Fall 2026 Courses Open to First-Year Students

FALL 2026 COURSES	COURSE NOTES
ENGL BC1068 True Crime	First-Year English course. Please note that only one First-Year course can count as an elective for the English major requirement.
ENGL BC1349 Children's Literature	First-Year English course. Please note that only one First-Year course can count as an elective for the English major requirement.
ENGL BC1808 Rooting For The Antihero – The Evolution Of A Modern Archetype	First-Year English course. Please note that only one First-Year course can count as an elective for the English major requirement.
ENGL BC3103 The Art of the Essay (all sections)	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3105 Fiction and Personal Narrative (both sections)	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3107 Introduction to Fiction Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3110 Introduction to Poetry Writing (both sections)	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3113 Playwriting I	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3115 Story Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3117.01 Fiction Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3117.02 Fiction Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3118 Advanced Poetry Writing (both sections)	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3134 Creative Non-Fiction	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3153 Shakespeare's Sonnets: An Experiment in Slow Reading
ENGL BC3163 Shakespeare I
ENGL BC3179 American Literature To 1800
ENGL BC3181 American Literature 1871-1945
ENGL BC3185 Modern British & American Poetry
ENGL BC3208 What's Your Story Anyway?—Trauma Resistance through Creative Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC BC3214 Latinx and the ICE/Prison Industrial Complex—Access and Strategies for News Coverage
ENGL BC3322 Poetry and the Politics of Decolonization
ENGL BC3521 Global Literatures In English
ENGL BC3536 Comic Book Metropolis: How New York City Made American Comics
ENGL BC3589 Asian American Literature