There is no separate foreign language requirement for the History Department apart from the Modern Language Requirement (MLR) for all College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences students pursuing a BA degree. The LAS modern language requirement may be met in any of the following ways:
- completing the last course in a four-year high school sequence of a non-English language
- completing the last course in the first-year college sequence of a non-English language
- completing a college course beyond the first-year level in a non-English language
- placing into the second year (or higher) on a DePaul Modern Language placement exam (e.g. receiving a score that would indicated placement into SPN 104 or higher)
- achieving a satisfactory rating in a language proficiency examination accepted by DePaul University
- scoring a 3 or higher on the Advanced Placement (AP) test of a non-English language
- scoring 5 or higher on the Language B assessment from a Standard or Higher Level International Baccalaureate (IB) program in a non-English language
- achieving a satisfactory score on the CLEP evaluation in a non-English language
Note: American Sign Language (ASL) qualifies as a modern language.
Note: Please see the Department of Modern Languages' guide to placement tests here.
Note: Transfer students will need to provide official high school transcripts in order to use high school coursework to meet the non-English language requirement. (For students who applied to DePaul as high school students, the university already has a copy of the high school transcript.)