In order to assure such proficiency, each undergraduate student must earn credit for Composition I during the freshman year by completing Rhetoric 105, or Rhetoric 100 and 101 and 102, or Rhetoric 103 and 104, or Rhetoric 108, or ESL 114 and 115, or Speech Communications 111 and 112, and Composition II soon after by completing one of the courses on the approved Comp II course list. FAA curricula require courses that appear on the approved list. I courses will be accepted. If you enter UIUC without three years of the same foreign language in high school, you must take a foreign language placement test to determine the courses in which you should enroll.
Architecture requires two years foreign language.
Students admitted to the University with foreign language taken in high school may continue their study of this foreign language at the placement test level. In those cases where foreign language is taken for elective credit or to fulfill an admission deficiency requirement only the credit-no credit option may be used. Proficiency credit will not be duplicated. Registration in any course which duplicates credit received for a specific subject, will invalidate this exam based proficiency credit. Due to the Quantitative Reasoning requirement in the General Education requirements, all entering freshmen must take the mathematics placement examination prior to their first registration and must register at the course level recommended by the test results.