Middle Grades Education English Minor

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Tabitha Lowery
Assistant Professor | EHFA 288 | tlowery@coastal.edu 

 Requirements (18 Credits), Course Catalog 

The Middle Grades Education minor is designed for Middle Level Education majors seeking licensure in Secondary (9-12 Grades) English. The minor gives students a greater breadth of English studies knowledge, specifically in composition and rhetoric, grammar, literary criticism, the development of modern English, and the teaching of reading. Combined with the Middle Level Education major program requirements, this minor provides coursework to prepare students to potentially add-on the Secondary English certification.

ADVANCED COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC (3 credits)

Choose one of the following two classes.                                                                             

• ENGL 393 – Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
• ENGL 457 – Form and Style in Writing
  
  

DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ENGLISH (3 credits)                                                      

• ENGL 453 – Development of the English Language
  
  

MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR (3 credits)                                                                    

Choose one of the following two classes.

• ENGL 354 – English Grammar and Syntax
• ENGL 451 – Introduction to the Study of Language and Modern Grammar
  

LITERARY CRITICISM (3 credits)                                                                                    

• ENGL 483 – Theory of Literary Criticism
  
  

TEACHING OF READING (3 credits)                                                                                

• EDLL 417 – Content Area Reading and Writing for Middle and High School Teachers
   
  

ELECTIVES IN LITERATURE (3 credits)                                                                          

Choose one course from the following pre-approved list.                

• ENGL 307 – The Age of Chaucer
• ENGL 308 – Seventeenth-Century British Literature
• ENGL 311 – Topics in Shakespeare
• ENGL 314 – Eighteenth-Century British Literature
• ENGL 315 – The British Novel I
• ENGL 316 – The British Novel II
• ENGL 318 – The Victorian Age
• ENGL 323 – Modern British and Irish Literature
• ENGL 328 – Modern American Writers
• ENGL 329 – Autobiographies, Journals, and Memoirs
• ENGL 330 – Realism and Naturalism
• ENGL 333 – The American Novel
• ENGL 336 – Contemporary American Literature
• ENGL 339 – Popular Fiction
• ENGL 341 – African-American Literature, 1750-present
• ENGL 371 – Topics in World Literature: East/West Intersections
• ENGL 372 – Special Topics in Russian Literature
• ENGL 375 – Special Topics in World and Anglophone Literature
• ENGL 382 – Contemporary Fiction
• ENGL 401 – Chaucer
• ENGL 404 – Topics in Non-Shakespearean Renaissance Literature
• ENGL 424 – Studies in British Literature
• ENGL 425 – World Dramatic Literature
• ENGL 427 – Studies in Southern Literature
• ENGL 443 – Topics in Women Writers
• ENGL 472 – Topics in Dramatic Literature
• ENGL 475 – Contemporary Asian Fiction
• ENGL 479 – Studies in Modern and Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature
• ENGL 487 – Literary Studies in Health, Illness, and Aging
• ENGL 488 – Studies in World Literature
• ENGL 489 – Gender and Sexuality in Literature