{"id":37,"date":"2016-09-09T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/?p=37"},"modified":"2016-09-09T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T18:59:56","slug":"language-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/2016\/09\/09\/language-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You must have knowledge of a language other than English. There are lots of ways to satisfy this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are a native speaker of a language other than English, you need to show some evidence for that (like a high school or undergraduate transcript).<\/li>\n<li>12 university credits of a language (many of you may have this from your undergraduate degree).<\/li>\n<li>If you passed a reading\/translation exam at your previous university.<\/li>\n<li>A translation\/reading exam at UBC. Some language departments at UBC periodically schedule reading knowledge examinations. Evaluation of a student\u2019s language competence is based on the translation of a text (approximately 1000 words) relating to the student\u2019s field of study. Minimally, a second class standing (B- or better) in such an exam must be obtained in order to satisfy the Foreign Language Requirement.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For further information on such examinations, contact the appropriate departments.<\/strong> I&#8217;ll add them here, as you tell them to me.<\/li>\n<li>French-Spanish-Italian schedule: Friday, September 16, 2017 and Friday, January 13, 2017 from 3:30-5pm in Buchanan Tower 898.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let this requirement slip your mind! The language requirement must be met by the time of the submission of the thesis (MA or PhD) prospectus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You must have knowledge of a language other than English. There are lots of ways to satisfy this: If you are a native speaker of a language other than English, you need to show some evidence for that (like a high school or undergraduate transcript). 12 university credits of a language (many of you may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/linggrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}