This Year's Courses

Fall 2025

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ENGL 100A - Fiction

ENGL 100B - Poetry

ENGL 101A - Introduction to Literary Studies

ENGL 101B - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

ENGL 101C - Introduction to Literature and Rhetoric

ENGL 103 - Combating Racisms
- cross-listed with BLKST 103, COMMST 103

ENGL 108D - Digital Lives

ENGL 108E - Gender and Representation
- cross-listed with GSJ 108

ENGL 108G - Horror

ENGL 108P - Popular Potter

ENGL 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing

ENGL 119 - Communications in Mathematics Computer Science

ENGL 200A - English Literatures 1

ENGL 200C - English Literatures 3

ENGL 203 - Designing Digital Media
- cross-listed with DAC 201

ENGL 208A - Forms of Fantasy

ENGL 210C - Genres of Creative Writing

ENGL 210F - Genres of Business Communication

ENGL 210H - Arts Writing

ENGL 210I - Legal Writing
- cross-listed with LS 291

ENGL 210J - Technical Editing

ENGL 225 - Introduction to Anti-Racist Communication
- cross-listed with BLKST 203, COMMST 203

ENGL 230 - The Pleasure of Poetry

ENGL 234 - Young Adult Literature

ENGL 251 - Literary Theory and Criticism

ENGL 262 - Manga
- cross-listed with EASIA 262R

ENGL 292 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

ENGL 293 - Introduction to Digital Media Studies

ENGL 295 - Social Media

ENGL 304 - Designing Digital Sound
- cross-listed with DAC 203

ENGL 305A - Old English Language and Literature

ENGL 306A - Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 309A - Rhetoric, Classical to Enlightenment

ENGL 310B - Chaucer

ENGL 318 - Contemporary Canadian Literature

ENGL 325 - Austen

ENGL 335 - Creative Writing 1

ENGL 340 - Contemporary African Literature and Film
- cross-listed with BLKST 340

ENGL 344 - Modern American Literature

ENGL 345 - American Literature in a Global Context

ENGL 363 - Shakespeare 2
- cross-listed with THPERF 387

ENGL 392A - Information Design

ENGL 392B - Visual Rhetoric

ENGL 406 - Advanced Rhetorical Study
- held-with ENGL 492
Topic: The Rhetoric of Fascism (Prof A. McMurry)

ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing
- held-with DAC 303
Topic: Storytelling with Sound (Prof D. Deveau)

This course explores creative fiction and non-fiction in audio media, including scripting and recording of podcasts, audio documentaries, spoken word, and radio dramas. Students will experiment with writing and producing stories, with a focus on what makes a compelling auditory narrative. Topics will include technical instruction in sound capture and the creation of soundscapes, critical understanding of theories about orality and storytelling, and the practice of strategies for fostering creative expression through sound. 

ENGL 492 - Topics in the History and Theory of Rhetoric
- held-with ENGL 406
Topic: The Rhetoric of Fascism (Prof A. McMurry)

Fascism. Neo-fascism. Right-wing Populism. Illiberal Democracy. These are some of the names applied to anti-democratic, xenophobic, ultranationalist political movements and ideologies on the rise in the world today, which exploit the tensions in an already precarious world (climate change, economic inequality, geopolitical tensions) to drive retrograde social and political agendas. One of the key differences between fascism and other forms of authoritarian rule is that fascists are popularly elected. They seduce the nation by harnessing preexisting hatreds, divisions, and unfulfilled aspirations. They identify victims and villains. They offer returns to imagined eras of purity and harmony. They empower charismatic strongmen. We will explore the past and present of fascism, seeking clues as to why it is once again emerging as a powerful force in mature democracies. We will examine some of the primary texts of fascism by figures such as Marinetti, Schmitt, Mussolini, and Hitler. But our main focus is to understand fascist messaging in all its forms: demagogic speeches, propaganda, symbol, spectacle, art, rallies. One of the most important strategies of the fascist mode is to control common expression and thought by retooling language itself: Orwell, Klemperer, Burke, Sontag, and Stanley will help us here. This course will appeal to all undergraduate students interested in language, literature, history, and rhetoric. It is open to all students at the 3A level or above, or by permission of the instructor.

ENGL 493 - Topics in Professional Writing and Communication Design
- held-with DAC 300
Topic: Generative AI in Communication and Design (Prof N. Randall)

This course explores the use of generative AI to produce various types of communication and design. By the end of the course, you will have (a) produced a small portfolio of text, graphic, sound, and video artifacts exclusively through readily available AI tools; (b) written an academic paper on the impact of AI tools in academic and work settings; (c) generated an AI version of your academic paper and written a short comparison between the two; (d) discussed the ramifications of AI for ethics, intellectual property, teaching, and environmental impact; (e) produced a semester-length AI project of your choice.

Note: No experience with generative AI is required, but I'm guessing you'll have some anyway. 

Fall 2026

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ENGL 100A - Fiction

ENGL 100B - Poetry

ENGL 101A - Introduction to Literary Studies

ENGL 101B - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

ENGL 101C - Introduction to Literature and Rhetoric

ENGL 103 - Combating Racisms
- cross-listed with BLKST 103, COMMST 103

ENGL 108D - Digital Lives

ENGL 108E - Gender and Representation
- cross-listed with GSJ 108

ENGL 108G - Horror

ENGL 108P - Popular Potter

ENGL 108T - Tolkien: From Book to Film

ENGL 108X - Literature and Medicine

ENGL 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing

ENGL 119 - Communications in Mathematics Computer Science

ENGL 200A - English Literatures 1

ENGL 200C - English Literatures 3

ENGL 203 - Designing Digital Media
- cross-listed with DAC 201

ENGL 204 - Designing Digital Video
- cross-listed with DAC 202

ENGL 208A - Forms of Fantasy

ENGL 210C - Genres of Creative Writing

ENGL 210E - Genres of Technical Communication

ENGL 210F - Genres of Business Communication

ENGL 210H - Arts Writing

ENGL 210I - Legal Writing
- cross-listed with LS 291

ENGL 210J - Technical Editing

ENGL 234 - Young Adult Literature

ENGL 248 - Literature for an Ailing Planet
- cross-listed with ERS 288

ENGL 251 - Literary Theory and Criticism

ENGL 262 - Manga
- cross-listed with EASIA 262R

ENGL 292 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

ENGL 293 - Introduction to Digital Media Studies

ENGL 295 - Social Media

ENGL 303 - Special Topics in Digital Design
- cross-listed with COMMST 300, DAC 300

ENGL 306A - Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 308 - Race and Resistance
- cross-listed with GSJ 307

ENGL 309C - Contemporary Rhetoric

ENGL 309E - Speech Writing
- cross-listed with COMMST 323

ENGL 320 - History and Theory of Pre-Internet Media
- held-with COMMST 229

ENGL 325 - Austen

ENGL 335 - Creative Writing 1

ENGL 346 - American Fiction

ENGL 346R - Global Asian Diasporas
- cross-listed with EASIA 346R

ENGL 362 - Shakespeare 1
- cross-listed with THPERF 386

ENGL 373 - Writing Anti-Racism
- cross-listed with BLKST 308, COMMST 308

ENGL 383 - Phonetics

ENGL 392A - Information Design

ENGL 392B - Visual Rhetoric

ENGL 403 - Digital Design Research Project
- cross-listed with DAC 400

ENGL 412 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Media

ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing (Section 001)
- held-with ENGL 486
Topic: Weird Fiction (Prof S. Tolmie)

In this mixed methods course, students will read the in-between works of classic and contemporary Weird fiction writers, among them Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, M. R. James, Jeff VanderMeer, Helen Marshall and Sarah Tolmie. Concentrating on short fiction poised between the natural and supernatural, students will analyze the space between horror, SFF and literary fiction inhabited by Weird stories and have the opportunity to write their own.

ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing (Section 002)
Topic: Writers on Creative Writing (Prof C. Wriglesworth)

ENGL 471 - Adapting Literary Works
- held-with DAC 402

ENGL 486 - Topics in Literatures Modern to Contemporary
- held-with ENGL 432, Sect. 001
Topic: Weird Fiction (Prof S. Tolmie)

In this mixed methods course, students will read the in-between works of classic and contemporary Weird fiction writers, among them Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, M. R. James, Jeff VanderMeer, Helen Marshall and Sarah Tolmie. Concentrating on short fiction poised between the natural and supernatural, students will analyze the space between horror, SFF and literary fiction inhabited by Weird stories and have the opportunity to write their own.

ENGL 494 - Topics in Forms of Media and Critical Analysis
- held-with DAC 403
Topic: Pics and It Didn’t Happen: Visual Literacy in the Post-Photography Era (Prof A. Morrison)

What is the “rhetoric of the image” in the age of limitless AI image slop? Humanist and visual arts scholars have been urgently calling for systematic training for all citizens in critical visual literacy from the very beginning of the mass media age in the early 20th century, but by and large most of us continue to take a naive and credulous view of photographic (and generated photographic-style) images as mimetic depictions of reality. In this course we overview the history of attempts to systematize a pedagogy of “visual literacy,” and will work to update these for the Jesus Shrimp era.