Program: Advanced Language and Literacy Science Certificate - Georgia State University

Apr 11, 2025

2020-2021 Graduate Catalog

Return to: Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

The objective of the Advanced Language and Literacy Science (ALLS) graduate certificate is to develop specialized knowledge in advanced language and literacy science with a specific focus on populations who have difficulty with the acquisition of language and literacy skills. These populations include, but not are not limited to: children growing up in poverty in urban contexts, children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism, and other neurodevelopmental disorders, children with learning disabilities, children and adults who are deaf and hard of hearing, children and adults with communication impairments, and children and adults developing language and literacy in multilingual environments.

Program Requirements

The certificate will consist of 18 credit hours. There will be four required courses for a total of 12 credit hours and two electives for a total of 6 credit hours.

Certificate Requirements

Required Courses (12 Hours)

PSYC 9930 - Measurement and Assessment in Advanced Language and Literacy Science 3 Hours
or
EPY 9930 - Measurement and Assessment in Advanced Language and Literacy Science 3 Hours
PSYC 9920 - Advanced Research in Psychology 1 to 9 Hours
or
EPY 9920 - Language Development, Disorders and Intervention Research 3 Hours
PSYC 9910 - Advanced Directed Readings 1 to 9 Hours
or
EPY 9910 - Reading Development, Disorders, and Intervention Research 3 Hours
PSYC 9900 - Seminar in Psychology 1 to 3 Hours
or
EPY 9900 - Special Topics: Research in Challenges of Acquiring Language and Literacy 1 Hours (can be taken up to three times)

Select Two Electives from Among the Following List (6 Hours)

AL 8520 - Psycholinguistics 3 Hours
AL 8530 - Issues in Second Language Writing 3 Hours
AL 8550 - Second Language Evaluation and Assessment 3 Hours
AL 8570 - Second Language Reading-Writing Relationships 3 Hours
AL 8980 - Current Issues in Adult Second Language Acquisition 3 Hours
EDRD 8310 - Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy Learning 3 Hours
EPY 8180 - Learning and the School-Age Child (5 to 18 Years) 3 Hours
EPY 8200 - Advanced Developmental Psychology: Cognition and Intellect 3 Hours
EPY 8960 - Seminar in Educational Psychology 1 to 3 Hours
PHIL 6530 - Philosophy of Language 3 Hours
PHIL 8530 - Seminar in Philosophy of Language 3 Hours
PSYC 8551 - Cognitive and Linguistic Development 3 Hours
PSYC 9900 - Seminar in Psychology 1 to 3 Hours

Scholastic Discipline Policy

After completing six credit hours and at the end of each term thereafter, certificate students are evaluated for continuation in the program. Evaluation will include meeting academic milestones in their doctoral programs. Unless exceptional circumstances are present, students with a GPA below 3.0 in graduate-level classes will be scholastically terminated from the certificate program.