Courses

Fall 2024

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 006B. Why Journalism (Still) Matters
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 009W. First-Year Seminar: U.S. War Culture
ENGL 009Y. First-Year Seminar: Metropolitan Forms and Fictions
ENGL 020. Shakespeare
- Med/Ren
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 028. Milton
- Med/Ren
ENGL 036. Jane Austen
- 18th/19th c.
ENGL 037B. Vision and the Late Victorians
- 18th/19th c.
ENGL 047A. Asian American Literature and Culture
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 052B. U.S. Fiction, 1945 to the Present
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 055. Apocalypse Then
- 18th/19th c.
ENGL 067. James Baldwin's Civil Rights
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop
- Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12.
ENGL 070E. Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry Workshop
ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070S. Screenwriting
ENGL 078. Modernism
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory
ENGL 086A. Archives and Activism: Theory and Practice
ENGL 090. Queer Media
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 092. Marxist Literary and Cultural Studies
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 101. Shakespeare
- Med/Ren

Spring 2025

ENGL 001F. First-Year Seminar: Transitions to College Writing
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 009E. First-Year Seminar: Narcissus and the History of Reflection
ENGL 009W. First-Year Seminar: U.S. War Culture
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 021. Shakespeare and Race
- Med/Ren.
ENGL 025. Christopher Marlowe: Works, Life, and Afterlives
ENGL 043. Victorian Character
ENGL 047B. Asian American War Literature
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 060. Early Black Media Cultures
- 18th/19th c.
ENGL 064A. The New Negro Versus Jim Crow
- 18th/19th c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 070A. Poetry Workshop
- Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12.
ENGL 070B. Fiction Workshop
- Graded CR/NC. Limited to 12.
ENGL 070D. Advanced Poetry Workshop: The Poetic Sequence
- C/NC
ENGL 070G. Writing Nature: Digital Storytelling
- Limited to 15.
ENGL 070I. Fiction Workshop: Breaking the Egoic Trance
- Intermediate workshop
ENGL 070K. Directed Creative Writing Projects
- Graded CR/NC.
ENGL 070M. Poetry Workshop: Poems of Protest and Resistance
- CR/NC
ENGL 070Y. Nonfiction Workshop
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 071F. Contemporary Life Writing
ENGL 072. Global Modernisms: Anticolonial Modernism
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 079P. Sanctuary.
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 087. American Narrative Cinema
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 093A. Virtual Bodies, Virtual Worlds
ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium
- See professor to establish credit category.
ENGL 121. Modernism and Forgetting
- 20th/21st c.

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 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
ENGL 009X. First Year Seminar: Literature + Data
ENGL 010. Monsters, Marvels, and Mysteries: Beowulf to Paradise Lost
- Med/Ren
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 020. Shakespeare
- Med/Ren
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 021. Shakespeare and Race
- Med/Ren.
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 064B. Black Renaissance and Resistance
- 20th/21st c.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
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 078. Modernism
- 20th/21st c.
ENGL 080. Introduction to Literary Theory
ENGL 115. Nineteenth-Century American Radicalisms

Spring 2026

ENGL 009E. First-Year Seminar: Narcissus and the History of Reflection
ENGL 009H. First-Year Seminar: Portraits of the Artist
ENGL 014. Old English/History of the Language
- Med/Ren.
  GATEWAY English Literature.
ENGL 025. Christopher Marlowe: Works, Life, and Afterlives
ENGL 042. The Victorian Supernatural
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 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 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 084. Human Rights and Literature: Borderzones of the Human
ENGL 099. Senior Course Majors Colloquium
- See professor to establish credit category.
ENGL 111. Victorian Literature and Culture
- 18th/19th c.