English Major
Language Arts 7-12 Teaching
Field Endorsement Option
Bachelor of Arts in Education
FAH BAE 3304
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education
- English Language minimum = 9 including:
- ENG 101GS, Expository Writing I - 3 hours (Prereq:
ENG 100A or English ACT score of 15 or above)
- ENG 102GS, Expository Writing II - 3 hours
(Prereq: ENG 101GS* or
ACT English score of 30 or above)
- SPCH 100GS, Fundamentals of Speech Communication - 3 hours
- Humanities minimum = 12 including:
- THEA 120GS, Introduction to the Theatre - 3
hours
- Take 1 course from:
- ENG 250GS,
Introduction to Literature: British
Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 251GS, Introduction to Literature: American
Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 252GS, Introduction to Literature: Western
Civilization - 3 hours
- ENG 253GS, Introduction to Literature:
Non-Western Civilization - 3 hours
- ENG 254GS, Introduction to Literature: Special
Topics - 3 hours
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 210GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 211GS, Western Civilization - 3 hours
- HIST 212GS, Non-Western World History - 3 hours
- HIST 215GS, Introduction to Latin America - 3
hours
- Take 1 course from:
- HIST 250GS, American History - 3 hours
- HIST 251GS, American History - 3 hours
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9 including:
- Take any Economic Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any Political Perspective GS course - 3 hours
- Take any GS course from:
- Social Perspective,
- Geographical Perspective or
- Behavioral Perspective, - 3 hours
- Personal Development minimum = 3
- PE 160GS, Healthful Living - 3 hours
- Professional Sequence = 30
- Students must apply for admission to all Teacher Education
programs.
- Endorsement = 50-51
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 125-126
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 0
- Minimum total hours required for BAE in English 7-12 Teaching Subject Endorsement =
125-126
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
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- A. Required Literature (9 hours required)
- Take 9 hours from the
following literature courses (9 hours)
- Take 3 hours from the following American Literature:
- ENG 352A, Survey of U.S. Literature I - 3 hours
- ENG 352B, Survey of U.S. Literature II - 3 hours
- ENG 358,
Literature of the American West - 3 hours
- ENG 359, Contemporary American Multicultural
Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 360,
American Women Writers - 3 hours
- ENG 442, Colonial/Early American Literature - 3
hours
- ENG 443, Seminar in the American Renaissance - 3
hours
- ENG 445, Seminar in Early 20th Century American
Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 447, Seminar in Post-World War II American
Literature - 3 hours
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- Take 3 hours from the following British literature:
- ENG 362A, Survey of British and Commonwealth
Literature I - 3 hours
- ENG 362B, Survey of British and Commonwealth
Literature II - 3 hours
- ENG 462, Early/Middle English Literature - 3
hours
- ENG 463, Seminar in Shakespeare - 3 hours
- ENG 464, Seminar in the Renaissance - 3 hours
- ENG 466, Literature of the English Restoration
and Eighteenth Century - 3 hours
- ENG 467, Seminar in Romanticism - 3 hours
- ENG 468, Seminar in Victorian Literature - 3
hours
- ENG 474, Postmodern/Contemporary British
Literature - 3 hours
Take 3 hours from the following world literature:
ENG 253GS,
Introduction to Literature: Non-Western
Civilization - 3 hours
- ENG 330, European Literature in Translation - 3
hours
- ENG 333, Non-Western Literature in Translation -
3 hours
- ENG 336, Ancient Literatures - 3 hours
- ENG 450, Seminar in World Literature - 3 hours
- In all three categories,
topics classes may be included by department permission.
-
- B. Required Language (6 hours required)
- ENG 304, Grammar I - 3 hours
- ENG 404, History of the English Language - 3
hours
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- C. Required Writing (6 hours required)
- Take one course:
- ENG 234GS, Reading and Writing about Literature - 3
hours
- Take one course from:
- ENG 214, Beginning Fiction Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 217, Beginning Poetry Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 320, Creative Play/Script Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 311, Advanced Writing I -
3 hours
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- D. Required Pedagogy (6 hours required)
- ENG 424, Teaching Secondary School English - 3
hours
- ENG 427,
Electronic Literacy - 3 hours
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- E. Electives (11-12 hours required)
- Electives in English to total 11-12 hours.
Especially recommended: 300/400 level literature or language courses,
ENG 423, Reading Problems of Secondary Schools, ENG 426, Adolescent Literature, additional writing courses.
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- F. Required Communications (12 hours required)
- Take one course from each category (9 hours) and one additional course from any of the
categories (3 hours)
- Journalism/Mass Communications
- JMC 220, Photojournalism - 3 hours
- JMC 226, Audio Production - 3 hours
- Speech
- Take required course:
- SPCH 400, The Teaching of Speech - 3 hours
- Elective from:
- SPCH 222, Oral Interpretation of Literature - 3
hours
- SPCH 231, Introduction to Forensics and Debate
- 3 hours
- SPCH 237, Intercollegiate Debate and Forensics
- 3 hours
- SPCH 240, Public Speaking for Professions and
Business - 3 hours (Prereq: SPCH 100GS)
- Theater
- THEA 135, Introduction to Technical Theatre - 3
hours
- THEA 225, Fundamentals of Acting - 3 hours
- THEA 480, Play Direction - 3 hours
(Prereq: THEA 135, THEA 225)
11 May 2006
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