• ENGL 5530

    Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.24

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    A graduate-level seminar in Eighteenth-Century literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu.

  • ENWR 2700

    News Writing
     Rating

    3.11

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.36

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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 3910

    Satire
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.40

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Reading and discussion of major satirical works from classical times to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 3260

    Milton
     Rating

    4.00

     Difficulty

    3.00

     GPA

    3.41

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    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.

  • 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.

  • ENWR 1506

    Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch II
     Rating

    4.58

     Difficulty

    2.50

     GPA

    3.52

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Part II of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.Prerequisite: ENWR 1505.

  • ENWR 3760

    Studies in Cultural Rhetoric
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.52

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    An introduction to critical frameworks and methods for exploring how rhetorics construct, preserve, and augment social understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, class and more. Areas of focus may include: cultural practices of writing, digital rhetorics, performance, popular culture, material rhetorics, visual rhetorics, race and ethnicity. Specific themes and topics may vary.

  • ENGL 3370

    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.53

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Introduces students to major plays, playwrights, and theatrical issues of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENWR 3900

    Career-Based Writing and Rhetoric
     Rating

    4.50

     Difficulty

    2.50

     GPA

    3.53

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design.

  • ENGL 3540

    Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.56

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Examination of particular movements within the period, (e.g., the Aesthetic Movement; the Pre-Raphaelites; and Condition-of-England novels). For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.