To ensure that undergraduate students are exposed to a range of ideas and disciplines during their time at Yale, Yale College requires them to fulfill a variety of distributional requirements. As knowledge of more than one language and familiarity with more than one culture is becoming increasingly important, the distributional requirements include language study.
Yale College has created a requirement designed to ensure that all students improve their proficiency in at least one language. How many courses you take to fulfill the requirement will depend on your language experience prior to entering Yale, but for every student, some language study at the college level is necessary.
Use this Language Requirement Guidance quiz to help determine what you must do to meet the language requirement.