Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

15 credits

Admission requirements

Applicants pursuing only a certificate program will be admitted as non-degree students. A student who completes a certificate, however, can apply these credits to a degree-granting program upon receiving departmental approval. An applicant must complete an application from the Department of English and the Graduate School and provide two copies of official transcripts from the institution granting the baccalaureate degree and each institution attended for undergraduate and graduate work.

1. Standards for admission: 

   • Hold an earned bachelor’s degree from a college or university that is accredited by its regional accrediting institution.

   • Have an undergraduate cumulative grade-point average (GPA) of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale (all undergraduate course work, including work completed prior to the baccalaureate degree, is used to calculate the GPA).

2. A student who is currently enrolled in a graduate program of study leading to a degree, who wishes simultaneously to pursue this graduate certificate, must complete the appropriate application, available from the Department of English.

3. Graduate students enrolled only in certificate programs may not hold graduate assistantships.

4. Students may be enrolled full- or part-time in the certificate program.

5. Completion of a graduate certificate does not guarantee admission into a graduate degree program.

Required Courses

ENG 616	Intro to Theor of Lang Learn	3
ENG 617	Methods for Teaching ELL	3
ENG 618	Materials Dev for Teaching ELL	3
ENG 619	Assessment in TESOL	3
ENG 620	Eng Linguistics for Educators	3

Total Credit Hours: 15