ENGL

Credits 1-4

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

ENGL 101 (01-WR) +

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Credit unit

Cr

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course offers intensive experience in essay writing. Through the close reading of literature and the practical experience of writing; students explore rhetorical strategies; learn accepted forms of documentation; develop a sense of voice; and deepen their responses to the written word. (ENGL 102 is prerequisite to 300 and 400-level studies in English.) Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS/AU: (01) Written Comm

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

In this course; we’ll focus on writing to persuade; decide; and get things done. We’ll cover the basic principles of writing effectively in professional contexts in order to prepare both for more advanced coursework and for doing business in the real world. Credits 4

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

A series of introductory writing courses; each being a study of a subject not covered in other 200-level courses. Topics may include feature writing; magazine writing; or writing in other specialized areas. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

For beginning prose writers; a course on the elements; styles; and techniques of contemporary fiction and narrative. Students experiment with subject and voice with an emphasis on creating characters. Portfolio exam. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (C) The Arts CoB: Humanities 445

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

A beginning writing course in poetry with an emphasis on originality and freshness of language and a basic understanding of poetic form. Required work includes extensive reading of contemporary poets; weekly writing; peer review; and a final portfolio of revised poems. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (C) The Arts CoB: Humanities

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course introduces students to the main traditions of English verse and the fundamentals of poetic form. Selections include the major poets of the English language; as well as contemporary British; Irish; and American poets. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other' 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

An exploration of how plays express the struggle humans face in relation to their community; to their history; and to the languages—literary; political; cultural; personal—that make up those conflicts. We will read plays from different eras and a series of innovative modern plays. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

A series of introductory courses; each being a study of literature not covered in other 200-level courses. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

In this course students explore the literature and music of African-Americans produced in and around Harlem in New York City in the 1920s to the 1940s. Central to such exploration will be the contemporary cultural and political issues that faced the Afro-American artist. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course explores some of Shakespeare's most popular plays and their film adaptations. Students focus on the literary analyses of character; theme; and language in the written texts. We also compare the cultural contexts of representative comedies; tragedies; and histories; with their contemporary film settings. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other' 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

ENGL/WGST 254 Women Writers 2-4 ENGL/WGST 256 Multicultural American Literature 4

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

A series of introductory courses; each being a study of film not covered in other 200-level film courses. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (C) The Arts CoB: Humanities

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

A course that examines issues of language; gender; and culture portrayed through the lens of the woman writer. Texts may include novels; stories; autobiographies; essays; letters; and poetry. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course explores the rich diversity of American literature; raising questions like What does it mean to be or become American? What is gained; what is lost; what can be protected or preserved? What is the meaning of the past; of roots; of traditions? Students examine how this body of literature reimagines the dominant American culture and reflect on their own multicultural competence. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

One person’s perfect world is someone else’s nightmare. This course will study fictional representations of alternate timelines and universes. Which literary upheavals or catastrophes seem all too plausible in real life? Which differences in social constructions; including race; gender; and class; have the power to change the world as we know it? Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

Trauma causes pain—grief; anger; and withdrawal—yet there are those who respond with creativity—with acts and art of expression; originality; connection; and transcendence. This course studies that process; and representative works of literature that reveal it. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other' 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

Mysticism is the word given to the recognition—across cultures; centuries; and continents—that everything is ultimately One. Some name this God…others; Truth…many call it Love. Although the intensity and depth of mystical vision is consistently described as inexpressible; an extensive; beautiful body of literature has been created by those who have travelled the “via mystica;” experienced Union as absolute reality; and shared their experiences. This course will study the characteristics of mysticism; and the ways various writers have translated their revelations; Love; and “peace beyond understanding” into art. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

Only the perverse fantasy can save us (Goethe). If you like women in white; gray castles; and dark secrets; this course is for you. An exploration of the conventions and tropes in Gothic literature. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CLAS: (A) Literature CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

In this course; we will explore the shift from print to digital cultures; along with the development of generative AI; and their impacts on how we write; learn; work; interact with others; and know things about the world. Students will gain the skills to responsibly leverage digital composition and generative tools for a variety of writing situations. (Alternating Spring) Credits 4

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

Students will work together to produce the annual newsletter of the Women’s and Gender Studies program. Along the way; we will analyze media representation of feminist issues; brainstorm topics; conduct research; and write feature articles; formulate questions; conduct interviews; and write profiles; workshop; copyedit; and proofread; and reflect on what it means to be part of the WGST community. Credits 2

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

2

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course provides an overview of early British literature: from Beowulf to Milton; it also includes Chaucer; 16th and 17th Century Poetry and Drama; Shakespeare and the Jacobeans. Credits 3 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course provides an overview of British literature after 1660: from the Restoration to the Modernists; it also includes 18th-Century Poetry; Drama; and Prose; 19th and 20th- Century Novels; Romantic; Victorian; and 20th-Century Poetry. Credits 3 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

3

Credits (max)

3

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course introduces students to American literature in cultural context; with particular attention to constructs of Americanness as they appear in or are challenged by literary texts. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

400-level coursework in writing and literature 28 Sub-Total Credits 46 Note: ENGL 450 Independent Study does not count toward the major. ENGL 496 English Honors Thesis may be counted toward the major. Also, the Division of English strongly recommends that English majors complete the intermediate level of a foreign language. Students may count one literature course (300-level or above) taken in a foreign language towards the English major. 157 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

Advanced study of a topic in literature not covered by other 400-level courses. Credits 1-4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

Advanced study of a topic in writing not covered by other 400-level courses. Credits 1-4

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

Through fiction and film; we'll examine two-and-a-half centuries of haunted castles; murderous monsters; and dark mysteries. We'll explore the evolving literary; cultural; and historical forces that made these works of terror so popular. Credits 4 Degree Attributes SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course focuses on the poetry and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Elizabethan; the metaphysical; and the classical traditions of poetry are represented by Spenser; Shakespeare; Donne; Jonson; and Milton; the Elizabethan-Jacobean drama is presented by such dramatists as Marlowe; Jonson; and Webster. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities 2025-2026 Alfred University Undergraduate Catalog

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course introduces theories of comedy and explores Shakespeare's development as a comic dramatist as students read the festive and romantic comedies; comparing his early efforts with his mature plays. It also examines Shakespeare's dramatization of English and Roman history; the genre of the history play; and the playwright's adaptatio of history to the comic and tragic modes. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course focuses on Shakespeare as a tragic artist. It introduces theories of tragedy; explores the playwright's experimentation with the genre; comparing his early efforts with his mature accomplishments; and examines some tragi- comedies. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course focuses on major Victorian poets and novelists such as Alfred Lord Tennyson; Matthew Arnold; Robert Browning; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Christina Rossetti; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Charles Dickens; the Brontes; Thomas Hardy; and Oscar Wilde. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course explores the diverse literary experiments of a nation striving toward cultural and aesthetic independence. Readings and critical perspectives vary according to instructors. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other' 450

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

The experience of each new age requires a new confession; and the world seems always waiting for its poet (Emerson). Selected readings introduce representative poetic voices throughout each British and American age; from the Middle Ages to the present; from Beowulf to Prufrock. n Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

GERO/PSYC 118 Introduction to Adult Development and Aging 4

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course begins with the birth of the modern play in the late 19th century; then traces the evolution of dramatic literature to the present time. Readings selected from such playwrights as Ibsen; Strindberg; Chekhov; Shaw; O'Neill; Williams; Miller; Ionesco; Albee; Baraka; Pinter; Stoppard; Shepard; Shaffer; Norman; and Mamet. Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

Academic inquiry into an area not covered in any established course; and carried on outside the usual instructor/ classroom setting. Approved Plan of Study required. Credits 1-4

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026-undergraduate

Source

www.alfred.edu

Students work through all aspects of the process to publish an edition of an out-of-copyright text: conducting market research; selecting and editing the primary text; researching and writing an introduction; creating appropriate timelines and appendices; laying out the book using InDesign; designing the cover; procuring ISBN and Library of Congress numbers; submitting the text to the printer; and publishing the book using a print-on-demand model. Credits 4

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

Seminar course. Detailed examination of the work produced by a single major writer (or of two writers linked by genre; period; topic; or other context). Credits 2-4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

2

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

An advanced poetry writing course for students interested in exploring character dynamics through the vehicle of the persona. Each student is expected to invent several personae and to write in the voices of those characters. The primary focus of the course is the writers' workshop. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This course is an intensive writing workshop with an emphasis on the dynamics of the short story. Students are encouraged to experiment with form while learning the techniques of the well-crafted story. Portfolio exam. (May be repeated one time for credit.) Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Repeatable

May be repeated one time for credit.

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This advanced creative writing course focuses on the appreciation and craft of formal poetry. Students will learn to write in iambic meters; and will learn definitions and read examples of traditional forms such as blank verse; sonnets; sestinas; villanelles; triolets; and ghazals. The primary focus on the course will be the writers' workshop; in which students compose and critique poems written in traditional forms. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities SoAD: Humanities-'Other'

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

This creative writing course explores long poems and poetic sequences by reading and analyzing examples; then using those models to create our own poems. Through workshop and revision; students will write either a long poem or sequence of shorter poems. Credits 4 Degree Attributes CoB: Humanities

Subject

ENGL

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

An off-campus independent study project under the direction of a faculty sponsor. Students gain exposure to possible careers related to English studies. Requirements for this project include a journal; job evaluations; and a final report. May be taken during the summer or semester abroad. Credits 1-4

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu

To graduate with Honors in English; students must attain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 in their major; successfully complete this senior project; and pass an oral examination. Eligible seniors should discuss their project plans with the Division Chair before registering for ENGL 496. Credits 2

Subject

ENGL

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.alfred.edu