TESL Minor

The English Department offers two minors in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL): a graduate minor and an undergraduate minor.  Because the undergraduate minor is almost identical to the program of study leading to a Crosscultural Language and Academic Development Certificate (CLAD), students planning to teach in public schools should pursue this minor.  The TESL Minor for the MA is designed for students who plan to teach in colleges in the U.S. or to teach ESL or EFL (English as a Foreign Language) abroad.   Course requirements for the graduate minor in TESL are as follows:

• Take All of the Following Courses
  Communication 322: Intercultural Communication
  English/Communication 417: Second Language Acquisition
  English 614: Teaching Writing to ESL Students
  English 618: Linguistic and Rhetorical Approaches to Writing*
  English 635: Issues in English as a Second/Foreign Language
  Six semester units of a language other than English taken at the university level or at an intensive language program

For additional information about our graduate program, please contact:

• Nikola Hobbel, Graduate Coordinator
  707.826.3161 | nh16@humboldt.edu | FH 201
• Barbara Cline, Graduate Program & Administrative Support Assistant
  707.826.3758 | bjc7001@humboldt.edu | FH 201