# Transfer Preparation Requirements

**Source**: https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer/deciding-on-major/major-preparation-the-college/requirements-for-english
**Parent**: https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer/deciding-on-major/major-preparation-the-college

## Major Preparation Requirements

### Required courses

- One course in English composition (expository writing)
- One course in critical reading and writing (composition and literature)
- One year of survey of literatures in English
  - British literature to 1850
  - Either British literature from 1850 to the present or survey of American literature

### Strongly recommended course

- Two years of one foreign language or a combination of courses in foreign language and foreign literature

**Note:** High School foreign language classes will NOT satisfy major preparation requirements.

## More Information

- [More information about this major](https://newstudents.ucla.edu/studyarea/?type=MAJ&code=345)
- [Department homepage](https://english.ucla.edu/)

\* Demand for this major significantly exceeds space available.

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