The Minor in Secondary Language Arts supplements and complements the coursework in the English education option and is required to fulfill the Single Subject Matter Preparation Program in English. The minor allows English education students to increase their depth of knowledge in the discipline and provides students seeking other single-subject credentials with coursework applicable to supplementary and subject matter authorizations from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Course Requirements for the Minor

The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this minor.

Course List

Course	Title	Units
Foundation
EDTE 265	Exploration of Teaching and Learning in Diverse K-12 Settings	3
Select one of the following: 1		3
ENGL 471	Intensive Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
ENGL 534W	Literature, Language, and Composition: A Synthesis (W)
Additional Courses
Select one of the following course groupings:		12-14
General Studies
Creative Writing
Literature
Language and Literacy
Theatre Arts
Total Units		18-20

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Students completing the BA in English: English Education Option must take ENGL 534W.

Additional Courses

The following courses, or their approved equivalents, are required of all candidates in the minor depending on the chosen course grouping. Students must select and complete one of the following course groupings for completion of the Minor in Secondary Language Arts course requirements.

General Studies: 13-14 units

Course List

Course	Title	Units
Select one of the following:		4
ENGL 320W	Poetry Writing (W)
ENGL 321W	Fiction Writing (W)
ENGL 327W	Creative Nonfiction Writing (W)
ENGL 415	Editing Literary Magazines
Select two of the following:		6
ENGL 303W	Survey of American Film (W)
ENGL 304	Comics and Graphic Novels
ENGL 342W	Literature of the Child (W)
ENGL 353	Multicultural Literature: Issues and Themes
ENGL 354	Classical Literature
ENGL 355	Bible, Literature, and Culture
ENGL 356	Literature, Politics, and Activism
ENGL 364W	American Ethnic and Regional Literature in Focus (W)
ENGL 404	Fiction and the Supernatural
ENGL 405	The Bildungsroman: Novels of Development
ENGL 442	Early British Literature
ENGL 443	Later British Literature
ENGL 448	The Long Eighteenth Century
ENGL 451	Modern Poetry
ENGL 452	Development of British Drama
ENGL 453	Modern Drama
ENGL 458	Early American Literature
ENGL 459	Later American Literature
ENGL 461	The Modern Novel
ENGL 462	Studies in Major American Authors
Select one of the following:		3-4
ENGL 330W	Introduction to Technical Writing (W)
ENGL 431	Theory and Practice in Tutoring Composition
ENGL 472	Pedagogical Grammar
ENGL 475	History of the English Language
ENGL 477	Semantics: Language and Meaning
ENGL 478	Approaches to Reading
ENGL 481	Sociolinguistics
Total Units		13-14

Creative Writing: 12 units

Course List

Course	Title	Units
Select three of the following:		12
ENGL 320W	Poetry Writing (W)
ENGL 321W	Fiction Writing (W)
ENGL 327W	Creative Nonfiction Writing (W)
ENGL 415	Editing Literary Magazines
ENGL 420	Advanced Poetry Writing
ENGL 421	Advanced Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Total Units		12

Literature: 12 units

Course List

Course	Title	Units
Select four of the following:		12
ENGL 303W	Survey of American Film (W)
ENGL 304	Comics and Graphic Novels
ENGL 342W	Literature of the Child (W)
ENGL 353	Multicultural Literature: Issues and Themes
ENGL 354	Classical Literature
ENGL 355	Bible, Literature, and Culture
ENGL 356	Literature, Politics, and Activism
ENGL 364W	American Ethnic and Regional Literature in Focus (W)
ENGL 404	Fiction and the Supernatural
ENGL 405	The Bildungsroman: Novels of Development
ENGL 442	Early British Literature
ENGL 443	Later British Literature
ENGL 448	The Long Eighteenth Century
ENGL 451	Modern Poetry
ENGL 452	Development of British Drama
ENGL 453	Modern Drama
ENGL 458	Early American Literature
ENGL 459	Later American Literature
ENGL 461	The Modern Novel
ENGL 462	Studies in Major American Authors
Total Units		12

Language and Literacy: 12-13 units

Course List

Course	Title	Units
Select four of the following:		12-13
ENGL 330W	Introduction to Technical Writing (W)
ENGL 331	Introduction to Digital English Studies
ENGL 431	Theory and Practice in Tutoring Composition
ENGL 435	Issues in Rhetoric
ENGL 436	Cultural Rhetorics
ENGL 438	Professional Writing for Organizations
ENGL 472	Pedagogical Grammar
ENGL 474	Syntactic and Morphological Analysis
ENGL 475	History of the English Language
ENGL 476W	Phonological Analysis (W)
ENGL 477	Semantics: Language and Meaning
ENGL 478	Approaches to Reading
ENGL 479	Gender and Language in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
ENGL 481	Sociolinguistics
Total Units		12-13

Theatre Arts: 12 units

Course List

Course	Title	Units
THEA 170	Foundations of Design	3
THEA 250	Textual Analysis for Production	3
Select two of the following:		6
ENGL 452	Development of British Drama
ENGL 453	Modern Drama
THEA 112	Introduction to Acting
THEA 220	Stagecraft for Theatre and Film
THEA 311	Children's Lit in Performance
THEA 354	The Literature of Musical Theatre
THEA 380	Directing I: Principles of Directing
Total Units		12