ENGLISH courses
221 courses · Duke University · Fall 2026
- ENGLISH 20 — Literature and Composition1 section
- ENGLISH 22 — Composition and Language1 section
- ENGLISH 89S — First-Year Seminar on Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 90S — Special Topics in Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 100 — English Lower Level Elective1 section
- ENGLISH 100S — English Lower Level Elective Seminar1 section
- ENGLISH 101 — The Art of Reading1 section
- ENGLISH 101S — The Art of Reading1 section
- ENGLISH 102 — The Art of Storytelling1 section
- ENGLISH 110S — Introduction to Creative Writing1 section
- ENGLISH 147CNS — Border Fictions1 section
- ENGLISH 160 — Fantasy: The Borders of Genre, Medium, and Culture1 section
- ENGLISH 162CNS — Monstrous Births: Coming to Life in Science and Literature of the 19th century1 section
- ENGLISH 165CNS — The Cultural Cold War: Voices From Below1 section
- ENGLISH 170CN — Political Theater1 section
- ENGLISH 171CNS — Being Human: Exploring Our Boundaries in Literature & Film1 section
- ENGLISH 172 — American Indians Go Graphic1 section
- ENGLISH 174CNS — Gender and Sexuality in Modernist Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 181 — Introduction to Film Studies1 section
- ENGLISH 187A — Reading Theater in New York1 section
- ENGLISH 187S — Reading Theater1 section
- ENGLISH 190-1 — Special Topics in Language and Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 190FS-2 — Focus Program Seminar: Topics on Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 190S-1 — Special Topics in Language and Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 190SA — Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in English1 section
- ENGLISH 200 — English Upper Level Elective1 section
- ENGLISH 200S — English Upper Level Elective Seminar1 section
- ENGLISH 202 — Introduction to Performance Studies1 section
- ENGLISH 203A — The Arts, Culture, and Performance of New York1 section
- ENGLISH 204 — History of English1 section
- ENGLISH 206 — Variety in Language: English in the United States1 section
- ENGLISH 208S — Criticism and the Arts1 section
- ENGLISH 212S — Writing Across Borders1 section
- ENGLISH 212SA — Writing the City: New York As Subject and Source of Literary Production1 section
- ENGLISH 215S — Literature in Ongoing Catastrophe: Writing Laboratory1 section
- ENGLISH 217S — Writing Flash Nonfiction1 section
- ENGLISH 218S — Plays That Change the World1 section
- ENGLISH 220S — Introduction to the Writing of Poetry1 section
- ENGLISH 221S — Introduction to the Writing of Fiction1 section
- ENGLISH 222S — Introduction to the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction1 section
- ENGLISH 223S — How to Write a Horror Movie1 section
- ENGLISH 224S — Ready for Prime Time: Writing the Dramatic TV Episode1 section
- ENGLISH 225S — Writing the Movie. Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen1 section
- ENGLISH 226S — Dramatic Writing1 section
- ENGLISH 227S — Writing Movies and Plays: Adaptation1 section
- ENGLISH 229S — Musical Shakespeare1 section
- ENGLISH 235 — Shakespeare1 section
- ENGLISH 236S — Shakespeare's Nature1 section
- ENGLISH 237 — America from Abroad: Literature and Cinema1 section
- ENGLISH 240S — Writing for Change1 section
- ENGLISH 242S — Banned Books1 section
- ENGLISH 243S — Literatures and Films of Pandemic1 section
- ENGLISH 244 — Modern European Short Fiction1 section
- ENGLISH 245 — English Literature of the Romantic Period1 section
- ENGLISH 246 — Jane Austen1 section
- ENGLISH 247 — Victorian Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 248 — British Literature 1660-1790: Defoe to Austen1 section
- ENGLISH 251 — British Literature: 1900 to 19451 section
- ENGLISH 254 — From History to Fantasy: Medieval Religions in Film & Fiction1 section
- ENGLISH 258 — Religion and the Novel in Modern India1 section
- ENGLISH 264S — Modern American Drama1 section
- ENGLISH 266S — American Crime: Fiction and Film1 section
- ENGLISH 267S — American Hauntings: From Poe to Pop Culture1 section
- ENGLISH 269 — Classics of American Literature, 1820-18601 section
- ENGLISH 269S — Classics of American Literature, 1820-18601 section
- ENGLISH 270 — Classics of American Literature, 1860 to 19151 section
- ENGLISH 271 — Classics of American Literature, 1915 to 19601 section
- ENGLISH 273AS — Duke in London: Arts1 section
- ENGLISH 274S — Introduction to Asian American Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 275 — Introduction to Asian American and Diaspora Studies1 section
- ENGLISH 276 — African Diaspora Literature: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Black Writers1 section
- ENGLISH 277 — African American Theater and Performance1 section
- ENGLISH 278S — Transformative Ideas: Power, Theater, and Politics1 section
- ENGLISH 279S — Docu-Poetry: Real Life Truths Outside and Inside the Poetic Narrative1 section
- ENGLISH 282S — Modernism and the Arts1 section
- ENGLISH 283S — Feminist Theory1 section
- ENGLISH 284S — Book Publishing & Marketing: A Case Study of the Romance Fiction Industry1 section
- ENGLISH 285S — Existentialism1 section
- ENGLISH 286 — The Legend of King Arthur in Literature and Film1 section
- ENGLISH 287 — Romantic Fairy Tales: Literary and Folk Fairy Tales from Grimms to Disney1 section
- ENGLISH 288 — American Dreams, American Movies1 section
- ENGLISH 289 — America Dreams American Movies II: Independents Through Streaming1 section
- ENGLISH 290-7 — Special Topics in Language and Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 290AS-2 — Topics in Nineteenth-Century British Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 290S — Special Topics in Language and Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 290S-1 — Special Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 290S-2 — Special Topics in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Lit1 section
- ENGLISH 290S-3 — Special Topics in English Literature: Modern and Contemporary1 section
- ENGLISH 290S-4 — Special Topics in Creative Writing1 section
- ENGLISH 290S-5 — Special Topics in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology1 section
- ENGLISH 299 — Hip Hop, Futurism, and the End of the World1 section
- ENGLISH 300 — English Upper Level Elective1 section
- ENGLISH 300S — English Lower Level Elective Seminar1 section
- ENGLISH 301S — Imagining Human Rights: Science Fiction, Culture, and the Creation of Rights1 section
- ENGLISH 313 — Internship in New York1 section
- ENGLISH 313A-1 — Internship in New York1 section
- ENGLISH 314A — Internship in New York1 section
- ENGLISH 315S — Spiritual Autobiography: A Unique Form of Creative Nonfiction1 section
- ENGLISH 316S-1 — Playmaking for Writers: Collaboration from Page to Stage1 section
- ENGLISH 317S — Screenwriting1 section
- ENGLISH 318S — Expressing Immigrant Experience: The Russians1 section
- ENGLISH 319S — Narrative and Moral Crisis1 section
- ENGLISH 320S — Intermediate Workshop in the Writing of Poetry1 section
- ENGLISH 321S — Intermediate Workshop in the Writing of Fiction1 section
- ENGLISH 322S — Intermediate Workshop in the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction1 section
- ENGLISH 325S — Literary Translation: History, Theory, and Practice1 section
- ENGLISH 327S — 9/11 and The Global Novel1 section
- ENGLISH 330 — The Seven Deadly Sins: Representing Vice and Virtue in Christian Tradition1 section
- ENGLISH 331S — Late Medieval Literature and Culture1 section
- ENGLISH 332S — Chaucer I1 section
- ENGLISH 333 — Chaucer II1 section
- ENGLISH 336 — Shakespeare through 16001 section
- ENGLISH 337 — Shakespeare After 16001 section
- ENGLISH 338S — Milton1 section
- ENGLISH 344 — Eighteenth-Century British Novel1 section
- ENGLISH 345 — Nineteenth-Century British Novel1 section
- ENGLISH 346 — Victorian Poetry1 section
- ENGLISH 350S — Asian American and Latinx Literature and Film1 section
- ENGLISH 351S — Global Hispanophone in Translation1 section
- ENGLISH 353S — Black Feminism and Fashion1 section
- ENGLISH 354S — Picaras and Outlaws: Global South Feminisms1 section
- ENGLISH 355S — The Radical Narratives of Toni Morrison1 section
- ENGLISH 356S — Language, Gender, and Sexuality1 section
- ENGLISH 358S — Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Film1 section
- ENGLISH 360S — The Environment in Literature, Law, and Science1 section
- ENGLISH 362 — What Is Beauty?1 section
- ENGLISH 365S — Modern Drama: 1940-20001 section
- ENGLISH 371S — Studies in American Literature, WWI-WWII1 section
- ENGLISH 372S — Modern American Poetry1 section
- ENGLISH 373 — American Literature, Cold War and After1 section
- ENGLISH 373S — Studies in American Literature, Cold War and After1 section
- ENGLISH 374 — Contemporary American Writers1 section
- ENGLISH 375S — Contemporary American Drama1 section
- ENGLISH 376S — The Detective Novel1 section
- ENGLISH 377 — Contemporary Novel1 section
- ENGLISH 378S — Popular Arts and Culture in Africa1 section
- ENGLISH 379S — Fictions That Mark the Moment1 section
- ENGLISH 380 — Popular Representations of Black Masculinity1 section
- ENGLISH 380S — James Baldwin and Toni Morrison1 section
- ENGLISH 381 — The History of Hip-Hop1 section
- ENGLISH 382S — Mapping Jewish Modernism1 section
- ENGLISH 385S — Fiction/Reality/Autofiction: The Existential Turn in Contemporary Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 386 — Science Fiction Film1 section
- ENGLISH 386S — Science Fiction Film1 section
- ENGLISH 387S — Asian American Theater1 section
- ENGLISH 388S — Cold War Hollywood: The Case of Alfred Hitchcock1 section
- ENGLISH 389S — American Independent Cinema1 section
- ENGLISH 390-1 — Special Topics: Single American Author1 section
- ENGLISH 390-2 — Special Topics in a Single British Author1 section
- ENGLISH 390-5 — Special Topics in Genre1 section
- ENGLISH 390-6 — Special Topics in Film1 section
- ENGLISH 390A — Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in English1 section
- ENGLISH 390S-1 — Special Topics in a Single American Author1 section
- ENGLISH 390S-2 — Special Topics in a Single British Author1 section
- ENGLISH 390S-5 — Special Topics in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology1 section
- ENGLISH 390S-6 — Special Topics in Film1 section
- ENGLISH 390S-7 — Special Topics in Language and Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 391A — Duke in New York Arts and Media Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 392S — Autobiographical Writing: The Power and the Pitfalls of 'Me'1 section
- ENGLISH 395 — Language and Society1 section
- ENGLISH 396S — Language in Immigrant America1 section
- ENGLISH 397S — Narratives of Migration1 section
- ENGLISH 398 — Digital Media Internship1 section
- ENGLISH 400 — English Upper Level Elective1 section
- ENGLISH 409S — Black (In) Translation1 section
- ENGLISH 417S — Imagining Freedom: Literature and Cinema of Decolonization in South Asia1 section
- ENGLISH 420S — Advanced Workshop in the Writing of Poetry1 section
- ENGLISH 421S — Advanced Workshop in the Writing of Fiction1 section
- ENGLISH 422S — Advanced Writing for Stage and Screen1 section
- ENGLISH 460S — Weil, Beauvoir, Murdoch: Three Women Philosophers in Mid-Twentieth Century Europe1 section
- ENGLISH 480S — Understanding Mediation1 section
- ENGLISH 482S — Studies in Contemporary Theory1 section
- ENGLISH 490 — Special Topics in Language and Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 490-1 — Current Topics in Linguistics1 section
- ENGLISH 490-7 — Special Topics in Literature and the Other Arts1 section
- ENGLISH 490S — Special Topics in Language and Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 490S-1 — Special Topics in Linguistics1 section
- ENGLISH 490S-10 — Special Topics in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology1 section
- ENGLISH 490S-2 — Special Topics in African American Literary Studies1 section
- ENGLISH 490T — Tutorial (Area I, II, or III as determined by instructor)1 section
- ENGLISH 491 — Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 493 — Research Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 495 — Distinction Creative Writing Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 496 — Distinction Creative Writing Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 497 — Distinction Critical Research Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 498 — Distinction Critical Research Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 537S — Shakespeare & Co.: English Renaissance Drama1 section
- ENGLISH 538S — Special Topics in Renaissance Prose and Poetry: 1500 to 16601 section
- ENGLISH 540S — Special Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (DS3)1 section
- ENGLISH 545S — Romantic Literature: 1790 to 18301 section
- ENGLISH 546S — Special Topics in Victorian Literature1 section
- ENGLISH 550S — Black Culture and Performance1 section
- ENGLISH 571S — Dystopia, Speculation, and the Transhuman: Octavia Butler1 section
- ENGLISH 581S — Mimesis in Theory, Embodied Practice, and Literary Arts1 section
- ENGLISH 582S — Wittgensteinian Perspectives on Literary Theory1 section
- ENGLISH 590-1 — Special Topics I1 section
- ENGLISH 590-2 — Special Topics II1 section
- ENGLISH 590-4 — Special Topics in Criticism1 section
- ENGLISH 590S-1 — Special Topics Seminar I1 section
- ENGLISH 590S-2 — Special Topics Seminar II1 section
- ENGLISH 590S-3 — Special Topics Seminar III1 section
- ENGLISH 590S-4 — Special Topics Seminar in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology1 section
- ENGLISH 590S-5 — Special Topics Seminar on Diversity1 section
- ENGLISH 591 — Special Readings - Independent Study1 section
- ENGLISH 616S — Literature and Philosophy1 section
- ENGLISH 620S — Film-philosophers/Film-makers1 section
- ENGLISH 680S — Blackness, Social Death, and the Volatile Sacred1 section
- ENGLISH 691S — Black Sonic Culture—Analog to Digital1 section
- ENGLISH 765S — Existentialism, Nihilism, and Religion1 section
- ENGLISH 767S — How Blackness Thinks1 section
- ENGLISH 822S — Writing is Thinking1 section
- ENGLISH 823S — History of Literary Criticism1 section
- ENGLISH 826S — Contemporary Genre Fiction: The Global Novel1 section
- ENGLISH 827S — The Global Novel: Post, What?1 section
- ENGLISH 860S — Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy1 section
- ENGLISH 890 — Special Topics1 section
- ENGLISH 890S — Special Topics Seminar1 section
- ENGLISH 890T — Tutorial in Special Topics1 section
- ENGLISH 891 — Special Readings1 section
- ENGLISH 900S — African American Religion Through the Literary Imagination1 section
- ENGLISH 996 — Practicum in Teaching College English1 section
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