English at Boston College
Boston College English courses: 133 listings with descriptions, sections, instructor ratings, and teaching history.
English at Boston College offers 133 courses in the current catalog, from ENGL1009 First Year Writing Seminar for Multilingual Students to ENGL9934 Advanced Research Colloquium. Each course page on Linden Study shows the catalog description, credits and prerequisites, the sections offered each term, and the instructors who have taught it, with aggregate ratings from Boston College's published course evaluations and the number of responses behind each one. Teaching records here cover 256 instructors across 17 terms, from Fall 2021 to Spring 2027.
1000-level courses
- ENGL1009 First Year Writing Seminar for Multilingual Students
- ENGL1010 First Year Writing Seminar
- ENGL1079 Literature Core for Multilingual Students
- ENGL1080 Literature Core
- ENGL1093 An Introduction to Modern Irish I
- ENGL1094 An Introduction to Modern Irish II
- ENGL1180 Lit Core: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration
- ENGL1184 Lit Core: Literature, Testimony, Justice
- ENGL1186 Lit Core: Working Class: Stories of Labor, Class, and Privilege in America
- ENGL1712 Roots and Routes: Reading Identity, Migration, and Culture
- ENGL1713 Roots and Routes: Writing Identity, Migration, and Culture
- ENGL1735 The Meaning of Boston: Literature and Culture
- ENGL1739 Crafting Alternative Futures: Imagined Worlds in Literature
- ENGL1742 Poverty and Progress: Literary Perspectives on Causes and Consequences
- ENGL1743 Breaking Bread: Food, Fiction, and Identity
- ENGL1745 Where We Are: Reading in Place
- ENGL1746 Where We Are: Writing in Place
- ENGL1751 Metamorphosis and Transformation: Literature and Myth
2000-level courses
- ENGL2097 Intermediate Modern Irish I
- ENGL2098 Intermediate Modern Irish II
- ENGL2123 Language and Ethnicity
- ENGL2125 Introduction to Feminisms
- ENGL2131 Studies in Poetry
- ENGL2133 Studies in Narrative
- ENGL2141 American Literary History I
- ENGL2142 American Literary History II
- ENGL2154 Introduction to Adolescent Fiction
- ENGL2170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I
- ENGL2171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II
- ENGL2202 Beast Literature
- ENGL2203 Introducing Ireland through Stage and Screen
- ENGL2210 Madmen, Hysterics, and Criminals: Inventing Deviance
- ENGL2212 Introduction to Medical Humanities
- ENGL2220 Classical Mythology
- ENGL2221 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL2222 Introduction to Creative Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGL2223 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL2227 Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2228 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2229 Literature of the Other Europe
- ENGL2241 Playwriting I
- ENGL2246 Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL2248 Playwriting II
- ENGL2255 Introduction to World Literatures through Short Stories and Film
- ENGL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- ENGL2262 Telling Truths II: Depth Writing as Service
- ENGL2278 American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice
- ENGL2293 Waves, Woods, Wilds: 19th Century British and Irish Environmental Literature
- ENGL2294 Weird Fiction: Gothic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
- ENGL2301 Journalism on Drugs
- ENGL2348 Modern Levantine and Arabic Literature (in translation)
- ENGL2483 Introduction to African American Literature
- ENGL2900 Fortunes, Failures, and Frauds: Business Stories
3000-level courses
- ENGL3022 Reading, Making, Doing
- ENGL3220 Teaching Banned Books: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
- ENGL3310 Shakespeare
- ENGL3326 Blackness, Performance, and Freedom
- ENGL3357 American Bestsellers and Undersellers
- ENGL3373 Contemporary Theatre and Drama in London
- ENGL3392 Syntax and Semantics
- ENGL3527 General Linguistics
- ENGL3814 The Series: From Victorian Novels to Streaming TV
- ENGL3820 Strange Doctors: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
- ENGL3821 Sporting Rhetorics: Language, Games, and Culture
- ENGL3825 True Crime: Scoundrels, Villains, and Vice
- ENGL3826 Sad Girl Lit from Austen to Rooney
- ENGL3831 Shrews: Unruly (Wo)men in Premodern English Literature
- ENGL3832 Ireland and the Atlantic World
- ENGL3833 Rebellion, Famine, and the Resilient Imagination: Irish Literature in Times of Crisis
- ENGL3834 Immigrant Narratives and the Idea of America
- ENGL3835 John Milton: How to Think Big with Poetry
- ENGL3836 Language and Literature during the Rise of AI
- ENGL3901 The Great Migration Narrative: Black Storytelling in/across Time, Space, and Generations
4000-level courses
- ENGL4006 Changing Worlds: Climate Literature from the Global South
- ENGL4011 Faulkner to Beyonce: New South Aesthetics
- ENGL4022 Modern European Novel
- ENGL4201 Science Writing
- ENGL4202 Writing for Health and Medicine
- ENGL4301 Outcast Ireland: Paupers, Penitents, Patients
- ENGL4373 Korean Cinema
- ENGL4424 Middle English Alliterative Poetry
- ENGL4499 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- ENGL4529 Shakespeare: Later Plays
- ENGL4536 Joyce's Ulysses
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- ENGL4541 Modern Irish Poetry
- ENGL4577 Writing Workshop: Poetry
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
- ENGL4619 Dear Self, Dear World: The Art of the Letter
- ENGL4670 Capstone: Into the Woods
- ENGL4915 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL4917 Advanced Poetry Workshop
5000-level courses
- ENGL5037 Seminar: Joseph Conrad and His World
- ENGL5038 Seminar: It's a Rhetorical World
- ENGL5039 Seminar: Unrequited Love
- ENGL5040 Seminar: Abolitionist Boston
- ENGL5042 Seminar: Walking Infinite Jest
- ENGL5043 Seminar: Intimate Narratives
- ENGL5510 Contemporary American Women Writers
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- ENGL5517 Capstone: Love and Indoctrination
- ENGL5542 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Narrative
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL5577 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL5579 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Spiritual Autobiography
- ENGL5580 Narrative Medicine
6000-level courses
- ENGL6010 Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies
- ENGL6037 Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance
- ENGL6302 Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s
- ENGL6306 Seminar: Archives in Action
- ENGL6311 Seminar: English Medieval Romance: Difference and Desire
- ENGL6601 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
7000-level courses
- ENGL7005 The Skull and the Mirror: Theatre, Philosophy, Language
- ENGL7036 Historical Fiction
- ENGL7052 Ireland in the Material World
- ENGL7053 Seeing Things Hidden: Modern Literature and Visual Culture
- ENGL7054 Scandalous Victorians
- ENGL7055 Contemporary Theory
- ENGL7056 Victorian Crises
- ENGL7057 Sisters & Brothers Speak Truth to Power in Colonial American Literature
- ENGL7058 The Unwritten, Unread, Unspeakable Eighteenth Century
- ENGL7059 The Politics of Nature: Literature and Theory
- ENGL7732 Contemporary Irish Fiction
- ENGL7753 Reading Jacques Derrida
8000-level courses
- ENGL8275 Capstone: Designing, Executing, and Publishing Digital Humanities Projects
- ENGL8800 Irish Gothic
- ENGL8816 Dickens, Eliot, and James
- ENGL8825 Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing
- ENGL8876 Issues and Methods in English Studies
- ENGL8887 Introduction to Advanced Research