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Learning Goals

1.Reading and Analysis: Students read with attention to textual details. They identify models and strategies in other writers’ works and discipline-specific theories to use in their own expository, argumentative, and creative work. They demonstrate the ability to summarize accurately, explicate primary formal and thematic elements, and analyze key motifs and meanings in order to interpret and assess literary, rhetorical, and cinematic works persuasively and insightfully.

2. Critical Inquiry and Context: Students recognize texts as responses to historically, politically, and culturally specific contexts. They examine these contexts by looking for patterns in existing discourses, and they construct their own positions by locating them in relation to those in an ongoing conversation. Students can discuss the socio-historic contingencies that influence experiences, understandings, and evaluations of discourses in various genres. They develop the ability to reflect upon the contingency of their own perspectives and to recognize others’ in order to discern the cultural, political, and material conditions that influence the experience.

3. Written Communication: Students write persuasively across a variety of genres and modes. In their written composition, students can identify and distinguish among disciplinary conventions, evaluate sources, and synthesize arguments using discipline-specific theories and methods. Students can modify the delivery of their ideas in ways appropriate for a given audience, and they can revise their work in response to audience reaction.

4. Content: Students demonstrate knowledge of major genres, major authors/auteurs, historical periods and movements, analytical or theoretical approaches to texts, and the elements of craft and form so as to understand written and visual forms of expression within the complex traditions from which they emerged and to which they respond. Students can discuss and write about these topics using discipline-specific theories and methods.

Entry Requirement 

General Requirements:

Students majoring in English must complete a total of 39 hours in English (composition courses ENG 1010, 1020, and 2030 do not count toward the English Major). None of the required 39 hours may be taken Pass/Fail. Only courses completed with a grade of C- (1.7) or better may be counted toward the major. Twenty-seven (27) hours must be earned in upper-division courses. A minimum of 15 upper-division (3000-level and above) ENGL credit hours must be taken with CU Denver English faculty.

While students need only 39 hours to complete the major, they may not count more than 56 hours in the department toward graduation. Double majors in English and English Writing are exempt from the 56-hour rule and must complete 63 hours total for both majors.

CLEP and AP credit will not count toward the English Major or the English Writing Major. Such credit may apply toward the College writing requirement (ENGL 1020 and 2030) or be counted as general electives. Check with CLAS Advising for details.

Fees

(Bachelor) Tuition & Fees: $27342 per year (Fall and Spring)

This information was accurate on : 07/04/2021
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