The University of Wisconsin at Madison offers Independent Learning Courses. Through Independent Learning you can continue your education via distance education courses without having to attend classes or workshops. Such courses are comfortable as you can complete assignments at your leisure and send to instructors for evaluation and critique. Distance education courses are open for university credit that you transfer to your degree program.

English Language Program offers following courses:

     - Freshman English – 3 credit hours 
     - The Bible as Literature – 3 credit hours
     - Introduction to Modern English and American Literature I: 19th Century – 3 credit hours
     - Introduction to Modern English and American Literature II: 20th Century – 3 credit hours
     - Intermediate Composition – 3 credit hours
     - Shakespearean Drama I – 3 credit hours
     - Shakespearean Drama II – 3 credit hours
     - The Courage to Write: Women Novelists of the 19th Century – 3 credit hours
     - Introduction to 20th Century African American Literature: The Fictional Vision (Online) – 3 credit hours
     - American Indian Literature – 3 credit hours
     - Breaking the Silence: A Survey of Asian American Literature – 3 credit hours
     - Willa Cather – 1 credit hour
     - Eudora Welty – 1 credit hour
     - Virginia Woolf – 1 credit hour
     - History of the English Language – 3 credit hours
     - The Structure of English (Online) – 3 credit hours
     - Ernest Hemingway – 1 credit hour
     - William Faulkner – 1 credit hour
     - The English Novel – 3 credit hours
     - The American Short Story – 3 credit hours

Tuition fees per 1 credit hour – $260 per credit hour, plus a $75.00 administrative fee per course.