Master of Arts in English as a Second Language (ESL)
The MA in ESL degree is a 36-hour program.
Course requirements include:
21 hours of core courses
6 hours of foundation courses
6 hours of electives
3-hour research seminar (which must be taken during the last 9 hours of coursework)
Students who elect to write a thesis will take 6 hours of thesis LING 5950 in lieu of 6 elective hours.
21 hours of core courses
6 hours of foundation courses
6 hours of electives
3-hour research seminar (which must be taken during the last 9 hours of coursework)
Students who elect to write a thesis will take 6 hours of thesis LING 5950 in lieu of 6 elective hours.
Core Courses – 21 hours
LING 5060 - Second Language Acquisition
LING 5070 - Bibliography and Methods of Research in Linguistics/ESL
LING 5080 - Teaching English as a Second Language
LING 5090 - Pedagogical Grammar
LING 5300 - Phonology
LING 5310 - Syntax
LING 5340 - Practicum in ESL
Foundation Courses – 6 hours
(Choose two courses from the following)
LING 5305 - Morphology
LING 5330 - Sociolinguistics
LING 5530 - Semantics and Pragmatics
LING 5550 - Corpus Linguistics
LING 5390 - Psycholinguistics
LING 5560 - Discourse Analysis
Electives – 6 hours
(Choose two courses from the following)
LING 5020 - Historical Linguistics
LING 5030 - Languages of South Asia
LING 5350 - Typology
LING 5370 - ESL Writing Pedagogy
LING 5380 - Linguistic Field Methods
LING 5400 - Computational Tools for Language Data
LING 5410 - Computational Linguistics I
LING 5415 - Computational Linguistics II
LING 5540 - Endangered Languages
LING 5570 - World Englishes
LING 5580 - Language and Gender
LING 5590 - Linguistics and Literature
Research Seminar
LING 5990 - Professional Development for Linguists