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ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
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Birmingham-Southern College Catalog 2015-2016
ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Foreign Language Across the Curriculum
Birmingham-Southern College offers students opportunities to enhance
their foreign language proficiency and cultural knowledge through
coursework in other discipline areas. The Foreign Language Across the
Curriculum (FLAC) 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.
British Studies at Oxford
British Studies at Oxford is a summer program in which students spend
six weeks of study for two or three units of credit at Oxford University
in England. Students live and dine in the seventeenth-century buildings
of St. John’s College and attend lectures and seminars covering the arts,
history, literature, and philosophy of a distinguished age of Britain’s past. In
addition, students are given the opportunity to travel throughout England
and Europe. Students, at their option, may have one course count as an
Exploration term unit. The second course taken through British Studies
at Oxford that summer will count as a unit credit in a discipline. Special
scholarship assistance is available to Birmingham-Southern College
students participating in this summer program.