Department of English
Dr. Lucas Hardy, Graduate Director
240 DeBartolo Hall
330-941-3420
lhardy01@ysu.edu
Certificate Description
This is a four-course certificate (12 semester hours) that will be valuable for teachers of literature at junior high schools, high schools, and two-year colleges. It would also be useful as a springboard to further graduate study in literature. This certificate would allow those teaching literature or interested in teaching literature a focus within the MA in English or a stand-alone foundation in the subject.
Admission Requirements
To be eligible for the graduate certificate in teaching of writing, students need not have an undergraduate degree in English but must have a B.A. or B.S. degree and meet requirements for admission to the College of Graduate Studies at YSU.
Certificate Requirements
| COURSE | TITLE | S.H. |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| ENGL 6906 | Teaching of Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 6902 | Literary Thought | 3 |
| Students must take one course from two of the following three areas: | 6 | |
| British Literature | ||
| The Medieval World | ||
| Sixteenth- and 17th-Century British Studies | ||
| Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama | ||
| Restoration and 18th-Century British Studies | ||
| Nineteenth-Century British Studies | ||
| Twentieth-Century British Studies | ||
| Studies in Romanticism | ||
| American Literature | ||
| Early American Studies | ||
| Nineteenth-Century American Studies | ||
| Twentieth-Century American | ||
| Working Class Literature | ||
| Multicultural Literature | ||
| Perspectives in Multicultural Studies | ||
| Total Semester Hours | 12 | |
Learning Outcomes
- Teaching of Literature Certificate students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of British, American, and/or world literary publication cultures, movements, and forms/genres.
- Teaching of Literature Certificate students will demonstrate the use of a variety of interpretive strategies for analyzing multiple kinds of texts, including close reading, contextual interpretation, analysis of form and genre, and rhetorical analysis.
- Teaching of Literature Certificate students will demonstrate the use of theories related to the representation of culture, race, class, gender, and sexuality to interpret literary texts.
- Teaching of Literature Certificate students will demonstrate the ability to participate in the professional life of the discipline as scholars, teachers, editors, and writers.