English courses explore how writers, cultures, and institutions tell the stories that shape our world. With an average undergraduate class size of 23 students, we create engaging and supportive spaces where students learn to think and write critically – essential skills for college success, career readiness, and ethical living. Our undergraduate and graduate programs offer training in established fields and techniques as well as distinctive offerings in environmental humanities, comics studies, medical humanities, disability studies, rhetoric, digital humanities, and the study of race and ethnicity.
B.A. Language Requirement Update
The Old English sequence (ENG 428, ENG 429, ENG 430) will now be offered in the 2025–26 academic year.
This change ensures that students planning to fulfill their language requirement with Old English may still do so on schedule.
Students are encouraged to meet with an academic advisor if they have any questions.
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The University of Oregon course catalog offers a four year degree plan and a complete list of undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of English.
Course Highlights
These three courses span lower and upper division coursework.
ENG 250
Literature and Digital Culture
Instructor: Mattie Burkert
In this class, we will read science fiction classic Frankenstein (1818) and consider the myriad ways Mary Shelley’s novel continues to resonate across digital culture -- from its reinterpretation in electronic literature like Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl (1995) to its frequent invocation in debates over the ethics of AI. Each student will develop a portfolio website of written work interpreting the text of Frankenstein and experimenting with new, digitally-enabled methods of literary analysis. As the foundation for the Digital Humanities minor, this class involves learning to use digital tools and technologies in a supported environment, but no prior technical experience or training is required.
ENG 280
Intro to Comic Studies
Instructor: Kate Kelp-Stebbins
This class provides an introduction to the history and art of comics and to the methodologies of the academic discipline of Comics Studies. Students will be exposed to a range of different comic-art forms (including newspaper strips, collections of serialized comic books, and free-standing graphic novels), as well as examples of contemporary comics scholarship.
ENG 260
Media Aesthetics
Instructor: Ari Purnama
This course explores the fundamentals of film and media aesthetics, including narrative, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. By learning how to analyze film and utilize proper cinematic language, students will begin to critically understand film as an art form and a product of culture. By the end of the course, students will see all aesthetic elements in a film as a series of choices made through the complex collaboration of artists and craftspeople. Students will also gain the key tools and concepts that they will implement in their own creative work.
Upcoming Courses
Winter 2026
Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
26488 | ENG 101 | Life Changing Books | Barter |
22007/22008 | ENG 104Z | Intro to Fiction | TBD |
26252 | ENG 200 | Public Speaking Liberal Arts | Tiwari |
26255 | ENG 207 | Shakespeare | Dawson |
26258 | ENG 225 | Age of King Arthur | Lasman |
22014 | ENG 230 | Intro to Environmental Lit | Wald |
26777 | ENG 241 | Intro to African American Lit | Heine |
26545 | ENG 242 | Intro Asian American Literature | An |
22018 | ENG 243 | Intro Chicano/Latino Literature | Herrera |
26261 | ENG 244 | Intro to Native American Literature | Fowler |
26262 | ENG 250 | Literature and Digital Culture | Davies |
22024 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Williamson |
22026 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Ok |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
26263 | ENG 321 | English Novel | Cheng |
26264 | ENG 323 | English Novel | Quigley |
22035 | ENG 330 | Oral Controversy and Advocacy | Eccleston |
22036 | ENG 335 | Inventing Arguments | Kovalchuk |
26265 | ENG 340 | Jewish Writers | Wood |
22039 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGuffie |
22040 | ENG 392 | American Novel | LeMenager |
26267 | ENG 399 | Special Studies Research Methods | Sayre |
26266 | ENG 399 | Special Studies Writing Associates | Bryant-Berg |
22041 | ENG 401 | Research | STAFF |
22042 | ENG 403 | Thesis | STAFF |
22043 | ENG 404 | Intern Writing Associates | Bryant-Berg |
22044 | ENG 404 | Intern Disability Study | Trapp |
26622 | ENG 404 | Intern Community Literacy | Simnitt |
22045 | ENG 404 | Intern Ctr Teaching & Writing | Wakefield |
22047 | ENG 405 | Reading | STAFF |
22048 | ENG 407 | Seminar Sex, Dead, Cyborg | Kelp-Stebbins |
26268 | ENG 407 | Seminar Black Activist Poets | Jones |
26269 | ENG 407 | Seminar Thumbs Up: Movie | Rust |
22049 | ENG 420 | Art of the Sentence | Upton |
22050 | ENG 425 | Medieval Romance | Lasman |
26765 | ENG 429 | Top Maldon Battle | Bayless |
26521 | ENG 457 | Top City and Country | Cheng |
26270 | ENG 468 | Top Doc Asian America | An |
26271 | ENG 494 | Reasoning/Speaking/Writing | Simnitt |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
22057 | ENG 503 | Thesis | STAFF |
22058 | ENG 520 | Art of the Sentence | Upton |
26766 | ENG 529 | Top OEII Maldon Battle | Bayless |
26527 | ENG 557 | Top City and Country | Cheng |
26273 | ENG 568 | Top Doc Asian America | An |
22065 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
22066 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
22068 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
22069 | ENG 607 | Seminar Comics Theory | Kelp-Stebbins |
22070 | ENG 608 | Workshop: Publication | Bohls |
22072 | ENG 608 | Wrk Teaching Literature | Dawson |
22073 | ENG 613 | GTF Comp Apprentice | Kovalchuk |
22074 | ENG 614 | Intro Literature & Cultural Theory | Herrera |
26272 | ENG 620 | Top Oral Traditions Old/New | Bayless |