English Major, Teaching Endorsement Grades 6-12 (35 SH)
Earning your secondary education license to teach involves a double major in education and your content field, English.
It also includes one semester of student teaching and many other practical experiences in schools. And because EMU’s program is approved by NCATE, the national accrediting association, your teaching license for grades 6-12 will be accepted in most of the U.S.
This program will prepare students to teach English by instructing them in the standards of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). This major requires foreign language competency through intermediate level II. Requirements include:
Requirements include the following:
LING 250 Introduction to Linguistics … 3
LING 260 Grammars of English … 3
LIT 210 Global Literatures I … 3
LIT 220 Global Literatures II … 3
LIT 230 Global Literatures III … 3
LIT 240 Introduction to Critical Theory … 3
LIT 320 Approach 3: Culture, Identity and Ethnicity … 3
LIT 325 Approach 4: Shakespeare … 3
*LIT 340 Adolescent/Young Adult Literature… 3
LIT 480 Seminar in the Major … 3
*WRIT 380 Expository Writing … 1
*WRIT 381 Argumentative Writing … 1
Choose one of the following courses:
COMM 241 News and Feature Writing … 3
THR 101 Introduction to Theater Arts … 3
*THR 201 History and Traditions of Early World Theater … 3
*THR 401 History and Traditions of World Theater: Twentieth Century to Today … 3
In addition, students must take the secondary education courses for teacher licensure.
(See page 95 of the EMU catalog)
English education majors are required to take a practice Graduate Record Exam (GRE) in the senior year.
*Course offered alternate years