Spring 2026 Undergraduate English Courses

MA  MTH3   CAC  12243  CAPONEGRO   MU-303 Writing Lab: AI and Media Exploration Looking to grow as a writer and communicator? Whether you are a confident storyteller with a project in mind, a STEM student aiming to sharpen your communication skills, or simply curious about new and effective ways to express ideas, this class is for you. In this mini-course we will experiment with a variety of platforms and media, from manual printing presses and handmade inks to audio storytelling, visual rhetoric, and...

01  TTH5   CAC   12244   MCGILL    MU-114  Edgar Allan Poe is widely known as an innovator or inventor of a number of popular genres:  the locked-room mystery, science fiction, the gothic tale, and the newspaper hoax.  But he has also had a huge impact on more elite literary and cultural pursuits:  his writing was central to the development of Symbolist poetry, modernist painting and illustration, film, psychoanalysis, and literary theory.  The figure of Poe—melancholy dreamer, misunderstood genius, and...

01   MW4   CAC   12245   MURPHY   HH-A7 Theater has been a means for representing and challenging how a society sees itself since ancient times. “Dramatic literature” as a genre, though, is a modern invention. What, when you read a play, are you actually reading? This class introduces the study of drama in relation to theatrical production and literary criticism. Themes for discussion will include: style, audience, politics, print/production, and changing cultural attitudes towards theater and drama. We...

01  TTH5    CAC     12246   GLISERMAN   MU-111 Introduction to the Graphic Novel will explore how graphic novels are built and told. We will learn a conceptual vocabulary to discuss how the graphic novel achieves its objective of obtaining the reader’s attention and engagement. We will develop our understanding of graphic novels by way of a graphic introduction to comics—Understanding Comics. Our understanding will develop by examining a range of graphics—e.g., Persepolis, Maus, Fun Home, Ghost World,...

01    MTH1   CAC    12247     MANGHARAM   MU-204