Core Requirements

Please note that a GPA of 2.75, both cumulative and in the major, is required for departmental approval to student teach. Major GPA based on all English courses taken at EIU, excluding ENG 0990, 0995, 1000, 1001G, 1002G, 1091G, and 1092G. A grade of C or better is required in each course that applies to the major. For the education course work required for this option, see “Teacher Licensure Programs.”

This option requires that students follow and meet the requirements for Admission, Retention and Graduation from Teacher Licensure programs as described in the “Teacher Licensure Programs” section of this catalog and as explained at the University Admission to Teacher Education Meeting which all students must attend. Additional information on Admission, Retention and Graduation for Teacher Licensure programs can be found on the Teaching, Learning and Foundations website at https://www.eiu.edu/education.

Students must receive a “C” or better in all courses counted toward the English major and in all professional education courses and must maintain a minimum cumulative and major GPA of 2.75 in order to continue in the program.

Students must complete the professional education coursework following the Secondary Education Professional Education Course Sequence. Information is available in the Teacher Licensure Program section of this catalog.

Students must pass any state-required teacher performance assessment before they can receive their teaching license from Illinois or any other state. 

Students must also meet with the Director of English Education upon beginning the program and meet all departmental criteria to be approved to student teach.

English with Language Arts Licensure Option

Standard Senior High School (9-12) Licensure with no minor required.

Semester Hours required for the English Language Arts for Teacher Licensure Degree: 55 semester hours

English Major Core Courses (10 credits) All of:

• ENG 1105 - English Major Forum. Credits: 1
• ENG 2205 - Introduction to Literary Studies. Credits: 3
• ENG 2901 - Structure of English. Credits: 3
• ENG 4300 - English Studies Capstone. Credits: 3
• or  ENG 4390 - English Studies Capstone, Honors. Credits: 3

English Language Arts Major (Total Semester Hours: 45)

Writing (6 credits)

• ENG 3001 - Advanced Composition. Credits: 3
• ENG 3008 - Digital Writing and Multimodal Texts. Credits: 3

English Education (12 credits)

• ENG 3401 - Methods of Teaching Composition in Middle and Secondary Schools. Credits: 3
• ENG 3402 - Methods of Teaching Literature in the Middle and Secondary School. Credits: 3
• ENG 4801 - Integrating the English Language Arts in Middle and High Schools. Credits: 3

• and One of the following:

• ENG 3406 - Literature for Pre-Adolescents. Credits: 3
• ENG 4903 - Young Adult Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 4905 - Studies in Youth Literature. Credits: 3

Literature and Culture before 1800 (6 credits)

• ENG 2601 - Backgrounds of Western Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 2950 - Transatlantic Literary History: Culture, Literacies, and Technologies I. Credits: 3
• ENG 3601A - Studies in Major Writers Before 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3604A - Special Topics in Literature and Language Before 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3700 - American Literature: 1450 to 1800. 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 3804 - Milton. Credits: 3
• ENG 3805 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 3903A - Women, Literature, and Language, Pre-1800. Credits: 3

Literature and Culture after 1800 (6 credits)

• ENG 2960 - Transatlantic Literary History: Culture, Literacies, and Technologies II. Credits: 3
• ENG 3601B - Studies in Major Writers After 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3604B - Special Topics in Literature and Language After 1800. Credits: 3
• ENG 3606 - Modern Drama. 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 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 3903B - Women, Literature, and Language, Post-1800. Credits: 3

Genre Studies (3 credits)

• ENG 3606 - Modern Drama. Credits: 3
• ENG 3802 - Shakespeare. Credits: 3
• or  ENG 3892 - Shakespeare, Honors. Credits: 3
• ENG 4742 - Studies in Genre. Credits: 3
• ENG 2504G - Film and Literature. Credits: 3
• ENG 4904 - Studies in Film. Credits: 3

Multicultural and Non-Western Literatures (6 credits)

• ENG 3705 - American Multicultural Literatures. Credits: 3

• And ONE of the following:

• ENG 2705G - African American and Africana Literatures. Credits: 3
• ENG 2706G - Latin American and Latinx Literatures. Credits: 3
• ENG 2850 - Postcolonial Literatures in English. Credits: 3
• ENG 3009G - Myth and Culture. Credits: 3
• or  ENG 3099G - Myth and Culture, Honors. Credits: 3
• ENG 3604D - Special Topics in 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 World Literatures. Credits: 3

English Electives (6 credits)

Option One:

Take ONE of the following English Pedagogy courses:

• ENG 3902, Theoretical Foundations of Second Language Acquisition. Credits: 3
• ENG 4906, Issues in Teaching English. Credits: 3

AND 

Any additional English course (excluding ENG 1001/1091G, ENG 1002/1092G)

Option Two:

• Students pursuing a minor may take two English courses required by that minor to satisfy this six-credit English Elective requirement

Option Three:

• Students may take two courses in a single foreign language (as long as the course is numbered 2000 or above, not taught in English, and not offered for Gen Ed credit) to satisfy this six-credit English Elective requirement.

Professional Education Core (34 Credits)

• EDF 2555G - Education in a Diverse Society: The Multilingual/Multicultural Classroom. Credits: 3
• OR  EDF 2595G - Education in a Diverse Society: The Multilingual/Multicultural Classroom, Honors. Credits: 3
• EDF 4550 - Critical Focus on Education. Credits: 3
• OR  EDF 4595 - Critical Focus on Education, Honors. Credits: 3
• EDP 2330 - Educational Psychology/Foundations for Teachers. Credits: 3
• OR  EDP 2390 - Educational Psychology/Foundations for Teachers for Honors. Credits: 3
• SED 2000 - Inquiry Into Teaching. Credits: 2
• SED 4330 - Literacy, Assessment, and Differentiation in Secondary Schools. Credits: 3
• SED 4335 - Effective Teaching Environments in Secondary Schools. Credits: 4
• SPE 4500 - The Education of Individuals with Exceptional Learning Needs: Access to the General Curriculum. Credits: 3
• STG 4000 - Multicultural/Disabilities Practicum. Credits: 1
• STG 4001 - Student Teaching. Credits: 6 to 16

• (Register for 12 semester hours)

Footnotes:

Concurrent or prior registration in ENG 1105 and ENG 2205 is strongly recommended for majors in all courses at the 2000-level or above.

Major GPA based on all English courses taken at EIU except ENG 0990, 0995, 1000, 1001G, 1002G, 1091G, 1092G.