Courses in Literature

Course Offerings

Undergraduate Courses

(see Courses for a list of current offerings)

ENGL 150 – Appalachia Now
ENGL 200 – Language, Linguistics, and Society
ENGL 201 – British Literature I: Beowulf through Johnson
ENGL 202 – British Literature II: Wordsworth to the Present
ENGL 206 – Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 207 – Honors: British Literature I
ENGL 208 – Honors: British Literature II
ENGL 209 – Introduction to Jane Austen
ENGL 217 – Honors: Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 218 – Honors: Introduction to Jane Austen
ENGL 221 – World Literature I: Ancient through Early Modern
ENGL 222 – World Literature II: The Eighteenth-Century to the Present
ENGL 225 – Introduction to African Literature
ENGL 226 – Introduction to Caribbean Literature
ENGL 231 – American Literature I: Colonial Era to the Civil War
ENGL 232 – American Literature II: Civil War to the Present
ENGL 233 – Major Black Writers
ENGL 237 – Honors: American Literature I: Colonial Era to the Civil War
ENGL 238 – Honors: American Literature II: Civil War to the Present
ENGL 247 – Honors: Introduction to Poetry
ENGL 248 – Honors: Introduction to Drama
ENGL 250 – Popular Fiction
ENGL 251 – Introduction to Poetry
ENGL 252 – Introduction to Drama
ENGL 253 – Introduction to Fiction
ENGL 254 – Themes in Literature
ENGL 258 – Honors: Introduction to Fiction
ENGL 278 – Honors: Themes in Literature
ENGL 281 – Introduction to Film Studies
ENGL 301 – British Culture to 1660
ENGL 302 – British Culture: 1660 to Present
ENGL 303 – American Cultures
ENGL 306 – Shakespeare and Film
ENGL 311 – Race in Horror, Sci-Fi, and Thriller
ENGL 321 – Introduction to Old English
ENGL 322 – Race, Gender, and Medicine
ENGL 323 – Black Women Writers
ENGL 331 – Race and Ethnicity in American Literature
ENGL 332 – Women in American Literature
ENGL 333 – Black American Literature and Aesthetics
ENGL 334 – Film and American Culture
ENGL 335 – African Literature
ENGL 336 – Caribbean Literature
ENGL 339 – Children’s/Young Adult Literature
ENGL 340 – Science Fiction and Fantasy
ENGL 341 – Religion and Spirituality in American Literature
ENGL 342 – Literature and Medicine
ENGL 345 – Graphic Novel and Comics
ENGL 346 – The Gothic
ENGL 351 – The Short Story
ENGL 376 – Colloquium in Literature
ENGL 377 – Honors: Colloquium in Literature
ENGL 381 – American Tales, Songs, and Material Culture: An Introduction to Folklore
ENGL 389 – Literature of the English Bible
ENGL 401 – Medieval Literature
ENGL 402 – Chaucer
ENGL 403 – Introduction to Middle English
ENGL 404 – Shakespeare I: Early Plays
ENGL 405 – Shakespeare II: Later Plays
ENGL 406 – Shakespeare’s Contemporaries I: Renaissance Drama
ENGL 409 – Shakespeare’s Contemporaries II: Renaissance Poetry and Prose
ENGL 410 – Donne, Milton, and Their Contemporaries
ENGL 411 – Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENGL 412 – Late Eighteenth-Century British Literature
ENGL 414 – The Romantics
ENGL 420 – The 19th-Century British Novel
ENGL 421 – Modern British Novel
ENGL 422 – Women Writers in Britain
ENGL 423 – Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature
ENGL 424 – Jane Austen
ENGL 425 – Black Feminist Theory
ENGL 430 – Black and Indigenous Literatures
ENGL 431 – Early American Literature
ENGL 432 – American Romanticism and Transcendentalism
ENGL 433 – American Realism and Naturalism
ENGL 434 – Modern American Literature
ENGL 435 – American Fiction to 1900
ENGL 436 – Modern American Novel
ENGL 439 – Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema
ENGL 441 – Southern Literature
ENGL 442 – American Humor
ENGL 443 – Topics in Black Literature
ENGL 444 – Appalachian Literature and Culture
ENGL 451 – Modern British and American Poetry
ENGL 452 – Modern Drama
ENGL 453 – Contemporary Drama
ENGL 454 – 20th-Century International Novel
ENGL 456 – Contemporary Fiction/Narrative
ENGL 459 – Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 479 – Literary Criticism
ENGL 480 – Fairy Tale, Legend, and Myth: Folk Narrative
ENGL 482 – Major Authors
ENGL 483 – Special Topics in Literature
ENGL 486 – Special Topics in Criticism
ENGL 489 – Special Topics in Film