Nov 26, 2024

2022-2023 EIU Undergraduate Catalog

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2022-2023 EIU Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

English Language Arts Minor

Total Hours: 18

Completion of a teacher licensure minor does not guarantee that the individual will be granted an endorsement to teach in that field. Individuals must meet all requirements (including state tests) as set forth by the Illinois State Board of Education to be granted an endorsement in a second teaching field. NOTE: Additional subject specific secondary endorsements can only be added if you are completing or have completed a program leading to high school or K-12 licensure. Subject-specific secondary endorsements cannot be added to the Early Childhood, Elementary or Middle Level Certificates.

Two required courses (6 credits total):

ENG 2205 - Introduction to Literary Studies. Credits: 3
ENG 4801 - Integrating the English Language Arts. Credits: 3

One course (3 credits total) chosen from the following:

Any 4000-level course in creative writing (note prerequisites). Credits: 3

ENG 2760 - Introduction to Professional Writing. Credits: 3
ENG 3001 - Advanced Composition. Credits: 3
ENG 3005 - Technical Communication. Credits: 3
ENG 3008 - Digital Writing and Multimodal Texts. Credits: 3

One course (3 credits total) chosen from the following:

ENG 2705G - African American and Africana Literatures. Credits: 3
ENG 2850 - Postcolonial Literatures in English. Credits: 3
ENG 3604D - Special Topics in Multicultural Literatures. Credits: 3
ENG 3705 - American Multicultural Literatures. Credits: 3
ENG 3907 - Asian Literatures. Credits: 3
ENG 4750 - Studies in African American Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 4850 - Studies in Postcolonial and Third World Literatures. Credits: 3

One course (3 credits total) chosen from the following:

ENG 3406 - Literature for Pre-Adolescents. Credits: 3
ENG 4903 - Young Adult Literature. Credits: 3

One course (3 credits total) chosen from the following:

ENG 2504G(3504) - Film and Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 2950 - Transatlantic Literary History: Culture, Literacies, and Technologies I. Credits: 3
ENG 2960 - Transatlantic Literary History: Culture, Literacies, and Technologies II. Credits: 3
ENG 3009G - Myth and Culture. Credits: 3
or ENG 3099G - Myth and Culture, Honors. Credits: 3
ENG 3604A - Special Topics in Literature and Language Before 1800. Credits: 3
ENG 3604B - Special Topics in Literature and Language After 1800. Credits: 3
ENG 3606 - Modern Drama. Credits: 3
ENG 3700 - American Literature: 1450 to 1800. Credits: 3
ENG 3701 - American Literature: 1800 to Mid-19th Century. Credits: 3
ENG 3702 - American Literature: Mid-19th Century to 1900. Credits: 3
ENG 3703 - American Literature: 1900 to 1950. Credits: 3
ENG 3704 - American Literature: 1950 to present. Credits: 3
ENG 3800 - Medieval British Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 3802 - Shakespeare. Credits: 3
or ENG 3892 - Shakespeare, Honors. Credits: 3
ENG 3803 - Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century British Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 3805 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 3806 - British Romantic Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 3807 - Victorian Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 3808 - Modern British Literature. Credits: 3
ENG 3809 - Contemporary British and Anglophone Literatures. Credits: 3
ENG 3903A - Women, Literature, and Language, Pre-1800. Credits: 3
ENG 3903B - Women, Literature, and Language, Post-1800. Credits: 3
ENG 4742 - Studies in Genre. Credits: 3
ENG 4904 - Studies in Film. Credits: 3

Note:

Per the Illinois State Board of Education, at least 12 of the credit hours completed toward a minor in teacher licensure must be upper-division course work (3000-level courses or higher). Students must receive a “C” or better in all courses counted toward the English minor and must maintain a minimum cumulative and major GPA of 2.75 in order to continue in the program.