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Eight-Semester Plan for B.S.Ed. in English Education
Major Program Guide For: B.S.Ed. in English
Concentration: English Education
Suggested Course Sequence
- Total for Degree: 122 Credit Hours
- Students may finish earlier if they attend summer school at WCU or another approved institution.
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| Course Prefix or Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours | Course Prefix or Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours |
| ENGL (C1) | 101 | Composition I | 3 | ENGL (C1) | 102 | Composition II | 3 |
| MATH (C2) | Math | 3 | C5 | Physical/Biological Science | 3 | ||
| CMHC (C3) | 201 | 3 | C4 | Wellness | 3 | ||
| Freshman Seminar | 3 | P1 | Social Science | 3 | |||
| MFL (P6) | 101 | 3 | MFL (meet English Requirement) | 102 | 3 | ||
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| Course Prefix or Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours | Course Prefix or Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours |
| P1 | Social Science | 3 | EDSE | 322 | Principles and Methods of Teaching | 2 | |
| ENGL | 231 | Intro to Literature | 3 | P3 (as ULP) | History | 3 | |
| EDCI | 231 | Hist., Soc., and Philos. Foundations of Education | 3 | C5 | Physical/Biological Science | 3 | |
| P4 | Humanities | 3 | ENGL | 252 | British Survey II | 3 | |
| ENGL | 251 | British Survey I | 3 | ENGL | 261 | American Survey I | 3 |
| General Elective | 3 | ENGL | 278 | Introduction to Film | 3 | ||
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Upper Level Perspective (ULP): An approved Upper Level Liberal Studies Perspectives course is required in one of the Liberal Studies Perspectives categories. | |||||||
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Junior Year | |||||||
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| Course Prefix of Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours | Course Prefix of Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours |
| P5 | Fine Arts | 3 | SPED | 335 or 336 | Teaching Exceptional Children | 3 | |
| ENGL | 312 | Grammar for Teachers | 3 | ENGL | 414 | Fundamentals of Teaching Composition | 3 |
| ENGL | 262 | American Survey II | 3 | EDRD | 467 | Adolescent Literature | 3 |
| PSY | 320 or 322 | Child and Adolescent Psychology | 3 | ENGL | 319 | 3 | |
| ENGL | International Category Elective | 3 | ENGL | Multicultural Category Elective | 3 | ||
| General Elective | 3 | ||||||
| Upper Level Perspective (ULP): An approved Upper Level Liberal Studies Perspectives course is required in one of the Liberal Studies Perspectives categories. | |||||||
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Senior Year | |||||||
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| Course Prefix or Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours | Course Prefix of Liberal Studies Requirement | Course Number | Course Title | Hours |
| EDSE | 484 | Internship I | 3 | EDSE | 485 | Internship II | 6 |
| ENGL | 417 | Methods of Teaching English | 3 | ENGL | 491 | Supervised Student Teaching in English | 3 |
| PSY | 321 | Educational Psychology | 3 | EDSE | 495 | Seminar in Supervised Student Teaching | 3 |
| ENGL | Major Figure Elective | 3 | |||||
NOTES:
- Total for Degree: 120 Credit Hours
- Students may finish earlier if they attend summer school at WCU or another approved institution.
- Note that we require any six hours of Modern Foreign Language; that we encourage candidates to take their heaviest semesters as juniors or seniors, and to drop down to a twelve-hour semester during Internship I; that no non-Internship courses can be taken during the final semester; that EDRD 467 is currently offered only in spring, and ENGL 417 only in fall; that ENGL 312 should precede ENGL 319, but that other core courses may be taken in virtually any order; and that when we wrote this program, MFL 101 could not double for P6 credit, but that now it can. The loss of this three hours means that while the program as it is currently written, with two 3-hour general electives, lists 125 hours, this degree plan now requires only 122. Most students pick up at least two non-required electives somewhere in their progress through the university, whether due to outside interests or to confusion about what is required. Candidates should expect additional specific requirements to be written back into the program sometime during 2008; a likely requirement, assuming the 2007 hire is successful, is ENGL 416, Teaching English as a Second Language.