English at College of the Holy Cross

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 141Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetryopens 5 courses (4 directly)
• ENGL 142Introduction to Creative Writing: Narrativeopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• ENGL 130Poetry and Poeticsopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ENGL 251Irish Topicsopens 1 course (1 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 11 ENGL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 73 more ENGL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

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.

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 212

  1. ENGL 141Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry
  2. ENGL 212Introduction to Screenwriting

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 230

  1. ENGL 130Poetry and Poetics
  2. ENGL 230Touchstones 1: Early Brit Lit

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 354

  1. ENGL 251Irish Topics
  2. ENGL 354Lincoln, Civil War, & Memory

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 Holy Cross campus feed.