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Apr 18, 2024
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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
English MA, TESOL Specialization
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The TESOL specialization is an intensive program designed to foster the awareness, understanding, and skills necessary for the effective teaching of English to speakers of other languages. Through study in language, pedagogy, and culture, it prepares educators to work with adult language learners in the United States and abroad. For their culminating experience, students select a thesis or exam option. Graduates are qualified to work in colleges and universities, private institutes, and programs and schools in the United States and abroad that provide instruction in English.
Program Learner Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate their knowledge of subsentential, sentential, and suprasentential levels of language.
- Demonstrate their knowledge of pedagogical strategies and methods appropriate for second-language speakers.
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English MA Core
The Department of English offers a comprehensive Master of Arts program with three disciplinary specializations: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Literary Studies and Teaching, and Professional and Creative Writing. These disciplinary specializations share a set of core courses and electives and provide opportunities to study with a dual-modality cohort, allowing students to take shared classes both in-person and online. All three specializations offer a limited number of teaching assistantships on a competitive basis for resident students. Students with a teaching assistantship generally complete the program within 2 years, and those without an assistantship can complete the program in 4 quarters (10-15 credits per quarter).
Program Learner Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the diverse global variations in writing, literature, language, and professional presentation in our changing culture.
- Demonstrate professional-level writing skills by successfully meeting the rhetorical needs of situations requiring the application of a variety of genres and styles.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a range of literary and professional theoretical perspectives, genres, conventions, projects, and forms.
- Demonstrate their knowledge of scholarly research practices appropriate to the discipline of English studies.
- Demonstrate their commitment to professional development.
Core Courses
Select three of the following core English Studies courses:
Required Courses Credits: 24
Department-Approved Electives Credits: 6-7
Select one of the following options:
Thesis Option Credits: (6)
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