Dr. Bettina F. Cothran is a Professor of German in the School of Modern Languages. She received her PhD from the University of Wuppertal. She serves as Director of the German LBAT program, as Director of the International Plan for Modern Languages, and advisor for the German group. She is the editor of the "Handbook for German in Business and Technology" and "The Global Connection: Issues in Business German," as well as co-editor of the volume "Languages and Culture Out of Bounds: Discipline-Blurred Perspectives on the Foreign Language Classroom." She received Georgia Tech's Outstanding Teacher of the Year award in 1993, the AATG Georgia Professor of the Year Award in 1991 and 2001 and the Roe E. Stamps Outstanding Teacher Award in 2004.