2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog

Teaching Major in English/Language Arts (BA/BS)

87 credits

Core requirements, 36 credits

ENG 205World Literature

3

ENG 213Intro to Digital Literacies

3

ENG 220Language and Society

3

ENG 230Reading and Writing About Lit

3

 

ENG 260British Lit 1: Beg to 1780

3

or

ENG 464Shakespeare

3

 

ENG 321English Linguistics

3

ENG 412Read in Sec Eng Class

3

ENG 414Young Adult Literature

3

ENG 444Senior Seminar

3

One class in American Literature

Choose from:

Group A: Before 1900:
ENG 240American Lit 1: Beg to 1860

3

ENG 345Early American Lit

3

ENG 346Studies 19th Cen Amer Lit

3

or

Group B: 1900-present:
ENG 250American Lit 2: 1860 to Pres

3

ENG 34720th Century Amer Lit

3

ENG 351Contemporary American

3

Total Credit Hours:3

Take the following

COMM 220Argumentation and Debate

3

 

COMM 240Intro to Interpersonal Comm

3

or

COMM 290Intercultural Communication

3

Total Credit Hours:36

Complete one of the following concentrations

English concentration, 12 credits

ENG 285Intro to Creative Writing

3

One class in American Literature

Choose from Group A if you took Group B in the core or choose from Group B if you took Group A in the core.

Total Credit Hours:3
One class in British Literature

Choose from:

ENG 280British Lit 2: 1780 to Pres

3

ENG 362Medieval British Literature

3

ENG 363Ren and 17th Cen Brit Lit

3

ENG 364Rest and 18th Cen Brit Lit

3

ENG 36519th Cen BritLit

3

ENG 366Brit Lit 1900-1945

3

ENG 367Contemporary Brit Lit

3

ENG 464Shakespeare

3

Total Credit Hours:3
3 credits from

Diverse literature electives 400 and above

Choose from

ENG 490Literature and Gender

3

ENG 491Lit of African American Trad

3

ENG 492Native American Literature

3

ENG 493American Ethnic Literature

3

ENG 494Queer Lit and Queer Theory

3

ENG 498Studies in Global Literature

3

Total Credit Hours:48

Communication studies concentration, 12 credits

COMM 240Intro to Interpersonal Comm

3

or

COMM 290Intercultural Communication

3

 

COMM 375Presentational Communication

3

COMM 475Coaching Directing Forensics

3

 

COMM 320Persuasion

3

or

COMM 330Small Group Communication

3

or

COMM 370Nonverbal Communication

3

Total Credit Hours:48

Choose COMM 240 if you took COMM 290 in the core or choose COMM 290 if you took COMM 240 in the core.

Senior High, Junior High/Middle School Education Program

Professional education sequence, 39 credits

EDFO 420Soc, Hist, Phil Found of Ed

3

EDJH 385Prin of Tchng in Mid Schl

3

EDMU 205Intro to Multicul Ed

3

EDPS 251Development Secondary

3

EDPS 390EducationalPsychology

3

EDSE 380Princ of Tchng in Sec School

3

ENG 150Intro to Teach Eng in Sec Sch

3

ENG 350Teach Writing in Sec Schools

3

ENG 395Teach Lit and Lang Sec Schools

3

Student teaching

12

Total Credit Hours:39

Total Credit Hours: 87

See Professional Education Assessment/Decision Points for additional information.