English
Major: English
Degree Awarded: Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Calendar Type: Quarter
Total Credit Hours: 181.0
Co-op Options: Three Co-op (Five years); One Co-op (Four years)
Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) code: 23.1399
Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) code: 25-1123
Secondary Education Concentration
English majors who select the concentration in Secondary Education benefit from the full range of courses and opportunities that we offer. These include core courses taken by all our majors, offering a strong foundation in textual and rhetorical analysis along with writing skills. Students receive a strong grounding in English to prepare for a career in teaching.
The concentration offers additional courses, including coursework and student teaching through the School of Education, that prepare students to meet the certification requirements for a career as a high school English teacher.
Degree Requirements
| UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS (minimum 64 credits) | ||
| CIVC 101 | Introduction to Civic Engagement | 1.0 |
| COOP 101 | Career Management and Professional Development | 1.0 |
| ENGL 101 | Composition and Rhetoric I: Inquiry and Exploratory Research | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 111 | English Composition I | |
| ENGL 102 | Composition and Rhetoric II: Advanced Research and Evidence-Based Writing | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 112 | English Composition II | |
| ENGL 103 | Composition and Rhetoric III: Themes and Genres | 3.0 |
| or ENGL 113 | English Composition III | |
| UNIV H101 | The Drexel Experience | 1.0 |
| UNIV H201 | Looking Forward: Academics and Careers | 1.0 |
| Mathematics courses for a minimum of 6.0 credits | 6.0 | |
| Introduction to Analysis A | ||
| Introduction to Analysis B | ||
| Science courses for a minimum of 6.0 credits | 6.0 | |
| Environmental Science and Society | ||
| Astronomy | ||
| Social/Behavioral Science courses for a minimum of 13 credits | 13.0 | |
| United States History to 1815 | ||
or HIST 202 | United States History, 1815-1900 | |
or HIST 203 | United States History since 1900 | |
| General Psychology I | ||
| Educational Psychology | ||
| Sociology of Education | ||
| Humanities courses (other than ENGL or WRIT) for a minimum of 6 credits | 6.0 | |
| History of Art I | ||
or ARTH 102 | History of Art II | |
or ARTH 103 | History of Art III | |
| Introduction to Music | ||
| Diversity Studies courses for a minimum of 6 credits | 6.0 | |
| Educational Policy, Law & Advocacy | ||
| Foundations in Instructing English Language Learners | ||
| International Studies courses for a minimum of 6 credits | 6.0 | |
| Foreign Language requirement (2 consecutive courses, reaching at least 103) | 8.0 | |
| MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (30-credit CORE plus 36-credit concentration) | ||
| Core Courses | ||
| ENGL 195 | English Freshman Seminar | 3.0 |
| ENGL 207 [WI] | African American Literature | 3.0 |
| ENGL 315 [WI] | Shakespeare | 3.0 |
| EDUC 105 | Freshman Pedagogy Seminar ((1-credit course, repeat twice for 3 credits total)) | 3.0 |
| EDUC 205 | Sophomore Pedagogy Seminar | 1.0 |
| EDUC 305 [WI] | Junior Pedagogy Seminar | 1.0 |
| EDUC 405 | Senior Pedagogy Seminar | 1.0 |
| ENGL 325 | Topics in World Literature | 3.0 |
| ENGL 355 [WI] | Women and Literature | 3.0 |
| WRIT 195 | Threshold Concepts in Writing | 3.0 |
| WRIT 200 | Language Puzzles and Word Games: Issues in Modern Grammar | 3.0 |
| WRIT 225 [WI] | Creative Writing | 3.0 |
| Education Concentration | 36.0 | |
| English Education Language & Methods - take all for 15 credits | ||
| Introduction to Computing and Security Technology | ||
| Techniques of Speaking | ||
| English Teaching Methods | ||
| Introduction to Linguistics | ||
| Advanced Composition | ||
| Literature Surveys - Select any 4 for 12 credits | ||
| Classical to Medieval Literature | ||
| Renaissance to the Enlightenment | ||
| Romanticism to Modernism | ||
| Survey of World Literature | ||
| Post-Colonial Literature | ||
| American Literature I | ||
| American Literature II | ||
| British Literature I | ||
| British Literature II | ||
| Advanced Literature Courses - Select all for 9 credits | ||
| Young Adult Fiction | ||
| Seminar in English and American Literature | ||
| Seminar in World Literature | ||
| Additional credits for Education Certification - select all for 51 credits | 51.0 | |
| Principles of Microeconomics | ||
| Special Education Foundations: Referral and Assessment | ||
| Inclusionary Practices for Exceptional Students | ||
| Literacy and Content Skill Development 7-12 | ||
| Foundations in Education I: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective | ||
| Organizational Structure of Secondary Schools | ||
| Creating a Positive Classroom Climate | ||
| Evaluation of Instruction | ||
| Multimedia in Instructional Design | ||
| Student Teaching Seminar I | ||
| DragonsTeach Student Teaching | ||
| Introduction to Analysis C | ||
or MATH 107 | Probability and Statistics for Liberal Arts | |
| Nutrition, Foods, and Health | ||
or NFS 101 | Introduction to Nutrition & Food | |
| Total Credits | 181.0 | |
Writing-Intensive Course Requirements
In order to graduate, all students must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year. Two writing-intensive courses must be in a student's major. The third can be in any discipline. Students are advised to take one writing-intensive class each year, beginning with the sophomore year, and to avoid “clustering” these courses near the end of their matriculation. Transfer students need to meet with an academic advisor to review the number of writing-intensive courses required to graduate.
A "WI" next to a course in this catalog may indicate that this course can fulfill a writing-intensive requirement. For the most up-to-date list of writing-intensive courses being offered, students should check the Writing Intensive Course List at the University Writing Program. Students scheduling their courses can also conduct a search for courses with the attribute "WI" to bring up a list of all writing-intensive courses available that term.
Sample Plan of Study
4 year, one co-op
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| EDUC 101 | 3.0 | CIVC 101 | 1.0 | EDEX 142 | 3.0 | VACATION | |
| EDUC 105* | 1.0 | EDUC 105* | 1.0 | EDUC 105* | 1.0 | ||
| ENGL 101 or 111 | 3.0 | EDUC 113 | 3.0 | ENGL 103 or 113 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGL 195 | 3.0 | ENGL 102 or 112 | 3.0 | ENGL 207 | 3.0 | ||
| MATH 171 | 3.0 | MATH 172 | 3.0 | MATH 173 | 3.0 | ||
| UNIV H101 | 1.0 | WRIT 200 | 3.0 | WRIT 195 | 3.0 | ||
| 14 | 14 | 16 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| EDEX 344 | 3.0 | INFO 101 | 3.0 | ARTH 101, 102, or 103 | 3.0 | ECON 201 | 4.0 |
| EDUC 205 | 1.0 | LING 101 | 3.0 | COOP 101 | 1.0 | EDUC 322 | 3.0 |
| EDUC 312 | 3.0 | PSY 101 | 3.0 | EDEX 366 | 3.0 | ENGL 315 | 3.0 |
| EDUC 365 | 3.0 | Literature Survey | 3.0 | EDUC 305 | 1.0 | HIST 201, 202, or 203 | 4.0 |
| WRIT 225 | 3.0 | Foreign Language | 4.0 | MUSC 130 | 3.0 | International Studies | 3.0 |
| Literature Survey | 3.0 | Foreign language | 4.0 | ||||
| 16 | 16 | 15 | 17 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | COM 230 | 3.0 | ENGL 304 | 3.0 | ||
| EDUC 358 | 3.0 | Literature Survey | 3.0 | ENGL 325 | 3.0 | ENVS 260 | 3.0 |
| ENGL 490 | 3.0 | PHYS 181 | 3.0 | ||||
| PSY 320 | 3.0 | SOC 335 | 3.0 | ||||
| UNIV H201 | 1.0 | Literature Survey | 3.0 | ||||
| WRIT 211 | 3.0 | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| EDUC 308 | 3.0 | EDUC 325 | 3.0 | EDUC 405 | 1.0 | ||
| EDUC 409 | 9.0 | EDUC 410 | 9.0 | ENGL 355 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGL 492 | 3.0 | ||||||
| NFS 100 | 2.0 | ||||||
| International Studies | 3.0 | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Total Credits 181 | |||||||
| * | EDUC 105 is taken three times for a total of 3.0 credits. |
5 year, 3 co-op
| First Year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| EDUC 101 | 3.0 | CIVC 101 | 1.0 | COOP 101 | 1.0 | VACATION | |
| EDUC 105* | 1.0 | EDUC 105* | 1.0 | EDEX 142 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGL 101 or 111 | 3.0 | EDUC 113 | 3.0 | EDUC 105* | 1.0 | ||
| ENGL 195 | 3.0 | ENGL 102 or 112 | 3.0 | ENGL 103 or 113 | 3.0 | ||
| MATH 171 | 3.0 | MATH 172 | 3.0 | ENGL 207 | 3.0 | ||
| UNIV H101 | 1.0 | WRIT 200 | 3.0 | MATH 173 | 3.0 | ||
| WRIT 195 | 3.0 | ||||||
| 14 | 14 | 17 | 0 | ||||
| Second Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | ARTH 101, 102, or 103 | 3.0 | ECON 201 | 4.0 | ||
| EDEX 366 | 3.0 | EDUC 322 | 3.0 | ||||
| EDUC 305 | 1.0 | ENGL 315 | 3.0 | ||||
| MUSC 130 | 3.0 | HIST 201, 202, or 203 | 4.0 | ||||
| Foreign Language | 4.0 | Foreign language | 4.0 | ||||
| 0 | 0 | 14 | 18 | ||||
| Third Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | UNIV H201 | 1.0 | ENGL 304 | 3.0 | ||
| EDUC 358 | 3.0 | Literature Survey (1st of 4) | 3.0 | PSY 320 | 3.0 | ENVS 260 | 3.0 |
| ENGL 325 | 3.0 | PHYS 181 | 3.0 | ||||
| COM 230 | 3.0 | SOC 335 | 3.0 | ||||
| WRIT 211 | 3.0 | Literature Survey | 3.0 | ||||
| ENGL 490 | 3.0 | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | 16 | 15 | ||||
| Fourth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | Summer | Credits |
| COOP EXPERIENCE | COOP EXPERIENCE | EDUC 205 | 1.0 | INFO 101 | 3.0 | ||
| EDEX 344 | 3.0 | LING 101 | 3.0 | ||||
| EDUC 365 | 3.0 | PSY 101 | 3.0 | ||||
| EDUC 312 | 3.0 | Literature Survey | 3.0 | ||||
| Literature Survey (3rd of 4) | 3.0 | International Studies | 3.0 | ||||
| WRIT 225 | 3.0 | ||||||
| 0 | 0 | 16 | 15 | ||||
| Fifth Year | |||||||
| Fall | Credits | Winter | Credits | Spring | Credits | ||
| EDUC 308 | 3.0 | EDUC 325 | 3.0 | EDUC 405 | 1.0 | ||
| EDUC 409 | 9.0 | EDUC 410 | 9.0 | ENGL 355 | 3.0 | ||
| ENGL 492 | 3.0 | ||||||
| NFS 100 | 2.0 | ||||||
| International Studies | 3.0 | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Total Credits 181 | |||||||
| * | EDUC 105 is taken 3 times for a total of 3.0 credits. |
English Faculty
Jan Armon, PhD (University of Michigan). Associate Teaching Professor. Academic functions of personal writing, composition.
Valarie Arms, PhD (Temple University). Professor. Rhetoric and Composition
Kenneth Bingham, MA (Temple University). Teaching Professor. First-year writing; engineering ethics; literature of baseball.
Valerie Booth, PhD (Emory University). Associate Teaching Professor.
Raymond Brebach, PhD (University of Illinois). Associate Professor. Modern British fiction; the novel; textual studies.
André Carrington, PhD (New York University). Assistant Professor. Cultural politics of race, gender and genre; feminism criticism; critical race theory.
Paula Marantz Cohen, PhD (Columbia University) Distinguished Professor, Dean of the Pennoni Honors College. Co-editor, <em>Journal of Modern Literature;</em> Host of the <em>Drexel Interview.</em> Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century English and American literature; film studies.
Albert DiBartolomeo, MA (Temple University). Teaching Professor. Co-Director, Drexel Publishing Group; Creative writing; first-year writing; non-fiction.
Dan Driscoll, MA (Temple University). Associate Teaching Professor. Associate Director, University Writing Center: Curricular Initiatives. Co-Director, Minor in Writing. First-year writing.
Anne Erickson, PhD (Purdue University). Assistant Teaching Professor. Online educational applications; the short story cycle.
Nomi Eve, MFA (Brown University). Assistant Teaching Professor.
Lisa Farley, MEd (Temple University). Associate Teaching Professor. English as a Second Language (ESL).
Robert Finegan, MFA (University of Pittsburgh). Associate Teaching Professor. First-year writing; technical and creative writing.
Alexis Finger, MS (Queens College, CUNY). Associate Teaching Professor. Speech; ESL; oral communication.
Valerie Fox, PhD (SUNY at Binghamton). Teaching Professor. Founding Editor, <em>Press 1.</em> Twentieth century drama; modern and contemporary American poetry; first-year writing.
Edward Fristrom, PhD (State University of New York-Albany). Associate Teaching Professor. Professional writing, creative writing, multimedia, and writing education.
Keunah Han, PhD (Temple University). Assistant Teaching Professor. English as a Second Language (ESL)
Cassandra Hirsch, MFA (Rosemont College). Assistant Teaching Professor. Fiction.
Gabriella Ibieta, PhD (City University of New York). Associate Professor. Comparative literature; Cuban and Latin American fiction.
Henry Israeli, MFA (University of Iowa) Associate Director, Certificate in Writing and Publishing. Associate Teaching Professor. Founder and editor of <i>Saturnalia Books</i>, a publisher of contemporary poetry.
Miriam Kotzin, PhD (New York University). Professor. Founding Editor, <em>Per Contra.</em> American literature; genre studies; creative writing; communications.
Stephen Mandell, PhD (Temple University). Professor. First-year writing; technical writing; speech; American literature.
Deirdre McMahon, PhD (University of Iowa). Associate Teaching Professor. 19th-century British literature and culture: empire, critical race studies and analyses of material culture.
Marianallet Mendez-Rivera, PhD (University of Minnesota). Assistant Teaching Professor. Use of the mass media to secure, maintain and enhance political power; international technical communication—including issues of translation v. localization.
Harriet Levin Millan, MFA (University of Iowa) Director, Certificate in Writing and Publishing. Associate Teaching Professor. Poetry.
Jill Moses, MFA (University of Oregon). Assistant Teaching Professor. Dramatic literature; first-year writing.
Christopher T. Nielson, PhD (Purdue University) Assistant Department Head; Director, Programs in English. Teaching Professor. Shakespeare; Renaissance drama and literature; dramatic literature; first-year writing.
Karen Nulton, PhD (Rutgers University) Director, Writing Assessment. Associate Teaching Professor. Writing assessment, writing pedagogy, and writing across the curriculum.
Margene Peterson, MA (Rhode Island School of Design). Instructor. English as a Second Language (ESL); the learning styles and strategies of non-native speakers of English.
Abioseh Porter, PhD (University of Alberta, Canada). Professor. Comparative literature; postcolonial literatures; Editor, <em>JALA, Journal of the African Literature Association</em>.
Donald Riggs, PhD (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). Teaching Professor. Cinematic monsters; science fiction and fantasy literature and film; Renaissance literature; creative writing; first-year writing.
Donna Rondolone, PhD (University of Pennsylvania). Associate Teaching Professor. Medieval literature; Arthurian legend; first-year writing.
Gail Rosen, JD (Temple University). Associate Teaching Professor. Literature and law; first-year writing.
Doreen Alvarez Saar, PhD (SUNY Buffalo) American Literature Editor, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature. Professor. Early American literature; Eighteenth-century America; race and gender studies.
Sheila Sandapen, PhD (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). Assistant Teaching Professor. First-year writing; cultural studies; women's studies; history and film.
Fred A. Siegel, PhD (New York University) Director, First-Year Writing Program. Teaching Professor. Popular theater; dramatic literature, creative non-fiction; first-year writing.
Scott Stein, MFA (University of Miami). Teaching Professor. Creative writing; first-year writing; Founding Editor, <em>When Falls the Coliseum: A Journal of American Culture (Or Lack Thereof).</em>
Elizabeth Thorpe, MFA (Goddard College). Assistant Teaching Professor. New England literature, illness/healing narratives, and the creative process.
Eva Thury, PhD (University of Pennsylvania). Associate Professor. Mythology; classical literature; drama; first-year writing; desktop publishing and software documentation.
Kathleen Volk Miller, MA (Rutgers University) Director, Graduate Program in Publishing; Co-Director, Drexel Publishing Group. Teaching Professor. Co-Editor, <em>Painted Bride Quarterly (PBQ)</em>; creative writing; first-year writing.
Maria Volynsky, EdD (Temple University) Associate Director, First-Year Writing Program; ESL Coordinator. Assistant Teaching Professor. English as a Second Language (ESL).
Scott Warnock, PhD (Temple University) Director, Drexel Writing Center; Director, University Writing Program. Associate Professor. Rhetoric and composition; medical writing; information technology and literacy.
Robert A. Watts, MA (Temple University). Associate Teaching Professor. Creative writing; first-year writing.
Rachel Wenrick, MFA (Columbia University) Associate Director, University Writing Program: Strategic Initiatives; Co-Director, Minor in Writing. Associate Teaching Professor. First-year writing.
Vincent Williams, PhD (Temple University). Assistant Teaching Professor. First-year writing; the intersection of race, gender, class and urbanism.
Jennifer Yusin, PhD (Emory University). Associate Professor. Postcolonial literature; trauma theory; literary theory; psychoanalysis, and memory studies in contemporary literature in English.
Emeritus Faculty
Richard Astro, PhD (University of Washington) Distinguished Professor. Provost Emeritus. Twentieth-century American literature; literature and sports.
