Checklist: Concentration in Communication Arts/Literature 5/12 Licensure

First Year

• Contact an advisor in the English Department (S. Mara Faulkner or Jane Opitz) before spring registration.  Choose this person as your official advisor in the spring.
• Take English 133 as your 100-level course.
• Ask the English Department Secretary to be included in the Department mailing list.
• Explore the career choices open to English majors with our without teaching credentials by contacting the Career Office.

Sophomore Year

• Apply for acceptance to the major by mid-February after the Registrar mails the application form.
• Explore the career choices open to English majors with our without teaching credentials by contacting the Career Office.

Junior Year

• Take Engl 311: Writing Essays.
• Apply for degree by mid-February in order to graduate next May.  After receiving the form called "Application for the Bachelor's Degree" from the Registrar, bring the ocmpleted form and a copy of your transcripts to the Department Secretary.  When the chair has reviewed your form, the secretary will notify you that it's ready to be picked up.  The Registrar's office will compare your application with your transcript and your subsequent senior-year coursework, informing you of any discrepancies.  Therefore, you should treat this application as your propsoal for a graduation contract.
• If you are thinking of attending graduate school after senior year rather than beginning your teaching career, see the English Department graduate school advisor.  For more information on grad school, also see the junior and senior years of the Checklist for Concentration in Literature.
• If you plan to write a senior thesis, contact Dr. Marcus Webster, Honors Thesis Director.
• Continue to explore the career choices open to English majors with our without teaching credentials by contacting the Career Office.

Senior Year

• Take Educ 362, Secondary Education Student Teaching as your Capstone course.
• Have your senior picture taken.  Contact the Department Secretary by mid-October.
• December graduates: turn in Exit Survey and take part in an exit interview in November.
• May graduates: turn in Exit Survey and take part in an exit interview in March
• Attend the graduation reception for English majors at CSB after the Saint Ben's commencement ceremony.

You may want to print this document and post it as a reminder of things to be done.