Pre 2015 SLA Minor Requirements

Overview

The SLA minor consists of 12 credits: arequired course, and 3 additionalelective courses. In addition, there areprerequisitesto the minor. Students maytransferup to 3 credits from prior graduate work, upon approval.

All students are required to take English 318: Introduction to Second Language Acquisition OR Curriculum & Instruction 673: Learning Second Language & Literacies. Students also choosethree coursesfrom the approved SLA listbelow. In addition, with approval of the SLA Minor Advisor, students may count up to 3 credits (one course) of prior graduate study towards the minor.

The courses for the SLA minor may be taken in any appropriate sequence.

The total for the minor is thus the prerequisites plus four courses (12 credits). In order to help students apply general principles of SLA to the specific foreign language(s) they are studying and/or teaching,oneof the four required minor courses beyond the prerequisite may be in the home department.

Students wishing to minor in SLA should firstcontact the relevant SLA committee memberin their department who will refer them to the SLA Minor Advisor. Students declaring the minor are required to meet with ProfessorNaomi Geyer,SLA Minor Advisor, before registering for SLA minor courses.

For more information on the minor for doctoral students, see theGraduate School policy on minors.

Prerequisite Courses for the SLA PhD Minor:

At least one in methodology and one in linguistics.

A. Courses Fulfilling the Prerequisite in Methodology:

African Languages and Literature

  • 575 Methods of Teaching African Languages

East Asian Languages and Literature

  • 622 Teaching of Chinese
  • 623 Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language

English

  • 415 Introduction to TESOL Methods

French and Italian

  • 820 College Teaching of French

German

  • 720 and 722 College Teaching of German and Theory of Teaching German

Slavic Languages and Literature

  • 818 Methods of Teaching Slavic Languages

Spanish

  • 545 College Teaching of Spanish

B. Courses Fulfilling the Prerequisite in Linguistics

Linguistics

  • 301 Introduction to Linguistics: Descriptive and Theoretical

African Languages and Literature

  • 501 Structure and Analysis of African Languages
  • 571 Structure of and African Language

East Asian Languages and Literature

  • 431-432 Introduction to Chinese Linguistics
  • 434 Introduction to Japanese Linguistics

English

  • 314 Structure of English

French and Italian

  • 340 Structures of Italian

German

  • 650 History of the German Language

Linguistics

  • 309 Grammatical Variability

Slavic Languages and Literature

  • 704 The Structure of Russian

Spanish and Portuguese

  • 340 Portuguese Phonetics
  • 543 Spanish Phonology

Required Courses for the SLA PhD Minor

SLA PhD minors must complete one of two courses: English 318: Second Language Acquisition or Curriculum & Instruction 673: Learning Second Language & Literacies. Students declaring the SLA minor who wish to take English 318 and Curriculum and Instruction 673 should notify the instructor and the SLA Minor Advisor of their intention as early as possible so that a slot in the course may be reserved.

Transferring Credits from Prior Graduate Work

With approval by the SLA Minor Advisor students may count up to 3 credits of prior graduate study from outside UW-Madison. Typically a course syllabus (translated into English, if necessary, and with credit hours clearly stated), is required to determine whether the course can count towards the SLA PhD minor.

Electives

Students are required to take three courses (9 credits) from the following list.

Students select courses for a balanced program according to individual interest. All courses must be approved by the SLA Minor Advisor who will monitor the overall coherence of each student's minor program, with input from the student's departmental SLA advisor. To be approved for the minor, courses must contain a foreign language or second language component as evidenced by course material (such as: syllabus, reading list, or final paper), provided by the student to the SLA Advisor.

Other courses can be considered, but require preapproval by the SLA Steering Committee.

Curriculum and Instruction (C&I)

  • 630* Workshop in School Program Development
  • 673 Learning Second Language and Literacies
  • 715 Design of Research and Curriculum and Instruction
  • 719*** Introduction to Qualitative Research
  • 743 Educational Technology for Deep Language Learning
  • 917* Seminar: Design of Research & Evaluation in C & I

Education

  • 700 Rehabilitation Psychology Research

Educational Psychology

  • 760 OR 761 Statistical Methods Applied to Education I OR II
  • 763 The Design and Analysis of Research in Educational Psychology

English

  • 332 Global Spread of English (Instructor and SLA advisor consent required.)
  • 318 Second Language Acquisition
  • 710 Discourse Analysis
  • 711 Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
  • 713* Topics in Contemporary English Linguistics
  • 715 Advanced Second Language Acquisition
  • 905* Seminar in Applied English Linguistics

French and Italian

  • 821 * /** Issues in Methods of Teaching French and Italian

German

  • 727* Topics in German Applied German Linguistics
  • 960* Seminar in German Linguistics
  • 970* Advanced Seminar in German Linguistics

Sociology

  • 544 Introduction to Survey Research

Spanish

  • 544 Applied Spanish Linguistics for Teachers
  • 815* Seminar in Language: Modern Spanish

*Topics courses. Students should see the SLA Minor Advisor for approval of topics appropriate for the minor.

**Courses must be taken for a total of 3 credits, in one or multiple enrollments.

***When possible, students should choose a final project focused on second language acquisition.