Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Bulletin: 2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin Program: Language Arts Teaching Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Language Arts Teaching Minor

College of Liberal Arts >> English 

24 hours; 2.75 minor GPA required

This minor will not lead to licensure in English or Language Arts for secondary education.  Certification for high school teachers in English requires completion of the complete degree and the Secondary Education Minor.

Shared English Core (12 Hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
ENG 205 - Introduction to English Studies and Ways of Reading
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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 301 - Advanced Composition

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing


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

Teaching Methods (9 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
EDUC 378 - Introduction to Phonemic Awareness
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
EDUC 398 - Reading Methods
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Credits: 3

Directed Elective (3 hours)

Course NameCredits:Term TakenGradeGen Ed
ENG 314 - Approaches to Grammar
Term(s) Offered: Spring (even-numbered years)
Credits: 3
ENG 330 - Ethnic Literature in America

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 331 - African American Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded experience - Diversity


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 371 - Non-Western World Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 372 - Western World Literature

USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Global


Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 375 - Modern Canadian Literature
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 386 - World Mythology

USI Core 39: Ways of Knowing-World Languages and Culture


Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 387 - Women’s Literature and Gender Issues: 19th- and 20th-Century Theory
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 417 - History of English Languages
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 451 - Shakespeare’s Histories and Tragedies
Term(s) Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ENG 453 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances
Term(s) Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ENG 473 - History of Western Drama I
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
ENG 474 - History of World Drama II
Term(s) Offered: Irregularly offered
Credits: 3
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