Courses

Course Numbering Explained

The English Department uses this general system of numbering for our courses:

Course Number	Course Title
English 10	Literature Today
English 20	Literary Forms
English 40-49	Literary Arrivals, 700-1700
English 50-59	Poets
English 60-69	Literary Migrations: America in Transnational Context
Shakespeare	Shakespeare
English 90	Undergraduate Seminars
English 91r	Supervised Reading and Research
English 97	LiteraryMethods
English 98r	Junior Tutorial
English 99r	Senior Tutorial
100-109 and 200-209	Old English
110-119 and 210-219	Middle English
120-129 and 220-229	Renaissance
130-139 and 230-239	17th-c
140-149 and 240-249	18th-c
150-159 and 250-259	Romanticism and 19th-c British
160-169 and 260-269	20th-c and 21st-c
170-179 and 270-279	American
180-189 and 280-289	Modernism, thematic courses mainly modern
190-199 and 290-299	Criticism, Theory
English 200	Graduate Seminar
English 300	Graduate Directed Study
English 397	“Directed Study”
English 398	“Direction of Doctoral Dissertations”
English 399	“Reading and Research”
Cross-Listed Courses	Cross-Listed Courses
General Education	General Education
Freshman Seminars	Freshman Seminars

The Registrar's office keeps a list of past courses of instruction.