English/Secondary Education, B.A.

Program Requirements

Majors pursuing a dual major in English Literature and Secondary Education must satisfy 

• the University Core Curriculum Requirements
• the SHAE College Speech Requirement: COMM 210  
• all Secondary Education  requirements for the English Literature dual major 
• all requirements for the English Literature major listed below.  Note: EDU 412  : Adolescent Multicultural Literature counts as one English Literature elective requirement.

The total required credits for this double major is 117 credits. Students choose at least one 3- credit general elective to total 120 credits required to for graduation. 

Speech Requirement

• COMM 210 - Introduction to Public Speaking

Foundation Courses

Take one course at the 100 level

• ENG 210 - Myth, Fantasy, and the Imagination
• ENG 220 - Literary Analysis

American Literature Requirement

• ENG 240 - Early American Literature: Pre-Columbus Through the Civil War
• ENG 260 - American Realism, Naturalism and Modernism

British Literature Requirement

• ENG 270 - British Literature I: From Beowulf to Gothic Literature
• ENG 290 - British Literature II: From Romanticism to Modernism
• ENG 350 - Shakespeare

Global Literature Requirement

• ASIA 100 - Foundations of Asian Studies
• ENG 320 - Studies in Global Literatures

English Elective Requirement

Select three (3) additional English Electives, two (2) must be at the 300-400 level.

Students may slect a course at the appropriate level from the following interdisciplinary list to satisfy one (1) of the English elective requirements.

• ASIA 100 - Foundations of Asian Studies
• CW 210 - Reading as Writers/Poetry
• THEAT 334 - Contemporary Drama
• WTNG 301 - The Rhetoric of Narrative
• WTNG 302 - Art of Writing: Forms of the Essay
• WTNG 303 - Environmental Rhetoric
• WTNG 305 - Writing the City
• WTNG 322 - Advancing Public Argument

Capstone Sequence

• ENG 480 - Senior Thesis I
• ENG 481 - Senior Thesis II

Secondary Education Requirement

Take EDU 412 and two additional English electives from the English Elective Reuirements listed above, one must be at the 300-400 level.  Students may select one course at the appropriate level from the following interdisciplinary list to satisfy one of the English elective requirements.

• EDU 412 - Capstone: Multicultural Adolescent Literature

Note:

EDU 412: Adolescent Multicultural Literature counts as one English Literature elective requirement. The total of required credits for this double major is 117 credits. Students choose at least one 3- credit general elective to total 120 credits to meet graduation requirements.