ENGL 5114: Creative Writing and Research Capstone

Instructor: Machado TR 3:30 PM – 4:50 PM In this capstone course, students will learn to incorporate research into a semester-long creative project (a series of poems, a…

ENGL 3159: Writing with AI

Instructor: Powell MW 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM Hybrid Generative artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, has the potential to drastically change the way we create content, including text,…

ENGL 7066: Approaches to Diaspora Studies: Literature of the Black Atlantic

Instructor: Boutelle T 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (1993) fundamentally changed the way we think about African American literature. Whereas…

ENGL 7137: Approaches to Early Modern Studies- Ambivalence

Instructor: Huh R 2:00 PM – 4:50 PM The term “ambivalence” was coined in the early 20th century to describe a psychological disorder descriptive of individuals who confront…

English 3189: Critical Writing Workshop

Instructor: Micciche MWF Hybrid 3:35 PM 4:30 PM Looking for a chance to refine your expository, argumentative, or analytical writing skills? This course will give you a chance…

ENGL 9011: Academic Job Market Preparation

Instructor: Micciche R Online/Synchronous 4:40 PM – 7:30 PM Our goals for the Academic Job Market Preparation seminar include considering potential professional pathways (both traditional and non-traditional) for…

INTR 5001: Interdisciplinary Capstone

001 Instructor: Beckelhimer  Online/ASYN  002 Instructor: Campagna  Online/ASYN 003 Instructor: Griffith  Online/ASYN 004 Instructor: Logan Online/ASYN (Tentative) Students will propose, develop, and complete an independent interdisciplinary capstone project….

ENGL 2026: Intro to Disability Lit

Instructor: Cole ASYNC Disability Studies began as an academic field in the latter 20th century in response to activist challenges to legal and social limitations imposed on people…

INTR 1001: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies

Instructor: Brolley Online/ASYNC This course is intended to introduce students to interdisciplinary thinking: what it is, how it is studied, how we apply it to various questions and…

INTR 3001: Interdisciplinary Research

Instructor: Brolley Online/ASYN This course will introduce students to the essentials of interdisciplinary research. The course emphasizes the problem-centered nature of interdisciplinary studies; the history and development of…

ENGL 7140: History of Composition Studies

Instructor: LaVecchia                  M   9:30 AM – 12:20 PM History of Composition Studies will explore multiple narratives framing the growth and…

ENGL 2159: Intro to Rhetoric and Professional Writing

Instructor: Section 001- Cook Online/ASYN Section 002- MW 10:10AM-11:05AM HYBR This course, required for English majors in the Rhetoric and Professional writing track, answers the oft-asked question “What can…

ENGL 2080: Ethnic Literatures of the United States: American Families

Instructor: Boutelle TR 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM In this survey of U.S. Ethnic Literature, we’ll be reading contemporary novels and autobiographies from racialized immigrants, migrants, and natural-born…

ENGL 7104: Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theory

Instructor: Weissman R 9:30 AM – 12:20 PM This course provides an introduction to the many literary and critical theories that have shaped central and contemporary conversations about…

ENGL 5029/PWRT 6029: Creating Accessible Content

Instructor: Anderson | W 4:40 PM – 7:30 PM Did you know that 1 in 4—over 70 million—adults in the United States reported having a disability?  We often…

ENGL 5112: Fiction Capstone

Instructor: Griffith TR 2:00 PM- 3:20 PM Students write, read, and critique fiction at an advanced level, analyzing the various elements of fiction as those elements interact in…

ENGL 3097: Book Arts

Instructor: Weissman & ProchaskaW 12:30 3:20 PM In this lively and intimate course, which meets in Langsam Library and enrolls just a dozen students, you will create books…

Honors ENGL 3002: Serials 

Instructor: Andersen | MWF    2:30 PM – 3:25 PM Below is my course description for ENGL 3002. The full title for that class is “From Serial Reading to…

ENGL 2193: Introduction to Environmental Writing

Instructor: Hyland TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM Service Learning This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and practices of writing on topics related to environmental issues…

ENGL 2074: Social Media and Society

Instructor: Powell MW 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM HYBRIDService Learning Learning to use social media effectively is essential to being a productive professional and informed member of society…

ENGL 2093: Cross-Cultural Communication

Instructor: Cheng Thursday 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM HYBRID This course teaches the theory and practice of cross-cultural communication and explores the social, cultural, economic, and educational implications…

ENGL 2073: Writing for Justice

Instructor: Hyland TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AMService Learning This course introduces students to the varieties, strategies, and ethics of public discourse. After reviewing foundational rhetorical and discursive…

ENGL 2184: Comics and Graphic Novels

Instructor: HennesseyMWF 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud argues that “Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be…

ENGL 2100: Ways of Reading Literature

001 Instructor: Andersen MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM002 Instructor: Hogeland TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM This course explores ways of experiencing, analyzing, and making sense of…

ENGL 2070: Desktop Publishing

Instructor: Kemp TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM Every professional must communicate, and design is a fundamental component of today’s communication. The wide availability of digital tools and…

ENGL 2028: Theater and Performance Studies (Melodrama)

Instructor: Andersen   MWF  10:10 AM – 11:05 AM Nineteenth-century melodrama combined music, spectacle, intense emotions, and sweeping gestures to stage sensational stories that pit ordinary heroes against powerful villains. Due…

ENGL 2004: Intro to Copyediting and Publishing

Instructor: D’Orazio MW 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM HYBR Copyeditors are not the stars of the show when it comes to writing and publishing, but the glow of…

ENGL 5095: Professional Writing Capstone

Instructor: Wilson & Powell T 4:40 PM – 7:30 PM Service Learning The capstone course is required for students completing the Rhetoric and Professional Writing track in the…

ENGL 2161: Black Women Writers

Instructor: Savannah TR 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM This course explores the work of Zora Neale Hurston and Alice Walker and their contributions to Black women’s literary traditions….

ENGL 2047: Introduction to Linguistics

Instructor: Leech MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles in the study of linguistics. Students will study the…

ENGL 3046: Modern English Grammar

Instructor: LaVecchia T 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM Hybrid This course is designed to make learning grammar interesting and even enjoyable. The main purpose of this class is…

ENGL 7074: Visual Rhetoric in Composition Studies

Instructor: Carter Thursday 5:00 PM-07:50 PM This course addresses the communicative power of images. Class participants examine photography, film, sketch artistry, image-driven protest, designed space, and various forms…

ENGL 4100: LCS Capstone: Contemporary America in Fiction and Film

Instructor: Schiff TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM A seminar focused on depictions of contemporary America in novels, short stories, and films. We will likely read fiction by…

ENGL 3125: Introduction to Critical Theory

Instructor: HuhTR 12:30 1:50 PM While we often discuss literature in terms of appreciation (e.g. “I hate that book!” or “That’s my favorite novel!”), the analysis of literature…

ENGL 3096: Creative Writing and Literary Publishing

Instructor: Beymer TR 9:30 – 10:50 AM Students in this course will develop practical, hands-on skills related to editing, producing, and promoting the online literary magazine Short Vine, the…

ENGL 3079: Creative Writing and the Environment

Instructor: Zamora TR 9:30-10:50AM Humans have a deep and complex relationship with the Earth. We are natural beings living in a natural world. Our relationship with the natural…

ENGL 2135: Survey of English Literature II

Instructor: Carlson TR 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM Writing, Picturing, and the Shock of the New The best writers reimagine the world we think we know; they help…

ENGL 2000: Digital Composing

 Instructor: Muranaka MWF 9:05 AM – 10:00 AM How has the digital turn transformed our composing habits? On a daily basis, you’re likely inundated with information – from…

PWRT 7043: Science and Health Writing

Instructor: Anderson     T   4:40 PM – 7:30 PM Are you interested in gravitational waves, space archaeology, or climate change? Or maybe superbugs, gene editing, or neuroscience…

ENGL 3055: Creative Writing from Real Life

Instructor: Beckerman WF 2:00PM – 3:20 PM Life experience is the raw material for the writer of fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry, and writers are continually observing and…

ENGL 3062: Writing in Behavioral Sciences

001 Instructor: Kemp    TR 11:00 AM 12:20 PM   Service Learning 002 Instructor: Hyland    TR 12:30 PM 1:50 PM   Service Learning Behavioral scientists depend on…

ENGL 3049: Creative Writing and Social Change

Instructor: Noehre MWF 11:15 AM – 12:10 PM In recent years, continuous police killings of Black Americans, mass incarceration, and catastrophes abroad in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Afghanistan,…

ENGL 2017: Introduction to Poetry

Instructor: Hernandez Morgan MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM In this course, students will develop their identities as writers and readers of poetry. Taking an exploratory approach, students…

ENGL 3069: Web Authoring

Instructor: Kemp TR 12:30 PM 1:50 PM Service Learning   Students will create tools for evaluating web materials; they will study the theory behind web authoring to help build…

ENGL 2067: Topics in Film: Star Wars

Instructor: Leech MWF 10:10 AM – 11:05 AM In 1977, the film Star Wars (subtitled as A New Hope) changed the film industry and the structure of film…

ENGL 2022: World Literature II

Instructor: Hennessey MWF 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM This course is a comparative study of literature from Africa, the Americas, Asia as well as Europe. The class will…

ENGL 5124/PWRT 6024: Editing Professional Documents

Instructor: Cook TR 2:00 PM 3:20 PM Would you like to learn about the different types of editing out there and what each entails? Would you like to…

ENGL 3030: Writing the Love Poem

Instructor: Savannah TR 2:00 PM 3:20 PM In this course, students will read and analyze poetic and critical works on or about love, acquiring knowledge of the literary…

ENGL 3034: Audiopoetics

Instructor: Hennessey MWF 12:20 PM – 1:15 PM This workshop will explore the influence of media, technology, and performance as generative tools within the poetic process, and explore…

ENGL 5123/PWRT 6023: Grant and Proposal Writing

Instructor: Cheng M 4:40 PM – 7:30 PM Service Learning Students will learn about the genre and process of writing grants and proposals. They will be introduced to…

ENGL 7084: Forms of Literary Nonfiction

Instructor: Iversen        W   12:30 PM – 3:20 PM Read and write the Lyric Essay, Narrative Nonfiction, and Hybrid Form. And have fun doing it.

ENGL 7017: Graduate Poetry Workshop

 Instructor: Lindenberg T 12:30 PM – 3:20 PM Our workshopping will focus on full-length poetic or hybrid manuscripts. Each artist will workshop one full-length manuscript and various individual…

ENGL 7011: Graduate Fiction Workshop

Instructor: Bachelder M  11:00 AM – 1:50 PM This fiction-writing workshop will usually focus on short stories, occasionally on novels in progress, with the aim of producing publishable…

ENGL 4092: Technical & Scientific Writing

001 Instructor: Allison   TR 11:00 AM 12:20 PM002 Instructor: Allison   TR 12:30 PM 1:50 PM003 Instructor: TBA  online ASYNC004 Instructor: TBA  online ASYNC005 Instructor: TBA  online ASYNC006 Instructor:…

ENGL 4091: Writing for Business

001 Instructor: Kissling | Online ASYNC 002 Instructor: Kissling | Online ASYNC 003 Instructor: Kissling | Online ASYNC If you want to feel more comfortable meeting the writing…

ENGL 2013: Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

Instructor: Iversen ASYNC Students will be introduced to key concepts and techniques of creative nonfiction writing, studying the genre from a writerly perspective, and develop skills needed in…

ENGL 2005: Topics in Writing Studies- The Language of Sports

Instructor: Ochs-NadererTR 2:00 PM – 3:20 PM How do we speak and write about sports, and why does it matter? In this course, we will delve into the…

ENGL 2003: The Magic of Harry Potter

Instructor: Heller TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM In this course we will read the Harry Potter novels to examine their major themes and to explore why the…

ENGL 2008: Survey of American Literature II

Instructor: OziasTR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM  Learning Community This course surveys the second half of the American literature, from 1900 to the present, emphasizing major literary figures,…

ENGL 3086: Forms of Fiction

Instructor: Griffith TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM The first aim of this class is to build the vocabulary and knowledge students need to read like writers. The…

ENGL 3033: Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry

Instructor: Zamora TR 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM Storytelling is at the heart of our humanity. Prose poetry and flash remind us storytelling and poetry are simultaneous acts,…

ENGL 2011: Intro to Fiction

001 Instructor: Galef  MWF  11:15 AM – 12:20 PM002 Instructor: Simas TR   9:30 AM – 10:50 AM 001: This is a fast-paced introductory course in reading and writing…

ENGL 2010: Introduction to Poetry & Prose

Instructor: GarzaTR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM This course will provide an introduction to writing and critiquing poetry and prose, an exposure to and appreciation for a variety…

ENGL 3076: Writing with Style

001 Instructor: Hammond   MWF   10:10 AM – 11:05 AM 002 Instructor: Griegel-McCord TR 12:30 PM 1:50 PM In this class, we will explore how style works to…

ENGL 3090: Literature & Medicine

Instructor: Reutter ASYNC As individuals, members of communities, and citizens of nations and the world, our health and well-being depend on personal, social, financial, and cultural situations; medical…

ENGL 3006: Introduction to Shakespeare

Instructor: Leech | MWF 1:25 PM – 2:20 PM Centuries after his death, Shakespeare is still studied, performed, filmed, and adapted by artists all over the world. Shakespeare’s…