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.

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.

Step A

Choose courses from the lists below based on what was mentioned in your Welcome letter and your own interests.

Step B

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!). You may also indicate your spring choices, but those may change.

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Fall 2026 American Studies Courses
Fall 2026 Professional Courses
Spring American Studies Courses
Spring 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.
  • 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) 306 Sec 001/Class Nbr 17503: Modern United States
    • Tue Thu : 4:10 PM-5:30 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 (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.
  • REL (Religious Studies) 220 Sect 001/Class Nbr 11343: Religion in America
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • History, themes and issues of religions in America from precolonial times to the present.

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)
  • 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
    • 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.
  • THR (Theatre) 101N: Acting I for Non-Theatre Majors
    • **currently all sections are waitlisted** 
    • Improvisational exercises, creative exercises, monologue and scene study.

Spring 2026 American Studies Courses

**NOTE: These are courses from Spring 2026. Spring 2027 will be added when they are available.**
  • ENG 308: Readings in Literature for Young Adults
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 10987
    • Tue Thu : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Extensive readings across a range of genres of literature for young adults, including realistic and historical fiction, fantasy, myth and legend.
  • ENG 342: Readings in Popular Literary Genres
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 12409
    • Tue Thu : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Extensive reading within a particular genre of popular literature such as science fiction, crime fiction or Gothic, with possible attention to media other than print.
  • ENG 354: Readings in Native American Literature Section 001 / Class Nbr 25797
    • Mon Wed : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
    • Extensive reading in Native American fiction, essays, and poetry, from early 19th century writings to contemporary works.
  • ENG 408: Critical Literacies and Communities
    • Section 001 / Class Nbr 25963
      • Tue : 3:00 PM-6:50 PM
    • Section 002 / Class Nbr 25964
      • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-12:10 PM
    • 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 15494
    • Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
    • 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 (Class Nbr 16172): Tue Thu : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM
    • Recitations:
      • Section 001 / Class Nbr 17390 – Fri : 9:10 AM-10:00 AM
      • Section 002 / Class Nbr 17391 – Fri : 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
      • Section 003 / Class Nbr 17392 – Fri : 11:30 AM-12:20 PM
      • Section 004 / Class Nbr 17393 – Fri : 12:40 PM-1:30 PM 
    • Major topics and themes in U.S. history from the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War and reconstruction
  • HST 203: U.S. History since 1876 – Section 001 / Class Nbr 16176
    • Tue Thu : 3:00 PM-4:50 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 225: Law, History and Society in the United States – Section 001 / Class Nbr 17129
    • Mon Wed : 2:40 PM-4:00 PM
    • Legal history of the United States. How law shapes and is shaped by culture and society. Framing the Constitution. Religious freedom. Gender and the law. Race and the law.
  • HST 255: American Cinema and the American Century – Section 001 / Class Nbr 25755
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • History, evolution and transformation of the film industry in the extended twentieth century. From penny arcades and nickelodeons to the leading section of the global entertainment industry. Social and economic circumstances shaping developments in the film industry. Representations of race, gender and class in motion pictures. Production, distribution, consumption and reception of motion pictures in specific historical periods.
  • HST 302: Revolutionary America– Section 001 / Class Nbr 16184
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
    • 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 17417
    • Mon Wed : 2:40 PM-4:00 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 16192
    • Mon Wed : 6:00 PM-7:20 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 since 1863: Modern Labor and Working-Class History Section 001 / Class Nbr 17132
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
  • HST 309: American Indian History: Precontact to the Present Section 001 / Class Nbr 17027
    • Tue Thu : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
  • HST 311: African American History since 1876 Section 001 / Class Nbr 16196
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-11:40 AM
  • HST 319: Asian American History Cross-Listed Section 001 / Class Nbr 19980
    • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:00 PM
  • HST 320: History of Michigan Section 001 / Class Nbr 17418
    • Mon Wed : 6:00 PM-7:20 PM
  • HST 324: History of Sport in America Section 001 / Class Nbr 16204
    • Mon Wed : 8:00 AM-9:20 AM
  • HST 326: United States Foreign Relations since 1914 Section 001 / Class Nbr 16208
    • Tue Thu : 1:00 PM-2:20 PM
  • IAH 201: United States and the World (D)
    • Focus: Michigan on the World Stage: A Potpourri
    • Lecture: Mon Wed : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM
    • 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
      • 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: Race and Sport in America
    • LECTURE: Mon Wed : 8:30 AM-9:50 AM
    • Recitation:
      • Section 013 Fri : 8:00 AM-8:50 AM
      • Section 014 Fri : 9:10 AM-10:00 AM
      • Section 015 Fri : 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
      • Section 016 Fri : 11:30 AM-12:20 PM
      • Section 017 Fri : 12:40 PM-1:30 PM
      • Section 018 Fri : 1:50 PM-2:40 PM  
  • IAH 201: United States and the World (D) Section 740 / Class Nbr 11160
    • Focus: The Muslim Experience in the US. This class meets in person on Mondays and OA (Online Asynchronous) the rest of the week.
    • Mon : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
    • General Course Description: explorations in how literature reflects, creates, and challenges cultural and individual identities. Approaches and materials from literature, philosophy, the arts, religion, and history. Selected themes and issues, variable by term.
  • 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 11249
      • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
      • Class Focus: TBD
    • Section 002 / Class Nbr 11250
      • Tue Thu : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
      • Focus: Native American Cultural Resistance to Assimilation
    • Section 003 / Class Nbr 11988
      • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:50 PM
      • Class Focus: TBD
    • (Section 4 not appropriate for FLTAs)
    • Section 005 / Class Nbr 12311
      • Tue Thu : 8:00 AM-9:50 AM
      • Class Focus: TBD
    • Section 006 / Class Nbr 25997
      • Focus: Women’s Voices for Social Change
      • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:50 PM
    • Section 007 / Class Nbr 26076
      • Mon Wed : 12:40 PM-2:30 PM
      • Focus: This course will focus on the historical and social construction of the Américas as a regional, political, and cultural category and the cultural, political, and philosophical responses from indigenous and afrodescendant communities of Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America.
    • Section 008 / Class Nbr 26077
      • Mon Wed : 3:00 PM-4:50 PM
      • Focus: This course will focus on the historical and social construction of the Américas as a regional, political, and cultural category and the cultural, political, and philosophical responses from indigenous and afrodescendant communities of Latin America, the Caribbean, and North America.
    • Section 732 / Class Nbr 12310
      • Dynamic Dated, course times  To Be Announced
      • Focus: City Cultures: NYC and Chicago 1880s-1920s
    • Section 740 / Class Nbr 12316
      • Thu : 8:00 AM-9:50 AM
      • Focus: Images of Indians in Law, Politics, and Popular Culture
  • 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) 231C: Themes and Issues: Roles of Language in Society (D) Section 730 / Class Nbr 12370
    • Mon Wed : 10:20 AM-12:10 PM
    • Focus: IAH 231C, in general, highlights language as a medium of culture in various societies. Power and social identity as manifested through language receive key attention. Before delving into the linguistic system, the course centers some core sociocultural and historical factors that have impacted the lives of many Ebonics speakers. This purview is necessary due to some gaps in U. S. educational systems and firsthand experiences.

Spring 2026 Professional Courses

**NOTE: These are courses from Spring 2026. Spring 2027 will be added when they are available.**

  • LLT 808: Assessment for Language Teaching and Research – Section 001 / Class Nbr 11357
    • Mon : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Restrictions/Notes: None
    • 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 821: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition – Section 001 / Class Nbr 12344
    • Tue : 8:00 AM-10:50 AM
    • Restrictions/Notes: From the instructor “Any FLTA would do great in this class, I think. It is very relevant for teachers and action-researchers.”
    • Course Description: This course focuses on the individual difference of emotions in SLA, and will also cover IDs related to emotions and affect. The course is practical for language teachers. The course is also for those interested in researching the topics in relation to language development, teaching, and learning in SLA.
  • LLT 841: Topics in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching – Section 001 / Class Nbr 12009
    • Thu : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM
    • Restrictions/Notes: None
    • Course Description: Language Program Administration. This course focuses on language program administration and will over the following topics: curriculum, administration and coordination, teacher training and supervision, evaluation, recruitment and marketing, contextual factors (abroad, at home, K-12, university, community programs, online. F2F, etc.).
  • LLT 841: Topics in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching – Section 002 / Class Nbr 26042
    • Mon : 3:00 PM-4:20 PM
    • Restrictions/Notes: This course has half of the course hours at either the Refugee Development Center and/or Michigan Works downtown, so please talk to Patti Spinner before entering course.
    • Course Description: Refugees and English as a Second Language. Arranged time will require travel to MI Works office in Lansing. Transportation can be arranged via CATA if needed. 
  • LLT 846: English Structures and Functions – Class Nbr 11358
    • Thu : 11:30 AM-2:20 PM
    • Restrictions/Notes: None
    • 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 860: Second Language Acquisition – Class Nbr 11359
    • Tue : 11:30 AM-2:20 PM
    • 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 – Class Nbr 11361
    • Wed : 3:00 PM-5:50 PM
    • Restrictions/Notes: No enrollment restrictions per instructor. The course assumes no research background, but the students need to be interested in doing research.
    • 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 Class Nbr 25801
    • Wed : 9:10 AM-12:00 PM
    • Restrictions/Notes: Only available with prior approval. Some prior research experience (akin to LLT872) needed; interested FLTAs can reach out to Aline Godfroid
    • Course Description: Statistical principles and techniques with particular application to investigating second language learning and teaching.