English at University of Colorado Boulder

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ENGL coursework.

• ENGL 2021Introductory Poetry Workshopopens 6 courses (1.5 directly)
• ENGL 2051Introductory Fiction Workshopopens 6 courses (1.5 directly)
• ENGL 3021Intermediate Poetry Workshopopens 4 courses (2.5 directly)
• ENGL 3051Intermediate Fiction Workshopopens 4 courses (2.5 directly)
• ENGL 4013Old English 2: Intermediate Old Englishopens 1 course (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ENGL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 27 ENGL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 150 more ENGL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ENGL, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ENGL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at ENGL 4021

  1. ENGL 1191Introduction to Creative Writing
  2. ENGL 2021Introductory Poetry Workshop
  3. ENGL 3021Intermediate Poetry Workshop
  4. ENGL 4021Advanced Poetry Workshop

• 4 courses deep, ending at ENGL 4051

  1. ENGL 1191Introduction to Creative Writing
  2. ENGL 2051Introductory Fiction Workshop
  3. ENGL 3051Intermediate Fiction Workshop

• 3 courses deep, ending at ENGL 4023

  1. ENGL 4003Old English 1: Introduction to Old English
  2. ENGL 4013Old English 2: Intermediate Old English
  3. ENGL 4023Old English 3: Beowulf

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 3056

  1. ARSC 1080College Writing and Research
  2. ENGL 3056Writing the Past

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ENGL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ENGL yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

English does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the CU Boulder campus feed.