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.
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
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
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
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
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
