Usually an introduction to non-traditional or specialized topics in literary studies, (e.g., native American literature, gay and lesbian studies, techno-literacy, Arthurian romance, Grub Street in eighteenth-century England, and American exceptionalism). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Course explores historical, theoretical, and practical conceptions of writing as technology. We study various writing systems, the relation of writing to speaking and visual media, and the development of writing technologies, e.g., printing presses, typewriters, hypertext, text messaging, and artificial intelligence. Students produce academic and personal essays but will also experiment creatively with different technologies and media.

Introductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

An inquiry-based approach to the development of a confident, engaging, and ethical public speaking style. Beyond practical skills, this course emphasizes rhetorical thinking: what are the conventions of public speaking? Where are there opportunities to deviate from convention in ways that might serve a speech's purpose? How might we construct an audience through the ways we craft language and plan the delivery of our speech?

A two-semester, chronological survey of literatures in English from their beginnings to the present day. Studies the formal and thematic features of different genres in relation to the chief literary, social, and cultural influences upon them. ENGL 3001 covers the period up to 1800; ENGL 3002, the period 1800 to the present. Required of all majors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.

Studies selected Canterbury Tales and other works, read in the original. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

A survey of plays from Shakespeare's earlier career, emphasizing the great histories and comedies. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

This course begins in ancient Athens with the birth of tragedy and comedy, moving from there to the Latin tradition, both pagan and Christian, before settling into the European vernaculars, both medieval and modern.

Surveys representative writers, themes, and forms of the period 1660-1800. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.