• ENWR 3900

    Career-Based Writing and Rhetoric
     Rating

    4.50

     Difficulty

    2.50

     GPA

    3.53

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design.

  • ENGL 2508

    Studies in Fiction
     Rating

    4.03

     Difficulty

    2.65

     GPA

    3.66

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Studies the techniques of fiction. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENWR 1510

    Writing and Critical Inquiry
     Rating

    3.75

     Difficulty

    2.69

     GPA

    3.58

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    The single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names start in A-K must take ENWR 1510 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring.

  • ENGL 3560

    Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
     Rating

    4.50

     Difficulty

    2.75

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course takes up topics in the study of literature in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENWR 2510

    Advanced Writing Seminar
     Rating

    4.48

     Difficulty

    2.84

     GPA

    3.80

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Enrollment limited to students meeting benchmarks determined by the Writing Program.

  • ENWR 1520

    Writing and Critical Inquiry: Community Engagement
     Rating

    4.78

     Difficulty

    2.89

     GPA

    3.82

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Requires off-grounds work with local non-profits. A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement-- intended to be taken during the first year of study-- approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names end in A-K must satisfy the first writing requirement in the fall; those with last names ending in L-Z in the spring.

  • ENGL 2527

    Shakespeare
     Rating

    3.33

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.63

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Studies selected sonnets and plays of Shakespeare. 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

    3.76

    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 2599

    Special Topics
     Rating

    4.40

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.71

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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.

  • ENGL 3275

    History of Drama I: Ancient Greece to the Renaissance
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.49

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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.