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 |
|---|---|---|---|
31677 | ENG 104Z | Intro to Fiction | Fowler |
36460 | ENG 142 | Intro to Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Wilde |
31681 | ENG 200 | Public Speaking Liberal Arts | Carroll |
31682 | ENG 205 | Top Travel Writing | Bohls |
35972 | ENG 230 | Intro to Environmental Lit | LeMenager |
31687 | ENG 240 | Intro to Disability Studies | Trapp |
31691 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Ovalle |
31692 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Forster |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
35975 | ENG 305 | English Major Foundations: Theory | Bovilsky, Cortez, Wood |
35982 | ENG 313 | Teen/Child Literature | Cheng |
31698 | ENG 335 | Inventing Arguments | Wakefield |
36291 | ENG 360 | African American Writers | Tiwari |
31701 | ENG 363 | Chicano/Latino Writers | Cortez |
31703 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGuffie |
35985 | ENG 394 | 20th-Century Literature | Quigley |
35986 | ENG 399 | Writing Associates | Bryant-Berg |
31705 | ENG 401 | Research | STAFF |
31706 | ENG 403 | Thesis | STAFF |
31707 | ENG 404 | Intern Writing Associates | Bryant-Berg |
31708 | ENG 404 | Intern Ctr Teaching & Writing | Wakefield |
31710 | ENG 404 | Intern Disability Study | Trapp |
36337 | ENG 404 | Intern Comics NALRC | Douglas-Tavani |
31711 | ENG 405 | Reading | STAFF |
31712 | ENG 407 | Seminar Black Atlantic Lit | Bohls |
31713 | ENG 407 | Seminar Calderwood Love | Eccleston |
35988 | ENG 410 | Top Blk FLR & Game Narrative | Jones |
35989 | ENG 410 | Top Parahumans | Lasman |
31715 | ENG 430 | Top OEIII Beowulf | Lasman |
35990 | ENG 448 | Restoration & 18th Century Lit | Burkert |
31718 | ENG 470 | Tech & Texts Capstone | Burkert |
31722 | ENG 491 | Rhetoric & Ethics | Koneval |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
31723 | ENG 503 | Thesis | STAFF |
36296 | ENG 510 | Top Parahumans | Lasman |
36300 | ENG 510 | Top Blk FLR & Game Narrative | Jones |
31725 | ENG 530 | Top OEIII Beowulf | Lasman |
35992 | ENG 548 | Restoration & 18th Century Lit | Burkert |
31728 | ENG 570 | Tech & Texts Capstone | Burkert |
31730 | ENG 591 | Rhetoric & Ethics | Koneval |
31731 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
31732 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
31733 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
31736 | ENG 608 | Wrk Job Search | Quigley |
36313 | ENG 608 | Wrk Publication | Bohls |
31738 | ENG 612 | Comp GTF Sem II | Stuckey |
31740 | ENG 615 | Top TBD | Pyle |
35991 | ENG 630 | Top TBD | Dawson |
31743 | ENG 670 | Top TBD | Southworth |