University of Nebraska at Kearney
1998-2000 Undergraduate CATALOG
English Major
English 7-12 Teaching
Subject Endorsement Option
Bachelor of Arts in Education
FAH BAE 3305
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education
- English Language minimum = 9 including:
- ENG 101GS, Expository Writing I - 3 hours
- ENG 102GS, Expository Writing II - 3 hours
- SPCH 100GS, Fundamentals of Speech - 3 hours
- Humanities minimum = 12 including:
- 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 = 36
- Second Subject Endorsement, normally = 30
- Should required hours of the second endorsement also meet other requirements, the total required hours may be reduced.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 141
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 0
Minimum total hours required for BAE in English 7-12 Teaching Subject Endorsement = 141
- 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.
A. Requirements (33 hours required)
- Take all the following literature courses: (12 hours)
- ENG 352A, Survey of U.S. Literature I - 3 hours
- ENG 352B, Survey of U.S. Literature II - 3 hours
- ENG 362A, Survey of British and Commonwealth Literature I - 3 hours
- ENG 362B, Survey of British and Commonwealth Literature II - 3 hours
Take all the following writing/composition courses: (9 hours)
- ENG 234, Reading and Writing about Literature - 3 hours
Take 6 hours:
- Take 3-6 hours from:
- ENG 314, Beginning Fiction Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 317, Beginning Poetry Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 320, Creative Play/Script Writing - 3 hours
- Take 0-3 hours from:
- ENG 311, Advanced Writing I: Writing Processes - 3 hours
- ENG 312, Writing in the Professions - 3 hours
- ENG 411, Advanced Writing II: Writing as a Social Act - 3 hours (Prereq: instructor's permission)
- ENG 415, Advanced Fiction Writing - 3 hours (Prereq: ENG 314)
- ENG 419, Advanced Poetry Writing - 3 hours
(Prereq: ENG 317)
- ENG 471, Seminar in Rhetoric - 3 hours
(Prereq: ENG 102, an upper division writing course, or permission
of instructor)
Take all the following language courses: (6 hours)
- ENG 404, History of the English Language3 hours
- Take 1 course from:
- ENG 304, Grammar I - 3 hours
- ENG 303, Introduction to Linguistics - 3 hours
Take all the following pedagogy courses: (6 hours)
- ENG 424, Teaching Secondary School English - 3 hours
- ENG 427, Multimedia Communication - 3 hours
F. Electives (3 hours required)
- Take 3 hours from the following literature courses:
- ENG 330, European Literature in Translation - 3 hours
- ENG 333, Non-Western Literature in Translation - 3 hours
- ENG 336, Bible as Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 337, Popular Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 338, Studies in a Literary Genre - 3 hours
- ENG 358, Literature of the American West - 3 hours
- ENG 359, Contemporary American Multicultural Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 373, Film as Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 374, History of the Motion Picture - 3 hours
- ENG 406, Principles of Literary Criticism - 3 hours
- ENG 425, Children's Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 426, Literature for Adolescents - 3 hours
- ENG 442, Colonial/Early American Literature - 3 hours
- ENG 443, Seminar in the American Renaissance - 3 hours
- ENG 444, Seminar in Realism - 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
- ENG 450, Seminar in World Literature - 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 469, Seminar in Modernism - 3 hours
- ENG 474, Postmodern/Contemporary British Literature - 3 hours