graduate Special features

A number of features help make our Master's program distinctive, especially within the state of Indiana:

The Department houses all areas (French, Linguistics, Spanish, TESL) within a single department, allowing for a healthy atmosphere of interlinguistic and intercultural exchange and the possibility of interdisciplinary courses and areas of research.

In comparison to many programs at larger universities, students receive a far greater amount of individual attention and guidance, a fact which has been borne out in many conversations with our own graduates who have subsequently gone on for further graduate work at much larger institutions.

The Warren N. and Suzanne B. Cordell Collection of Dictionaries , in ISU's Cunningham Library , offers invaluable research tools for study in lexicology, lexicography, and historical linguistics. A Cordell Research Fellowship is available to help defray some of the expenses of individuals traveling to Terre Haute to use the Cordell Collection of Dictionaries for research, including graduate students whose use of the materials will facilitate completion of a thesis, dissertation, or other publication.

The Department's computerized audio-visual language laboratory is one of the most advanced in the state. In response, several faculty members have turned their research interests toward computer interactive learning technology, thereby significantly enhancing the Department's comparative strengths, especially in the area of teacher training.

For students of languages other than English, there is a study abroad component that many other institutions do not have at this level.

The Department offers a Master of Arts degree in both teaching and non-teaching curricula. For those students not enrolled in a degree program, the Department also offers sufficient courses for professionalization in Secondary Education for all languages. In addition to its three programs, the Department also offers a limited amount of graduate course work in German.

In cooperation with the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, ISU's College of Education offers a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in Language Education.
Graduate classes in Spanish are also offered each summer on campus, and in Costa Rica or Spain every second summer. The summer study abroad program provides an important service to students from other ISU departments, and from other Indiana universities, as well as to secondary teachers in the state. Every student in the Department also has the opportunity to enroll in any exchange or study abroad program offered through the International Programs and Services.