MA TESOL - Culminating Experience
The final step in completing the MA TESOL degree is to do a Culminating Experience. There are three options: a thesis, a project or comprehensive exams. Planning for the Culminating Experience is part of Ling 560: Research Design and 561: Research Methods.
- MA TESOL Comprehensive Examination Option: The MA TESOL Comprehensive Exams (“Comps”) represent one of the three choices for the Culminating Experience for the MA TESOL degree in the Department of Applied Linguistics. The Comps consist of three two-hour sessions over one and a half days during the spring term of the students final year. In the exam the students are asked to synthesize their knowledge in the major areas of the degree: Language Education, Linguistic Theory and Analysis, and a third area, Language and Society or Language and the Mind, depending on the student’s choice of electives.
