• 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.

  • ENWR 1510

    Writing and Critical Inquiry
     Rating

    3.76

     Difficulty

    2.69

     GPA

    3.58

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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 4580

    Seminar in Literary Criticism
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.58

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • ENGL 3660

    Modern Poetry
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.59

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course is a survey of modern poetry written in English. 'Make it new,' wrote Ezra Pound, and this course explores the various ways in which modern poets reinvented poetry in the first half of the twentieth century. It examines the signature style and literary contribution of selected anglophone poets, asking how they remade inherited genres, forms, and vocabularies.

  • ENGL 4561

    Seminar in Modern Literature and Culture
     Rating

    3.83

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.59

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Limited enrollment. An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on the interrelationships between literature and history, the social sciences, philosophy, religion, and the fine arts in the Modern period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

  • 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.

  • ENGL 2502

    Masterpieces of English Literature
     Rating

    4.25

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.60

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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.

  • ENGL 3001

    History of Literatures in English I
     Rating

    3.91

     Difficulty

    3.45

     GPA

    3.60

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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 4270

    Shakespeare Seminar
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.60

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    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 4520

    Seminar in Renaissance Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.60

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples are `Renaissance Word and Image' and `Masks of Desire.' For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.