State certification for teachers also mandates the following requirements, which are an overlay to the major. Courses taken to satisfy the major can also be courses that satisfy the state certification requirements. Prospective teachers may take Education 529, Adolescent Literature in the Secondary Curriculum, as an elective in the English major. Students preparing to teach in elementary schools following the Language Arts curriculum, must take 24 hours minimum in English, and are advised to follow the structure of the English major in satisfying state certification requirements. Consult your adviser in the School of Education.
All literature courses fulfill the general university core requirement in literature.
The following courses were designed for students who are not English majors, and for students considering an English major, to satisfy the general university requirement in literature. Upper division courses in literature offered by the Department of English will satisfy the general university requirement in literature as well, but the following courses are particularly recommended. These lower division courses in literature give primary attention to the act of reading in different contexts and genres. The courses emphasize for students the ways in which framing the reading experience by different kinds of questions reveals different texts, and enriches the imaginative experience of reading, leading more to insight on the part of the reader than final answers. Women s Literature 233, Post-Colonial Literature 234, Environmental Literature 241, American Traditions in Literature 251, British Traditions in Literature Upper Division Courses Designed particularly for upper division students, usually but not exclusively with the major in mind.