For Academic Program: BA English
About
This emphasis combines the English major curriculum with the professional education requirements necessary for licensure, preparing graduates for teaching in middle school or at the secondary level.
A student planning to obtain a secondary teacher licensure will need to include the required Professional Education courses and additional General Education requirements in their program as outlined in the School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling section of this Catalog.
The student must apply for Initial Admission to the Teacher Education Program (usually by the end of the sophomore year) after completing all requirements as outlined under ADMISSION PROCEDURES in the School of Education, Psychology, and Counseling section of the Catalog. Initial admission is required before the student can enroll in upper division education courses. The student must also complete an application and all other requirements for Admission to Student Teaching.
Emphasis Requirements
REQUIRED CORE AND COGNATE COURSES (29 Total Credits)- Complete the B.A. English Core and Cognate requirements.
- Minimum 29 credits
REQUIRED COURSES (17 Total Credits)- Course(s): ELIT430 - Young Adult Literature (2)
- Select 3 credit(s):
- ENGL306 - Creative Writing: Literary Nonfiction (W) (3)
- ENGL307 - Creative Writing: Fiction (W) (3)
- ENGL308 - Creative Writing: Poetry (W) (3)
- ENGL220 - Creative Writing: Tools of the Craft (IN-10) (3)
- Select 3 credit(s):
- ELIT346 - Shakespeare (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT445 - Ancient Classics (IN-10) (W) (3)
- Select 9 credits from - or from the following courses:
- ELIT323 - A Destiny in Reserve: American Classics of the Nineteenth Century (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT332 - Studies in Medieval Literature (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT333 - Poets and Other Radicals of the English Renaissance (1485-1608) (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT337 - A Beautiful Empire: British Classics of the Nineteenth Century (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT338 - Modernist Writers (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT342 - African American Literature (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT346 - Shakespeare (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT417 - Intercultural Contexts: Literatures of Power, Place, and People (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT425 - Literature of the South (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT444 - Restoration, Revolution, and Reason: British Classics of the Eighteenth Century (1660-1800) (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT468 - Milton Seminar (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT450 - You, Me, We: Identity, Society, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Literature (W) (3)
- ELIT335 - The Bible as Literature (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT340 - C. S. Lewis (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT445 - Ancient Classics (IN-10) (W) (3)
- ELIT463 - Literary Criticism (3)
- ELIT465 - Topics in Literature (W) (1 - 3)
- ENGL320 - Rhetoric: The Performance of Argument (3)
- ELIT216 - Approaches to Literature (IN-10) (3)
REQUIRED COGNATES (3 Total Credits)- Course(s): RELT467 - Christian Philosophy and Worldviews (R-4) (W) (3)
TEACHER LICENSURE (50 Total Credits) ELECTIVES TO = 124 (1 Total Credits) Grand Total Credits: 124
Sample Sequence Plan
YEAR 1FALL- Course(s):
- Select 3 credits from IN-7) Natural Science
- Select 3 credits from the following types of courses: Language Cognate - see catalog for requirement options
WINTER- Course(s):
- Select 3 credits from the following types of courses: Language Cognate - see catalog for requirement options
YEAR 2FALL- Course(s):
- Select 1 credits from P 1-b) Physical Activity
- Select 1 credits from the following types of courses: General elective courses
WINTER- Course(s):
- Select 3 credit(s):
YEAR 3SUMMER- Select 3 credits from IN-9) Stewardship, Business and Economics
FALL- Course(s):
- Select 3 credit(s):
- Select 3 credits from IN-6) Historical Perspectives
- Select 1 credits from P 1-b) Physical Activity
WINTER- Course(s):
- Select 3 credit(s):
- Select 3 credit(s):
- Take English Content Praxis
YEAR 4FALL- Select 9 credit(s):
- Select 3 credit(s):
- Select 3 credits from the following types of courses: Upper-division major elective courses