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.
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.
Individualized Study
This form is used by undergraduate and graduate students to request instructor and departmental approval to register for an individualized (independent) study course.
Students must develop the study plan in consultation with a faculty member:
- Undergraduate students should work with the faculty member who will supervise the independent study.
- Graduate students should work with their faculty advisor.
If you are interested in registering for an individualized study, please complete the following steps:
- Meet with your supervising instructor or primary advisor to discuss the individualized study and receive approval to move forward.
- Submit this form to request permission to register. The form will be routed for instructor and departmental approval.
- Once your request is approved, you will receive an email with next steps for registration.
Please do not submit this form until you have met with your instructor or advisor.
Individualized Study Request Form
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
Fall 2026
Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
16184 | ENG 101 | Life Changing Books | Barter |
16187 | ENG 104Z | Intro to Fiction | Schuman |
16188 | ENG 106Z | Intro to Poetry | Wakefield |
12045 | ENG 108 | World Literature | Upton |
12048 | ENG 200 | Pub Speak Liberal Art | Tiwari |
12049 | ENG 205 | Top TBA | tba |
16190 | ENG 205 | Top Romance | Brown |
31692 | ENG 207 | Shakespeare | Eccleston |
12052 | ENG 209 | Craft of the Sentence | Sayre |
16191 | ENG 225 | Age of King Arthur | Lasman |
16192 | ENG 230 | Intro Environment Lit | Alaimo |
12053 | ENG 240 | Intro Disability St | tba |
12055 | ENG 243 | Int Chicano/Latino Lit | Herrera |
16199 | ENG 250 | Lit & Digital Culture | tba |
12065 | ENG 280 | Intro to Comic Studies | Kelp-Stebbins |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
12070 | ENG 303 | Fdn English Major:Text | Bovilsky, Cortez, Wood |
16200 | ENG 315 | Top TBA | tba |
12077 | ENG 325 | Lit of the Northwest | LeMenager |
12078 | ENG 330 | Oral Controv & Advoc | Waddell |
12079 | ENG 335 | Inventing Arguments | Simnitt |
16201 | ENG 360 | African Amer Writers | Jones |
12080 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGuffie |
12081 | ENG 385 | Graphic Nar & Cul Theo | Kelp-Stebbins |
16202 | ENG 394 | 20C Literature | Upton |
16203 | ENG 399 | Sp St Writing Assoc | tba |
12083 | ENG 401 | Research | STAFF |
12084 | ENG 403 | Thesis | STAFF |
12085 | ENG 404 | Intern Writ Associate | tba |
12086 | ENG 404 | Intern Disability Stdy | tba |
12088 | ENG 404 | Intern Ctr Teach & Wri | tba |
12089 | ENG 405 | Reading | STAFF |
12090 | ENG 407 | Sem Publishing | Southworth |
12091 | ENG 407 | Sem Black Activi Poets | Jones |
16611 | ENG 407 | Sem Consumer Womanhood | Huang |
12092 | ENG 427 | Chaucer | Laskaya |
12093 | ENG 428 | Old English I | Bayless |
12094 | ENG 436 | Adv Shakespeare | Smith |
16204 | ENG 457 | Top Victorian Lit | Cheng |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
12097 | ENG 503 | Thesis | STAFF |
12098 | ENG 528 | Old English I | Bayless |
16614 | ENG 536 | Adv Shakespeare | Smith |
16209 | ENG 557 | Top Victorian Lit | Cheng |
12102 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
12102 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
12104 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
16206 | ENG 607 | Sem Blue Humanities | Alaimo |
16207 | ENG 610 | Comp GE Wrk | Stuckey |
12107 | ENG 613 | GTF Comp Apprentice | Hatay |
16208 | ENG 614 | Intro Lit & Cul Theory | Herrera |
12109 | ENG 660 | Top Black Personhood | Barter |
12366 | ENG 681 | Hist/Theo Folklore Res | tba |
12110 | ENG 690 | Intro Grad Studies Eng | Southworth |