Sentences with phrase «language credits»

Received foreign language credit for translation of documents and persons from Russian to English

All the signs of a smart idea Jonathan Reiss, 20, is pushing Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., to give him foreign - language credit for his study of American Sign Language.

His English language credits include the Best Picture Oscar nominees The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, last year's hit Nicholas Sparks romance Dear John, Leonardo DiCaprio's star - making What's Eating Gilbert Grape, and Hachi: A Dog's Tale, a tearjerker whose lack of US theatrical release hasn't stood in the way of widespread admiration.

Starting in 1993, students in New York State may be able to earn second - language credit by studying American Sign Language.

Plans to require public high schools to provide computer - coding courses and let students count them toward foreign language credits continue to easily advance through the Florida Legislature.

UC also approves our testing program, which allows students to get language credit if they are fully literate in a language other than English.

With a waiting list for JSIS every year, former JSIS principal and founder Karen Kodama is now working as the district's international - education administrator to increase access to international schools, as well as implement nationally recognized, competency - based assessments that adequately reflect students» language proficiency and provide them with world - language credit and appropriate classroom placement in high school.

The state board of education, which began studying upgrading graduation standards three years ago, also approved the establishment of a «certificate of merit» for students who take an extra year of science and earn foreign - language credit.

Kentucky's Senate has just passed a bill that would count computer - programming classes as foreign language credits.

And it isn't lost on me that my almost alma mater came to their senses and dropped the language credit requirement in the decades following my departure.

So I stopped the fruitless quest to obtain a foreign language credit, having wasted the professors» time through French, German, Spanish and — laugh out loud — Russian.