English Secondary Education, 8-12

PREREQUISITES

ENGL 1013 – Writing Studies I – 3 credit hours

Familiarizes students with the expectations of college-level writing, with emphases on writing as a process, critical thinking, and fundamentals of research. Focus may be divided among the standard features of academic writing that may include personal narratives, rhetorical analyses, argument essays, literary responses, and short, researched essays. Students will begin to develop sophisticated analytical skills to complement a broadened understanding of the writing process and what it means to be a writer. Topics, subject matter, and approaches will vary depending upon individual instructors. Prerequisite: 18 or above ACT English sub-score or equivalent, or successful completion of ENGL 0903 or ENGL 0904. Course rotation: All semesters.

ENGL 1023 – Writing Studies II – 3 credit hours

Builds on knowledge developed in Writing Studies I and provides comprehensive instruction on incorporating research in academic writing assignments. Students learn how to summarize, synthesize, and document sources using MLA documentation style. Using researched material for support rather than as the primary content of an essay will be encouraged and emphasized. Students will exhibit sophisticated analytical skills to complement a broad understanding of the writing process and what it means to be a writer. Topics, subject matter, and approaches will vary depending upon individual instructors. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C in ENGL 1013 or minimum ACT English sub-score of 25. Course rotation: All semesters.

ENGL 2103 – Literary Interpretation – 3 credit hours

Introduces students to the fundamental terminology and methodology for understanding and interpreting the literary genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and, when applicable, global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Open to all students, this course is required for English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 1013. Course rotation: All semesters.

PSYC 1003 – Principles of Psychology – 3 credit hours

Introduction to the scientific study of human behavior. Fundamental facts, theories, concepts and principles of psychology are included. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

ACADEMIC MAJOR:  ENGLISH – CORE REQUIREMENTS

ENGL 3063 – Ethnic Literature – 3 credit hours

Study of the literature of ethnic cultures such as African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American, and the Caribbean. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and, when applicable, global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission.  Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 3113 – American Literature I – 3 credit hours

Study of American literature to 1865, which will include Early, Colonial, and Romantic authors. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, and cultural literacy. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 3123 – American Literature II – 3 credit hours

Study of American literature since 1865, which will include Naturalist, Realist, Modernist, and Contemporary authors. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, and cultural literacy. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

ENGL 3213 – British Literature I – 3 credit hours

Study of British literature to 1798, which will include Old, Middle, Renaissance, and Enlightenment authors. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 3223 – British Literature II – 3 credit hours

Study of British literature since 1798, which will include Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist authors. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

ENGL 3363 – Modern Critical Theory – 3 credit hours

Examines the basic principles and moves to advanced application of literary and modern critical theories, which may include feminist and gender studies, reader-response theory, new historicism, deconstruction, and post-colonialism. By semester’s end, students will have the opportunity to develop their own critical positions. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 and junior standing or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

ENGL 3733 – Writing & Culture – 3 credit hours

This course is designed to help students think and write critically about varying aspects of culture. Encourages students to engage in rhetorical analyses of the ways various cultures use writing and conceive literacy and to investigate the ways cultural norms shape writing and visual media. Explores developments of trends in areas such as film, television, and the internet. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and, when applicable, global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 1023 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

ENGL 4503 – Advanced Writing – 3 credit hours

This course enhances students’ abilities to think critically and write effectively through exposure to current and ongoing scholarly conversations about the theory and practice of writing. Students will have multiple opportunities to join the conversation (both orally and in writing) and to communicate in various forms and styles (formal as well as informal). This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, and cultural literacy. By the end of the course, students will be not only more effective writers and critical thinkers but also more flexible and thoughtful users of the English language. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisite: ENGL 1023 and junior standing or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 4903 – English Majors Seminar – 3 credit hours

The English program’s capstone course that provides students further opportunities to explore literature, writing, and language topics and ideas, culminating in a substantive, research-supported writing project. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and, when applicable, global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. Prerequisites: ENGL 3363 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ACADEMIC MAJOR: ENGLISH – SECONDARY EDUCATION TRACK

Note:        Choose courses from among those not taken for the Core Requirements.

ENGL 2703 – Introduction to Modern English Grammar – 3 credit hours

An examination of contemporary grammar as it pertains to Standard English. Students will become aware of language varieties, familiar with grammar terminology, and better able to recognize the structure of English sentences. This awareness will, in turn, assist students in strengthening their own language use and working with language users from various backgrounds. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, and cultural literacy. Prerequisite: ENGL 1023 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

ENGL 3053 – Major Authors Seminar – 3 credit hours

Study of one, sometimes two, major authors from the ancient world to the present. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and, when applicable, global awareness. This course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 3103 – Creative Writing – 3 credit hours

Provides students the opportunity to learn and practice the essentials of writing poetry, fiction, drama, or creative nonfiction in a workshop setting. This course emphasizes intellectual development and cultural literacy. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 3163 – Women Writers – 3 credit hours

Study that examines the works of women writers within the contexts of gender, history, society, politics, writing, literature, and literary theory. Content and variety of authors will vary by instructor. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course is also an elective for the Women’s & Gender Studies major and minor programs and emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and, when applicable, global awareness. May be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 3373 – Literary Cultures – 3 credit hours

Study of particular literary cultures and their works as both separate from and a part of larger cultures. Literary cultures might include the Metaphysical or Cavalier Poets, American Transcendentalists, Southern Writers, the Harlem Renaissance, the British War Poets, the Irish Renaissance, the Beats, the Confessional Poets, the Black Arts Movement, the Existentialists, Kentucky/Appalachian Writers, or Nature and Environmental Writers. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and, when applicable, global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches will vary depending upon the instructor. This course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

ENGL 3413 – Studies in Genre – 3 credit hours

Study of poetry, drama, or narrative (broadly defined and which may include film and memoir). Readings will include theoretical studies of the genre and readings within the genre. Effective use of secondary sources and research-supported writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and when applicable, global awareness. This course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Fall.

ENGL 3553 – Transnational Literature – 3 credit hours

Study of literary works and traditions from various parts of the world, through a comparative framework. Attention will be paid to cross-cultural exchanges that occur when literary works and movements cross nation-state boundaries. Exploration of phenomena such as globalization, exile, diaspora, border-crossing, print circulation, and migration may be emphasized. Focus varies depending upon instructor but may include Transnational Modernism(s), the Postcolonial, the black Atlantic, Chicano/a literature, border studies, Transatlantic literature, Trauma and Terrorism, and literature of the Americas. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and intercultural and global awareness. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Alternate fall.

ENGL 3563 – Critical Issues in Literature & Writing – 3 credit hours

Study of literature and writing that engages such issues as class, gender, ethnicity, education, ethics, nation and citizenship, crime, violence, and war. Reading in the course will include a variety of authors of both nonfiction and literature. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and global awareness. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. This course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisites: ENGL 1023 and ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

ENGL 3603 – Shakespeare – 3 credit hours

Study of the comedies, histories, and/or tragedies of William Shakespeare. Contextual matters such as the Elizabethan stage, Renaissance thought, performance questions, modern adaptations, and critical commentary and controversy will be explored. Use of secondary sources and research writing will be included. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, cultural literacy, and global awareness. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2203 or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring..

ENGL 4703 – Topics in Writing & Rhetoric – 3 credit hours

Advanced study of a specific research area or sub-discipline of writing studies and rhetoric. Students will gain a working knowledge of current scholarship, engage in scholarly critiques, and move toward making a contribution of their own in the specific subject area. Topics may include feminism and writing studies; ethnography and writing studies; classical rhetoric; rhetoric of science; film studies; or methods of assessment. This course emphasizes intellectual development, critical analysis, and cultural literacy. Topics, subject matter, and approaches may vary depending upon the instructor. This course may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: Senior standing or instructor’s permission. Course rotation: Spring.

PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION:  EDUCATION

EDUC 2123 – The Teaching Profession – 3 credit hours

Provides an overview of formalized schooling: influence of cultural background and socioeconomic status on child development and learning; teacher ethics; legal issues; student diversity; and curriculum. Includes a study of the historical movements of Western thought that have shaped contemporary educational theory and practice in the United States. Students will use technology to analyze the underlying philosophical themes revealed in the current structure and content of primary, middle level, and secondary education. Includes field hours. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 2713 – Introduction to Educational Technology – 3 credit hours

Introduces the theory and practice of instructional technology from historical and pragmatic perspectives. Studies the context and rationale for technology infusion in education, the definition of instructional technology, and its development in practice, the history of the field and current trends and issues. Students develop competencies in educational technology appraisal, technologically mediated communication and research, and the selection, development and application of multimedia to instruction. Prerequisite or Corequisite: EDUC 2123. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 3123 – Principles of Lifelong Learning – 3 credit hours

A study of psychology’s role in the understanding of human growth and development and its effect on learning. Students will become conversant with prevalent learning theories, experimental findings, and other data applicable to teaching and learning in the education profession. Students will integrate and apply the course knowledge base through case studies and application in P-12 educational settings. Includes field hours. Prerequisite: PSYC 1003 and admission to the teacher education program. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 3143 – The Exceptional Learner – 3 credit hours

A study of the social, psychological, and physiological aspects of diverse student needs in the classroom that include learning disabilities, the gifted, and the visually, aurally, physically, emotionally, and neurologically challenged. A major focus of the course is differentiation of instruction and accommodating the needs of learners.  In the field hours, education candidates will work collaboratively with the classroom teacher and utilize technology in assisting student learning. Corequisite: PSYC 1003. Prerequisites: Admission to the teacher education program and EDUC 3403 or EDUC 3413. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 3403 – Fundamentals of Secondary Education – 3 credit hours

Introduces the historical role and contemporary practices of P-12 education in U.S. society. Topics include: theories underlying educational curriculum and instruction, generic teaching methods, issues in student diversity, instructional technology, principles/ problems/materials/media, and techniques involved in instructional activities. Students use technology to develop competencies in standards-based lesson/unit planning and lesson presentation. Includes field hours. Prerequisite: EDUC 2123. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 3523 – Reading & Writing in the Content Areas 5-9, 8-12 & P-12 – 3 credit hours

Establishes methods and techniques for incorporating literacy instruction, including digital media technology, in the content teaching of middle and high school teachers. Includes an overview of the reading and writing processes and discusses the application of literacy principles to the content areas. Literacy needs of diverse learners in closing the achievement gap is also addressed in order to prepare students for literacy requirements outlined in the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) and Career Readiness Standards. Includes field hours. Prerequisites: Admission to the teacher education program, EDUC 3403, and junior standing. Course rotation: Fall.

EDUC 4103 – Measurement & Assessment in Education – 3 credit hours

A pragmatic approach to the study of educational tests and measurement that explains essential psychometric concepts and their application in the classroom. Includes a thorough discussion of performance and portfolio assessments as well as how to assess special needs students. Uses technology, construction, selection, administration, interpretation, and utilization of evaluation techniques and instruments, including statistical interpretations. Includes field hours. Prerequisite: Admission to the teacher education program. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 4433 – Curriculum & Methodology in Secondary Schools – 3 credit hours

An in-depth study of discipline-specific principles of secondary curriculum and instruction. Topics include theory and standards organizing disciplinary scope and sequence, preparation of activities, lessons and unit plans, micro-teaching, and the study and application of integrative principles and techniques. Students develop competencies in disciplinary curriculum design technology integration and expand repertoire of assessment and instructional strategies appropriate to their content area. Includes field hours. Prerequisites: Admission to the teacher education program, EDUC 3403, EDUC 3523, and second semester junior standing. Course rotation: Spring.

EDUC 4463 – Classroom Management 5-9 & 8-12 – 3 credit hours

Acquaints the student with classroom organization, discipline strategies, and classroom management techniques using technology designed as a culminating experience prior to student teaching that prepares students for effective classroom management in rural/small-school settings. Includes field hours. Prerequisites: Admission to the teacher education program, and EDUC 3403 or EDUC 3413, and last semester before student teaching. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 4600 – Supervised Student Teaching – 12 credit hours

The student-teacher is expected to observe systematically expert teaching and to engage, under supervision, in the conduct of class sessions. The student-teacher also is expected to acquire skills in, and familiarity with, the co-curricular activities of a teacher and technology integration. Personal and group conferences and systematic supervision by faculty members are part of this requirement. Open only to students who have been approved for this part of the program. ($155 student teaching fee)  Corequisite: EDUC 4603. Course rotation: Fall and spring.

EDUC 4603 – Practicum – 3 credit hours

Taken during the student teaching semester using technology to study curriculum, methods, media, computer software materials, and instructional procedures in the content areas in secondary education with an emphasis on field experience. Corequisite: EDUC 4600. Course rotation: Fall and spring.