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
EDTE 265 Exploration of Teaching and Learning in Diverse K-12 Settings 3
1 3
Intensive Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition
Literature, Language, and Composition: A Synthesis (W)
12-14
Total Units 18-20
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
4
Poetry Writing (W)
Fiction Writing (W)
Creative Nonfiction Writing (W)
Editing Literary Magazines
6
Survey of American Film (W)
Comics and Graphic Novels
Literature of the Child (W)
Multicultural Literature: Issues and Themes
Classical Literature
Bible, Literature, and Culture
Literature, Politics, and Activism
American Ethnic and Regional Literature in Focus (W)
Fiction and the Supernatural
The Bildungsroman: Novels of Development
British Renaissance Literature:
The Long Eighteenth Century
The Romantic Period
The Victorian Period
Modern Poetry
Development of British Drama
Modern Drama
Comparative Literature
The 18th-Century British Novel
The 19th-Century British Novel
The American Novel
Early American Literature
Later American Literature
The Modern Novel
Studies in Major American Authors
American Literary Topics
20th-Century and Contemporary British Literature
3-4
Introduction to Technical Writing (W)
Theory and Practice in Tutoring Composition
Pedagogical Grammar
History of the English Language
Semantics: Language and Meaning
Approaches to Reading
Sociolinguistics
Total Units 13-14
Creative Writing: 12 units
Course List
Course
Title
Units
12
Poetry Writing (W)
Fiction Writing (W)
Creative Nonfiction Writing (W)
Editing Literary Magazines
Advanced Poetry Writing
Advanced Fiction and Nonfiction Writing
Total Units 12
Literature: 12 units
Course List
Course
Title
Units
12
Survey of American Film (W)
Comics and Graphic Novels
Literature of the Child (W)
Multicultural Literature: Issues and Themes
Classical Literature
Bible, Literature, and Culture
Literature, Politics, and Activism
American Ethnic and Regional Literature in Focus (W)
Fiction and the Supernatural
The Bildungsroman: Novels of Development
British Renaissance Literature:
The Long Eighteenth Century
The Romantic Period
The Victorian Period
Modern Poetry
Development of British Drama
Modern Drama
Comparative Literature
The 18th-Century British Novel
The 19th-Century British Novel
The American Novel
Early American Literature
Later American Literature
The Modern Novel
Studies in Major American Authors
American Literary Topics
20th-Century and Contemporary British Literature
Total Units 12
Language and Literacy: 12-13 units
Course List
Course
Title
Units
12-13
Introduction to Technical Writing (W)
Introduction to Digital English Studies
Theory and Practice in Tutoring Composition
Issues in Rhetoric
Cultural Rhetorics
Professional Writing for Organizations
Pedagogical Grammar
Syntactic and Morphological Analysis
History of the English Language
Phonological Analysis (W)
Semantics: Language and Meaning
Approaches to Reading
Gender and Language in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
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
6
Development of British Drama
Modern Drama
Introduction to Acting
Stagecraft for Theatre and Film
Children's Lit in Performance
The Literature of Musical Theatre
Directing I: Principles of Directing
Total Units 12