Introduction

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The Education and Human Development major with an English Language Arts license focuses on engaging Colorado's rapidly diversifying student and family population. It combines cutting-edge research with real classroom experiences. You'll learn from innovative faculty members who are locally, nationally and internationally recognized for their teaching and research in English Language Arts education. They will provide you with a robust knowledge base and relevant learning experiences in transforming deep content knowledge into learning experiences for youth across multiple cultural contexts as it relates to teaching youth in grades 6 through 12. You'll engage in powerful classroom experiences and benefit from our rich 20-year history of partnering with schools to prepare teachers.

The secondary English Language Arts program ensures that you will develop deep content knowledge across a number of disciplines important to become a successful English teacher with courses in writing, literature, literary criticism and more. You will also be prepared with the methods and foundations coursework that will make you a highly effective, innovative and compassionate secondary English teacher skilled in improving student performance and reaching the needs of today's diverse learners in a variety of school settings. You will have the skills to be a teacher leader. CU Denver graduates often go on to acquire positions in educational leadership as their careers progress.

Program Delivery

• This is an on-campus program with a variety of delivery options for many of our courses including hybrid, evening, weekend, and online courses.

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General Requirements

To earn a degree, students must satisfy all requirements in each of the three areas below, in addition to their individual major requirements.

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Program Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum total of 126 semester hours for the EDHD Secondary English Education Track.
2. Application to the last year of the program, the Professional Year Residency is required. After successfully completing all other Core, major, and elective courses, all students must apply for admission into the Professional Year. Requirements for admission include a 3.0 GPA, positive letters of recommendation, successful evaluations of earlier clinical experiences, and a successful interview. (Students with a lower GPA may be considered under certain conditions. Please see the SEHD website.)
3. A minimum of C- is required for all English content courses.
4. A minimum GPA of 2.0, a grade of C or better, is required for all major courses applying to EDHD - Secondary English Education requirements unless otherwise specified.
5. Students must complete and maintain a 3.0 minimum grade point average in Professional Year coursework to complete licensure requirements. Please see an advisor for more information on this requirement.
6. Transfer courses must be approved by faculty and/or advisor to apply to the major.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Major Courses
CLDE 2000	CLDE Foundations 1	3
EDFN 1000	Equality, Rights & Education	3
or LCRT 2000	Rebels, Villains, & Superheroes: How Children's Literature Shapes Our Identities
or LCRT 3815	Once Upon a Time: Family Literacies in Culturally Diverse Communities
SPED 4030	Understanding (dis)Ability in Contemporary Classrooms 1	3
HDFR 1010	Life Span Development in Ecological Settings	3
or HDFR 2110	Child Ecology
or HDFR 3050	Children's Thinking and Assessment
SPED 4400	Universal Design for Learning (UDL)	3
EDFN 4010	Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity in Urban Education 1	3
CLDE 4020	Responsive Classroom Communities 1	3
EDHD 1930	Community Based Field Experience & Seminar 1	3
EDHD 2930	Learning & Development Field Experience & Seminar 1	3
EDHD 3930	Diverse Learners Field Experience & Seminar 1	3
Content Courses
A minimum grade C- or higher is required in each course.
ENGL 2450	Introduction to Literature and Film	3
ENGL 2070	Grammar, Rhetoric and Style	3
ENGL 3001	Critical Writing	3
ENGL 3084	Digital Writing and Storytelling	3
ENGL 3160	Language Theory	3
ENGL 3795	Race and Ethnicity in American Literature	3
ENGL 1601	Storytelling: Literature, Film, and Television	3
or ENGL 2156	Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 4601	Teaching English Language Learners: Theory and Practice	3
or ENGL 4190	Advanced Topics in Writing, Rhetoric, & Linguistics
Select one of the following courses:		3
ENGL 3750	American Literature after the Civil War
ENGL 4166	History of American Poetry
ENGL 4230	The American Novel
ENGL 4236	The American Short Story
Select one of the following courses:		3
ENGL 4200	Survey of the English Novel to 1900
ENGL 4774	Topics in English Film and Lit: American Identities
ENGL 4500	Medieval Literature
ENGL 4520	English Renaissance
Select one of the following courses:		3
ENGL 4775	Topics in English Film and Lit: 1650-1900
ENGL 4776	Topics in English: Film and Lit: After 1900
ENGL 4250	Twentieth Century Fiction
ENGL 4460	Contemporary World Literature
ENGL 4600	Modernism
Professional Year Courses
A minimum grade of B- is required in each course.
LCRT 4100	Secondary Literacy Instruction and Assessment	3
LCRT 4200	Theory and Methods of Teaching Secondary English	3
LCRT 4201	Teaching and Learning with Diverse Adolescent Literature	3
LCRT 4720	Responsive Writing Instruction	3
UEDU 4040	Planning for Learning	3
UEDU 4931	Internship & Lrng Comm I	2
UEDU 4932	Internship & Lrng Comm II	2
UEDU 4050	Capstone: Planning, Instruction & Assessment	3
UEDU 4933	Internship & Lrng Comm III	6
General Electives
Additional General Electives hours may be needed to reach the required 126 hours for the BA.
Total Hours		91

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Courses require a grade of B- or better; all other courses require a grade of C or better.

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