English

spring 2026
 
All Classes
  • English
  • Head of Department: Justine Murison
  • Department Office: 208 English Building, 608 South Wright, Urbana
  • P: 217-333-2391
Subjects associated with this department include: Business and Technical Writing (BTW), Creative Writing (CW), English (ENGL), and Rhetoric and Composition (RHET).
COURSE NUMBER COURSE TITLE
ENGL 104 Introduction to Film
ENGL 109 Intro to Fiction-ACP
ENGL 116 Introduction to American Literature
ENGL 119 Literature of Fantasy
ENGL 121 Introduction to Comics
ENGL 199 Undergraduate Open Seminar
ENGL 200 Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture
ENGL 202 Medieval Literature and Culture
ENGL 206 Enlightenment Literature and Culture
ENGL 207 Romantic Literature and Culture
ENGL 209 Early British Literature and Culture
ENGL 211 Introduction to Modern African Literature
ENGL 213 Modernist Literature and Culture
ENGL 218 Introduction to Shakespeare
ENGL 221 Speculative Futures
ENGL 224 Latina/o Popular Culture
ENGL 225 Intro to Latina/o Literature
ENGL 241 Modern Poetry
ENGL 245 The Short Story
ENGL 250 Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
ENGL 251 The Twentieth-Century American Novel
ENGL 255 Early American Literature and Culture
ENGL 260 Modern African American Literature and Culture
ENGL 265 Intro to American Indian Lit
ENGL 266 Grimm's Fairy Tales in Context
ENGL 276 Asian Film Genres
ENGL 277 Gender in Gaming
ENGL 285 Postcolonial Literature in English
ENGL 286 Asian American Literature
ENGL 290 Individual Study
ENGL 301 Introduction to Critical Theory
ENGL 311 History of the English Language
ENGL 323 Tolstoy
ENGL 325 Topics in LGBT Literature and Film
ENGL 350 Writing about Literature, Text, and Culture
ENGL 357 Literatures of the Displaced
ENGL 360 Environmental Writing
ENGL 373 Special Topics in Film Studies
ENGL 380 Topics in Writing Studies
ENGL 390 Advanced Individual Study
ENGL 391 Honors Individual Study
ENGL 396 English Honors Seminar
ENGL 402 Descriptive English Grammar
ENGL 418 Shakespeare
ENGL 441 Innovation and Conflict in British and Irish Modernism
ENGL 450 Becoming Modern: American Literature, 1865-1914
ENGL 460 Literature of American Minorities
ENGL 467 Multimedia Environmental Communications
ENGL 478 Science, Technology, and Narrative
ENGL 481 Composition Theory and Practice
ENGL 496 Experiments in Queer of Color Performance
ENGL 498 Environmental Writing for Publication
ENGL 504 Theories of Cinema
ENGL 524 Seminar in Early Modern Literature
ENGL 559 Seminar Afro-American Lit
ENGL 563 Seminar Themes and Movements
ENGL 581 Seminar Literary Theory
ENGL 582 Topics Research and Writing
ENGL 583 Topics Writ Pedagogy & Design
ENGL 591 Research in Special Topics
ENGL 593 Professional Seminar in College Teaching