Certificates are available in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian Studies, and Spanish. To receive a certificate in one of these options, students must take twelve semester hours of courses beyond the 2001 course. Students may transfer a maximum of six credit hours towards the certificate requirements with the approval of the Director of Undergraduate Studies. All courses counting toward a certificate must be taken on a letter grade basis, and a grade of C or better must be received in each course.

The Linguistics Certificate consists of twelve credit hours. The courses that the School will accept for the twelve hours of the certificate are as follows:

LING 2001 or LING 2002 Introduction to Linguistics I and II
LING 3010 Language Evolution
LING 4002 Current Trends in Linguistics
SPAN 3170 Spanish Phonetics and Phonology
SPAN 4170 Spanish Applied Linguistics
PSYCH 2760 Human Language Processing
PSYCH 3011 Cognitive Psychology
PSYCH 3790 Introduction to Cognitive Science
PSYCH 4200 Advanced Topics in Cognitive Psychology

One LING 3813/4813 course will also count for the twelve hours of the certificate. The School of Modern Languages will also accept one linguistics course on the 3000 or 4000 level taken at Emory University or Georgia State University. Students wanting to take such a course at either university need to clear its acceptability with the linguistics advisor at Georgia Tech. All courses counting toward a certificate must be taken on a letter grade basis, and a grade of C or better must be received in each course.