2023-2024 Catalog

Advising Information

Placement Information

No placement exams are specifically required for the English major.

Sample 4-Year Plan

Major no concentration


Fall

Spring

Year 1

  • Fall FYS course

  • Foreign Language (4 or 5 units)

  • Core Requirement (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • Spring FYS course

  • ENGL 287(CPRF & CPPE)

  • Core Requirement (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

Year 2

  • ENGL 290

  • Core Requirement

  • Core Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • (CPGC)ENGL 288

  • Core Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

Year 3

  • ENGL 390

  • Group Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • (CPUD)ENGL 289

  • Group Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

Year 4

  • (Senior Seminar)ENGL 490

  • Group Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • Group Requirement

  • English Elective

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

Major with a concentration in Creative Writing


Fall

Spring

Year 1

  • Fall FYS course

  • Foreign Language (4 or 5 units)

  • Core Requirement (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • Spring FYS course

  • ENGL 287 (CPRF & CPPE)

  • Core Requirement (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

Year 2

  • ENGL 290

  • Core Requirement

  • Core Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • ENGL 288 (CPGC)

  • Creative Writing Elective

  • Core Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

Year 3

  • ENGL 390

  • Group Requirement

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • ENGL 289 (CPUD)

  • Creative Writing Elective

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

Year 4

  • ENGL 490 (Senior Seminar)

  • Group Requirement

  • Creative Writing Elective

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • Group Requirement

  • Creative Writing Elective

  • General Elective (4 units)

  • General Elective (4 units)

Curricular Notes:

  • Only one of the Group requirements may be at the 200-level
  • Two of the Creative Writing electives must be within the ENGL department