English B.A. – Secondary Teaching Emphasis Initial license in English Language Arts (Grades 7-12)

Contact: Tracey A. Sedinger, Ph.D., Chair

Location: Ross 1284

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

Website: www.unco.edu/english

Advising Information:

Students must consult with their assigned major advisor each semester prior to registering.

Assigned advisor is available through the Ursa login; ursa.unco.edu; under Student tab Academic Profile channel and is term specific. If no advisor is listed, contact the major program for advisor information.

Once students are enrolled in Phase II of PTEP they will be advised by the Director of English Education.

The program consists of four parts:

1. Liberal Arts Core (LAC) Credits
2. Required Major Credits
3. Required English Education (EED)
4. Professional Teacher Education Program (PTEP) Credits

Program Description:

The English Education Major prepares English students to serve as high school teachers after they graduate. In addition to content areas of English literature, language, and writing, the major offers a UNC/partner school program and student-teaching experience.

Program Admission Requirements:

Academic Good Standing

Program Requirements:

Remaining credits in this category may be fulfilled with any ENG, FILM or HUM course other than those listed as Liberal Arts Core courses.

Program Recommendations:

• All students are encouraged to take ENG 236 and ENG 262 as LAC courses or as LAC electives.
• Students seeking Secondary Education Certification are encouraged to include in their programs ENG 318 and ENG 419, and ENG 312 Shakespeare in Context: Histories and Comedies (3) or ENG 313 Shakespeare in Context: Tragedies and Romances (3).

Degree Requirements — 120 Credits

Degree Requirements

1. Required LAC — 40 credits

2. Required Major — 39 credits

Take all of the following courses:

ENG 195	Introduction to the Discipline of English	3
ENG 319	The Art of Persuasion	3
ENG 345	Literary Theory and Criticism	3

Choose one of the following courses:

ENG 318	Traditional and Modern Grammars	3
ENG 320	History of the English Language	3
ENG 419	English Linguistics	3

British Literature before 1800

Choose one of the following courses:

ENG 349	Old English, 700-1200	3
ENG 350	Middle English, 1200-1485	3
ENG 351	The Tudor Period, 1485-1603	3
ENG 352	The Stuart Period, 1603-1714	3
ENG 353	The Eighteenth Century, 1714-1789	3

British Literature after 1800

Choose one of the following courses:

ENG 354	British Romanticism	3
ENG 355	Victorian Prose and Poetry	3
ENG 356	Twentieth Century British Literature	3

American Literature before 1900

Choose one of the following courses:

ENG 370	Colonial American Literature, 1492-1800	3
ENG 371	Antebellum American Literature, 1800-1865	3
ENG 372	American Realism and the Making of America	3

American Literature after 1900

Choose one of the following courses:

ENG 373	American Modernism and the Crisis of Representation	3
ENG 374	American Diaspora and Globalization	3

In addition, choose one more period course from the British Literature sequence:

ENG 349	Old English, 700-1200	3
ENG 350	Middle English, 1200-1485	3
ENG 351	The Tudor Period, 1485-1603	3
ENG 352	The Stuart Period, 1603-1714	3
ENG 353	The Eighteenth Century, 1714-1789	3
ENG 354	British Romanticism	3
ENG 355	Victorian Prose and Poetry	3
ENG 356	Twentieth Century British Literature	3
	and

choose one more period course from the American Literature sequence:

ENG 370	Colonial American Literature, 1492-1800	3
ENG 371	Antebellum American Literature, 1800-1865	3
ENG 372	American Realism and the Making of America	3
ENG 373	American Modernism and the Crisis of Representation	3
ENG 374	American Diaspora and Globalization	3

Choose one of the following courses:

ENG 402	The Short Story	3
ENG 403	Techniques of the Novel	3
ENG 430	Advanced Studies in World Literature, Folklore, or Mythology	3
ENG 441	Colloquium in Literature	3
ENG 495	Advanced Cultural Studies	3

NOTE: Remaining credits may be fulfilled with any ENG, FILM, or HUM prefixed courses, excluding ENG 122, ENG 123, ENG 131, ENG 211, ENG 213, ENG 214, ENG 225, FILM 120, and HUM 130. Students may take ENG 236 or ENG 262 for elective credit but not both.

3. Required English Education (EED) — 6 credits

EED 341	Methods for Teaching Composition in Secondary Schools	3
EED 402	Methods for Teaching Literature in Secondary Schools	3

EED 341: Spring only

EED 402: Fall only

4. Required PTEP — 35 credits

Students are urged to review the policies and procedures for Checkpoint Courses are described on the School of Teacher website at http://www.unco.edu/cebs/teachered/check.html.

Phase I (5 credits taken concurrently).

EDFE 110 required semester before; see www.unco.edu/teach/check

STEP 161	Observation and Analysis of Secondary Teaching I	2
EDF 366	Conceptions of Schooling: Context and Process	3

Phase II (8 credits taken concurrently)

STEP 262	Observation and Analysis of Secondary Teaching II	2
EDSE 360	Adaptation, Modification, and Integration of Curriculum for the Secondary Exceptional Learner	3
PSY 349	Educational Psychology for Secondary Teachers	3

Phase III (8 credits taken concurrently).

EDFE 120 required semester before.

STEP 363	Clinical Experience: Secondary	2
EDRD 340	Developing Language and Literacy in the Content Areas	3
ET 449	Integration of Technologies in Secondary Education Pedagogy	3

EDRD 340: (maybe taken outside of Phase III)

NOTE: Students must take one of the two required English Education courses (EED 341 or EEFD 402) concurrently with Phase III. The other course must be taken the semester before.

Phase IV (14 credits).

EDFE 130 required semester before.

STEP 464

Secondary Student Teaching

1 - 14

PTEP provisional admission: completion of at least two courses in the major at UNC with a minimum grade point average of 2.5 in the major.

Admission to Phase III:

1. complete at least 30 hours in the major with a grade point average of 2.75 with no grade lower than a C.
2. retake major courses when a grade of "D" or "F" is received for a grade of "C" or better (C- is not acceptable).