NOTE: This is only the recommended endorsement policy.  It has not been officially adopted.

Undergraduate students, working toward "A" licensure for high school teaching in another academic discipline, may choose to apply for an endorsement in English.  The endorsement requirements also fulfill the English minor.  To work toward an endorsement for the teaching of high school English, a student must have a minimum grade point average of 2.75 and must have successfully completed the PRAXIS I.  Next, the student needs to receive written approval from the Director of English Education at the time of application to the Teachers Academy and needs to declare a minor in English with the Director of English Undergraduate Studies.  The coursework for the endorsement must be successfully completed by graduation and before applying for licensure.

18 credit hours in English to be distributed as follows:

1.  Twelve (12) hours, three (3) from each of four categories:

    A. World Literature (English 201 or 202)

            ENG 201 European Literary Classics: Ancient to Renaissance--Critical reading and analysis of works in translation: Homer, Dante, Cervantes, and others.

            ENG 202 European Literary Classics: Enlightenment to Modern--Critical reading and analysis of works in translation: Moliere, Goethe, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, and others.

    B. British Literature (English 211 or 212)

            ENG 211 Major British Authors: Medieval to Neoclassical--Major poets, dramatists, satirists read within the context of their times: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Swift, and others.

            ENG 212 Major British Authors: Romantic to Modern--Major authors of the Romantic, Victorian and Modern periods studied in relation to their times and traditions: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Yeats, Joyce, and others.

    C.  American Literature (English 251 or 252)       

            ENG 251 Major American Authors: Colonial to Romantic--Classic authors and their contributions to the intellectual life of America: Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, and others.

            ENG 252 Major American Authors: Realist to Modern--Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors and their contributions to the development of modern thought: Dickinson, Twain, Frost, Faulkner, Hemingway, and others.

    D. Language and Writing (English 321 or 322)

            ENG 321 Linguistics for Teachers--Introduction to formal study of the English language, including intensive review of structural and transformational grammars.  Other topics of interest for teachers of English, including geographical and social dialects and teaching composition.  Course satisfies a state requirement for prospective English teachers.

            ENG 322 The Teaching of Writing--Principles of written discourse with a survey of techniques of teaching composition.  Instruction in composing, editing, and criticizing written discourse.

2.  Six (6) hours of electives at the 200 and 300 levels, with at least three (3) hours being at the 300 level.  Note, only three (3) hours may be in Shakespeare.

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