Language Degrees Online

ENG 201 Introduction To Fiction
ENG 202 Introduction To Poetry
ENG 203 Introduction To Drama
ENG 299 Introduction To Journalism
ENG 295 Special Topics (arranged with department advisor)
ENG 395 Special Topics (arranged with department advisor)
ENG 495 Special Topics (arranged with department advisor)
ENG 302 Advanced Journalism
ENG 306 Professional and Academic Writing Skills
ENG 321 American Literature to 1870
ENG 322 American Literature after 1870
ENG 331 Medieval Studies
ENG 341 Shakespeare
ENG 351 Renaissance Studies
ENG 356 Eighteenth Century Poetry
ENG 358 Eighteenth Century Novel
ENG 361 Romantic Studies
ENG 363 Victorian Poetry And Prose
ENG 367 Nineteenth Century Novel
ENG 371 Twentieth Century Poetry
ENG 373 Twentieth Century Fiction
ENG 380 Literature on Film
ENG 381 Women’s Literature
ENG 390 Internship
ENG 392 and ENG 394 Studies of American Literature
ENG 396 Studies in British and Continental Literature
ENG 398 Studies in British and Continental Literature
ENG 404 Concentrated Author Studies
ENG 433 Teaching Composition
ENG 499 Senior Thesis

The English Program serves students by leading them to discover the practical importance of our cultural inheritance; honing analytical, critical, and communication skills, and advancing the University’s overarching mission of knowledge, service and sound value judgment. By learning to identify and analyze details, as well as recognize and interpret larger patterns, students who major or minor in English prepare themselves for careers in law, media, marketing, advocacy, social services, diplomacy, human resources, professional writing, fundraising, health services and global communications. Students also can prepare for the traditional fields of secondary and higher education.

A minor in English requires 12 semester hours (four courses) outside of General Education Requirements. Students are especially encouraged to pursue elective courses in language, technology, social science, philosophy and history.

The English Program serves students by leading them to discover the practical importance of our cultural inheritance; honing analytical, critical, and communication skills, and advancing the University’s overarching mission of knowledge, service and sound value judgment.
By learning to identify and analyze details, as well as recognize and interpret larger patterns, students who major or minor in English prepare themselves for careers in law, media, marketing, advocacy, social services, diplomacy, human resources, professional writing, fundraising, health services and global communications. Students also can prepare for the traditional fields of secondary and higher education.
The major requires students to take 35 semester hours of English (12 courses), nine of which – three classes – are General Education Requirements. Students are encouraged to augment their English classes with outside studies.

courses in literature and language awaken the human spirit to its concern with human destiny, society and our increasingly complex world. They prepare students for graduate studies, teaching certification and entry into our industrial and economic worlds where language, communication and sound value judgment are prime concerns.
The English program at Saint Martin’s University offers small class sizes, interdisciplinary courses, extracurricular activities giving depth and breadth to a student’s academic experience and a rigorous educational environment in which faculty members work closely with their students in and out of the classroom.

In year one all students follow a common pathway, which provides a solid foundation for the study of English at this level and which is designed to develop a range of skills in critical and cultural analysis. The first year consists of literature and language modules, and gives you the opportunity to study a wide variety of texts drawn from different cultures, backgrounds and socio-historical contexts.

In your second year you build on the skills practised in year one and gain a more in-depth understanding of major shifts in the development of an English literary tradition and, if you choose, in the emergence of English as a global language. In literature you study modules dealing with specific periods and cultural contexts, such as Renaissance writing, Victorian literature, Twentieth-century writing and American literature, and in language you study worldwide English.

During your second year you also consider how the study of English relates to wider culture-based career pathways and develop your ability to research and to work independently.

Your final year provides greater opportunity to explore new directions and developments in the study of English. Examples of optional modules at this level include—Postcolonial Spaces, British Romanticism and the Lake District, Twentieth-Century Popular Fiction, Shakespeare and Performance, Literature and Film, British Children’s Fiction, Contemporary Women’s Writing, American Identities, Irish Literature and Film since 1960, and Language in Society.
In your final year you also work independently on a topic of your choice and further develop your understanding of the ways in which your English studies relate to particular career pathways.

Described by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate as “unique and innovative”, we are rated by Ofsted as one of the top departments in the UK for PGCE Modern Foreign Languages. We have an international reputation for our successful, multi-sensory approach, our innovative methodology in developing pupil language and our teaching of grammar.

You experience for yourself the approach that we train you to use in the classroom; you learn about the latest insights into neuroscience and multi-sensory learning; you discover how pupils learn, what motivates them and how to give them the tools to say what they really want to say; and how to do all this in the target language. We try to challenge you, make you think and give your learning a purpose – and we try to practise what we preach!
The structure and content of the course guide your progress as a trainee during the year and include the following elements –
Language learning and teaching methodology
The brain and multi-sensory learning
Long-term and short-term planning
Inclusion, differentiation and assessment
Managing pupil behaviour
ICT
The teaching of grammar
A distinctive feature of the course is the way each area is introduced in terms of KS3, then revisited and built on at KS4 and post-16, as well as at KS2.

You will be placed in different schools during the year, in most cases with at least one other trainee so you can share ideas. Tutors and mentors work closely together to ensure that your progress is as smooth as possible.

Candidates are normally required to have a good first degree, preferably in a language or a subject related to language or education. Teaching experience is not essential, but evidence of an interest in teaching is highly desirable.

Non-graduates may exceptionally be admitted if they have a diploma-level teaching qualification or equivalent in-service teaching qualifications, or appropriate professional experience.

All entrants must meet English language proficiency standards – Grade C in GCSE English (or equivalent) or a minimum overall band of 6.5 on the IELTS test, with no sub-test band below 6, or TOEFL paper-based test 580, computer-based test 240, TWE 4.5.

If you are a graduate, and very interested in teaching English to speakers of other languages, but have done little or no teaching, this course is made for you. Our aim is to engage you in the academic and professional study of TESOL so that you emerge with the capacity to operate with considerable expertise.

First we put language teaching into its theoretical and cultural context. This gives you the principles and the framework that you need before you can understand, evaluate and construct aspects of pedagogic theory, practice and research in different professional settings. Alongside this, two more modules provide a sound, up-to-date coverage of theories of language and language learning.

The work from these three modules feeds forward into your study of the principles and practice of language teaching methodology, and into observation and research in real language classrooms. Finally you select an area of special interest to you, read widely around it, and undertake and write up a piece of independent research.

These are the seven modules that make up the course –
Language Teaching Contexts and Theories
Linguistics for Language Teaching
Second Language Acquisition
Language Teaching Methodology 1
Language Teaching Methodology 2
Language Teaching Observation and Research
Dissertation.

The foundation of the curriculum is American Sign Language, which is the native, indigenous language of the North American deaf community. Students of this program will learn to recognize and adapt to the variations in language that exists within the deaf and non-deaf communities. Students learn to create equivalency in meaning between English and ASL.

These entry-level language courses are open to all members of the deaf and non-deaf community. The Certificate of Proficiency works cooperatively with the two-year Associate in Applied Science degree in Deaf Communications Interpreter Education.

The English Minor is designed to provide students with a diverse approach to the study of literature. This minor requires 21 credit hours.ENG 220 Introduction to Literary Study and Research (3)
ENG 312 Foundations of British Literature I (3)
ENG 313 Foundations of British Literature II (3)
ENG 320 Foundations of American Literature (3)
Plus three upper-level English courses