• ENGL 3570

    Studies in American Literature
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.73

    Last Taught

    Fall 2026

    Studies the work of one or two major authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 3510

    Studies in Medieval Literature
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    2.50

     GPA

    3.73

    Last Taught

    Fall 2024

    Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 2560

    Contemporary Literature
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.73

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Introduces trends in contemporary English, American, and Continental literature, especially in fiction, but with some consideration of poetry and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 3520

    Studies in Renaissance Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.73

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Topics vary. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 8527

    Studies in Shakespeare
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.74

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Topics vary annually. Recent examples are `Shakespeare's Histories and Roman Plays" and `Reinventing Shakespeare'. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENWR 2520

    Special Topics in Writing
     Rating

    4.28

     Difficulty

    2.56

     GPA

    3.74

    Last Taught

    Fall 2026

    Includes courses on writing studies, corporate communications, and digital writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Completion of first writing requirement.

  • ENGL 3924

    Vietnam War in Literature and Film
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.74

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    In the US, "Vietnam" signifies not a country but a lasting syndrome that haunts American politics and society, from foreign policy to popular culture. But what of the millions of Southeast Asian refugees the War created? What are the lasting legacies of the Vietnam War for Southeast Asian diasporic communities? We will examine literature and film (fictional and documentary) made by and about Americans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians, and Hmong.

  • ENGL 3162

    Chaucer II
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.75

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Studies Troilus and Criseyde 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.

  • ENGL 3220

    The Seventeenth Century
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.76

    Last Taught

    Fall 2024

    Surveys the prose, poetry and drama of the earlier seventeenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 3010

    History of the English Language
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.76

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Studies the development of English word forms and vocabulary from Old English to present-day English. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu/.