Middle School Education, BA – English/Language Arts Emphasis

49 credit hours in Middle School Education

27 credit hours in English/Language Arts Emphasis

Requirements

In addition to taking the core middle school education courses, students seeking a Bachelor of Arts in Middle School Education (grades 5-9) with certification in English/language arts must complete the following courses:

Methods of Teaching

One of the following: 

EDU 30600	Elementary School Language Arts Methods	3
EDU 33400	Secondary Methods of Teaching English	3

English/Language Arts Emphasis

EDU 24700

Adolescent Literature

3

One course selected from the following options:

ENGL 20100

World Literature: Masterpieces of the Premodern World

3

One course selected from the following options:

ENGL 20500

British Literature: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-Between

3

One course selected from the following options:

ENGL 23500

American Literature: Slavery and War

3

Two courses selected from the following options:

ENGL 20100	World Literature: Masterpieces of the Premodern World	3
ENGL 20500	British Literature: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-Between	3
ENGL 23500	American Literature: Slavery and War	3
ENGL 25600	Greek Myth, Epic, and Tragedy	3
ENGL 37600	African-American Literature	3
ENGL 30100	Methods of Literary Study	3
ENGL 30900	The Novel	3
ENGL 33200	Chaucer	3
ENGL 33300	Shakespeare	3
ENGL 33800	Medieval Literature	3
ENGL 33900	Early Modern Literature	3
ENGL 34101	London in the Eighteenth Century	3
ENGL 34200	Politics, Passion, Poetry and Problems: The Romantic Movement	3
ENGL 34300	Victorians: Vile or Virtuous?	3
ENGL 35200	Early American Literature	3
ENGL 35300	Twentieth-Century American Literature	3
ENGL 35500	Literary Modernism: Experiment, Method, and Mystery	3

One course selected from the following options in Form, Language, and Textual Studies:

ENGL 37200	Grammar and Writing	3
ENGL 40400	History of the English Language	3

Two courses selected from the following options in Form, Language, and Textual Studies:

ENGL 21400	Introduction to Writing Poetry	3
ENGL 21500	Introduction to Writing Fiction	3
ENGL 22200	Writing about Reality	3
ENGL 37200	Grammar and Writing	3
ENGL 40400	History of the English Language	3

Note: No duplication of coursework is allowed.