Fall 2023
- 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 005. Journalism Workshop
- ENGL 009A. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Law
- ENGL 009F. First Year Seminar: Introduction to Latinx Literature and Culture
Taught in English.
- ENGL 009L. First-Year Seminar: Imagining Natural History
- ENGL 009P. First-Year Seminar: Refuge: Resettled in Philadelphia
- ENGL 009R. First-Year Seminar: Grendel's Workshop
This First-year Seminar counts as both a Writing Class (W) and 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 047A. Asian American Literature and Culture
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 052M. Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City and Queer Pasts and Futures
- ENGL 067. James Baldwin's Civil Rights
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 070S. Screenwriting
- ENGL 070U. Fiction: Life As Inspiration
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 078. Modernism
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory
- ENGL 091. Feminist Film and Media Studies
- ENGL 097. Independent Study and Directed Reading
- ENGL 101. Shakespeare
Med/Ren
- ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture
18th/19th c.
Spring 2024
- ENGL 001F. First-Year Seminar: Transitions to College Writing
- ENGL 002M. Medical Writing and Rhetoric
- ENGL 009E. First-Year Seminar: Narcissus and the History of Reflection
- 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 028. Milton
Med/Ren
- ENGL 046. Tolkien and Pullman and Their Literary Roots
Med/Ren or 20th/21st.
GATEWAY English Literature.
- ENGL 047C. Asian American Gender/Sexuality/Species
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 061. The Literatures of Slavery
18th/19th c.
- ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop
Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12.
- ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 070Q. Fiction: Writing Fantasy and Other Worlds
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 071E. Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis
- ENGL 084. Human Rights and Literature: Borderzones of the Human
- ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
GATEWAY English Literature.
- ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium
See professor to establish credit category.
Fall 2024
- ENGL 009A. First-Year Seminar: Literature and Law
- ENGL 009E. First-Year Seminar: Narcissus and the History of Reflection
- ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
- ENGL 009R. First-Year Seminar: Grendel's Workshop
This First-year Seminar counts as both a Writing Class (W) and an English Dept. Creative Writing workshop.
- ENGL 020. Shakespeare
Med/Ren
GATEWAY English Literature.
- ENGL 029. The Fat Renaissance.
Med/Ren
- ENGL 036. Jane Austen
18th/19th c.
GATEWAY English Literature.
- ENGL 052B. U.S. Fiction, 1945 to the Present
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 055. Apocalypse Then
18th/19th c.
- ENGL 064A. The New Negro Versus Jim Crow
18th/19th c.
GATEWAY English Literature.
- ENGL 067. James Baldwin's Civil Rights
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 070N. Fiction: Episodic Novel/la Writing Workshop
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 070S. Screenwriting
- ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory
- ENGL 090. Queer Media
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 092. Marxist Literary and Cultural Studies
20th/21st c.
- ENGL 121. Modernism and Forgetting
20th/21st c.
Spring 2025
- ENGL 033. The Romantic Sublime
18th/19th c.
- ENGL 060. Early Black Media Cultures
18th/19th c.
- ENGL 064B. Black Renaissance and Resistance
20th/21st c.
GATEWAY English Literature.
- ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop
Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12.
- ENGL 070H. Advanced Fiction Workshop
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
Graded CR/NC.
- ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium
See professor to establish credit category.