Teacher Education – Integrated Language Arts
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Our Integrated Language Arts (ILA) program empowers future teachers to thrive in their own classrooms. Paralleling the Literary Studies major, ILA immerses students in great reads, compelling questions, and transformative writing experiences. Through it, students come to know iconic writers, groundbreaking texts, and the intellectual buzz of interpretive thinking.
As an ILA student, you will explore the dynamic interplay between literature and culture, identity, psychology, history, politics, and other forces. Investigate how texts make meaning, create worlds, and generate characters. Develop your own writerly voice and style. Encounter innovative, portable teaching strategies. And pursue your own passions. Holistically, the ILA program will enable you to:
- Read closely, critically, and innovatively
- Write clearly, eloquently, and insightfully
- Know a rich range of literary terms, forms, genres, periods, histories, theories, and writers
- Study literature in different historical, cultural, biographical, formal, and theoretical contexts
- See writing and literature as something that can enrich, complicate, and transform the human experience
- Produce orginal reading and writing projects
Literary Studies Requirements ~ 44 semester hours ~ 11 courses
Integrated Language Arts students also take required courses in Education and Communication. See the Teacher Education booklet for more info.
Discovery Course ~ 4 hrs
- Engl 1155 Writing & the Literary Imagination
Studies in National & Transnational Historcal Literatures ~ 8 hrs
Choose two from:
- Engl 2210 Studies in British Literatures Before 1700
- Engl 2215 Studies in British Literatures 1700-1900
- Engl 2220 Studies in British Literatures After 1900
- Engl 2250 Studies in American Literatures Before 1900
- Engl 2255 Studies in American Literatures After 1900
Studies in Cultural & World Literatures ~ 4 hrs
Choose one from:
- Engl 2230 Studies in African American Literatures
- Engl 2231 Studies in Women's Literatures
- Engl 2232 Studies in Diverse Literary Cultures
- Engl 2233 Studies in World Literatures
- Engl 2234 Studies in Glbtq Literatures
Studies in Interest Areas ~ Author, Theory, Textuality, & Culture ~ 16 hrs
- Author: Engl 3350 Shakespeare
- Theory: Engl 3355 Studies in Literary & Critical Theory
- Textuality or Culture: Engl 3325 Studies in Literature, History, & Culture or Engl 3381 Studies in Textuality & Genre
- Adolescent Literature: Engl 3380
Note: The same course may be taken twice when it’s offered on a different topic (e.g. Engl 3340 “Virginia Woolf” and Engl 3340 “Toni Morrison”).
Studies in Language and Writing ~ 8 hrs
- Jmac 1500 Media Writing or Jmac 1600 Reporting & News Writing
- Engl 2295 Linguistics
Senior Capstone ~ 4 hrs
- Educ 4100 Student Teaching
Double major or minor substitution: Students with double majors or minors may count one 2000-3000 level course from another program towards the major with permission of the chair
Historical & cultural distribution requirements: Students must ensure their course of study includes classes with the the following designations. Individual courses may fulfill more than one requirement. For instance, Engl 3381 “The Victorian Novel” could fulfill both a British (B) and a 1700-1900 (2) requirement.
- 1 pre-1700 (1)
- 1 1700-1900 (2)
- 1 post-1900 (3)
- 1 American (A)
- 1 British (B)
- 1 World (W)