Spring 2026 Courses Open to First-Year Students

SPRING 2026 COURSES	COURSE NOTES
ENGL BC1045 Ghost Stories	First-Year English course. Please note that only one First-Year course can count as an elective for the English major requirement.
ENGL BC1152 Poetry-ish: Hybridity and Society	First-Year English course. Please note that only one First-Year course can count as an elective for the English major requirement.
ENGL BC1246 Intimate Companions: Reading and Writing About Botanicals, Animals, and People	First-Year English course. Please note that only one First-Year course can count as an elective for the English major requirement.
ENGL BC1249 AI Literacy in Practice: From Understanding to Responsible Application	First-Year English course. Please note that only one First-Year course can count as an elective for the English major requirement.
ENGL BC3104 The Art of the Essay (all sections)	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3106 Fiction and Personal Narrative	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3108 Introduction to Fiction Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3110.01 Introduction to Poetry Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3110.01 Introduction to Poetry Writing	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3114 Playwriting II	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3116 Story Writing II	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	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3121.01 First-Year Public Speaking	First Year students should join the waitlist to be let into the course.
ENGL BC3125 Advanced Poetry Writing II	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3134 Creative Non-Fiction	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENTH BC3136 Shakespeare in Performance
ENTH BC3139 Modern American Drama & Performance
ENGL BC3155 The Canterbury Tales
ENGL BC3164 Shakespeare II
ENGL BC3166 Seventeenth-Century Prose & Poetry
ENGL BC3180 American Literature 1800-1870
ENGL BC3189 Postmodernism
ENGL BC3215 Victorian Science & Sci-Fi
ENGL BC3229 American Lives, American Stories	Requires a writing sample to apply.
ENGL BC3321 Changing Climate, Changing World
ENGL BC3413 Serial Horror
ENGL BC3418 Desire and Metamorphosis
ENGL BC3456 Contemporary World Poetry
ENGL BC3521 Global Literatures in English
ENGL BC3609 The History of American Journalism of Conscience from Frederick Douglass to The Present
ENGL BC3750 Gender, Sexuality and The American Stage: Performing the Body Politic
ENGL BC3768 Literature on Drugs
ENGL BC3865 Out of Place