1000-Level Course Descriptions
FALL 2025 | FALL/WINTER 2025-26 | WINTER 2026
ENGL-1000-001 | English 1A: When Books Talk Back | K. Ready
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This particular section of English 1A (subtitled “When Books Talk Back”) offers a select historical survey of poetry, fiction, and drama in English. The focus will be on texts that are engaged significantly in conversations with other texts and on contextualizing and understanding those conversations. As part of this process, students will be introduced to various critical theories and terms in order to get a sense of important developments in the history of different literary genres, of how different writers fit into literary history and culture, and, finally, of how different texts are speaking to each other within that history.
ENGL-1000-002 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-003 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-004 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-005 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-770| English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
ENGL-1003-001 | Intro Topics in Literature | Z. Izydorczyk
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1003-002 | Intro Topics in Literature: Literature, Climate, and the Environment | H. Milne
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This course introduces students to the basic concepts of reading and writing about literature through the study of fiction, poetry, and essays about climate and the environment. While much of our focus will be on contemporary “cli fi” (or climate fiction) and ecopoetics, we will also spend some time analyzing older literary works in order to understand the history of literary engagements with climate and nature. We will consider how nature has functioned in literature as screen onto which writers have projected their own anxieties, and we will consider the connections between nature, climate, colonialism, and capitalism as these themes are explored in fiction and poetry. We will also devote considerable attention to developing research and essay writing skills.
ENGL-1003-770| English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
ENGL-1004-001 | Reading Culture | A. Burke
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This course introduces students to the basics of cultural studies by taking up questions of how we see and focusing on the process of visual interpretation. In its focus on visual media over the centuries, from paintings to photographs to films and television, the course investigates the relationship between traditional literary study and the skills necessary to understand and interpret forms of visual culture. Readings for the course will primarily consist of essays chosen to accompany the visual material that forms the core of our in-class work. This is a course in visual culture, but one to which writing is central. We will devote considerable time to the conventions of academic writing and to the development of research skills.
ENGL-1004-770 | Reading Culture | TBA
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
ENGL-1005-001 | Reading to Write | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1005-002 | Reading To Write | S. Pool
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
MULT-1301-001 | Intro to Humanities | A. Brickey & B. Christopher
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
FALL/WINTER 2025-26
ENGL-1001-001 | English 1 | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1001-002 | English 1 | H. Snell
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1001-770 | English 1 | TBA
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
WINTER 2026
ENGL-1000-006 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-007 | English 1A| TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-008 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-009 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-050 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-761 | English 1A | TBA
Course Delivery: ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
ENGL-1003-003 | Topics in Literature | Z. Izydorczyk
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1003-004 | Topics in Literature: Women's Writing | C. Lypka
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
Is there such a thing as “women’s writing” and, if so, what are its characteristics? All the texts we will read in this course are written by women with a focus on female archetypes and narratives. We will also read essays and manifestos to get a sense of how critical thought on this topic has developed over time and how politics and history have influenced these works. This course will explore the ways in which women have contributed to literary tradition both by working within and by challenging mainstream movements. In examining women’s use of literary forms as aesthetic, personal, and political sites, we will consider how issues of identity and historical context affect and influence writing strategies. This course will be highly participatory and collaborative, and we will focus on developing our skills in close reading, interpretation, discussion, and critical writing.
ENGL-1003-005 | Topics in Literature | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1004-002 | Reading Culture | C. Tosenberger
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1004-761 | Reading Culture | B. Cornellier
Course Delivery: ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
ENGL-1005-770 | Reading to Write | CAS
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS