THE
FACULTY
SENATE
Senate
Document Number 0907S
Date
of Senate Approval 01/18/07
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Statement
of Faculty Senate Action:
APC
Document 6: Addition of a new concentration in
Literature/Language:
Creative
Writing with 9-12 English Licensure
Effective Date: Fall 2007
1. Add: On
pg 166, after the section on English with Teacher Licensure:
Creative
Writing with Teacher Licensure
This concentration is designed for candidates who, in
addition to completing the concentration in Creative Writing, wish to study the
skills required for English Licensure.
I. Required
courses in the major—39 hours, including: LIT 241, 321, 322, 323, 324, 352; 354
or 356; 3 hours from 483, 485, 487, or 489; LANG 323, 6 hours from LANG
353-465; 3 hours from LANG 461-465; LANG 497. Note: an internship experience
cannot be used to fulfill one of the LANG course requirements.
II. Foreign
language requirement—A minimum of 6 semester hours.
III. Required
Education courses—See Education section for Secondary School Licensure
(9-12) requirements.
IV. Other departmental requirements—A two-part
demonstration of competency in the
discipline, including a written examination and a
Senior Creative Writing Project; an additional demonstration of oral competency
will be fulfilled by a required public reading of creative work in the senior
year. Computer competency is demonstrated in LANG 497.
Impact:
The
addition of 9-12 licensure to the Creative Writing concentration will not
significantly impact future staffing needs of the affected departments.
Rationale:
Creative
Writing students are excellent candidates for licensure because they take
multiple courses in writing, as well as in literature. In their creative
writing courses, they have practiced both the process of producing original
texts and the process of reviewing and evaluating the works of other students. Through peer and professor review of their
own work, and review of the works of fellow students, Creative Writing students
have learned the important skills of critical response to others’ texts as well
as revising their own texts in response to criticism. Thus, they can draw on their extensive
experience in teaching others to write well and to read and write about
literature.
Discussions
between the departments of Education and Literature/Language were initiated
when several Creative Writing students requested to be considered for 9-12
English licensure. The chairs of Literature and Language and Education, and the
director of the Creative Writing program concur with the addition of this new
concentration which will enable Creative Writing students to consider licensure
in 6-9 Language Arts and 9-12 English.