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.
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
Spring 2025
Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
31752 | ENG 104Z | Intro to Fiction | Heine |
35927 | ENG 104Z | Intro to Fiction | LeMenager |
31753 | ENG 106Z | Intro to Poetry | Wakefield |
36556 | ENG 110M | Intro to Film & Media | Williamson |
35929 | ENG 199 | Special Studies: Digital Narratives | Huang |
35930 | ENG 199L | Special Studies: Reading Sci-Fi | Wilde |
31754 | ENG 200 | Public Speaking Liberal Arts | Tiwari |
31756 | ENG 205 | Top Short Story | Southworth |
35933 | ENG 207 | Shakespeare | Saunders |
31758 | ENG 209 | Craft of the Sentence | Sayre |
31759 | ENG 240 | Intro Disability Studies | Trapp |
31760 | ENG 241 | Intro African American Literature | Thompson |
31761 | ENG 241 | Intro African American Literature | Butler |
35936 | ENG 243 | Intro to Chicano/Latino Literature | Cortez |
31762 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Aronson |
31763 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Steinhart |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
36453 | ENG 308 | Intro to Literary Criticism | Pyle |
31765 | ENG 316 | Top Women Travel Write | Bohls |
35937 | ENG 321 | English Novel | Cheng |
31767 | ENG 325 | Literature of the Northwest | LeMenager |
31768 | ENG 330 | Oral Controversy and Advocacy | Eccleston |
31769 | ENG 335 | Inventing Arguments | Kovalchuk |
31770 | ENG 340 | Jewish Writers | Wood |
35938 | ENG 360 | African American Writers | Thompson |
35939 | ENG 361 | Native American Writers | Sayre |
35940 | ENG 363 | Chicano/Latino Writers | Herrera |
35941 | ENG 365 | Global Literature in English | Southworth |
31771 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGuffie |
35943 | ENG 391 | American Novel | Barter |
31776 | ENG 403 | Special Studies Writing Associate | Bryant-Berg |
31777 | ENG 401 | Research | STAFF |
31778 | ENG 403 | Thesis | STAFF |
31779 | ENG 404 | Intern Writing Associates | Bryant-Berg |
31780 | ENG 404 | Intern Ctr Teaching & Writing | STAFF |
31782 | ENG 405 | Intern Disability Study | STAFF |
31783 | ENG 405 | Reading | STAFF |
31784 | ENG 407 | Sem Shelf Life | Cheng |
31785 | ENG 407 | Sem Cozy Murder | Carroll |
35944 | ENG 410 | Perfect Circle Theater | Wheeler |
31788 | ENG 420 | Art of the Sentence | Upton |
31790 | ENG 430 | Top OEIII Beowulf | Clark |
35945 | ENG 468 | Top Ethnic Climate Fiction | Herrera |
35946 | ENG 469 | Top Oceans | Alamino |
31793 | ENG 470 | Tech & Texts Capstone | Burkert |
36483 | ENG 480 | Modern American Superhero | Saunders |
31796 | ENG 491 | Rhetoric and Ethics | Koneval |
32043 | FLR 411 | Folklore & Religion | Wojcik |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
31796 | ENG 503 | Thesis | STAFF |
36481 | ENG 510 | Perfect Circle Theater | Wheeler |
31798 | ENG 520 | Art of the Sentence | Upton |
31799 | ENG 530 | Top OEIII Beowulf | Clark |
35953 | ENG 568 | Top Ethnic Climate Fiction | Herrera |
35954 | ENG 569 | Top Oceans | Alamino |
31802 | ENG 570 | Tech & Texts Capstone | Burkert |
36519 | ENG 580 | Modern American Superhero | Saunders |
35957 | ENG 591 | Rhetoric and Ethics | Koneval |
31805 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
31806 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
31808 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
31810 | ENG 608 | Work Teach Literature | Bohls |
31812 | ENG 608 | Work Job Search | Quigley |
31814 | ENG 612 | Comp GTF Sem II | Tasker, Stuckey |
31817 | ENG 615 | Top Indigenous Critical Theory | Brown |
35950 | ENG 660 | Top Octavia Butler | Jones |
35952 | ENG 670 | Top Decolonial Ireland | Quigley |
32046 | FLR 511 | Folklore & Religion | Wojcik |