English, Secondary Education Major Combined B.A. & M.Ed.

General Education Requirements

Competencies

Competencies must be completed within the student’s first 30 credits.

♣ General Education Categories (34-35 credits total)

FYS, W-I, and OC courses must be completed within the student’s first 30 credits. Courses used to satisfy the general education requirements of the university must be taken from a minimum of six different academic disciplines. First Year Seminar and Level I Written Communications courses are exempt from this restriction.  Courses may not be used to fulfill both major discipline and general education requirements. 

 ‡ Written Communication (Level II and Level III) and Diversity, Power Dynamics and Social Justice

Courses taken for Written Communication Level II, Level III and Diversity, Power Dynamics and Social Justice may be used to satisfy requirements anywhere else in a student’s program of study where they may apply.  Credits will be counted in the area where they apply.

♥       Students may choose to use support courses to satisfy general education categories, but may not be required to do so.  Note:  If a course is used to satisfy two or more requirements (for example, a support course and Scientific Reasoning requirement), the credits are counted in only one place.  Using a course to satisfy more than one requirement does not reduce the credit total required for graduation.  

♣       Courses used to satisfy the general education requirements of the university must be taken from a minimum of six different academic disciplines.  First Year Seminar and Level I Written Communications courses are exempt from this restriction.  Courses may not be used to fulfill both major discipline and general education requirements.

#       These Scientific Reasoning General Education Category courses do not have to be a sequence or be from the same discipline.

‡        Level II and Level III Written Communications courses and Diversity, Power Dynamics and Social Justice may be used to satisfy requirements anywhere else in a student’s program of study where they may apply.  The credits are counted only in one area.

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

Courses In Major (42 credits)

♥ Require Support Courses (6 credits total)

• PSY 252 Adolescent Psychology
• HST 204 U.S. History and Constitutional Government I

5th Year Courses (M.Ed.): (18 credits total)

• EDC  880PS  Practicum Seminar Teaching English
• EDC  880P    Student Teaching Practicum in English (8-12)
• EDC  804      School-Based Internship
• EDC  805      Professional Lives of Teachers
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Foreign Language (0-12 credits total)

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Required Major: Secondary Education*

Required (33 credits; courses with an asterisk carry graduate and undergraduate credit):

• EDC 115 Exploring Education
• EDC 404 Introduction to Teaching and Assessment
• EDC 405 Culturally Responsive Teaching
• EDC 461 Fieldwork seminar I: Critical Issues and Effective Practices for Secondary and Specialist Teachers
• EDC 415 Teaching Students with Exceptional Learning Needs
• EDC 416 Assessment Methods
• EDC 462 Fieldwork seminar II: Critical Issues and Effective Practices for Secondary and Specialist Teachers
• *EDC  770    Methods of Teaching English I
• *EDC  760    Adolescent Literacy in the Discipline
• *EDC  762    Technology Methods
• *EDC  771     Methods of Teaching English II
• *EDS  860     Sheltering Content for ELLs
• *EDC  763     Classroom Management and Community Building

Additional Information and Notes

*        Students accepted into the combined undergraduate/graduate program who choose not to continue in the combined program must complete an educational studies minor in lieu of the secondary education major.

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