English, B.S.ED.

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Major Requirements

The major requires 43 hours as follows:

Modern Foreign Languages: 6 hours

Any 6 hours in any foreign language or languages.

Gateway Course: 1 hour

ENGL 200 - Introduction to the English Major Credits: (1)

English Education Core: 12 hours

ENGL 240 - Research, Literary Criticism & British Literature Credits: (3).
ENGL 241 - Formalism & American Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 242 - Cultural Studies & Non-Western World Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 278 - Introduction to Film Studies Credits: (3)

Grammar/Writing/Methods: 12 hours

ENGL 312 - Grammar for Teachers Credits: (3)
ENGL 414 - Fundamentals of Teaching Composition Credits: (3)
ENGL 319 - The Teaching of Grammar Credits: (3)
ENGL 416 - Teaching English as a Second Language Credits: (3)

Required Literature: 6 hours

ENGL 418 - Fundamentals of Teaching Literature Credits: (3).
ENGL 431 - Shakespeare and His Age Credits: (3)

Literature Electives

Six hours from any 300-400 level literature courses with an ENGL prefix or EDRD 467, Adolescent Literature. Three of these hours may, but need not, be a course in film studies with an ENGL prefix (♦).

ENGL 331 - Literary Theory Credits: (3)
ENGL 333 - Introduction to Shakespeare Credits: (3)
ENGL 350 - The Renaissance Credits: (3)
ENGL 351 - The Beats, Radicals, and Avant-Garde Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 352 - The Journey in Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 353 - Stories Retold Credits: (3)
ENGL 364 - Southern Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 365 - African-American Writings Credits: (3)
ENGL 366 - Literature of American Immigration Credits: (3)
ENGL 367 - Appalachian Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 368 - Film Genres Credits: (3, R6) ♦
ENGL 370 - The Short Story Credits: (3)
ENGL 378 - Motion Picture Histories Credits: (3) ♦
ENGL 390 - The Bible as Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 394 - Film Adaptation Credits: (3, R6) ♦
ENGL 411 - History of the English Language Credits: (3)
ENGL 420 - Chaucer and His Age Credits: (3)
ENGL 421 - Fairy Tale Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 430 - English Literature of the Renaissance Credits: (3)
ENGL 440 - Milton and His Age Credits: (3)
ENGL 441 - The Age of Pope, Swift, and Johnson Credits: (3)
ENGL 450 - Major American and British Writers Credits: (3, R9)
ENGL 451 - Nineteenth-Century British Writers Credits: (3)
ENGL 455 - The English Novel Credits: (3)
ENGL 463 - American Literature Since 1945 Credits: (3)
ENGL 464 - Native American Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 469 - Directors/Screenwriters/Stars Credits: 3, R6 ♦
ENGL 470 - Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Postcolonial Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 471 - Modern Poetry Credits: (3)
ENGL 472 - Modern Fiction Credits: (3)
ENGL 473 - Modern Drama Credits: (3)
ENGL 475 - The American Novel Credits: (3)
ENGL 477 - Literature and Gender Credits: (3)
ENGL 478 - Film Theory Credits: (3) ♦
ENGL 479 - Studies in Literature Credits: (3, R6)
ENGL 480 - Studies in English Credits: (1-3, R6)
ENGL 496 - Seminar in Comparative Literature Credits: (3)
ENGL 498 - Senior Seminar in English Credits: (3)

Additional Requirements

The professional education sequence (28 hours) for secondary and special subject teaching is required to complete the program. For more thorough preparation, English Education majors are encouraged to take the two-part internship (EDSE 484, Internship I, and EDSE 485, Internship II) rather than EDSE 490, Student Teaching, and SPED 336 (3) instead of SPED 335 (2). Doing so adds 4 hours.

Students must take at least 32 hours at the junior-senior level at WCU in order to satisfy general university requirements.

Students must maintain a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA in the major, and no grade below a C (2.0) for any required course in the major (applies to the English courses listed above and EDEL 467) will be accepted.

Capstone Course: Student Teaching Internship - see Professional Education Sequence.

Genreral Electives: 0-7 hours (depending on how many hours count for Liberal Studies.)

A total of 120 hours is required to graduate. English Education students are encourage to take ENGL classes as their general electives to meet the 120 hour requirement.

Visit the department’s website at http://www.wcu.edu/609.asp to view the 8 semester curriculum guide.