TESL at James Madison University

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate TESL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 27 TESL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 15 more TESL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in TESL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at TESL 481

  1. PSYC 160Life Span Human Development [C5SD]
  2. TESL 480Student Teaching/Internship
  3. TESL 481Student Teaching Seminar in TESOL

• 3 courses deep, ending at TESL 550

  1. TESL 615Integrated Language and Content Instruction for Multilingual Learners
  2. TESL 550Practicum in TESOL Instructional Strategies

• 3 courses deep, ending at TESL 552

  1. LED 635Literacy Development and Instruction for English Language Learners
  2. TESL 552Practicum in TESOL Literacy Development

• 2 courses deep, ending at TESL 381

  1. TESL 300Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
  2. TESL 381Practicum in TESOL Instruction

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for TESL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under TESL yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

TESL does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the JMU campus feed.