Middle School Education English/Language Arts Education (Grades 5-9) and English, Double Major, B.A.

General Education Requirements

A minimum of 51 credit hours of general education courses is required for the Middle School English Education and English double major B.A. degree. Some of these credits may come from electives chosen to meet content area requirements. Some of the courses listed below are required to fulfill the general education requirements and others may be used as electives. Other courses not listed below may also be considered to fulfill electives that comprise the General Education requirements. General Education courses must meet the following criteria:

Humanities - Fine Arts Elective (Music, Art, Performance - 3 hours), Literature Elective - 3 hours, Multi-Cultural Elective - (Study Abroad, Foreign Language, other - 3 hours), Philosophy Elective - 3 hours, and HUM 101 - (3 hours) = Total 15 hours

Literacy - (ENG 101 Writing I and ENG 104 Writing II required) = Total 6 hours

Mathematics - MATH 207, 116 OR117, AND Math 208 = Total 6 hours

Science - SCI 131 OR 132, AND SCI Elective with Lab or Lab Experience =Total 6-7 hours

Social Science - EDUC 220, HIST 121 OR 122, PSCI 101, and PSYC 254 = Total 12 hours

Electives -6 hours: EDUC 100 - Introduction to Schooling or its equivalent is required of all freshman education majors and strongly recommended as an elective for all other education majors.  All freshmen are also required to take INTD 101 - University Seminar. 

Please work with your life coach and faculty mentor to determine which of the listed general education courses are appropriate for you.

• HUM 101 - Humanities: Western Culture
• ENGL 101 - Writing I: The Writing Process
• ENGL 104 - Writing II: Research and Argumentative Essays
• MATH 207 - Algebra for Educators
• MATH 116 - Intermediate Algebra
• MATH 117 - College Algebra
• MATH 208 - Geometry and Statistics for Educators
• SCI 131 - Nutrition
• SCI 132 - Energy and Our World
• EDUC 220 - Economic Geography
• HIST 121 - U.S. History to 1877
• HIST 122 - U.S. History since 1877
• PSCI 101 - American Government
• PSYC 254 - Human Development through the Lifespan
• EDUC 100 - Introduction to Schooling
• INTD 101 - University Seminar

Professional Education Requirements

• EDUC 201 - School and Society
• EDUC 241 - Fundamentals of Secondary Schools
• EDUC 313 - Adolescent Development and Learning
• EDUC 321 - Literacy Across Academic Disciplines
• EDUC 315 - Educational Developmental Psychology: Learning and Management
• EDUC 352 - Educ/Psych of Exceptional Children
• EDUC 361 - Instructional Interventions in Reading: Secondary
• EDUC 390 - Children’s Literature
• EDUC 421 - Teaching English Language Arts Methods: Secondary
• EDUC 404 - Student Teacher: Professional Seminar

Practicum Experiences (20 Hours)

Education majors spend a considerable amount of time in schools gaining firsthand classroom experience with students. Beginning in the sophomore year, all education students are required to complete a practicum experience each semester, with increasingly rigorous expectations regarding student interactions, lesson planning and delivery, and collaboration with professional educators in the field. These experiences build upon one another to provide teacher candidates with exposure to students from multiple grade levels in diverse schools and districts, as well as to a wide variety of teaching/learning opportunities in real-world settings. These practicum experiences culminate in student teaching experience in the final semester if he initial teacher preparation program.

• EDUC 200 - Practicum in School and Society
• EDUC 240 - Practicum in Fundamentals of Secondary Schools
• EDUC 320 - Practicum in Literacy Across the Academic Disciplines
• EDUC 360 - Practicum in Instructional Interventions in Reading: Secondary
• EDUC 420 - Setting Up School Experience and Practicum in Teaching English Language Arts: Secondary
• EDUC 400 - Student Teaching:

Content Requirements

Teacher candidates wishing to teach English Language Arts at the middle school level earn a double major in English from Maryville University. Candidates must earn a minimum of 39 credit hours in English with 27 of those hours taken at the 300 level or above. Courses listed below are required for the double major in addition to a number of electives from the following categories:

Composition and Rhetoric

Study of the English Language (modern grammar, history of language, and/or other dialects)

American Literature

English Literature

World Literature

Teacher candidates are required to earn at least a 3.0 GPA in the content area with a minimum GPA of 2.75 overall to be eligible for endorsement for teacher certification.

Please work closely with your life coach and faculty mentor(s) to ensure all content area requirements for the double major are satisfied.

• ENGL 101 - Writing I: The Writing Process
• ENGL 411 - Teaching and Assessing Writing
• ENGL 498 - Seminar: Your Brain on Language
• ENGL 311 - Rites Of Passage in American Lit
• ENGL 316 - Grendel to Gutenberg: English Literature I
• ENGL 317 - Gulliver To Google: English Literature II

Recommended Electives

EDUC 100 - Introduction to Education, EDUC 668 - Behavior Management, and EDUC 616 - Differentiating for All Learners are strongly recommended as electives for all education majors. Ideally, EDUC 100 should be taken in the fall of the freshman year. EDUC 668 and 616 should be taken in the senior year.

• EDUC 100 - Introduction to Schooling
• EDUC 668 - Behavior Management
• EDUC 616 - Differentiating for All Learners