Fall 2026 Special Enrollment Procedures

Overview

The following is a list of the fall 2026 Barnard English courses that have special enrollment procedures. The need for special enrollment as well as how to do so is also stated in each course's course description in the Online Catalogue.

Any questions about English course enrollment that are not answered by this page may be directed to english@barnard.edu.

Courses with Enrollment Restrictions

COURSE	ENROLLMENT CAP	ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS
ENGL BC1068 True Crime	60 students	Interested students must join the waitlist, priority to First-Year Barnard and Columbia students.
ENGL BC1349 Children's Literature	60 students	Interested students must join the waitlist, priority to First-Year Barnard and Columbia students.
ENGL BC1808 Rooting For The Antihero – The Evolution Of A Modern Archetype	60 students	Interested students must join the waitlist, priority to First-Year Barnard and Columbia students.
ENGL BC3103 The Art of the Essay (all sections)	12 students	Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking	14 students	Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance. Students are unable to self-register for this course. Interested students may put the course on their online schedule, which will automatically place them on the waitlist. If they are accepted, the professor will take them off the waitlist, but until that time no one is officially registered for the class.
ENGL BC3159 The English Colloquium (all sections)	12 students	Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major will be able to register during their first registration week.
ENGL BC3193 Critical Writing (all sections)	12 students	Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
ENGL BC3992 Senior Project in Creative Writing	10 students	Open only to senior Barnard English majors with a creative writing concentration.
ENGL BC3997.01 Senior Seminar: Black Lives in the Enlightenment	10 students	Open only to senior Barnard English majors.
ENGL BC3997.02 Senior Seminar: TBD	10 students	Open only to senior Barnard English majors.
ENGL BC3997.03 Senior Seminar: “A d–d mob of scribbling women”: Nineteenth-century American Women Writers	10 students	Open only to senior Barnard English majors.
ENGL BC3997.04 Senior Seminar: Victorian and Modern Drama	10 students	Open only to senior Barnard English majors.

Courses that Require Instructor Permission

COURSE	NOTES
ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking	Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance. Students are unable to self-register for this course. Interested students may put the course on their online schedule, which will automatically place them on the waitlist. If they are accepted, the professor will take them off the waitlist, but until that time no one is officially registered for the class.
ENGL BC3123 Rhetorical Choices: Public Speaking	Enrollment restricted to Barnard students. Application process and instructor permission required: https://speaking.barnard.edu/become-speaking-fellow. Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program. Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.

COURSE

NOTES

ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking

Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance. Students are unable to self-register for this course. Interested students may put the course on their online schedule, which will automatically place them on the waitlist. If they are accepted, the professor will take them off the waitlist, but until that time no one is officially registered for the class.

ENGL BC3123 Rhetorical Choices: Public Speaking

Enrollment restricted to Barnard students. Application process and instructor permission required: https://speaking.barnard.edu/become-speaking-fellow. Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program. Note: This course now counts as an elective for the English major.

Courses that Require a Writing Sample as an Application to Apply

A writing sample is required as an application to apply to all Barnard creative writing courses. As space is limited in creative writing courses, not all students who apply are guaranteed admittance.

Students are unable to self-register for Barnard creative writing courses. Interested students who have submitted writing samples may put the course on their online schedule, which will automatically place them on the wait list. If they are accepted, the professor will take them off the wait list, but until that time no one is officially registered for the class.

Directions on what to include in your writing sample and how to apply to creative writing courses are listed on the Applying to Creative Writing Courses page. Applications for Fall 2026 will open on Friday, April 17th 2026.

The Fall 2026 submission deadline for all creative writing courses is 11:59 pm ET Sunday, August 2nd, 2026. Please follow the writing sample directions here to apply.

Admission lists will be sent to applicants' emails as the department receives them from instructors. If an admission list is not sent for a class before its first meeting, attend it.

Please note: if you are accepted into a creative writing course, attendance at the first meeting of the course is mandatory. If you do not show up for the first class, your spot may be given to someone else.

If you have any further questions about writing samples or how to apply to creative writing courses, please email Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser.

ENGL BC3105.01 Fiction and Personal Narrative
ENGL BC3105.02 Fiction and Personal Narrative
ENGL BC3107 Introduction to Fiction Writing
ENGL BC3110.01 Introduction to Poetry Writing
ENGL BC3110.02 Introduction to Poetry Writing
ENGL BC3113 Playwriting I
ENGL BC3115 Story Writing
ENGL BC3117.01 Fiction Writing
ENGL BC3117.02 Fiction Writing
ENGL BC3118 Advanced Poetry Writing
ENGL BC3134 Creative Nonfiction

Courses Requiring Their Own Application Process

COURSE	NOTES
ENGL BC3102 Academic Writing Intensive	Open only to Barnard students in their second or third year who would benefit from extra writing support. To be considered for the course, please send a recent writing sample to clie@barnard.edu, ideally from your First-Year Writing or First-Year Seminar course, or any other writing-intensive humanities or social sciences course at Barnard (no lab reports please).