The plan listed below is designed to provide suggestions for sequencing your major courses, but there are also other ways to sequence most majors. This plan is meant to provide aid in early, provisional planning. Please consult with your academic advisor to make strategic academic decisions about which courses to take each semester.
Sample Four Year Plan: Applied Linguistics/TESOL (BA)
FALL - Semester 1
TRU 110 + TRU 100
LING 238, “Intro to Linguistics”
LING 198, “New Majors Seminar”
Elementary or Intermediate Foreign Language
Communication Skills Perspective course (ENG 190 or COMM 170)
SPRING - Semester 2
LING 250
LING elective
Elementary or Intermediate Foreign Language
Dialogues Perspectives coursework
FALL - Semester 3
LING 308, “Principles of 2nd Language Teaching” (or Spring semester CML 308)
LING elective
Intermediate Foreign Language
Dialogues Perspectives coursework
STAT 190
SPRING - Semester 4
LING elective
Intermediate Foreign Language
Dialogues Perspectives coursework
FALL - Semester 5
LING 324 “Sociolinguistics” (or Spring semester “Language & Gender”)
LING 398, “Mid-Major Seminar
Dialogues Perspectives coursework
JINS
SPRING - Semester 6
LING 414, “Language and the Mind”
LING elective
Dialogues Perspectives coursework
FALL - Semester 7
LING 300+ elective
Dialogues Perspectives coursework
SPRING - Semester 8
LING 498, “Senior Capstone Seminar”
Dialogues Perspectives coursework
Elective course options include approximately 20 courses including some taught under different prefixes (e.g., ENG 332: Old English, SPAN 503: Topics in Hispanic Linguistics, GERM 432: Grimms' Maerchen and German Dialectology, FREN 425: Phonology and Advanced Grammar).
Courses taught by Ofstad Scholars are special topics that will not recur during a student's time at Truman. Incoming students should check to see if these courses have prerequisites and/or would be appropriate for a student just beginning linguistic study.
The Dialogues Curriculum requires a certain number of courses/credit hours in the following Perspectives: Social, Arts and Humanities, STEM, Communications, and Statistics. The exact number of courses a student will be required to take during their undergraduate career varies individually according to the credit transferred in.
LING 250, LING or CML 308, LING 324 or 325, LING 412, LING 520 may all count towards add-on E.S.O.L. certification for those continuing on to an MAE degree.
Department Chair: Please contact the Center for Academic Excellence with any updates to the plan above.
This is a sample course sequence to illustrate class offerings for this major. The Office of the Registrar is responsible for certifying completion of degree requirements based on requirements specified in Truman's Official Catalog.