Fall 2025 Courses

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Instructor: Adeola Agoke

Day(s) and time: Sept 3 – Dec 10

Modality: Online

Requisites: Concurrent enrollment in AFRICAN 671

Description: A theoretical and practical exploration of second language acquisition (SLA) and self-instructional methods. Tests and/or modifies one or more theories/methods by putting these self-instructional methods into practice in order to learn a less commonly taught language (LCTL).

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Instructor: Junko Mori

Day(s) and time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 – 5:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: ASIALANG 104 or 356 (E ASIAN 104 or 320 prior to Summer 2019) or placement into ASIALANG 203

Description: Phonology, morphology and syntax of the modern standard colloquial Japanese, including historical and dialectal aspects. Not open to students with credit for E ASIAN 434 prior to Fall 2019.

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Instructor: Weihua Zhu

Day(s) and time: Tuesdays, 4:00 – 6:30 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Description: Methods of teaching Chinese as a second language including comparative study of Chinese and English structure, introduction to teaching techniques. Not open to students with credit for E ASIAN 622 prior to Fall 2019.

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Instructor: Multiple instructors

Day(s) and time: 2 sections – for dates/times, see Course Search and Enroll.

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Explores theoretical and practical aspects of second language and literacy development in schooling for English learners. Includes a fieldwork component. Informed by theories, students conduct and analyze data from classroom-based research, investigating implications for learning and teaching.

Instructor: Mariana Pacheco

Day(s) and time: Wednesdays, 8:15 – 10:45 am

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: None

Description: This course will examine theoretical perspectives from a variety of disciplines that situate the languages and cultures of minoritized students within particular geo-political, sociocultural contexts. Researchers and theorists have conceptualized these spaces as the “borderlands” to characterize the physical, ideological, political, linguistic, cultural, and discursive spaces many minoritized students must navigate and negotiate in and outside of school. The course will examine scholarship in linguistic anthropology, language socialization, cultural-historical approaches, feminist studies, queer theory, sociolinguistics, and Chicana/o studies, for example, to explore the affordances of a ‘borderlands’ framework in educational research, policy, and practice, particularly for linguistically minoritized students.

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Instructors: Simone Schweber

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays, 2:25 – 5:25 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Cross listed: RP & SE 719, COUN PSY 719, CURRIC 719, ELPA 719, ED POL 719, ED PSYCH 719

Description: Provides an overview of qualitative inquiry, examining assumptions, standards, and methods for generating and communicating interpretations. Methodological and theoretical works illustrate case study, ethnography, narrative, and action research. Does not include a field method component.

This course is not on the electives list. Please talk to your advisor before enrolling.

Instructor: Emily Machado

Day(s) and time: Mondays, 1:45 – 4:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: Graduate/professional standing

Description: The purpose of this course is to examine the theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues that arise in conducting qualitative research with children and adolescents (birth through 17 years of age). Students will deepen their theoretical understandings of children and childhoods, consider ways to be in relationship with young people, explore varied contexts for qualitative research, and expand their knowledge of methods for data generation and analysis.

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Instructors: Katie Kirchgasler

Day(s) and Time: Wednesdays, 11:00 am – 1:30 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Explores interdisciplinary theories on coloniality used in education research, with a focus on historicizing and interrogating hierarchies of language, race, and scientific reason. Examines distinct analytics of power offered by raciolinguistic perspectives, postcolonial science studies, and postfoundational curriculum studies.

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Instructors: Sadhana Puntambekar

Day(s) and Time: Mondays, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Current issues in educational psychology.

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Day(s) and Time:  Multiple sections, offered, all with labs. Please check Course Search and Enroll.

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Introductory descriptive statistics and statistical inference; measures of central tendency and variability, confidence intervals, theory of hypothesis testing, correlation techniques.

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Instructor: TBD

Day(s) and Time:  Mondays 4:40 – 7:10 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Utilize the concepts and methods of quantitative social science research to conduct research on education issues. Topics include hypothesis testing, statistical inference, point estimates, graphic and numerical data displays, correlation and regression.

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Instructor: Anja Wanner

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 – 10:45 am

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: Linguistic methods of analysis and description of English syntax and morphology.

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Instructor: Eric Raimy

Day(s) and Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 11:00-11:50 am

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: Basic principles of phonetics and phonology applied to the description of English and other languages.

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Instructor: Juliet Huynh

Day(s) and Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 9:55 – 10:45 am

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: Description and analysis of geographical and social variation in English in the United States.

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Instructor: TBD

Day(s) and Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 8:50 – 9:40 am

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: Systematic study of how people learn ESL and other second languages. An interdisciplinary survey emphasizing research in linguistics, psychology, education, and sociology into the phenomenon of second language acquisition.

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Instructor: Anja Wanner

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 – 2:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: Explores the relationship between descriptive and prescriptive grammar. Examines the role of prescriptivism in linguistics from a disciplinary view (why are linguists against it when the public is so clearly interested in singling out some constructions as ‘bad grammar’). Provides a historical view (the tradition of grammar writing — who gets to decide what is ‘correct’) and a variationist view (corpus-based studies on phenomena like preposition stranding, split infinitives, the distinction of who/whom etc.) of grammar writing. Covers the historical and cultural roots of beliefs about what constitutes ‘good’ and ‘bad’ grammar. Introduces linguistic tools and methods to check claims about grammar.

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Instructor: Joseph Nosek

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 – 2:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: Teaching of English to speakers of other languages. Exploration of the contexts in which English is taught, and methods and materials used to teach it.

Instructor: Jacee Cho

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: This course provides an introduction to conducting linguistic experiments to address theoretical questions in the study of syntax. We will discuss how to design linguistic experiments, collect and analyze data, and make generalizations beyond the data you have collected. This is a hands-on course which requires your active participation. By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and skills necessary to do your own linguistic experiments to explore theoretical issues in linguistics.

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Instructor: Juliet Huynh

Day(s) and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30 – 3:45 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing

Description: Study of a topic in English language and linguistics.

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Instructor: Karen Best

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:45 am

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: English 415

Description: Supervised practice in the use of current techniques and materials in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages, including peer and community teaching with videotaped sessions.

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Instructor: Morris Young

Day(s) and Time: Wednesdays, 10 am – 12:30 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/Professional standing

Description: Rhetorical, linguistic, psychological, and social foundations of writing; implications for instruction.

Instructor: Jacee Cho

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 – 3:45 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: This course provides an introduction to quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methods in applied linguistics. The main goals of the course are (1) to develop knowledge about fundamentals of research design and quantitative & qualitative research methods and (2) to design your own research study.

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Instructor: Eric Raimy

Day(s) and Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 1:20 – 2:10 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/Professional standing. QMFL 1 or competence in R and descriptive statistics

Description: [English Language and Linguistics] Continuation of “Quantitative Methods for Linguists 1” which explores regression methods as a statistical tool for linguistic data. Starting with simple linear regression, multiple and mixed effects models are discussed and developed. Logistic and ordinal logistic models to analyze categorical and Likert type survey data are explored.

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Instructor: Heather Allen; Loren Eadie

Day(s) and time: Fridays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Introduction to teaching collegiate world languages with an emphasis on communicative and literacy-based pedagogical strategies.

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Instructor: Loren Eadie; Heather Allen

Day(s) and time: Fridays, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Intended for instructors of elementary- and intermediate-level collegiate instructors of Italian; key concepts of communicative, literacy-oriented language teaching and related techniques for classroom instruction of Italian.

Instructor: Julia Goetze

Day(s) and time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 – 5:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Researchers of world language classrooms and language educators alike constantly seek to understand and investigate variables that influence student development, performance, and achievement. One set of variables that has captured their attention for three decades is rooted in the domain of psychology; namely, emotions, affect, cognitions, beliefs, and motivation. Until recently, however, researchers have almost exclusively focused on students’ psychologies, investigating their anxiety, enjoyment, self-efficacy beliefs, grit, and their ideal self-image (among many others) and the role they play in students’ linguistic development within instructed language learning settings.

This course introduces students to psychologically oriented research of the language teacher, a lacuna in SLA research that is only slowly beginning to be addressed. Drawing on Dörnyei’s (2018) claim that the language teacher might be the most important factor in influencing student learning, this course will introduce students to existing paradigms of psychologically oriented research in SLA, cover current theoretical approaches, provide an overview of methodological tools in teacher-focused research of psychological variables, and engage students in the design of a hands-on empirical research study for a variable of their choice.

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Instructor: Monica Macaulay

Day(s) and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:30 – 3:45 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Linguistics 322

Description: Advanced morphological theory.

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Instructor: Ryan Henke

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30 – 3:45 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Professionalization activities for linguists, including writing and publishing, submitting abstracts to conferences, and creating CVs.

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Instructor: John Mackay

Day(s) and Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 12:05 – 12:55 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisite: Junior standing or 3 credits in Philosophy

Description: The nature and function of language, theories of meaning, semantic and syntactic paradoxes, proper names, private languages, rules, and linguistic relativity.

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Instructor: Brad Postle

Day(s) and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 – 10:45 am; Thursdays 2:25 – 3:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: PSYCH 202, (BIOLOGY/ZOOLOGY 101 and 102), BIOLOGY/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 151, or (BIOCORE 381 and 382)

Description: How people perceive, learn, remember, plan, solve problems, make decisions, and communicate. The main approach is psychological but will also consider contributions from computer science, linguistics, and neurobiology.

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Instructor: TBD

Day(s) and Time: Dates vary – check Course Search & Enroll

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: Satisfied Quantitative Reasoning (QR) A requirement

Description: Presentation of sociological data; descriptive statistics; probability theory and statistical inference; estimation and tests of hypotheses; regression and correlation and the analysis of contingency tables.

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Instructor: Grant Armstrong

Day(s) and time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 – 2:15 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: Graduate/professional standing

Description: Advanced course focusing on particular theories, approaches, and/or methodologies concerned with Spanish linguistics.

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Instructor: William Morgan

Day(s) and time: Wednesdays, 4:00 – 7:00 pm

Modality: In person

Prerequisites: Graduate students only

Description: Introduction to Spanish teaching methodology: classroom procedures, lesson planning, preparation and evaluation of testing devices, current trends in language teaching, audio visual aids, etc. Other aspects of working in academia are incorporated as well, such as research (intertwining it with teaching, abstracts, conferences, publishing, etc.) and professionalization (building a CV, the job market, cover letters, research statements, teaching philosophies, etc.), both of which are guided by the instructor and faculty visitors from the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.