English at Fairfield University

Intro sequences

The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.

• 1. ENGL 1802Creative Writing: Poetry I
  2. ENGL 3120Creative Writing: Poetry II
• 1. ENGL 1805Creative Writing: Fiction I
  2. ENGL 1740Mirror, Mirror: Myths, Fairy Tales, and Creative Writing
  3. ENGL 3150Creative Writing: Fiction II
• 1. ENGL 1806Creative Writing: Nonfiction I
  2. ENGL 3160Creative Writing: Nonfiction II
• 1. ENGL 1740Mirror, Mirror: Myths, Fairy Tales, and Creative Writing
  2. ENGL 1805Creative Writing: Fiction I
  3. ENGL 3150Creative Writing: Fiction II

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 3120Creative Writing: Poetry IIopens 1 course (0.3 directly)
• ENGL 3150Creative Writing: Fiction IIopens 1 course (0.3 directly)
• ENGL 3160Creative Writing: Nonfiction IIopens 1 course (0.3 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 36 ENGL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 108 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.

• 3 courses deep, ending at ENGL 4150

  1. ENGL 1802Creative Writing: Poetry I
  2. ENGL 3120Creative Writing: Poetry II
  3. ENGL 4150Advanced Portfolio Workshop

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 1410X

  1. HIST 2228XRenaissance England
  2. ENGL 1410XImagining Shakespeare

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 2001

  1. ENGL 1001Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
  2. ENGL 2001Rhetorics that Matter: Personal, Public, Political

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 3150

  1. ENGL 1740Mirror, Mirror: Myths, Fairy Tales, and Creative Writing
  2. ENGL 3150Creative Writing: Fiction II

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

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