Ed­u­ca­tion Dept. Gains a New Ma­jor: Eng­lish as a New Lan­guage

MISHAWAKA, IND. -- As Bethel Col­lege is left be­hind and Bethel Uni­ver­sity is emerg­ing, so are some ex­cit­ing new ma­jors.

Accord­ing to the press re­lease, on No­vem­ber 14, 2018 the In­di­ana State Board of Ed­u­ca­tion ap­proved a new ma­jor for Bethel Uni­ver­sity, Eng­lish as a New Lan­guage (ENL). This ma­jor will be of­fered start­ing next year (fall 2019) and it will be an ad­di­tion to the ed­u­ca­tion de­part­ment.  

This will not change the stand­alone TESOL (Teach­ing Eng­lish to Speak­ers of Other Lan­guages) op­tion for non-ed­u­ca­tion ma­jors. How­ever, the ENL ma­jor will lead to a teacher’s li­cense, which al­lows the stu­dent to teach in schools. This new ma­jor will fall in nicely with TESOL be­cause they will share some classes. Bethel is very ex­cited to broaden their ed­u­ca­tion pro­gram, which is al­ready thriv­ing due to the re­cent ad­di­tion of the kinder­garten lab.