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Declaring a Major or Minor


We're glad you are interested in Declaring a Major or a Minor "Language Studies" in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics!  It's really quite simple:

STEP 1:  Talk with one of our Advisors (see Below).  They can also help you if you're considering a Combined Degree/Double Major.

STEP 2:  Contact the office of the Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs, Stalker 122, and complete the appropriate form.  The phone number for that office is 812-237-2781.  For more information, see their web page at http://www.indstate.edu/saa/.

ADVISORS: As of Fall 2008, the LLL Department offers undergraduates a "Language Studies" and a "Language Studies-Teaching" major.  Advisors as of this writing are still divided into the traditional areas of student interest:

Cross-Linguistics, i.e., studying a variety of language areas:  Ronald Dunbar
French Teaching and Non-Teaching (majors and minors): Keri Berg
German Teaching and Non-Teaching (majors and minors): Ronald Dunbar
Latin Teaching and Non-Teaching (majors and minors), Classical Studies: Marilyn Bisch
Linguistics/TESL minor, TESL/TEFL Certificate: Leslie Barratt
Spanish Teaching Major and Minor:  Lisa Calvin
Spanish Non-Teaching Major and Minor: Gerardo Cummings and Carmen Montañez

LLL Graduate TESL/Cross-Linguistics Advisors:
Cecil Nelson (Linguistics/TESL) for graduate students entering 2007
Leslie Barratt (Linguistics/TESL) for graduate students entering 2008
Betty Phillips (Linguistics/TESL) for graduate students entering 2009

ADVISORS BY NAME: [assignments as of Fall 2009]
Leslie Barratt (Linguistics/TESL)...........................   Undergraduate: TESL/TEFL Certificate; TESL Licensure;
                                                                                 Linguistics/TESL Minor; Cross-Linguistics
                                                                                 Graduate: Linguistics/TESL; TESL/TEFL Certificate
Keri Berg (French) ..............................................   Non-teaching majors and minors concentrating in French
Marilyn Bisch (Latin)............................................   Latin/Classical Studies majors and minors
Lisa Calvin (Spanish)............................................  All teaching majors and minors
Ronald Dunbar (German, Cross-Linguistics, Chair)... German majors and minors (ALL), Cross-Linguistics
Carmen Montañez (Spanish) .................................. Spanish non-teaching majors and minors; Latin American
                                                                                   & Latino Studies minor (International Studies Program)
Gerardo Cummings (Spanish) ............................... Spanish non-teaching majors and minors; Latin American
                                                                                   & Latino Studies minor (International Studies Program)
Cecil Nelson (Linguistics/TESL)............................... Graduate: Linguistics/TESL
Betty Phillips (Linguistics/TESL).............................. Graduate: Linguistics/TESL