The Department of World Languages & Cultures invites you to save the following dates for our fall 2024 International Coffee Hours: Wednesday, September 18Wednesday, October 23Thursday, November 21International Coffee Hour takes place 12-2 pm on the 3rd floor of Beeson Hall. Light refreshments are provided along with themed activities relating to world languages & cultures. You can drop in or stay the whole time to enjoy conversation with faculty and other language students. Specific...
Did you know that the Language Resource Center offers free tutoring to all Georgia College & State University students studying French, German, Italian and Spanish? Peer tutors are available to provide support through tutoring, conversation practice and language study skills consultation. Appointments can be booked (at least 24 hours in advance by visiting https://outlook.office365.com/book/LanguageResourceCenter1@gcsu.edu/ or by scanning the QR code in our graphic. Tutoring sessions...
You are invited to celebrate the end of the first week of classes at the World Languages & Cultures Meet and Greet this Friday after convocation. Freshman WLC majors can meet the faculty, and language students of all levels can mingle, catch up and cool off with an iced coffee. See you on the third floor of Beeson Hall!
Come, enjoy the final International Coffee Hour of the 2023-2024 academic year this Tuesday, April 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. on the third floor of Beeson Hall. In the spirit of the month, we will be learning about April Fool's customs in other countries. Come and learn some jokes in French, Italian, German or Spanish and see how other countries' media outlets like to prank their citizens with far-fetched news stories and headlines. Refreshments will be available on a first-come, first-served...
Several of Dr. Mariana Stoyanova's SPAN 3020 students recently spent a morning participating in Read Across America Day. The students read two bilingual stories—Goldilocks & the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs—to several second grade classes at Midway Hills Primary School. Programs like these provide a mutually beneficial partnership where Georgia College & State University students get real-world, hands-on experience using the language they are studying, and local public school...
The Georgia College & State University chapter of Sigma Delta Pi Hispanic Honor Society recently held an induction ceremony to welcome eight new members. The new inductees include: Lynda Gulledge, Annabel Hirst, Grant Jones, Rachel Lumpkin, Paola Martinez, Charlotte Parker, Morgan Uesseler and Syndey Underhill. The Department of World Languages & Cultures would like to congratulate these exceptional students for their dedication to the study of the Spanish language.
Dr. Volkmann is chair of the Institute of English and American Studies at the FSU Jena and a well-published expert in Pedagogy. He earned his doctorate from The University of Erlangen in 1989. Some of his most recent accomplishments are: PILOTS-Partnerschaften International im Lehramt durch Online-Tandem-Seminare: Virtual Exchanges des Jenaer Lehramtes. Published October 2023. This poster presents the PILOTS project, which aimed to organize and investigate virtual exchanges in teacher...
Georgia College & State University’s Department of World Languages and Cultures will host Dr. Laurenz Volkman from the Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, Germany, as the Provost’s visiting scholar. Dr. Volkmann is chair of the Institute of English and American Studies at the FSU Jena and a well-published expert in Pedagogy. He earned his doctorate from The University of Erlangen in 1989. Some of his most recent accomplishments are: PILOTS-Partnerschaften International im Lehramt...
Georgia College & State University students, faculty and staff are celebrating El día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) in several locations on campus this week. Working with faculty in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, students in SPAN 1002 built an altar—called an ofrenda—in the front atrium of Arts & Sciences. Members of the GCSU Latino Student Association (LSA) built their ofrenda in The Hub last week, where it has since been on display. According to The Mexican Museum,...
Thanks to this past summer’s Georgia College & State University Chile Study Abroad program—where students participated in an internship while learning about Chilean culture and enhancing their Spanish language skills—program participants are one step closer to getting the jobs they desire. The Chile Study Abroad program also demonstrates the strength and importance of Georgia College’s liberal arts experience in preparing students for today’s complex and increasingly globalized working...
