Intermediate French I

Last Updated: Sun, 01/11/2026
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Course prefix:
FREN
Course number:
2001
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This course focuses on listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in French in an introduction to literature and within a cultural context. FREN 2001, Intermediate French I, aims to build oral and written communication skills in French at the intermediate level and improve cultural awareness and literacy of the French-speaking world. FREN 2001 contributes to students’ education in the humanities by teaching both the French language and the humanistic cultures of the French-speaking world.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.  

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?    

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: 

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.  

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Ethical Reasoning 
  • Information Literacy 
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Samba
Instructor last name:
Sy
Section:
OL1
CRN
35964
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Elementary French II

Last Updated: Sun, 01/11/2026
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Course prefix:
FREN
Course number:
1002
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

FREN 1002 – Elementary French II offers an introduction to listening, speaking, reading, and writing in French and to the culture of French-speaking regions. This course is not open to native speakers. Please review the registration information outlined at http://modlangs.gatech.edu/students/registration  before enrolling in this course. Only students with a placement test score of 151 -250 points may enroll.  If you have taken French classes in high school or you are a heritage speaker, please take the placement test (https://modlangs.gatech.edu/students/placement-tests) and provide a copy of your score the first day of class.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. 

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.  

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?  

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: 

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.  

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Samba
Instructor last name:
Sy
Section:
OL1
CRN
25811
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Elementary Russian II

Last Updated: Wed, 01/07/2026
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Course prefix:
RUSS
Course number:
1002
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This course continues to develop your ability to communicate effectively and accurately in Russian in order to help you reach the Intermediate-Low level of proficiency. For a description of this level, see Proficiency Guidelines developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 

https://www.actfl.org/resources/actfl-proficiency-guidelines-2012 (Links to an external site.)

This course employs a communicative multi-media curriculum designed to refine and further develop all four language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing, with a strong cultural component.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Arts, Humanities & Ethics area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts in English or other languages, or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

Ethical Reasoning

Information Literacy

Intercultural Competence

Instructor first name:
Valeriya
Instructor last name:
Chekalina
Section:
B
CRN
33161
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Elementary Russian II

Last Updated: Wed, 01/07/2026
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Course prefix:
RUSS
Course number:
1002
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This course continues to develop your ability to communicate effectively and accurately in Russian in order to help you reach the Intermediate-Low level of proficiency. For a description of this level, see Proficiency Guidelines developed by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. 

https://www.actfl.org/resources/actfl-proficiency-guidelines-2012 (Links to an external site.)

This course employs a communicative multi-media curriculum designed to refine and further develop all four language skills – listening, speaking, reading and writing, with a strong cultural component.

 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Arts, Humanities & Ethics area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts in English or other languages, or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

Ethical Reasoning

Information Literacy

Intercultural Competence

Instructor first name:
Valeriya
Instructor last name:
Chekalina
Section:
A
CRN
28708
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Advanced Russian II

Last Updated: Wed, 01/07/2026
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Course prefix:
RUSS
Course number:
3001
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Second half of advanced courses in Russian conversation and composition. Discussion of controversial issues with the goal of self-expression in coherent paragraphs. Advanced grammar topics. Conducted in Russian. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Arts, Humanities & Ethics area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts in English or other languages, or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

Ethical Reasoning

Information Literacy

Intercultural Competence

Instructor first name:
Valeriya
Instructor last name:
Chekalina
Section:
A
CRN
34777
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

US Spanish Language&Cultures

Last Updated: Tue, 01/06/2026
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Course prefix:
SPAN
Course number:
4160
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Spanish 4160 is a course designed to help students develop their research and methodological skills through the study of a specific topic, in this case the cultural and literary production of Latina/o immigrants in the United States. Throughout the semester, students will have the opportunity to become familiar with the phenomenon of Latin American immigration to the United States, both in its historical dimension and in its diverse cultural manifestations. Among the cultural forms examined in the course are the journalistic article and chronicle, poetry, autobiography, the novel, television shows, documentary film, theatrical drama, and performance art. All the works analyzed share two common features: they were produced by Hispanic authors residing in the United States and they constitute expressions of Latino immigrant culture. Concepts such as “cultural assimilation,” “hyphenated Americans,” and “Latino/a U.S. identity” form part of the theoretical framework that will be discussed in class. During the first part of the course, we will focus on acquiring the theoretical tools necessary to understand the phenomenon of Latin American immigration to the United States in its various historical, social, and cultural trends. During the second half of the semester, each student will choose a research topic and work on the preparation of a final paper of 6–7 pages. The research topic must be related to the materials studied in class and must receive the instructor’s approval.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Arts, Humanities & Ethics area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts in English or other languages, or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Osvaldo
Instructor last name:
Cleger
Section:
OL1
CRN
33170
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Advanced Business French I

Last Updated: Tue, 01/06/2026
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Course prefix:
FREN
Course number:
3061
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Course Description

FREN 3061 (French for International Business) - Students will develop their written and oral professional communication skills and intercultural competence by increasing their knowledge about business and entrepreneurship in francophone countries.

This course focuses on French for Business and Sustainability. Students will develop their professional communication skills in French to prepare for careers in a global world. In addition to increasing their proficiency in the four languages skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), students will develop their critical thinking and professional communication skills through the study of authentic business materials and the completion of assignments. Namely, they will draft a business plan and several reports, create infographics, practice debating and negotiating in simulations, present orally a brand, key data about a company or the economy, and make a pitch. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

FREN 3061-A – Advanced Business French I   - This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. 

  This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential
knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course
content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:
- How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical
works?
Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning
Outcome:
- Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and
ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing
arts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the
following Career-Ready Competencies:

- Ethical Reasoning
- Information Literacy
- Intercultural Competence

Instructor first name:
Sophie
Instructor last name:
Landrieux Kartochian
Section:
A
CRN
34703
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Intermediate Russian II

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
RUSS
Course number:
2002
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

RUSS 2002, Intermediate Russian II, aims to build oral and written communication skills in Russian at the intermediate level and improve cultural awareness and literacy of the Russian-speaking world. RUSS 2002 contributes to students’ education in the humanities by teaching both the Russian language and the humanistic cultures of the Russian-speaking world. 

This semester we will continue to develop all four modalities of language use: listening, speaking, writing and reading; study new grammar topics and complete our survey of the fundamental structures of Russian; expand our vocabulary base, both active and passive; and communicate spontaneously on a variety of topics (including literature and reading, sports and leisure, health and the body, and family relations); and most importantly, enjoy the richness of Russian language and culture!

 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area.

 Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

 This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works? 

 Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence 

 

Instructor first name:
Stuart
Instructor last name:
Goldberg
Section:
A
CRN
28711
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Tech & Bus Jpn Translation

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
JAPN
Course number:
8803
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This course delves into the intricate art and science of translating and localizing diverse Japanese and English texts. Our source materials (ST) span a wide range, from traditional texts to digital content in movies, TV shows, anime, websites, and software, ensuring a rich and varied learning experience.

Engage with a mix of technical, business, and creative documents, providing a well-rounded perspective on translation challenges. This course is not just about converting words; it's about conveying meanings, emotions, and cultural nuances. Prepare for engaging mini-translation assignments and two major projects - a mid-term and a final - where you'll showcase your translation prowess and analyze the nuances between the ST and the target texts (TT).

A unique feature of this course is the exploration of AI-generated translation. We'll critically examine its capabilities, discussing where it excels and where human intuition remains irreplaceable. Your active participation is key, both in class and on our Canvas forums. Share your insights, debate viewpoints, and learn collaboratively through class interaction and exchange. The instruction is conducted mostly in Japanese mixed with some English to supplement your understanding, immersing you in the language and culture you are mastering. Join us on this exciting journey to become skilled translators in this interconnected world.

The class discussion will be conducted primarily in Japanese with occasional English clarification as needed.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. 

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I interpret human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: 

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence 
Instructor first name:
Masato
Instructor last name:
Kikuchi
Section:
A
CRN
34725
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages

Perspectives of German Media

Last Updated: Sun, 01/04/2026
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Course prefix:
GRMN
Course number:
4010
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This class covers a range of perspectives of German media and the history of media in German-speaking countries. Students will engage with current events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and learn about a variety of topics. The class will examine perspectives of different types of television, print, and online media and will use tools from media studies and intercultural studies to compare and explain differences between perspectives in German-language and U.S. news media and different reporting styles. Furthermore, students will compare public and private news sectors as well as press agencies in Germany and Europe.

This course counts for the German major and the minor. Credit Hrs: 3. Taught in German. 

Attributes: Humanities Requirement.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

https://policylibrary.gatech.edu/student-life/academic-honor-code 

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. 

-Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help students master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.  

-This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: 

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, & philosophical works?  

-Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: 

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.  

-Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence  
Instructor first name:
Britta
Instructor last name:
Kallin
Section:
A
CRN
34720
Department (you may add up to three):
Modern Languages
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