Additional Information

Course Offerings

English course offerings are divided into the following categories:

First Year Writing Courses - not counted toward English Major Requirements

  • ENGL 101C – College Writing
  • ENGL 103 – Writing Workshop (1)
  • ENGL 104 – Writing Workshop (1)
  • ENGL 199C – RW Research Based Writing

Literature Courses

  • ENGL 150C – P1 Literary Types*
  • ENGL 152 – LC WWI & Modern Literature*
  • ENGL 153 – LC Writing in/around Games*
  • ENGL 154 – LC Reading the Court*
  • ENGL 165 – LC Images of Disability*
  • ENGL 170 – LC Fantasy and/in History*
  • ENGL 200C – Literary Analysis
  • ENGL 201 – Career Seminar (.5)
  • ENGL 203C – History of English Language
  • ENGL 204 – P1 Nature Writing
  • ENGL 207C – P1 The Bible as Literature
  • ENGL 210 – P1 Literature and Healing
  • ENGL 211 – P1 Young Adult Literature
  • ENGL 212C – P1 Shakespeare at the Movies
  • ENGL 214D – P1 Reading Gender
  • ENGL 215C – P1 Getting the News from Poems
  • ENGL 218C – P1 Theater and Design
  • ENGL 220D – P1 Black Writers in the U.S.
  • ENGL 226C – P1 Arthurian Legend
  • ENGL 230 – P1 Literature of Travel
  • ENGL 231C – P1 Detective and Mystery Narratives
  • ENGL 235D – P1 Irish Literature
  • ENGL 236D – CC The American Dream
  • ENGL 239D – P1 Haunted House
  • ENGL 247C – P1 War in Literature
  • ENGL 248 – P5 World Literature
  • ENGL 261C – Topics in Sexuality and Literature
  • ENGL 262P – CC Topics in Ethnicity and Literature
  • ENGL 263C – P1 Topics in Literature and the Arts
  • ENGL 264D – P5 Topics in Literature and Politics
  • ENGL 268 – P1 The Fundamentals of Film

* These 100-level courses may not be counted toward English Major requirements

Literature Survey Courses

  • ENGL 293 – P1 Early English Literature
  • ENGL 294 – P1 Milton Through the Romantics
  • ENGL 295 – P1 British Literature Since 1700
  • ENGL 297 – P1 Readings in American Literature
  • ENGL 298 – P1 Modern American Literature

Advanced Literature Courses

When any of the following upper-division courses is offered, it will have a specific focus within the general rubric of its catalog title. May be repeated for credit with the permission of the department chair, if the focus is different. These courses are designed primarily for English majors and minors. ENGL 200C is a prerequisite for all of the following:

  • ENGL 306 – Law and Literature
  • ENGL 312C – P1 Shakespeare
  • ENGL 318 – English Lit Renaissance
  • ENGL 325 – The Romantic Tradition
  • ENGL 327 – Studies in Victorian Literature
  • ENGL 329 – Film and Television Analysis
  • ENGL 335 – Studies in African American Literature
  • ENGL 336 – Studies in Native American Literature
  • ENGL 337 – Ethnicities in/and Literature
  • ENGL 339 – American Literatures
  • ENGL 341 – Studies in Poetry
  • ENGL 342 – Studies in the Novel
  • ENGL 343 – Studies in Drama
  • ENGL 344 – Popular Genres
  • ENGL 346 – Narrative and New Media
  • ENGL 347 – Studies in Postcolonialism
  • ENGL 348 – Women Writers
  • ENGL 349 – Major Authors
  • ENGL 350 – Literary Theory
  • ENGL 351 – Literature and Other Discourses

Seminar for Literature Majors

  • ENGL 420 – Senior Literature Seminar

Writing Courses

  • ENGL 249 – P1 Open Book: Read to Write
  • ENGL 251 – P1 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
  • ENGL 253 – P1 Introductory Creative Writing
  • ENGL 259 – Argument and Persuasion
  • ENGL 266 – Writing as Social Practice
  • ENGL 270C – Becoming a Writing Tutor (1)
  • ENGL 271 – Legal Writing
  • ENGL/WGST 272 – P2 Digital Feminisms
  • ENGL 290 – Science, Rhetoric, and the Public

Advanced Practices Writing Courses

  • ENGL 355 – Professional Writing: Topics
  • ENGL 356 – Editing and Publishing
  • ENGL 361 – Writing with New Media
  • ENGL 371 – Creative Writing: Fiction
  • ENGL 372 – Creative Writing: Poetry
  • ENGL 374 – Creative Writing: Drama
  • ENGL 376 – Creative Writing: Nonfiction
  • ENGL 378 – Special Topics in Advanced Writing

Theories, Contexts, Communities Writing Courses

  • ENGL 352 – Rhetorical Theory
  • ENGL 353 – Rhetorical History and Traditions
  • ENGL 370 – Gender and Writing
  • ENGL 380 – Visual Rhetoric
  • ENGL 381 – The Rhetoric of Hate
  • ENGL 382 – Digital Literacies

Seminar for Writing Majors

  • ENGL 425 – Senior Writing Seminar

General English Electives

  • ENGL 273 – Topics: History of Film and Television

Special Courses

  • ENGL 490 – Internship
  • ENGL 496 – Independent Study (1-3)
  • ENGL 498H – Honors in English
  • ENGL 499H – Honors in English