English/Language Arts

English / Language Arts
updated 10-01-08

Grade Level 5-12 Major Program [See also requirements for Secondary Education Minor] This will allow you to teach 5-12 English/Language Arts.

Required:
English 230 The Writer's Voice	4 s.h.
English 334 Young Adult Literature	4 s.h.
English 260 Shakespeare	4 s.h.
English 314 Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice	4 s.h.
English 485 Junior-Senior Seminar	4 s.h.

One course from:
English 352 American Frontiers: American Literature to 1860	4 s.h.
English 353 American Literature: 1860 to the Present	4 s.h.
English 354 American Novel	4 s.h.
[Or any two from 251, 152, 356 (and 139 or 240 [Africana Literature] when such courses are primarily American literature offerings)]

One of the following:
English 361 Chaucer and Medieval Literature	4 s.h.
English 362 Renaissance Literature	4 s.h.
English 363 Milton	4 s.h.
English 364 Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature	4 s.h.

One of the following:
English 365 British Romanticism: Revolution, Nature, and the Imagination	4 s.h.
English 366 The Victorians	4 s.h.
English 367 Twentieth-Century British Literature	4 s.h.
English 368 The British Novel	4 s.h.

Additional Requirements:
Ling 242 Introduction to the English Language	4 s.h.
Foreign Language Proficiency at intermediate level or completion of 200-level language course.

Grade 5-12 ~ Second Teaching Area Program [Iowa Only] ~ [See also requirements for the Secondary Education Minor] Completion of a Second Teaching Area in English/Language Arts which includes the requirements for the 5-12, English/Language Arts endorsement.

Required:
English 260 Shakespeare	4 s.h.
English 334 Young Adult Literature	4 s.h.
English 314 Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice	4 s.h.

One course from:
English 130 Literary Ventures	4 s.h.
English 230 The Writer's Voice	4 s.h.

One course from:
English 361 Chaucer & the Middle Ages	4 s.h.
English 362 Renaissance Literature	4 s.h.
English 363 Milton	4 s.h.
English 364 Restoration and Eighteenth Century British Literature	4 s.h.
English 365 British Romanticism: Revolution, Nature, and the Imagination	4 s.h.
English 366 The Victorians	4 s.h.
English 367 Twentieth-Century British Literature	4 s.h.
English 368 The British Novel	4 s.h.

One course from:
English 352 American Frontiers: American Literature to 1860	4 s.h.
English 353 American Literature: 1860 to the Present	4 s.h.
English 354 American Novel	4 s.h.
[Or any two from 251, 152, 356 ( and 139 or 240 [Africana Literature] when such courses are primarily American literature offerings)]
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