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/.

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.

Study of selected poems and prose, with particular emphasis on Paradise Lost. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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.

The course analyzes our global cultural condition from a dual historical and literary perspective and follows a development stretching over the last 60 years, beginning with the period just after WW II and continuing to the present day. Of central concern will be the varieties of cultural expression across regions of the world and their relation to a rapidly changing social history, drawing upon events that occur during the semester.

Surveys selected English writers from the fourteenth through the eighteenth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

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.

An introduction to the study of literature. Why is imaginative literature worth reading and taking seriously? How do we prepare ourselves to be the best possible readers of imaginative literature?

Introduces the techniques of the dramatic art, with close analysis of selected plays. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.