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International Education

C-wing • 217/353-2263 • www.parkland.edu/inted
Tod Treat, dean of academic services
Mary Burwell, secretary

International Education supplies foreign language instruction to all Parkland general education and transfer students, helping them build cultural, communicative, and compositional foundations in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. IE faculty also provide ESL support and academic assistance to over 400 international students annually. The Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language program is beneficial and applicable to careers in the U.S. and abroad, while the department’s Study Abroad program gives students intensive language and cultural exposure in foreign settings.

One year of high-school study is approximately equivalent to one semester of college-level language study. Thus, students who have completed one year of high-school language within the past three years are advised to begin college study in that language in a 102 course, and so on. Students who have self-placed inappropriately will be moved during the first two weeks of classes. If three or more years have elapsed since high-school language study, students should contact an advisor or counselor to arrange for placement assessment.

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