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Required Coures

Students must take all of the following courses

164:201 Second Language Acquisition Research and Theory I 3 s.h.
164:202 Second Language Acquisition Research and Theory II 3 s.h.
164:211 Multimedia and Second Language Acquisition 3 s.h.

Students must take two of the following courses

07S:184 Reading in a Second Language
(or 164:226, but not both)
3 s.h.
164:221 Topics in Second Language Acquisition:
Speaking
3 s.h.
164:223 Topics in Second Language Acquisition:
Listening
3 s.h.
164:225 Grammar in Second Language Teaching and Learning 3 s.h.
164:226 Reading in the Non-Roman Scripts
(or 07S:184, but not both)
3 s.h.
164:227 Topics in Second Language Acquisition:
Writing
3 s.h.
164:229 Cultural Curriculum 3 s.h.

To complete the foundation requirement, students select one course from each of the following eight areas, in consultation with their adviser. With the adviser's approval, students may use courses not listed here to fulfill the requirement.

Curriculum

07E:300 Design and Organization of Curriculum 3 s.h.
07S:186 Curriculum Foundations 2-3 s.h.
07S:197 Principles of Course Design for Second Language Instruction 3 s.h.
07S:208 Designing Materials for Second Language Instruction 3 s.h.

Quantitative Research Tools

07P:220 Quantitative Educational Research Methodologies 3 s.h.
07P:243 Intermediate Statistical Methods 4 s.h.
07P:244 Correlation and Regression 4 s.h.
07P:246 Design of Experiments 4 s.h.
039:209 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language V 3 s.h.

Qualitative Research Tools

07B:373 Qualitative Research Design and Methods 3 s.h.
07E:370 Methods in Literacy Research
(Qualitative studies in classroom settings)
3 s.h.
164:205 Analysis of L1 and L2 Data 3 s.h.

Testing, Evaluation, and Measurement

07P:150 Introduction to Educational Measurement 3-4 s.h.
07P:165 Introduction to Program and Project Evaluation 3 s.h.
07P:255 Construction and Use of Evaluation Instruments 3 s.h.
07P:257 Educational Measurement and Evaluation 3 s.h.
07P:258 Theory and Technique in Educational Measurement 3 s.h.
07P:265 Program Evaluation 3 s.h.
07S:200 Fundamentals of Second Language Assessment 3 s.h.

Methodology

009:234
013:221
039:234
041:234
Principles of Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages 3 s.h.
035:200 Foreign Language Teaching Methods 3 s.h.
039:202 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language I:
Theories and Research
3 s.h.
039:203 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language II:
Curriculum and Methodology
3 s.h.
039J:202 Japanese as a Foreign Language:
Practical Applications
3 s.h.
103:145 Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language 3 s.h.
164:222 Advanced Japanese Pedagogy 3 s.h.

Phonetics, Phonology

013:258 Modern German Phonetics and Phonology 3 s.h.
035:189 Introduction to Spanish Phonology 3 s.h.
035:209 Spanish Phonology 3 s.h.
103:110 Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics 3 s.h.
103:112 Phonological Analysis 3 s.h.
103:203 Introduction to Phonology 3 s.h.
103:204 Phonological Theory 3 s.h.
103:214 Advanced Phonological Theory 3 s.h.

Morphology, Syntax

013:256 Modern German Syntax 3 s.h.
013:257 Morphology 3 s.h.
035:186 Introduction to Spanish Syntax 3 s.h.
035:207 Topics in Comparative Romance Linguistics 3 s.h.
035:210 Spanish Syntax 3 s.h.
103:111 Syntactic Analysis 3 s.h.
103:201 Introduction to Syntax 3 s.h.
103:202 Syntactic Theory 3 s.h.
103:212 Advanced Syntactic Theory 3 s.h.

Linguistics

003:218 Psycholinguistics 3 s.h.
013:255 Semantics 3 s.h.
013:299 Special Topics in German Linguistics 3 s.h.
035:206 Spanish Language Acquisition 3 s.h.
039:202 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language I:
Theories and Research
3 s.h.
039:144 Introduction to Chinese linguistics 3 s.h.
103:176 Language Development 1-3 s.h.
103:206 First Language 3 s.h.
103:211 Generative Second Language Acquisition 3 s.h.
103:216 Topics in Second Language Acquisition 3 s.h.
103:312 Seminar: Problems in Linguistics 2-3 s.h.
164:207 Sociolinguistics 3 s.h.
164:224 Second Language Acquisition of Japanese 3 s.h.
164:228 Special Topics in Japanese Linguistics 3 s.h.