Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, Licensure in Grades 6-12 Concentration

(SLO) Expected Outcomes:

1. Teacher candidates shall demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to succeed in careers within the field.
2. Teacher candidates shall complete clinical practice and a seminar course in the last semester of their senior year.
3. Teacher candidates of the licensure program will pass the appropriate Praxis II exam.

Degree Requirements (Semester Hours)

General Education Courses

Core to include:

EDU 101	Education as Profession	2
DRA 131/ENG 131	Drama and the Theater	3
ENG 205	American Literature I	3
ENG 206	American Literature II	3
PSY 113	General Psychology	3

Additional Required Course (3)

PSY 211

Developmental Psychology-Lifespan

English Core (15)

ENG 220	Introduction to English Studies	3
ENG 315	Advanced Grammar	3
ENG 402/DRA 402	Shakespeare	3
ENG 411	Linguistics	3
ENG 425	English Capstone	3

Literature Requirement (choose two from the following) (6)

ENG 201	World Literature I	3
ENG 202	World Literature II	3
ENG 203	British Literature I	3
ENG 204	British Literature II	3

Literature before 1800 (choose one from the following) (3)

ENG 401	Old & Middle English Literature	3
ENG 403	Myth & Ancient Literature	3
ENG 404	Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Literature	3

Literature after 1800 (choose two from the following) (6)

ENG 301	Nineteenth Century Novel	3
ENG 302	Romantic & Victorian Poetry	3
ENG 303	Twentieth Century Novel	3
ENG 304	Twentieth Century Poetry	3
ENG 305/DRA 305	Modern Drama	3
ENG 422	Southern Literature	3

Literature and Culture (choose one from the following) (3)

ENG 306	Ghost Story	3
ENG 308	Literature for Youth	3
ENG 321	Women's Literature	3
ENG 421	North American Nonfiction Nature Writing	3
ENG 423	Film Studies	3

Professional Education Courses (37)

EDU 308	Psychology of Learning and Cognition	3
EDU 315	Exceptional Child	3
EDU 331	Educational Assessment	4
EDU 342	Classroom Management	3
EDU 360/SOW 360	Multicultural Education	3
EDU 410	Technology in Education	3
EDU 415	Teaching Reading in Grades 6-12	3
EDU 425	Strategies for Teaching Grades 6-12	3
EDU 456	Clinical Practice in Secondary Grades 6-12	11
EDU 457	Clinical Practice Seminar, 6-12	1

For the Bachelor of Arts Degree:

Satisfied by requirements above: ENG 315 and ENG 411

Total Credit Hours: 120