The TESOL certificate is a short academic program for people who have earned a bachelor’s degree and would like to teach English to speakers of other languages.

I began taking the classes part time in 2007 at Indiana University’s IUPUI campus. At the time, the national news was hinting at a likely recession, and I wanted to have something to fall back on in case of layoffs. By taking one or two classes each semester, I finished the TESOL certificate program in Spring of 2010.

Classes:

• ENG-G 500 Intro to the English Language
• ENG-G 541 Materials Preparation for ESL
• ENG-G 652 English Language Sociolinguistics
• ENG-L 506 Intro to Methods of Criticism/Research
• ENG-W 509 Intro to Writing & Literacy Studies
• LING-L 532 Second Language Acquisition
• LING-L 534 Linguistic Resources and TESOL
• LING-L TESOL Practicum