<p>I was just wondering if anyone can become a professor. I know policies are different for all schools.</p>
<p>I am in an advanced English class in freshman year and am majoring in architecture. My professor has only received a Bachelors of Architecture and a Masters of Architecture. Is he really qualified to teach the course (an advanced one at that) considering he does not have a degree in English? To me he seems like he does not know what he is doing compared to my high school English teachers from AP classes. </p>
<p>I just want to know in general if anyone who has an interest in English could become an English professor or if more education needed.</p>
<p>I know that at my university, professors all have at least Masters for upper level courses, if not PhD’s. For 100 level courses, they often only have a Bachelors and are working on a Masters. </p>
<p>What do you mean by advanced? Is it a 200 level course? 300? 400? 500?</p>
<p>As for can anyone be a professor? I’d say no. I work in an academic department at my school and there are probably 50+ applications for each position. Many of them are from ivy league graduates. It is a highly competitive field to get into.</p>
<p>It’s a 100 level course but they have an advanced section that claims to be more rigerous and is more fast paced. </p>
<p>He has a masters of architecture from Yale. However my concern is that he does not have a masters in English. If it was architecture class then I would not be concerned but I’m wondering if he should be more qualified to teach English. Is his only real experience in English classes only his undergrad English in like first year. It just has me concerned because it seems as if he doesn’t know what he is talking about compared to my hs teachers with degrees in English and education.</p>
<p>In general, high school English classes are literature based. College composition courses are research based, so the assignments are very different. The high school English teachers were probably literature majors. The architecture major probably did a lot more writing that required research (other than comparing literature). Just a guess on my part.</p>
<p>The typical accreditation requirement is a master’s degree (in anything) and 18 hours of graduate work. It’s entirely possible, for instance, that your professor took 18 hours of English graduate work at the University of Nowhere at Middle after completing his master’s degree.</p>
<p>Is it a normal English class or is it some sort of unique seminar freshmen thing? I know that some schools do odd things to fulfill a freshman English requirement, which may explain the lack of direct accredidation.</p>