The Dual Degree Dual Certification program is a 5-year program that leads to teacher certification in English (grades P-12), teacher certification in Teacher of Students with Disabilities, a baccalaureate degree and a master’s degree. Interested students must apply to and be admitted to the Teacher Education Program as an undergraduate. Students must successfully complete the undergraduate portion of the program in order to be admitted to the Graduate School and complete the one-year master’s portion of the program.
Please visit the Teacher Education Program website for the required undergraduate professional sequence of courses, overall course outline, and other important Program requirements, guidelines, and procedures. Students also are strongly advised to review the Teacher Education Program Handbook.
120 credits of coursework is required for the baccalaureate degree with a minimum 3.0 overall GPA. Major GPA requirements differ depending on field of study. Consult the Teacher Education Program Handbook for more information.Program Requirements
Requirements for the graduate portion of this dual degree program can be found here.
Students must complete General Education requirements and World Languages and Cultures Requirements.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required English Courses | ||
| ENFL 208 | Introduction to the Film | 3 |
| ENGL 116 | World Literature: The Coming of Age Theme | 3 |
| or ENGL 117 | World Literature: Voices of Tradition and Challenge | |
| ENGL 300 | Critical Approaches to English | 3 |
| ENGL 305 | Young Adult Literature | 3 |
| ENWR 371 | Teaching Writing in the Public Schools | 3 |
| or ENWR 385 | Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing | |
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Black Women Writers: US | ||
| Black Writers in the United States: A Survey | ||
| Contemporary U.S. Literature of Immigration | ||
| Women Poets | ||
| African Myth and Literature | ||
| Contemporary African Literature | ||
| English Requirements by Advisement | ||
| Select 24 credits from list below (not already taken) as prescribed by a departmental advisor (no more than three 100-level courses can count toward the major): | 24 | |
| Total Credits | 42 | |
English Requirements by Advisement
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENFL 251 | Special Topics in Film Studies | 3 |
| ENFL 255 | Major Film Movements | 3 |
| ENFL 260 | Major Film Genres | 3 |
| ENFL 265 | Major Film Directors | 3 |
| ENFL 294 | World Film Before 1945 | 3 |
| ENFL 295 | World Film After 1945 | 3 |
| ENFL 310 | Intermediate Screenwriting | 3 |
| ENFL 350 | Three Directors | 3 |
| ENFL 356 | The Contemporary Film | 3 |
| ENFL 357 | American Film to 1945 | 3 |
| ENFL 358 | American Film 1945 to the Present | 3 |
| ENFL 360 | Film Comedy | 3 |
| ENFL 365 | Gender and Sexuality in Film | 3 |
| ENFL 370 | Class, Race and Ethnicity in Film | 3 |
| ENFL 392 | Analysis of Cinematic Movement | 3 |
| ENFL 410 | Advanced Screenwriting | 3 |
| ENFL 496 | Seminar in Film | 3 |
| ENGL 210 | Myth and Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 110 | Introduction to Literature: The Analytic Essay | 3 |
| ENGL 111 | Introduction to Literature: The Short Story | 3 |
| ENGL 114 | Introduction to Literature: Utopian and Dystopian Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 116 | World Literature: The Coming of Age Theme | 3 |
| ENGL 117 | World Literature: Voices of Tradition and Challenge | 3 |
| ENGL 227 | Queer Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 228 | American Literature I: Beginnings to 1890 | 3 |
| ENGL 229 | American Literature II: 1890 to Present | 3 |
| ENGL 230 | Images of Muslim Women in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 234 | American Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 235 | Contemporary Chinese Women's Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 237 | Black Women Writers: US | 3 |
| ENGL 238 | Black Writers in the United States: A Survey | 3 |
| ENGL 239 | Social Protest Literature in America | 3 |
| ENGL 240 | English Literature I: Beginnings to 1660 | 3 |
| ENGL 241 | English Literature II: 1660 to Present | 3 |
| ENGL 243 | King Arthur and Arthurian Literature in Medieval England | 3 |
| ENGL 250 | Special Topics in English or American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 252 | Special Topics in Comparative Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 255 | The Golden Age of Children's Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 256 | English Novel to 1900 | 3 |
| ENGL 260 | Art of Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 262 | Art of Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 263 | Art of Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 274 | Contemporary U.S. Literature of Immigration | 3 |
| ENGL 275 | Vietnam War and American Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 278 | Survey of Brazilian Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 284 | The English Language | 3 |
| ENGL 294 | Women Poets | 3 |
| ENGL 301 | The Novels of Toni Morrison | 3 |
| ENGL 308 | Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 315 | American Indian Themes | 3 |
| ENGL 316 | African, Asian and Caribbean Literature in English | 3 |
| ENGL 324 | American Poetry to 1940 | 3 |
| ENGL 325 | American Poetry: World War II to Present | 3 |
| ENGL 326 | Early American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 330 | Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 333 | Literature of American Renaissance | 3 |
| ENGL 334 | European Romanticism | 3 |
| ENGL 335 | Contemporary Irish Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 336 | American Literary Realism | 3 |
| ENGL 337 | Modern American Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 338 | Recent American Fiction 1990 to Present | 3 |
| ENGL 339 | Postwar American Fiction 1945-1990 | 3 |
| ENGL 340 | Literature of the Enlightenment Era | 3 |
| ENGL 341 | Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century | 3 |
| ENGL 342 | From Sensibility to Romanticism | 3 |
| ENGL 343 | Milton | 3 |
| ENGL 344 | Chaucer | 3 |
| ENGL 345 | Medieval English Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 346 | 19th Century English Romantic Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 347 | Victorian Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 348 | Renaissance Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 349 | Victorian Popular Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 350 | The Victorian Novel | 3 |
| ENGL 351 | Nineteenth-Century British Non-Fiction Prose | 3 |
| ENGL 352 | English Drama: Beginnings to 1642 | 3 |
| ENGL 353 | Shakespeare: Comedies-Histories | 3 |
| ENGL 354 | Shakespeare: Tragedies-Romances | 3 |
| ENGL 356 | Modern British Fiction 1900-1945 | 3 |
| ENGL 357 | Postwar British Fiction 1946-1990 | 3 |
| ENGL 358 | Recent British Fiction 1990-Present | 3 |
| ENGL 359 | James Joyce | 3 |
| ENGL 360 | Irish Literary Revival: 1890-1939 | 3 |
| ENGL 361 | Modern Irish Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 363 | Modern Poetry to T.S. Eliot | 3 |
| ENGL 364 | Contemporary Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 365 | Poetry and Performance | 3 |
| ENGL 370 | English Independent Study I | 2-3 |
| ENGL 371 | English Independent Study II | 2-3 |
| ENGL 372 | Women Prose Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 373 | Literary Modernism | 3 |
| ENGL 374 | Contemporary European Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 375 | Modern Drama: Ibsen to O'Neill | 3 |
| ENGL 376 | Modern European Novel | 3 |
| ENGL 377 | Speculative Fiction: Fantasy | 3 |
| ENGL 378 | Science Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 381 | Comic and Satiric Tradition | 3 |
| ENGL 384 | The Grammars of English | 3 |
| ENGL 398 | Autobiography | 3 |
| ENGL 401 | Old English Language and Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 444 | 17th Century English Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 455 | Restoration and 18th Century Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 456 | 20th Century English Novel | 3 |
| ENGL 492 | Seminar in Comparative Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 493 | Seminar in American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 494 | Seminar in English Literature | 3 |
| ENWR 205 | Creative Nonfiction | 3 |
| ENWR 212 | Introduction to Poetry Writing | 3 |
| ENWR 213 | Introduction to Fiction Writing | 3 |
| ENWR 215 | Beginning Drama Workshop | 3 |
| ENWR 217 | Rhetoric of Political Writing | 3 |
| ENWR 250 | Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3 |
| ENWR 301 | Cooperative Education (English) | 4-8 |
| ENWR 311 | Intermediate Fiction Workshop | 3 |
| ENWR 312 | Intermediate Poetry Workshop | 3 |
| ENWR 318 | Intermediate Drama Workshop | 3 |
| ENWR 371 | Teaching Writing in the Public Schools | 3 |
| ENWR 385 | Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing | 3 |
| ENWR 411 | Advanced Fiction Workshop | 3 |
| ENWR 412 | Advanced Poetry Workshop | 3 |
| ENWR 491 | Seminar in Creative Writing | 3 |
| LNGN 220 | Structure of American English | 3 |
| LNGN 230 | Language in Society | 3 |
| LNGN 284 | History of the English Language | 3 |
Teacher Ed Program Requirements (P-12, Bachelors/MAT)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher Ed Pre-Requisites | ||
| EDFD 200 | Psychological Foundations of Education | 3 |
| or PSYC 200 | Educational Psychology | |
| or FSHD 216 | Adolescent Development | |
| SASE 210 | Public Purposes of Education: Democracy and Schooling | 3 |
| Undergraduate Professional Sequence I | ||
| SASE 320 | Curriculum Design for Inclusive Classrooms | 3 |
| SASE 321 | Assessment Practices for Inclusive Classrooms | 3 |
| SPED 279 | Foundation and Philosophy of Inclusive Education | 3 |
| Undergraduate Professional Sequence II | ||
| SASE 322 | Language and Learning in Content Area Teaching | 3 |
| SPED 469 | Inclusive Methods for Middle and Secondary Schools | 3 |
| Undergraduate Professional Sequence III | ||
| SPED 483 | Advanced Inclusive Methods for Middle and Secondary Schools | 3 |
| SPED 488 | Promoting Prosocial Behaviors in Inclusive Settings | 3 |
| Graduate Sequence | ||
| SPED 566 | Creating Curricular Access for Adolescents with Disabilities 1 | 3 |
| SPED 586 | Educational Planning for Adolescents with Disabilities 1 | 3 |
| SPED 690 | Action Research in Inclusive Settings 1 | 3 |
| Total Credits | 36 | |
| 1 | Courses will also count toward graduate portion of this program. |