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
Summer 2025
Undergraduate
Lower Division
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
40635 | ENG 104Z | Intro to Fiction | Cortez |
41761 | ENG 105Z | Intro to Drama | Carroll |
40636 | ENG 106Z | Intro to Poetry | Wakefield |
41765 | ENG 108 | World Literature | Southworth |
41762 | ENG 205 | Top RomComs | Barter |
41763 | ENG 207 | Shakespeare | Huang |
41764 | ENG 230 | Intro Environmental Literature | Preston |
Upper Division
CRN | Course Number | Course Title | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
41766 | ENG 365 | Global Lit in English | Carroll |
40639 & 40640 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | Rust |
40643 | ENG 395 | 20C Literature | Upton |
40644 | ENG 404 | Internship Disability Studies | STAFF |
Fall 2025
Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
11870 | ENG 104Z | Intro to Fiction | LeManager |
16031 | ENG 106Z | Intro to Poetry | Saunders |
16037 | ENG 108 | World Literature | Southworth |
11875 | ENG 200 | Public Speaking Liberal Arts | Waddell |
11877 | ENG 205 | Top Captivity Narrative | Sayre |
16041 | ENG 207 | Shakespeare | Olivar |
16047 | ENG 209 | Craft of the Sentence | Upton |
16328 | ENG 240 | Intro Disability Studies | Davies |
16048 | ENG 242 | Intro Asian American Literature | TBA |
16049 | ENG 243 | Intro Chicano/Latino Literature | Galentine |
11884 | ENG 244 | Intro to Native American Literature | Preston |
16050 | ENG 250 | Literature and Digital Culture | Burkert |
11889 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | OK |
16307 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Steinhart |
16056 | ENG 280 | Intro to Comic Studies | Kelp-Stebbins |
16059 | ENG 280 | Intro to Comic Studies | Saunders |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
16065 | ENG 303 | Foundation of English Major: Text | Bovilsky, Cortez, Wood |
16065 | ENG 313 | Teen/Child Literature | Cheng |
16066 | ENG 316 | Top Afro Fem Writers | Jones |
16067 | ENG 325 | Literature of the Northwest | LeMenager |
11903 | ENG 330 | Oral Controversy and Advocacy | Smars |
11904 | ENG 335 | Inventing Arguments | Simnitt |
11909 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGuffie |
16323 | ENG 385 | Graphic Narrative & Culture Theory | Kelp-Stebbins |
16068 | ENG 391 | American Novel | Hatay |
16326 | ENG 399 | Special Studies Writing Associate | Bryant-Berg |
11913 | ENG 401 | Research | STAFF |
11914 | ENG 403 | Thesis | STAFF |
11915 | ENG 404 | Intern Writing Associates | Bryant-Berg |
11916 | ENG 404 | Intern Disability Study | STAFF |
19917 | ENG 404 | Intern Commun Literacy | STAFF |
16320 | ENG 404 | Intern Ctr Teaching & Writing | Wakefield |
11918 | ENG 405 | Reading | STAFF |
11919 | ENG 407 | Sem Horror | Southworth |
16069 | ENG 407 | Seminar | Johnson |
11920 | ENG 427 | Chauncer | Laskaya |
16568 | ENG 428 | Old English I | Bayless |
11922 | ENG 479 | Top TBD | TBA |
11923 | ENG 492 | History Rhetoric & Composition | Jones |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course Name | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
11924 | ENG 503 | Thesis | STAFF |
16569 | ENG 528 | Old English I | Bayless |
11926 | ENG 579 | Top George Eliot | TBA |
11927 | ENG 592 | History Rhetoric & Composition | Jones |
11928 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
11929 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
11931 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
11933 | ENG 608 | Workshop: Digital Humanities | Burkert |
16070 | ENG 610 | COMP GE Wrk | Stuckey |
11934 | ENG 613 | GTF Comp Apprentice | Kovalchuk |
16071 | ENG 615 | Top Bodies on Display | Herrera |
11936 | ENG 660 | Top Enviro Danger Time | Wald |
12188 | ENG 681 | History/Theory Folklore Res | Wolf |
11937 | ENG 690 | Intro Grad Studies ENG | TBA |