Program Description

Study at home and participate with Auburn University students in a program designed to join on-campus classes and distance learners through streaming video. The program will include three courses in second language theory and practice that will be taught by an associate professor with 25 years of experience in a high school foreign language classroom.  All courses involve readings, lectures, discussions, oral presentations of instructional activities, reports, exams and projects. The program can be completed during two academic years and two summers.  For French majors, we are currently offering two summers abroad in order for students to complete their 15 hours of FLFR (French) courses.  For Spanish majors, we are offering two summers abroad 12 hours of FLSP (Spanish) courses and one 3-hour FLSP (Spanish) course in Civilization that will be taught in a distance education format.  However, we do have additional courses in the developmental stage.  When these courses are ready students will be able to fulfill their FLSP requirement with 6 hours of online course work and one summer abroad.  To complete the program, two courses in Foundations--Educational Psychology and Research Methods--will be offered in a distance education format.

CTSE courses will be offered fall, spring and summer in the sequence listed below for a cohort group.  A new cohort group will begin in the fall of each academic year.

In CTSE7540/7546 we evaluate and investigate foreign language teaching effectiveness with an emphasis on current instruments and models of assessment appropriate for communicative competence and proficiency in all four skills.

In CTSE 7530/36 we look at the theory and professed standards that the foreign language profession would like to see as the organizing principles for curriculum development with a special emphasis on reading.  We will show how to fit theory to practice as we create interdisciplinary thematic units for secondary students.

In CTSE 7520/26 we investigate practices for teaching culture through the target language.  We also use the tools of ethnography to study cultural perspectives in the native and target culture.  A study abroad experience is embedded within this course.