Language instruction in the Asian Studies Program at Vanderbilt is designed to support students interested in gaining a high degree of proficiency in a foreign language. For students new to the program, we require a placement test, which is administered prior to the first day of classes, to determine the course level appropriate to each individual. Completion of first year Chinese or Japanese will also fulfill the AXLE foreign language requirement.

If you are a native Asian language speaker or have otherwise acquired proficiency in an Asian language and wish to use that language to satisfy the foreign language proficiency requirement of AXLE, you may do so by passing the appropriate foreign language proficiency text at the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute. More details can be found on the TFLI website at: http://tfli.org/testingcenter.aspx.