A cumulative or overall GPA of 3.0 on a 4-point scale in the last two years of undergraduate education. This should be displayed on your official academic records.
Unofficial transcripts are accepted for the application process Upload your unofficial transcripts in the online application Official copies are not currently required for the application only for accepting an offer of admission however we reserve the right to change this requirement at any time.
A bachelor's degree or its equivalent from an accredited university awarded conferred prior to the quarter in which admission is sought.


For applicants to the CreativeCritical Writing concentration the department requests the following additional materials 20-25 pages of prose at least one complete piece and an additional sample preferred or 10-12 pages of poetry The writing can be poetry prose fiction creative nonfiction or hybridcrossgenre
The Proseminar Literature 200 to be taken in Fall Quarter of the first year
A onequarter Pedagogy of TeachingTeaching Assistant Training Literature 201 to be taken prior to or in conjunction with the first Teaching Assistant appointment
Twelve courses leading to the definition of an area of concentration Six of these must be regularlyscheduled Literature seminars from the sequence LIT 221-288 Up to two graduatelevel courses may be formally approved for transfer from other graduate institutions or programs
One course must focus on premodern literature and culture This course may but need not be in the students area of concentration it may also be used to satisfy one of the nonEnglishlanguage course requirements
A minimum of two courses must be in a nonEnglish language literature
83 for applicants to the Human Computer Interaction program
83 for all other programs.
Other TOEFL minimum acceptable scores.
Computer-based 230.
IELTS, a minimum overall score of 7 from the IELTS test is required for admission.