English Major Course Requirements 2025-26
Literary History:
Literary History 1:
Fall 25:
- ENGL 207: Chaucer and His World
- ENGL 236: British Modernist Fiction
- ENGL 301: 1492: States of War
- ENGL 305: Shakespeare's Macbeth: From Saga to Screen
- ENGL 310: The Medieval Beast
- ENGL 395: Hell: An Introduction
Spring 26:
- ENGL 205: Shakespeare
- ENGL 291: The First Stories: Oral Poetry in Greece and Anglo-Saxon England
Literary History 2:
Fall 25
- ENGL 203: American Literature to 1865
- ENGL 288: Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation
- ENGL 330: Facts, Counterfactualisms, and the Historical Novel
- ENGL 338: Serial Sensations
- ENGL 387: Literature of London
Spring 26
- ENGL 210: The Rise of the Novel
- ENGL 212: Too Much to Know: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction in the Age of Information
- ENGL 219: The Great American Novel
- ENGL 227: Reporting for Narrative
- ENGL 250: Technologies of the Self
- ENGL 256: Comedy and the Comic Spirit in the Long 19th Century
- ENGL 262: Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers
Literary History 3:
Fall 25:
- ENGL 221: The African Novel
- ENGL 230: Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL 236: British Modernist Fiction
- ENGL 286: Harlem Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 309: Entertaining Social Change
- ENGL 332: About Clothes: Styles, Histories, Activisms, Poetics
- ENGL 379: American Modernism in a Time of Crisis
Spring 26:
- ENGL 204A: American Literature, 1865–1945
- ENGL 219: The Great American Novel
- ENGL 245: Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction
- ENGL 254: India: Identity, Globalization, and Empire
- ENGL 272: Modernist City-Texts
- ENGL 293: Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas
- ENGL 311: Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
- ENGL 344: Women's Lib, Women's Lit
- ENGL 350: The Law, the Citizen, and the Literary and Cinematic Imaginations
- ENGL 361: After Orientalism: Asian American Literature and Theory After 2000
- ENGL 366: Dangerous Realisms
Literary Geography
World Literature:
Fall 25:
- ENGL 221: The African Novel
- ENGL 301: 1492: States of War
Spring 26:
- ENGL 245: Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction
- ENGL 254: India: Identity, Globalization, and Empire
- ENGL 291: The First Stories: Oral Poetry in Greece and Anglo-Saxon England
- ENGL 293: Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas
- ENGL 366: Dangerous Realisms
- ENGL 371: Sister Acts: Black Feminist/Womanist Theater of the African Diaspora
- British Literature:
Fall 25:
- ENGL 207: Chaucer and His World
- ENGL 236: British Modernist Fiction
- ENGL 288: Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation
- ENGL 305: Shakespeare's Macbeth: From Saga to Screen
- ENGL 310: The Medieval Beast
- ENGL 330: Facts, Counterfactualisms, and the Historical Novel
- ENGL 338: Serial Sensations
- ENGL 387: Literature of London
- ENGL 395: Hell: An Introduction
Spring 26:
- ENGL 205: Shakespeare
- ENGL 210: The Rise of the Novel
- ENGL 212: Too Much to Know: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction in the Age of Information
- ENGL 227: Reporting for Narrative
- ENGL 256: Comedy and the Comic Spirit in the Long 19th Century
- ENGL 311: Modernist Writers: Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys
American Literature:
Fall 25:
- ENGL 203: American Literature to 1865
- ENGL 230: Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL 286: Harlem Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 301: 1492: States of War
- ENGL 309: Entertaining Social Change
- ENGL 338: Serial Sensations
- ENGL 379: American Modernism in a Time of Crisis
Spring 26:
- ENGL 219: The Great American Novel
- ENGL 250: Technologies of the Self
- ENGL 262: Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers
- ENGL 293: Afro-Asian Intersections in the Americas
- ENGL 344: Women's Lib, Women's Lit
- ENGL 350: The Law, the Citizen, and the Literary and Cinematic Imaginations
- ENGL 361: After Orientalism: Asian American Literature and Theory After 2000
- ENGL 371: Sister Acts: Black Feminist/Womanist Theater of the African Diaspora
Theory:
Fall 25:
- ENGL 208: Feminist Theories
- ENGL 297: Practical Criticism
- ENGL 301: 1492: States of War
- ENGL 303: Narrative Theory
- ENGL 308: All the Feels: Affect Theory and Cultural Studies
- ENGL 332: About Clothes: Styles, Histories, Activisms, Poetics
- ENGL 338: Serial Sensations
- ENGL 387: Literature of London
Spring 26:
- ENGL 208: Feminist Theories
- ENGL 212: Too Much to Know: Nineteenth-Century British Fiction in the Age of Information
- ENGL 245: Introduction to Literary Theory: Suspicion, Ideology, Deconstruction
- ENGL 250: Technologies of the Self
- ENGL 256: Comedy and the Comic Spirit in the Long 19th Century
- ENGL 262: Beyond the Talking Book: Reading African American Literature in the Newspapers
- ENGL 272: Modernist City-Texts
- ENGL 327: Criticism and Psychoanalysis
- ENGL 350: The Law, the Citizen, and the Literary and Cinematic Imaginations
- ENGL 366: Dangerous Realisms
- ENGL 367: Nature Description: Literature and Theory
- ENGL 371: Sister Acts: Black Feminist/Womanist Theater of the African Diaspora
Creative Writing:
Fall 25:
- ENGL 215: Special Topics: Experiments in Biography
- ENGL 216: Techniques of Poetry: Prosody and Poetic Form
- ENGL 266: Body and Text
- ENGL 269: Introduction to Playwriting
- ENGL 292A: Techniques of Nonfiction: Memory and Memoir
- ENGL 296: Techniques of Fiction
- ENGL 325: Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
- ENGL 339: Intermediate Fiction Workshop
- ENGL 399: Advanced Playwriting: Long Form
- ENGL 450: Senior Seminar in Creative Writing
Spring 26:
- ENGL 216: Techniques of Poetry: Self, Self Divided, Self Revised
- ENGL 216A: Techniques of Poetry: Hidden Histories
- ENGL 269: Introduction to Playwriting
- ENGL 292: Techniques of Nonfiction
- ENGL 296: Techniques of Fiction
- ENGL 326: Advanced Nonfiction Workshop
- ENGL 342: Advanced Fiction Workshop
- ENGL 336: Intermediate Poetry Workshop: Music and the Poet
- ENGL 380: Ecstatic Grief
- ENGL 390: Special Topics: Generative Novel Workshop
- ENGL 399: Advanced Playwriting: Long Form