ENGLISH PROFICIENY REQUIREMENT
All undergraduate students must demonstrate proficiency in writing by the end of the sophomore year, as part of the College’s Core Curriculum requirements.  Proficiency can be demonstrated in the following ways:

1. Advanced Placement Exam in English: Students who enter Providence College with an AP English Score of four (4) or better are granted proficiency.
2. Tranfer students who have successfully completed a college-level expository writing course will be granted proficiency when the course credits are accepted by Providence College.
3. All Students who score 540 or below on their verbal SAT score are designated to take ENG 101 Freshman Writing Seminar by the end of sophomore year. Successful completion of this course will demonstrate proficiency.
4. Students who have scored above 540 on the verbal SAT and who wish to take an English course during their first semester may earn proficiency by taking one of these courses: ENG 175 - Introduction to Literature; ENG 201 - Readings in Literature;
   ENG 207 - Readings in Dramatic Literature (generally reserved for students interested in exploring English as a major.)The course instructor makes final determination of English Proficiency in ENG 175, ENG 201, and ENG 207.
5. Students who have scored above 540 on the verbal SAT and who do NOT register for one of these courses during their first semester must take the English Proficiency Exam (EPE). Students may attempt the exam twice during the semester. Students whose EPE essays are successful after two attempts will be granted proficiency. Those students who are not successful after two attempts will be required to take ENG 101 in a subsequent semester. Those students who do not take the EPE are required to take ENG 101 by the end of sophomore year.