If you are staying in the same domain (track) such as linguistics or literacy, then you may join the second academic course (AC2). However, due to changes in course content, those in translation and Scripture use will need to begin with AC1. If you want to do some cross-training in another domain, you may join in AC1. You do not need to take the GTA. For Linguistics and Literacy students, there will be an important assignment to complete before joining the AC2 course. Generally this assignment relates to collecting data so that you can work with those data during the analysis part of the AC2 modules.