English at Virginia Commonwealth University

Intro sequences

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

• 1. ENGL 295Introduction to Creative Writing
  2. UNIV 111Introduction to Focused Inquiry: Investigation and Communication
  3. UNIV 200Advanced Focused Inquiry: Literacies, Research and Communication
  4. ENGL 211Contemporary World Literature
• 1. ENGL 201Western World Literature I.
  2. ENGL 202Western World Literature II.
  3. ENGL 203British Literature I.
• 1. ENGL 202Western World Literature II.
  2. ENGL 201Western World Literature I.
  3. ENGL 203British Literature I.
• 1. ENGL 203British Literature I.
  2. ENGL 201Western World Literature I.
  3. ENGL 202Western World Literature 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.

• UNIV 200Advanced Focused Inquiry: Literacies, Research and Communicationopens 111 courses (15 directly)
• ENGL 211Contemporary World Literatureopens 93 courses (88 directly)
• ENGL 236Women in Literatureopens 93 courses (88 directly)
• ENGL 291Topics in Literatureopens 93 courses (88 directly)
• ENGL 305Writing Poetryopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ENGL 307Writing Fictionopens 2 courses (2 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 128 ENGL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 38 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.

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGL 435

  1. UNIV 111Introduction to Focused Inquiry: Investigation and Communication
  2. UNIV 200Advanced Focused Inquiry: Literacies, Research and Communication
  3. ENGL 211Contemporary World Literature
  4. ENGL 305Writing Poetry
  5. ENGL 435Advanced Poetry Writing

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGL 437

  1. UNIV 111Introduction to Focused Inquiry: Investigation and Communication
  2. UNIV 200Advanced Focused Inquiry: Literacies, Research and Communication
  3. ENGL 211Contemporary World Literature

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGL 439

  1. UNIV 111Introduction to Focused Inquiry: Investigation and Communication
  2. UNIV 200Advanced Focused Inquiry: Literacies, Research and Communication
  3. ENGL 211Contemporary World Literature

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGL 499

  1. UNIV 111Introduction to Focused Inquiry: Investigation and Communication
  2. UNIV 200Advanced Focused Inquiry: Literacies, Research and Communication
  3. ENGL 211Contemporary World Literature

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ENGL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ENGL yet.

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Department events

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