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24-25 Courses for 1st-Year Students

Course NameCOURSE NUMBER
  
FALL 2024 FYS* 
Portraits of an Artist (W)(ENGL 009H, FYS*)
Grendel's Workshop (ENGL 009R, FYS*) 
U.S. War Culture (W)(ENGL 009W, FYS*)
Metropolitan Forms and Fiction ( ENGL 009Y, FYS*)
FALL 2024 Gateway ** 
Shakespeare(ENGL 020, Gateway**)
Vision and the Late Victorians(ENGL 037B, Gateway**)
U.S.Fiction 1945 to present (ENGL 052B, Gateway**)
  
SPRING 2025 FYS* 
Narcissus and the History of Reflection (W)(ENGL 009E, FYS*)
Between Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction(ENGL 009N, FYS*)
SPRING 2025 Gateway** 
Comedy (W)(ENGL 011, Gateway**)
The New Negro vs. Jim Crow (W)(ENGL 064A, Gateway**)
Lyric Poetry (W) (ENGL 071B, Gateway**)

* FYS – First Year Seminar

** Gateway – Open to first-year students through seniors, Gateway courses are designed to be excellent first (or second) English literature courses for any student; there are no prerequisites. Gateway courses pay special attention to one or more of the following: close reading, historical context, secondary (i.e., theoretical or critical) reading, or genre.