Curriculum Design
Explores areas of theory, research and practice that have a bearing on curriculum and syllabus design.  Leads students to develop their own curriculum design projects. Prerequisite: Principles and Practices of Language Teaching.

Language Assessment
Considers issues in language testing including reliability, validity, test bias, and ethics. Examines differences and similarities among placement, proficiency, achievement, aptitude, and performance testing. Explores alternative evaluation procedures. Prepares students to evaluate tests and to develop original language tests. Prerequisites: Language Analysis and Educational Research Methods.

Sociolinguistics
Introduces the interplay between language and society. Discusses regional and social dialects as well as the role of linguistic attitudes and language variation in language learning and teaching.

Structure of English (TESOL)
Examines the syntax and discourse of modern English for ESL and EFL teaching. Spotlights practical applications for the classroom. Prerequisite: Language Analysis.

Applied Linguistics Research (TESOL)
Requires original research to be conducted by the student on language attitudes, cultural variables, language learning, or other topics from sociolinguistics and second language acquisition. Prerequisites: Language Analysis, Educational Research Methods, and either Second Language Acquisition or Sociolinguistics.

Pedagogical Grammar for Foreign Language Education (TFL)
Develops formal and functional skill in teaching the target language through the design of communicative activities and lesson plans, the development of explicit and implicit teaching strategies, and the investigation of technology and web-based resources in the target language. Students gain a solid grasp of pedagogical grammar in their target languages.

Target Language Courses (TFL)
Offers students a choice from appropriate language study courses with approval of language program head and TFL advisor.