Courses

Spring 2026

ENGL 001G. Writing With Genres
ENGL 001H. Research and Writing Across the Disciplines
ENGL 001J. First-Year Seminar: Persuasion
ENGL 002M. Medical Writing and Rhetoric
ENGL 002V. Visual Rhetorics and Multimodal Writing:Making arguments with image, text, and sound
ENGL 002W. Words Matter: Crafting and Critiquing Rhetorically Effective Styles
ENGL 009C. First-Year Seminar: Why College? The Past and Future of Liberal Arts
ENGL 009E. First-Year Seminar: Narcissus and the History of Reflection
ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
ENGL 009W. First-Year Seminar: U.S. War Culture
ENGL 009Y. First-Year Seminar: Metropolitan Forms and Fictions
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 028. Milton
- 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 052A. U.S. Fiction, 1900-1950
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 055. Apocalypse Then
- 18th/19th c.
ENGL 057A. U.S. Empire Literature
ENGL 067B. James Baldwin's B-sides
ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070CC. Poetry Workshop: Cover to Cover
- CR/NC
ENGL 070H. Advanced Fiction Workshop
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070R. Between Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction
- CR/NC
ENGL 070U. Fiction: Life As Inspiration
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070Y. Nonfiction Workshop
- CR/NC
ENGL 078C. Virginia Woolf
ENGL 078. Modernism
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
- GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 093A. Virtual Bodies, Virtual Worlds
ENGL 093P. Literary Philly - A Collective Exploration
- This class will be taught in Philadelphia as part of the Tri-Co Philly Program.
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 009A. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Law
- Writing Course.
ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
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 070A. Poetry Workshop
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070Q. Fiction: Writing Fantasy and Other Worlds
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070S. Screenwriting
ENGL 070U. Fiction: Life As Inspiration
- Graded CR/NC.
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 009J. First-Year Seminar: Revolution and Revolt
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.