English, TESOL Option, M.A.

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Admission

To be admitted to the M.A. in English with a Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Option, students must hold a relevant baccalaureate degree (English, Linguistics, Speech Communication are obvious examples), with a 3.0 overall GPA, and have completed the following prerequisite courses (40 units) or their equivalents

ENGL 3005 - Study of Language Units: 4
ENGL 3010 - Modern English Grammar Units: 4
ENGL 3015 - Introduction to Phonology Units: 4
or
SPPA 3855 - Phonetics Units: 4
ENGL 3020 - Advanced Expository Writing Units: 4
ENGL 3040 - Linguistic History of the English Language Units: 4
ENGL 4040 - Language in the U.S.A. Units: 4
COMM 4830 - Intercultural Communication Units: 4
ANTH 3800 - Language and Culture Units: 4
or
HDEV 4520 - Language Acquisition and the Symbolic Function Units: 4
Two courses in modern British or American literature Units: 8

Required Courses (45 units)

ENGL 6501 - Theory and Practice of Teaching ESL I Units: 4
ENGL 6502 - Theory and Practice of Teaching ESL II Units: 4
ENGL 6503 - Second-Language Acquisition Units: 4
ENGL 6504 - Morphology and Lexical Semantics Units: 4
ENGL 6506 - Sociolinguistics Units: 4
ENGL 6507 - Testing and Evaluation for Teaching ESL Units: 4
ENGL 6508 - Supervised Tutoring/Teaching Units: 4 (taken twice)
or
ENGL 6508 - Supervised Tutoring/Teaching
Units: 4
and
ENGL 6510 - Pedagogical Grammar Units: 4
ENGL 6509 - Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching Units: 4
ENGL 6750 - Theory and Practice of Composition Units: 4
ENGL 6909 - Departmental Thesis Units: 1-5

“Classified Graduate” Status and Advancement to Candidacy

Students are normally admitted to the master’s program in English as “Conditionally Classified Graduate” students. Once the students have completed any outstanding prerequisite courses and have passed the Writing Skills Test, they may apply for “Classified Graduate” status. In order to advance to candidacy, students must have completed 24 units of graduate-level coursework with grades of “B” and higher.

Applying for Graduation

Students must apply formally to graduate with a master’s degree by submitting a “Candidate for Degree” card during the Add/Drop period for the quarter before the one in which they expect to graduate. They must ask the English Department’s Graduate Coordinator to send a “Major Check” sheet to the Graduate Evaluations Office.