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Student planning on becoming teachers of English or Language Arts should declare majors in both English and Secondary Education.

Required Courses (21 credit hours):

• Survey of American Literature I (EN211) or Survey of AmericanLiterature II (EN212)
• British Literature: Beginnings to 1800 (EN313) or British Literature: 1800 to Present (EN314)
• Advanced Composition (EN319)
• Literary Forms (EN450)
• Literatures in English (EN460) series (one course)
• Introduction to Linguistics (LN300)
• Linguistics and the Language Arts (LN350)

Electives (15 credit hours):

Group I Electives (Choose 9 credit hours):

• The Poetic Tradition (EN321)
• Literature of Guam, Micronesia, and the Pacific (EN/AN333)
• Rhetoric and Composition (EN400)
• Literary Theory (EN480)

Group II Electives (Choose 6 credit hours):

• Literature, Myth and Culture (EN213) or EN215
• Creative Writing (EN311)
• World Literatures in Translation (EN470) series (one course)
• Structure of English (LN385)
• Applied Linguistics (LN400)
• Introduction to Sociolinguistics (LN460)
• Reporting and Writing the News (CO226)
• Advanced Reporting (CO326)
• Focus on Journalism:
• Reporting and Writing the News (CO226)
• Advanced Reporting (CO326)
• Editing and Layout Design (CO356)