LING Undergrad Advising

Ling Undergraduate Advising

Webpage updated 10/4/2012 6:27 PM

Ling Undergrad advising: Janet Cowal ling.advising@pdx.edu

General advising in CLAS: Tony Lewis anthony.lewis@pdx.edu

Ling course schedule

Ling course descriptions

What can I do with a Ling BA and why should I major in Linguistics?

Some answers can be found at the LSA website here

Here are some general advising suggestions

After reading the general advice below, please scroll down to see which forms apply to you

(BA in Applied Ling, TESL Certificate, or BA/TESL Cert combo)

In order to make advising the most efficient process possible,

here are some general hints:

When you email your advisor, please include which program(s) you’re in

When you email your advisor, please include your student ID number

When you email your advisor, please include your questions so we know exactly what advice to offer

Please look at the following planning forms and fill them out/email them to your advisor

before meeting with your advisor

The only pre-approved course you can take at the same time as

Ling 390 (Intro) is Ling 471 (Understanding the International Experience)

BA in applied lingusitics

Click here to download BA planning form as Word doc

BA advice:

The foreign lang requirement = you need to take 2 foreign languages to earn a BA in Applied Ling.

1 is a 2 year requirement for any BA (equivalent of 203 or 2 years proficiency).

The 2^nd is 2 terms of ANOTHER language for the App Ling BA.

At least 1 of these 2 languages needs to be a non-Indo-European language!

AND you do need to be enrolled in either language during your time in the program (after Ling 390).

Also, most languages start their sequence in fall, and the first year of some

languages is not offered every year, so plan ahead!

Note: There are some non Indo-European languages that are offered through

the heritage language (e.g., Vietnamese).

Here is a list of non Indo-European languages offered at PSU:

Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese,

Korean, Turkish, Swahili, American Sign Language(ASL)

Ling 492 Structure of English is strongly recommended before taking Ling 411 Syntax.

(That means that you should follow this advice unless you’re a grammar expert!)

You should take Ling 411 Syntax after you’ve had 12 credits+ in Linguistics.

You should take Ling 407 Senior Seminar at the end of your program (and after at least 5 ling courses)!

TEsl certificate

Click here to download TESL Cert planning form as Word doc

Attention: There are new requirements beginning Fall 2010!

Because you need a BA for the certificate to be conferred, you can do this as a post-bac student

OR concurrently as an undergrad. If you finish you’re BA first, it is much easier to wait until

you are done with your TESL Cert requirements to graduate. That is, if you are in a BA program

while you do the certificate, don’t graduate until you have finished the requirements for BOTH

programs.

You must take Ling 390 (Intro), Ling 471 (Understanding the Interntnl Exp) and Line 438 (2^nd Lang Acq)

BEFORE you can take Ling 477 Methods I! [NO EXCEPTIONS]

You must take Ling 477 Methods I before Ling 478 Methods II and

BEFORE Ling 439 Language Assessment and Ling 475 Curriculum Development.

You should complete your portfolio by the term after you finish Methods II.

The Language Education elective requirement may be fulfilled by the following courses:

LING 475 Curriculum Design & Materials Development

LING 439 Language Assessment

LING 470 Grammar for TESOL

LING 409 Community ESL Practicum (must take for 4 credits!)

LING 476 Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching

LING 474 ESL in the Workplace

Various LING 410 adviser-approved topic courses

(For 2011-2012 Year: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Heritage Lang Acquisition, Analyzing Classroom Language & Interaction, Phonetics for Teaching)

Please note that these courses may have prerequisites in addition to LING 390

(like Methods I or LING 492 Structure of English)!

app ling BA & tesl certificate combo

The following planning/approval forms for the 2 degrees combined

for the most efficient use of credits:

Click here to download TESL Cert planning form as Word doc

Click here to download BA planning form as Word doc

The same advice applies from above for both programs. You can count many of your TESL

Cert courses as your electives for the BA and vice-versa. Doing both programs does require

that you take more classes needed for either program by itself.

Minor in applied lingusitics

Click here to download minor planning form as Word doc