ENGL 115

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

Intro to British Literature

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Credit: 3 hours.

This survey of British literature introduces students to texts ranging from the early Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Written from a diverse set of perspectives, these texts will cover multiple literary genres (including but not limited to prose narrative, lyric poetry, and drama) and will often be linked thematically.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Western

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 115 class schedule data for fall 2025
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32291	Lecture-Discussion	M	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	303 English Building	Wood, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: FA25 ENGL 115 - Introduction to British Literature - Gillen Wood - Over the last millennium, Britain has evolved from a little-regarded cultural backwater of Europe to global superpower to its present incarnation as a modern, multicultural hub of commerce and culture. This extraordinary thousand-year history is captured in the diverse voices and global scope of British literature, its richest legacy. In 115, we will explore a selection of poetry, plays, fiction, and non-fiction – from the medieval epic poem Beowulf, to a comedy by Shakespeare, poems by Keats, and contemporary short stories by Zadie Smith. Emphasis throughout the course will be on the aesthetic originality and innovation of these works, their psychological depth, and how they reflect the tumultuous social history of a nation in a perpetual state of self-transformation.