Online Courses in English Language and Literature

The following online English courses are not offered in every term. Please check the subject chart and/or a specific course page to see when courses are offered.

ENGL 100/6.0: Introduction to Literary Study (Fall-Winter) (Summer)

This online English course introduces you to the four main literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay. It is also designed to improve your writing skills, and to develop your knowledge of literary terms and critical techniques as a foundation for further literary study. Why study literary genre? “We need poems and stories and novels and plays, as well as essays,” replies the great American writer Scott Russell Sanders. “Each genre offers us paths through the dark woods of this life, and we need all the paths we can find.

ENGL 223/3.0: Selected Women Writers II (Winter)

This course introduces you to fiction, poetry and drama by twentieth-century and twenty-first century womens writers who have sought both to "measure" and to heal the division between poet's heart and woman's body that Woolf so eloquently describes.

ENGL 237/3.0: Children's Literature (Winter)

This online English course is a critical study of literature written for children or appropriated by adults for the nursery. The emphasis will be on distinguishing the characteristics and cultural significance of a variety of works from the medieval to the modern period... MORE

ENGL 256/6.0: Shakespeare (Summer)

This online English course is a study of Shakespeare's plays in relation to the social, intellectual, and political climate of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods and with reference to theatrical production.

ENGL 330/6.0: Restoration and 18th-Century Literature(Fall-Winter)

This online English course is a study of poetry, drama, and prose of the period 1660-1800. Readings will be drawn from the works of writers such as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Fielding, and Richardson.

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Creative Writing