Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

English Education 6-12 (BA)

 

Bachelor of Arts Degree

 

General Education

I. Communication (9 hours)

Rhetoric and Composition

 

ENGL 1101*

           

Rhetoric and Composition

3

                     
Literature and Composition 
ENGL 1102*             Literature and Composition 3

Communication 

               

Choose course from approved list

3

II. Humanities and Fine Arts (15 hours)

Modern Languages

               

Choose sequence from approved list

6

                     

English Literature

 

 

            Choose one 2000-level English Literature course
(ENGL 2225 and ENGL 2226 may NOT be used)

3

                     

Philosophy and Religion

                Choose one PHIL or RELG course at the
1000-2000 level

3

                     

Fine Arts

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list 

 3

III. History and Social Sciences (9 hours)

World History

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

Government

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

Social Science

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3

IV. Mathematics and Natural Sciences (10 to 12 hours)

Mathematics*

 

 

           

Choose course from approved list

3 to 4

                     
Natural Science                 Choose a pair in sequence from approved list   7 to 8
                     

V. Ethics (3 hours)

                     
Ethics                  Choose course from approved list 3
                     

VI. Institutional Requirement (1 hour)

First-Year Experience

 

*Grade of C or higher required.

 

PDMT 1101

           

Introduction to University Life and
the Liberal Arts Tradition

 

1

Total Credit Hours:46-49

Students who enter with fewer than 24 semester credit hours must satisfy the institutional requirement.

English Foundations

ENGL 2290Introduction to Creative Writing

3

ENGL 3000Introduction to English Studies

3

ENGL 4405Shakespeare

3

ENGL 4440Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

3

ENGL 4456Teaching Secondary English

3

Students must choose one of the following British Literature survey courses:

ENGL 2203British Literature to 1790

3

ENGL 2204British Literature from 1790

3

Students must choose one of the following United States Literature survey courses:

ENGL 2210United States Literature to 1865

3

ENGL 2211United States Literature from 1865

3

ENGL 2220Ethnic American Literature

3

Students must choose one additional survey course:

ENGL 2201World Literature to the Renaissance

3

ENGL 2202World Literature from the Renaissance

3

ENGL 2221Women Writers

3

ENGL 2222Introduction to Film

3

ENGL 2225Nature Writers

3

Students must choose one of the following British Literature courses:

ENGL 4402Medieval Literature

3

ENGL 4403British Renaissance

3

ENGL 4408Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

3

ENGL 4415British Romanticism

3

ENGL 4421Victorian Literature

3

ENGL 4426Twentieth-Century British Literature

3

Students must choose one of the following United States Literature courses:

ENGL 4427American Romanticism

3

ENGL 4428Twentieth-Century American Literature

3

ENGL 4429Multicultural American Literature

3

ENGL 4430Literature of the American South

3

Students must choose at least two additional upper-level English electives (any of the 3000 or 4000 level courses not taken to meet the requirements listed above or any of the following):

ENGL 3307Short Story

3

ENGL 3308Novel

3

ENGL 3309Poetry

3

ENGL 3311Drama

3

ENGL 3312Non-Fiction

3

ENGL 3322Film and Literature

3

ENGL 3335Technical Writing

3

ENGL 3392Creative Writing: Poetry

3

ENGL 3393Creative Writing: Non-Fiction

3

ENGL 3394Creative Writing: Fiction

3

ENGL 3395Creative Writing: Screenwriting, Drama, and Adaptation

3

ENGL 4400Print and Digital Publishing

3

ENGL 4401Seminar in World Literature

3

ENGL 4455Survey of English Usage for Teachers

3

ENGL 4460Literary Criticism

3

ENGL 4480Major Authors

3

ENGL 4481Seminar in Film

3

ENGL 4490Special Topics

3

Total Credit Hours:36
 

English Education Major

EDSE 3332Language Arts Methods, 6-12

3

EDUC 1199Introduction to Education

3

EDUC 2000Introduction to Professional Practice

3

EDUC 2250Media and Technology for Educators

3

EDUC 2207Learning and Cognition

3

EDUC 3330Foundations of Literacy

3

EDUC 3355Exceptional Children

3

EDUC 4479Internship I

1

EDUC 4489Internship II

3

EDUC 4495Educational Assessment for All Learners

3

EDUC 4497Classroom Management

3

EDUC 4499Internship III

9

Total Credit Hours:40

Total Credit Hours: 121