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Faculty Expertise

The faculty serving on Instructional Councils are best positioned to provide consistent, expert evaluation of faculty coursework and credentials so as to determine relevance within a specific teaching field. Therefore, Human Resources, Department/Division Chairs, Deans, VPAAs, and other stakeholders must coordinate with the relevant Instructional Councils to determine if the established minimum qualifications are met by candidates for Faculty (Residential, Adjunct, or Dual Enrollment) positions.

Academic

A graduate degree is required. A faculty may qualify with any of the following:

  • Master’s degree or higher in the teaching field OR
  • Master’s degree or higher in any field with 18 graduate credit hours 
Instructional Council (IC)
English As a Second Language
Faculty Service Area (FSA)
English as a Second Language
Subjects
ESL
The following disciplines meet the requirements to teach in this field:

Applied Linguistics, English as a Second Language, English Language Learning, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Teaching English as a Second Language, Teaching English to Speaker of Other Languages

Course Subjects

Bilingual Education (BLE), Bilingual/Multicultural English (BME), English as a Foreign Language (EFL), English Language Learning (ELL), English as a Second Language (ESL), Linguistics (LIN), Structured English Immersion (SEI), Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Course Titles and Keywords

Assessment in ESL, Discourse Analysis, ESL Curriculum, Grammar, Language Acquisition Theories, Lexical Development/Vocabulary, Methods for Teaching ESL, Phonetics & Phonology, Pragmatics, Reading, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Syntax, Writing