Program Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 39 ENGL credit hours.
2. Students must complete a minimum of 27 upper division (3000-level and above) ENGL credit hours.
3. Students must achieve a minimum GPA of 2.0 for all courses applied to major requirements. 
4. Students must complete all major courses, taken at CU Denver and all transfer courses applying to major requirements with a minimum grade of C-(1.7). Students cannot complete major or ancillary course requirements as pass/fail.
5. Students must complete a minimum of 15 credit hours with CU Denver faculty.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

1. ENGL 1010, 1020 and 2030 are not included in the major.
2. Internship/cooperative education courses may be counted toward the major for students who have junior standing or higher. 
3. Students are not to exceed 56 English credit hours (any level).
4. Double majors in English and English Writing are exempt from the 56-hour rule and must complete 63 hours total for both majors.
5. At least 15 upper division level ENGL credit hours must be taken with CU Denver faculty.
6. The English Department also offers a minor in Literature, Writing, Creative Writing and Film Studies. Courses counted in a minor cannot be counted toward the major.
7. Latin Honors may be earned by participating in the Department’s Honors Program. You are encouraged to begin the program in your junior year. The program requires additional coursework and affords you the opportunity to work individually with the professor of your choice. Handouts are available in the English office.
8. Any course in the following can be taken more than once, if the topic/title differs:

• Any film or film theory course (Film History, director course, Lit. to Film, global etc.)  
• Any 3300 or 3355 post-1900 topic (e.g. Lit. of the City, Detective Lit., Science Fiction, Memoir)   
• Any 4770 Topic post-1900 (e.g. Philosophy and Lit., Mental Health in Lit., Environmental Lit.)
• And 4000 Major Author or other major author course post-1900 (e.g. Nobel Laureates, Cather, Joyce)
• Any women’s lit. and/or feminist theory (e.g. 3450 Cont. Women Writers, 4306 Survey of Feminist Thought, Woolf)
• Any ENGL ethnic lit. course (e.g. 3798 International Perspectives, 4440 African Am. Lit., Asian Am. Lit.) 
• Any ENGL identity course (e.g. LQBT Lit., Queer Theory) 

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  Take one of the following courses:

• ENGL 1600 - Storytelling
• ENGL 2600 - Literary Classics

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  Take all of the following courses:

• ENGL 2450 - Introduction to Literature
• ENGL 3001 - Critical Writing

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  Take one of the following American Literature courses:

• ENGL 3700 - American Literature to the Civil War
• ENGL 3750 - American Literature after the Civil War
• ENGL 4166 - History of American Poetry
• ENGL 4230 - The American Novel
• ENGL 4236 - The American Short Story
• ENGL 4350 - History of American Drama
• Any 4000 Major Author Am. Lit. (e.g. Hawthorne. Faulkner, Cather)
• Any 3300 Topic 4770 Topic in Am. Lit. (e.g. Lit. of the West, Harlem renaissance)

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  Take two of the following Pre-1650 courses:

• ENGL 3661 - Shakespeare
• ENGL 4500 - Medieval Literature
• ENGL 4510 - Whores and Saints: Medieval Women
• ENGL 4520 - English Renaissance
• ENGL 4730 - Chaucer
• Any ENGL 3300 Topic or 4770 Topic before 1650 (e.g. Early European Witchcraft)
• Any 4000 Major Author before 1650 (e.g. Gawain-poet)

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  Take two of the following 1650-1900 courses:

• ENGL 3700 - American Literature to the Civil War
    
• ENGL 4200 - Survey of the English Novel to 1900
• ENGL 4300 - History of British Drama
• ENGL 4530 - Milton
• ENGL 4560 - English Romanticism
• ENGL 4580 - The Victorian Age
• Any 4000 Major Author between 1650-1900 (e.g. Austen, Shelley, Dickens)
• Any 3300 Topic or 4770 Topic between 1650-1900 (e.g. Gothic, Restoration)

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  Take three of the following Modern Literature and Culture courses:

• ENGL 3480 - Modern Drama
• ENGL 3750 - American Literature after the Civil War
    
• ENGL 4250 - Twentieth Century Fiction
• ENGL 4460 - Contemporary World Literature
• ENGL 4600 - Modernism

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  Take two ENGL elective courses at any level.