Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2015-2016 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Reading - Teaching Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Reading - Teaching Minor

24 hours; C or better required in all classes; 2.75 minor GPA required

This program has been designed to prepare the student for professional work in the area of reading. The minor in reading is an excellent area of specialization for both prospective elementary and secondary teachers.

Course Requirements (24 hours)

Foundations of Literacy

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
EDUC 203 - Introduction to Children’s Literature
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
EDUC 378 - Literacy Methods I
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

Diagnosis and Correction of Reading Difficulties

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
EDUC 398 - Reading Methods
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
EDUC 455 - Diagnostic Teaching of Reading
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

Literacy and Diversity

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
EDUC 204 - Teaching Writing in Diverse Classrooms, K-8: Research-based Practices Across the Curriculum
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
EDUC 381 - Language, Literacy, and Culture

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global.


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

Electives in Reading (choose two courses)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
EDUC 408 - Teaching Reading to Students with Special Needs
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
EDUC 313 - Advanced Children’s Literature
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
EDUC 314 - Young Adult Literature
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
EDUC 440 - Current Trends in Reading
Term(s) Offered: Summer
Credits: 3
EDUC 480 - Diversity in Children’s Literature
Term(s) Offered: Summer
Credits: 3

 

One of the following:

ENG 105 - Introduction to Literature

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-Creative and Aesthetic Expression.


Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
ENG 255 - Introduction to British Literary History
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 265 - Introduction to American Literary History
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 330 - Ethnic Literature in America

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity.


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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