Bachelor of Arts in Secondary Education Major in English (Nevada Only)

Lead Faculty: Ms. Caprice Houston-Bey

The Bachelor of Arts in Secondary English Education 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 a communication studies. This program prepares candidates for professional work as secondary teachers in a changing cultural and economic environment.

Program Learning Outcomes

• 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 Secondary English Education 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. The following courses are specific degree requirements. Candidates must receive passing scores on PRAXIS I & II.

General Education Requirements
The General Education requirements are listed below: Candidates seeking a LICENSE are strongly advised to meet with an advisor early in their program to review program and license requirements.

AREA A: ENGLISH COMMUNICATION
(15 quarter units required – 10.5 units in writing and 4.5 in speech)
ENG 100 - Effective College English (3 quarter units)
ENG 101 - Effective College English (3 quarter units)
   (Prerequisite: ENG 100)
ENG 240 - Advanced Composition
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
COM 100 - Introduction to Mass Communication

AREA B: MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS QUANTITATIVE REASONING
(4.5 quarter units required)
MTH 209A - Fundamentals of Mathematics I

AREA C: INFORMATION LITERACY AND TECHNOLOGY
(4.5 quarter units required)
ILR 260 -  Information Literacy
   (Prerequisite: ENG 100/101)

AREA D: ARTS AND HUMANITIES (13.5 quarter units required)
LIT 100 - Introduction to Literature
   (Prerequisite: ENG 100/101)
HIS 233 -  World Civilizations I
   (Prerequisite: ENG 100/101)
or
HIS 234 - World Civilizations II
   (Prerequisite: ENG 100/101)
PHL 100 - Introduction to Philosophy
   (Prerequisite: ENG 100/101)

AREA E: SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(courses must be in 3 distinct areas) (13.5 quarter units required)
HIS 220A - United States History I [+]
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
PSY 301 -  Child Development
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
or
PSY 100 - Introduction to Psychology
SOC 100 - Principles of Sociology (+)
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
or
SOC 260 - Cultural Anthropology
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)

AREA F: PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(must have a life, earth, and physical science)
(15 quarter units required with 1 lab)
BIO 100 - Survey of Bioscience
BIO 100A - Survey of Bioscience Lab (1.5 quarter units)
   (Prerequisite: SCI 100)
EES 301 - Earth and Planetary Science
PHS 102 - Survey of Physical Science

AREA G: MODERN LANGUAGE (9 quarter units required)
See the General Catalog for Modern Language requirement

Preparation for the Major (4 courses; 15 quarter units)
The following courses or exams must be passed prior to beginning coursework in the major.

ENG 310 - English Grammar
   (Prerequisite: ENG 101)
ENG 350 -  Fundamentals of Linguistics
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
HIS 375 - Nevada Hist., Govt., Const.
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101) (or pass Nevada Tests)
TED 320 - Introduction to Teaching
(includes 30 hours of field experience) (1.5 quarter units)

Passage of PRAXIS I Examination is required before beginning coursework for the major.

III. REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MAJOR
ALL Teacher Education courses (TED) have a field experience component. Students must maintain a 3.0 GPA within all TED coursework and grades of “D” or “F” are not acceptable in TED courses. All major coursework must be completed and PRAXIS II passed prior to student teaching.

English Major Requirements (10 courses; 45 quarter units)
COM 360 - Representation and Diversity in the Media
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
or
ENG 375 - Nature Writing
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
or
ART 315 - Film as Art
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
and
ENG 365 - Creative Writing
   (Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
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 463 - 20th Century World Literature
   (Prerequisite: LIT 100)
LIT 360 - Literary Theory
   (Prerequisite: LIT 100)

Choose one from the following:
(Prerequisite to all courses: LIT 100)
LIT 345 - Mythology
LIT 430 - Children’s Literature
LIT 460 - Gender and Literature

Education Theory and Methodology Major Requirements
(9 courses; 40.5 quarter units) (Prerequisite: TED 320)

TED 300 - Fundamentals of Education
   (Prerequisites: Admission to the Teacher Education Program, TED 320)
TED 310 - Development and Learning
   (Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program, TED 320)
TED 330B -  Reading and Language Arts
   (Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program, TED 320, TED 300, TED 310)
TED 340 - Content Area Reading Methods
   (Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program, TED 320, TED 300, TED 310)
TED 410 - Survey of Multicultural Lit
   (Prerequisite: TED 320)
TED 420 - Diversity in Schooling
   (Prerequisite: TED 320)
TED 430 - Special Needs Students
   (Prerequisite: TED 320)
TED 440 - Leadership and Assessment
   (Prerequisite: TED 320)
TED 450 -  Teaching Methods for Secondary English Majors
   (Prerequisites: LIT 100, TED 320, and at least 9 of the 12 required English major courses)

Student Teaching Requirements (5 courses; 21 quarter units)
Candidates MUST pass PRAXIS I & II and must have documented 60 hours in field experience prior to student teaching. TED 465 A, B, C, and D are field experiences receiving an honors, satisfactory, or unsatisfactory grade and are not factored into the cumulative GPA

TED 465A - Student Teaching I
   (Prerequisites: Completion of all upper-division course requirements, including all TED coursework)
TED 465B - Student Teaching II
   (Prerequisites: Completion of all upper-division course requirements, including all TED coursework)
TED 465C -  Student Teaching III
   (Prerequisites: Completion of all upper-division course requirements, including all TED coursework)
TED 465D - Student Teaching IV
   (Prerequisites: Completion of all upper-division course requirements, including all TED coursework)
TED 470 - Student Teach/E-Portfolio (3 quarter units)
*Must be taken concurrently with TED 465 A-D

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