The MIA program has a foreign language requirement. What supports are in place to help students gain the required proficiency?
The MIA degree has a foreign language requirement as a condition for graduation, not enrollment, for all students for whom English is their native tongue. Students must demonstrate spoken proficiency in a foreign language at the intermediate-low level through a telephone interview conducted and determined by Language Testing International. Multiple language tests may be taken. To help students gain and maintain foreign language proficiency, the Bush School has established a number of efforts: students can visit our 24/7 language laboratory that utilizes linguistic software like Rosetta Stone and Multilingual; students can undertake cultural study and language immersion trips during a holiday or summer break or in place of the summer internship; students can participate in group language practice through our Foreign Language and Cultural Society’s weekly sessions; and students can access both courses and tutors in numerous languages throughout the Texas A&M University community.
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