2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin > Policies and General Information > Academic Policies and Information > Foreign Language Placement/Retroactive Credit

Foreign Language Placement/Retroactive Credit

Students who have had French, German or Spanish in high school and want to continue the study of that language at CMU are eligible for Retroactive Credit. In order to qualify, students must take the language Placement Test found at class.cmich.edu/WLC.

Students who take the placement exam and complete their first language course at the 102 level or higher with a grade of B (3.0) or better are eligible for up to 8 hours of retroactive credit. See the table below. To qualify, this must be the student's first college-level course in this language. Earned credits count toward the University Program Subgroup IV-B. Retroactive credits do not count toward the University Program, but they do count toward the degree and toward some language majors and minors.