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| Creative Writing | |
| ENCW 2200 | Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Writing (3) |
| A small, workshop-based, creative writing course that explores various forms of creative nonfiction and requires students to generate at least one longer work that incorporates extensive outside research. | |
| ENCW 2300 | Poetry Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 |
| ENCW 2530 | Introduction to Poetry Writing - Themed (3) |
| An introduction to the craft of writing poetry, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu. | |
| ENCW 2560 | Introduction to Fiction Writing - Themed (3) |
| An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. Both readings and writing assignments will be on topics that vary. For more details on this class, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016 | |
| ENCW 2600 | Fiction Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | An introduction to the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the genre. For more details on creative writing courses, see our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 |
| ENCW 3310 | Intermediate Poetry Writing I (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 |
| ENCW 3320 | Intermediate Poetry Writing II (3) |
| For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2300. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. | |
| ENCW 3350 | Intermediate Nonfiction Writing (3) |
| For students advanced beyond the level of ENWR 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015 | |
| ENCW 3500 | Topics in Creative Writing (3) |
| An intermediate level creative writing course that involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. Topics vary from year to year. For more information, visit the department website at english.as.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ENCW 3559 | New Course in Creative Writing (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer new topics in the subject of Creative Writing. | |
| ENCW 3610 | Intermediate Fiction Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For students advanced beyond the level of ENCW 2600. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussions, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class or more details, please visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 |
| ENCW 4350 | Advanced Nonfiction Writing (3) |
| For advanced students with experience in writing literary nonfiction. Involves workshop of student work, craft discussion, and relevant reading. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| ENCW 4550 | Topics in Literary Prose (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | One of two required readings courses for students admitted to the Area Program in Literary Prose, also open to other qualified students. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENCW 4720 | Area Program in Literary Prose Thesis Course (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Directed writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Literary Prose, leading to completion of an extended piece of creative prose writing. |
| ENCW 4810 | Advanced Fiction Writing I (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For advanced students with prior experience in writing fiction. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 |
| ENCW 4820 | Poetry Program Poetics (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This poetics seminar, designed for students in the English Department's Area Program in Poetry Writing but open to other students on a space-available basis, is a close readings course for serious makers and readers of poems. Seminar topics vary by semester. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENCW 4830 | Advanced Poetry Writing I (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For advanced students with prior experience in writing poetry. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Reading in contemporary poetry is also assigned. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see creativewriting.virginia.edu/ugrad. Course was offered January 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, January 2024, Fall 2023, January 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014 |
| ENCW 4920 | Poetry Program Capstone (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Directed poetry writing project for students in the English Department's Undergraduate Area Program in Poetry Writing, leading to completion of a manuscript of poems. Both courses are required for students in the Distinguished Majors Program. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. |
| ENCW 4993 | Independent Project in Creative Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For the student who wants to work on a creative writing project under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015 |
| ENCW 5310 | Advanced Poetry Writing II (3) |
| Intensive work in poetry writing, for students with prior experience. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 | |
| ENCW 5610 | Advanced Fiction Writing II (3) |
| A course for advanced short story writers. Student manuscripts are discussed in individual conference and in class. May be repeated with different instructor. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2015 | |
| ENCW 7310 | MFA Poetry Workshop (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Graduate-level poetry writing workshop for advanced writing students. A weekly 2.5 hour workshop discussion of student poems. For more details, visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 |
| ENCW 7559 | New Course in Creative Writing (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENCW 7610 | MFA Fiction Workshop (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A course devoted to the writing of prose fiction, especially the short story. Student work is discussed in class and in individual conferences. Parallel reading in the work of modern novelists and short story writers is required. For more details, visit our program website at creativewriting.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 |
| ENCW 8559 | New Course in Creative Writing (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENCW 8993 | Independent Writing Project (3) |
| Intended for graduate students who wish to do work on a creative writing project other than the thesis for the Master of Fine Arts degree under the direction of a faculty member. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Permission of the chair. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015 | |
| ENCW 8995 | Research in Creative Writing (3) |
| Research in creative writing for M.F.A. students. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENCW 8999 | MFA Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Non-topical research hours taken as part of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 |
| English-Literature | |
| ENGL 150 | Special Topics in English (0) |
| Special Topics in English. | |
| ENGL 1500 | Masterworks of Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | An introduction to the study of literature. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How do we prepare ourselves to be the best possible readers of imaginative literature? Course was offered Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 |
| ENGL 1559 | New Course in English Literature (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2013 | |
| ENGL 1590 | Literature and the Professions (3) |
| An introduction to the study of literature that focuses on the intersections between imaginative literature and other fields of human endeavor. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How can becoming a better reader enhance other aspects of our careers and our lives? | |
| ENGL 1900 | Introduction to Academic Conversations (3) |
| This class welcomes students to the university and to the ways academics read, discuss, and respond to intellectual conversations. Students will read and analyze college-level texts, practice stages of the composing process, and present responses orally in discussions and brief presentations. This course develops the strategies necessary to achieve proficiency in future writing classes as well as courses across the curriculum | |
| ENGL 1910 | Public Speaking (3) |
| The development of skills in the preparation, delivery, and criticism of speeches, with emphasis on the function of audience analysis, evidence, organization, language, and style. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 2001 | History of European Literature I (4) |
| Surveys European literature from antiquity to the Renaissance, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts. | |
| ENGL 2002 | History of European Literature II (4) |
| Surveys European literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, with emphasis on recurring themes, the texts themselves, and the meaning of literature in broader historical contexts. | |
| ENGL 2500 | Introduction to Literary Studies (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces students to some fundamental skills in critical thinking and critical writing about literary texts. Readings include various examples of poetry, fiction, and drama. The course is organized along interactive and participatory lines. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 2502 | Masterpieces of English Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Surveys selected English writers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 2504 | Major Authors of American Literature (3) |
| Studies major works in American literature before 1900. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 2506 | Studies in Poetry (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Examines the poetic techniques and conventions of imagery and verse that poets have used across the centuries. Exercises in scansion, close reading, and framing arguments about poetry. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 2507 | Studies in Drama (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces the techniques of the dramatic art, with close analysis of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 2508 | Studies in Fiction (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies the techniques of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 2527 | Shakespeare (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies selected sonnets and plays of Shakespeare. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 2559 | New Course in Introduction to English Literature (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Summer 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016 | |
| ENGL 2560 | Contemporary Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces trends in contemporary English, American, and Continental literature, especially in fiction, but with some consideration of poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 2570 | Modern American Authors (3) |
| Surveys major American writers of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 2572 | Black Writers in America (3) |
| Topics in African-American writing in the US from its beginning in vernacular culture to the present day; topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 2590 | Studies in Global Literature (3) |
| Examines a selection of works, primarily in English but occasionally in translation, from around the world. The list of works and genres treated will vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2019 | |
| ENGL 2592 | Women in Literature (3) |
| Analyzes the representations of women in literature as well as literary texts by women writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 2599 | Special Topics (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Usually an introduction to non-traditional or specialized topics in literary studies, (e.g., native American literature, gay and lesbian studies, techno-literacy, Arthurian romance, Grub Street in eighteenth-century England, and American exceptionalism). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 2657 | Routes, Writing, Reggae (3) |
| In this course, we will trace the history of reggae music and explore its influence on the development of Jamaican literature. With readings on Jamaican history, we will consider why so many reggae songs speak about Jah and quote from the Bible. Then, we will explore how Marcus Garvey's teachings led to the rise of Rastafarianism, which in turn seeded ideas of black pride and black humanity into what would become reggae music. | |
| ENGL 2900 | Women and Media in the Global South (3) |
| This course examines women and media in the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa through the lenses of new media, journalism, feminism, and gender studies, with cross-cultural comparisons to the U.S. | |
| ENGL 3001 | History of Literatures in English I (3) |
| A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/. | |
| ENGL 3002 | History of Literatures in English II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/. |
| ENGL 3010 | History of the English Language (3) |
| Studies the development of English word forms and vocabulary from Old English to present-day English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| ENGL 3020 | American English (3) |
| A historical examination of the peculiar development of the English language, both spoken and written, in the Americas, primarily in the United States, from the time of the first European settlements to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3025 | African American English (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course examines the communicative practices of African American Vernacular English (AAEV) to explore how a marginalized language dynamic has made major transitions into American mainstream discourse. AAEV is no longer solely the informal speech of many African Americans; it is the way Americans speak. |
| ENGL 3100 | Old Icelandic Literature in Translation (3) |
| A survey of the major works written in Iceland from around 1100 to the end of the Middle Ages. Works studied include several of the family and legendary sagas and selections from the Poetic Edda and the Edda of Snorri Sturluson. All readings are in translation. Course was offered Fall 2020, Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3110 | Violence and Conflict Resolution in Medieval Literature (3) |
| Studies the representation of violence and peacemaking in the literature of medieval England, Scandinavia and the continent from Beowulf to the fifteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on the historical background. (IR) | |
| ENGL 3161 | Chaucer I (3) |
| Studies selected Canterbury Tales and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3162 | Chaucer II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies Troilus and Criseyde and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2023 |
| ENGL 3170 | Drama in English from its Beginnings to 1642 (3) |
| Surveys medieval and Renaissance drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3200 | Literature of the Renaissance (3) |
| Surveys sixteenth-century English prose, poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3220 | The Seventeenth Century (3) |
| Surveys the prose, poetry and drama of the earlier seventeenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3260 | Milton (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Study of selected poems and prose, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 3271 | Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies (3) |
| A survey of plays from Shakespeare's earlier career, emphasizing the great histories and comedies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3273 | Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Surveys the plays of Shakespeare's later career, emphasizing the great tragedies and romances. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 3274 | Studies in Shakespeare (3) |
| Intensive study of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Summer 2022 | |
| ENGL 3275 | History of Drama I: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance (3) |
| This course begins in ancient Athens with the birth of tragedy and comedy, moving from there to the Latin tradition, both pagan and Christian, before settling into the European vernaculars, both medieval and modern. | |
| ENGL 3300 | English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 3310 | Eighteenth-Century Women Writers (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3320 | English Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century (3) |
| Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1740. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3321 | English Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century (3) |
| Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1740-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| ENGL 3332 | Literature of the Americas (3) |
| Comparative study of various major writers of North, Central, and South America. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3370 | Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (3) |
| Introduces students to major plays, playwrights, and theatrical issues of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| ENGL 3380 | The English Novel I (3) |
| Studies the rise and development of the English novel in the 18th century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3401 | English Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century I (3) |
| Surveys the poetry and non-fictional prose of the Romantic period, including major Romantic poets and essayists. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Summer 2021 | |
| ENGL 3402 | English Poetry and Prose of the Nineteenth Century II (3) |
| Surveys the poetry and non-fictional prose of the Victorian period, including the major Victorian poets and essayists. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3420 | The Lives of the Victorians (3) |
| Introduces the literature and culture of the Victorian period, focusing on life-narrative in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, biography, and autobiography. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3430 | American Literature to 1865 (3) |
| Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Emerson and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3434 | The American Renaissance (3) |
| Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3436 | Sex and Sentiment (3) |
| Focuses on the rise of sentimental novels and sensational novels between the American Revolution and the Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3438 | Realism and Naturalism in America (3) |
| Analyzes American literary realism and naturalism, its sociological, philosophical, and literary origins as well as its relation to other contemporaneous literary movements. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3440 | African-American Literature I (3) |
| Analyzes the earliest examples of African-American literature, emphasizing African cultural themes and techniques that were transformed by the experience of slavery as that experience met European cultural and religious practices. Studies essays, speeches, pamphlets, poetry, and songs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3460 | Victorian Poetry (3) |
| A study of British poetry in the period 1832-1901. Course was offered Spring 2023 | |
| ENGL 3470 | Major British Authors of the Nineteenth Century (3) |
| Analyzes the principal works of three or more Romantic authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3480 | The English Novel II (3) |
| Reading of novels by Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Gaskell, Meredith, Eliot, and Hardy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3482 | The Fiction of Empire (3) |
| Studies the representation of the British Empire in nineteenth-century works of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3500 | Studies in English Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 |
| ENGL 3510 | Studies in Medieval Literature (3) |
| Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3515 | Medieval European Literature in Translation (3) |
| Explores themes in English, French, German, Italian, Irish, Icelandic, and Spanish literature of the Middle Ages. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3520 | Studies in Renaissance Literature (3) |
| Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3530 | Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature (3) |
| Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3540 | Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Examination of particular movements within the period, (e.g., the Aesthetic Movement; the Pre-Raphaelites; and Condition-of-England novels). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 3545 | Studies in American Literature before 1900 (3) |
| Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3559 | New Course in English Literature (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2017 |
| ENGL 3560 | Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course takes up topics in the study of literature in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020 |
| ENGL 3570 | Studies in American Literature (3) |
| Studies the work of one or two major authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3572 | Studies in African-American Literature and Culture (3) |
| Intensive study of African-American writers and cultural figures in a diversity of genres. Includes artists from across the African diaspora in comparative American perspective. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3600 | British Literature of the Twentieth Century (3) |
| Surveys major trends and figures in British literature from 1890 to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3610 | Global Cultural Studies (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The course analyzes our global cultural condition from a dual historical and literary perspective and follows a development stretching over the last 60 years, beginning with the period just after WW II and continuing to the present day. Of central concern will be the varieties of cultural expression across regions of the world and their relation to a rapidly changing social history, drawing upon events that occur during the semester. |
| ENGL 3612 | World Literature in English (3) |
| This course will explore Anglophone fiction and drama from Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean over the last half century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| ENGL 3620 | Concepts of the Modern (3) |
| Studies the modern sensibility through an examination of the themes and techniques of aestheticism, psychology, existentialism, and twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3630 | Modern Irish Literature (3) |
| Surveys Irish writing from the late nineteenth century to the present. Focuses on the relationships of Irish literature to Ireland's national identity and political processes. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3635 | Currents in African Literature (3) |
| Studies the development of the Anglophone African novel as a genre, as well as the representation of the post-colonial dilemma of African nations and the revision of gender and ethnic roles. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| ENGL 3640 | Game of Thrones (3) |
| A study of George R. R. Martin's fantasy series and the television series based on it, exploring notions of literary and visual representation, racialism, fan fiction, and the gendered dimensions of power. | |
| ENGL 3645 | Musical Fictions (3) |
| Over the course of the semester, we will explore the genre of the contemporary musical novel in order to better understand why writers and readers are so intrigued by the figure of the musician as a literary trope. Pairing close listening and music theory with close readings of seminal blues, jazz, reggae, mambo, calypso and rock novels set in the US, UK, Jamaica, Trinidad, France and Germany. | |
| ENGL 3660 | Modern Poetry (3) |
| This course is a survey of modern poetry written in English. 'Make it new,' wrote Ezra Pound, and this course explores the various ways in which modern poets reinvented poetry in the first half of the twentieth century. It examines the signature style and literary contribution of selected anglophone poets, asking how they remade inherited genres, forms, and vocabularies. | |
| ENGL 3665 | Modern Poetry: Rilke, Valéry, and Stevens (3) |
| Studies in the poetry and prose of these three modernist poets, with emphasis on their theories of artistic creation. The original as well as a translation will be made available for Rilke's and Valery's poetry; their prose works will be read in English translation. Course was offered Spring 2024 | |
| ENGL 3671 | Modern Drama I (3) |
| A two-semester survey of European and American modern drama, with some attention to works from other regions. The first half covers the late nineteenth century to World War II; the second focuses on drama from the post-war period to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3672 | Modern Drama II (3) |
| A two-semester survey of European and American modern drama, with some attention to works from other regions. The first half covers the late nineteenth century to World War II; the second focuses on drama from the post-war period to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3701 | American Literature Since 1865 (3) |
| Surveys American literature, both prose and poetry, from the Civil War to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3710 | Literature of the South (3) |
| Analyzes selected works of poetry and prose by major Southern writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3720 | Reading the Black College Campus (3) |
| Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3722 | African-American Literature II (3) |
| Continuation of ENAM 3130, this course begins with the career of Richard Wright and brings the Afro-American literary and performing tradition up to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3723 | Race and Ethnicity in Latinx Literature (3) |
| This course examines the construction of race and ethnicity in Latinx literature by examining key texts by individuals from varying Latinx groups in the US. We will examine how US-American identity shapes Latinx notions of race and how the authors' connections with Latin America and the Caribbean do the same. We will explore from a hemispheric perspective how race and ethnicity are depicted in Latinx literature and culture. | |
| ENGL 3725 | Contemporary Ethnic American Fiction (3) |
| This course introduces students to the growing body of fiction by recent American writers of ethnic and racial minorities. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3730 | American Literature of the Twentieth Century (3) |
| Studies the major poetry and fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| ENGL 3740 | Introduction to Asian American Studies (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 3741 | Asian-American Fiction (3) |
| Studies Asian American literature as a cultural phenomenon and literary tradition, presenting a range of twentieth-century fictions by immigrants or their descendants from India, Pakistan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, and the Philippines. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3744 | Literature of the West (3) |
| Analyzes selected works by writers of the Western United States from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasizes the Anglo-American exploration, settlement, and development of the West, as well as readings from other ethnic groups, including Native and Hispanic Americans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3760 | American Poetry (3) |
| Studies theme and technique in major American poets. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3762 | Major African-American Poets (3) |
| Examines poems representative of the African American literary traditions. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3780 | Faulkner (3) |
| An intensive study of the works of William Faulkner in the contexts of American literature, southern literature, and international modernism. | |
| ENGL 3781 | American Fictions (3) |
| Classic American fiction 1800-1900. Readings vary but may include Cooper, Sedgewick, Stowe, Hawthorn, James, Twain, Chestnutt, Chopin, Dreiser, Crane, Melville | |
| ENGL 3783 | American Short Novel (3) |
| Examines American short novels since 1840 by such authors as Poe, Melville, James, Jewett, Crane, Larsen, Faulkner, Reed, MacLean, Auster, and Chang. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| ENGL 3784 | The Southern Short Story Cycle (3) |
| The short story cycle has been important throughout the history of American literature, but particularly in the South. Readings include Toomer, Porter,Wright, Faulkner, O'Connor, McCullers. | |
| ENGL 3790 | Moving On: Migration in/to US (3) |
| This class examines the history of voluntary, coerced, and forced migration in the U.S., tracing the paths of migrating groups and their impact on urban, suburban, and rural landscapes. We'll dig for cultural clues to changing attitudes about migration over time. Photographs, videos, books, movies, government records, poems, podcasts, paintings, comic strips, museums, manifestos: you name it, we'll analyze it for this class. | |
| ENGL 3791 | American Cinema (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course provides an introduction to film studies through an examination of American film throughout the 20th & 21st centuries. We will learn basic film techniques for visual analysis, and consider the social, economic, and historical forces that have shaped the production, distribution & reception of film in the US Examples will be drawn from various genres: melodrama, horror, sci-fi, musical, Westerns, war films, documentary, animation, etc. Course was offered Spring 2024 |
| ENGL 3800 | Contemporary Literary Theory (3) |
| Introduces some of the most influential schools of contemporary literary theory and criticism. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3815 | Theories of Reading (3) |
| This course has two parts. The first half offers a survey of influential styles of critical reading, including psychoanalysis, structuralism, deconstruction, and several styles of political interpretation. The second half invites students to think theoretically yet sympathetically about affective dimensions of reader response such as identification, empathy, enchantment, and shock. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021 | |
| ENGL 3825 | Desktop Publishing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course covers contemporary literary editing techniques and teaches students how to publish book-length works using modern print and electronic processes. The course may require students to purchase/lease computer software in addition to textbooks. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Summer 2020 |
| ENGL 3840 | Contemporary Disability Theory (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This seminar offers an interdisciplinary approach to disability in the social, cultural, political, artistic, ethical, and medical spheres and their intersections. It also introduces students to critical theory concerned with the rights of the disabled. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2021 |
| ENGL 3900 | Medical Narratives (3) |
| Illness experience and medical practice alike are steeped in stories, narrative being a fundamental way we make sense of self and world (including illness and loss). This course inquires into connections among narrative, literature, and medicine through study of literary and other narratives that address a range of illnesses/conditions, the experience of doctoring, and important issues in contemporary medicine and culture. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3910 | Satire (3) |
| Reading and discussion of major satirical works from classical times to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2021 | |
| ENGL 3915 | Point of View Journalism (3) |
| This course analyzes 'point-of-view' journalism as a controversial but credible alternative to the dominant model of 'objectivity' in the U.S. news media. It will survey point-of-view journalists from Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Jacob Riis in the 19th century to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones in the 21st, as well as 20th-century "New Journalists" like Hunter Thompson and Joan Didion. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ENGL 3920 | The Dark Side of Hollywood: Film Noir (3) |
| Course focuses on directorial and photographic styles, the Expressionist legacy, and varieties of visual coherence in selected films noirs of Forties and Fifties Hollywood. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3922 | Deafness in Literature and Film (3) |
| What does deafness signify, especially in a western society that is centered upon speech? This course the contradictory and telling ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries. The syllabus juxtaposes canonical texts or mainstream films with relatively unknown works by deaf artists | |
| ENGL 3924 | Vietnam War in Literature and Film (3) |
| In the US, "Vietnam" signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong. | |
| ENGL 3926 | America and the Global South in Literature and Film (3) |
| Students in this course will examine and interpret conceptions of America from the point of view of novelists, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars in the Global South. American and Global South landscapes will be a focus of the class, as will images, artifacts, and material culture that reveal Global South views of the United States. | |
| ENGL 3940 | Tutoring Peer Writers (3) |
| Prepares undergraduates to tutor peer writers by introducing them to theories of writing and practices of peer tutoring. Successful completion of the course will qualify students to apply for part-time paid peer tutoring positions in the Writing Center. Students may also use this course to prepare for volunteering as writing tutors in their local communities. Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3960 | The Lyric (3) |
| Studies the major lyrical forms and traditions in Western literature, with particularly close reading of poems written in English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3972 | History of Drama II: Neo-Classicism to Now (3) |
| This course begins in the late seventeenth century, moving from there through the Enlightenment to the highlights of the late nineteenth- and twentieth centuries, ending in the present; topics may include satire, realism, expressionism, surrealism, epic theater, theater of the absurd, film and television. Course was offered Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 3980 | Studies in Short Fiction (3) |
| Analyzes form, technique, and ideas in selected short fiction from various periods in the British, American, and Continental traditions. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3990 | London, The Theatrical City (3) |
| This course explores the theatrical culture of London. Students will attend plays in a variety of genres and will discuss and write about both the history of London theater and the contemporary theatrical scene. | |
| ENGL 3991 | The Culture of London Past and Present (3) |
| The Culture of London: Past and Present" offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in London, it runs for a month each year from early June to early July. Faculty members from the University direct, teach and lead the class; they are complemented by London-based specialists in architecture, art history, religious studies and contemporary politics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 3992 | An Irish Sense of Place: Literature, Language, Music, and the Arts (3) |
| This course will bind a series of Irish texts, musical compositions, works in the visual arts, and ideas about Irish sign language to their original settings or places of creation; our readings will span from the medieval to the contemporary, and we will visit the places we read about, see, and hear about. | |
| ENGL 4270 | Shakespeare Seminar (3) |
| Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 4300 | Gothic Spaces (3) |
| This seminar explores early gothic novels (from /The Castle of Otranto/ to /Frankenstein/) in their contexts of eighteenth-century art, architecture, music, history, politics, religion, and sexuality. | |
| ENGL 4500 | Seminar in English Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Limited enrollment. Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 4510 | Seminar in Medieval Literature (3) |
| Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 4515 | Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (3) |
| Interdisciplinary seminar whose topics vary from year to year. For more information on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023 | |
| ENGL 4520 | Seminar in Renaissance Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples are `Renaissance Word and Image' and `Masks of Desire.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 4530 | Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature (3) |
| Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department w1ebsite at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 4540 | Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature (3) |
| Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 4545 | Seminar in American Literature before 1900 (3) |
| Limited enrollment. Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 4559 | New Course in English Literature (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 | |
| ENGL 4560 | Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 4561 | Seminar in Modern Literature and Culture (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Limited enrollment. An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on the interrelationships between literature and history, the social sciences, philosophy, religion, and the fine arts in the Modern period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 4562 | Seminar in Global English Literature and Culture (3) |
| Limited enrollment. Capstone Seminar for the Global English Literature and Culture Track within the English Major. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| ENGL 4570 | Seminar in American Literature since 1900 (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 4580 | Seminar in Literary Criticism (3) |
| Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 | |
| ENGL 4590 | Seminar in Literary Genres (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 4700 | African-American Women Authors (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 4710 | Fictions of Black Identity (3) |
| This class will examine novels, essays, critical works that address the meanings of blackness in an American context. We will explore the notion that Black identity is a fiction, not necessarily in the sense of falsity, but in its highly mediated, flexible, and variable condition. Among the questions to consider: how does one make and measure Black identity? What is the value of racial masquerade? For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, AAS or English major or minor. | |
| ENGL 4720 | Black Speculative Fiction (3) |
| This course seeks to explore the world of African American 'speculative' fiction. This genre of writing largely includes science fiction, fantasy fiction, and horror. In this class, we will read, watch, and discuss narratives by black writers of speculative fiction to better understand the motivation, tone, and agenda in the work of black writers. We will also consider the role of black culture and representation in the larger field. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, English major or minor, AAS major or minor. | |
| ENGL 4900 | The Bible (3) |
| Analyzes readings in the English Bible. Designed to familiarize or re-familiarize the literary student with the shape, argument, rhetoric, and purposes of the canon; with the persons, events, and perspectives of the major narratives; and with the conventions, techniques, resources, and peculiarities of the texts. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| ENGL 4901 | The Bible Part 1: Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (3) |
| The stories, rhythms, and rhetoric of the Bible have been imprinting readers and writers of English since the 7th century. Moving through selections from the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, this course focuses on deepening biblical literacy and sharpening awareness of biblical connections to readings in other contexts. We will discuss translations of the Bible; canonization; textual history; and interpretive approaches, ancient to contemporary. | |
| ENGL 4902 | The Bible Part 2: The New Testament (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Moving through much of the New Testament, from the Gospels to Revelation, this course focuses on deepening biblical literacy and sharpening awareness of biblical connections to whatever members of the class are reading in other contexts. Along the way we will discuss translations; textual history; and interpretations, ancient to contemporary. No previous knowledge of the Bible is needed or assumed. Can be taken before or after Part 1. |
| ENGL 4993 | Independent Study (1 - 4) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: third year, fourth year, English major or minor, AAS major or minor. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ENGL 4994 | Modern Literature and Culture Independent Study (3) |
| This course will give students in the Modern Literature and Culture program the chance to pursue a 25-page independent study to consolidate their academic interests. Working one-on-one with an English faculty member, students must develop a compelling proposal and reading list and produce a rigorous scholarly exploration of their topic. Prerequisite: Approval by the director of the Modern Studies Program & by an English department faculty member who agrees to direct the project. | |
| ENGL 4998 | Distinguished Majors Program (3) |
| Directed research leading to completion of an extended essay to be submitted to the Honors Committee. Both ENGL 4998 and 4999 are required of honors candidates. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 4999 | Distinguished Majors Program (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Directed research leading to completion of an extended essay to be submitted to the Honors Committee. Both courses are required of honors candidates. Graded on a year-long basis. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENGL 5060 | The Sonnet Revised and Revisited (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course considers the power and possibilities (and transformations) of the sonnet form from the 16th century until the present day. Please see english.as.virginia.edu/courses for more information. Course was offered Spring 2023 |
| ENGL 5100 | Introduction to Old English (3) |
| Studies the Old English language and the literature of early Medieval England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://english.as.virginia.edu/. | |
| ENGL 5101 | Beowulf (3) |
| Reading of the poem, emphasizing critical methods and exploring its relations to the culture of early Medieval England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://english.as.virginia.edu/. Prerequisite: ENGL 5100 or equivalent. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 5110 | Old Icelandic (3) |
| Introduces the language and literature of medieval Scandinavia; readings from the Poetic Edda and the sagas. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 5190 | The Bible (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | In this graduate-level seminar, we'll read selections from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, from Genesis to Revelation. This course focuses on deepening biblical literacy and sharpening awareness of biblical connections to readings in other contexts. Along the way we will discuss English translations of the Bible; the process of canonization; textual history; and the long trail of interpretive approaches, ancient to contemporary. |
| ENGL 5500 | Special Topics in English Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A graduate-level seminar in English literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu. |
| ENGL 5510 | Seminar in Medieval Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A graduate-level seminar in Medieval literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu. |
| ENGL 5530 | Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A graduate-level seminar in Eighteenth-Century literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu. Course was offered Spring 2024 |
| ENGL 5559 | New Course in English Literature (1 - 4) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 5560 | Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature (3) |
| A graduate-level seminar in Modern and Contemporary literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ENGL 5580 | Seminar in Critical Theory (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A graduate-level seminar in Critical Theory. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024 |
| ENGL 5700 | Contemporary African-American Literature (3) |
| This course for advanced undergraduates and master's-level graduate students surveys African-American literature today. Assignments include works by Evreett, Edward Jones, Tayari Jones, Evans, Ward, Rabateau, and Morrison | |
| ENGL 5800 | History of Literary Criticism (3) |
| In this course we pursue two lines of argument at once: we read a judicious selection of the canonical primary and secondary works in the history of literary criticism from Plato to the mid-twentieth century; and we learn how to identify in a principled way a specific 'pluralism' of philosophic methods variously constituting these texts. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 5805 | What is Postcolonial Critique? (3) |
| What is postcolonial critique? Is it a way of reading a text? Does it refer to the processes of historical decolonization in places like Africa, India, and the Caribbean? Or is it a practice of critical thought that can be used to think across multiple spaces and times? In this course, we will approach these questions by reading a wide range of writers including Gayatri Spivak, Edouard Glissant, Achille Mbembe, Susan Buck-Morss, and C.L.R. James. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2023 | |
| ENGL 5810 | Books as Physical Objects (3) |
| Surveys bookmaking over the past five centuries. Emphasizes analysis and description of physical features and consideration of how a text is affected by the physical conditions of its production. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 5820 | Literary Journal Editing (3) |
| An introduction to editing in which students use desktop publishing software to design a magazine or book, and print-on-demand to generate a final print project. They also write book reviews, screen manuscripts, and assist in the production of Meridian, a literary journal. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. | |
| ENGL 5830 | Introduction to World Religions, World Literatures (3) |
| An interdisciplinary course that includes the following elements: studies in the textual traditions of particular religions; studies in literary theory; studies in literary traditions; the application of literary theory to studies in religious text traditions; and the application of the history of religions to the study of literary canons. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019 | |
| ENGL 5831 | Proseminar in World Religions, World Literature (1) |
| This monthly seminar explores methods and issues vital to the combined study of literatures and religions. It brings all MA students together, under faculty guidance, to attend to the broad range of individual projects and to foster a rich conversation that traverses the emergent field of study. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018 | |
| ENGL 5900 | Literature Pedagogy Seminar (3) |
| This course offers future elementary, middle, and high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K12 teaching. | |
| ENGL 5910 | Film Aesthetics (3) |
| Studies film as a work of art produced by cinematic skills and valued for what it is in itself. Emphasizes major theoretical works and analyzing individual films. Studies films with reference to the techniques and methods that produce the 'aesthetic effect' style, and the problems of authorship arising out of considerations of style and aesthetic unity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 5921 | The Cultural History of London (4) |
| The Cultural History of London offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in the city that it names, the program runs for a month each year from early June to early July. | |
| ENGL 5930 | Literature and the Film (3) |
| Studies the relationship between the two media, emphasizing the literary origins and backgrounds of film, verbal and visual languages, and the problems of adaptation from novels and short stories to film. Seven to nine novels (or plays) are read and analyzed with regard to film adaptations of these works. Film screenings two to two and one half hours per week outside of class. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 6500 | Topics in English (for teachers) (1) |
| Courses in subject areas of relevant to middle and high school English teachers, each meant to provide such teachers with a sense of the state of the sub-field, with a focus on the central authors, texts, and approaches, and on challenges that might face a first-time teacher of the particular subject area. | |
| ENGL 8005 | Intro to the Environmental Humanities (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introduces the questions, methods, and arguments that organize work in the environmental humanities. The seminar's primary objective is to advance graduate student capacities to use skills, knowledge, and archives of the humanities to advance pluralist, integrated understandings of environmental issues. In support of that purpose, the seminar develops critical reflection on methodological questions in collaboration, and public engagement. Course was offered Spring 2024 |
| ENGL 8100 | Mapping the Middle Ages (3) |
| Surveys literature, art, and culture in Western Europe from late Antiquity to the invention of printing, using a selection of major literary texts as a focal point. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8110 | Medieval Transitions to the Renaissance (3) |
| For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.English and Scottish literature from Chaucer to the sixteenth century. | |
| ENGL 8160 | Chaucer (3) |
| Studies The Canterbury Tales and their backgrounds. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8260 | Renaissance Poetry (3) |
| Studies the theory and practice of lyric and epic poetry in 16th-century England, with some brief glances at other forms: romance, epyllion, and verse essay. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8262 | Spenser (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies The Faerie Queene and other works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 8270 | Renaissance Drama (3) |
| Surveys English drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| ENGL 8330 | Early American Literature (3) |
| Surveys American literature to 1840 designed to introduce the literature of the Colonial and early National periods, and to examine the intellectual and literary backgrounds of nineteenth-century American literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2020 | |
| ENGL 8370 | Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama (3) |
| Studies the British theater from 1660 to 1800, including works by writers such as Wycherley, Behn, Congreve, Dryden, Centlivre, Steele, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8380 | Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction (3) |
| Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8400 | The Romantic Period (3) |
| The poetry and prose of the Romantic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8440 | Early African American Literature (3) |
| Surveys pivotal moments and texts in the history of African-American prose, from 1760, the date of Briton Hammon's Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings to 1903, the year of W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8462 | American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century (3) |
| Studies selected poets of the century, their media, their audiences, and their reputations. Coverage will be broad, with some emphasis on Bryant, Longfellow, Lowell, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, and Crane. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8500 | Studies in English Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses. |
| ENGL 8510 | Studies in Medieval Literature (3) |
| Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| ENGL 8520 | Studies in Renaissance Literature (3) |
| New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature | |
| ENGL 8527 | Studies in Shakespeare (3) |
| Topics vary annually. Recent examples are `Shakespeare's Histories and Roman Plays" and `Reinventing Shakespeare'. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| ENGL 8530 | Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature (3) |
| Studies vary and recently include 'From Classic to Romantic' and 'Eighteenth-Century Poetry.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| ENGL 8540 | Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 |
| ENGL 8559 | New Course in English Literature (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8560 | Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Studies vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 8570 | Studies in American Literature (3) |
| Topics vary from year to year. For more details please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8580 | Studies in Critical Theory (3) |
| Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8596 | Form and Theory of Poetry (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of poetic works. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 8598 | Form and Theory of Fiction (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course provides a practitioner's perspective on a selection of works of fiction. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 |
| ENGL 8800 | Introduction to Literary Research (3) |
| Introduces UVa's research resources and the needs and opportunities for their use. The library and its holdings are explored through a series of practical problems drawn from a wide range of literary subjects and periods. Required of all degree candidates in the M.A. and Ph.D. programs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8810 | Criticism in Theory and Practice (3) |
| Studies critical theories and the kinds of practical criticism to which they lead. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2023 | |
| ENGL 8820 | Critical Methods (3) |
| 'Critical method' is the point at which general philosophical or political claims intersect with specific techniques of interpretation. The aim of this course is to give students a thorough introduction to current debates in the methodology of literary and cultural studies in ways that will aid their own future thinking and writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8830 | Feminist Theory (3) |
| An introduction to American feminist theory its major concerns, historical development, array of methodologies, and formative debates. Divergent theoretical and critical texts on gender/sexuality are juxtaposed with primary materials ranging from early novels to contemporary movies. Likely topics include queer theory, transnational feminism, feminist cultural studies, the gendering of race, and feminist approaches to film. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8832 | Contemporary Disability Theory (3) |
| In the last several decades, thinking about people with physical, cognitive, and sensory differences has moved from a mostly pathological medical-based understanding to a more rights-based framework. In this course we will consider how conceptions of disability have changed and how these theories relate to the depiction of disabled people in literature. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| ENGL 8840 | Aesthetics and Politics (3) |
| This course explores the various ways in which art and politics have been seen as synonymous or separate ('the autonomy of art'). It includes a survey of key concepts and terms in the history of modern literature and the visual arts. | |
| ENGL 8900 | Writing Pedagogy Seminar (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course prepares first year doctoral students for the teaching they will do here at UVa in both literature classes and the writing program. Covers topics such as classroom management, leading discussion, grading papers. Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 8920 | Literature Surveys (3) |
| Weekly workshops with faculty and teaching staff of the 3000-level lecture courses, ENGL 3810, ENGL 3820 and ENGL 3830 and ENRN 3210 and ENRN 3220. Second-year Ph.D. students in English enroll in this course once during the semester in which they lead a discussion section of a lecture course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8960 | The Lyric Genre (3) |
| Surveys English lyric poems from Chaucer to Auden; designed to isolate what is lyrical (i.e., unprosaic, musical, aesthetic, reflexive, egotistical, or sublime) in this body of literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 8993 | Independent Study (1 - 3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A single semester of independent study under faculty supervision for MA or PhD students in English doing intensive research on a subject not covered in the usual courses. Requires approval by a faculty member who has agreed to supervise a guided course of reading and substantial written exercise, a detailed outline of the research project, and authorization by the Director of Graduate Studies in English. Only one may be offered for Ph.D credit. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENGL 8998 | M.A. Thesis (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | M.A. students in English may choose to write a substantial thesis directed by a faculty member. Students opting for a thesis should draw up a proposal and secure a director to supervise the project. Students choose between a critical thesis of 10,000-15,000 words and a pedagogical thesis (described on our website). Students enroll in this three-credit course for a single semester, either fall or spring; it is not available during the summer. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENGL 8999 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their M.A. oral examination and proceed with their M.A. research. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/graduate/current. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENGL 9510 | Advanced Studies in Medieval Literature (3) |
| Limited enrollment. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9520 | Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature (3) |
| Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature | |
| ENGL 9530 | Advanced Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature I, II (3) |
| Topics vary, focusing on a theme, genre, or group of writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9540 | Advanced Studies in Romanticism I, II (3) |
| Intensive study of one or two writers, e.g., Blake and Wordsworth, Keats and Byron. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2019 | |
| ENGL 9542 | Advanced Studies Nineteenth-Century (3) |
| Topics have included Victorian discursive prose and intensive study of Shelley and Tennyson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2023, Fall 2022 | |
| ENGL 9545 | Advanced Studies in American Literature before 1900 (3) |
| Variable topics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2021 | |
| ENGL 9559 | New Course in English Literature (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9560 | Advanced Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature (3) |
| Topics have included Postmodern Fiction and Theory, Faulkner, Women and Cultures of Modernism, Yeats and Joyce, Modernism and the Invention of Homosexuality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9580 | Advanced Studies in Critical Theory (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Topics vary from year to year. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 |
| ENGL 9590 | Advanced Studies in Literary Genres I, II (3) |
| Topics range from comedy as an art form to a study of various approaches to the novel. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9710 | Woodson Institute Fellows Pre- and Post-Doctoral Research (12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This is a supervised research course without formal classroom instruction. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENGL 9800 | Introduction to Textual Criticism and Scholarly Editing (3) |
| Studies the transmission of texts over the past five centuries and examines theories and techniques of editing literary and non-literary texts, both published and unpublished. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9900 | Teaching Literature Practicum (3) |
| A course introducing graduate students to practical skills and strategies for teaching college level literature courses across all periods and genres. In-class observations will be combined with hands-on work related to syllabus design, grading, discussion leading, classroom management, etc. | |
| ENGL 9905 | Internship Colloquium (1) |
| This course is designed to support you as you complete your internship and to help you apply the knowledge gained towards your professional development. Meetings throughout the semester will cover transferable skills, the writing of a reflection essay for PhD Plus, meetings with the departmental job placement coach, and more. Course was offered Fall 2020 | |
| ENGL 9910 | Research in Medieval Studies (3) |
| The Renaissance in England. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9920 | Research in the Renaissance (3) |
| Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9930 | Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century (3) |
| Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9970 | Research in American Literature (3) |
| Modern and Contemporary Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENGL 9995 | Dissertation Seminar (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Required of students in the Department's PhD program who are at or near the beginning of the dissertation writing process. Addresses the problems encountered by students as they begin to tackle the dissertation. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENGL 9998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Students taking this course are expected to prepare for their preliminary qualifying oral examinations for the doctorate. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENGL 9999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| Writing and Rhetoric | |
| ENWR 1501 | Writing-Edge (1 - 6) |
| These writing classes are for students in the UVA Edge program. They help students develop critical writing skills for academia, the workplace and life. See https://edge.virginia.edu/ for details. | |
| ENWR 1505 | Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch I (3) |
| Part I of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://professionalwriting.as.virginia.edu/requirements. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search. | |
| ENWR 1506 | Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch II (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Part II of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Prerequisite: ENWR 1505. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENWR 1507 | Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch I for Multilingual Writers (3) |
| Part I of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search. | |
| ENWR 1508 | Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch II for Multilingual Writers (3) |
| Part II of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Prerequisite: ENWR 1505 Course was offered Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ENWR 1510 | Writing and Critical Inquiry (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | The single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names start in A-K must take ENWR 1510 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENWR 1520 | Writing and Critical Inquiry: Community Engagement (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Requires off-grounds work with local non-profits. A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names end in A-K must satisfy the first writing requirement in the fall; those with last names ending in L-Z in the spring. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019 |
| ENWR 1530 | Writing & Critical Inquiry Lecture (3) |
| The single-semester lecture option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names start in A-K must take ENWR 1510, 1520, or 1530 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring. | |
| ENWR 1559 | New Course in Writing and Rhetoric (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Spring 2018, Fall 2009 | |
| ENWR 2377 | Rebuilding (and Expanding) Democracy: A Workshop With Global Advocates (3) |
| This course will enable students to gain fluency in linking their academic writing to public debates. In particular, the course will investigate the status of democracy as both a concept and set of participatory practices, asking students to consider how their education might support a robust democratic sphere. Students will engage with global democratic advocates (via Zoom) as well as a democratic organizing skills workshop. Course was offered January 2023 | |
| ENWR 2510 | Advanced Writing Seminar (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Enrollment limited to students meeting benchmarks determined by the Writing Program. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017 |
| ENWR 2520 | Special Topics in Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Includes courses on writing studies, corporate communications, and digital writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Completion of first writing requirement. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, January 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| ENWR 2550 | Topics in Digital Writing and Rhetoric (3) |
| Offers a changing selection of writing and rhetoric courses focusing on rhetoric and composition in digital platforms. | |
| ENWR 2559 | New Course in Writing and Rhetoric (3) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENWR 2610 | Writing with Style (3) |
| Develops an understanding of the wide range of stylistic moves in prose writing, their uses, and implications. Students build a rich vocabulary for describing stylistic decisions, imitate and analyze exemplary writing, and discuss each others writing in a workshop setting. Course was offered Summer 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016 | |
| ENWR 2620 | Reviewing Popular Culture (3) |
| A writing workshop that focuses on critical approaches to popular culture. Students will read, analyze, and write a variety of critical essays on pop culture artifacts. Course was offered Spring 2019 | |
| ENWR 2630 | Writing About Work (3) |
| We will use inquiry-based writing to explore the role that work plays in the good life. We'll critically analyze how and why we write about work to refresh our thinking about real-world experiences both familiar and unfamiliar to us. We will develop as writers by generating and exploring complicated questions. Why do we do the things that we do? What work do we value, and how do we communicate that? Course was offered Fall 2017 | |
| ENWR 2640 | Writing as Technology (3) |
| Course explores historical, theoretical, and practical conceptions of writing as technology. We study various writing systems, the relation of writing to speaking and visual media, and the development of writing technologies, e.g., printing presses, typewriters, hypertext, text messaging, and artificial intelligence. Students produce academic and personal essays but will also experiment creatively with different technologies and media. | |
| ENWR 2700 | News Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Introductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ENWR 2800 | Public Speaking (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | An inquiry-based approach to the development of a confident, engaging, and ethical public speaking style. Beyond practical skills, this course emphasizes rhetorical thinking: what are the conventions of public speaking? Where are there opportunities to deviate from convention in ways that might serve a speech's purpose? How might we construct an audience through the ways we craft language and plan the delivery of our speech? Course was offered Fall 2024, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018 |
| ENWR 3500 | Topics in Advanced Writing & Rhetoric (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course provides the opportunity to offer a new, advanced topic in the subject area of writing and rhetoric. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered January 2025, Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2016 |
| ENWR 3550 | Advanced Topics in Digital Writing and Rhetoric (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Offers a changing selection of writing and rhetoric courses focusing on rhetoric and composition in digital platforms. Course was offered Spring 2022 |
| ENWR 3559 | New Course in Writing and Rhetoric (1 - 4) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Course was offered January 2025, January 2024, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, January 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, January 2014, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| ENWR 3620 | Writing & Tutoring Across Cultures (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | In this course, we'll look at a variety of texts from academic arguments, narratives, and pedagogies, to consider what it means to write, communicate, and learn across cultures. Topics will include contrastive rhetorics, world Englishes, rhetorical listening, and tutoring multilingual writers. A service learning component will require students to volunteer weekly in the community. |
| ENWR 3630 | Rewriting Yourself: Studies in Literacy and the Brain (3) |
| In this reading- and writing-intensive course, we engage a range of work on literacy and cognition, including technical treatments of issues such as neural development and brain connected to literacy tasks. We read extensive peer-reviewed work from neurologists and cognitive scientists, creativity experts, mental health practitioners, and professional writers and editors, all trying to understand the relationship between literacy and our minds. | |
| ENWR 3640 | Writing with Sound (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course trains students to become attuned, thoughtful listeners and sonic composers. In addition to discussing key works on sound from fields such as rhetoric and composition, sound studies, and journalism, we will experiment with the possibilities of sound as a valuable form of writing and storytelling. Students will learn how to use digital audio editing tools, platforms, and techniques for designing and producing sonic projects. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016 |
| ENWR 3660 | Travel Writing (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | This course will explore travel writing using a variety of texts, including essays, memoirs, blogs, photo essays, and narratives. We will examine cultural representations of travel as well as the ethical implications of tourism. Students will have the opportunity to write about their own travel experiences, and we will also embark on "local travel" of our own. Course was offered Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 |
| ENWR 3665 | Writing about the Environment (3) |
| This course focuses on creating meaningful, responsible, and engaged writing in the context of significant environmental issues. Analysis of representative environmental texts, familiarity with environmental concepts, examination of ethical positions in private and public spheres of writing, and sustained practice with form, style, medium, and genre will drive a variety of writing projects. | |
| ENWR 3700 | Intermediate News Writing (3) |
| Writing news and feature stories for magazines and newspapers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: ENWR 270 or instructor permission. | |
| ENWR 3710 | News Magazine Writing (3) |
| A course in weekly news magazine writing. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. | |
| ENWR 3730 | African American Rhetorics (3) |
| An in-depth study of African American political speeches, letters, sermons, essays, and book-length texts that examines the debates, strategies, styles, and persuasive practices employed by African Americans in dialogue with the larger nation and among themselves. Course was offered Fall 2021 | |
| ENWR 3740 | Black Women's Writing & Rhetoric (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | A chronological survey of the persuasive communication and writing strategies Black women have used towards the project of empowerment and activism in speeches, essays, poetry, drama, and novels. Course was offered Spring 2023 |
| ENWR 3750 | Rhetoric, Propaganda, and Conspiracy Theories (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Political propaganda often persuades through conspiracy theories that create suspicion and fear. This course examines the rhetorical strategies of conspiracy-driven propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. By examining the arguments, evidence, images, myths, and tropes that animate propaganda and conspiracy theories, we will identify how they are circulated to inflame our emotions, exploit our prejudices, and bias our decision-making. Course was offered Fall 2022 |
| ENWR 3760 | Studies in Cultural Rhetoric (3) |
| An introduction to critical frameworks and methods for exploring how rhetorics construct, preserve, and augment social understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, class and more. Areas of focus may include: cultural practices of writing, digital rhetorics, performance, popular culture, material rhetorics, visual rhetorics, race and ethnicity. Specific themes and topics may vary. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ENWR 3800 | Academic and Professional Writing (3) |
| Prepares students for professional or advanced academic writing; also prepares students to manage (assign, edit, supervise, and coach) the writing of others. Lectures present principles based on research in writing studies; seminars allow students to master those principles in the context of projects keyed to their specific interests and career plans. Meets second writing requirement. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENWR 3810 | Making Books: Introduction to Book Editing and Publishing (3) |
| Students in Making Books (ENWR 3810) will gain a broad view of book editing and publishing in the 21st century, as well as hands-on experience with developmental, substantive, and copy editing. Appropriate for aspiring publishing professionals, but also for anyone who simply wants to better understand the often-hidden lives of books-in-progress, or to take their writing skills to a new level. | |
| ENWR 3900 | Career-Based Writing and Rhetoric (3) |
| Offered Spring 2025 | Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 |
| ENWR 4559 | New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing (3) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |
| ENWR 5559 | New Course in Academic, Professional, and Creative Writing (1 - 3) |
| This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. | |