• ENGL 4559

    New Course in English Literature
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    1.00

     GPA

    3.78

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENWR 1530

    Writing & Critical Inquiry Lecture
     Rating

    4.67

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.85

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    The single-semester lecture 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, 1520, or 1530 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring.

  • ENWR 2700

    News Writing
     Rating

    3.11

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.36

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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.

  • ENGL 3161

    Chaucer I
     Rating

    4.00

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.69

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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.

  • ENGL 3480

    The English Novel II
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.60

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Reading of novels by Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontës, Gaskell, Meredith, Eliot, and Hardy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENWR 3620

    Writing & Tutoring Across Cultures
     Rating

    4.67

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.92

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    In this course, we'll look at a variety of texts from academic arguments, narratives, and pedagogies, to consider what it means to write, communicate, and learn across cultures. Topics will include contrastive rhetorics, world Englishes, rhetorical listening, and tutoring multilingual writers. A service learning component will require students to volunteer weekly in the community.

  • ENWR 3660

    Travel Writing
     Rating

    4.58

     Difficulty

    2.25

     GPA

    3.67

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course will explore travel writing using a variety of texts, including essays, memoirs, blogs, photo essays, and narratives. We will examine cultural representations of travel as well as the ethical implications of tourism. Students will have the opportunity to write about their own travel experiences, and we will also embark on "local travel" of our own.

  • ENWR 1505

    Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch I
     Rating

    4.77

     Difficulty

    2.31

     GPA

    3.48

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Part I of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://professionalwriting.as.virginia.edu/requirements. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.

  • ENWR 2800

    Public Speaking
     Rating

    4.70

     Difficulty

    2.33

     GPA

    3.77

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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?

  • ENWR 2520

    Special Topics in Writing
     Rating

    4.38

     Difficulty

    2.42

     GPA

    3.74

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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.