College
Credit
At most colleges and universities
in the United States, students are required to fulfill a foreign
language requirement. At many schools, this requirement is
a minimum of 3 or 4 semesters of a foreign language. It is
possible for students entering college in the United States to receive
college credit for their knowledge of Thamil. Students who have
been learning the language can request that the foreign language
department of their college or university administer a Thamil test
to determine their level of proficiency. The foreign language department
will request a proficiency test from a US university where Thamil
is taught (e.g. University of Pennsylvania), arrange a time for
the student to take the test, and then send the completed test to
the Thamil teacher at that university for scoring. Depending
on the policies of the school, students scoring well enough on the
proficiency test can receive credit for the appropriate number of
semesters or exempt their school's foreign language requirement.
Lessons 1-25 on this website are roughly equivalent in quantity
to the grammar covered in the first semester Thamil course at the
University of Pennsylvania.
For more
information, follow the link to the website of the 2003 North
American Tamil Youth Summer Language Camp and click on "College
Credit". |