The CUNY Graduate Center Language Reading Program exists to help graduate students meet their foreign language requirement by offering non-credit courses for reading knowledge only. In these courses no emphasis is placed on speaking the language or on aural comprehension; the grammar is taught quickly and then material is given to be translated. By the end of the term, students are translating scholarly articles in their own field of interest and on the last day of the term, an examination is given in the students' own field of interest.