All students must complete a minimum of 24 credits at MSU.  Depending on a person's background or specific emphasis, a student's advisors, the program director, and/or the Guidance Committee (see Section IV) may require additional coursework.

The following courses are required of all Ph.D. students:

LLT 860                      Introduction to Second Language Acquisition

LLT 861                      Advanced topics in Second Language Acquisition

LLT 862                      Advanced research in Second Language Acquisition (861-862 constitute a 2-semester seminar)

LLT 863                      The acquisition of morphosyntax (pending approval)

LLT 864                      Second Language Psycholinguistics

LLT 872                      Research Methods for Language Teaching and Foreign/Second Language Learning

LLT 873                      Quantitative Research in Second Language Studies

LLT 874                      Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies

LLT 807                      Language Teaching Methods

LLT 808                      Assessment for Language Teaching and Research

In addition, five courses in a student's area of specialization (to be selected from among the following) or others approved by a student's committee must also be completed .

LIN 871                      Advanced Studies in Sociolinguistics

LIN 850                      Advanced Studies in Child Language Acquisition

LLT 992                      Advanced topics

LIN 824 or 825           Phonological Theory I/II

LIN 834 or 835           Syntactic Theory I/II

LIN 875                      Advanced Studies in Computational Linguistics

LIN 855                      Advanced Studies in Neurolinguistics

CEP 920                      Construction of Psychoeducational Instruments

CEP 921/2                   Psychometric Theory I/II

CEP 923                      Item Response Theory

CEP 934/5                   Multivariate Data Analysis I/II

No more than 2 CEP courses will count toward completion of this requirement.

In addition, all students must register for and successfully complete a minimum of 24 credits of doctoral dissertation research (LLT 999) during tenure in the SLS program.  Generally, students can begin taking these credits during the last semester of their coursework.  For exceptions, please work with your Guidance Committee.