Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences · major
English requirements
Explore the reviewed English major at Boston College, organized by requirement and course.
English Core courses (two courses): First-Year Writing Seminar and Literature Core
Required for the program.
Sophomore sequence (two courses): Studies in Poetry and Studies in Narrative
Required for the program.
Earlier literatures in English: medieval or early-modern literature, before 1700 (one course, 3 credits)
Choose from these approved options.
- ENGL2098 Intermediate Modern Irish II
- ENGL2125 Introduction to Feminisms
- ENGL2142 American Literary History II
- ENGL2154 Introduction to Adolescent Fiction
- ENGL2171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II
- ENGL2212 Introduction to Medical Humanities
- ENGL2221 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL2222 Introduction to Creative Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGL2223 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL2278 American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice
- ENGL3820 Strange Doctors: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
- ENGL3821 Sporting Rhetorics: Language, Games, and Culture
- ENGL4006 Changing Worlds: Climate Literature from the Global South
- ENGL4011 Faulkner to Beyonce: New South Aesthetics
- ENGL4022 Modern European Novel
- ENGL4029 Jane Austen, Then and Now
- ENGL4202 Writing for Health and Medicine
- ENGL4424 Middle English Alliterative Poetry
- ENGL4529 Shakespeare: Later Plays
- ENGL4536 Joyce's Ulysses
- ENGL4577 Writing Workshop: Poetry
- ENGL4578 Poetry: Second Workshop
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
- ENGL4580 Fiction: Second Workshop
- ENGL4915 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL4917 Advanced Poetry Workshop
- ENGL5510 Contemporary American Women Writers
- ENGL5517 Capstone: Love and Indoctrination
- ENGL5542 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Narrative
- ENGL5577 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL6010 Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies
- ENGL6037 Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance
- ENGL2123 Language and Ethnicity
- ENGL2210 Madmen, Hysterics, and Criminals: Inventing Deviance
- ENGL2228 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2241 Playwriting I
- ENGL2248 Playwriting II
- ENGL2262 Telling Truths II: Depth Writing as Service
- ENGL2293 Waves, Woods, Wilds: 19th Century British and Irish Environmental Literature
- ENGL2301 Journalism on Drugs
- ENGL2900 Fortunes, Failures, and Frauds: Business Stories
- ENGL3022 Reading, Making, Doing
- ENGL3326 Blackness, Performance, and Freedom
- ENGL3392 Syntax and Semantics
- ENGL3527 General Linguistics
- ENGL3832 Ireland and the Atlantic World
- 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
- ENGL4541 Modern Irish Poetry
- ENGL4598 Undergraduate Reading and Research (1-Credit)
- ENGL4599 Undergraduate Reading and Research
- ENGL4619 Dear Self, Dear World: The Art of the Letter
- ENGL4670 Capstone: Into the Woods
- ENGL4921 Advanced Independent Research
- ENGL5038 Seminar: It's a Rhetorical World
- ENGL5039 Seminar: Unrequited Love
- ENGL5040 Seminar: Abolitionist Boston
- ENGL6302 Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s
- ENGL6600 Honors Thesis
- ENGL6601 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- ENGL2097 Intermediate Modern Irish I
- ENGL2141 American Literary History I
- ENGL2170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I
- ENGL2203 Introducing Ireland through Stage and Screen
- ENGL2246 Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL2255 Introduction to World Literatures through Short Stories and Film
- ENGL2470 Black and Popular: Speculative Fictions by Black Writers
- ENGL3011 The Art of Tutoring Writing
- ENGL3220 Teaching Banned Books: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
- ENGL3310 Shakespeare
- ENGL3357 American Bestsellers and Undersellers
- ENGL3358 The Great Acceleration: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change
- ENGL3814 The Series: From Victorian Novels to Streaming TV
- ENGL3825 True Crime: Scoundrels, Villains, and Vice
- ENGL3826 Sad Girl Lit from Austen to Rooney
- ENGL4201 Science Writing
- ENGL4301 Outcast Ireland: Paupers, Penitents, Patients
- ENGL4373 Korean Cinema
- ENGL4439 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Food, Hunger, and Identity
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- ENGL5030 Seminar: Irish Hybrids: Vampires, Mermaids, and the Eco-Imagination
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL6045 Seminar: Animal Worlds in the Middle Ages
- ENGL6306 Seminar: Archives in Action
- ENGL2202 Beast Literature
- ENGL2220 Classical Mythology
- ENGL2227 Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2229 Literature of the Other Europe
- ENGL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- ENGL2294 Weird Fiction: Gothic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
- ENGL2348 Modern Levantine and Arabic Literature (in translation)
- ENGL2483 Introduction to African American Literature
- ENGL3373 Contemporary Theatre and Drama in London
- 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
- ENGL4028 Climate Fiction
- ENGL4499 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- ENGL5037 Seminar: Joseph Conrad and His World
- ENGL5042 Seminar: Walking Infinite Jest
- ENGL5043 Seminar: Intimate Narratives
- ENGL5579 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Spiritual Autobiography
- ENGL5580 Narrative Medicine
- ENGL6311 Seminar: English Medieval Romance: Difference and Desire
Earlier literatures in English: eighteenth- or nineteenth-century literature, 1700-1900 (one course, 3 credits)
Choose from these approved options.
- ENGL2098 Intermediate Modern Irish II
- ENGL2125 Introduction to Feminisms
- ENGL2142 American Literary History II
- ENGL2154 Introduction to Adolescent Fiction
- ENGL2171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II
- ENGL2212 Introduction to Medical Humanities
- ENGL2221 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL2222 Introduction to Creative Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGL2223 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL2278 American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice
- ENGL3820 Strange Doctors: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
- ENGL3821 Sporting Rhetorics: Language, Games, and Culture
- ENGL4006 Changing Worlds: Climate Literature from the Global South
- ENGL4011 Faulkner to Beyonce: New South Aesthetics
- ENGL4022 Modern European Novel
- ENGL4029 Jane Austen, Then and Now
- ENGL4202 Writing for Health and Medicine
- ENGL4424 Middle English Alliterative Poetry
- ENGL4529 Shakespeare: Later Plays
- ENGL4536 Joyce's Ulysses
- ENGL4577 Writing Workshop: Poetry
- ENGL4578 Poetry: Second Workshop
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
- ENGL4580 Fiction: Second Workshop
- ENGL4915 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL4917 Advanced Poetry Workshop
- ENGL5510 Contemporary American Women Writers
- ENGL5517 Capstone: Love and Indoctrination
- ENGL5542 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Narrative
- ENGL5577 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL6010 Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies
- ENGL6037 Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance
- ENGL2123 Language and Ethnicity
- ENGL2210 Madmen, Hysterics, and Criminals: Inventing Deviance
- ENGL2228 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2241 Playwriting I
- ENGL2248 Playwriting II
- ENGL2262 Telling Truths II: Depth Writing as Service
- ENGL2293 Waves, Woods, Wilds: 19th Century British and Irish Environmental Literature
- ENGL2301 Journalism on Drugs
- ENGL2900 Fortunes, Failures, and Frauds: Business Stories
- ENGL3022 Reading, Making, Doing
- ENGL3326 Blackness, Performance, and Freedom
- ENGL3392 Syntax and Semantics
- ENGL3527 General Linguistics
- ENGL3832 Ireland and the Atlantic World
- 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
- ENGL4541 Modern Irish Poetry
- ENGL4598 Undergraduate Reading and Research (1-Credit)
- ENGL4599 Undergraduate Reading and Research
- ENGL4619 Dear Self, Dear World: The Art of the Letter
- ENGL4670 Capstone: Into the Woods
- ENGL4921 Advanced Independent Research
- ENGL5038 Seminar: It's a Rhetorical World
- ENGL5039 Seminar: Unrequited Love
- ENGL5040 Seminar: Abolitionist Boston
- ENGL6302 Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s
- ENGL6600 Honors Thesis
- ENGL6601 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- ENGL2097 Intermediate Modern Irish I
- ENGL2141 American Literary History I
- ENGL2170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I
- ENGL2203 Introducing Ireland through Stage and Screen
- ENGL2246 Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL2255 Introduction to World Literatures through Short Stories and Film
- ENGL2470 Black and Popular: Speculative Fictions by Black Writers
- ENGL3011 The Art of Tutoring Writing
- ENGL3220 Teaching Banned Books: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
- ENGL3310 Shakespeare
- ENGL3357 American Bestsellers and Undersellers
- ENGL3358 The Great Acceleration: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change
- ENGL3814 The Series: From Victorian Novels to Streaming TV
- ENGL3825 True Crime: Scoundrels, Villains, and Vice
- ENGL3826 Sad Girl Lit from Austen to Rooney
- ENGL4201 Science Writing
- ENGL4301 Outcast Ireland: Paupers, Penitents, Patients
- ENGL4373 Korean Cinema
- ENGL4439 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Food, Hunger, and Identity
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- ENGL5030 Seminar: Irish Hybrids: Vampires, Mermaids, and the Eco-Imagination
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL6045 Seminar: Animal Worlds in the Middle Ages
- ENGL6306 Seminar: Archives in Action
- ENGL2202 Beast Literature
- ENGL2220 Classical Mythology
- ENGL2227 Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2229 Literature of the Other Europe
- ENGL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- ENGL2294 Weird Fiction: Gothic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
- ENGL2348 Modern Levantine and Arabic Literature (in translation)
- ENGL2483 Introduction to African American Literature
- ENGL3373 Contemporary Theatre and Drama in London
- 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
- ENGL4028 Climate Fiction
- ENGL4499 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- ENGL5037 Seminar: Joseph Conrad and His World
- ENGL5042 Seminar: Walking Infinite Jest
- ENGL5043 Seminar: Intimate Narratives
- ENGL5579 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Spiritual Autobiography
- ENGL5580 Narrative Medicine
- ENGL6311 Seminar: English Medieval Romance: Difference and Desire
Race, Blackness, and Language requirement (one course)
Choose from these approved options.
- ENGL2098 Intermediate Modern Irish II
- ENGL2125 Introduction to Feminisms
- ENGL2142 American Literary History II
- ENGL2154 Introduction to Adolescent Fiction
- ENGL2171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II
- ENGL2212 Introduction to Medical Humanities
- ENGL2221 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL2222 Introduction to Creative Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGL2223 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL2278 American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice
- ENGL3820 Strange Doctors: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
- ENGL3821 Sporting Rhetorics: Language, Games, and Culture
- ENGL4006 Changing Worlds: Climate Literature from the Global South
- ENGL4011 Faulkner to Beyonce: New South Aesthetics
- ENGL4022 Modern European Novel
- ENGL4029 Jane Austen, Then and Now
- ENGL4202 Writing for Health and Medicine
- ENGL4424 Middle English Alliterative Poetry
- ENGL4529 Shakespeare: Later Plays
- ENGL4536 Joyce's Ulysses
- ENGL4577 Writing Workshop: Poetry
- ENGL4578 Poetry: Second Workshop
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
- ENGL4580 Fiction: Second Workshop
- ENGL4915 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL4917 Advanced Poetry Workshop
- ENGL5510 Contemporary American Women Writers
- ENGL5517 Capstone: Love and Indoctrination
- ENGL5542 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Narrative
- ENGL5577 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL6010 Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies
- ENGL6037 Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance
- ENGL2123 Language and Ethnicity
- ENGL2210 Madmen, Hysterics, and Criminals: Inventing Deviance
- ENGL2228 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2241 Playwriting I
- ENGL2248 Playwriting II
- ENGL2262 Telling Truths II: Depth Writing as Service
- ENGL2293 Waves, Woods, Wilds: 19th Century British and Irish Environmental Literature
- ENGL2301 Journalism on Drugs
- ENGL2900 Fortunes, Failures, and Frauds: Business Stories
- ENGL3022 Reading, Making, Doing
- ENGL3326 Blackness, Performance, and Freedom
- ENGL3392 Syntax and Semantics
- ENGL3527 General Linguistics
- ENGL3832 Ireland and the Atlantic World
- 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
- ENGL4541 Modern Irish Poetry
- ENGL4598 Undergraduate Reading and Research (1-Credit)
- ENGL4599 Undergraduate Reading and Research
- ENGL4619 Dear Self, Dear World: The Art of the Letter
- ENGL4670 Capstone: Into the Woods
- ENGL4921 Advanced Independent Research
- ENGL5038 Seminar: It's a Rhetorical World
- ENGL5039 Seminar: Unrequited Love
- ENGL5040 Seminar: Abolitionist Boston
- ENGL6302 Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s
- ENGL6600 Honors Thesis
- ENGL6601 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- ENGL2097 Intermediate Modern Irish I
- ENGL2141 American Literary History I
- ENGL2170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I
- ENGL2203 Introducing Ireland through Stage and Screen
- ENGL2246 Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL2255 Introduction to World Literatures through Short Stories and Film
- ENGL2470 Black and Popular: Speculative Fictions by Black Writers
- ENGL3011 The Art of Tutoring Writing
- ENGL3220 Teaching Banned Books: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
- ENGL3310 Shakespeare
- ENGL3357 American Bestsellers and Undersellers
- ENGL3358 The Great Acceleration: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change
- ENGL3814 The Series: From Victorian Novels to Streaming TV
- ENGL3825 True Crime: Scoundrels, Villains, and Vice
- ENGL3826 Sad Girl Lit from Austen to Rooney
- ENGL4201 Science Writing
- ENGL4301 Outcast Ireland: Paupers, Penitents, Patients
- ENGL4373 Korean Cinema
- ENGL4439 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Food, Hunger, and Identity
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- ENGL5030 Seminar: Irish Hybrids: Vampires, Mermaids, and the Eco-Imagination
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL6045 Seminar: Animal Worlds in the Middle Ages
- ENGL6306 Seminar: Archives in Action
- ENGL2202 Beast Literature
- ENGL2220 Classical Mythology
- ENGL2227 Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2229 Literature of the Other Europe
- ENGL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- ENGL2294 Weird Fiction: Gothic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
- ENGL2348 Modern Levantine and Arabic Literature (in translation)
- ENGL2483 Introduction to African American Literature
- ENGL3373 Contemporary Theatre and Drama in London
- 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
- ENGL4028 Climate Fiction
- ENGL4499 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- ENGL5037 Seminar: Joseph Conrad and His World
- ENGL5042 Seminar: Walking Infinite Jest
- ENGL5043 Seminar: Intimate Narratives
- ENGL5579 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Spiritual Autobiography
- ENGL5580 Narrative Medicine
- ENGL6311 Seminar: English Medieval Romance: Difference and Desire
Seminar (one course): a departmental seminar, ordinarily a grad/undergrad seminar numbered ENGL5000-6999; creative writing workshops do not count
Choose from these approved options.
- ENGL5510 Contemporary American Women Writers
- ENGL5517 Capstone: Love and Indoctrination
- ENGL5542 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Narrative
- ENGL5577 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL6010 Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies
- ENGL6037 Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance
- ENGL5038 Seminar: It's a Rhetorical World
- ENGL5039 Seminar: Unrequited Love
- ENGL5040 Seminar: Abolitionist Boston
- ENGL6302 Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s
- ENGL6601 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- ENGL5030 Seminar: Irish Hybrids: Vampires, Mermaids, and the Eco-Imagination
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- ENGL6045 Seminar: Animal Worlds in the Middle Ages
- ENGL6306 Seminar: Archives in Action
- ENGL5037 Seminar: Joseph Conrad and His World
- ENGL5042 Seminar: Walking Infinite Jest
- ENGL5043 Seminar: Intimate Narratives
- ENGL5580 Narrative Medicine
- ENGL6311 Seminar: English Medieval Romance: Difference and Desire
Major electives (five courses, 15 credits) from department offerings
Choose from these approved options.
- ENGL2098 Intermediate Modern Irish II
- ENGL2125 Introduction to Feminisms
- ENGL2142 American Literary History II
- ENGL2154 Introduction to Adolescent Fiction
- ENGL2171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II
- ENGL2212 Introduction to Medical Humanities
- ENGL2221 Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL2222 Introduction to Creative Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGL2223 Writing Workshop: Creative Nonfiction
- ENGL2278 American Culture: Engaging Difference and Justice
- ENGL3820 Strange Doctors: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medicine
- ENGL3821 Sporting Rhetorics: Language, Games, and Culture
- ENGL4006 Changing Worlds: Climate Literature from the Global South
- ENGL4011 Faulkner to Beyonce: New South Aesthetics
- ENGL4022 Modern European Novel
- ENGL4029 Jane Austen, Then and Now
- ENGL4202 Writing for Health and Medicine
- ENGL4424 Middle English Alliterative Poetry
- ENGL4529 Shakespeare: Later Plays
- ENGL4536 Joyce's Ulysses
- ENGL4577 Writing Workshop: Poetry
- ENGL4578 Poetry: Second Workshop
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
- ENGL4580 Fiction: Second Workshop
- ENGL4915 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL4917 Advanced Poetry Workshop
- ENGL5510 Contemporary American Women Writers
- ENGL5517 Capstone: Love and Indoctrination
- ENGL5542 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Experiments in Narrative
- ENGL5577 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: The Culture Beat
- ENGL6010 Seminar: Shakespeare: Truth and Lies
- ENGL6037 Seminar: The Harlem Renaissance
- ENGL2123 Language and Ethnicity
- ENGL2210 Madmen, Hysterics, and Criminals: Inventing Deviance
- ENGL2228 Twentieth-Century Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2241 Playwriting I
- ENGL2248 Playwriting II
- ENGL2262 Telling Truths II: Depth Writing as Service
- ENGL2293 Waves, Woods, Wilds: 19th Century British and Irish Environmental Literature
- ENGL2301 Journalism on Drugs
- ENGL2900 Fortunes, Failures, and Frauds: Business Stories
- ENGL3022 Reading, Making, Doing
- ENGL3326 Blackness, Performance, and Freedom
- ENGL3392 Syntax and Semantics
- ENGL3527 General Linguistics
- ENGL3832 Ireland and the Atlantic World
- 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
- ENGL4541 Modern Irish Poetry
- ENGL4598 Undergraduate Reading and Research (1-Credit)
- ENGL4599 Undergraduate Reading and Research
- ENGL4619 Dear Self, Dear World: The Art of the Letter
- ENGL4670 Capstone: Into the Woods
- ENGL4921 Advanced Independent Research
- ENGL5038 Seminar: It's a Rhetorical World
- ENGL5039 Seminar: Unrequited Love
- ENGL5040 Seminar: Abolitionist Boston
- ENGL6302 Seminar: Black Feminist Literature, Art, and Performance, 1970s-1990s
- ENGL6600 Honors Thesis
- ENGL6601 Holocaust Literature: History, Memory, Legacy
- ENGL2097 Intermediate Modern Irish I
- ENGL2141 American Literary History I
- ENGL2170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I
- ENGL2203 Introducing Ireland through Stage and Screen
- ENGL2246 Introduction to Asian American Literature
- ENGL2255 Introduction to World Literatures through Short Stories and Film
- ENGL2470 Black and Popular: Speculative Fictions by Black Writers
- ENGL3011 The Art of Tutoring Writing
- ENGL3220 Teaching Banned Books: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
- ENGL3310 Shakespeare
- ENGL3357 American Bestsellers and Undersellers
- ENGL3358 The Great Acceleration: Contemporary Fiction and Climate Change
- ENGL3814 The Series: From Victorian Novels to Streaming TV
- ENGL3825 True Crime: Scoundrels, Villains, and Vice
- ENGL3826 Sad Girl Lit from Austen to Rooney
- ENGL4201 Science Writing
- ENGL4301 Outcast Ireland: Paupers, Penitents, Patients
- ENGL4373 Korean Cinema
- ENGL4439 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Food, Hunger, and Identity
- ENGL4538 Visual Culture in Black America: The Art and Politics of Seeing and Being Seen
- ENGL5030 Seminar: Irish Hybrids: Vampires, Mermaids, and the Eco-Imagination
- ENGL5513 American Studies Senior Seminar
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL6045 Seminar: Animal Worlds in the Middle Ages
- ENGL6306 Seminar: Archives in Action
- ENGL2202 Beast Literature
- ENGL2220 Classical Mythology
- ENGL2227 Classics of Russian Literature (in Translation)
- ENGL2229 Literature of the Other Europe
- ENGL2261 Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice
- ENGL2294 Weird Fiction: Gothic, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror
- ENGL2348 Modern Levantine and Arabic Literature (in translation)
- ENGL2483 Introduction to African American Literature
- ENGL3373 Contemporary Theatre and Drama in London
- 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
- ENGL4028 Climate Fiction
- ENGL4499 How to Begin Thinking: Aftermaths of Twentieth-Century Literature, Philosophy, History
- ENGL5037 Seminar: Joseph Conrad and His World
- ENGL5042 Seminar: Walking Infinite Jest
- ENGL5043 Seminar: Intimate Narratives
- ENGL5579 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Spiritual Autobiography
- ENGL5580 Narrative Medicine
- ENGL6311 Seminar: English Medieval Romance: Difference and Desire
Source and limitations
Requirements sourced from Boston College University Catalog — English.
Applies to the Current University Catalog; students should confirm their catalog year cohort.
110 courses across 7 requirement groups.
Requirement eligibility varies by school, cohort, and section. Confirm every degree requirement in EagleApps or with an advisor.