Courses

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.

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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.

Professor Ben Saunders with Marvel's Hulk

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.

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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 2024

Undergraduate Courses

Lower Division Courses

CRN

Course Number

Course Name

Instructor

26499

ENG 104Z

Intro to Fiction

Zeller

26500

ENG 104Z

Intro to Fiction

Ivy

22107

ENG 105Z

Intro to Drama

Recker

26639

ENG 106Z

Intro to Poetry

Pyle

26501

ENG 108

World Literature

Southworth

22113

ENG 205

Top Romance

Brown

22114

ENG 205

Top RomComs

Barter

22117

ENG 230

Intro to Environmental Literature

LeMenager

22119

ENG 241

Intro to African American Lit

Thompson

26507

ENG 243

Intro to Chicano/Latino Literature

Herrera

22121

ENG 250

Literature & Digital Culture

Burkert

22122

ENG 260M

Media Aesthetics

Forster

22123

ENG 260M

Media Aesthetics

Ovalle

22124

ENG 260M

Media Aesthetics

Steinhart

Upper Division Courses

CRN

Course Number

Course Name

Instructor

26510

ENG 304

Foundations of the English Major: Context

Bovilsky/Cortez/Wood

26517

ENG 313

Teen/Child Literature

Cheng

26519

ENG 315

Topic: BI Feminist Jurisprudence

Barter

22133

ENG 316

Top Feminist Rhetoric

Jones

22419

FLR 320

Car Cultures

Sayre

22136

ENG 330

Oral Controversy and Advocacy

Jones

22137

ENG 335

Inventing Arguments

Wakefield

22138

ENG 360

African American Writers

Thompson

22139

ENG 361

Native American Writers

Brown

22141

ENG 381M

Film, Media, & Culture

McGuffie

22142

ENG 392

American Novel

Hatay

22144

ENG 399

Special Studies: Writing Associates

Bryant-Berg

22146

ENG 401

Research

STAFF

22147

ENG 403

Thesis

STAFF

26888

ENG 404

Story Circles

Wheeler

22148

ENG 404

Intern Writing Associate

Bryant-Berg

22149

ENG 404

Intern Disability Studies

STAFF

22150

ENG 404

Intern Communication Literacy

STAFF

22151

ENG 405

Reading

STAFF

22153

ENG 407

Sem Poets Yeats/Heaney

Quigley

22155

ENG 420

Art of the Sentence

Bergquist

26521

ENG 425

Medieval Romance

Laskaya

22157

ENG 429

Top OEII Maldon Battle

Clark

22158

ENG 448

Restoration & 18th Century Literature

Bohls

22159

ENG 455

English Romantic Writing

Pyle

26522

ENG 457

Top Secrets & Scandals

Cheng

26523

ENG 486M

New Media/Digital Culture

Burkert

26524

ENG 488

Top Race/Rep in Film

Herrera

Graduate Courses

CRN

Course Number

Course Name

Instructor

22160

ENG 503

Thesis

STAFF

22161

ENG 520

Art of the Sentence

Bergquist

22162

ENG 529

Top OEII Maldon Battle

Clark

26530

ENG 548

Restoration & 18th Century Literature

Bohls

22163

ENG 555

English Romantic Writing

Pyle

26531

ENG 557

Top Secrets & Scandals

Cheng

26533

ENG 586M

New Media/Digital Culture

Burkert

26534

ENG 588

Top Race/Rep in Film

Herrera

22164

ENG 601

Research

STAFF

22165

ENG 603

Dissertation

STAFF

22167

ENG 605

Reading

Alaimo

22169

ENG 607

Sem Climate/Fic Future

LeMenager

22170

ENG 608

Workshop: Publication

Bohls

22173

ENG 613

GTF Comp Apprentice

Tasker/Kovalchuk

26526

ENG 614

Intro Lit & Culture Theory

Alaimo 

26527

ENG 630

Top Queer Shakespeare

Saunders

26528

ENG 695

Top World Cinema

Allan