English at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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 307Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry Workshopopens 7 courses (7 directly)
• ENGL 407Creative Writing: Nonfiction Workshopopens 7 courses (1 directly)
• ENGL 408Creative Writing: Fiction Workshopopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ENGL 409Creative Writing: Poetry Workshopopens 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 27 ENGL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 135 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 508

  1. ENGL 407Creative Writing: Nonfiction Workshop
  2. ENGL 307Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry Workshop
  3. ENGL 408Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop
  4. ENGL 508Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction Workshop

• 5 courses deep, ending at ENGL 509

  1. ENGL 407Creative Writing: Nonfiction Workshop
  2. ENGL 307Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry Workshop
  3. ENGL 409Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 100

  1. ESL 118Academic Writing II
  2. ENGL 100Introduction to College Composition

• 2 courses deep, ending at ENGL 411

  1. ENGL 207Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry Workshop
  2. ENGL 411Creative Writing: Special Topics Workshop

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 UW–Madison campus feed.