The mathematics minor for elementary teaching requires 23 credits in mathematics.

A. Required Mathematics Courses

MTH 110 Elementary Functions
MTH 300 College Geometry
MTH 310 Concepts in Elementary Mathematics I
MTH 311 Concepts in Elementary Mathematics II
MTH 325 Probability and Statistics
MTH 330 Teaching Probability and Statistics in Grades K - 8

B. Choose one of the following:

MTH 251 Calculus I
MTH 265 Discrete Mathematics

The mathematics minor requires 21 credit hours in mathematics.

A. Required Mathematics Courses

MTH 110 Elementary Functions
MTH 251 Calculus I
MTH 252 Calculus II
MTH 265 Discrete Mathematics
MTH 300 College Geometry
MTH 325 Probability and Statistics

B. Required for Secondary Teacher Certification Students:

MTH 347 Methods in Teaching Mathematics

Admissions Requirements
Modern Language Translation courses are open to students who have completed their undergraduate work, including 20 hours or equivalent in the appropriate foreign language. They are also open to students who have native or near-native reading and writing proficiency in English and Arabic, French, or Spanish. Enrollment in a degree program is not mandatory.

Requirements for Translation Certificate
The Translation Certificate requires completion of fifteen credit hours in the following courses.

ARA 500, Principles of Translation
ARA 501, Translation Workshop I
ARA 502, Translation Workshop II
ARA 503, Business Translation Workshop
ARA 588, Cooperative Field Experience

OR

FRE 500, Principles of Translation
FRE 501, Translation Workshop I
FRE 502, Translation Workshop II
FRE 503, Business Translation Workshop
FRE 588, Cooperative Field Experience

OR

SPA 500, Principles of Translation
SPA 501, Translation Workshop I
SPA 502, Translation Workshop II
SPA 503, Business Translation Workshop
SPA 588, Cooperative Field Experience

The Translation Certificate is granted to students who complete each course in the sequence with a grade of B or better.

A minor in music requires a minimum of 24 hours, including:

A. Required Music Courses

• MUS 123 Written Theory I
• MUS 124 Written Theory II
• MUS 123A Ear Training I
• MUS 124B Ear Training II
• MUS 105 Encounters with Music
• 2 credits from following:
• MUS 202/302 Marygrove College Chorale
• MUS 211/311 Marygrove College Chamber Singers
• MUS 204A,B/404A,B Foundations of Ringing I, II
• MUS 205 Community Band
• MUS 301 Lyric Theater

* Required for music minors who are majoring in edu­cation at the elementary level. Non-education majors may take 3 hours of music electives instead.

B. Applied Music

Six credits are required.

C. Electives                 

Additional courses are elected in consultation with an advisor.

Education majors at the secondary level may not elect music as a minor, due to state certification require­ments.

The minor in psychology requires 20 credit hours in psychology. At least nine credit hours must be taken at Marygrove.

A. Required Courses
PSY 205 Introductory Psychology
PSY 220 Methods in Psychology

B. Recommended Courses
PSY 240 Developmental Psychology
PSY 335 Psychology of Personality
PSY 360 Social Psychology

The requirements for the minor in Sociology are:

A. A minimum of 20 total credits is required.

B. Required Courses in Sociology include:
SOC 201 Sociological Perspectives
SOC 306 Ethnic and Racial Diversity -OR-SOC 307 Introduction to Ethnic and Cultural Studies
SOC 368 Inequality in America

C. Additional 11 hours in Sociology and Correctional Science to total at least 20 credits. Recommended courses include:
SOC 202 Social Problems
SOC 311 Deviant Behavior
SOC 320 Juvenile Delinquency
SOC 345 Sociology of the Family
SOC 375 Sociological Theory
SOC 393 Urban Social Is

The requirements for the minor in Criminal Justice are:

A. A minimum of 24 total credits.

B. Included must be these courses:
CJ/SOC 311 Deviant Behavior
CJ/SOC 110 Introduction to Criminal Justice
CJ/SOC 330 Criminal Behavior
CJ/SOC 380 Criminal Law

C. An additional 12 credits are required in the following areas of Sociology, Psychology, Social Work, or Political Science. Possible electives include:
CJ/FSC 140 Introduction to Forensic Science
CJ/SOC 240 Correctional Institutions and Facilities
CJ/SOC 320 Juvenile Delinquency
SOC/FSC 340 Crime Scene Investigation and Evidence Collection 1
SOC/FSC 341 Crime Scene Investigation and Evidence Collection 2
CJ/SOC 350 Ethnicity and Justice
CJ/SOC 352 Women in the American Criminal Justice System
CJ/SOC 358 Law and Society
CJ/SOC 352 Women in the American Criminal Justice System
CJ/SOC 491 Independent Study in Criminal Justice/Sociology
CJ/SOC 498 Fieldwork in Sociology/Criminal Justice
PSY 360 Social Psychology
PSY 365 Group Dynamics
PSY 240 Developmental Psychology
PSY 435 Abnormal Psychology
SW 200A Working with Substance Abusers
SW 200C Working with Mental and Physical Illness

CONTACT

Darcy Brandel, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator
Madame Cadillac Bldg., Room 262
Direct: (313) 927-1447
E-mail: dbrandel@marygrove.edu

PROGRAM OFFERED

Master of Arts (M.A.) in English

GENERAL INFORMATION

The Master of Arts in English is designed to provide both theoretical and practical foundations for teaching English in community colleges or high schools and/or preparing for advanced graduate study in the field. It is a 33-credit-hour program whose courses are offered in the evening and on weekends. Two required core courses will give a solid base for graduate English studies, while two 600-level advanced seminars will offer rigorous opportunities to explore various disciplinary topics in depth. The flexibly conceived Master’s Project will provide an opportunity for students to further explore their topic of interest in literary works or in teaching composition.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The Master of Arts in English is open to any applicant who has successfully completed the requirements for a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher education. In addition to the admission requirements as explained in the “Graduate Admissions” section of this catalog, all applicants should submit two letters of recommendation and a substantial writing sample that demonstrates adequate preparation and potential for graduate work in English. After reviewing the completed application package, the Graduate Coordinator will schedule a personal interview.

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

To complete the master’s degree, students must complete 33 credits of approved coursework from the following requirements:

Required Courses (6 credits)

ENG 501 Foundations of Graduate English Studies (3)

ENG 514 Literary Criticism (3)

Electives (21 credits)

Select a minimum of 21 credits from the following list in consultation with your graduate coordinator. Must choose at least 6 credits of Advanced Seminar coursework (600 level). No more than 3 credits of Independent Study may be counted toward graduation requirements.

ENG 510 Detroit in Literature (3)

ENG 520 Dickinson and Frost (3)

ENG 521 Adolescent Literature: Realism, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction (3)

ENG 524 Selected Topics (3)

ENG 525 Contemporary Drama 1970-Present (3)

ENG 529 Studies in African American Literature (3)

ENG 530 19th Century Novel (3)

ENG 534 Studies in Modern British Literature (3)

ENG 535 Studies in Multi-Ethnic Literature (3)

ENG 538 The Romantic Poets (3)

ENG 539 Witchcraft and Gender (3)

ENG 541 Approaches to Composition (3)

ENG 542 Practicum in Teaching Writing (3)

ENG 551 Shakespeare: Text and Theory (3)

ENG 561 Shakespeare on Film (3)

ENG 565 Writing Creative Nonfiction (3)

ENG 570 Literature by Women (3)

ENG 601 American Modernist Poetry (3)

ENG 603 Postcolonial Re-imaginings: “The Empire Writes Back” (3) 

ENG 604 The Harlem Renaissance (3)

ENG 605 Studies in Medieval Literature: Women Writers of the Middle Ages (3)

ENG 606 Experimental Literature by Women (3)

ENG 610 Nineteenth Century American Authors (3)

ENG 620 Novel and Nation (3)

ENG 691 Independent Study (1-3)

Master’s Project (6 credits)

ENG 660 Directed Reading (3)

ENG 665 Masters Project (3)

ENG 501: Foundations of Graduate English   3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course introduces students to graduate studies in English literature and language. It focuses on current professional issues in the field, various contemporary theoretical approaches to literature and language, their practical implications in writing and teaching, and the principles and procedures of scholarly research.

ENG 510: Detroit in Literature                        3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course examines representations of Detroit in poetry and fiction produced between the 1930s and the present. By reading and discussing works of such authors as Robert Hayden, Harriet Arnow, Dudley Randall, Joyce Carol Oates, Philip Levine, Lawrence Joseph, Jim Daniels, Jeffrey Eugenides, and others, the course studies the translation of a familiar environment into literature and “places” Detroit in modern American culture.

ENG 514: Literary Criticism 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will focus on examination and application of the theoretical concepts and contexts that are critical to success in graduate literary studies, including such concepts as deconstruction, formalism, new historicism, and Marxism.

ENG 520: Dickinson and Frost 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course examines the work of two New England poets who share not only the imagery of a common natural landscape but also a set of common philosophical and literary traditions. Course sessions will consist of close reading and explication of individual poems by the entire class and discussion of the issues raised in them.

ENG 521: Adolescent Literature: Realism, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will concentrate on analyzing literary works whose primary audience is middle and high school age students. The course will focus on works in the genres of realistic fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy/science fiction. Literature will be broadly defined to include printed texts, films, television, and games, including works by authors such as Lois Duncan, Rosa Guy, Virginia Hamilton, S.E. Hinton, Ursula K. Le Guin, Mildred D. Taylor, and Cynthia Voigt.

ENG 524: Selected Topics 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

In-depth study of major authors, periods, or topics as chosen by the instructor.

ENG 525: Contemporary Drama 1970-Present 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course examines works of influential drama from the 1970s to the present.

ENG 529: Studies in African American Literature 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course examines the work of influential black writers of the 20th century such as Nella Larsen, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Paule Marshall, Charles Johnson, Clarence Major, and John Edgar Wideman. The course provides a window into how these innovative writers have documented, critiqued, and responded to the major historical and literary movements that have shaped their ideologies and informed their world views.

ENG 530: 19th Century Novel 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will examine canonical novels of the European 19th Century, such as Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, Sons and Lovers, and selections from Dickens, Hardy, Thackeray, Zola, Bronte, and others.

ENG 534: Studies in Modern British Literature 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course introduces the student to the historical, intellectual, and formal aspects of British literary modernism. The course will attempt to provide a broad, if necessarily selective, picture of modernist literary works in all its considerable variety, and will also focus on modernism’s recurrent preoccupations, particularly its concern with modernity itself. Readings might include selected works of authors such as Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Forster, Ford, West, Ishiguro,and Bowen.

ENG 535: Studies in Multi-Ethnic Literature 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will explore a range of texts that reveal the ethnic diversity of North American literature, asking readers to consider both common themes and cultural specificities found in diverse “minority” literatures. The course will explore themes and theories of alienation, fragmentation, dislocation, hybridity, borderlands/border crossing, appropriation, resistance, and generational difference. The course will pay particular attention to language and the role it plays in defining reality, exploring the ways ethnic writers both resist and appropriate dominant languages in an attempt to formulate their own modes of communication.

ENG 538: The Romantic Poets 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will survey the major poets and poetry of the British Romantic period (roughly 1789-1832), with an emphasis on how the poetry responded to the turbulent social, emotional, intellectual, and political dislocations of the times. The course will provide the key terms and texts for the study of Romanticism as both a period of literature and a set of aesthetic practices that may be applied beyond that period.

ENG 539: Witchcraft and Gender 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will explore early American notions of gender, especially as they relate to and inform the infamous witch hunts in Salem and beyond. The course will examine relevant early American literature to connect and complicate the relationship between conceptions of womanhood and the hysteria of the witch-craze.

ENG 541: Approaches to Composition 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course examines important contemporary critical theories and questions that have shaped the conversations of writing teachers and researchers, particularly over the last four decades.

ENG 542: Practicum in Teaching Writing 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course provides the guidance and support necessary to the practical work of teaching English. Topics for discussion include exploring major theories of teaching writing and how they inform practice, incorporating rhetorical practices in the classroom, crafting successful assignments, evaluating and responding to student writing, creating a learning community in the classroom, and developing a philosophy of teaching English.

ENG 551: Shakespeare: Text and Theory 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course introduces the graduate student to Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works by approaching the canon with attention to Shakespeare’s language, to historical context, to pedagogical issues, and to major approaches from literary criticism of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

ENG 561: Shakespeare on Film             3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will examine texts and contemporary film interpretations of such works as Hamlet (Branagh, Zeffirelli, Almereyda), Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli and Luhrmann), Branagh’s versions of Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labours’ Lost, and Trevor Nunn’s Twelfth Night.

ENG 565: Writing Creative Nonfiction 3 credits

Prerequisites: none

This course will explore how to write alternative forms of nonfiction beyond the traditional academic essay. Using readings, discussions, and class workshops, students will use elements from fiction and poetry to write creative nonfiction such as memoirs, personal essays, nature essays, and personal cultural criticism.

ENG 570: Literature by Women 3 credits

Prerequisites: none 

This course considers some established traditions in writing by women, while paying close attention to how these traditions are both revisited and revised by subsequent writers. We will examine how the texts are in dialogue with one another as well as whose voices and experiences remain silenced in various texts.  Using the historical context of the various waves of the women’s movement, along with the framework of feminist theory, the course seeks to highlight both the establishment of and resistance to traditions in literature by women.

ENG 601: American Modernist Poetry 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

This course attempts to discover the primary characteristics of modernist poetry as reflected in the works of a group of American poets who came to prominence in the first two decades of the twentieth century, including Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Williams, Moore, and Hughes. The course considers the nature of “modernisms,” how their works define the nature of truth, what the works say about the individual’s relationship to the social world, what it means to be an artist in the context of modernism, and what historical, aesthetic, critical and cultural contexts gave rise to modernist poetry.

ENG 603: Postcolonial Re-imaginings: “The Empire Writes Back” 3 credits 

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

This course is designed as an introduction to a wide variety of both literary and theoretical works that cover the period of British colonial expansion and its postcolonial aftermath. It is conceived as a comparative literature/culture course—for instance, to put the First World literature in dialogue with that of the Third World or to re-read 18th-century literature with a 20th-century perspective. For such a comparative course, literatures from Africa, India, and the Caribbean as well as from England will be selected. Through these works, we will study what the globalization of modern culture has brought about in such areas as race, gender, language, and nationalism. 

ENG 604: The Harlem Renaissance 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

This course offers a detailed examination of selected works by major and minor literary voices of the Harlem Renaissance. Specifically, it analyzes these emerging writers in the context of varied cultural, social, and historical influences, which impacted their works. This course also discusses the contemporary scholarship of leading critics, literary and culture theory, and takes a virtual tour of Harlem, to prepare for final research projects and presentations.

ENG 605: Studies in Medieval Literature: Women Writers of the Middle Ages 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

This course is an advanced introduction to female authors of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries in England and Western Europe. Our primary texts include poems, treatises, letters, romance, autobiography, mystical and devotional writing.  Major authors represented are Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and the Paston women.

ENG 606: Experimental Literature by Women 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

Many artists believe that the way to accomplish art which creates social change in the world is to resist the traditional by utilizing new forms, styles, and approaches. Challenging any kind of established literary tradition, however, often results in marginalization; therefore, for an already historically marginalized group like women writers to experiment raises the risk of being silenced, discredited, and attacked. This course considers how various women writers across the twentieth century have experimented with literary form and explores the implications of this experimentation on the authors, on notions of gender, on the world.

ENG 610: Nineteenth Century American Authors 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

In this seminar, we examine important points of contention between nineteenth century American writers, including Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Melville, Stowe, Dickinson, Whitman, and Twain.  Subjects covered might include war and territorial conquest; race and ethnicity, slavery and freedom; the influence of religious beliefs over behavior; gender roles and sexuality; the relationship between the individual and the community; the relationship between human beings and the environment; accumulation and consumption, wealth and materialism; and the growth of technology.

ENG 620: Novel and Nation 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

This course will examine literary works that attempt to re-figure the nation in the age of globalization. Some of the questions we will ask are: How is the nation represented in literature? What textual strategies do novels employ in order to disseminate the feeling of national consciousness toward readers? Conversely, what formal narrative elements do novels employ to disrupt or displace the official, hegemonic notion of the nation? What kinds of alternative notions of community and belonging are imagined? What are the political implications of postcolonial fiction that resists novelistic techniques that rely on linear notions of historical progression and economic development? How do the forces of globalization put pressure on the fictions of national culture? How have novels gone beyond national borders for paradigms of home(land)? In the end, students will enhance their appreciation of both the limitations and possibilities of a branch of novel theory that takes the nation-form as its primary object of inquiry. 

ENG 660: Directed Reading 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514

The directed reading gives students the opportunity for exploratory reading and research on the developing thesis project and serves as the precursor for the master’s project. Working in conjunction with the thesis advisor, the student undertakes preliminary research and writing, culminating by semester’s end in the approved thesis proposal.

ENG 665: Master’s Project 3 credits

Prerequisites: ENG 501, ENG 514, ENG 660

The master’s project is a requirement for the completion of the Master of Arts in English degree. Working with a project advisor, students are expected to complete a project that demonstrates original thought and substantial research, and that may take a number of forms: it may be a critical study of literary works and authors; a theoretical exploration of issues related to literature or writing; or an empirical study of composition and/or pedagogy (for example, a case study, composing process analysis, classroom ethnography, or other fieldwork). It is expected that before writing the thesis, students will have completed the majority of their program requirements.

ENG 691: Independent Study Variable credits

Prerequisites: none

The Independent Study gives students the opportunity to undertake an in-depth study of particular authors, periods, genres, or issues. No more than 3 credit hours of Independent Study may be counted toward graduation requirements.

In addition, Marygrove College is recognized by the Michigan Department of Education for competency testing in the following areas at the levels indicated ( E = Elementary; S = Secondary). This will be a guide so that you are sure to take the correct test for certification! Note that competency tests must be taken within 5 years of the time credentials are submitted to the state.

Objectives for each test are on reserve in the Marygrove College Library. Tutoring support can often be arranged through the Teacher Certification Officer.

>> Go to the Michigan Test for Teacher Certification Web site for more information.

>> MTTC Web site Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

** The Elementary Education test certifies teachers for K-5 all subjects and K-8 self-contained classroom. The subject area tests certify elementary teachers from 6-8 and secondary teachers from 7-12.

Earn an MAT Degree at Marygrove College Master in the Art of Teaching

Known for excellence in teaching since 1905, Marygrove College has been offering the convenience of online MAT classes and the flexibility of its Master in the Art of Teaching (MAT) online degree program since 1990. Marygrove's MAT degree provides teachers with the opportunity to link the latest developments in educational research to their own teaching practice. The MAT degree program is designed to empower teachers by focusing on the knowledge and skills required to deliver effective instruction to diverse learners from preschool through high school, including those with special needs.

With over 28,000 MAT degree graduates from the Master in the Art of Teaching (MAT) degree program, Marygrove has a history of serving K-12 teachers with an online MAT program that is relevant to today’s working educators, with outcomes that improve classroom practice and help online MAT degree graduates fulfill their career aspirations. 

The online MAT degree is available as the following programs of study with a focus on:

• Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, K-12
• Elementary Reading & Literacy, K-6
• Elementary Mathematics, K-5
• Middle Level Mathematics, 6-8

Based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, this course establishes a foundation of mathematical content knowledge and problem-solving skills. Participants develop deeper understanding of mathematical concepts they are required to teach and engage in mathematical discourse as a means to explain their thinking and share strategies.

Covering the Van Hiele levels of geometric thought and focusing on shapes and properties, transformations, location and visualization, as well as measurement concepts and skills, this course allows teachers to develop a profound understanding of key mathematical concepts as outlined in the NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Participants engage in hands-on problem-solving activities that allow them to apply new understanding to their instructional planning and decision making.

This course focuses on developing algebraic thinking, which includes studying patterns and functions, understanding the structure of the number system, using symbolism meaningfully and using mathematical modeling to solve problems. Participants study many common misconceptions about the learning of algebra to better understand the potential gaps in students’ understanding.