ENGL

English

198 courses on record · 26 with sections in Fall 2026

Live section data currently covers GE courses; the rest is filled in by a nightly pass, so this department is likely running more than is listed here.

198 courses

Lower division 45

Lower division courses in English
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	This term
4HW	Critical Reading and Writing (Honors)	3.81 n=42	—
4W	Critical Reading and Writing	3.81 n=1,859	15 sections
4WX	Critical Reading and Writing (Community-Engaged Learning)	3.86 n=85	—
10A	Literatures in English to 1700 GE	3.37 n=701	1 section
10B	Literatures in English, 1700 to 1850	3.69 n=657	1 section
10C	Literatures in English, 1850 to Present GE	3.53 n=552	—
11	Introduction to American Cultures GE	3.67 n=214	1 section
19	Silence of Lamb: Animals as Persons in Literature, Law, and Sciences	no letter grades	—
20W	Introduction to Creative Writing	3.93 n=735	2 sections
M30	Environmental Literature and Culture GE	3.79 n=145	1 section
M30SL	Environmental Literature and Culture (Service Learning) GE	no grade history	—
31	Apocalypse: Imagining End of World GE	no grade history	—
32	Future Environments: Cities, Ecologies, Planets GE	3.49 n=30	—
M50	Introduction to Visual Culture GE	3.82 n=340	—
51A	Poems and Poets GE	no grade history	—
60	L.A. Women GE	3.73 n=35	—
70	Medievalisms: Medieval Literature and Contemporary Culture GE	3.83 n=46	—
80	Major American Authors GE	3.75 n=197	—
85	American Novel GE	3.77 n=288	1 section
87	Topics in American Cultures: Gothic in U.S. Literature and Culture GE	3.82 n=27	1 section
88A	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--Medieval Literature GE	no grade history	—
88B	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--Renaissance Literature GE	no grade history	—
88C	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--17th-Century Literature GE	no grade history	—
88D	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--18th-Century Literature GE	no grade history	—
88E	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--Romantic Literature GE	no grade history	—
88F	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--Victorian Literature GE	no grade history	—
88G	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--20th-Century British Literature GE	no grade history	—
88H	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--Colonial American Literature GE	no grade history	—
88I	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--19th-Century American Literature GE	no grade history	—
88J	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--20th-Century American Literature GE	no grade history	—
88K	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--History of English Language GE	no grade history	—
88L	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--Folklore and Mythology GE	no grade history	—
88M	Lower-Division Seminar: Special Topics in English--Literature and Society GE	no grade history	—
88S	Dear Friend, Old Friend, Good Friend: Male Friendship in Shakespeare	no letter grades	—
88SA	Splitting the Panel: Experimental Graphic Literature Seminar	no letter grades	—
88SB	Taylor Swift's Discography as Poetry: The 10 Week Version	no letter grades	—
90	Shakespeare GE	3.73 n=458	1 section
91A	Introduction to Poetry GE	3.76 n=132	1 section
91B	Introduction to Drama GE	3.71 n=71	1 section
91C	Introduction to Fiction GE	3.57 n=175	1 section
91D	Introduction to Graphic Fiction GE	3.91 n=355	—
98T	Death and (Re)Birth: Afrofuturism and the Building of New Worlds	3.88 n=15 small sample	—
98TA	Ecologies of Power: Energy and Environment	3.84 n=19 small sample	—
98TB	How Does Climate Change Feel?	3.81 n=20	—
98TW	Crip Theory: Diagnosis and Disability in American Literature	3.78 n=36	—

Upper division 134

Upper division courses in English
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	This term
100	Ways of Reading Race GE	3.79 n=427	—
M101A	Premodern Queer Literatures and Cultures: Queering the Long 18th Century	3.83 n=20	—
M101B	Queer Literatures and Cultures, 1850 to 1970: Queer Fiction Before 1970	3.54 n=98	1 section
M101C	Queer Literatures and Cultures after 1970	3.83 n=41	—
M101D	Studies in Queer Literatures and Cultures	3.39 n=94	—
M102A	Historical Survey of Asian American Literature	3.68 n=52	—
M102B	Contemporary Asian American Literary Issues and Criticism	3.81 n=50	—
M103	Studies in Disability Literatures	3.80 n=26	—
M104A	Early African American Literature	3.70 n=178	—
M104B	African American Literature from Harlem Renaissance to 1960s	3.79 n=87	—
M104C	African American Literature of 1960s and 1970s	3.67 n=21	—
M104D	Contemporary African American Literature	3.49 n=20	—
M104E	Topics in African American Literature and Culture: Black Revolutionary Drama	3.68 n=164	1 section
M105A	Early Chicana/Chicano Literature, 1400 to 1920	3.62 n=66	—
M105B	Chicana/Chicano Literature from Mexican Revolution to el Movimiento, 1920 to 1970s	3.31 n=40	—
M105C	Chicana/Chicano Literature since el Movimiento, 1970s to Present	3.79 n=199	—
M105D	Introduction to Latina/Latino Literature	3.47 n=37	—
106	Studies in Native American and Indigenous Literatures	3.75 n=158	—
M107A	Studies in Women's Writing	3.63 n=99	—
M107B	Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Race, Sex, Sensation	3.93 n=90	—
108	Interracial Encounters	3.70 n=114	—
109	Topics in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies	3.66 n=119	—
110A	Writing in English Major: Analytical	3.52 n=49	—
110C	Public Readers, Public Writers: Writing about Books for 21st-Century Audience	3.74 n=57	—
110T	Writing in English Major: Transfer Students	3.47 n=58	—
110V	Variable Topics in Professional Writing: First-Person Writing for Aspiring Professional Writers	3.64 n=117	—
111C	Topics in Biblical Literature	3.72 n=31	—
112A	Oral Tradition	no grade history	—
114	Lyric Histories	3.87 n=35	—
115B	British Popular Literature	3.42 n=93	—
115D	Detective Fiction	3.53 n=128	1 section
115E	Science Fiction	3.87 n=103	—
116A	Experimental Fiction	3.81 n=25	—
116B	Introduction to Electronic Literature	3.94 n=64	—
117	Literature of California and American West	3.45 n=115	—
118A	Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature	3.59 n=71	—
118B	Literature and Other Arts	3.52 n=35	—
118C	Studies in Visual Culture	3.93 n=79	—
118E	Literature and Environment	3.70 n=49	—
M118F	Food Cultures and Food Politics	3.87 n=48	—
119	Literary Cities: Literary London: Tales of Two Cities	3.60 n=490	—
119XP	Literary Cities--Service Learning	3.84 n=33	—
120	History of Aesthetics and Critical Theory	3.83 n=215	—
121	Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics and Critical Theory	3.77 n=100	—
122	Keywords in Theory	3.48 n=199	—
M126	Feminist and Queer Theory	3.91 n=45	—
127	Performance, Media, and Cultural Theory	3.58 n=66	—
128	Postcolonial and Transnational Theory	3.70 n=31	—
129	Topics in Genre Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Critical Theory: Lecture 3	3.72 n=238	1 section
130	Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures	3.90 n=130	1 section
131	Studies in Postcolonial Literatures	3.56 n=123	—
132	Culture and Imperialism	3.74 n=118	—
133	Transatlantic Literatures and Cultures	3.48 n=77	—
135	Literature of Americas	3.56 n=164	—
136	Creative Writing: Poetry	3.97 n=126	—
136A	Creative Writing: Intermediate Poetry	3.91 n=23	—
136B	Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry	3.96 n=72	—
137	Creative Writing: Short Story	3.93 n=106	—
137A	Creative Writing: Intermediate Short Story	3.92 n=36	—
137B	Creative Writing: Advanced Short Story	3.94 n=108	—
M138	Topics in Creative Writing: Literary Non-Fiction	3.86 n=131	—
139	Individual Authors: Lecture 1	3.61 n=425	—
140A	Chaucer: "Canterbury Tales"	3.62 n=183	—
141A	Early Medieval Literature	3.89 n=166	—
141B	Introduction to Old English Language and Literature	3.88 n=36	—
141C	Topics in Old English	3.85 n=12 small sample	—
142	Later Medieval Literature	3.57 n=106	—
142R	Later Medieval Literature: Research Component	3.47 n=41	—
144	Medieval Romance and Literatures of Court	3.78 n=31	—
145	Medieval Literatures of Devotion and Dissent: Virgin, Wife, and Widow: Dissent and Dominance in Lives of Holy Women	3.82 n=166	1 section
146	Medieval Story Cycles and Collections	3.61 n=72	—
148	Cultures of Middle Ages	3.79 n=137	—
149	Medievalisms	3.66 n=101	—
150A	Shakespeare: Poems and Early Plays	3.56 n=286	1 section
150B	Shakespeare: Later Plays	3.53 n=253	1 section
150C	Topics in Shakespeare	3.59 n=182	—
151	Milton	3.26 n=89	1 section
153	Theatrical Renaissance: Early Modern Texts and Performances	3.46 n=36	—
155	Renaissance Subjects	3.67 n=51	—
156	Devotion and Dissent	3.32 n=18 small sample	—
157	Translation and Innovation in English Renaissance and Early Modern Period	3.20 n=66	—
160A	Literature of Restoration and Earlier 18th Century	3.82 n=35	—
161A	Poetry in English to 1850: English Romantic Poetry	3.93 n=35	—
161C	Novel in English to 1850	3.62 n=29	—
162B	Later Romantic Literature	3.85 n=147	—
163C	Jane Austen and Her Peers	3.58 n=108	—
164B	19th-Century Critical Prose	3.61 n=93	—
164C	19th-Century Novel	3.68 n=115	—
166A	Colonial Beginnings of American Literature	3.67 n=147	—
166B	American Literature, 1776 to 1832	3.56 n=94	—
166C	American Literature, 1832 to 1865	3.52 n=62	1 section
167A	American Poetry to 1900	3.63 n=37	—
167B	American Fiction to 1900	3.68 n=67	—
168	Major American Writers	3.38 n=233	—
169	Topics in Literature, circa 1700 to 1850	3.74 n=96	—
170A	American Literature, 1865 to 1900	3.56 n=62	—
170B	American Literature, 1900 to 1945	3.73 n=26	—
171B	20th-Century British Poetry	3.35 n=89	—
172A	Drama, 1850 to 1945	3.43 n=25	—
172C	American Drama	3.86 n=35	—
173A	American Poetry, 1900 to 1945	3.80 n=32	—
173B	American Poetry since 1945	3.73 n=50	—
173C	Contemporary American Poetry	3.81 n=88	—
174A	American Fiction, 1900 to 1945	2.94 n=28	—
174B	American Fiction since 1945	3.77 n=162	—
174C	Contemporary American Fiction: U.S. Fiction after Cold War	3.73 n=144	—
176	Hemispheric American Literature	3.38 n=16 small sample	—
177	Interdisciplinary Studies of American Culture	3.49 n=460	—
179	Topics in Literature, circa 1850 to Present: Reading Black British Writers	3.54 n=269	—
179R	Topics in Literature, circa 1850 to Present: Research Component: Samuel Beckett	3.42 n=79	—
180	Topics in Literature and Language: Land, Language, and Freedom	no grade history	—
181A	Topics in Genre Studies	3.50 n=50	—
181B	Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies	3.57 n=51	—
182A	Topics in Medieval Literature	3.68 n=17 small sample	—
182B	Topics in Renaissance and Early Modern Literature: Shakespeare Paired with Other Early Modern Dramatists	3.55 n=42	—
182C	Topics in 18th-Century Literature	3.71 n=11 small sample	—
182D	Topics in Romantic Literature	3.86 n=34	—
182E	Topics in 19th-Century Literature	3.57 n=16 small sample	—
182F	Topics in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature: James Joyce	3.70 n=15 small sample	—
183A	Topics in Colonial American Literature	3.48 n=29	—
183B	Topics in 19th-Century American Literature	3.80 n=10 small sample	—
183C	Topics in 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature: Immigrant Stories, Literary and Cinematic	3.69 n=111	1 section
184	Capstone Seminar: English: Shakespeare in Performance	3.78 n=482	—
189	Advanced Honors Seminars	3.71 n=21	—
190H	Honors Research Colloquia in English	no letter grades	—
M191A	Topics in African American Literature	3.74 n=13 small sample	—
M191B	Topics in Chicana/Chicano and/or Latina/Latino Literature	3.79 n=47	—
M191D	Topics in Queer Literatures and Cultures: Enduring Queer Performance	no grade history	—
M191E	Topics in Gender and Sexuality	3.81 n=36	—
191H	Honors Research Seminars: English	3.94 n=154	—
M191P	Careers in Humanities	3.85 n=59	—
M192	Undergraduate Practicum in English: Journals	3.98 n=177	1 section
195CE	Community and Corporate Internships in English	3.94 n=108	—
198A	Honors Research in English	no grade history	—

Graduate 19

Graduate courses in English
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	This term
200	Graduate Proseminar	3.91 n=24	1 section
202	Narrative Theory	3.85 n=30	—
203	Digital Theories and Methods	3.92 n=26	—
247	Shakespeare	3.82 n=14 small sample	—
250	Restoration and 18th-Century Literature	3.88 n=27	—
251	Romantic Writers	3.87 n=14 small sample	—
253	20th- and 21st-Century Literatures in English	3.89 n=20	—
254	American Literature to 1900	no grade history	—
255	Topics in Novel	3.86 n=12 small sample	—
257	Methods and Tools for Study of Literature and Culture	3.81 n=10 small sample	—
260	Studies in Literature and Its Relationship to Arts and Sciences	3.84 n=11 small sample	—
M261	Studies in Chicana/Chicano Literature	3.65 n=10 small sample	—
265	Postcolonial Literatures	no grade history	—
270	Issues and Developments in Critical Theory	3.89 n=48	1 section
M296T	Translation Research Group	no grade history	—
375	Teaching Apprentice Practicum	no letter grades	—
495A	Supervised Teaching Preparation	no letter grades	—
495B	Supervised Teaching Preparation	no letter grades	—
596	Directed Individual Study	no letter grades	—

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the department average, so a course taught once to a dozen students sits near the department mean rather than at whatever those twelve happened to get. The figure is always shown — small sample marks where it rests mostly on that prior.