Courses

Fall 2025

ENGL 001C. Writing Pedagogy
- Open only to those selected as Writing Associates. Meets distribution requirements but does not count toward the major.
  Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 001F. First-Year Seminar: Transitions to College Writing
ENGL 006C. Investigative Journalism Beyond the Classroom
ENGL 009A. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Law
- Writing Course.
ENGL 009F. First Year Seminar: Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture
- Taught in English. Writing Course.
ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
- Writing Course.
ENGL 009R. First-Year Seminar: Grendel's Workshop
- This First-year Seminar counts as an English Dept. Creative Writing workshop.
ENGL 009W. First-Year Seminar: U.S. War Culture
- Writing Course.
ENGL 010. Monsters, Marvels, and Mysteries: Beowulf to Paradise Lost
- Med/Ren
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 012. Tragedy
- Med/Ren.
ENGL 037B. Vision and the Late Victorians
- 18th/19th c.
ENGL 047A. Asian American Literature and Culture
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 050F. Old Friends
- 18th/19th c.
ENGL 064B. Black Renaissance and Resistance
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070B. Fiction Workshop
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070E. Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry Workshop
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070F. Contemporary Poetry and Its Concerns
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070H. Advanced Fiction Workshop
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070S. Screenwriting
ENGL 071D. The Short Story in the U.S.
- This is a Gateway English Literature course, suitable for anyone's first or second English literature course. Majors and minors are also welcome. For majors and minors, this course can count either as an 18th/19th or as a 20th/21st century course, depending on the topic of the final research paper.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 071P. Reading Poetry
- GATEWAY English Literature
ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory
ENGL 084. Human Rights and Literature: Borderzones of the Human
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 096A. Special Topics: Global Realism
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 115. Nineteenth-Century American Radicalisms
- Honors Sem.

Spring 2026

ENGL 009C. First-Year Seminar: Why College? The Past and Future of Liberal Arts
ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
- Writing Course.
ENGL 011. Comedy
- A version of this course has been offered in the past as a First-Year Seminar, English 009G, but this new version is open to any student, without any prerequisite. If you have taken English 009G, you are not able to enroll in English 011.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 014. Old English/History of the Language
- Med/Ren.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 021. Shakespeare and Race
- Med/Ren.
ENGL 042. The Victorian Supernatural
ENGL 046. Tolkien and Pullman and Their Literary Roots
- Med/Ren or 20th/21st.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 047B. Asian American War Literature
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 047C. Asian American Gender/Sexuality/Species
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 052A. U.S. Fiction, 1900-1950
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 064C. Black Protest and Possibility
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 070I. Fiction Workshop: Breaking the Egoic Trance
- Intermediate workshop
ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070U. Fiction: Life As Inspiration
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 072. Global Modernisms: Anticolonial Modernism
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 078C. Virginia Woolf
ENGL 078. Modernism
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 084. Human Rights and Literature: Borderzones of the Human
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
- GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 090. Queer Media
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 093A. Virtual Bodies, Virtual Worlds
ENGL 096B. Special Topics: Global Marx and Marxism
ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium
- See professor to establish credit category.
ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture
- 18th/19th c.

Fall 2026

ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
- Writing Course.
ENGL 009R. First-Year Seminar: Grendel's Workshop
- This First-year Seminar counts as an English Dept. Creative Writing workshop.
ENGL 010. Monsters, Marvels, and Mysteries: Beowulf to Paradise Lost
- Med/Ren
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 020. Shakespeare
- Med/Ren
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 035. The Rise of the Novel
- For majors and minors, this course can count either as an 18th/19th or 20th/21st century course.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 052B. U.S. Fiction, 1945 to the Present
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 070R. River Stories
- Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12.
ENGL 070S. Screenwriting
ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory
ENGL 121. Modernism and Forgetting
- 20th/21st c.

Spring 2027

ENGL 009A. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Law
- Writing Course.
ENGL 011. Comedy
- A version of this course has been offered in the past as a First-Year Seminar, English 009G, but this new version is open to any student, without any prerequisite. If you have taken English 009G, you are not able to enroll in English 011.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 014. Old English/History of the Language
- Med/Ren.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 021. Shakespeare and Race
- Med/Ren.
ENGL 046. Tolkien and Pullman and Their Literary Roots
- Med/Ren or 20th/21st.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 071B. The Lyric Poem in English
- For majors and minors, this course can count either as a Med/Ren, 18th/19th, or 20th/21st century course, depending on the topics of the majority of the student's written work. Discuss your options with the professor.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 071E. Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis
ENGL 078C. Virginia Woolf
ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium
- See professor to establish credit category.
ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture
- 18th/19th c.