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
The table below lists the courses that the Department of English anticipates offering for the 2024-2025 Academic Year for the English major. The table is updated as curriculum decisions are made, so check back when considering future registration choices.
Summer 2024
Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course name | instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
40739 | ENG 104 | Intro Lit: Fiction | Bryant-Berg |
40740 | ENG 106 | Intro Lit: Poetry | Carroll |
40741 | ENG 110M | Intro to Film & Media | Rust |
41941 | ENG 230 | Intro Environmental Lit | Preston |
41919 | ENG 241 | Intro African American Lit | Barter |
40743 | ENG 280 | Intro to Comic Studies | Kelp-Stebbins |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course name | instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
40744 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGuffie |
40745 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | Rust |
40746 | ENG 385 | Graphic Narratives & Cultural Theory | Kelp-Stebbins |
41918 | ENG 391 | American Novel | Hunag |
40747 | ENG 395 | 20th Century Lit | Upton |
40748 | ENG 404 | Intern Disability Studies | STAFF |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course name | instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
40749 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
40750 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
41939 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
Fall 2024
Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
11886 | ENG 104 | Intro to Fiction | TBD |
16645 | ENG 104 | Intro to Fiction | TBD |
16124 | ENG 106 | Intro to Poetry | Saunders |
11888 | ENG 200 | Public Speaking as a Liberal Art | Waddell |
11889 | ENG 205 | Topic: Short Story | Southworth |
11890 | ENG 205 | Topic: Lyric | Pyle |
11893 | ENG 208 | Shakespeare | Pyle |
11894 | ENG 209 | Craft of the Sentence | Upton |
16134 | ENG 240 | Intro to Disability Studies | Davies |
16135 | ENG 241 | Intro to African American Lit | Barter |
11897 | ENG 244 | Intro to Native American Lit | Brown |
16723 | ENG 250 | Literature & Digital Culture | Huang |
11903 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Purnama |
11904 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Forster |
11905 | ENG 280 | Intro to Comic Studies | Saunders |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
11908 | ENG 303 | Foundations of the English Major: Text | Bovilsky/Cortez/Wood |
16144 | ENG 315 | Topic: Afrofuturist Feminist Writers | TBD |
16145 | ENG 315 | Topic: Analog Futures | Miller |
16146 | ENG 321 | English Novel | Cheng |
16147 | ENG 322 | English Novel | Brundan |
16148 | ENG 323 | English Novel | Quigley |
11913 | ENG 330 | Oral Controversy & Advocacy | Smars |
16344 | ENG 335 | Inventing Arguments | Carroll |
16346 | ENG 360 | African American Writers | Tiwari |
16150 | ENG 365 | Global Lit in English | Southworth |
16151 | ENG 380 | Film, Media, & History | Miller |
11914 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGuffie |
16368 | ENG 386 | Bodies in Comics | Wheeler |
16152 | ENG 392 | American Novel | Preston |
16153 | ENG 394 | 20th Century Lit | Quigley |
16519 | ENG 399 | Special Studies: Literary Research Methods | Sayre |
11915 | ENG 399 | Special Studies: Writing Associates | Bryant-Berg |
11918 | ENG 401 | Research | STAFF |
11919 | ENG 403 | Thesis | STAFF |
11920 | ENG 404 | Intern Writing Associate | STAFF |
11921 | ENG 404 | Intern Disability Studies | STAFF |
11923 | ENG 404 | Intern Communication Literacy | STAFF |
11924 | ENG 405 | Reading | STAFF |
16154 | ENG 407 | Seminar: Horror | Eccleston |
16155 | ENG 427 | Chaucer | Laskaya |
11930 | ENG 428 | Old English I | Clark |
16369 | ENG 492 | History of Rhetoric & Composition | TBD |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
11934 | ENG 503 | Thesis | STAFF |
11938 | ENG 528 | Old English I | Clark |
16370 | ENG 592 | History of Rhetoric & Composition | TBD |
11942 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
11943 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
11945 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
11948 | ENG 610 | Composition GE Work | TBD |
11949 | ENG 613 | GTF Composition Apprentice | TBD |
16156 | ENG 645 | Topic: Technology of the Empire | Burkert |
16157 | ENG 660 | Topic: Black Supernatural | Barter |
11951 | ENG 690 | Intro Grad Studies English | Alaimo |