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Certificate Advisor: Gillian Silverman
Email: gillian.silverman@ucdenver.edu

Overview

The English Department at the University of Colorado Denver offers a Graduate Certificate in Teaching College-Level Literature and Film. It fulfills the increasing needs of educators seeking to deepen and to broaden their content specialization. It allows an English Master's Candidate to specialize in an area of study in addition to the primary area of degree focus.

The certificate does not grant state licensure. It ensures competency for those who already are licensed, provides documentation in expertise for those teaching in community colleges, and enables specialization for those with master's degrees in related fields (i.e. Rhetoric, Composition, Literature, Film Studies, Humanities, Education).

These program requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their Teaching College-Level Literature and Film advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.

Graduate Education Policies and Procedures apply to this program.

Certificate Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 18 ENGL credit hours
2. Students must complete all 18 ENGL credits at the graduate (5000 or above) level.
3. Students must earn a minimum grade of B- (2.7) in all courses that apply to the certificate and must achieve a minimum cumulative certificate GPA of 3.0. Students cannot complete certificate course requirements as P+/P/F or S/U.
4. Students must complete all credits for the certificate with CU Denver faculty.

Certificate Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

1. All courses must be completed with ENGL subject code.
2. All candidates must possess a Bachelor's of Arts in any field.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete all of the following required courses:
ENGL 5100	Introduction to Graduate Studies	3
ENGL 5145	Theory	3
ENGL 5155	Genres of Writing	3
Complete three of the following graduate level Literature or Film courses.		9
ENGL 5000	Studies of Major Authors
ENGL 5160	Poetics
ENGL 5166	History of American Poetry
ENGL 5200	Survey of the English Novel to 1900
ENGL 5210	History of the English Novel II
ENGL/ETST 5220	African-American Literature
ENGL 5230	The American Novel
ENGL 5235	Faulkner
ENGL 5236	The American Short Story
ENGL 5240	Topics In Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 5250	Twentieth Century Fiction
ENGL 5300	History of British Drama
ENGL/HIST/WGST 5306	Survey of Feminist Thought
ENGL/PHIL/WGST 5308	Contemporary Feminist Thought
ENGL 5320	History of Poetry in English
ENGL 5350	History of American Drama
ENGL 5400	Old English I
ENGL 5410	Old English II: Beowulf
ENGL 5420	Film Theory and Criticism
ENGL 5460	Contemporary World Literature
ENGL 5500	Medieval Literature
ENGL 5510/RLST 5730/WGST 5510	Whores and Saints: Medieval Women
ENGL 5520	English Renaissance
ENGL 5530	Milton
ENGL 5540	Restoration and the 18th Century
ENGL 5560	English Romanticism
ENGL 5580	The Victorian Age
ENGL 5600	Modernism
ENGL 5650	American Literature to the Civil War
ENGL 5655	American Literature: Civil War to the Cold War
ENGL 5730	Chaucer
ENGL 5735/PHIL 5730	Philosophy and Literature
ENGL 6010	Studies of Major Authors
ENGL 6110	Special Topics in Literature
ENGL 6120	Special Topics in Film
Total Hours		18

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