The English Department offers two minors in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), a graduate minor and an undergraduate minor.  Because the undergraduate minor is almost identical to the program of study leading to a Crosscultural Language and Academic Development Certificate (CLAD), students planning to teach in public schools should pursue this minor.  The TESL Minor for the MA is for students who plan to teach in colleges in the U.S. or ESL or EFL (English as a Foreign Language) abroad.

Requirements for the graduate minor in TESL are as follows:

Six semester units of a language other than English taken at the university level or at an intensive language program.

English/Speech Communication 417 (Second Language Acquisition - 3 units)
English 614 (Teaching English-as-a-Second-Language Writing - 4 units)
English 618 (Linguistic and Rhetorical Approaches to Writing - 4 units)
English 635 (Issues in English as a Second/Foreign Language - 4 units)
Speech Communication 322 (Intercultural Communication - 4 units)