English at Boston College
Boston College English courses: 72 listings with descriptions, sections, instructor ratings, and teaching history.
English at Boston College offers 72 courses in the current catalog, from ENGL1009 First Year Writing Seminar for Multilingual Students to ENGL9920 PhD Seminar: What is Theory For?. 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 from Rate My Professors where available, each labelled with its source. Teaching records here cover 248 instructors across 16 terms, from Fall 2021 to Fall 2026.
1000-level courses
- ENGL1009 First Year Writing Seminar for Multilingual Students
- ENGL1010 First Year Writing Seminar
- ENGL1080 Literature Core
- ENGL1093 An Introduction to Modern Irish I
- ENGL1180 Lit Core: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration
- 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
- 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
- ENGL1752 Exchange and Values: Stories and Measures of Inequality
2000-level courses
- ENGL2097 Intermediate Modern Irish I
- ENGL2125 Introduction to Feminisms
- ENGL2131 Studies in Poetry
- ENGL2133 Studies in Narrative
- ENGL2141 American Literary History I
- ENGL2170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I
- ENGL2202 Beast Literature
- ENGL2203 Introducing Ireland through Stage and Screen
- ENGL2212 Introduction to Medical Humanities
- ENGL2220 Classical Mythology
- ENGL2221 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL2223 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL2227 Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2229 Literature of the Other Europe
- ENGL2241 Playwriting I
- ENGL2246 Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL2255 Introduction to World Literatures through Short Stories and Film
- ENGL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- ENGL2278 American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice
- 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
3000-level courses
- ENGL3220 Teaching Banned Books: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
- ENGL3310 Shakespeare
- ENGL3357 American Bestsellers and Undersellers
- ENGL3373 Contemporary Theatre and Drama in London
- ENGL3527 General Linguistics
- ENGL3814 The Series: From Victorian Novels to Streaming TV
- ENGL3825 True Crime: Scoundrels, Villains, and Vice
- ENGL3826 Sad Girl Lit from Austen to Rooney
- ENGL3831 Shrews: Unruly (Wo)men in Premodern English Literature
- ENGL3833 Rebellion, Famine, and the Resilient Imagination: Irish Literature in Times of Crisis
- ENGL3901 The Great Migration Narrative: Black Storytelling in/across Time, Space, and Generations
4000-level courses
- ENGL4028 Climate Fiction
- ENGL4201 Science Writing
- ENGL4301 Outcast Ireland: Paupers, Penitents, Patients
- ENGL4373 Korean Cinema
- ENGL4499 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- ENGL4577 Writing Workshop: Poetry
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
5000-level courses
- ENGL5037 Seminar: Joseph Conrad and His World
- ENGL5042 Seminar: Walking Infinite Jest
- ENGL5043 Seminar: Intimate Narratives
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL5579 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Spiritual Autobiography
- ENGL5580 Narrative Medicine
6000-level courses
- ENGL6306 Seminar: Archives in Action
- ENGL6311 Seminar: English Medieval Romance: Difference and Desire
7000-level courses
- ENGL7005 The Skull and the Mirror: Theatre, Philosophy, Language
- ENGL7052 Ireland in the Material World
- ENGL7054 Scandalous Victorians
- ENGL7055 Contemporary Theory