Courses by Major Requirement

Subject to change as the roster is finalized through the regular enrollment period.

For questions contact the Undergraduate Coordinator (english_dept@cornell.edu)

*Literatures of the Americas courses marked with an asterisk further qualify for the American Indian or Indigenous, African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, or Latina/o literature requirement.

 

Spring 2026

Course CodeCourse TitlePREPSTLoA*GLSCrosslist?
ENGL 2020Literatures in English II: 1750 to the Present x   
ENGL 2080Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Centuryx    
ENGL 2100Medieval Romance: Voyages to the Otherworldx    
ENGL 2240Comedy: Renaissance and Nowx    
ENGL 2272Out of Line: Introduction to Narrative and Media x  Yes
ENGL 2600Introduction to Native American Literature xx*  
ENGL 2650Introduction to African American Literature xx*  
ENGL 2710Novel Technologies xx  
ENGL 2783Writing Bodies and Minds: Disability and Literature xx  
ENGL 3120Beowulf
 		x    
ENGL 3190Chaucerx    
ENGL 3230Renaissance Poetryx    
ENGL 3340Race, Class, Gender and Violence in the Enlightenmentx  x 
ENGL 3470The Victorian Novel x   
ENGL 3508African American Literature: 1930s-present xx* Yes
ENGL 3525Twentieth Century American Poetry xx  
ENGL 3550Decadence x   
ENGL 3706Photo-Text x   
ENGL 3747The Trouble with Crime Fiction x   
ENGL 3781Human Rights in Law and Culture xxx 
ENGL 3910Poetry and Poetics of the Americas xx*xYes
ENGL 3916Fables of Capitalism x  Yes
ENGL     4116  Inventing Women in the Middle Ages x    
ENGL 4225Arboreal Humanities: Ecology, Aesthetics, and Literature x  Yes
ENGL 4526Black Feminism: Practice and Purpose xx*  
ENGL 4570Africa Writes Back: Colonizer and the Colonized x x 
ENGL 4577Desbordando: Reading Caribbean Waters in Latinx Studies xx*x 
ENGL 4612LA Stories: Literature, Film, and Music from Los Angeles xx*x 
ENGL 4675The Environmental Imagination in American Literature xx  
ENGL 4765The Twenty-First Century Novel x   
ENGL 4795Climate Communications Capstone x   

Fall 2025

Course CodeCourse TitlePREPSTLoA*GLSCrosslist?
ENGL     1102   The Great American Cornell Novel xx  
ENGL     2010Literatures in English I: From Old English to the New Worldx    
ENGL     2150The American Musical xx Yes
ENGL     2160Television xx Yes
ENGL     2400Introduction to U.S. Latinx Literature xx*x 
ENGL 2535Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Trans Utopias and Genderqueer Science Fiction xx  
ENGL 2580Imagining the Holocaust x   
ENGL 2604What is Decolonization? x x 
ENGL 2620Introduction to Asian American Literature xx*  
ENGL     2635A Haunted House Divided: The American Gothic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Literature xx  
ENGL     2707Let Me Count the Ways: Poetry and Mathematics  x  
ENGL     2971   Reading for the End of Time x xYes
ENGL     3051Introduction to Trauma Studies x  Yes
ENGL     3110    Old Englishx    
ENGL 3290Milton: Political Revolution and Paradise Lostx    
ENGL 3360American Drama and Theatre xx Yes
ENGL 3490Curiosity: The Literature and Science of Knowing Too Much x   
ENGL     3507African American Literature Through the 1930's xx*xYes
ENGL 3560Thinking from a Different Place: Indigenous Philosophies xx* Yes
ENGL     3571    The Modern Irish Writers x   
ENGL     3674AAPI and Empire xx*x 
ENGL     3678Diasporas, Disasters, and Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th and 21st Centuries xx*x 
ENGL     3753Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde x   
ENGL     3795Communicating Climate Change xx  
ENGL     3920Introduction to Critical Theory x  Yes
ENGL 4002Versification: How Poetic Forms Are Made and Analyzedx   Yes
ENGL     4170    The Archaeology of the Text from Chaucer through the Renaissancex    
ENGL     4700Reading the Media of Joyce's Ulysses x   
ENGL     4706How to Make Queer Kin: Sustaining Bonds in LGBTQ Culture x  Yes
ENGL     4815Reading (with) Judith Butler xx Yes

 

 

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