English, English Major-Secondary Education Minor, BA

General Education Core Requirements

Courses in Major (36 credits total, 6 credits at or above the 400 level; one course must be a literature course.)

 National/Postnational (12 credits)

 British and Anglophone

Pre-19th Century

• ENL 340 , 341 , or 442  Shakespeare
• ENL 240 - British Literary Studies I 

United States and the Americas

Pre-20th Century

• ENL 250 - American Literary Studies I 

Postnational

20th and 21st Century Literatures

ENL _____   _________________________________

† Minor: Secondary Education (15 credits total)

• EDU 252A - Contemporary Secondary School ______
• EDU 254A - Teaching the Adolescent (Pre-Practicum) ______
• EDU 256A - Responding to Diversity in Contemporary Secondary Schools ______
• EDU 260A - Reading and Writing Strategies in Secondary Education ______
• EDU 335 - Secondary School Curriculum Materials and Methods-English (Pre-Practicum) ______

Foreign Language (0-12 credits total)

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Free Electives (0 credit minimum)

May be necessary to take additional credits to attain the minimum 120 credits required for graduation.

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Additional Information and Notes

* These are required support courses which may also be used to satisfy the indicated Distribution requirements. A student may choose to fulfill Distribution requirements with courses other than the ones listed, but these listed courses must still be taken.

+ All students must take one course from the following to satisfy Massachusetts state law: HST 204 , HST 205 , HST 208 ,

† Close monitoring of students through the Major and Pre-Practicum advising should be adheredto in order to provide a smooth transistion to the Practicum.  All candidates forInitial Licensure should also consider taking the National Teacher Examination for both sessions, General and Field (English). Close monitoring of student progress through the Major and Pre-Practicum advising should be adhered to in order to provide a smooth transition to the Practicum. All candidates for Initial Licensure must take the Massachusetts Teacher Test for Educators Licensure (MTEL), The Communication and Literacy Skills Test and the Subject Matter Test in English.

^ Students who place into the foreign language above the 101 Elementary level will be able to complete this degree program in 120 credits. Those students beginning from the 101 level will need 123 credits to graduate

Exceptions in the timing of courses will be made for transfer students.

Total minimum credits for graduation: 120^