Name: _______________________ Student ID #: ___________________ Date: ______________
University Studies Requirements
Core Courses *completed within first 60 credits
Course
Credits
Grade
Planned to Take
WRIT 102 College Writing II
3
WRIT 209 Business and Professional Writing
3
HHP 102 Wellness and a Positive Lifestyle
3
COMM 110 Intro to Speech Communications
3
MATH/CSCI
3-4
Humanities
Course
Course Title
Grade
Planned to Take
History
Literature
World Language,
Culture, & Philosophy
Social Science (6 cr) must include 2 different prefixes
Course
Course Title
Grade
Planned to Take
Course 1
Course 2
Natural & Physical Sciences
Course
Course Title
Grade
Planned to Take
Environmental
Lab
Fine & Applied Arts
Course
Course Title
Grade
Planned to Take
Art History, Criticism &
Appreciation
Aesthetic Experience
Global Awareness & Diversity *may be fulfilled through other University Studies categories
Course
Course Title
Grade
Planned to Take
Global Awareness
Diversity
Broad Field Language Arts Major
Secondary Education (Grades 4-12)
Academic Plan of Study
2021-2022 Catalog
Broad Field Language Arts Major - Secondary Education (Grades 4-12)
63 total credits:
Category 1: Foundations of Literature (12 credits required):
Course
Course Title
Credits
Grade
Planned to Take
ENGL 211
British Literature
3
or
ENGL 212
British Literature II
3
and
ENGL 221
American Literature
3
or
ENGL 222
American Literature II
3
and
ENGL 311
Shakespeare
3
or
ENGL 312
Shakespeare II
3
and
ENGL 479
Literary Criticism
3
Category 2: Diversity, Global Awareness, and Global Literature (3 credits required)
Course
Course Title
Credits
Grade
Planned to Take
ENGL 228
Multi-Ethnic American Literature
3
ENGL 229
Literature by Women
3
ENGL 241
World Literature I
3
ENGL 242
World Literature II
3
Category 3: Literary Genres and Focused Studies in Literature (24 credits required)
Course
Course Title
Credits
Grade
Planned to Take
ENGL 218
Nonfiction Literature and
Literacy
3
and minimum one of:
ENGL 328
Multi-Ethnic American Novels
3
ENGL 368
Short Story I (Pre 1945)
3
ENGL 369
Short Story II (Post 1945)
3
ENGL 419
Rise of the Novel
3
ENGL 426
Popular 20th Century Writers
3
ENGL 446
Key American Modernist
Writers
3
ENGL 465
Modern American Poetry
3
ENGL 466
Contemporary American
Poetry
3
and minimum one of:
ENGL 315
Chaucer
3
ENGL 326
Major Author
3
ENGL 331
British Literary Periods
3
ENGL 332
American Literary Periods
3
ENGL 403
19th Century British Women
Novelists (Diversity)
3
ENGL 404
Early American Fiction Writers:
Poe, Melville, Hawthorne
3
ENGL 409
Age of Pope, Swift, Gay
3
ENGL 429
The British Romantic Period
3
ENGL 436
Hemingway’s Artistry
3
ENGL 439
The Victorian Age
3
ENGL 446
Key American Modernist
Writers
3
ENGL 449
Postcolonial Literature
3
ENGL 456
Avant-Garde Literature
3
ENGL 460
Special Topics in Literature
3
Category 4: English and Young Adult Literature in the Schools (6 credits required):
Course
Course Title
Credits
Grade
Planned to Take
ENGED 339
Teaching High School
English
3
ENGED 418
Language and Literature
in the Middle Grades
3
Category 5: Language Arts (18 credits required):
Course
Course Title
Credits
Grade
Planned to Take
ENGL 405
History of the English Language
3
or
WRIT 307
English Grammar
3
and one of:
PHIL 160
Philosophy of Film
3
or
COMM 104
Film and Culture
3
and one of:
ANTH 340
Language, Culture, and Society
3
or
COMM 211
Interpersonal Communication
3
and one of:
WRIT 303
Introduction to Rhetoric
3
or
WRIT 401
Advanced Rhetoric: Theory and
Practice
3
and
WRIT 250
Introduction to Creative Writing
3
This major must be accompanied by the Instruction Minor and student teaching to earn a teacher certification. Please see the Teacher
Education section of the 2021-2022 academic catalog for teacher certification requirements.
As this major leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree, the World Language requirement for the Bachelor of Arts Degree must also be
fulfilled. See the Degree Requirements section of the 2021-2022 academic catalog for information.
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