ENGLISH courses at Stanford

153 ENGLISH courses in Stanford’s catalog, with ratings and hours per week from real student evaluations.

• ENGLISH 1C: Comics: More than Words (DLCL 238, FILMEDIA 38)1-1 units
• ENGLISH 1D: Dickens Reading1-1 units
• ENGLISH 5RA: Race and Technology in the African American Literary Tradition5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 5SA: Indigeneity Across American Literary Cultures5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 5TA: Renaissance Posthumans5-5 units
• ENGLISH 5UA: Queer Monstrosity5-5 units
• ENGLISH 5VA: Influencers: Conduct Literature from Medieval Origins to Social Media5-5 units
• ENGLISH 8B: Page to Stage: The Case of Shakespeare's Richard III3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 8C: Medieval Ecologies3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 8D: Poetry and Magic3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 8E: Autofiction: Transforming the Story of the Self3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 8F: Science Fiction: Time (Travel) in Narrative3-3 units
• ENGLISH 8G: Climate Lit: Survival, Activism, and Writing 'The Natural World'3-3 units
• ENGLISH 8H: Autobiographical Writing3-3 units
• ENGLISH 8J: American Sports Literature: Critical and Personal Perspectives (AMSTUD 8J)3-3 units
• ENGLISH 9CE: Creative Expression in Writing3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 9CI: Inspired by Science: A Workshop (OCEANS 119CI)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 9CP: Writing Off the Page: Songwriting, Film, and Spoken Word3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 9CR: For Real: Writing Based on Interview and Documentary Sources3-3 units
• ENGLISH 9CSN: Sustainable Narratives (EARTHSYS 109CSN, EARTHSYS 209CSN, ENGLISH 309CSN)3-3 units · 4.8/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 9R: Humanities Research Intensive2-2 units · 4.0/5 rating · 40 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 10G: Intro to English I: Voice and Style in Medieval and Renaissance Literature5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 10H: Introduction to English I: What Women Want in Med/Ren Literature5-5 units
• ENGLISH 11B: Introduction to English II: American Literature and Culture to 1855 (AMSTUD 150)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 11C: Introduction to English II: Revolutionary Energies (1640-1820)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 11Q: Art in the Metropolis (ARTSINST 11Q, ARTSTUDI 11Q, FILMEDIA 11Q, MUSIC 11Q, TAPS 11Q)3-3 units
• ENGLISH 12C: Introduction to English III: Modern Literature5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 12F: Introduction to English III: Introduction to Asian American Literature: Fantastic Fictions (AMSTUD 126A, ASNAMST 126E)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 15N: Wastelands3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 19Q: I Bet You Think You're Funny: Humor Writing Workshop3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 20N: Poetry: Wordsworth, Dickinson, Rilke3-3 units · 4.5/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 25Q: Queer Stories (FEMGEN 25Q)3-3 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 30N: Character3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 31N: Love and Death3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 40L: Life Stories5-5 units
• ENGLISH 45N: The Shakespearean Stage3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 57N: Gender Under Pressure: Identity and Politics, 1970-2025 (FEMGEN 57N, TAPS 57N)3-3 units
• ENGLISH 66: 'A Model Island': Britain in Historical and Cultural Perspective2-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 4 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 68N: Mark Twain and American Culture (AMSTUD 68N)4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 81: Philosophy and Literature (CLASSICS 42, COMPLIT 181, FRENCH 181, GERMAN 181, ILAC 181, ITALIAN 181, PHIL 81, SLAVIC 181)3-5 units
• ENGLISH 87: Political Shakespeare3-3 units
• ENGLISH 90: Fiction Writing5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 90A: The Story of a Story: Asian American Fiction (A Creative Writing Workshop)5-5 units
• ENGLISH 90H: Humor Writing Workshop5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 90Q: Sports Writing3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 90R: American Road Trip (AMSTUD 90R)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 90S: Reading and Writing Science Fiction5-5 units
• ENGLISH 90WM: Writing Mystical, Spiritual, and Altered States: A Workshop5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 91: Creative Nonfiction5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 91AI: Creative Writing & Science: The Artful Interpreter (OCEANS 157H, OCEANS 257H)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 91DC: DCI Writing the Memoir5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 92: Reading and Writing Poetry5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 93Q: The American Road Trip (AMSTUD 93Q)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 95Q: The Many Wizards of Oz3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 106A: Creativity & Culture in the Age of AI (AMSTUD 106B, ARTHIST 168A, CSRE 106A, SYMSYS 168A)3-3 units · 4.5/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 108A: Intro to Disability Studies: Disability and Technology (HUMBIO 178A)5-5 units
• ENGLISH 111: Women Making Modernism (FEMGEN 111W)5-5 units
• ENGLISH 119: Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media (FEMGEN 118)1-1 units · 5.0/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 124: The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ARTHIST 152, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 125C: The Lost Generation: American literature between the World Wars (AMSTUD 125C)5-5 units
• ENGLISH 137: Discard Studies and Environmental Literature3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 139B: American Women Writers, 1850-1920 (AMSTUD 139B)4-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 139C: American Literature and Social Justice (AMSTUD 139C, ASNAMST 139C, CHILATST 139C, CSRE 139C, FEMGEN 139C)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 142: Environmental Justice and Literature (EARTHSYS 142J)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 142A: Trans Literature (FEMGEN 142A, TAPS 142A)4-5 units
• ENGLISH 145B: The Gothic and the Supernatural (RELIGST 145)4-4 units
• ENGLISH 146: Black Ecologies (AFRICAAM 140, EARTHSYS 146J, FEMGEN 146B)3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 146F: Fiction Intensive: Crafting a First Book5-5 units · 4.8/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 146N: Native American Creative Writing (NATIVEAM 119)5-5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 146SH: A Short History of the Short Story3-3 units
• ENGLISH 152: Bestseller Business: Reading, Writing, and Selling Popular Books5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 160: Poetry and Poetics5-5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 161: Narrative and Narrative Theory (COMPLIT 161E)5-5 units · 4.8/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 162B: Black Lens/Black Lines: Cinematic Movement (AFRICAAM 162)3-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 165: Perspectives on American Identity (AMSTUD 160)5-5 units
• ENGLISH 167A: Introduction to Environmental Studies (COMPLIT 167, DLCL 167, ILAC 167A)4-4 units
• ENGLISH 168: Revenge Tragedy3-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 170: Spatial Concepts in African Literature (AFRICAAM 122)3-3 units
• ENGLISH 173: Medieval Dreams and Visions3-3 units
• ENGLISH 174: The Artist's Book in Theory and Practice4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 176: The Meaning of Newness: Traditions of British Modernism4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 177: Contemporary Novel in U.S. Perspective (AMSTUD 177)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 177B: Contemporary American Short Stories (AMSTUD 177B)4-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 178: 19th-Century Popular Fiction: Austen, Dickens, Stoker4-4 units
• ENGLISH 180: Public Service for Social Impact: Pathways to Purposeful Careers (CSRE 190A, INTNLREL 74, POLISCI 74B, PSYCH 190A, PUBLPOL 75B, SOC 190A, SYMSYS 193, URBANST 190A)1-2 units
• ENGLISH 182: Critical Game Studies: What Video Games Tell Us About Us3-3 units
• ENGLISH 183: Transpacific Ecologies: Race, Migration, Environment (ASNAMST 183)4-4 units
• ENGLISH 184E: Literary Text Mining5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 184F: Literary Text Mining 2: Studies in Cultural Analytics5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 185B: Mad Fiction: Literature of Mental Illness (CSRE 184B, FEMGEN 185B)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 186: Media Theory for an Analog, Digital, and Networked World5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 190: Intermediate Fiction Writing5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 190F: Fiction into Film5-5 units · 4.8/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 190L: Levinthal Tutorial in Fiction5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 190SW: Screenwriting Intensive5-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 16 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 190V: Reading for Writers: STRANGE ENCOUNTERS5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 191: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 191DC: DCI Intermediate Memoir Workshop5-5 units · 4.8/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 191L: Levinthal Tutorial in Nonfiction5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 192: Intermediate Poetry Writing5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 192L: Levinthal Tutorial in Poetry5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 192V: Writing Poetry in the Age of the Moving Picture5-5 units · 4.8/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 193: The Lord of the Rings3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 194C: Curricular Practical Training1-1 units
• ENGLISH 196A: Honors Seminar: Critical Approaches to Literature5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 197: Seniors Honors Essay1-10 units
• ENGLISH 198: Individual Work1-5 units
• ENGLISH 199: Capstone: Why Literature Matters (To Me)3-3 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 210: The Transoceanic Renaissance (COMPLIT 332, ENGLISH 310)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 215E: Shakespeare and His Contexts: Race, Religion, Sexuality, Gender (FEMGEN 215E)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 216: Huckleberry Finn and its Afterlives (AFRICAAM 215, AMSTUD 216)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 223: How Do We Get Out of Here? Global Ecocide (EARTHSYS 223E, FEMGEN 223E)3-5 units
• ENGLISH 234: Fact and Fiction3-3 units
• ENGLISH 235: Literature Against the Law4-5 units
• ENGLISH 239: Henry James (AMSTUD 239)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 242C: Close Reading: History, Theory, Practice (COMPLIT 242C, COMPLIT 342C, GERMAN 242C, GERMAN 342C)3-5 units
• ENGLISH 248: Sylvia Wynter: Being Human (AFRICAAM 249C, ENGLISH 348)3-5 units
• ENGLISH 279: Traveling through Eternity: Literary Pilgrimage from Dante to Blake5-5 units
• ENGLISH 287: Moving the Message: Reading and Embodying the Works of Audre Lorde (AFRICAAM 201, CSRE 125, DANCE 122, FEMGEN 201)2-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 4 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 290: Advanced Fiction Writing5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 291: Advanced Creative Nonfiction5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 292: Advanced Poetry Writing5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 292B: Contemporary Black Feminist Paths (AFRICAAM 292, FEMGEN 292B)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 305A: Aesthetics: Reception Theory, Audiences, and Literature as Media5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 308A: Topics in Digital Humanities (CLASSICS 308, RELIGST 307X)1-1 units · 4.0/5 rating · 2 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 308B: Gilded Age American Literature5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 309CSN: Sustainable Narratives (EARTHSYS 109CSN, EARTHSYS 209CSN, ENGLISH 9CSN)3-3 units
• ENGLISH 310: The Transoceanic Renaissance (COMPLIT 332, ENGLISH 210)5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 313: Performance and Performativity (ARTHIST 313, FEMGEN 313, TAPS 313)3-5 units
• ENGLISH 315: Publishing on Paradise Lost5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 317: History, Memory , Fiction (JEWISHST 317)5-5 units
• ENGLISH 318: Pitching and Publishing in Popular Media (DLCL 312, FEMGEN 312F)1-1 units · 5.0/5 rating · 4 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 329: Description Before the Novel5-5 units
• ENGLISH 335: Bilingual Loyalties5-5 units
• ENGLISH 336: The Literature of Exile (JEWISHST 336)5-5 units · 4.0/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 337: Style in the Age of AI4-5 units
• ENGLISH 345: Practices of Early Modern Writing5-5 units
• ENGLISH 346: Thinking Through Genre5-5 units
• ENGLISH 348: Sylvia Wynter: Being Human (AFRICAAM 249C, ENGLISH 248)3-5 units
• ENGLISH 362C: Language Politics and the Literary Imagination in Africa5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 362E: Toni Morrison: Modernism, Postmodernism, and World Literature5-5 units · 4.5/5 rating · 15 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 364: Virginia Woolf: Modernist, Maker, Media5-5 units
• ENGLISH 390: Graduate Fiction Workshop3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 26 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 392: Graduate Poetry Workshop3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 394: Independent Study1-10 units
• ENGLISH 396: Introduction to Graduate Study for Ph.D. Students5-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 396L: Pedagogy Seminar I2-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 4 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 398: Research Course1-18 units
• ENGLISH 398L: Literary Lab (COMPLIT 398L)2-5 units · 5.0/5 rating · 7 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 398R: Revision and Development of a Paper4-5 units
• ENGLISH 398W: Orals, Publication and Dissertation Workshop1-1 units · 4.0/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
• ENGLISH 399: Thesis1-10 units
• ENGLISH 802: TGR Dissertation

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