UAB's Secondary Education program prepares educators to recognize and meet the evolving needs of students in today's society. Your passion for reading, writing, mentoring students, and working with other educators to prepare tomorrow's communicators and leaders can be realized at UAB through our English Language Arts teacher certification degree. English Language Arts is a broad teaching field which encompasses composition, theatre, mass communications, public speaking, survey of literature, and upper-level teaching field courses. This program prepares candidates to teach grades 6-12. As a secondary education student majoring in English Language Arts, you will research methods and materials and use technology for creating active learners, readers and writers, in your own future classroom. You will study multi-cultural literature, interact with text, and learn best practices for applying the rules of language to communicate meaning in all aspects of living in and interpreting our world.