School of Education Curriculum and Instruction / Interdisciplinary English Education
Institution address:
College of Education
Curriculum and Instruction
Tempe, AZ
85287-0302
USA
Degree(s) granted:
Ph.D., English Education
Faculty:
James Blasingame James.Blasingame@asu.edu
Alleen Pace Nilsen Alleen.nilsen@asu.edu
Courses offered:
ENG 540: Literature for Adolescents
Literature for Adolescents is a class taken by future teachers and librarians and by creative writers, parents, and others who want to learn about what is commonly called YA (Young Adult) literature. This field includes genres ranging from realistic to comic, factual to fantasy, and poetry to drama. The books are published for readers from age 12 through 18. Students read 20 books, mostly of their own choosing, that have been published for young adults within the last three decades. There is also a textbook, and for those going into teaching, the writing of a thematic unit. Students not in the field of education can adjust this assignment to their own interests. Graduate students have an extra assignment.
The Curriculum:
English Department (30 hours)
These hours should include at least one graduate class, seminar, or internship taken from each of the English Education faculty members (Blasingame, Nelson, and Nilsen). ENG 606: Advanced Studies in English Education may be repeated for credit when the specific subjects differ. The internships are divided into three projects of 3 hours each and should include supervising student teachers, taking partial responsibility for the teaching of an undergraduate English Education class, and one other to be designed by the student and his or her mentor. The classes should include at least one course in rhetorical analysis, one in literary criticism, and one in linguistics.
Cognate Study (15 hours)
Students take work related to English Education and to the subject of their proposed dissertation. A class in learning theory is recommended. Other courses could be in linguistics, rhetoric and rhetorical theory, literary criticism, teaching English as a second language, popular culture, theater, communications theory, adolescent psychology, educational administration, language and literacy, and child drama, or another area that the Ph.D. committee accepts as relevant to the student’s goals.
College of Education (15 hours)
These classes must include the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction, which should be taken in the first or second semester. Also required are a graduate class in Curriculum Theory and Practice, an Introduction to Quantitative Methods of Research, an Introduction to Qualitative Methods of Research, and a course in adolescent psychology.
Classes in Research and Inquiry (9 hours)
These additional nine hours of research and inquiry can be chosen either from the English Department or from the College of Education and should relate specifically to the kind of research the student anticipates doing for the dissertation.
Dissertation (24 hours)
At least 12 hours of dissertation credit must be earned after a student has been advanced to candidacy.
For more information:
http://coe.asu.edu/candi/phd.php
