The SLA/IT program's curriculum consists of 74 total credit hours -- 44 credit hours of core courses with electives comprising 12 credit hours and a dissertation requiring 18 credit hours.

The following curriculum list is not intended to be exclusive of other courses that may be desirable to include in a student's program of study. Students will have the opportunity to add or replace some courses with other courses that address their professional goals, after consultation with their program advisor and approval from their doctoral committee. All students will be required to take two tools of research before taking the qualifying examination.

CORE COURSES (44 credit hours from the following areas)

• SLA 7776 Research Labs - a series of cohort-based courses that expose students to research projects in the field
• SLA 7938 Advanced Seminar in SLA - 3 hours, offered on a 2-yr schedule -- PR or CI: Applied Linguistics, SLA @ Master's level
• SLA 7939 Advanced Seminar in FLE - 3 hours, offered on a 2-yr schedule -- PR or CI: Current Trends in FLE @ Master's level
• EDG 7931 Socio-Cultural Theory in SLA - 3 hours, offered on a 2-yr schedule
• EME 6936 ACET:  Interactive Media - 3 hours
• EDG 7931 Applications of Technology to SLA/FLE - 3 hours, offered on a 2-yr schedule
• EDF 6284 Problems in Instructional Design - 3 hours
• EME 7938 Computer-Augmented Instructional Paradigms (Survey of Research in Instructional Technology) - 3 hours.
• EDF 6407 Statistical Analysis of Education I - 4 hours
• EDG 7408 Statistical Analysis of Education II - 4 hours
• Research (Research Design, Qualitative research options) - 6-7 hours

ELECTIVES (minimum of 12 hours)

Second Language Acquisition/Linguistics:
6-9 hours (offered on a 2-year basis)

• LIN 6931 Writing Processes in SLA - 3 hours
• FLE 6932 Dual Language in Education - 3 hours
• LIN 6601 Sociolinguistics - 3 hours
• LIN 6748 Contrastive Analysis - 3 hours
• LIN 6018 Topics in Theoretical Linguistics - 3 hours
• LIN 6117 History of Linguistic Thought- 3 hours
• LIN 6932 Discourse Analysis- 3 hours

Technology

• EME 6613 Development of Technology-Based Instruction - 3 hours (PR:  Problems in Instructional Design)
• EME 6930 PLE:  Hyperscripting - 3 hours
• EME 6930 PLE:  Web Programming 1 - 3 hours
• EME 6936 ACET:  Digital Video - 3 hours
• EME 6936 ACET:  Instructional Graphics - 3 hours
• EME 6936 ACET:  Current Trends in Ed Tech - 3 hours
• EME 6936 ACET:  Web Design - 3 hours
• EME 7939 Research Methods in Technology-Based Education - 3 hours (PR: EDF 7410)
• EME 7458 Research in Distance Learning - 3 hours
• EME 7631 Research in Technology Project Management - 3 hours
• EME 6936 Internet in Education - 3 hours

Education, Anthropology, Psychology

• EXP 6643 Psychology of Language - 3 hours
• EDF 7145 Educational Psychology - 3 hours
• EDF 6883 Issues in Multicultural Education - 4 hours
• EDF 7586 Classics in Educational Research - 4 hours
• EDF 7934 Seminar in Social Foundations of Education - 4 hours
• EDF 7692 Issues in Curriculum and Instruction - 3 hours
• EDG 7931 Practicum in Teacher Education - 3 hours
• EDG 7931 - Curriculum Frameworks in Teacher Education - 3 hours
• ANG 6766 Seminar in Anthropological Linguistics - 3 hours

DISSERTATION HOURS (18 semester hours)

• SLA 7980