Courses
Required Courses
Students must complete four credits from the following list of required courses.
Note: LALS 1000 [1.0 credit] (no longer offered) or LING 1001 and ALDS 1001 must be taken before or concurrently with all required courses.
For information on the current schedule please go to Carleton.Central to view the Class Schedule.
Course numbers are linked to Undergraduate Calendar course information.
| LALS 1000 [1.0 credit] (no longer offered) Intensive Introduction to Linguistics and Applied Language Studies OR LING 1001 [0.5 credit] Introduction to Linguistics AND ALDS 1001 [0.5 credit] Introduction to Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies |
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| ALDS 4205 [1.0 credit] Teaching English as a Second Language: Methodology |
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| ALDS 4206 [1.0 credit] Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language Course requirements include the student’s weekly participation in an ESL class. Students are required to take ALDS 4206 concurrently with Linguistics ALDS 4205. |
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| ALDS 4602 [0.5 credit] Second-Language Acquisition |
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| ALDS 4801 [0.5 credit] Major Structures of English |
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Optional Courses
| LING 2001 [0.5 credit] Phonetics |
| LING 2005 [0.5 credit] Linguistic Analysis I |
| ALDS 2203 [0.5 credit] Linguistic Theory and Second-Language Learning |
| LING 3603 [0.5 credit] Child Language (Also listed as PSYC 3508.) |
| LING 2604 [0.5 credit] Speech and Language Problems |
| ALDS 2701 [0.5 credit] Language in Society |
| ALDS 2704 [0.5 credit] Bilingualism |
| ALDS 2705 [0.5 credit] Language, Ideology and Power |
| ALDS 3401 [0.5 credit] Research and Theory in Academic Writing |
| ALDS 3402 [0.5 credit] Research and Theory in Workplace Writing |
| LING 3601 [0.5 credit] Language Processing and the Brain I (Also listed as PSYC 3709.) |
| ALDS 3702 [0.5 credit] Conversation Analysis |
| ALDS 3705 [0.5 credit] Adult Literacy |
| ALDS 3706 [0.5 credit] Discourse Analysis |
| ALDS 3903 [0.5 credit] Special Topic in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies |
| ALDS 4201 [0.5 credit] Language Testing |
| ALDS 4207 [0.5 credit] ESL Literacy |
| ALDS 4208 [0.5 credit] Languages for Specific Purposes Also offered at the graduate level, with additional or different requirements, as ALDS 5208 for which additional credit is precluded. |
| ALDS 4209 [0.5 credit] Foreign Language Teaching |
| ALDS 4709 [0.5 credit] Systemic-Functional Linguistics |
| ALDS 4802 [0.5 credit] Language Contact and Language Spread |
| ALDS 4906 [0.5 credit] Special Topics in Applied Language Studies |
English Language Requirements
Please refer to the Undergraduate Calendar for the current English as a Second Language Requirement (ESLR).
CTESL applicants must satisfy the ESLR prior to admission in the program.