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87 courses with the subject ENGL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

ENGL 2001Introduction to Creative Writing3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2002Creative Writing: Playwriting4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2003Creative Writing: Fiction3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2004Creative Writing: Poetry3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: may be taken for credit.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2005Creative Writing: Nonfiction3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2011Eco-Writing3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2014Environmental Poetry Workshop3

Crosslisted With ENV 2014

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: may be taken for credit.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2018Creating Comics4

Crosslisted With ARTS 2105

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2203Literary Book Publishing3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2211Having it All: Life, Literature and Career3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2308The Bible as English Literature3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 An intensive study of the Bible as a literary work, focusing on such elements as poetry, narrative, myth, archetype, prophecy, symbol, allegory, and character. Emphases may include the Bible’s influence upon the traditions of English literature and various perspectives of biblical narrative in philosophy, theology, or literary criticism.

ENGL 2309The Bible as Literature: Exile and Return4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2320Medieval and Early Modern British Literature3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 This course is a survey of English literature from the Early Middle Ages to the Early Modern period. We read works in various genres–verse, drama, and prose–and understand their specific cultural and historical contexts. We also examine select modern film adaptations of canonical works as part of the evolving history of critical reception.

ENGL 2325Arthurian Legend3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2327Cinema Arthuriana3

Crosslisted With FILM 2327

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2352Shakespeare3

Crosslisted With MRST 2352

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2362Individual Shakespeare Play4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 4 A detailed study of a single Shakespearean play, including its sources, textual variants, performance history, film adaptations and literary and cultural legacy. The course includes both performance-based and analytical assignments.

ENGL 2381Enslavement and Abolition in British Literature 1688-18313

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2443Literature of the American South3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A study of selected fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction by Southern writers in their historical and literary contexts. We practice multiple approaches to critical reading, and students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers.

ENGL 2447Literature and Film of the American West3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2601Children’s Literature3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3-4 A study of works written in English for children. The course treats major writers, thematic and generic groupings of texts, and children’s literature in historical context. Readings may include poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, and illustrated books, including picture books that dispense with text.

ENGL 2605Health, Care, and Compassion on Stage and Screen3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2607Business in American Literature and Film3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2608Magical Education3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: WRIT 1000 FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 In fantasy fiction, power and potential are sometimes represented by magic, but authors imagine magic’s sources differently, with implications for how it should be developed. Students in this course will read fiction about schools of magic, analyzing their curricula and missions. In addition to writing analytically, students will co-create a web site for a fictional liberal arts college of magic.

ENGL 2702Drama3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 An introductory study of drama, emphasizing form, history, and performance. Organization may be chronological, thematic, or generic and may cover English language, western, or world drama. In all cases, the course introduces students to fundamental issues in the interpretation of theatrical texts.

ENGL 2703The Novel3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 An introductory study of the novel written in English. The course may focus on major representative texts or upon a subgenre or thematic approach. In all cases, the course introduces students to fundamental issues in the history and theory of modern narrative.

ENGL 2704Protest Poetry3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 3 What kind of work can poetry do in the world? Students in this class study Civil Rights Era poetry, poetry about environmental crisis, and other bodies of work that try to change minds and hearts, including protest poems, prayers and curses, and poetry in performance. Students also put poetry into action, first by collaboratively organizing a benefit event for the Rockbridge Area Relief Association, then by creating activist projects for causes of their own choosing.

ENGL 2707Introduction to Film3

Crosslisted With FILM 2707

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2713Individual Novel3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2714Poetry and Music3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 An introduction to the study of poetry in English with an emphasis on music. Students then investigate a series of questions about poetry and music, including: What’s the relationship between lyric poetry and song lyrics? What makes a poem musical? What kinds of music have most influenced poetry during the last hundred years, and in what ways?

ENGL 2813Reading Lolita in Lexington3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2831Literary Approaches to Poverty3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2860Introduction to African American Literature3

Crosslisted With AFCA 2860

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2863Literature, Race, and Ethnicity3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2866Black Writers and the Allure of Paris4

Crosslisted With AFCA 2866

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2867Constructing Black Lives in Film and Literature3

Crosslisted With AFCA 2867

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2877The Body Electric: Queer Theory, Film, and Text3

Crosslisted With WGSS 2867

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2881Nature as Self: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene3

Crosslisted With ENV 2881

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 2902Topics in British Literature3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 British literature, supported by attention to historical and cultural contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time or focus on a cultural phenomenon. Students develop their analytical writing skills through both short papers and a final multisource research paper.

ENGL 2903Topics in American Literature3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3-4 Studies in American literature, supported by attention to historical contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time. Students develop their analytical writing skills in a series of short papers.

ENGL 2904Topics in World Literature in English3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit and for the major if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3-4 World literature, taught in English, supported by attention to historical and cultural contexts. Versions of this course may survey several periods or concentrate on a group of works from a short span of time or focus on a cultural phenomenon. Students develop their analytical writing skills through both short papers and a final multisource research paper.

ENGL 2905Topics in Creative Writing3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Fine Arts (HA) Credits: 3-4 A course in the practice of creative writing, involving workshops, literary study, and critical writing.

ENGL 2906Topics in Countertraditions3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: WRIT 1000 FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A topical seminar in law and literature for students at the introductory or intermediate level. Topic is announced prior to registration. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different. Satisfies requirements for creative writing or law, justice, and society minors and English major.

ENGL 2907Spring-Term Seminar in Literary Studies3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3-4 Students in this course study a group of works related by theme, by culture, by topic, by genre, or by the critical approach taken to the texts. Involves field trips, film screenings, service learning, and/or other special projects, as appropriate, in addition to 8-10 hours per week of class meetings.

ENGL 2909Seminar for Prospective Majors3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Completion of FDR:FW requirement and an English course numbered between 2000 and 2907. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A study of a topic in literature issuing in a research process and sustained critical writing. Some recent topics have been Detective Fiction; American Indian Literatures; Revenge; and David Thoreau and American Transcendentalism.

ENGL 2960Social Enterprise Storytelling4

Crosslisted With BUS 3960

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3003Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: ENGL 2001 , ENGL 2002 , ENGL 2003 , ENGL 2004 , ENGL 2005 , ENGL 2905 , ENGL 2018 , ENGL 3004 , ENGL 3005 , or ENGL 3905 . FDR: Fine Arts (HA) Credits: 3-4 A workshop in writing fiction, requiring regular writing and outside reading.

ENGL 3004Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: ENGL 2001 , ENGL 2002 , ENGL 2003 , ENGL 2004 , ENGL 2005 , ENGL 2011 , ENGL 2905 , ENGL 2014 , ENGL 2018 , ENGL 3005 , or ENGL 3905 . FDR: Fine Arts (HA) Credits: 3 A workshop in writing poems, requiring regular writing and outside reading.

ENGL 3005Advanced Creative Writing: Memoir3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3200Literary Theory3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3321Gender, Love, and Marriage in the Middle Ages3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3328Arthurian Bodies, Desires, and Affects3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3331Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3351The Tudors3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3358Supervised Study in Great Britain4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 4 An advanced seminar in British literature carried on in Great Britain, with emphasis on independent research and intensive exposure to British culture. Changing topics, rotated yearly from instructor to instructor, and limited in scope to permit study in depth.

ENGL 3362Shakespearean Genres3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 In a given term, this course focuses on one or two of the major genres explored by Shakespeare (e.g., histories, tragedies, comedies, tragicomedies/romances, lyric and narrative poetry), in light of Renaissance literary conventions and recent theoretical approaches. Students consider the ways in which Shakespeare’s generic experiments are variably inflected by gender, by political considerations, by habitat, and by history.

ENGL 336417th-Century Poetry3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 Readings of lyric and epic poetry spanning the long 16th century, and tracing the development of republican and cavalier literary modes. Genres include the metaphysical poetry of Donne, Herbert, Katherine Philips, and Henry Vaughan; erotic verse by Mary Wroth, Herrick, Thomas Carew, Marvell, Aphra Behn, and the Earl of Rochester; elegy by Jonson and Bradstreet; and epic by Milton.

ENGL 3372Shakespeare and Company3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3374Milton3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 338318th-Century Novels3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A study of prose fiction up to about 1800, focusing on the 18th-century literary and social developments that have been called the rise of the novel. Authors likely include Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, and/or Austen.

ENGL 340319th-Century American Novel3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A reading of major American novelists, focusing especially on Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. We also consider the relationship between the novel and punishment, especially in the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Lippard, and William Wells Brown. Additionally, we read fictions during the second half of the century by Twain, Chopin, and Chesnutt.

ENGL 3413Studies in the 19th-Century British Novel3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3423Middlemarch and Devoted Readers4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 4
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3434Whitman vs Dickinson3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 In this seminar, students read two wild and wildly different U.S. poets alongside queer theory about temporality. Since we are discussing queerness in the past, present, and future, we will also consider 2lst-century reception of 19th-century literature and history, and students will participate in a Nineteenth-Century Poetry Slam.

ENGL 3457King and Kubrick3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3462Contemporary British and American Drama3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 This course examines both the masterpieces and undiscovered gems of English language theater from Samuel Beckett to the present. The course investigates contemporary movements away from naturalism and realism towards the fantastical, surreal, and spectacular. Student presentations, film screenings, and brief performance exercises supplement literary analysis of the plays, though no prior drama experience is presumed.

ENGL 3463Late 20th-Century North American Fiction3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 An exploration of fiction since World War II. Authors may include Wright, O’Connor, Highsmith, Nabokov, Capote, Pynchon, Silko, Atwood, and Morrison.

ENGL 3464Poetry, Skepticism and the Sacred3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 Selected readings in British poetry from the turn of the century to the present, including the English tradition, international modernism, Irish, and other Commonwealth poetry. We will examine how many poets handle inherited forms, negotiate the world wars, and express identity amid changing definitions of gender and nation.

ENGL 3473Contemporary North American Fiction3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. Credits: 3 A study of 21st-century novels and short stories by North American authors. The course examines the recent movement of literary fiction into traditional pulp genres. Authors may include: Chabon, Atwood, Allende, Alexie, Butler, McCarthy, Diaz, Whitehead, Link, Fowler, and Grossman.

ENGL 3603Modern Poetry’s Media3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A consideration of American poetry from the first half of the 20th century, including modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and popular poetry. Students will investigate the interplay of tradition and experiment in a period defined by expatriatism, female suffrage, and the growing power of urban culture.

ENGL 3604Poetry and Authenticity3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 Readings from the middle generation of 20th century U.S. poets with attention to the Beats, the New York School, Black Arts, and many other movements. Writers may include Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Robert Hayden, and others.

ENGL 3863Early African American Print Culture3

Crosslisted With AFCA 3863

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3865African-American Literature3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A focused engagement with the African-American literary tradition, from its beginnings in the late 18th century through its powerful assertions in the 21st. The focus of each term’s offering may vary; different versions of the course might emphasize a genre, author, or period such as poetry, Ralph Ellison, or the Harlem Renaissance.

ENGL 3878Native American Literatures3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3881Postcolonial Literature and Theory3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3891Hotel Orient3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3905Topics in Creative Writing3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu

ENGL 3915Topics in Literature in English before 18003-4

May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3-4 A seminar course on literature written in English before 1800 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome.

ENGL 3925Topics in Literature in English since 18003-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3-4 A seminar course on literature written in English since 1900 with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome.

ENGL 3935Topics in Literature in English in Counter Traditions3-4

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 4
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: An English course numbered between 2001 and 2907 and another English course numbered between 2200 and 2909. FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3-4 A seminar course on literature written in English in an area of counter traditions– with special emphasis on research and discussion. Student suggestions for topics are welcome.

ENGL 4001Directed Individual Study1

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Credits: 1 Directed study individually arranged and supervised. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

ENGL 4002Directed Individual Study2

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 2
Credits (max): 2
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Credits: 2 Directed study individually arranged and supervised. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

ENGL 4003Directed Individual Study3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Credits: 3 Directed study individually arranged and supervised. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

ENGL 4103Senior Research and Writing3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Credits: 3 A collaborative group research and writing project for senior majors, conducted in supervising faculty members’ areas of expertise, with directed independent study culminating in a substantial final project. Possible topics include ecocriticism, literature and psychology, material conditions of authorship, and documentary poetics.

ENGL 4301Master Class in Creative Writing1

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 1
Credits (max): 1
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: ENGL 2001 , ENGL 2002 , ENGL 2003 , ENGL 2004 , ENGL 2005 , ENGL 2011 , ENGL 2905 , ENGL 2014 , ENGL 2018 , ENGL 3004 , ENGL 3005 , or ENGL 3905 . Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 1 An advanced workshop taught by the Glasgow Writer in Residence. The genre varies, but the course includes readings, workshops, and individual conferencing.

ENGL 4503Internship in Literary Editing with Shenandoah3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: ENGL 2001 , ENGL 2002 , ENGL 2003 , ENGL 2004 , ENGL 2005 , ENGL 2011 , ENGL 2905 , ENGL 2014 , or ENGL 2018 . Experiential Learning (EXP): Yes Credits: 3 An apprenticeship in editing with the editor of Shenandoah, Washington and Lee’s literary magazine. Students are instructed in and assist in these facets of the editor’s work: evaluation of manuscripts of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics, and translations; substantive editing of manuscripts, copyediting; communicating with writers; social media; website maintenance; the design of promotional material.

ENGL 4903Honors Thesis3

Subject: ENGL
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: Credits
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Source: catalog.wlu.edu
Prerequisite: Instructor consent. Credits: 3 A summary of

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