How many semesters of a foreign language do I need before going abroad?
Most of Whitman’s affiliated programs in Germany, France, Spain and Latin America require that students have completed four or five semesters of college-level courses in the relevant foreign language or the equivalent. This usually means that you need to have completed at least the 206-level language course at Whitman or one semester of a third-year language course before going abroad. It is generally advisable to take as much of the target language as possible before going abroad.
