English Courses

Courses

Most English courses satisfy Breadth of Study Area 1; creative writing courses are exceptions and satisfy Area 6. Check the course detail page for confirmation.

Courses numbered under 100 take a broader focus; courses numbered over 100 take a narrower one. Course numbers are not keyed to difficulty.

Courses offered in the English Department carry a designation or designations indicating which major requirement(s) they can satisfy. Most courses will carry multiple designations; one course can be used to satisfy, at most, two requirements, at the student’s option. No course can be used to satisfy more than one historical requirement.

Example: ENGL 161 PO, James Joyce (H5, DG)
H5=20th–21st Century; DG=Diaspora/Geopolitics

• ENGL010 PO - Introduction to Close Reading
• ENGL015 PO - Poetry Starting with Words
• ENGL018 PO - Group Text: Genres of U.S. Literature and Writing
• ENGL019 PO - Introduction to Asian American Literature
• ENGL020 PO - How Shakespeare Works
• ENGL023 PO - How to Really Read a Book: An Introduction
• ENGL024 PO - Caribbean American Women Writers
• ENGL025 PO - Introduction to Literary Nonfiction
• ENGL036 PO - Introduction to Irish Literature
• ENGL042 PO - Food in Film and Literature
• ENGL044 PO - Contemporary Indigenous Writers
• ENGL045 PO - African American Poetics
• ENGL048 PO - Jane Austen
• ENGL049 PO - The Gothic
• ENGL050 PO - Modern British and Irish Fiction
• ENGL055A PO - Topics in Contemporary Literature: Impossible Novels
• ENGL058 PO - Native American Women Writers
• ENGL064A PO - Creative Writing: Fiction
• ENGL064B PO - Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL064C PO - Creative Writing: Nonfiction
• ENGL064D PO - Intro to Creative Writing
• ENGL067 PO - Literary Interpretation
• ENGL072 PO - City Comedy
• ENGL074 PO - Rise of the Novel
• ENGL075 PO - British Novel II
• ENGL078 PO - Medieval Drugs
• ENGL079 PO - Toward the Within
• ENGL080 PO - Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL084 PO - Dream Lore
• ENGL086 PO - Poetry Movements since the 1950s
• ENGL087F PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Practices
• ENGL087H PO - Writing: Theories/Processes/Practices
• ENGL089A PO - American Modernism
• ENGL091 PO - Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian Literature
• ENGL093 PO - Writing about Rock and Pop
• ENGL098 PO - An Art of Noticing
• ENGL099 PO - The Idea of the Renaissance
• ENGL102 PO - Early Modern Romance
• ENGL106 PO - 19th-Century U.S. Women Writers
• ENGL120A PO - 19th Century American Literature: Cross-Dressing and Race Passing
• ENGL121 PO - Realism and Its Shadow
• ENGL122 AF - Healing Narratives
• ENGL124 AF - AfroFuturisms
• ENGL125C AF - Introduction to African-American Literature: Middle Passage to Civil War
• ENGL134 PO - The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement
• ENGL142 PO - How to Live Together: Literature and the Commons
• ENGL146 PO - Asian American Poetry: 1960s to the Present
• ENGL150 PO - Visual Poetics: Exploring the Kinship Between Poetry and Art
• ENGL152 PO - Autotheory & Aesthetics
• ENGL153 PO - The Beyond of Language
• ENGL154 PO - Shakespeare: The Comedies and Histories
• ENGL155 PO - Shakespeare: The Tragedies and Romances
• ENGL156 PO - Milton and Visual Culture
• ENGL158 JT - Ovidian Figures
• ENGL159 PO - Supernatural Century: Victorian Fear from Frankenstein to Dracula
• ENGL161 PO - James Joyce
• ENGL162 PO - Race and Ethnicity in Nineteenth Century American Literature
• ENGL164 PO - Essay and Experiment
• ENGL165 PO - Theories and Methods in Literary Studies
• ENGL169 PO - Queer/Trans of Color Critique and Latinx Literature
• ENGL170B PO - Five American Writers Who Had a Problem with the Social Sciences
• ENGL170C PO - Ralph Ellison
• ENGL170F PO - Herman Melville, Novels and Short Stories
• ENGL170L PO - The Other Chaucer
• ENGL170M PO - Black Ecologies
• ENGL170P PO - James Joyce &
• ENGL170R PO - Testamentary Fictions
• ENGL170X PO - Asian American Literary and Cultural Critique
• ENGL183A PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
• ENGL183B PO - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL188 PO - American Literature After 1945
• ENGL189B PO - Introduction to Literary Theory
• ENGL189E PO - The Nonfiction Novel
• RLST181 PO - Prison, Punishment, Redemption (CP)
• RUST185 PO - The Novels of Vladimir Nabokov