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BS, Teaching English

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128 Total Credits Required

Liberal Arts Requirements, 44 Credits. Program Requirements, 84 Credits.

College Core Curriculum (CORE)

44 Credits

Foreign Language - 8 Credits
Expository Writing - 8 Credits
EXPOS-UA 1
Writing the Essay
4 Credits
ACE-UE 110
The Advanced College Essay: Education and the Professions
4 Credits
Foundations of Contemporary Culture - 12 Credits
CORE-UA 04xx/ST-CORE-UE
Texts and Ideas
4 Credits
CORE-UA 05xx/ST-CORE-UE
Cultures and Contexts
4 Credits
CORE-UA 06xx/ST-CORE-UE
Societies and Social Sciences
4 Credits
Foundations of Scientific Inquiry - 16 Credits
Two mathematics courses taken by advisement for a total of 8 credits.
Two physical/life sciences courses for a total of 8 credits.
CORE-UE xxxx
Mathematics Course (by advisement)
4 Credits
CORE-UA 2xx/CORE-UA 3xx/ST-CORE-UE
Physical Science/Life Science
4 Credits

Additional Requirements

SAHS-UE 1
New Student Seminar
0 Credits
SAHS-UE WPE
Writing Proficiency Examination
0 Credits

Content Core

43 Credits

ENGL-UA courses taken five times for a total of 20 credits
ENGL-UA xxxx
English Course (by Advisement)
4 Credits
ENGED-UE 71
Literature as Exploration I- II
4 Credits
ENGED-UE 193
The Reading of Poetry
4 Credits
ENGED-UE 1185
Advanced Composition
4 Credits
ENGED-UE 1589
Critical Linguistics: Language- Power- and Society
3 Credits
ENGED-UE 1030
Literature Seminar for English Majors
4 Credits
One ENGL-UA xxxx or DRLIT-UA xxxx or MCC-UE xxxx course taken for a total of 4 credits.

Pedagogical Core

27 Credits

 

Common Pedagogical Core - 17 Credits
TCHL-UE 1
Inquiries into Teaching and Learning I
4 Credits
TCHL-UE 5
Field Observations in Schools and Other Educational Settings
0 Credits
TCHL-UE 1999
Drug and Alcohol Education/Child Abuse Identification and School Violence Prevention/D.A.S.A.: The Social Responsibilities of Teachers
1 Credit
APSY-UE 20
Human Development I
2 Credits
APSY-UE 23
Human Development II: Application for Educators of Early Adolescents
2 Credits
SPCED-UE 1005
Teaching Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms
4 Credits
TCHL-UE 41
American Dilemmas: Race, Inequality, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Public Education
4 Credits
Or
HSED-UE 610
Education and the American Dream: Historical Perspectives
4 Credits
OR
SOED-UE 1015
Education as a Social Institution
4 Credits
Specialized Pedagogical Core - 10 Credtis
ENGED-UE 1600
Integrating Reading and Writing with Adolescents I
4 Credits
ENGED-UE 1911
Student Teaching the English Language Arts in Middle School
3 - 4 Credits
ENGED-UE 1922
Student Teaching the English Language Arts in High School
3 - 4 Credits

Unrestricted Electives

14 Credits

The following courses satisfy Liberal Arts and Content Core requirements:

  • ENGL-UA: 1 American literature course
  • ENGL-UA: 1 British literature course
  • ENGL-UA: 1 multi-ethnic literature course
  • ENGL-UA: 2 content core elective courses by advisement

Teaching and Learning majors matriculating at NYU in Fall 2014 or later are expected to maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 in order to make satisfactory academic progress.

While we review all applications individually and holistically, our expectation is that all undergraduate students accepted for transfer into any of the teacher education programs at NYU Steinhardt will have at least a cumulative B average in their coursework.

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