English Major
English 7-12 Teaching
Subject Endorsement
Bachelor of Arts in Education
- General Studies Program Hours = 45
including General Studies coursework required by Teacher Education
- Foundational Core (Written, Math, Oral, Democracy) = 12 including:
- ENG 102GS, Academic Writing and Research - 3 hours
- SPCH 100GS, Fundamentals of Speech Communication - 3 hours
- TE 100GS, Teaching in a Democratic Society - 3 hours
- Portal = 3
- Distribution = 27
- Aesthetics minimum = 3
- Humanities minimum = 6
- Social Sciences minimum = 6 including:
- PSCI 110GS, Introduction to American Politics - 3 hours
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Analytical and Quantitative Thought minimum = 0
- Wellness minimum = 3 including:
- PE 150GS, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise - 3 hours
- Capstone = 3
- Professional Sequence = 25
- Endorsement = 36
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 106
- Unrestricted electives in 120 hour program = 14
- Minimum total hours required for BAE in English 7-12 Teaching Subject Endorsement = 120
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 120 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.
- Requirements (30 hours required)
- Take 9 hours from the following Literature courses:
- 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 444, Seminar in American 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
- 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.
- Take 9 hours from the following Writing/Composition courses:
- Take:
- ENG 234, Reading and Writing about Literature - 3 hours
- Take 3-6 hours from:
- ENG 211, Introduction to Creative Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 214, Beginning Fiction Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 215, Introduction to Creative Writing for the Stage/Screen - 3 hours (Prereq: ENG 101 and ENG 102GS)
- ENG 217, Beginning Poetry Writing - 3 hours
- ENG 320, Creative Play/Script Writing - 3 hours
- Take 0-3 hours from:
- Take 6 hours from the following Language courses:
- Take:
- ENG 404, History of the English Language - 3 hours
- Take 1 course from:
- ENG 303, Introduction to Linguistics - 3 hours
- ENG 304, Grammar I - 3 hours
- Take 6 hours from the following Pedagogy courses:
- Take all of the following:
- ENG 424, Teaching Secondary School English - 3 hours
- ENG 427, Electronic Literacy - 3 hours
- Electives (6 hours required)
19 Feb 2014
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