This course will offer students a survey of the primary concepts and phenomena that relate to the study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) where second has reference to languages acquired after the first, or native, language. This course will provide a cursory look at a number of linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic issues at the heart of second language learning, as well as an overview of the complex processes and mechanisms that drive that learning.

This course provides an introduction to the field of linguistics, with a focus on the major subfields of linguistics: phonetics (the sounds of language), phonology (the sound structure of language), morphology (the structure of words), and syntax (the structure of sentences). The class explores the relevance of linguistics for language teaching and careers in education. The English language will be the primary, but not exclusive, focus in this class.

This Language Practicum course provides students the opportunity to engage in structured, focused, target-language work in a specific topic or area that is the subject of a corresponding MCLLC course taught in English in the same semester or provide specialized instruction in aspects of language not currently offered in other language courses. Students may be required to enroll in the English-taught course to which this Language Practicum corresponds. Course may be repeated up to 5 times for credit with different subtitles.

This Language Practicum course provides students the opportunity to engage in structured, focused, target-language work in a specific topic or area that is the subject of a corresponding MCLLC course taught in English in the same semester or provide specialized instruction in aspects of language not currently offered in other language courses. Students may be required to enroll in the English-taught course to which this Language Practicum corresponds. Course may be repeated up to 5 times for credit with different subtitles.

This Language Practicum course provides students the opportunity to engage in structured, focused, target-language work in a specific topic or area that is the subject of a corresponding MCLLC course taught in English in the same semester or provide specialized instruction in aspects of language not currently offered in other language courses. Students may be required to enroll in the English-taught course to which this Language Practicum corresponds. Course may be repeated up to 5 times for credit with different subtitles.

This Language Practicum course provides students the opportunity to engage in structured, focused, target-language work in a specific topic or area that is the subject of a corresponding MCLLC course taught in English in the same semester or provide specialized instruction in aspects of language not currently offered in other language courses. Students may be required to enroll in the English-taught course to which this Language Practicum corresponds. Course may be repeated up to 5 times for credit with different subtitles.

In this course students engage in directed research designed to broaden and deepen their expertise in a specific research area, and to extend and refine their investigative and research skills. The research work may be performed alone or as a part of a team, and the research focus may include (but is not limited to): an independent topic/project in the students' area(s) of study; a topic/project closely connected with an upper-level seminar in which the students are currently enrolled; or a topic/project within the research agenda of the faculty member offering the course.

In this course students engage in an internship under the supervision of a faculty member. The course is intended to help students apply, reinforce, and extend what they have learned in the classroom for their professional development. The production of a portfolio, project, or other form of summative work will allow the students to reflect on the semester's work in a focused synthesis. 10 hours of internship per week (150 hours in a semester) are generally equated with 3 credit hours. Course may be repeated up to 12 credit hours.

This course is designed to introduce a variety of critical approaches used in the study of culture. The overall objective is to explore how culture, in all its various forms, not only reflects the world around us but also how it influences the way we perceive the world. The course examines images in various media such as film, text, music, etc. The course employs a wide range of critical approaches (such as genre theory, gender studies, semiotics, and political economy) and examines multiple cultures from Europe to Asia.

An in-depth investigation of topics in the fields of theoretical and/or applied linguistics with emphasis on a particular country/region/linguistic population, language or language group. Possible topics include: history of a language or language group; sociolinguistics of a language or language group(s); structure of a language or language group; phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics or discourse analysis of a language and/or its dialects; acquisition of pragmatic, cultural and/or communicative competence in a language.