{"id":871,"date":"2014-09-19T02:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/bgins\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:01:26","slug":"language-requirement-acceptable-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/language-requirement-acceptable-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Requirement: Acceptable Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Language Requirement: Acceptable Courses\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"bgins-language-requirement-minimum-course-requirements\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">BGINS Language Requirement: Minimum Course Requirements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\">Satisfactory completion of the following Carleton courses, or courses at a higher level, will be sufficient to meet the requirements of the BGINS language requirement.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th><\/th><th><\/th><th><\/th><th><\/th><th><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Language<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Minimum Acceptable Course<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Language<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Minimum Acceptable Course<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>American Sign Language<\/td><td>ASLA 2020 or ASLA 2110<\/td><td><\/td><td>German<\/td><td>GERM 2020 or GERM 2110<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Arabic<\/td><td>ARAB 2110<\/td><td><\/td><td>Korean<\/td><td>KORE 2020<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chinese (Mandarin)<\/td><td>CHIN 2020 or CHIN 2110<\/td><td><\/td><td>Russian<\/td><td>RUSS 2020<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>French<\/td><td>FREN 1100<\/td><td><\/td><td>Italian<\/td><td>ITAL 2020 or ITAL 2110<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Japanese<\/td><td>JAPA 2110<\/td><td><\/td><td>Spanish<\/td><td>SPAN 2020 or SPAN 2110<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"language-courses-offered-at-other-institutions\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;\"><br>\n<\/span>Language courses offered at other institutions<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Equivalent courses at other institutions may be used to meet the language requirement, as long as they are accepted by the Department of French or the School of Linguistics and Language Studies as being equivalent to, or at a higher level than, the courses specified in the table above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"languages-less-commonly-offered\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Languages less commonly offered<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>SLALS offers courses in a given language in response to student demand. For some languages, experience in recent years has been that there is not enough student demand to offer instruction beyond the first year level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Languages offered in recent years at the first year level, but not at higher levels, include Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway), Hungarian, Kiswahili and Kurdish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students choosing to study these languages may therefore have to find second year level language instruction at another institution. Alternately, in years that it is offered, students may take <a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.carleton.ca\/search\/?P=LANG%202900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LANG 2900, Supervised Autonomous Language Learning<\/a>, to satisfy the second year language instruction requirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BGINS Language Requirement: Minimum Course Requirements Satisfactory completion of the following Carleton courses, or courses at a higher level, will be sufficient to meet the requirements of the BGINS language requirement.&nbsp; Language Minimum Acceptable Course &nbsp; Language Minimum Acceptable Course American Sign Language ASLA 2020 or ASLA 2110 German GERM 2020 or GERM 2110 Arabic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-871","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10802,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/871\/revisions\/10802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}