Undergraduate Courses Offered Online

Summers only:

LING 316 - Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language - 3 hours.  Instruction and practice in the theory, methods, and materials for teaching English as a second language.

LING 417 Language Differences and Linguistic Universals - 3 hours. Study of the sounds and structures of natural languages, focusing on the distinction between language-particular and universal features and on the differences among languages that cause problems for second-language learning.  Laboratory work included.

LING 420 Language Acquisition - 3 hours.  Examination of the acquisition of language, whether first language, second, or additional, and the influence of a speaker’s first language on the acquisition of a second language.