Communication Arts/Literature Major

Advisment Information

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For Suggested Order of Courses, see below.

Your Advisors: 417 Humanities Linda Miller Cleary and Mary Wright

Waiting for you in H 417

IMPORTANT: Seek advisement regularly. Those who graduate late usually do so because they did not seek advisement and missed essential advisement information. We will be available, but you need to take the initiative.

Suggested Order of Classes for the Major:

For Full Listing of Courses required for the major see UMD's Education Home Page, then clicking on majors.

(Starred courses may be used to fulfill UMD liberal education program requirements. Courses within the blocks must be taken during that semester.)

Freshman or Sophomore Year

Educ. 1101 Educatin in Modern Society (3 credits)*

Engl 1582 Introduction to World Literature (3 credits)*

Ling 1811 Introduction to Language (3 credits)*

Comm 1112 Public Speaking (3 credits)*

Comm 1222 Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)*

Comm 1500 Media, Persuasion and Society (3 credits)*

Come to see us immediately if you can't get into these courses. If you get behind here, you will be behind for the rest of your years in college and may graduate late.

Sophomore Year

Engl 3563 American Literature (4 credits--to be taken during the Fall Semester)

Engl 3564 American Literature (4 credits--to be taken during the Spring Semester)

Educ 3412 Computers in Education (4 credits)

Engl 3906 Methods of Literary Study (4 credits)

Engl 3501 British Literature (4 credits)

Elective Engl 3xxx-5xxx (4 credits--may be taken also during Sophomore year)

Junior Year/Fall Semester

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Engl 5902 Teaching Lang./Cog./Writing (4 credits)

Advanced Writing Choose one of the following: Comp 3100--Advanced Writing: Language and Literature (3 credits), Comp 3140--Advanced Writing: Human Services (3 credits), Engl 3115--Writing Fiction (4 credits), Engl 3121--Writing Poetry (4 credits), Engl 5116--Advanced Writing of Fiction (4 credits), Engl 5122--Advanced Writing of Poetry (4 credits)

Linguistics 5802 Applied Linguistics (4 credits)

Hlth 3202 Drug Education (2 credits)

Junior Year/Spring Semester-Block One

EdSe 5120 Philosophy and Organization of Middle Schools (2 credits)

EdSe 3204 General Instructional Methods (3 credits)

EdSe 3205 Middle School Apprenticeship (2 credits)

EdSe 5215 Teaching Reading Literature, Grades 5-12 (5 credits)

EdSe 4501 Educational Psychology (3 credits)

Senior Year/Fall Semester-Block Two

Engl 5922 Teaching Literature and Communication (5 credits--the capstone course)

EdSe 3206 Secondary School Apprenticeship (2 credits)

EdSe 4100 Human Relations (2 credits)

Educ 4381 Teaching American Indian Students (2 credits)

British Period Course (4 credits--this may be taken during a different semester)

Senior Year/Spring Semester - Block Three

EdSe 4600 Student Teaching (12 credits)

Educ 4500 Professional Issues in Teaching (1 credit)

Educ 4400 Professional Development Seminar (1 credit)

Any questions? E-mail Linda Miller-Cleary at lmillerc@d.umn.edu or Mary Wright, mwright2@d.umn.edu

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Updated: August, 1999