Literature Courses

Visit the 2024-2025 Catalog to find descriptions for each course.

Lower Division Courses

  • ENGL 50 Beginnings to the "American" Experiment
  • ENGL 60 Literatures of the Atlantic World, 1680-1860
  • ENGL 70 Emerging Modernisms and Beyond

Upper Division Courses

  • ENGL 112A Children's Literature
  • ENGL 112B Literature for Young Adults
  • ENGL 113 Gothic and Horror Fiction
  • ENGL 115 The Bible as Literature
  • ENGL 116 Myth in Literature
  • ENGL 117A American Literature, Film, and Culture
  • ENGL 117B Global Film, Literature, and Cultures
  • ENGL 121 Introduction to Comparative Literature
  • ENGL 122 Topics in Comparative World Literature
  • ENGL 123A Literature for Global Understanding, the Americas
  • ENGL 123B Literature for Global Understanding, Africa
  • ENGL 123C Literature for Global Understanding, Oceania
  • ENGL 123D Literature for Global Understanding, Asia
  • ENGL 125 European Literature: Homer to Dante
  • ENGL 126 Holocaust Literature
  • ENGL 139 Visiting Authors
  • ENGL 140A Old English
  • ENGL 141 Medieval Literature
  • ENGL 142 Chaucer
  • ENGL 144 Shakespeare I
  • ENGL 145 Shakespeare and Performance
  • ENGL 146 Early Modern British Literature
  • ENGL 149 The Romantic Period
  • ENGL 150 The Victorian Age 
  • ENGL 151 20th and 21st Century Poetry
  • ENGL 153 Studies in the British Novel Before 1900
  • ENGL 162 American Literature Before 1865
  • ENGL 163 American Literature: 1865-1945
  • ENGL 165 Topics in Ethnic American Literature
  • ENGL 166 American Literature Since 1945
  • ENGL 167 Steinbeck
  • ENGL 168 The American Novel
  • ENGL 169 Ethnicity in American Literature
  • ENGL 176 The Short Story
  • ENGL 177 Topics in Fiction Since 1900
  • ENGL 181 Special Topics
  • ENGL 182 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Literature
  • ENGL 183 Major Authors
  • ENGL 184 Queer Literary Studies