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

Matriculation Requirements:
Complete the following courses: ENGL 2600, Critical Introduction to Literature; ENGL 2510, American Literature before 1865, or ENGL 2520, American Literature after 1865; and ENGL 2610, British Literature before 1800, or ENGL 2620, British Literature after 1800.
General Education Requirements:			35 Credits
	ENGL 1010	Introduction to Writing	3
	ENGL 2010	Intermediate Writing--Humanities/Social Sciences	3
Complete one of the following:			3
	MAT 1030	Quantitative Reasoning (3.0) (recommended for Humanities or Arts majors)
	MAT 1035	Quantitative Reasoning with Integrated Algebra (6.0)
	STAT 1040	Introduction to Statistics (3.0) (recommended for Social Science majors)
	STAT 1045	Introduction to Statistics with Algebra (5.0)
	MATH 1050	College Algebra (4.0) (recommended for Business, Education, Science, and Health Professions majors)
	MATH 1055	College Algebra with Preliminaries (5.0)
	MATH 1090	College Algebra for Business (3.0) (recommended for Business majors)
Complete one of the following:			3
	HIST 2700	US History to 1877 (3.0)
and	HIST 2710	US History since 1877 (3.0)
	HIST 1700	American Civilization (3.0)
	HIST 1740	US Economic History (3.0)
	POLS 1000	American Heritage (3.0)
	POLS 1100	American National Government (3.0)
Complete the following:
	PHIL 2050	Ethics and Values	3
	HLTH 1100	Personal Health and Wellness	2
or	PES 1097	Fitness for Life (2.0)
Distribution Courses:
	Biology		3
	Physical Science		3
	Additional Biology or Physical Science		3
	Humanities Distribution		3
	Fine Arts Distribution		3
	Social/Behavioral Science		3
Discipline Core Requirements:			22 Credits
	ENGL 2510	American Literature before 1865	3
or	ENGL 2520	American Literature after 1865 (3.0)
	ENGL 2610	British Literature before 1800	3
or	ENGL 2620	British Literature after 1800 (3.0)
	ENGL 2600	Critical Introduction to Literature	3
	ENGL 3000	Professional Considerations for the English Major *	1
	ENGL 3090	Academic Writing for English Majors **	3
	ENGL 3890	Contemporary Critical Approaches to Literature	3
	ENGL 4950	Senior Seminar	3
Language Core- Complete one of the following: ***			3
	ENGL 3010	Rhetorical Theory (3.0)
	ENGL 3020	Modern English Grammars (3.0)
	ENGL 3040	History of the English Language (3.0)
Elective Requirements:			36 Credits
	Complete any courses 1000 level or higher. Upper division may be necessary for graduation. Please see Adviser.		36
Emphasis Requirements:			27 Credits
Complete ALL of the following:			12
	ENGL 2310	Technical Communication   (3.0)
	ENGL 3060	Visual Rhetoric (3.0)
	ENGL 3070	Public Rhetorics (3.0)
	ENGL 481R	Internship (take for at least 3 credits) (1.0)
Professional Writing Practices--Complete TWO of the following (or other advisor-approved Writing Studies courses):			6
	ENGL 2050	Editing (3.0)
	ENGL 3050	Advanced Editing and Design for Print Media (3.0)
	ENGL 3320	Grant and Proposal Writing (3.0)
	ENGL 3340	Digital Document Design (3.0)
	ENGL 4340	Advanced Technical Communication (3.0)
	ENGL 436R	Topics in Technical Communication (3.0)
Language and Cultural Rhetorics--Complete TWO of the following (or other advisor-approved Writing Studies courses):			6
	ENGL 2030	Writing for Social Change (3.0)
	ENGL 3030	Writing in the Disciplines (3.0)
	ENGL 3085	Rhetorical Approaches to Popular Culture (3.0)
	ENGL 401R	Topics in Rhetoric (3.0)
Complete 3 upper-division credits of ENGL coursework beyond those courses taken to fulfill discipline core or emphasis requirements.			3

 Graduation Requirements:

1. Completion of a minimum of 120 semester credits, 40 of which must be 3000 level or higher.
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. No grade below C- in required courses.
6. Successful completion of at least one Global/Intercultural course.

Footnote

* Should be taken early on in the student's course of study, by the junior year at the latest.

** Should be taken early in the student's junior year, as it serves as crucial preparation for nearly all upper-division English courses.

*** Students pursuing the Writing Studies emphasis should take ENGL 3010 Rhetorical Theory.