After ENGLISH 206-0
Gateway: ENGLISH 206-0
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Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
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Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ENGLISH coursework.
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 ENGLISH 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 7 ENGLISH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 95 more ENGLISH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
The concentrations and majors that build on ENGLISH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.
Department Courses (13 units)all required
3 introductory courses:; 1 200- or 300-level English department literature course; 4 300-level English department literature courses; At least 1 on works written before 1830; At least 1 on works written after 1830
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Three additional courses based on track3 required
Poetry Trackall required
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Fiction Trackall required
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Creative Nonfiction Trackall required
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Cross-genre Track: three courses chosen from the followingchoose 3
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Program Courses (5 units)all required
To be taken during the first year in the major:; To be taken during senior year:
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Department Courses (13 units)all required
2 200-level Historical Breadth courses; 1 emphasizing works written before 1830; 1 emphasizing works written after 1830; 2 required seminars; 9 additional literature courses, which must satisfy the following criteria:; At least 7 courses must be at the 300-level; 2 courses may be taken at the 200-level; At least 3 courses emphasizing works written before 1830; At least 3 courses emphasizing works
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
Gateway: ENGLISH 206-0
The deepest prerequisite chains in ENGLISH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at ENGLISH 306-0
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Related Courses (10 units)all required
1 approved course from African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latina and Latino Studies, or the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research; 2 of the following, preferably 1 history and 1 English:; 7 additional courses chosen with the program director
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All ENGLISH courses in the Northwestern catalog
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