Past Courses

Courses Taken by Previous FLTAs

Here is a sampling of courses taken by FLTAs in previous years.  This might be a good starting place for you to choose your courses. Remember, courses are generally coded by level: 100-400 are undergraduate courses (with 100 level courses easier than 200 level, etc…) 800+ are graduate level. 

American Studies Courses

We suggest that you take your required American Studies Courses in the Fall semester so that you have more choice in the spring.  

  • ANP 432 American Indian Women
  • ENG 314 Readings in North American Literature
  • ENG 350 Readings in African American Literature
  • ENG 352 Readings in Asian American Literature
  • ENG 314 Readings in North American Literature
  • GEO 330 Geography of the United States and Canada
  • HA 250 American Art
  • HST 202 US History to 1876
  • HST 203 US History since 1876
  • HST 213 American Economic History
  • HST 317 American Jewish History
  • HST 326 U.S. Foreign Relations
  • HST 304 The American Civil War
  • HST 306 History of Modern United States
  • HST 310 and 311 African American History
  • HST 801 Historiography U.S. Since 1865
  • IAH 201 U.S and the World
  • IAH 211C (Various sections that deal with different groups within the U.S.)
  • MUS 409 American Music
  • MUS 410 Jazz History
  • MUS 436 Popular Music of Black America
  • REL 220 Religion in America
  • SSC 291 Asian Pacific American Studies

Language Learning and Teaching

  • LLT 346 Pedagogical Grammar
    • (undergrad level–will not be allowed for any FLTAs who have already had any language teaching education or experience.)
  • LLT 807 Language Teaching Methods
    • 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 809 2nd Language Reading and Writing
    • 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 841 Individual Differences in SLA
  • LLT 841 Technology and Language Teaching
  • LLT 860 Second Language Acquisition
    • 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 874 Qualitative SLS Research
    • Theories, principles, and techniques underlying qualitative research. Applications to investigating second language learning and teaching.
  • LLT 895: Please note that this course is almost never approved.
  • ANP 420 Language and Cultural Meaning
    • Domain, issues, and methods of cultural linguistics. Relationship between language and culture. Language and ethnicity, status, and role. Pidgin and Creole languages. Cross-cultural communication.
  • ROM 803 Foundations of Contemporary Language Teaching
    • Theoretical and research foundations for communicative and proficiency-oriented instruction of World languages with implications for the classroom.

Linguistics

  • IAH 231C Roles of Languages in Society (D) 
    • 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.
  • LIN 225 Language and Gender
    • 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 401 Introduction to Linguistics
    • Basic goals, concepts, methods, and research results of modern theoretical and applied linguistics. Examples from a variety of languages.
  • LIN 431 Morphology
    • Word structure, word formation, morphological analysis, interface with phonology and syntax, and theoretical issues in morphology. Data from diverse languages of the world.
  • LIN 434 Introduction to Syntax
    • Structure of sentences and structural relations among phrases. Methods of syntactic analysis and argumentation.
  • LIN 437 Semantics and Pragmatics
    • Structure of meaning in natural languages. Methods of semantic analysis and argumentation. Technical tools for stating precise and falsifiable semantic hypotheses.
  • LIN 455 Neurolinguistics
    • Theoretical approaches to the study of language and the brain. Perspectives on normal and impaired linguistic functioning offered by lesion studies and brain-imaging techniques. The genetic basis of language as evidenced in family and twin studies.
  • LIN 471 Sociolinguistics
    • 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.

Other

  • Spanish(SPN), German(GRM), French(FRN),  Arabic (ARB)
  • COM 225 Interpersonal Communication
  • COM 340 Leadership  and Group Communication
  • EAD 853 Education Finance and policy
  • EAD 805 Admin Higher Education
  • EAD 813 Education, Development and Social Change
  • EAD 964 Comparative Higher Education
  • GSAH 310 Crossing Boundaries/Changing Worlds
  • PHL 200 Introduction to Philosophy
  • PLS 160 Introduction to International relations
  • PLS 441 Islam and World Politics
  • PSY 209 Brain and Behavior
  • PSY 235 Social Psychology
  • PSY 339 Psychology of Women
  • REL 205 Myth, Self, and Religion
  • WS 201 Intro to Women’s Studies