• ENGL 4560

    Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Literature
     Rating

    3.67

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.70

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • ENGL 2506

    Studies in Poetry
     Rating

    4.36

     Difficulty

    3.07

     GPA

    3.67

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Examines the poetic techniques and conventions of imagery and verse that poets have used across the centuries. Exercises in scansion, close reading, and framing arguments about poetry. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 2599

    Special Topics
     Rating

    4.37

     Difficulty

    3.15

     GPA

    3.71

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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 3273

    Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances
     Rating

    4.06

     Difficulty

    3.17

     GPA

    3.48

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Surveys the plays of Shakespeare's later career, emphasizing the great tragedies and romances. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 3002

    History of Literatures in English II
     Rating

    4.00

     Difficulty

    3.50

     GPA

    3.63

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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/.

  • ENGL 2572

    Black Writers in America
     Rating

    4.67

     Difficulty

    4.00

     GPA

    3.78

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Topics in African-American writing in the US from its beginning in vernacular culture to the present day; topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 4500

    Seminar in English Literature
     Rating

    3.33

     Difficulty

    4.00

     GPA

    3.57

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • ENGL 3500

    Studies in English Literature
     Rating

    2.67

     Difficulty

    5.00

     GPA

    3.77

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • ENWR 3720

    Argumentation Across Disciplines
     Rating

    2.00

     Difficulty

    5.00

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Argumentation Across Disciplines examines how the linguistic and rhetorical features of argument vary from discipline to discipline. The course will make two primary movements: The first is an examination of what argument is through the lens of classical and new rhetorical theory. Second, students will do comparative research on the linguistic and rhetorical features of texts in two different disciplines.

  • ESL 801

    Workplace Communication for English Language Learners
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Participants learn and practice ways to improve oral and written communication in the workplace. Activities relate to the participant's work. Goals include improving fluency, accuracy, and comprehensibility. Learning and practicing vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar in work related contexts are an important part of the course. Participants will also learn about and discuss issues relating to workplace culture in North America.