Requirements

Foreign Language courses at CUW can be used to fulfill **two different requirements** of the University's Core Curriculum: 1) language 2) culture. Only foreign language courses fulfill CUW's **language requirement**. The options for fulfilling this requirement include //any course// (3 credits) in Spanish, German, Sign Language, Chinese, Latin, Greek, or Hebrew. CUW's **culture requirement** can be fulfilled by ANY foreign language course OR a variety of other courses.

__**Retroactive Credits:**__ If a student's first foreign language course at CUW is higher than 101, the student is eligible to earn retroactive credits for the lower-level courses--up to 14 retroactive credits--as long as the student earns at least a C in the first language course he or she takes at CUW.

If your first Spanish course at CUW is...
 * 102, you earn 4 retro credits (for SPAN 102) upon earning a final grade of at least a C.
 * 201, you earn 8 retro credits (for SPAN 101 and SPAN 102) upon earning a final grade of at least a C.
 * 202, you earn 11 retro credits (for SPAN 101, SPAN 102, and SPAN 201) upon earning a final grade of at least a C.
 * 301, you earn 14 retro credits (for SPAN 101, SPAN 102, SPAN 201, AND SPAN 202) upon earning a final grade of at least a C.

**Retroactive foreign language credits can be used to fulfill the culture requirement. By taking SPAN 102 or higher you can fulfill TWO CORE REQUIREMENTS for the work and price of one.**