Bachelor of Arts Major in English with a California Preliminary Single Subject Credential
Lead Faculty:
Dr. Mary Anne Weegar
The Bachelor of Arts in English with a Preliminary Single Subject Credential provides a rigorous education that prepares candidates for a career as a teacher of English at the middle and secondary school levels. The program stresses literary analysis, diversity, and critical thinking and written and oral communication skills through a rigorous curriculum of literature, composition, language and linguistics, and communication studies. This program prepares candidates for professional work as single subject teachers in a changing cultural and economic environment.
Please see additional Credential requirements listed at the end of the Teacher Education Department area of the School of Education's section of the catalog.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Discuss and analyze the major writers, works,
movements, and periods of the British and American literary
traditions.
- Evaluate the relationship of marginalized or oppositional voices
to the evolution of literary traditions and histories.
- Analyze and interpret literary works within their historical and
cultural contexts
- Analyze and interpret works of literature in the context of the
conventions and histories of their genres.
- Analyze and interpret the use and effects of literary and rhetorical
features of literary texts.
- Understand and identify major critical approaches to the
interpretation of works of literature.
- Compose sophisticated written works of literary analysis,
incorporating appropriate close reading, research, and writing
skills.
- Apply educational technology to meet the
needs of all learners.
- Explain how to support growth in cognitive, social, physical and
emotional domains.
- Create positive learning environment that ensure
healthy human growth.
- Utilize systematic observations, documentation, and other
assessment strategies to facilitate
and account for learning and to support positive growth.
- Design, implement, and evaluate standards-based lesson plans for
learning and achievement in content areas.
- Demonstrate professional standards and ethics.
- Utilize different teaching strategies to accomplish teaching and learning goals.
Requirements
To receive a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Single Subject Teaching Credential, candidates must complete at least 180 quarter units as articulated below, 45 of which must be completed in residence at National University and 76.5 of which must be completed at the upper-division level, and the university General Education. In the absence of transfer credit, additional general electives may be necessary to satisfy total units for the degree. The following courses are specific degree requirements.
Preparation for the Major
(1 course; 4.5 quarter units)
English Requirements
(11 courses; 49.5 quarter units)
Core Requisite(s):
Education Orientation, Theory and Methodology Requirements
(8 courses; 36 quarter units)
Student Teaching Requirements
(3 courses; 13.5 quarter units)
Additional Courses for Satisfying SB2042 and CTC for California Teaching Credential
(2 courses; 9 quarter units)
