A. Required Content Courses: 36 credit hours

• ENG 203 - Introduction to Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 302 - Writing About Literature (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 325 - American Literature Before 1900 (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 326 - American Literature Since 1900 (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 355 - Major Figures in British Literature to 1780 (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 356 - Major Figures in British Literature 1780-Present (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 374 - Literature for Adolescence (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 407 - Study of English Language (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 433 - Shakespeare (3 cr. hr.)

B. Required Professional Courses: 43-44 credit hours

• Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting (CARR) workshop (no credit)
• Dignity for All Students Act (DASA) workshop (no credit)
• Safe Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) workshop (no credit)

• AED 308 - Grammar and the Writing Process (3 cr. hr.)
• AED 341 - Introduction to English Language Arts (3 cr. hr.)
• AED 376 - Student Teaching in English in the Middle School (6 cr. hr.)
• AED 377 - Student Teaching in English in the High School (6 cr. hr.)
• AED 378 - Student Teaching Colloquia (1 cr. hr.)
• AED 408 - Teaching Writing (3 cr. hr.)
• AED 415 - Participant-Observer Experience (1 cr. hr.)
• AED 441 - Methods of Teaching Literature and Critical Literacy (3 cr. hr.)
• ENG 307 - New Media Literacies and ELA (3 cr. hr.)
• EDU 471 - Foundations of Modern Education (3 cr. hr.)
• HLH 110 - Personal and Community Health (3 cr. hr.) or
• HLH 199 - Critical School Health Issues (2 cr. hr.) or
• HLH 510 - ProSeminar in Health Foundations (3 cr. hr.)
• PSY 101 - Introductory Psychology (3 cr. hr.)
• PSY 232 - Adolescent Psychology (3 cr. hr.)
• SPE 275 - Teaching Students with Disabilities in Adolescence Classrooms (3 cr. hr.)

C. AEN Coding Policy

Students will be coded as AENW until they have achieved an institutional 2.75 overall grade point average or better and have completed all of the following course work:

• ENG 203
• Three out of the four survey courses (ENG 325, 326, 355, 356)
• All but one or two GE courses
• The foreign language requirement
• PSY 101
• HLH 110 or 199

When eligible, students need to apply to the director of adolescence education: English (7-12) for candidacy.

Because the AEN code is required before students will be admitted into the junior year courses with attached fieldwork, transfer students coming in with junior status who have not completed the above requirements will begin AED courses in the fall semester of their senior year and must student teach in the fall semester thereafter for a December degree.

D. 100 Hours Early/Pre-Student Teaching Fieldwork Policy

Candidates must have achieved a 2.75 or better overall grade point average by the end of the semester prior to the junior year. Students failing to meet this standard are ineligible to take junior-year courses with attached early fieldwork. Students who fall below a 2.75 grade point average while registered for any AED courses will automatically be de-registered from those courses. In such a case, the registrar will maintain the student at his or her original level of registered credits, but the student is responsible with the help of an advisor to re-register for appropriate substitute courses before the close of that semester's billing cycle.

Candidates acquire 100 hours of early fieldwork in conjunction with each of the following courses:

• AED 308 - Grammar and the Writing Process (3 cr. hr.)

• (30 hours)

• AED 408 - Teaching Writing (3 cr. hr.)

• (30 hours)

• AED 415 - Participant-Observer Experience (1 cr. hr.)

• (40 hours)

E. Student Teaching Policy

To be eligible for the professional semester, which is offered for undergraduates only in the fall (unless granted departmental approval), students must complete the following requirements:

• 21 hours of English, including ENG 203, three of the four survey courses (325, 326, 355, 356), 374 and 433.
• PSY 101; PSY 232; HLH 110, 199, or 510; AED 308, 408, 341, 415, 441 and the three workshops listed in section B.

Required grade point average: Students must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.75 in all courses to be able to student teach during fall of senior year. Students must meet all requirements for eligibility to student teach by the end of the semester prior to the semester they are scheduled to student teach. Additional work in summer school or independent study cannot be used to remedy deficiencies. Students with incompletes at the end of the semester prior to student teaching will be ineligible to student teach. If they meet all requirements at the end of the next semester, they can reapply for eligibility and be put on a waiting list to student teach.

F. Departmental Policy on Retaking Required Courses

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 124-126

Example of the B.A. in Adolescence Education: English (7-12) over four years

Note: All ENG and AED courses listed below are required. AED courses are offered only in the semester indicated.

* Requires prerequisite; Link to General Education (GE ); Link to Foreign Language  

Total credit hours for eight semesters: 126

Final grade point average must be 2.75 or better