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Birmingham-Southern College offers students
opportunities to enhance their foreign language proficiency and cultural
knowledge through course
work in other discipline areas. The Foreign Language Across the Curriculum
program adds a foreign language component to courses in a variety of
fields. Students taking these courses as FLAC courses receive an additional ¼ unit
of credit in the foreign language. Such courses allow students to make
sophisticated use of language skills, provide greater flexibility in
foreign language study (beyond the traditional language classroom), and
demonstrate the degree to which language influences ideas. Students in
the program develop a keener cultural awareness and language skills necessary
to participate more fully in today’s shrinking, interdependent
world.
Students must register for the disciplinary content course and for the
FLAC component (language courses numbered 333) during the same term.
Exceptions are students who have already had the disciplinary content
course; these students may register for the FLAC component any time it
is offered. Students taking the FLAC component do additional readings
in the foreign language and meet with the foreign language professor
and, possibly, the discipline professor one hour per week for discussion
of those readings.
Students receive ¼ unit credit in the
appropriate foreign language in addition to the unit credit for the
disciplinary content course. If
a student takes four FLAC components in the same foreign language, that
resulting 1-unit credit can be applied to a major or minor in that language.
The minimum language level eligibility for the program is completion
of the third semester course (FR 220, GK 245, GN 220, HB 245, LA 245,
or SN 220) and consent.
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