Class Choices

Choosing classes can be difficult because of the great number of courses available and the short descriptions! This page has a list of the most relevant courses for your language teaching courses as well as your American Studies courses. Here is a list of previous courses past FLTAs have taken, for reference.

  • Each FLTA must take 1 American studies course out of the 4 courses they will take during their time here. We strongly recommend taking that course in the fall semester.
  • The other courses you take must be “professional courses,” related to language teaching in some way. 

We recommend that you choose courses for Fall semester first and, if available, take a look at the Spring course offerings–there could be courses you really want then, so you may want to finish your American Studies requirement in the Fall semester.

Update for Fall 2026: The Fall 2026 courses have been reviewed and approved by Fulbright/IIE and should not cause any issues in having them approve the courses. If you wish to take a course that is not listed on this page, please let the FLTA Supervisor know so that it can be submitted for approval as soon as possible. 

Step A

Choose courses from the lists below your own interests, noting the WHOLE title as it appears here (including the “Class Nbr” portion!)

Step B

Given some new procedures, we anticipate you will be able to self-enroll in classes.  I will provide details when I have them.

Just in case, be ready to email the MSU Coordinator/Supervisor your 2 courses for Fall and 1 or 2 backups. Please make sure to give the WHOLE title as it appears here (including the “Class Nbr” portion!).

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Fall 2026 American Studies Courses
Fall 2026 Professional Courses
Spring 2027 American Studies Courses
Spring 2027 Professional Courses

Fall 2026 American Studies Courses

  • AAAS (African American & Afr Studies) 100 Section 002 / Class Nbr 12090: Pathways into AAAS
    • Tue Thu : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • Current trends and topics in African American and African Studies; including contemporary and interdisciplinary perspectives in Black Studies.
  • AAAS (African American & Afr Studies) 201.001/ Class Nbr 11920: Black Sexualities Studies: Past, Present, and Futures
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Black Sexualities Studies through identity formation, dialectics, arts, and politics, through discussions on language, the body, institutions, history, cultures, politics, healing, exercises of freedom, and practices of resistance.
  • AAAS (African American & Afr Studies) 202:001, Class Nbr 12643: Black Genders Studies: Past, Present, and Futures
    • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • Gender ideologies, ideologies that produce gender, pursuits of resistant imaginaries, and gender fluidity particularly in Black lifewords, expressions, activism, and politics.
  • AIIS (Amer Indian & Indigenous Stdy) 201, Section 001 /Class Nbr 12694: Introduction to American Indian and Indigenous Studies
    • Tue Thu : 12:40-2:00 PM
    • Introduction to the study of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples, including issues related to culture, knowledge, language, governance, colonization, sovereignty, and ongoing revitalization efforts.
  • ANP (Anthropology) 411 Section 001 / Class Nbr  18084: North American Indian Ethnography
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Social and cultural patterns of North American Indian societies. History, economy, politics, social organization, religion, and social change.
  • EAD 870 Section 001 / Class Nbr 18903: Foundations of Postsecondary Education
    • Thu : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM
    • Historical, philosophical and social forces that shaped development of colleges and universities. Emphasis on higher education in the United States.
  • ENG (English) 319 Section 001 / Class Nbr 22605: Readings in Michigan Literature
    • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • Extensive readings of texts by Michigan writers across genres, historical periods, media, and/or different regions of the state.
  • ENG (English) 350 Section 001 / Class Nbr 12109: Readings in African-American Literature
    • Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • This course will explore African American literature from the late 19th century to the present, focusing on speculative fiction and fantasy. While traditional surveys of African American literature tend to emphasize autobiography (e.g., slave narratives) and literary realism, there is also a rich tradition of imaginative and fantastical literature by Black writers. Our course will begin in the late 19th century, during a peak of interest in Black folklore that would continue through the 1930s. We’ll examine original fiction, folk tales, and ethnographic writings on “conjure” and “hoodoo” (a set of African American folk beliefs and spiritual practices) by N. K. Jemisin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Charles W. Chesnutt. Then we’ll turn to African American novels from the late 20th and 21st centuries that take up this legacy. We’ll study “neo-slave narratives” that use gothic devices like the ghost story (Toni Morrison’s Beloved) or mix alternate history with speculative technologies (Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad). We’ll also examine postmodern fantasy (Samuel R. Delany’s Tales from Nevèrÿon) and Afrofuturist horror (Octavia Butler’s Fledgling). We will attend to the aesthetic qualities of the texts as well as the social and political issues raised by them. Some of the questions we’ll consider include: how do speculative or fantastical elements engage with conventional understandings of history and futurity? Why have traditional narratives of African American literature privileged realism over speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and other popular genres? What happens when “literary” writers work in popular genres?
  • ENG (English) 356 Section 001 / Class Nbr 12451: Readings in Jewish Literature
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • This course sets out to explore English-language-based Jewish-American writing in global literary-historical contexts. The last decades have seen a virtual explosion of important and interesting works by writers of Jewish backgrounds writing in American and global literary traditions. This writing ranges from sophisticated work from major established literary figures like Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick to newer writers like Dara Horn and Nathan Englander. It reflects both a flowering of literary creativity and a cultural moment in which the lineaments of Jewish-American culture and tradition are being contested, re-imagined, and redrawn in global and historical terms. During the term we will read six recent works using a variety of shorter texts (stories and essays) as points of reference in the history of Jewish-American culture as it has emerged in the U.S. and in global literary context. We will also have recourse to several landmark films addressing Jewish-American experience and themes.
  • ENG (English) 445 Section 001 / Class Nbr 22636: Seminar in 20th and 21st Century American Literature
    • Mon Wed : 4:10 PM-5:30 PM
    • This course will introduce you to the post-Nobel history of literature and art as venues for competition. The first major cultural prize, the Nobel Prize in Literature, originated at the same moment as the modern Olympic Games, and from 1912 to 1948, Olympic medals were awarded in literature, painting, music, sculpture, and architecture. (The founder of the modern Games, Pierre de Coubertin, won the first gold medal in “mixed literature.”) Despite a belief among artists and critics that cultural achievement can’t be measured, there are more prizes, rankings, and best-of lists every year. Culture has been a constant venue for international competition since the late nineteenth century, and competition itself has become one of the primary instruments for selling middle- to high-brow literature and art. This course will explore this history through a wide range of literary and cultural texts engaged in the question of artistic competition.
  • HST (History) 203 Section 001/Class Nbr 17979: U.S. History since 1876
    • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
    • Major topics and themes in U.S. history from 1876 to the present including such topics as political development, social change, women’s history, race and ethnicity.
  • HST (History) 213: U.S. Business and Economic History
    • Evolution of American economy from colonial period to the present. Relationship between government and business. The relationship of labor to industry and government. Political culture and the world of business.
    • Section 001/Class Nbr 17498
      • Mon Wed : 4:10-5:30 PM
    • Section 002/Class Nbr 18242
      • Mon Wed : 6:00 PM-7:20 PM
  • HST (History) 301 Sec 301/Class Nbr 17500:  Indigenous-European Encounters in North America
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-12:10 PM
    • European-Indigenous encounters and long-term perspectives on Indigenous and European contact: expectations, stereotypes and mythologies about the Indigenous peoples of North America and Africa within expanding slave systems. Indigenous roles in settler colonial societies in the Caribbean, New France, New England and the Colonial South.
  • HST (History) 302 Sec 001/Class Nbr 18497: Revolutionary America
    • **Currently waitlisted** 
    • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • The American Revolutionary era in an international context, 1763-1826. Liberty and equality in a world of empires, republics and slavery. Role of gender, race and class in defining the meaning of the revolution. The U.S. Constitution. Early American diplomacy in transition from colony to nation.
  • HST (History) 303 Sec 001/Class Nbr 17501: The Young American Republic
    • Mon Wed : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Rise of political democracy in the United States, 1820-1850. Emergence of a market economy and industrialization. Movements by laborers, women, African Americans, immigrants and Native Americans to expand rights. Religious and cultural change. Sectional conflict between North and South. Westward expansion, Oregon Trail, Gold Rush
  • HST (History) 307 Sec 001/Class Nbr 18402: Labor History of the United States to 1863: Making a North American Working Class
    • Tue Thu : 8:00 AM-9:20 AM
    • Lives, agency, organization and activism of the diverse population of working people.
  • HST (History) 310 Sec 001/Class Nbr 17504: African American History to 1876
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • American slavery in the mainland colonies. Establishment and nature of free black communities. The impact of emancipation.
  • HST (History) 312 Sect 001/Class Nbr 18244 African American Women
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Black women in American history. Slavery, the work place, politics, and the Civil Rights movement.
  • HST (History) 313 Sect 001/Class Nbr 17505: Women in the United States to 1869
    • Mon Wed : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • United States history through the experiences of women. Gender, family, work, and political activism.
  • HST (History) 317 Sect 001/Class Nbr 18498: American Jewish History
    • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • American Jewish history from colonial period to present. Jewish immigration to the United States, patterns of religious and cultural adjustment, social relations and anti-Semitism, Jewish politics, the construction of Jewish identities.
  • HST (History) 320 sec001/Class Nbr 17506: History of Michigan
    • **Currently waitlisted** 
    • Mon Wed : 6:00 PM-7:20 PM
    • Political, social, and economic development from colonial beginnings to the present.
  • HST (History) 329: Sec 001/Class NBR 17508 College Sports in the United States
    • **Currently waitlisted** 
    • Mon Wed : 10:20-11:40 am
    • Origins of sports in higher education. Effects of industrialization and television. Civil rights movement in sports: incorporation of women and members of minorities. Title IX era. History of individual sports.
  • HST (History) 391 Section 001 / Class Nbr 18638: Environmental History of North America
    • Tue Thu : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • Interaction of peoples of North America and their natural environments
  • IAH (Integrative Studies Arts & Hum) 201: United States and the World (D)
    • Major issues in development of U.S. society and culture, presented in international and comparative context. Influences from native Americans, Europeans, Africans, and Asians. Organized historically, with thematic emphasis on literature and the arts.
    • There are multiple sections, with different lecture times and recitation times. Please look on the enrollment system for options.
  • IAH (Integrative Studies Arts & Hum) 207: Literatures, Cultures, Identities (I)
    • Focus: College in Popular Culture (Sec 27 & 28) **Currently waitlisted**
    • Focus: Michigan Artists & Art in Michigan Section 031  **Currently waitlisted**
    • Focus: Michigan Artists & Art in Michigan Section 32/Class Nbr 12496: Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:50 PM
  • IAH (Integrative Studies Arts & Hum) 211C: Area Studies and Multicultural Civilizations: The Americas
    • Focus: Native American Cultural Resistance to Assimilation: Section 4/Class Nbr 12233 Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
    • Focus: US colonialism in Puerto Rico through arts and literature: Section 006/Class Nbr 1184 Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM  **currently waitlisted**
  • PLS (Political Science) 100: Introduction to American Politics
    • Sec 001/Class Nbr 17590: Mon Wed : 10:20-11:40 AM
    • The policymaking process in national government, with emphasis on political participation, the presidency, Congress, Supreme Court, bureaucracy, and civil rights and civil liberties.
  • PLS – there are other Political Science classes that would be good options, but are all waitlisted.

Fall 2026 Professional Courses

  • ANP (Anthropology) 420 Section 001 Class Nbr 17160: Language and Culture
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Domain, issues, and methods of cultural linguistics. Relationship between language and culture. Language and ethnicity, status, and role. Pidgin and Creole languages. Crosscultural communication. (Currently Waitlisted)
  • EAD (Educational Administration) 805 Section 001 / Class Nbr 18887: Administration in Higher Education
    • Mon : 4:10 PM-7:00 PM
    • Theories, systems, structures, and processes of college and universities. Comparison of the organization, leadership, and governance of higher education institutions to other non-profit organizations.
  • FLM (Film Studies) 260: Introduction to Digital Film and Emergent Media
    • **waitlisted until August 22**
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 12197 Mon : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM; Wed : 9:10 AM-11:00 AM
    • Section 002 / Class Nbr 1997: Tue : 4:10 PM-7:00 PM; Thu : 4:10 PM-6:00 PM
    • Introduction to digital film and emergent media production.
  • LIN (Linguistics) 200: Introduction to Language
    • Sec 001/Class Nbr 22631 Mon Wed : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM
    • Section 002 / Class Nbr 22645: Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Section 003 / Class Nbr 26939: Mon Wed : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • Linguistic structure of language. Applications of linguistics to other disciplines. Human and societal aspects of the nature, use, acquisition, and history of languages.
  • LIN (Linguistics) 225: Language and Gender
    • Sec 001/Class Nbr 11249 Tues Thurs : 8:30-9:50 AM
    • Gender and language in societies around the world. Issues such as status, power and politeness in monolingual and multilingual societies. The role of gender in language development, language variation and language change.
  • LIN (Linguistics) 230:Sec 001/Class Nbr 12067 Languages of the World
    • Mon Wed : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM
    • Develop an understanding and appreciation of the world’s linguistic diversity by exploring facts about languages of the world and an appreciation of linguistic diversity as part of cultural diversity. Learn about language families and historical relationships, as well as language typology. Explore how the language situation today reflects historical movements of people and their settlements. Symbolic functions of language and what happens when languages come in contact.
  • LIN 424 Section 001/Class Nbr 11251: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Phonetics, phonetics features and components, phonological phenomena, phonemic analysis, sound systems and data analysis.
  • LIN (Linguistics) 431 Section 001 / Class Nbr 26847 Introduction to Morphology
    • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Word structure, word formation, morphological analysis, interface with phonology and syntax, and theoretical issues in morphology. Data from diverse languages of the world.
  • LIN (Linguistics) 434 class Nbr 11252 : Introduction to Syntax
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Structure of sentences and structural relations among phrases. Methods of syntactic analysis and argumentation.
  • LIN (Linguistics) 463: Introduction to Cognitive Science
    • **both currently waitlisted** 
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 12034 Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • Section 002 / Class Nbr 12528 Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Cognitive processing of information by animals, humans, and computers. Relevant issues in philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neurophysiology, and artificial intelligence.
  • LIN (Linguistics) 471: Class Nbr 11264 Sociolinguistics
    • Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • Linguistic and social psychological bases for language choice. Accounts of language variation and related larger constructs such as speech community, communicative competence, dialect, and language change.
  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 307: Methods of Second and Foreign Language Teaching
    • NOTE: Approval is needed. FLTAs who choose this course would take it with higher-level requirements than undergraduates, including helping the instructors with some task-management in class and task-planning on Friday afternoons during the semester.
    • Section 001/ Class Nbr 11272: Tue Thu : 8:00 AM-9:20 AM
    • Section 002 / Class Nbr 11273: Mon Wed : 8:00 AM-9:20 AM
    • Section 003 / Class Nbr 22632: Mon Wed : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM **currently waitlisted**
    • National and international approaches, methods, materials, settings, needs, and characteristics of ESL and foreign language students. Survey, evaluation, and application of major effective methods and materials.
  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 361: Second and Foreign Language Learning
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 12081 Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • Basic principles of learning a second or foreign language. Issues in first language acquisition. Theories of second language learning. Aptitude, motivation, attitude, learning grammar, age, learning in a classroom, myths, and facts about second language learning.
  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 807: Class Nbr 11279 Language Teaching Methods
    • Mon : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Approaches, methods, and materials for teaching foreign and second languages, including the teaching of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Selection and evaluation of materials, lesson planning, and management of activities and materials.
  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 809:Class Nbr 11280 Teaching Second Language Reading and Writing
    • Mon : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM
    • Teaching reading and writing in foreign and second language contexts. Vocabulary and pre-reading activities; materials development; integrating, assessing and researching reading and writing; reading and writing to learn language, academic reading and writing.
  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 822:Class Nbr 11281 Interlanguage Analysis
    • Tue : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM
    • Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax within the context of second language acquisition and teaching. Approaches to analysis of second language learner data.
  • LLT 841 Topics in Second/Foreign Language Teaching
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 12909 Thu : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM Focus: Technology & Instructed Second Language Acquisition
  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 842:Class Nbr 12915 Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in Another Language
    • Thu : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Overview of second language vocabulary acquisition research and its implications for second language teaching. Dimensions of vocabulary knowledge. Vocabulary and the four communicative skills. Incidental versus intentional vocabulary learning. Vocabulary learning strategies.
  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 895: Class Nbr 11284 English as a Second Language: Classroom Practices
    • Wed : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Lesson planning, materials development, adapting authentic materials, and microteaching. Classroom management for the teaching of English as a second language.
  • REL (Religious Studies) 207 Section 001 / Class Nbr 22635: Intercultural Competence, Religious Diversity, and Self-awareness
    • Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • Enhance understandings of different global cultural systems, spiritualities, and community formations that could be called religious through meaningful and structured interactions to develop intercultural competence and interpersonal skills to engage others inclusively and respectfully, improve intercultural communication, and cultivate habits of self-reflection and self-awareness by exploring diversity.
  • THR (Theatre) 101N: Acting I for Non-Theatre Majors
    • **currently all sections are waitlisted** 
    • Improvisational exercises, creative exercises, monologue and scene study.

Spring 2027 American Studies Courses

  • AIIS (Amer Indian & Indigenous Stdy) 201: Introduction to American Indian and Indigenous Studies
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 10911
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Introduction to the study of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples, including issues related to culture, knowledge, language, governance, colonization, sovereignty, and ongoing revitalization efforts.
  • ANP 452 North American Archaeology
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 28773
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Characteristics and processes of North American archaeology on a regional level. Economic, social, political and technological change through time.
  • ENG 308: Readings in Literature for Young Adults
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 10976
    • Tue Thu : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Instructor: Mary Juzwik
    • Extensive readings across a range of genres of literature for young adults, including realistic and historical fiction, fantasy, myth and legend.
  • ENG 354: Readings in Native American Literature Section 001 / Class Nbr 12065
    • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Instructor: Esther Belin
    • While reading a selection of interrelated stories from Native American and Indigenous authors, we’ll explore the different approaches these writers take concerning sovereignty, legal jurisdiction, self-determination, identity politics, relationality, and humor. By scaffolding these literary texts, we will also explore how literature plays a role in contemporary expressions of sovereignty, identity and survivance.
  • ENG (English) 362: Studies in Modern/Contemporary Literature
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 11863
    • Tue Thu : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Instructor: Cara Cilano
    • Course Description: At what point does a refusal become a conscientious objection or even an active refutation? When, why, and how is compliance not possible? This class looks at these questions with contemporary literature by writers such as Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Don DeLillo.
  • ENG 408: Critical Literacies and Communities
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 12097
    • Tue : 3:00 PM-6:50 PM
    • Instructor: Danielle Filipiak
    • Literacies as sociocultural processes and their function in classrooms and communities. Focus on critical literacy theories and research, education justice, ethical solidarity with students and communities, and pedagogical applications for educators
  • ENG 420: Language and Culture  – Section 001 / Class Nbr 15882
    • Tue Thu : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Instructor: Mindy Morgan
    • Domain, issues, and methods of cultural linguistics. Relationship between language and culture. Language and ethnicity, status, and role. Pidgin and Creole languages. Crosscultural communication.

 

  • HST 202: U.S. History to 1876
    • Lecture: LEC1 / Class Nbr 28720 Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Recitations:
      • Section 001 / Class Nbr 16496 – Fri : 9:10 AM-10:00 AM
      • Section 002 / Class Nbr 16497– Fri : 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
      • Section 003 / Class Nbr 16015– Tue Thu : 8:00 AM-8:50 AM
    • Major topics and themes in U.S. history from the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War and reconstruction
  • HST 302: Revolutionary America– Section 001 / Class Nbr 16017
    • Tue Thu : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM
    • Instructor: Roger Rosentreter
    • The American Revolutionary era in an international context, 1763-1826. Liberty and equality in a world of empires, republics and slavery. Role of gender, race and class in defining the meaning of the revolution. The U.S. Constitution. Early American diplomacy in transition from colony to nation.
  • HST 304: The Civil War Era – Section 001 / Class Nbr 16506
    • Wed : 6:00 PM-8:50 PM
    • Political, constitutional, social, economic and military conflict between the North and the South, 1848-1876. Political realignment and birth of the Republican Party. States rights and secession. U.S. and C.S.A governments at war. Military campaigns, strategies, leadership. Slavery, emancipation, equal rights. Reconstruction.
  • HST 306: Modern United States – Section 001 / Class Nbr 16018
    • Mon Wed : 7:00 PM-8:20 PM
    • United States history from 1920 to the present. Transformations in political, economic, and social institutions and Americans’ responses to these changes. Development of the welfare-warfare state. The transformation to a post-industrial economy. Political and cultural responses to these changes.
  • HST 308: Labor History of the United States to 1863: Making a North American Working Class Section 001 / Class Nbr 28701
    • Tue Thu : 8:00 AM-9:20 AM
    • Lives, agency, organization and activism of the diverse population of working people.
  • HST 309: American Indian History: Precontact to the Present Section 001 / Class Nbr 16371
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Gendered overview of indigenous history in the Americas. Precontact, encounter, intrusion and resistance to settler colonialism, forced removal, reservations, boarding schools, allotment, indigenous sovereignty.
  • HST 311: African American History since 1876 Section 001 / Class Nbr 24384
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Blacks in America from Reconstruction to the present. Grass roots and cultural revitalization. The Civil Rights movement and black power.
  • HST 319: Asian American History Cross-Listed Section 001 / Class Nbr 19980
    • Tue Thu : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Survey of Asian American history from mid-nineteenth century to present. Analysis of shared and different experiences of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Hmong, and East Indian peoples who have come to the United States
  • HST 320: History of Michigan Section 001 / Class Nbr 16507
    • Mon Wed : 6:00 PM-7:20 PM
    • Political, social, and economic development from colonial beginnings to the present.
  • HST 324: History of Sport in America Section 001 / Class Nbr 16020
    • Mon Wed : 8:00 AM-9:20 AM
    • Social and cultural ramifications of colonial sport. Rise of modern sport in the nineteenth century. Social significance of sport in modern America with special attention to economics, gender, race, and politics.
  • HST 326: United States Foreign Relations since 1914 Section 001 / Class Nbr 16021
    • Tue Thu : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Foreign policy of the United States from the outbreak of World War I to the present. Topics include Wilson’s foreign policy, the policy of isolation, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and current developments.
  • HST 327: History of Mexican Americans in the United States Section 001 / Class Nbr 29965
    • Tue Thu : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM
    • Mexican American history from 1492 to present. Cultural, social, economic, and political activities of Mexican Americans. Relationship of Mexican Americans to other groups.
  • HST (History) 328: Military History of the United States 1900-Present Section 001 / Class Nbr 28703
    • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Military history of the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. American involvement in major conflicts: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Iraqi wars.
  • HST (History) 391: Environmental History of North America Section 001 / Class Nbr 29432
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Interaction of peoples of North America and their natural environments.
  • HST (History) 393: American Religious Freedom Section 001 / Class Nbr 29863
    • Mon Wed : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • History of religious freedom in the United States from the founding to the present. Religious freedom in cultural, legal, and foreign relations contexts.
  • IAH 201: United States and the World (D)
    • Focus: The Race for Space in History, Literature, TV, and Film
    • Lecture: Section LEC1 / Class Nbr 11781
      • Tue Thu : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Recitation:
      • Section 001 Fri : 8:00 AM-8:50 AM
      • Section 002 Fri : 9:10 AM-10:00 AM
      • Section 003 Fri : 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
      • Section 004 Fri : 11:30 AM-12:20 PM
      • Section 005 Fri : 12:40 PM-1:30 PM
      • Section 006 Fri : 1:50 PM-2:40 PM
  • IAH 201: United States and the World (D)
    • Focus: US Sports History
    • LECTURE: Section LEC2 / Class Nbr 12106 Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • Recitation:
      • Section 007 Fri : 8:00 AM-8:50 AM
      • Section 008 Fri : 9:10 AM-10:00 AM
      • Section 009 Fri : 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
      • Section 010 Fri : 11:30 AM-12:20 PM
      • Section 011 Fri : 12:40 PM-1:30 PM
      • Section 012 Fri : 1:50 PM-2:40 PM
  • IAH 201: United States and the World (D)
    • Focus: Not specified
    • Tue Thu : 4:10 PM-6:00 PM
  • IAH (Integrative Studies Arts & Hum) 207: Literatures, Cultures, Identities (I)
    • Focus: Michigan Artists & Art in Michigan
    • Section 014 / Class Nbr 11770  Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-12:10 PM
    • Section 015 / Class Nbr 12139 Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:50 PM
  • IAH 211C: Area Studies and Multicultural Civilizations: The Americas (D)
    • Arts and humanities of the Americas: literature, visual arts, music, religion and philosophy presented in historical context. Selected regions, cultures, and themes. Variable by term.
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 11188
      • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
      • Class Focus: We Know What We Know: Black Family Traditions and Storytelling Focus: This course exposes students to various ancestral knowledges across the American Black Diaspora through storytelling documentaries, autobiographies, and popular culture.
    • (Section 2 not appropriate for FLTAs)
    • Section 003 / Class Nbr 12174
      • Tue Thu : 8:00 AM-9:50 AM
      • Class Focus: Understanding Black History Through Black Music
    • Section 005 / Class Nbr 11934
      • Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
      • Class Focus: Native American Cultural Resistance to Assimilation
    • Section 006 / Class Nbr 12175
      • Focus: American Jewish Culture
      • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
    • Section 007 / Class Nbr 29620
      • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-12:10 PM
      • Focus: Religion and Race in America
    • Section 008 / Class Nbr 29621
      • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-12:10 PM
      • Focus: TBD
  • IAH (Integrative Studies Arts & Hum) 231C: Themes and Issues: Roles of Language in Society (D)
    • Focus: Language and Mind Language as the medium of culture in various societies. Power and social identity as manifested through language. Students are introduced to diverse methods and materials from the arts and humanities.
    • Lecture (Class Nbr 12020) – Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • Recitation
      • Section 001 / Class Nbr 11263 – Fri : 9:10 AM-10:00 AM
      • Section 002 / Class Nbr 11264 – Fri : 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
      • Section 003 / Class Nbr 11265 – Fri : 11:30 AM-12:20 PM 
  • IAH (Integrative Studies Arts & Hum) 231A: Themes and Issues: Human Values and the Arts and Humanities (D)
    • Section 007 / Class Nbr 12166
      • Tue Thu : 3:00 PM-4:50 PM
      • Focus: Places of MSU. MSU is a palimpsest, a site written on and written over by generations of people. The campus itself showcases visible layers–on display through signage, memorialization, and even just everyday use–that tell us stories about its past and the people who played some role in defining this place. Likewise, ideas of MSU, whether a more abstract identity or a well-honed brand, gain shape from sifted remnants of the past. To build a broader understanding of this place to which they also belong, students will explore select places of MSU through guided archival and field research.
  • PLS 301: American State Government
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 30096
    • Mon Wed : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Structure and processes of American state government. Interstate differences. Constitutions, elections, political parties, interest groups, and intergovernmental relations. Policy focus on education, welfare, and criminal justice.
  • REL (Religious Studies) 306: Native American Religions
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 11320
    • Mon Wed : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Indigenous forms of spirituality among the Native American peoples. Materials from myth, ritual, ceremonial life, and art as ways of obtaining and sharing religious knowledge. Pervasive spiritual and cosmological themes.

Spring 2027 Professional Courses

  • LLT (Language, Learning & Teaching) 307: Methods of Second and Foreign Language Teaching
    • Sections:
      • Section 001 / Class Nbr TBD: Tue, Thu : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM | Instructor: Poole, Fred
      • Section 002 / Class Nbr TBD: Mon, Wed : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM | Instructor: Mohamed, Ayman
    • Section 003 / Class Nbr TBD: Mon, Wed : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM | Instructor: Poole, Fred
    • Restrictions/Notes: None
    • Course Description: National and international approaches, methods, materials, settings, needs, and characteristics of ESL and foreign language students. Survey, evaluation, and application of major effective methods and materials.
  • LLT 361: Second Language Acquisition – Section 001 / Class Nbr TBD
    • Mon, Wed : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • Instructor: Guan, Xin
    • Restrictions/Notes: No prior background or specific skills are required. It’s an undergraduate introduction to second language acquisition. We cover topics like first and second language learning, aptitude, motivation, attitudes, grammar, age, classroom learning, and common myths about language learning. The course isn’t research-focused; instead, students are guided to connect theories to teaching practice, focusing on the groups of learners they’d like to teach.
    • Course Description: [TBD]
  • LLT 362: Child Second Language Learning – Section 001 / Class Nbr TBD
    • Tue, Thu : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • Instructor: Van Gorp, Koen
    • Restrictions/Notes: None
    • Course Description: [TBD]
  • LLT 808: Assessment for Language Teaching and Research – Section 001 / Class Nbr
    • Mon : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Instructor: Winke, Paula
    • Restrictions/Notes: FLTAs will design tests for their current MSU language classes, or they can design tests they will use in their future EFL classes when they go back home, or both.
    • Course Description: Classroom diagnostic and achievement assessment for second, additional, heritage, and multi-language learning. Reliability and validity of language tests. Alternative assessment methods. Standardized and performance-based testing. Program-level assessment. Measuring language proficiency for research.
  • LLT 841: Topics in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching – Section 001 /
    • Mon : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM
    • Instructor: Kim, Minjin
    • Restrictions/Notes: Anyone can attend, but the course has a substantial research component, so they should be prepared to engage with academic readings and complete regular course assignments. FLTA will not be required to complete the final project.
    • Course Description: Special Topics Course on AI for Language Teaching and Research
  • LLT 846: English Structures and Functions – Class Nbr 11358
    • Thu : 12:40 PM-3:30 PM
    • Instructor: Spinner, Patti
    • Restrictions/Notes: teaching experience is helpful; some background in language analysis, linguistics, or pedagogical grammar is helpful but not required
    • Course Description: Phonological, morphological, grammatical, lexical, discourse and pragmatic systems of English, including historical origins and social, regional, and gender variations. Application to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages.
  • LLT 856: Language, Identity, and Language Education – Section 001 / Class Nbr TBD
    • Wed : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Instructor: Van Gorp, Koen
    • Restrictions/Notes: None
    • Course Description: Current debates on the relationship between language, identity, and ideology. Theories of identity and ideology related to a variety of educational settings. Negotiation of identity and ideology with respect to social relationships between writer and reader, teacher and student, classroom and community.
  • LLT 860: Second Language Acquisition
    • Tue : 11:30 AM-2:20 PM
    • Instructor: Godfroid, Aline
    • Restrictions/Notes: None
    • Course Description: Factors in second language learning such as age, motivation, language input and interaction, social influences, the role of the native language, and language universals.
  • LLT 872: Research Methods for Language Teaching and Foreign/Second Language Learning
    • Wed : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM
    • Instructor: Polio, Charlene
    • Restrictions/Notes: Anyone can attend, but everyone needs to complete the small formative assignments. Only students taking the course for credit need to complete the final project.
    • Course Description: Concepts and procedures for designing and conducting research in second/foreign language learning and teaching.
  • LLT 873: Quantitative Research in Second Language Studies
    • Thu : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Instructor: Godfroid, Aline
    • Restrictions/Notes: The course provides a hands-on introduction to quantitative methods (correlation, regression, ANOVA) and involves weekly homework with coding in R. It will only be beneficial to those who have some prior experience with research design and quantitative data analysis and are generally interested in learning how to do research.
    • Course Description: Statistical principles and techniques with particular application to investigating second language learning and teaching.