The English education track includes 33 semester hours of education classes, which will prepare students to teach English at the high-school level.

Total of 128 Semester Hours

A. General Requirements (62 hours)

Freshman/Sophomore core
42 hours in areas A-E (described below)
18 hours in area F (described below)
2 hours in physical education
Area A: Essential Skills (9 hours)
Area B: Institutional Options (4 hours)
Area C: Humanities/Fine Arts (6 hours)
Area D: Natural science, math and technology (11 hours)
Area E: Social sciences (12 hours)
Area F:Major area (18 hours)
Foreign Language 1002 – Elementary Language II
Foreign Language 2001 – Intermediate Language I
Foreign Language 2002 – Intermediate Language II (6-9 hours)
English Electives * (6-12 hours)
* English courses must be chosen from 2000-level English course offerings and must include either world literature sequence (English 2111 and 2112) or African-American literature sequence (English 2141 and 2142) or British literature sequence (English 2121 and 2122) or American literature sequence (English 2131 or 2131H and 2132 or 2132H).

B. Major Field Courses (36 hours)

ENGL 3010 Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 3020 Introduction to Composition Studies
ENGL 4430 Literature of the Non-Western World
ENGL 4100 Shakespeare

*Two courses (one British, one American) selected from:
ENGL 2121 British Literature I
ENGL 2122 British Literature II
ENGL 2131 American Literature I
ENGL 2132 American Literature II
*If one course is taken in Area F, one approved upper division major field course is to be substituted.

One film course:
ENGL 4481 Survey of Film

One course selected from:
ENGL 4020 Advanced Grammar
ENGL 4600 History of the English Language

Three courses (must not be exclusively British or American) selected from:
ENGL 3100 Early English Literature
ENGL 3200 Chaucer
ENGL 3300 Literature of the English Renaissance
ENGL 3400 17th and 18th Century American Poetry and Prose
ENGL 3500 19th Century American Poetry and Prose
ENGL 3600 20th Century American Poetry and Prose
ENGL 4200 Milton
ENGL 4300 18th Century British Poetry and Prose
ENGL 4400 19th Century British Poetry and Prose
ENGL 4500 20th Century British Poetry and Prose

One course selected from:
ENGL 4440 Literature by Women
ENGL 4460 Southern Literature
ENGL 4490 African American Literature

C. Teacher Education Courses (33 hours)