Language Study, a student may study a language not taught at Yale through the program in Directed Independent Language Study. Students may not apply to study a language being offered at the same time by Yale at the requested level. Students accepted into the program work on their own time, but on a schedule and with materials approved by the director of the Center for Language Study; they must meet regularly with a conversation partner; and they are tested at the end of the term in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The director will approve only those proposals for which adequate materials, conversation partners, and testing can be arranged. Interested students should apply to the Center for Language Study.
Directed Independent Language Study does not earn Yale College course credit, nor does it appear on the transcript; however, work in the program may lead to sufficient competence in a language for a student in the Class of 2008 to fulfill the foreign language requirement through a specially arranged examination. Information about fulfilling the foreign language requirement is given under "Distributional Requirements" under the heading "Requirements for the B.A. or B.S. Degree" and in chapter I.
