• ENWR 3500

    Topics in Advanced Writing & Rhetoric
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.77

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new, advanced topic in the subject area of writing and rhetoric. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENWR 2800

    Public Speaking
     Rating

    4.70

     Difficulty

    2.33

     GPA

    3.77

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    An inquiry-based approach to the development of a confident, engaging, and ethical public speaking style. Beyond practical skills, this course emphasizes rhetorical thinking: what are the conventions of public speaking? Where are there opportunities to deviate from convention in ways that might serve a speech's purpose? How might we construct an audience through the ways we craft language and plan the delivery of our speech?

  • 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.

  • ENGL 4559

    New Course in English Literature
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    1.00

     GPA

    3.78

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • 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 5580

    Seminar in Critical Theory
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.80

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • ENWR 2510

    Advanced Writing Seminar
     Rating

    4.50

     Difficulty

    2.81

     GPA

    3.80

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    A 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. Enrollment limited to students meeting benchmarks determined by the Writing Program.

  • ENGL 8540

    Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.80

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

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

  • ENGL 5559

    New Course in English Literature
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.81

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject of English Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.

  • ENGL 3162

    Chaucer II
     Rating

     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.81

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Studies Troilus and Criseyde 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.