UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

 

Academic Program Approval

 

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs.  Proposing department should complete this form.  For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

 

 

Submitted by: ____Thomas Pauly_____________________phone number____831-1970_____

                               

Department:  _____English___________________________email address_tpauly@udel.edu__

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

Action:  ____Revise Major_____________________________________________________________________

(Example:  add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration,  revise major/minor/concentration,  academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

 

Effective term__________07F__________________________________________________________________________

                                                (use format 04F, 05W)

 

Current degree____BA__________________________________________________________

                                    (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed change leads to the degree of: ___BA______________________________________

                                                                                             (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

 

Proposed name:_____English Education_________________________________________

                                            Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit

                                                                                (if applicable)

 

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration:_____English Education________________

                                                                                    (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental  degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor:____________________________________________________

                                   (Example:  African Studies,  Business Administration,  English, Leadership, etc.)            

 

Graduate Program Policy statement change:_________________________________

                                                                  (Must attach  your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study:______________________________________________

                                 (Example:  Animal Science: MS  Animal Science:  PHD  Economics: MA Economics: PHD)

 

 

                Graduate minor / concentration:___________________________________________

 

 

Note: all graduate studies proposals must include an electronic copy of the Graduate Program Policy Document, highlighting the changes made to the original policy document.

 

 

 

 

 

List new courses required for the new or revised curriculum. How do they support the overall program objectives of the major/minor/concentrations)?

 (Be aware that approval of the curriculum is dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge list. If there are no new courses enter “None”)

 

ENGL 101—Tools of Textual Analysis

ENGL 102—Texts in Time

ENGL 294—English Language: Grammar and Usage

ENGL 394—English Language: Rhetorical and Cultural Contents

ENGL 376—World Literature

 

A gateway course (101: Tools of Textual Analysis) will introduce students to basic concepts of literary analysis and teach them how to write in the discipline.  This course is a prerequisite for nearly all English courses.  It is part of our new First Year Experience, linked to E110, with the professor teaching both 101 and 110. A second course (102: Texts in Time) will give students the opportunity to explore how texts reflect the cultures that create them by examining a specific historical context.  This course will be taught in small sections, with intensive writing and the chance to develop analytical skills necessary in advanced courses. These two introductory courses are required of all majors; after that, students will all declare a concentration.  While the requirements for each concentration vary, on the whole our majors will then enter into a sequence of historical survey courses covering British and American literature.  Thus, most of our students will be taking the same courses their first two years, and these courses will systematically lay the foundation for skills and historical knowledge upon which subsequent courses will be based.  Having taken a sequence of courses together, students can then (in their junior and senior years) develop and pursue their own specialized intellectual interests, since most courses after that will be electives.  In order to be able to offer English courses to non-majors, there will be a separate track of courses which do not require 101 as a prerequisite. 

 

ENGL 294 and 394 give future teachers a solid core of understanding in English language studies, including grammar, language variation, language change, style, and rhetoric.  These courses will replace ENGL 183 and ENGL 390.

 

ENGL 376, World Literature, will address a shortcoming pointed out in our 2003 NCATE accreditation review.  With the addition of this course, future teachers will become familiar with exemplars of world literature, including non-western literature.

 

 

Explain, when appropriate, how this new/revised curriculum supports the 10 goals of undergraduate education: http://www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/

 

All English courses involve extensive reading, research, critical thinking, discussion, and writing. We work to maintain class sizes that facilitate review and feedback of written assignments, and we make assignments that demand advanced thinking skills: problem solving, interpretation, and theoretically-informed reading. English classes in general attend to diverse literatures, examining how the production, dissemination, reception, and disposition of texts are influenced by literary, historical, cultural, and ethnic contexts. Many classes involve active learning through service learning, independent research, internships, study abroad, and other experiences that enlarge students' perspectives of the world beyond the classroom. Our current curricular revisions are intended to make our courses more representative of diverse cultures and to insure that students have outcomes we expect: exceptionally strong reading and research skills, the ability to articulate compelling arguments, and the ability to produce expert writing.

 

Identify other units affected by the proposed changes:

(Attach permission from the affected units.  If no other unit is affected, enter “None”)

 

University policy requires that all proposed changes to teacher education programs must be approved by the University Council on Teacher Education (UCTE).  These changes to the English Education program were approved by UCTE on April 24, 2006.

 

 

 

Describe the rationale for the proposed program change(s):

(Explain your reasons for creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.)

 

The English Department is changing its curriculum and its concentrations in major ways in response to our APR. In the new gateway courses to the major, part of a strong FYE, students will develop reading, writing, and interpretive skills important to all successive courses. Our new curriculum will allow more freedom of electives across concentrations, rationalizing course numbering and prerequisites, making fewer requirements within specific historical periods, and generally updating the program. We are creating new internship courses and undergraduate research courses and providing more opportunities to work in global and multicultural literature.  We are redesigning our courses in grammar, style, and rhetoric and modifying our capstone experience to best use our resources for a meaningful senior year experience, including mentored research, internships, student teaching, and seminars.

 

In addition to conforming to changes in the English major that affect the department as a whole, the proposed English Education program complies fully with the requirements of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), which accredits all UD teacher education programs.

 

 

Program Requirements: 

(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog.  If this is a revision, be sure to indicate the changes being made to the current curriculum and include a side-by-side comparison of the credit distribution before and after the proposed change.)

 

PROPOSED PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

 

MAJOR: English Education

 

ENGL 101  Tools of Textual Analysis   .           .           .           .           .           .           15

ENGL 102  Texts in Times

ENGL 204  American Literature

ENGL 205  British Literature to 1660

ENGL 206  British Literature 1660-Present

 

A course in cultural diversity      .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           3

            (ENGL 202, 214, 215, 344, 345, 348, 349, 378, 380, 381, 382)

 

ENGL 324  Shakespeare         .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           12

ENGL 294  English Language: Grammar and Usage

ENGL 394  English Language: Rhetorical and Cultural Contexts

ENGL 376  World Literature

 

 

A course in writing, taken from the following options: ENGL 301-312, 316,                  3

            404-415

 

A course in contemporary literature, taken from the following options: 207,        .           3

            208, 209, 210, 212, 341, 342, 345, 348, 353, 356.  In addition, the

            English Education program will designate variable topics courses

            (e.g., ENGL 480) as fulfilling this requirement when the content is

            appropriate.

 

The following courses:

EDUC 413  Adolescent Development and Educational Psychology       .           .           .           4

EDUC 414  Teaching Exceptional Adolescents .           .           .           .           .           3

EDUC 419  Diversity in Secondary Education   .           .           .           .           .           3

EDUC 400  Student Teaching   .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           9

EDUC 420  Reading in the Content Area          .           .           .           .           .           .           1

ENGL 482  Seminar in Teaching English I         .           .           .           .           .           .           3

ENGL 483  Seminar in Teaching English II        .           .           .           .           .           .           3

EDUC 481  Teaching English in Secondary School       .           .           .           .           .           3

 

The following courses:

One course in fine arts taken through the Art History, Theater, or Music Department      3

One course in public speaking or performance, taken from the following options:

            COMM 251, 255, 312, 350; THEA 102, 200, 204, 206, 226, 360     .           .           3

One course in American history, taken from the following options: HIST 220,

            221, 278, 300-328, 459           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           3

One course in non-Western history, taken from the following options: HIST 103,

            104, 130, 131, 136-138, 270, 302, 368-372, 377, 378, 380, 381, 391-393,

            444, 479          .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           3

One course in modern sociocultural studies, taken from the following options:     .           3

            ANTH 101, 222, 227, 255, 401; BAMS 110, 205, 215, 305, 322, 355, 361,

            415; POSC 321; SOCI 201-213, 302, 330, 331, 343, 356, 360, 401;

            WOMS 201, 216, 222, 240, 260, 363, 389; IFST 202, 230, 333; CSCC

            355      .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           .           3

LING 101  Introduction to Linguistics   .           .           .           .           .           .           3

 

 

CURRENT PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

 

ACADEMIC STUDIES

ENGL 183—Grammar for English Teachers

ENGL 202—Biblical and Classical Literature

ENGL 205—British Literature I    

ENGL 206—British Literature II

ENGL 300—Texts and Contexts

ENGL 302—Advanced Composition

ENGL 324—Shakespeare

ENGL 340—American Literature to the Civil War

ENGL 341—American Literature: Civil War to WWII

ENGL 390—English Linguistics

LING 101—Introduction to Linguistics

 

 

A course in British Literature Before 1900*

A course in 20th-Century British or American or Comparative Literature*

*A Senior Seminar (ENGL 480) is also required.  Students are encouraged to choose a section of ENGL 480 that fills one of these two areas.

 

RELATED COURSES

 

Two courses American History

A course in British History

A course in European History

A course in Philosophy

A course in Art History, Theater, or Music

A Public Speaking course from the following: COMM 251, 255, 312, 350, THEA 102, 226

 

PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

EDUC 413—Adolescent Development and Educational Psychology

EDUC 414—Teaching Exceptional Adolescents

EDUC 419—Diversity in Secondary Education

EDUC 420—Reading in the Content Area

ENGL 482—Seminar in Teaching English I

ENGL 483—Seminar in Teaching English II

EDDV 400—Student Teaching

ENGL 481—Teaching English in Secondary School

 

 

 

 ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION:        (Please do not remove supporting documentation.)

 

Department Chairperson                                                                                                        Date                                       

 

Dean of College                                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Chairperson, College Curriculum Committee___________________________________Date_____________________

 

Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR Studies                                                                   Date                                       

 

Chairperson, Senate Coordinating Com.                                                                 Date                                       

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Date of Senate Resolution                                                                                                      Date to be Effective               

 

Registrar                                                                  Program Code                                         Date                                       

 

Vice Provost for Academic Programs & Planning                                                                  Date                                       

 

Provost                                                                                                                                   Date                                       

 

Board of Trustee Notification                                                                                                                Date                                       

 

Revised 5/02/06   /khs