Requirements for Secondary Education Emphasis

Core Courses Required for All English Majors

  • 115 Intro. to Literary Approaches
  • 211 Survey of English Literature I
  • 225 Survey of American Literature I
  • 335 World Literature
  • 380 Multicultural Literature
  • 454 Senior Project (3 hours)

Additional Courses for Secondary Certification

  • 260 Advanced Composition
  • 340 Language: Structure and Meaning
  • 329 Children’s and Adolescent’s Literature
  • 499 Literary Theory and Criticism

Three Additional Courses from the Following

  • 314 Shakespeare
  • 325 The Renaissance
  • 346 Colonial and Post Colonial Literature in English
  • 347 Mythology and Literature
  • 349 20th and 21st Century Literature
  • 425 Genre: Short Story
  • 427 Genre: Poetry
  • 429 Genre: Novel
  • 430 Genre: Drama
  • 440 Major Authors

Secondary Education Courses

  • 102 Introduction to Speech
  • 112 General Psychology
  • 215 Foundations of Education
  • 218 Developmental Psychology
  • 322 Educational Psychology
  • 323 Introduction to Exceptionalities
  • 348 Reading in the Secondary Schools
  • 430 Philosophy of Education/PPRT
  • 438A Teaching Language Arts in the Secondary Schools
  • 439 Teaching in the Secondary Schools
  • 449 Observation and Supervised Teaching
  • LAS 499 Responsibility for the Future
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