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TESOL.BA 

General Education Requirements (53 - 59 hrs)

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This program requires 6 hours of world language at the intermediate level.

Specialty Area Requirements

• TESL 300 - Introduction to TESOL Credit Hours: 2
• LING 302 - English Language Structure and Theory Credit Hours: 3
• LING 380 - Introduction to Linguistics Credit Hours: 3
• LING 382 - English Language Center Seminar Credit Hours: 1

•            (May be repeated as elective)

• TESL 400 - Second Language Acquisition Credit Hours: 3
• TESL 405 - Teaching Grammar to English Language Learners Credit Hours: 3
• TESL 410 - ESL Curriculum Design and Assessment Credit Hours: 3
• LING 480 - Linguistics for Teaching English as a Second Language Credit Hours: 3
• LING 481 - History of the English Language Credit Hours: 3
• LING 482 - Methods of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Credit Hours: 3
• LING 495 - World Languages and Faith: A Capstone Seminar Credit Hours: 3

TESOL Electives

 Choose two from the following (6 hrs)

• TESL 490 - Teaching English as a Foreign Language Credit Hours: 3

•            (Part of TESOL Cross-Cultural Trip)

• LING 381 - Language Acquisition and Development Credit Hours: 3
• ANTH 310 - Cultural Anthropology Credit Hours: 3
• COMM 354 - Intercultural Communication Credit Hours: 3
• SOCI 410 - Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S. Credit Hours: 3
• SOCI 420 - The Urban Community Credit Hours: 3
• ANTH 385 - Sociolinguistics Credit Hours: 3
• ICSP 352 - Contemporary World Religions Credit Hours: 3
• ICSP 370 - Globalization and Culture Credit Hours: 3

SUBTOTAL (36 hours)

GENERAL ELECTIVES OR MINOR

SUBTOTAL (25/31 hours)

ACADEMIC ASSESSMENT

GNST-400:  Academic Assessment (0) hrs
           AND
SMFT-TSL:  Major Field Test TESOL (0) hrs

will also be required.

Total Hours in Program: 120