English Middle/Secondary Education

Program Required Courses

Core Courses

1. CME 1114

   Media Literacy
   4
2. EDU 3220

   Educ Res Children & Young Adlt
   4
3. ENG 2000

   Introduction to English Studies
   4

Historical Periods/Literary Cultures - Select eight credits so that four of the following areas are fulfilled (one Historical Period and one Literary Culture per four-credit course):

Historical Periods

Pre-Modern (beginnings-1500)

Individual Author Option in this Area: Chaucer

1. ENG 2415

   Medieval Knights and Monsters (Conceptions : VCLI - Literature)

   As published: “Medieval Knights and Monsters”

   or: ENG 4410 Individual Author
   4

Early Modern (1500-1800)

1. ENG 2310

   Magic and Demonology (Conceptions : VCLI - Literature)

   As published: “Magic and Demonology”

   or: ENG 3325 Brexit Sixteenth-Century Style

   or: ENG 3335 Sexploitation in Jacobean Drama

   or: ENG 3345 War and Paradise Lost

   or: ENG 3830 Piracy and Criminality

   or: ENG 4400 Shakespeare and Social Justice
   4

Modern (1800-present)

Individual Author Options in this Area: Austen, Morrison, Woolf

1. ENG 2203

   Native American Literature (Conceptions : VCLI - Literature)

   As published: “Native American Literature”

   or: ENG 2204 African American Literature

   or: ENG 2205 Chicana/o Literature

   or: ENG 2260 Contemporary Movements in American Poetry

   or: ENG 2365 British Romanticism

   or: ENG 2410 Revolution and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

   or: ENG 3315 American Short Story

   or: ENG 3316 Contemporary Ethnic American Poetry

   or: ENG 3361 Victorian Bodies

   or: ENG 3375 Geographies of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

   or: ENG 3950 London Arts and Culture

   or: ENG 4410 Individual Author
   4

Literary Cultures

British Literature

Individual Author Options in this Area: Austen, Chaucer, Woolf

1. ENG 2310

   Magic and Demonology (Conceptions : VCLI - Literature)

   As published: “Magic and Demonology”

   or: ENG 2365 British Romanticism

   or: ENG 2415 Medieval Knights and Monsters

   or: ENG 3325 Brexit Sixteenth-Century Style

   or: ENG 3335 Sexploitation in Jacobean Drama

   or: ENG 3345 War and Paradise Lost

   or: ENG 3355 Pre-Modern British Literature

   or: ENG 3361 Victorian Bodies

   or: ENG 3950 London Arts and Culture

   or: ENG 4400 Shakespeare and Social Justice

   or: ENG 4410 Individual Author
   4

American Literature

Individual Author Options in this Area: Morrison

1. ENG 2203

   Native American Literature (Conceptions : VCLI - Literature)

   As published: “Native American Literature”

   or: ENG 2204 African American Literature

   or: ENG 2205 Chicana/o Literature

   or: ENG 2260 Contemporary Movements in American Poetry

   or: ENG 3315 American Short Story

   or: ENG 3316 Contemporary Ethnic American Poetry

   or: ENG 3375 Geographies of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

   or: ENG 3830 Piracy and Criminality

   or: ENG 4410 Individual Author
   4

Diverse Literatures

Individual Author Options in this Area: Morrison

1. ENG 2203

   Native American Literature (Conceptions : VCLI - Literature)

   As published: “Native American Literature”

   or: ENG 2204 African American Literature

   or: ENG 2205 Chicana/o Literature

   or: ENG 3316 Contemporary Ethnic American Poetry

   or: ENG 3450 Rhetorics of Health, Medicine, and Social Justice

   or: ENG 4410 Individual Author
   4

Genre - Select eight credits in two different genres (one genre per four-credit course)

Poetry

Individual Author Options in this Area: Chaucer

1. ENG 2260

   Contemporary Movements in American Poetry (Conceptions : VCLI - Literature)

   As published: “Contemporary Movements in American Poetry”

   or: ENG 2365 British Romanticism

   or: ENG 2410 Revolution and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

   or: ENG 3316 Contemporary Ethnic American Poetry

   or: ENG 3345 War and Paradise Lost

   or: ENG 4410 Individual Author
   4

Fiction

Individual Author Options in this Area: Austen, Morrison, Woolf

1. ENG 3315

   American Short Story (Integrations : VILI - Literature)

   As published: “American Short Story”

   or: ENG 3375 Geographies of the Nineteenth-Century Novel

   or: ENG 3950 London Arts and Culture

   or: ENG 4410 Individual Author
   4

Drama

1. ENG 3335

   Sexploitation in Jacobean Drama (Integrations : VILI - Literature)

   As published: “Sexploitation in Jacobean Drama”

   or: ENG 4400 Shakespeare and Social Justice
   4

Nonfiction

1. ENG 4415

   Writing Nature (Integrations : VIOP - Electives)

   As published: “Writing Nature”

   or: ENG 3830 Piracy and Criminality
   4

Creative Writing - Select four credits in Creative Writing

1. ENG 3300

   Creative Writing: Fiction and Nonfiction (Integrations : VIFA - Fine Arts)

   As published: “Creative Writing: Fiction and Nonfiction”

   or: ENG 3301 Creative Writing: Poetry
   4

Language

1. ENG 4430

   English Language and Linguistics (Integrations : VIOP - Electives)

   As published: “English Language and Linguistics”
   4

Electives - Select 12 or more additional credits within ENG, not including ENG 1110

Some courses may fulfill both the History/Culture requirement and the Genre requirement

Methods Course(s)

1. EDU 3333

   Secondary Communication Arts and Literature Methods
   4

Middle/Secondary Education Courses 1

Program Recommended Courses

One of the following CME courses is recommended (Consult with an advisor to determine which course is appropriate)

1. CME 1107

   Introduction to Film Photography (Conceptions : VCFA - Fine Arts)

   As published: “Introduction to Film Photography”
   4
2. CME 2214

   Writing for Mass Media (Conceptions : VCOP - Electives)

   As published: “Writing for Mass Media”
   4
3. CME 4420

   Film and Literature (Integrations : VIFA - Fine ArtsIntegrations : VILI - Literature)

   As published: “Film and Literature”
   4