English - BA, Middle School Teacher Certification
Students in this degree program specialize in teaching-specific subjects, cultivate excellent communication skills, and develop an understanding of the social and intellectual development of children.
The Department of English offers a degree and certification program in English language arts/reading for prospective middle-school teachers. This program requires hours of major coursework in English, and hours of supporting specialized coursework in specific areas of educational planning and teaching. This certification is a field-based program that requires students spend extensive time in middle schools.
All students seeking certification should consult an undergraduate English advisor for additional information.
| First Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fall | Semester Credit Hours | |
| ENGL 303 | Approaches to English Studies | 3 |
| INST 210 | Understanding Special Populations | 3 |
| Select one of the following: 1 | 3 | |
| Public Speaking | ||
| Communication for Technical Professions | ||
| Argumentation and Debate | ||
| Composition and Rhetoric | ||
| Technical and Professional Writing | ||
| American history | 3 | |
| Foreign language 2 | 4 | |
| Semester Credit Hours | 16 | |
| Spring | ||
| ENGL 203 | Writing about Literature 1 | 3 |
| Foreign language 2 | 4 | |
| Life and physical sciences | 3 | |
| Mathematics 3 | 3 | |
| English elective 4 | 3 | |
| General elective 5 | 1 | |
| Semester Credit Hours | 17 | |
| Second Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| INST 222 | Foundations of Education in a Multicultural Society | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| World Literature | ||
| American Literature: The Beginnings to Civil War | ||
| Survey of English Literature I | ||
| Medieval English Literature | ||
| The English Renaissance | ||
| Seventeenth-Century Literature | ||
| Early British Drama | ||
| History of Rhetoric | ||
| Studies in Shakespeare | ||
| Milton | ||
| Chaucer | ||
| Foreign language 2 | 3 | |
| Government/Political science | 3 | |
| Life and physical sciences | 3 | |
| English elective 4 | 3 | |
| Semester Credit Hours | 18 | |
| Spring | ||
| RDNG 371 | Literature in the Middle Grades for all Children | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| World Literature | ||
| Survey of English Literature II | ||
| Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture | ||
| Nineteenth-Century Literature (Romantic) | ||
| Nineteenth-Century Literature (Victorian) | ||
| The American Renaissance | ||
| American Realism and Naturalism | ||
| Nineteenth-Century American Novel | ||
| The British Novel to 1870. | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| American Literature: Civil War to Present | ||
| Texas Literature | ||
| Life and Literature of the Southwest | ||
| Life and Literature of the American South | ||
| Modern and Contemporary Drama | ||
| Twentieth-Century Literature to World War II | ||
| Literature, World War II to Present. | ||
| Literature and Film | ||
| American Poetry | ||
| The American Novel Since 1900 | ||
| The British Novel, 1870 to Present. | ||
| Postcolonial Literatures | ||
| Contemporary Literary Theory | ||
| Foreign language 2 | 3 | |
| Government/Political science | 3 | |
| Mathematics 3 | 3 | |
| Semester Credit Hours | 18 | |
| Third Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| RDNG 372 | Reading and Writing across the Middle Grades Curriculum | 3 |
| American history | 3 | |
| Language, philosophy and culture or creative arts | 3 | |
| Life and physical sciences | 3 | |
| English elective 4 | 3 | |
| English elective 4 | 3 | |
| Semester Credit Hours | 18 | |
| Spring | ||
| ENGL 481 | Senior Seminar | 3 |
| TEFB 371 | Dynamics and Management in Multicultural/Inclusionary Learning Environments 1 | 3 |
| RDNG 468 | Essential Foundations of Language and Literacy for All Learners | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to African-American Literature | ||
| Introduction to Africana Literature | ||
| Asian American Literature and Culture | ||
| Transnational Literature and Culture | ||
| African-American Literature Pre-1930 | ||
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Literatures | ||
| American Ethnic Literature | ||
| African-American Literature Post-1930 | ||
| Native American Rhetorics and Literatures | ||
| Latino/a Literature | ||
| Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Authorship | ||
| Women Writers | ||
| Folklore, Literature, and World Cultures | ||
| Studies in Africana Literature and Culture | ||
| Studies in Women Writers | ||
| Language, philosophy and culture | 3 | |
| Semester Credit Hours | 15 | |
| Fourth Year | ||
| Fall | ||
| INST 362 | English as a Second Language Methods I 1 | 3 |
| RDNG 470 | Reading/Language Arts Methods in Middle Grades Education | 3 |
| RDNG 490 | Assessment in Reading Instruction in Middle Grades | 3 |
| Creative arts | 3 | |
| Semester Credit Hours | 12 | |
| Spring | ||
| MEFB 497 | Supervised Clinical Teaching 1 | 6 |
| Semester Credit Hours | 6 | |
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 120 | |
- 1
Minimum grade of C required.
- 2
Complete 14 hours of a foreign language through the intermediate level. If you choose to enroll in a language you have studied previously without receiving college credit, you must first take a placement test. See academic advisor.
- 3
At least 3 hours must be in MATH. Three hours may be PHIL 240.
- 4
Select from ENGL 100-499 and LING 200-499. (except ENGL 103, ENGL 104, and ENGL 203).
- 5
Select from any 100-499 course not used elsewhere (except ENGL 100-299).
Up to 36 credits in English can be applied to the degree; at least 21 credits must be in literature. A grade of C or higher is required for a course to be counted in the major. For residency, a student must have at least 12 hours in 300- or 400-level English classes from Texas A&M University.
Graduation requirements include 3 hours of International and Cultural Diversity courses and 3 hours of Cultural Discourse courses. A course satisfying a Core category, a college/department requirement, or a free elective can be used to satisfy this requirement. The required 6 hours may be met by courses satisfying other areas of a degree program. See your academic advisor for further information.
Other courses may qualify for the following categories. All courses are to be selected with the approval of the student’s academic advisor. The following lists incorporate University Core Curriculum requirements. No course can be counted in more than one category, except as allowed in the minor field of study and the International and Cultural Diversity and Cultural Discourse graduation requirements. A minimum of 36 hours of 300- or 400-level coursework must be completed at Texas A&M University, with at least 12 of those hours being in the major.