{"id":9323,"date":"2020-08-13T20:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/?page_id=9323"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:01:26","slug":"minors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sls\/undergraduate\/minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Minors in SLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

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SLS means to me anything about language; how we learn languages, how you can teach languages, how language is important in societies. Everything in that realm and more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nSamantha Keller<\/strong>
\nDouble major in SLS and French\n\t

The SLS Minor Degrees
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There are two Minors in Second Language Studies (SLS); the SLS Minor and the SLS Teaching Minor.<\/p>\n

The SLS Minor <\/b>(15 credits) is for students with an interest in any area of SLS to gain a core understanding of language, language use, and second language acquisition.<\/p>\n

The SLS Language Teaching Minor<\/b> (18 credits) is for students with an interest in language teaching and learning and want to deepen their expertise and qualifications for a language teaching career.<\/p>\n

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There are also differences in the coursework for our Minors.<\/p>\n

Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both Minors require three courses (9 credits). Both Minors share SLS 301 and SLS 302* as required courses. The third required course for the Teaching Minor is SLS 303, while the third required course for the SLS Minor is SLS 304.<\/p>\n

Electives<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SLS Minor only requires two electives (6 credits) and includes all of our upper division (300-400) SLS undergraduate courses<\/a><\/strong>. Our 100 & 200 lower division courses, SLS 475, and SLS 485 do not count for the SLS Minor. The electives for the Teaching Minor can be seen below.<\/p>\n

SLS Teaching Minor Electives (9 credits\/3 courses):<\/strong><\/p>\n