The College Requirement for Proficiency in a Foreign Language

Abstract

The reports prided here represent the result of an investigation of the teaching program of the Division of Modern Languages at Cornell University, carried on as a routine undertaking by a subcommittee of the Committee on Edwational Policy of the College of Arts and Sciences. This Subcommittee was appointed in May 1949, and consisled of Professms M. H. Abrams, Victor Lange, H. E. Shadick, and Dean Hdse, with Professor F. A. Long as Chairman. Upon Professor Long's taking a leave of absence for the fall term, 1949, Professor H. B. Addmann was added to the Committee and Professor Abrams assumed the Chairmanship. Part I, pertaining to the Language requirement, was submitted to the College of Arts and Sciences on March 3, 1950 and approved. Part II, dealing with the instructional system in modern foreign languages, was submitted to the College of Arts and Sciences on May 23, 1950 and approved. These reports are presented as being of interest to the modern language teaching field in general, from both a theordical and a practical point of view.