• ENWR 3559

    New Course in Writing and Rhetoric
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.62

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. 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 2527

    Shakespeare
     Rating

    3.33

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.63

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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 2592

    Women in Literature
     Rating

    4.33

     Difficulty

    4.00

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Analyzes the representations of women in literature as well as literary texts by women writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 3560

    Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
     Rating

    4.50

     Difficulty

    2.75

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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 3740

    Black Women's Writing & Rhetoric
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.64

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    A chronological survey of the persuasive communication and writing strategies Black women have used towards the project of empowerment and activism in speeches, essays, poetry, drama, and novels.

  • ENGL 2508

    Studies in Fiction
     Rating

    3.86

     Difficulty

    2.73

     GPA

    3.66

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • ENWR 3660

    Travel Writing
     Rating

    4.58

     Difficulty

    2.25

     GPA

    3.67

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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.

  • 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 4540

    Seminar in Nineteenth-Century Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.68

    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.