Minimum Hours: 120 Semester Credit Hours
Admission Requirements
- All students pursuing teacher certification must apply and be accepted to the Office of Educator Preparation.
General Requirements
- The general education core curriculum courses are listed in the degree plan below along with the statewide component code number. See the General Education Core Curriculum section of this catalog for the Texas State requirements and options in the core curriculum, including Honors courses.
- In addition to the general education core curriculum requirements, the Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) requires three additional hours of English literature, three additional hours of math/science/logic/computer science courses, six hours of 2000-level modern language courses, and a minor. For this program, the additional literature course may be satisfied by selecting a sophomore literature course for the 040 component of the core curriculum and the second major in Education fulfills the minor requirement.
- Students must complete a minimum of 36 advanced hours (3000 or 4000 level courses).
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Nine hours of writing intensive (WI) courses are required for graduation.
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This major requires 36 semester credit hours of English courses. Within the 36 hours, students are required to complete six hours of early literature, three hours of literature focused on the work of a single author, and three hours of 4000-level literature. ENG 1310 and ENG 1320 are recommended prerequisites to all other English courses.
- To satisfy graduation requirements for teacher certification, students must have at least a 2.75 Overall GPA and a GPA of at least 2.50 in all assigned courses in the professional sequence of the Education major with no grade below a “C”.
- This degree program is designed to prepare students for secondary teacher certification in English and requires that students pursue a double major by declaring and completing requirements for both the major in English and the major in Education. The following courses are required for the major in Education:
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
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| CI 2310 | Education for Change | 3 |
| CI 3325 | Adolescents and Society | 3 |
| CI 4332 | Secondary Teaching: Curriculum and Technology | 3 |
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| CI 3340 | Teaching for Linguistic Diversity | 3 |
| CI 4343 | Instructional Strategies for the Secondary Teacher | 3 |
| CI 4370 | Building Relationships in the Secondary Classroom | 3 |
| CI 4372 | Teaching in Communities | 3 |
| RDG 3323 | Teaching Literacies in the Content Areas | 3 |
| SPED 4344 | Educating Students with Mild Disabilities | 3 |
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| EDST 4681 | Clinical Teaching 7-12 | 6 |
| Total Hours | 33 |
- The Texas Education Agency (TEA) requires multiple background checks for progression through the Educator Preparation Program. Based on information recorded in your criminal history, you may be ineligible for issuance of a teaching certificate upon completion of the Educator Preparation Program. If you have a criminal history, you may obtain a Preliminary Criminal History Evaluation from TEA. For more information, go to: https://tea.texas.gov/Texas_Educators/Investigations/Preliminary_Criminal_History_Evaluation-FAQs/.
- For transfer students, 6 semester credit hours in Curriculum and Instruction and Special Education may be transferred from a Texas public institution of higher education for the Associate of Arts in Teaching Field of Study and be applied to the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Education at Texas State University. More information about the Field of Study is available in the Academic Policies section of this catalog. The transferable Texas Common Course Number (TCCN) is listed below the Texas State University course number in the following course list.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| CI 2310 | Education for Change | 3 |
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| SPED 4344 | Educating Students with Mild Disabilities | 3 |
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- For transfer students, 12 semester credit hours in English (or equivalents) may be transferred from a Texas public institution of higher education for the English Language and Literature Field of Study and be applied to the Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in English at Texas State University. More information about the Field of Study is available in the Academic Policies section of this catalog. The transferable Texas Common Course Number (TCCN) is listed below the Texas State University course number in the following course list.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| ENG 1310 | College Writing I | 3 |
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| ENG 1320 | College Writing II | 3 |
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| 6 |
| British Literature before 1785 | |
| British Literature since 1785 | |
| World Literature before 1600 | |
| World Literature since 1600 | |
| US Literature before 1865 | |
| US Literature since 1865 | |
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Course Requirements
| Freshman |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| ENG 1310 (Communication Component Code 010 [TCCN ENGL 1301]) | 3 | ENG 1320 (Communication Component Code 010 [TCCN ENGL 1302]) | 3 |
| Life and Physical Sciences Component Code 030 | 3 | Life and Physical Sciences Component Code 030 | 3 |
| Government/Political Science Component Code 070 | 3 | Creative Arts Component Code 050 [HUMA 1315] | 3 |
| COMM 1310 (Component Area Option Code 090/091 [TCCN SPCH 1311]) | 3 | American History Component Code 060 | 3 |
| Modern Language 1410 | 4 | Modern Language 1420 | 4 |
| US 1100 | 1 | |
| | 17 | | 16 |
| Sophomore |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| Mathematics Component Code 020 | 3 | Social and Behavioral Sciences Component Code 080 | 3 |
| ENG Literature (Language, Philosophy, and Culture Component 040)3 | 3 | ENG Literature (Component Area Option Code 090/094)3 | 3 |
| American History Component Code 060 | 3 | Modern Language 2320 | 3 |
| Government/Political Science Component Code 070 | 3 | ENG 33012 | 3 |
| Modern Language 2310 | 3 | CI 2310 (TCCN EDUC 1301) | 3 |
| | Elective (as needed) | 3 |
| | 15 | | 18 |
| Junior |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| BA Science, Math, Computer Science, or Logic | 3 | ENG Group B - American Literature | 3 |
| ENG Group A - British Literature | 3 | ENG 3319 or 4310 | 3 |
| ENG Group B - American Literature | 3 | Secondary Field Block I: | 9 |
| ENG Group C - World Literature | 3 | | |
| Education Core: | 6 | | |
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| | 18 | | 15 |
| Senior |
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| First Semester | Hours | Second Semester | Hours |
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| ENG 3389 | 3 | Clinical Practice (Student Teaching): | 6 |
| ENG Advanced Group Elective | 3 | | |
| Secondary Field Block II: | 9 | |
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| | 15 | | 6 |
| Total Hours: 120 |
Advanced English Electives
Students are required to take ENG 3301, preferably immediately after completing the sophomore literature requirement. Students must also take two courses focusing on early literature at either the sophomore or advanced level. In addition to ENG 3301, students must complete seven advanced courses. Students must take at least one advanced course from Group A and one from Group C, two courses from Group B, and two specified courses from Group E: ENG 3319 or ENG 4310, and ENG 3389. They also select a three-hour elective from any group. In selecting their advanced courses, students are encouraged to take at least two courses that center on genre, theme, or theory. One of the advanced courses must focus on the works of a single author and is recommended to be taken at the end of the major.
Course List | Code | Title | Hours |
| ENG 3351 | Early Medieval Literature of the British Isles | 3 |
| ENG 3352 | Medieval English Literature | 3 |
| ENG 3353 | British Poetry and Prose of the Sixteenth Century | 3 |
| ENG 3354 | Shakespeare | 3 |
| ENG 3356 | British Poetry and Prose of the Seventeenth Century | 3 |
| ENG 3357 | British Literature, 1688-1750 | 3 |
| ENG 3359 | British Literature, 1750-1800 | 3 |
| ENG 3362 | The British Romantics | 3 |
| ENG 3365 | Victorian Literature | 3 |
| ENG 3368 | The British Novel | 3 |
| ENG 3370 | Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century British Literature | 3 |
| ENG 4343 | Approaches to a British Author | 3 |
| ENG 4351 | Chaucer and His Time | 3 |
| ENG 4355 | The Later Shakespeare | 3 |
| ENG 4358 | Milton | 3 |
