Colloquium (Required for all 1st semester students)
This course is designed as a series of seminars to develop basic academic skills needed in the TESOL MA program. This class is designed specifically for graduate students who have just started the TESOL program, who want to develop general academic skills, and who may not be familiar with basic academic writing and reading strategies for graduate courses. Basically, this will be a survival academic literacy class for students. More specifically, the following topics will be included in this course: step by step approaches to finding appropriate journal articles for your research topic, interpreting data using different frameworks, practicing coming up with your own position/perspective on a topic, writing annotated bibliographies, understanding components in empirical articles, reading strategies for academic journal articles, using quotations and referencing in APA writing style. Other topics may be covered depending on student requirements and interest.