2007-2008 Undergraduate Catalog

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2007-2008 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

English Language Arts Concentration (ELA for CHD/DEC/ECH)

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Concentration Requirements

Thirty credit hours, with a minimum of 18 credit hours at the 300 level or above:

ENG 200 - Introduction to Literature (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 202 - Introduction to Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 203 - Introduction to Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 204 - Introduction to Drama (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 306 - Advanced Writing Workshop (3 cr. hr.)

Subtotal: Six credit hours

Nine-credit-hour language component:

ENG 201 - Introduction to Language Study (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 402 - Grammar (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 407 - Study of English Language (3 cr. hr.)

Subtotal: Nine credit hours

Six-credit-hour writing component:

PWR 395 - Revising and Editing (3 cr. hr.)

One elective from:

ENG 301 - Creative Writing (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 212 - Writing Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 213 - Writing Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 323 - Writing Children’s Literature (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 413 - Contemporary Poetics (3 cr. hr.)

Subtotal: Six credit hours

Nine-credit-hour literature component:

ENG 373 - Literature for Children (3 cr. hr.)

One 400-level literature course from the following: (3 cr. hr.)

ENG 411 - World Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 417 - American Literature 1820-1865 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 418 - American Literature 1865-1914 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 419 - American Literature 1914-1945 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 420 - Modern American Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 421 - African-American Autobiography (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 422 - American Women Writers (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 423 - Post-1945 American Literature (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 425 - African-American Women Novelists (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 433 - Shakespeare (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 438 - Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 440 - The Age of Satire (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 441 - The Age of Sensibility (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 442 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 445 - The Romantic Age (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 446 - The Victorian Age (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 455 - The English Novel to 1900 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 457 - Modern Irish Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 458 - Modern Irish Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 464 - Modern Russian Literature 1860-1960 (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 470 - Modern British Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 471 - The Modern English Novel (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 472 - Modern Drama (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 475 - American Multicultural Literature (3 cr. hr.)

One elective from: (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.)

Subtotal: Nine credit hours

Total Credit Hours: 30

Six credit hours taken in content core

Example of a four-year plan for the B.S.

First Year

Fall Total credit hours: 16

GE course
Foreign Language 101

COR 101 - The Cortland Experience: A First Year Seminar (1 cr. hr.)
CPN 100 - Academic Writing I (3 cr. hr.)
MAT 101 - Concepts of Elementary School Mathematics I (3 cr. hr.)
PSY 101 - General Psychology I (3 cr. hr.)

Spring Total credit hours: 19

HIS 100 level
Foreign Language 102

CPN 101 - Academic Writing II (3 cr. hr.)
ECO 105 - Political Economy and Social Thought (3 cr. hr.)
MAT 102 - Concepts of Elementary School Mathematics II (3 cr. hr.)
SCI 141 - Integrated Earth Science and Biology (4 cr. hr.).

Second Year

Fall Total credit hours: 18

ENG 200 - Introduction to Literature (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 202 - Introduction to Fiction (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 203 - Introduction to Poetry (3 cr. hr.)
or
ENG 204 - Introduction to Drama (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 200 - The United States to 1877 (3 cr. hr.)
INT 270 - Exploring Education (3 cr. hr.)
POL 100 - Introduction to American Government and Politics (3 cr. hr.)
SCI 142 - Integrated Physics and Chemistry (3 cr. hr.)

And

ENG 201 - Introduction to Language Study (3 cr. hr.)

Spring Total credit hours: 21

ENG (writing elective)

ENG 306 - Advanced Writing Workshop (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 373 - Literature for Children (3 cr. hr.)
ENG 407 - Study of English Language (3 cr. hr.)
LIT 371 - Teaching Elementary School Reading and Language Arts I (3 cr. hr.)
PSY 231 - Child Psychology (3 cr. hr.)

Select Either:

ANT 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 cr. hr.)
or
GRY 120 - Cultural Geography (3 cr. hr.)
or
GRY 125 - Human Geography and Global Development (3 cr. hr.)

Third Year

Fall Total credit hours: 17

EDU 314 - Teaching With Computers in Elementary and Middle School (2 cr. hr.)
EDU 373 - Teaching Elementary School Mathematics (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 374 - Teaching Elementary School Science (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 375 - Teaching Elementary School Social Studies (3 cr. hr.)
EDU 430 - Measurement and Evaluation in Education (3 cr. hr.)
LIT 372 - Teaching Elementary School Reading and Language Arts II (3 cr. hr.)

Spring Total credit hours: 17

GE course

EDU 477 - Elementary School Practicum (1 cr. hr.)
EDU 478 - Classroom Discipline for Personal and Social Responsibility (3 cr. hr)
FSA 400 - Foundations of Education: The School in American Society (3 cr. hr.)
HLH 265 - Health and the Child (3 cr. hr.)
PED 245 - Activities for Children (1 cr. hr.)
SPE 270 - Introduction to Special Education (3 cr. hr.)

Fourth Year

Fall Total credit hours: 13

EDU 490 - Student Teaching I (6 cr. hr.)
EDU 491 - Student Teaching II (6 cr. hr.)
EDU 492 - Seminar in Student Teaching (1 cr. hr.)

Spring Total credit hours: 18

ENG 300 level (literature elective)
ENG 400 level (literature elective)
GE course

ENG 402 - Grammar (3 cr. hr.)
HIS 201 - The United States Since 1877 (3 cr. hr.)
PWR 395 - Revising and Editing (3 cr. hr.)

Total Credit Hours Required for Graduation: 139

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