{"id":1489,"date":"2014-09-30T21:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T21:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/testsls\/?page_id=1489"},"modified":"2022-10-19T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:36:13","slug":"course-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/graduate\/ma\/ma-program\/course-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"MA in SLS Course Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p><strong>COURSE LOADS AND TIME TO COMPLETION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The usual course load is 9 credits per semester, aside from possible foreign language courses. In a six-week summer session, it is 6 credits. Most students take four semesters to complete the SLS program. Graduate Assistants and others who must carry a reduced course load normally take longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COURSES AND POLICIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 36-credit MA in SLS has a 15-credit core requirement, with four courses and one seminar. The following are the four core courses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SLS 600 Introduction to second language studies<\/li>\n<li>SLS 601 Language concepts for second language learning and teaching<\/li>\n<li>SLS 650 Second language acquisition<\/li>\n<li>SLS 660 Sociolinguistics and second languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The core seminar can be chosen from one of four areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SLS 730 Seminar in second language education<\/li>\n<li>SLS 750 Seminar in second language acquisition<\/li>\n<li>SLS 760 Seminar in second language use<\/li>\n<li>SLS 775 Seminar in second language qualitative research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Topics for seminars vary. Recent topics include: language and the law, L2 literacy, second language listening, discourse processes in Hawai&#8217;i Creole English, second language ethnography, universals and SLS, language for specific purposes, child language acquisition, second language pragmatics, and task-based language learning. Seminars may be repeated for (elective) credit when the topic varies.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nCOURSE LOADS AND TIME TO COMPLETION The usual course load is 9 credits per semester, aside from possible foreign language courses. In a six-week summer session, it is 6 credits. 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