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.
| Language | Minimum Acceptable Course | Language | Minimum Acceptable Course | |
| American Sign Language | ASLA 2020 or ASLA 2110 | German | GERM 2020 or GERM 2110 | |
| Arabic | ARAB 2110 | Korean | KORE 2020 | |
| Chinese (Mandarin) | CHIN 2020 or CHIN 2110 | Russian | RUSS 2020 | |
| French | FREN 1100 | Italian | ITAL 2020 or ITAL 2110 | |
| Japanese | JAPA 2110 | Spanish | SPAN 2020 or SPAN 2110 |
Language courses offered at other institutions
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.
Languages less commonly offered
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.
Languages offered in recent years at the first year level, but not at higher levels, include Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway), Hungarian, Kiswahili and Kurdish.
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 LANG 2900, Supervised Autonomous Language Learning, to satisfy the second year language instruction requirement.