UVU’s English program is designed to give students skill, confidence, and versatility in writing, speaking, and interpreting texts. The program provides opportunities for students to consider and practice the applications of effective language use in diverse situations: professional, pragmatic, social, political, and aesthetic. The English program emphasizes knowledge and use of standard English in all written work, yet incorporates an understanding that English is a desirably diverse and variable phenomenon. The courses of study in English are designed to familiarize students with much of the traditional canon of literature. They are also designed to provide students with the critical and ethical skills necessary to interrogate this canon, to incorporate and legitimize their own and others’ “different” voices, not just in the academy, but in any of the many situations in which language influences human activity.

Total Program Credits: 120

General Education Requirements:			36 Credits
	ENGL 1010	Introduction to Academic Writing	3
or	ENGH 1005	Literacies and Composition Across Contexts (5)
	ENGL 2010	Intermediate Writing/Academic Writing and Research	3
Complete one of the following:			3
	MAT 1030	Quantitative Reasoning (3) (recommended for Humanities or Arts majors)
	MAT 1035	Quantitative Reasoning with Integrated Algebra (6)
	STAT 1040	Introduction to Statistics (3) (recommended for Social Science majors)
	STAT 1045	Introduction to Statistics with Algebra (5)
	MATH 1050	College Algebra (4) (recommended for Business, Education, Science, and Health Professions majors)
	MATH 1055	College Algebra with Preliminaries (5)
	MATH 1090	College Algebra for Business (3) (recommended for Business majors)
Complete one of the following:			3
	HIST 2700	US History to 1877 (3)
and	HIST 2710	US History since 1877 (3)
	HIST 1700	American Civilization (3)
	HIST 1740	US Economic History (3)
	POLS 1000	American Heritage (3)
	POLS 1100	American National Government (3)
Complete the following:
	PHIL 2050	Ethics and Values	3
	HLTH 1100	Personal Health and Wellness	2
or	EXSC 1097	Fitness for Life
Distribution Courses:
	Biology		3
	Physical Science		3
	Additional Biology or Physical Science		3
	Humanities (Fulfilled with Foreign Language 202G/2020 course)		4
	Fine Arts		3
	Social/Behavioral Science		3
Discipline Core Requirements:			18 Credits
	ENGL 2800	Introduction to the English Major	3
	ENGL 2850	Literary History I	3
	ENGL 2870	Literary History II	3
	ENGL 2600	Critical Introduction to Literature	3
	ENGL 270G	Positionality and Interpretive Methods	3
	ENGL 3090	Academic Writing for English Majors WE	3
Elective Requirements:			42 Credits
	One Foreign Language (Foreign Language 202G/2020 course fulfills Humanities Distribution)		12
	Complete any courses 1000 level or higher. Upper division courses may be necessary for graduation. Please see Adviser.		30
Emphasis Requirements:			24 Credits
Degree Prerequisite:
	ENGL 2250	Introduction to Creative Writing	3
or	ENGL 225H	Introduction to Creative Writing Honors
Complete THREE from the following:			9
	ENGL 3420	Intermediate Fiction Writing (3)
	ENGL 3430	Play Writing for Creative Writers (3)
	ENGL 3440	Intermediate Poetry Writing (3)
	ENGL 3450	Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Writing (3)
Complete ONE of the following:			3
	ENGL 4420	Advanced Fiction Writing WE (3)
	ENGL 4440	Advanced Poetry Writing WE (3)
	ENGL 4450	Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing WE  (3)
Complete ONE of the following:			3
	ENGL 347R	Popular Genre Writing (3)*
	ENGL 348R	Creative Writing Craft and Theory (3)*
	ENGL 412R	Studies in Literary Genres (3) (in a different genre)*
Complete the following:			6
	ENGL 412R	Studies in Literary Genres (3) (in a different genre)*
	ENGL 4490	Creative Writing Capstone (3)

 

^{*Course may be repeated with a different topic}

Graduation Requirements:

1. Completion of a minimum of 120 semester credits, 40 of which must be upper division.
2. Overall grade point average of 2.0 (C) or above. (Departments may require a higher GPA.)
3. Residency hours -- minimum of 30 credit hours through course attendance at UVU, with at least 10 hours earned in the last 45 hours.
4. Completion of GE and specified departmental requirements.
5. For the BA degree, completion of 16 credit hours of course work from one language to include the 1010, 1020, 2010, and 202G/2020 levels or transferred equivalents.
6. No grade below C- in required courses.
7. Successful completion of at least one Global/Intercultural course.