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 Fall Term 2023 for the English major. The table is updated as curriculum decisions are made, so check back when considering future registration choices.
Undergraduate Courses
Lower Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course name | instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
31577 | ENG 104 | Intro Lit: Fiction | Jung |
35158 | ENG 106 | Intro Lit: Poetry | Wakefield |
35159 | ENG 200 | Pub Speak Liberal Art | Zalyubovskiy |
31580 | ENG 205 | Topic: Testimonio | Cortez |
31581 | ENG 205 | Topic: Tragedy | Peppis |
35160 | ENG 208 | Shakespeare | Eccleston |
35161 | ENG 209 | Craft of the Sentence | Sayre |
35162 | ENG 240 | Intro Disability Studies | Hendrix |
31584 | ENG 241 | Intro African Amer Lit | Barter |
35163 | ENG 241 | Intro African Amer Lit | Barter |
31586 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Ok |
31587 | ENG 260M | Media Aesthetics | Williamson |
Upper Division Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course name | instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
31577 | ENG 104 | Intro Lit: Fiction | Jung |
35954 | ENG 313 | Teen/Child Literature | Cheng |
31590 | ENG 316 | Topic: Astrology Poetry | Miller |
35164 | ENG 322 | English Novel | Bohls |
35165 | ENG 325 | Lit of the Northwest | LeMenager |
31593 | ENG 335 | Inventing Arguments | Cortez |
31594 | ENG 340 | Jewish Writers | Wood |
31596 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | McGruffie |
35166 | ENG 381M | Film, Media, & Culture | Rust |
35167 | ENG 386 | Bodies in Comics | Wheeler |
35168 | ENG 395 | 20C Literature | Quigley |
31599 | ENG 399 | Sp St Writing Assoc | Bryant-Berg |
31600 | ENG 401 | Research | STAFF |
31601 | ENG 401 | Thesis | STAFF |
31602 | ENG 404 | Intern Writ Associates | STAFF |
31603 | ENG 404 | Intern Ctr Teach & Wri | STAFF |
31605 | ENG 404 | Intern Disability Stdy | STAFF |
31506 | ENG 405 | Reading | STAFF |
31607 | ENG 407 | Seminar: Book Love | Cheng |
35169 | ENG 407 | Seminar: Public Env Commun | Smars |
35170 | ENG 407 | Seminar: Cozy Murder | Carroll |
35642 | FLR 411 | Folklore & Religion | Wojcik |
35171 | ENG 419 | Contem Literary Theory | Pyle |
31609 | ENG 420 | Art of the Sentence | Upton |
35172 | ENG 427 | Chaucer | Laskaya |
31611 | ENG 430 | Topic: Beowulf Monsters | Clark |
36111 | ENG 436 | Adv Shakespeare | Eccleston |
35174 | ENG 461 | Amer Lit to 1800 | Sayre |
31613 | ENG 470 | Tech & Texts Capstone | Kaufman |
35175 | ENG 488 | Topic: Cont Indig Cinema | Brown |
35176 | ENG 496 | Topic: Food TV | Miller |
Graduate Courses
CRN | Course Number | Course name | instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
31617 | ENG 503 | Thesis | STAFF |
35643 | FLR 511 | Folklore & Religion | Wojcik |
35181 | ENG 519 | Contem Literary Theory | Pyle |
31619 | ENG 520 | Art of the Sentence | Upton |
31620 | ENG 530 | Topic: Beowulf Monsters | Clark |
35183 | ENG 561 | Amer Lit to 1800 | Sayre |
31622 | ENG 570 | Tech & Texts Capstone | Kaufman |
35184 | ENG 588 | Race/Rep Film: [Topic] | Brown |
35185 | ENG 596 | Topic: Food TV | Miller |
31626 | ENG 601 | Research | STAFF |
31627 | ENG 603 | Dissertation | STAFF |
31628 | ENG 604 | Intern Theory Literacy | STAFF |
31629 | ENG 605 | Reading | STAFF |
35177 | ENG 607 | Seminar: Indig. Futurisms | Cordes |
31630 | ENG 608 | Work Teach Literature | Bohls |
31632 | ENG 608 | Wrk Job Search | Quigley |
31634 | ENG 612 | Comp GTF Sem II | Simnitt |
35178 | ENG 613 | GTF Comp Apprentice | Gershow |
31635 | ENG 614 | Intro Lit & Cul Theory | Pyle |
35179 | ENG 615 | Topic: MultispeciesAnthrp | Alaimo |
35180 | ENG 630 | Topic: Race & EM Culture | Bovilsky |