Placement Tests
Information on Language Proficiency and Placement
The Fall 2009 Polish language placement and proficiency tests will be held on:
- Friday, August 21st, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM in 136 Davenport Hall.
No registration is necessary. Students must present their I-Cards or another valid form of ID. For further information, please contact Prof. George Gasyna: ggasyna@illinois.edu
The fall 2009 Russian language placement and proficiency tests will be held:
- Tuesday, August 25th, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM in 1134 Foreign Languages Building
- or Tuesday, September 1st, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in G32 Foreign Languages Building
No registration is necessary. Test results will be emailed to you within two or three days after the date of the exam. For further information, please read the explanation below or contact Prof. Valeria Sobol: vsobol@illinois.edu
General Information:
Every semester, the Slavic department offers placement and proficiency examinations in Russian and Polish (for information on exams in other Slavic languages, please see below).
For questions regarding Russian placement, please contact Prof. Valeria Sobol (vsobol@illinois.edu); for questions regarding Polish placement, please contact George Gasyna (ggasyna@illinois.edu).
The placement exam covers the first and second year of language instruction (equivalent of 101,102, 201, 202); students who place "beyond the 4th semester" of the language fulfill their college foreign language requirement.
The proficiency exam covers the third and fourth year of language instruction. This exam is intended for students majoring or minoring in Russian or Polish, or for students going on to advanced study in the language who are unsure of their placement. This exam does not give credit to non-majors or non-minors.
The Slavic department no longer offers retroactive credit for language courses.
For placement in languages other than Russian or Polish, please contact the following instructors:
- Bulgarian:
- Richard Tempest
- Czech/Slovak:
- David Cooper
- Serbian/Croatian:
- Harriet Murav
- Ukrainian:
- Dmitro Shtohryn or Volodymyr Chumachenko
The Slavic Department does not currently offer courses in Belorussian, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Romanian and does not offer placement/proficiency exams for these languages. Please contact the International Studies Building (333-6104) to learn whether these languages are possibly available elsewhere on campus. If not, try the University of Illinois, Chicago campus.