Our integrated language arts education program allows students to pursue their interest in language and literature while learning how to bring them to life for the next generation of students.
You will learn from published authors and respected literary scholars in our department and receive their teacher training.
Ashland University’s Integrated Language Arts program prepares you to become an excellent English teacher of literature and writing at the high school level. Approximately half of your program will be devoted to an immersion in Language Arts, of which half consist of courses that perfect your teaching abilities. When you graduate, you will be ready to bring the language and its literature to life for the next generation of students.
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What You’ll Love About the Integrated Language Arts Program:
- Classes are small to ensure you receive lots of individual attention from professors.
- Ashland’s teacher education program is renowned throughout the nation as excellent preparation for teachers.
- Professors who are published authors and respected literary scholars teach all your Integrated Language Arts courses.
- Literature classes are in-depth studies of major works, not survey courses.
- Your Integrated Language Arts professors participate in observing and coaching your student teaching experience to maximize the value you gain from the experience.
- You have opportunities to network with well-known authors. In recent months graphic novelists, nature writers, and short story authors have all visited campus.
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Reach & Expand Your Career Goals
- When you graduate from the program you will be ready to pass licensure tests to teach middle and high school language arts classes.
- Our College of Education has a track record of achieving a 96 percent pass rate on the state-mandated Praxis 2 exams and a 100 percent pass rate on state-mandated Praxis 3 exams.
Expand your career options by also earning a:
- Master of Education — Available during fall and spring evening classes and both day and evening classes throughout the summer at centers in Ashland, Columbus, Elyria, Massillon and Cleveland.
- Master of Educational Administration — Provides you with certification in an educational administration of your choice.
- Doctor of Education — a terminal degree in the field of education.
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Professors Who Are Excellent Classroom Teachers
- Professors in the program are published authors and poets who always teach the classes — not graduate students or teaching aids.
- Several professors are experienced in working with high school newspaper staffs and teaching English at a high school level, so they can offer you real-world advice about your future career as a high school English teacher.
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Gain Real World Experience
- As a culmination to your education, you will spend a minimum of 300 hours in student teaching in a language arts classroom. You will also spend 300 hours in field experience prior to your student teaching to give you a feel for the classroom and the expectations for teachers of middle and high school students.
- A number of students in the department sharpen their teaching skills by assisting other students in the Writing Center. Often these are paid positions.
- You will have an opportunity to contribute to the university’s publications including Passages, a journal of student creative writing; The Ashland Poetry Press; and/or River Teeth, our journal of nonfiction narrative (one of only four exclusively nonfiction journals in the country).
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Interesting Classes You May Take
- Literature for Adolescents — Examine literature written for adolescents that emphasizes learning styles and the integration of literature into thematic units.
- African American Literature — Explore representative works by African-American writers, ranging from early slave narratives to contemporary prose, poetry and drama.
- Major Writers Seminar — Get a comprehensive understanding of one or more major writings including such writers as Faulkner, Austen, Dostoyevsky and Dickens.
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Organizations for Integrated Language Arts Majors
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