Advising Information

Depending on the combination of languages, students may also need to register in an Independent Study to complete the Senior Seminar requirement. Students interested in linguistics should take LING 301 no later than their junior year.

Placement Information

Students who have previously studied a language offered at Occidental should take the placement exam for that language as early as possible.

Sample 4-Year Plans

Group Language with Spanish (starting at SPAN 101) and Linguistics

	Fall	Spring
Year 1	Fall FYS course SPAN 101 Core Requirement (4 units) Core Requirement (4 units)	Spring FYS course SPAN 102 Core Requirement (4 units) General Elective (4 units)
Year 2	SPAN 201 LING 301 Core Requirement (4 units) General Elective (4 units)	SPAN 202 LATN 101 Core Requirement (4 units) General Elective (4 units)
Year 3	300-level SPAN (Literature) LATN 102 General Elective (4 units) General Elective (4 units)	300-level SPAN (Literature) EDUC 205 General Elective (4 units) General Elective (4 units)
Year 4	SPAN 490 (Senior Seminar) LING 497 (2 units) PHIL 344 General Elective (4 units)	300-level SPAN 300-level SPAN General Elective (4 units) General Elective (4 units)

Group Language with Japanese (starting at JAPN 202) and French (starting at FREN 101)

	Fall	Spring
Year 1	Fall FYS course FREN 101 Core Requirement (4 units) Core Requirement (4 units)	Spring FYS course FREN 102 JAPN 202 Core Requirement (4 units)
Year 2	FREN 201 JAPN 271 Core Requirement (4 units) General Elective (4 units)	FREN 202 JAPN 302 Core Requirement (4 units) General Elective (4 units)
Year 3	LING 301 FREN Elective above 202 General Elective (4 units) General Elective (4 units)	FREN Elective above 202 JAPN 301 General Elective (4 units) General Elective (4 units)
Year 4	FREN 490 (Senior Seminar) JAPN 497 (2 units) General Elective (4 units) General Elective (4 units)	JAPN Elective above 202 FREN Elective above 202 General Elective (4 units) General Elective (4 units)

Curricular Notes

• For Chinese, French, German, Japanese, and Russian, students must take the 202-level course plus four additional courses numbered above 202. 

• For Chinese, only one course can be taught in English  

• For Japanese, only one course can be taught in English.

• For Linguistics, students must take LING 301 and a second linguistics course; one semester of a language that is categorically different from the language with which they satisfied the Core Language requirement; and two additional courses with a language focus. See Catalog for full details.

• For Spanish, students must take SPAN 202 or SPAN 211 plus four additional courses numbered 300 and above. Two of these courses must be in either literature or linguistics. One course must be numbered 340 or above. Only one course may be taken in English. 

• For Russian, two of the required courses can be in related areas such as history, art history, language learning/linguistics.

• Group Language majors must take one methods or theory course in addition to the courses taken for their two group areas: LING 301, SPAN 490, GERM 370, JAPN 273, CHIN 273.