English Teacher Education (B.A.)

The English teacher certification program allows students to major in English and to complete New Hampshire certification requirements to teach English in grades 5-12. The certification track combines general education courses with the education core, major courses (10 in English language and literature) and English teaching method courses.

The program of study provides the prospective English teacher with a broad and integrated liberal arts background, a concentrated study of English literature and language and the techniques, knowledge and experience to help middle, junior and senior high school students develop to their highest potential.

B.A./B.S. Core
English Education Major Courses
ENG	333	The English Language (course description)
ENG	355	English Grammar (course description)
LIT	200	Introduction to Critical Reading (course description)
LIT	201	World Literature: Foundations of Culture (course description)
LIT	300	Literary Theory (course description)
LIT	316	Modern Drama (course description)
LIT	319	Shakespeare (course description)
LIT	337	Modern Poetry (course description)
LIT	___	Literature Survey (LIT 203-LIT 209 or LIT 228-LIT 236)
LIT	___	Literature elective (400-level)

Choose one:
LIT	203	Early American Literature (course description)
LIT	205	The American Renaissance (course description)
LIT	207	American Realism and Naturalism (course description)
LIT	209	Art Against Society in American Modernism (course description)

Choose one:
LIT	228	Love, Violence and Religion in Medieval  Literature (course description)
LIT	230	Britis Literature: Renaissance to Restoration  (course description)
LIT	232	The Search for Stability in British Neoclassicism (course description)
LIT	234	British Romantic and Victorin Writers (course description)
LIT	236	British Modernism (course description)

Allied Courses
ATH 111 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
EDU 200 Introduction to Education
EDU 235 Learning with Technology
EDU 243 Learning Theory and Instruction
EDU 318 Methods of Teaching Secondary Education
EDU 320 Methods of Teaching English I
EDU 321 Methods of Teaching English II
EDU 362 Literacy in the Content Areas Grades 5-12
EDU 490 Student Teaching and Seminar
PSY 108 Introduction to Psychology
PSY 211 Human Growth and Development
PSY 312 Pyschology of the Childhood/Adolescent
SCI 211 Survey of the Biological Sciences
SCI 212 Principles of the Physical Sciences I
SPED 260 Children with Exceptionalities

Select one of the following two:
HIS 113 United States History I: 1607 to 1865 (fulfills B.A./B.S. core requirement)
HIS 114 United States History II: 1865 to Present (fulfills B.A./B.S. core requirement)