DEPTH CONCENTRATIONS

The following summary Single Subject Waiver in English at CSU Monterey Bay depicts the Waiver/Concentration requirements, electives, and credit given.

In order to complete this Concentration successfully and expediently at CSUMB, the students must take the following 15 courses (4 credits each) for a total of 60 Credits. This is a career track concentration for students who want to be secondary (7th-12th grade) English teachers.

Upon the successful completion of this Waiver program, students will be waived from the Praxis Test and the SSAT Test, two tests required before acceptance into a Teacher Credential Program. The Teacher Credential in a Single Subject is a fifth year program. Students with a Waiver will be eligible to apply to this fifth year program.

HCOM 475 Senior Capstone (4 Credits)

• Students produce a senior project related to an HCOM issue. They integrate a number of major learning objectives, and they participant in a campus wide capstone festival.

HCOM 300 Pro Seminar (4 Credits)

• Students are introduced to interdisciplinary study. With one-to-one advising help, they develop detailed learning plans to guide them throughout their careers at CSUMB

HCOM 301 Ways of Knowing (4 Credits)

• Students study epistemology. They investigate, evaluate, and apply diverse ways of knowing in various disciplines, periods of time, and locations.

HCOM 312 Cooperative Argument: Theory and Practice (4 Credits)

• Students become familiar with and practice speaking and writing in various argumentation paradigms.

HCOM 317S Advanced Composition--Service Learning (4 Credits)

• Students learn and practice writing conventions, contemporary composition theories, and major forms of written expression. They also participate in an internship field experience in writing classrooms in the local high schools. Students also become familiar with and analyze the pedagogies necessary to best incorporate the technological advances designed for the composition classroom.

HCOM 320 Structure of English (4 Credits)

• Students study the diverse linguistic attributes of the English language inclusive of the deep structures of grammar and acquisition theories.

HCOM 327 Survey of American Literature (4 Credits)

• Students analyze American literature(s) through different historical periods, genres, and cultural movements. Students gain cross-cultural knowledge of American Literary history, and introduction to literary theory, and development of literary analysis skills.

HCOM 338 Multicultural Adolescent Literature (4 Credits)

• Students become familiar with the literature pertinent to adolescents (ages 12-18) as well as with theory and pedagogies important to the delivery of meaningful readings of texts rich in diverse class, gender, and racial issues.

HCOM 421 Social History of the English Language (4 Credits)

• Students survey historically the social and political aspects of language standardization, pidginism, and bilingualism in contexts of imperialism and post-colonialism.

HCOM 427 Survey of British Literature (4 Credits)

• Students examine representative works from different British periods of literature as well as texts that depict the diverse cultures-Black British literatures, Irish literatures, and postcolonial British literatures-that constitute what we know as British literature.

HCOM 437 Shakespeare and Postcolonial Interpretations (4 Credits)

• Students examine Shakespeare's plays from classical, modern, postmodern, and postcolonial perspectives. This course covers Shakespeare's tragedies, comedies, history plays, and romances. The course always requires that students participate in a research analysis project.

HCOM 356 Multicultural History in New Media (4 Credits)

• Explores the complex experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/as, European Americans, and Native Americans in U.S. history. Combines the use of traditional written sources, such as autobiographies, with new media technologies, such as CD-Rom, the Internet, and multimedia presentations. Requires basic computer experience. STUDENTS UNABLE TO TAKE THIS COURSE MAY SUBSTITUTE HCOM 353: CALIFORNIA AT THE CROSSROADS.

HCOM 403 Ethical Issues in the Professions (4 Credits)

• Through exploration and application of diverse moral frameworks, students acquire knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to ethically resolve complex moral issues associated with a variety of professions.

MLO 3 Options (4 Credits)

• Should a student not be able to take HCOM 403 to satisfy MLO 3 (Relational Communication), he/she could take one of the following courses to satisfy this CSUMB Requirement:
  HCOM 304 - Relational Ethics

  HCOM 306 - Gender and Communication
  HCOM 307 - Social Impact of the Mass Media
  HCOM 307S - Social Impact of the Mass Media SL
  HCOM 309 - Intercultural Communication: Relating to Whiteness
  HCOM 310 - Free Speech and Responsibility
  HCOM 316 - Media Ethics
  HCOM 403 - Ethical Issues in the Professions
  

  HCOM 412 - Multicultural Conflict Resolution
  HCOM 440 - Leadership in Multicultural Communities

MLO 5 Options (4 Credits)

• Satisfies CSUMB MLO 5 (Critical Analysis)
  • Students must choose from among the following courses:

    HCOM 340S - Topics in Social Movements
    HCOM 342 - Feminist Theory and Methods

    HCOM 343 - Race and Gender Justice

    HCOM 344 - Chicana/Latina Experiences
    HCOM 345 - Chicano Life and History

    HCOM 346 - African American Life and History

    HCOM 348 - Race, Colonialism and Film
    HCOM 350 - Oral History and Community Memory
    

    HCOM 350S - Oral History and Community Memory SL
    HCOM 395 - Special Topics: Women of Color in the Diaspora
    HCOM 406 - Philosophy According to the Movies
    HCOM 426 - Travel Narratives
    HCOM 443 - Womanist Theory

    HCOM 446/546 - Cultural Citizenship in Latina/o Communities

    HCOM 455/555 - Paradigms of the Chicana/o Community

MLO 8 Options (4 Credits)

• Satisfies CSUMB MLO 8 (Creative Writing)
  • Students must choose from among the following courses:
    HCOM 330 - Introduction to Creative Writing
    HCOM 330S - Introduction to creative Writing SL
    HCOM 331 - Creative Writing and Visual Art
    HCOM 433 - Life Stories and Life Writing

Coordinator Renée R. Curry is responsible for advising, assessment, and program review. She can be reached by email: renee_curry@csumb.edu