2015-2016 Academic Catalog

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2015-2016 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

English Teacher Certification

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Certification Requirements

Students seeking certification for the teaching of English in secondary schools are required to take the following nine courses in fulfillment of their English major. A student who chooses ENG 336, 337 Transcendentalism and Abolition: American Literature in the Crucible of Freedom and Slavery or ENG 338, 339 - City, Frontier, & Empire in American Literature or to fulfill both the nineteenth century and American literature requirements must enroll for an additional course numbered 300 or greater to fulfill the nine-course minimum. Students must also select courses that fulfill the three approaches requirements for the English program.

ENG 275 - Theory & Methods of English Studies 1 course unit
ENG 247, 248 - Shakespeare 1 course unit OR
ENG 321, 322 - Shakespeare Reproduced 1 course unit
ENG 295, 296 - The English Language 1 course unit
ENG 400-449 - CUE: Seminar in English 1 course unit

One elective in American literature drawn from:

ENG 271, 272 - Ethnicity in US Literature 1 course unit
ENG 273 - African American Literature 1 course unit
ENG 336, 337 - Transcendentalism and Abolition: American Literature in the Crucible of Freedom and Slavery 1 course unit
ENG 338, 339 - City, Frontier, & Empire in American Literature 1 course unit
ENG 349, 350 - Modern American Fiction 1 course unit

One course in Nineteenth Century literature drawn from:

ENG 202 - Reading Emily Dickinson 1 course unit
ENG 206 - Reading Austen 1 course unit
ENG 212 - Reading Frankenstein 1 course unit
ENG 329, 330 - Nineteenth Century British Fiction: The Marriage Plot 1 course unit
ENG 331, 333 - English Romanticism 1 course unit
ENG 336, 337 - Transcendentalism and Abolition: American Literature in the Crucible of Freedom and Slavery 1 course unit
ENG 338, 339 - City, Frontier, & Empire in American Literature 1 course unit
ENG 378, 379 - Energy, Ecology, & the Victorian Novel 1 course unit
ENG 391, 392 - Decadence: The Literature of the 1890s 1 course unit

One writing process or theory course:

ENG 240, 241 - The Nature of Narrative 1 course unit
ENG 245, 246 - Poetry & the Imaginative Process 1 course unit
ENG 297, 298 - Writing Theory 1 course unit

One additional Genealogies course drawn from:

ENG 313, 314 - Medieval Literature 1 course unit
ENG 315, 316 - The Renaissance Imagination 1 course unit
ENG 323, 324 - Renaissance Plays in Process 1 course unit
ENG 325, 326 - Milton & the Age of Revolution 1 course unit

One course in a literature other than British or American:

ENG 217 - Reading India 1 course unit
ENG 340, 341 - European Novel in Translation 1 course unit
ENG 343, 344 - Irish Literature 1 course unit
ENG 345, 346 - Contemporary Irish Drama 1 course unit
ENG 375 - Postcolonial Literature 1 course unit
Or a comparable course offered by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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