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English Secondary Education with Initial Teacher Licensure
Overview
Students within our English Studies major can pursue initial licensure as a middle or high school English teacher. This program provides students with a both a broad introduction to middle and high school teaching and specific instruction in the theory, research, and practice of secondary English teaching.
Throughout the program, students engage in field-based experiences in the school setting supervised by our faculty, culminating in a formal teaching practicum.
Students planning to teach will have many fine models to emulate and will gain a solid grounding in both literature and in secondary school teaching methods. For practical teaching experience, students will be placed with some of the best high school teachers in the region, many of them graduates of our Bachelor's or Master's level programs.
The Curriculum
72 Credit Hours: 21 Core, 21 Literature Concentration,
30 Initial Licensure Concentration
| Core Course Requirements | |
| ENGL 2999 - Approaches To English Studies | |
| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Literature Survey(s) | |
| One American Survey: | |
| ENGL 2000 American Literature I: Age of Exploration to the Civil War or ENGL 2010 American Literature II: Civil War to the Present |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| One British Survey: | |
| ENGL 2200 British Literature I: Beowulf to Milton or ENGL 2210 British Literature II: Pepys to Shelley or ENGL 2220 British Literature III: Bronte to Rushdie |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| One Survey or substitute an equivalent period course in or American, British, or World literature as indicated below: |
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| ENGL 2000 American Literature I: Age of Exploration to the Civil War or ENGL 4200 Romantic Movement in U.S. Literature |
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| ENGL 2100 American Literature II:Civil War to the Present or select from: ENGL 2650 Ethnic American Literature ENGL 3010 American Drama ENGL 3220 American Novel to 1950 |
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| ENGL 2200 British Literature I: Beowulf to Milton or select from: ENGL 3030 Middle Ages ENGL 3120 Golden Age of English Renaissance ENGL 4010 Chaucer and His World |
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| ENGL 2210 British Literature II: Pepys to Shelley or select from: ENGL 4040 Major English Writers of the 17th Century ENGL 4050 The 18th Century Novel ENGL 4080 British Romanticism |
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| ENGL 2220 British Literature III: Bronte to Rushdie or select from: ENGL 3040 British Literature Since World War II ENGL 4090 The 19th Century English Novel ENGL 4100 Victorian Literature ENGL 4115 British Modernism |
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| ENGL 2400 World Literature I or select from: ENGL 2500 World Literature II ENGL 3000 World Drama ENGL 3100 World Novel |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| ENGL 4xxx Level Literature | |
| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Writing Intensive - (select one) | |
| ENGL 3026 Genres,Forms,Themes in Creative Writing ENGL 3045 Media Conscious Storytelling ENGL 3480 Writing for the Web* ENGL 3500 Creative Writing ENGL 3510 Fiction Writing I ENGL 3520 Poetry Writing ENGL 3540 Writing Film Criticism ENGL 3840 Online Magazine* ENGL 3860 Feature & Magazine Writing ENGL 3870 Writing for Business & Technology* ENGL 3890 Creative Nonfiction Writing SPCH 3000 Speechwriting *May be used to satisfy LAS Computer Literacy requirement. |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| ENGL 4999 English Capstone | |
| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Total for Core: | 21 S.H. |
| Literature Requirements: | |
| Culture Study (select one) | |
| ENGL 2300 Literature and Disabilities ENGL 2340 American Political Film & Literature ENGL 2600 Bible as Literature ENGL 2620 Classical Mythology ENGL 2650 Ethnic American Literature ENGL 2660 19th Century African American Literature ENGL 2670 20th Century African American Literature ENGL 2710 Introduction to Science Fiction & Fantasy ENGL 2890 Storytelling and the Oral Tradition ENGL 3000 World Drama ENGL 3061 Jewish American Literature & Culture ENGL 3100 The World Novel ENGL 3300 Women and Literature ENGL 3620 Classical Tradition in Western Literature ENGL 3880 Folklore in America ENGL 4060 Early Modern Women Writers ENGL 4600 Literary Cult of the Virgin Queen |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Genre Study | |
| ENGL 2910 Literature for Young Adults | |
| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Continental/Post Colonial - (select one) | |
| ENGL 3050 - 20th Century Irish Literature ENGL 3070 - European Literature I ENGL 3080 - European Literature II ENGL 3092 - Transatlantic Literature ENGL 3700 - African Literature ENGL 3710 - South Asian Literature ENGL 3720 - Caribbean Literature |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Literary Movement - (select one) | |
| ENGL 3030 - Middle Ages ENGL 3040 - British Literature Since World War II ENGL 3120 - Golden Age of English Renaissance Literature ENGL 3210 - Major American Writers 20th Century ENGL 3620 - Classical Tradition in Western Literature ENGL 4040 - Major English Writers of the 17th Century ENGL 4080 - British Romanticism ENGL 4100 - Victorian Literature ENGL 4115 - British Modernism ENGL 4200 - Romantic Movement in American Literature |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| ENGL 4000 Major Author | |
| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Shakespeare - (select one) | |
| ENGL 4020 - Shakespeare’s Drama: Text and Performance ENGL 4030 - Interpreting Shakespeare’s Work |
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| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| ENGL 4400 - Junior/Senior Seminar | |
| Subtotal | 3 S.H. |
| Total for Literature Concentration | 21 S.H. |
| Initial Licensure Requirements | |
| ENGL 2860 - Introduction to Secondary Education | 3 S.H. |
| ENGL 2870 - Structure and Nature of Language | 3 S.H. |
| SPED 3800 - Secondary Programs for Adolescents w/Special Needs | 3 S.H. |
| EDUC 3122 Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) | 3 S.H. |
| ENGL 4700 - Teaching Reading & Writing Across the Content Area | 3 S.H. |
| ENGL 4850 - Special Methods in English | 3 S.H. |
| SUBTOTAL | 18 S.H. |
| ENGL 4860 - English Practicum in a Secondary School I | 4.5 S.H. |
| ENGL 4870 - English Practicum in a Secondary School II | 4.5 S.H. |
| ENGL 4012 - Practicum Seminar | 3 S.H. |
| SUBTOTAL | 12 S.H. |
| Total for Initial Licensure Concentration | 30 S.H. |
- BA-Second-year language proficiency is required.
- A course in speech or performance fulfills the LAS speaking and listening requirement. [LAS Art Elective]
- ENGL Survey can be taken simultaneously with ENGL 1200, permission from Advisor
- Students complete a portfolio in the capstone course during senior year.
BS in English Studies
This program is available for students who choose not to fulfill the requirements for foreign language proficiency at the second-year level. All other requirements are the same as for the Bachelor of Arts in English Studies.
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