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MINOR IN MODERN LANGUAGES

• To earn a minor in modern language (either Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, or Italian), students must complete 35 credits in one modern language, including:
  
  115 Language I (5)
  125 Language II (5)
  135 Language III (5)
  215 Language IV (5)
  225 Language V (5)
  235 Language VI (5)
  315 Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Italian, or Spanish Culture and Society (5)
  
  
• For more information regarding minor in Chinese, please visit the Chinese department's website: http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/forlang/chin/
  
• For more information regarding a minor in German, please visit the German section's website: http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/forlang/germ/ (coming soon)
• For more information regarding a minor in Italian, please visit the Italian section's website: http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/forlang/ital/ (coming soon) or contact the Italian Minor Advisor Giuseppe Tassone

Students wishing to have a minor posted to their academic records must file a request for minor form with the registrar, which outlines the composition of the minor. Minors are granted with the following conditions:

1. Minors will be posted to a student's record concurrent only with a first undergraduate degree.

2. Minors cannot be earned within the 135-credit Matteo Ricci college degree program.

3. No more than 15 credits from an interdisciplinary major will becounted toward any student's minors. Interdisciplinary major will be counted toward any student's minors. Interdisciplinary majors are: ecological studies, general science, international studies, and liberal studies.

4. The bulletin under which the student receives an undergraduate degree will stipulate course work for a minor.

5. Minor must include at least 30 quarter credits, including a minimum of six courses. See English Department listing for the exception to this requirement for students who have completed the Honors Program.

6. A maximum of 15 quarter credits of course work graded C (or 2.0 on the decimal grading system) or better may be transferred from other regionally accredited post-secondary institutions.

7. No more than five quarter credits in a minor can be graded P or CR.

8. The cumulative grade point average for all courses used in the minor can be no less than that applied to majors within the department sponsoring the minor.

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