Bachelor of Arts Major in English with a California Preliminary Single Subject Credential

Lead Faculty: Mrs. Mary Anne Weegar

This program is also listed under the College of Letters and Sciences.

The Bachelor of Arts in English with a Preliminary Single Subject Credential provides a rigorous education that prepares candidates for a career as a teacher of English at the middle and secondary school levels. The program stresses literary analysis, diversity, and critical thinking and written and oral communication skills through a rigorous curriculum of literature, composition, language and linguistics, and communication studies. This program prepares candidates for professional work as single subject teachers in a changing cultural and economic environment. Candidates are required to complete all required coursework as well as the Basic Skills requirement and California Subject Examination for Teachers (CSET) to receive a credential.

Program Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, candidates are expected to:

• Demonstrate familiarity with major British and American writers and their works.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the major periods and movements of British and American literary history.
• Demonstrate an appreciation of the role of marginalized or oppositional voices in the evolution of the literary tradition and literary history.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret literary works within their historical and cultural contexts.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret works of literature in the context of generic conventions.
•  Demonstrate the ability to analyze and interpret the use and effects of literary and rhetorical features of literary texts.
• Demonstrate understanding of major critical approaches to the interpretation of literature.
• Demonstrate the ability to compose sophisticated written works of literary analysis, incorporating appropriate close reading, research, and writing skills.
• Demonstrate application of educational technology to meet the needs of all learners including those with special needs linguistically and culturally diverse students.
•  Demonstrate knowledge of adolescent development in order to explain how to support growth in cognitive, social, physical and emotional domains.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the learning needs of students to create positive learning environment that ensure healthy human growth
• Utilize systematic observations, documentation, and other effective assessment strategies in a responsible manner to facilitate and account for learning and to support positive growth.
• Design, implement, and evaluate standards-based lesson plans for learning and achievement in content areas.
• Demonstrate professional standards and ethics.
• Utilize different teaching strategies to accomplish the teaching and learning goals

Requirements

Degree Requirements
To receive a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Single Subject Teaching Credential, candidates must complete at least 180 quarter units as articulated below, 45 of which must be completed in residence at National University and 76.5 of which must be completed at the upper-division level. In the absence of transfer credit, additional general electives may be necessary to satisfy total units for the degree. The following courses are specific degree requirements.

Preparation for the Major (1 course; 4.5 quarter units)
LIT 100 - Introduction to Literature*
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
*May also be used to satisfy General Education requirements.

Requirements for the Major (25 courses; 112.5 quarter units)

English Requirements (11 courses; 49.5 quarter units)
ENG 350 - Fundamentals of Linguistics (Prerequisite: ENG 101)
or
ENG 365 - Creative Writing (Prerequisite: ENG 101)
LIT 311 - British Literature I (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 312 - British Literature II (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 321 - American Literature I (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 322 - American Literature II (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 338 - Shakespeare (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 360 - Literary Theory (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 463 - 20th Century World Literature (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 498 - English Capstone Project
   (Prerequisite: completion of at least eight upper-division LIT classes)
and
Any two additional upper division Literature (LIT) courses from available offerings.

Education Orientation, Theory and Methodology Requirements
(8 courses; 36 quarter units)

• Students must complete the Basic Skills requirement (CBEST) before taking any other TED courses in the program.
• Students must complete TED 305 prior to TPA 1
• Students must satisfy all Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA) requirements as described in the Credentials section of this Catalog (see Index).
• All Teacher Education (TED) courses include a field experience component.
• Students must maintain a 3.0 GPA for all TED courses; grades of “D” or “F” will not be considered passing.

It is strongly recommended students take the following courses in the order they are listed.

TED 305 - Teaching as a Profession
TED 300 - Fundamentals of Education (Prerequisite: TED 305 or TED 320)
TED 430 - Special Needs Student (Prerequisites: TED 305 or TED 320)
TED 410 - Survey of Multicultural Lit. (Prerequisite: TED 305 or TED 320)
TED 310 - Development and Learning (Prerequisite: TED 305 or TED 320)
TED 420 - Diversity in Schooling (Prerequisite: TED 305 or TED 320)
TED 330B - Reading and Language Arts (Prerequisite: TED 305 or TED 320)
TED 450 - Methods of Teaching English (Prerequisite: TED 305 or TED 320)

Student Teaching Requirements (4 courses; 18 quarter units)
(Prerequisites: Completion of all other Requirements for the Major with satisfactory GPA and fulfillment of Single Subject Matter Preparation (SSMP) requirement by passage of the CSET or completion of an approved SSMP program. TED 456A, B, C, and D are field experience courses. Grades awarded are Honors, Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory and are not factored into the cumulative GPA.

TED 465A - Student Teaching I
   (Prerequisite: completion of all upper division course requirements)
TED 465B - Student Teaching II
   (Prerequisite: completion of all upper division course requirements)
TED 465C - Student Teaching III
   (Prerequisite: completion of all upper division course requirements)
TED 465D - Student Teaching IV
   (Prerequisite: completion of all upper division course requirements)

Additional Courses for Satisfying SB2042 and CTC for California Teaching Credential (2 courses; 9 quarter units)

Students must have senior standing to enroll in these two classes. The classes are considered graduate level. The grades earned must be a “B” or better. These courses will not transfer to any graduate level program (at National University or elsewhere).

EDX 1201X - Computer-based Technology in the Classroom
HEDX 1201X - Health Education for Teachers

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