English Education
The English Education Program at Manhattanville College prepares undergraduate and graduate students to work with secondary students in middle school or high school as future teachers of English Language Arts in grades 5-12. The undergraduate English program includes study of traditional English content areas such as English Literature from Medieval and Renaissance periods through the Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian and Modern eras of British Literature as well as American Literature from the Puritan age through the age of realism and modern American literature. It also includes study of major authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, and Hawthorne, Melville and Poe. In addition, students are required to take courses in genre studies including courses such as Masters of the American Short Story, American Poetry, Modern Love Poetry, The English Novel, Myth and Folktale, and Drama. Students in the English Education program must also take courses in multicultural literature, world literature, literature written by people of color and women, and film. They also study the history, evolution and development of the English Language and its various grammars as well as Adolescent Literature. These additional courses prepare students to teach not only traditional literature but also adolescent fiction and to instruct students in the structure and grammars of the English language. Grades five and six are added to the traditional secondary 7-12 because our students enjoy the flexibility that dual certification offers for the middle and high school levels.
At the graduate level, students enter the School of Education with an undergraduate English major or its equivalent (a minimum of 30 credits in English) and supplement their undergraduate English course work with graduate level content area courses in the history, structure and development of the English language and its various grammars and Adolescent Literature. In addition, students take an additional three credits in one of the following areas: Short Fiction and Drama for Young Adults, Law and Justice in Adolescent Fiction or Poetry for Young Adults.
The English Education department recognizes the intellectual and emotional components of teaching as mutually supporting. Teachers have the potential to act as the responsible adults to challenge and support the learning and well being of their students.
Certification Options
Faculty
Anthony Scimone