Education Concentration
Students interested in pursuing careers as English teachers are encouraged to choose the education concentration under the English major.
- Two 100-level courses in addition to the core:
- World Classics
- Western Classics
- British Classics
- American Classics
- Five 200-level pre-seminar courses, one from each category:
- British literature to 1798:
- Medieval Literature
- Renaissance Literature
- Restoration and the 18th Century
- British literature from 1798:
- Romanticism
- Victorian Literature
- 20th Century British Literature
- American literature to 1865:
- Colonial Literature
- American Renaissance
- American literature from 1865:
- Late 19th Century Literature
- Early 20th Century Literature
- 20th Century literature
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Drama
- Post-modern
- British literature to 1798:
- Three 300-level special topics seminars from each of the following categories:
- Topics in British Literature
- Topics in American Literature
- Topics in Multicultural Literature
- Eight designated courses as follows:
- Shakespeare
- History of Criticism
- 20th Century Criticism
- Applied Linguistics
- Teaching Writing: Pedagogy and Practice
- Oral Interpretation or Basic Acting
- Seminar elective
- Senior English project
- Two required course required by the Education department:
- WL 101 Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Learners (Junior/Senior Year)
- EDUC 210 Comparative Issues in Education (Junior/Senior Year)