English (ENGL)Arts and Sciences

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ENGL 2950
Introduction to Humanities

These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: SHUM 2750

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: The Price is Right

  •  2634 ENGL 2950   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Stephen, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment preference given to: students accepted into the Humanities Scholars Program. For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses

ENGL 2971
Reading for the End of Time

This course will explore how in the body of world literature, film and music humans have construed, narrated, imagined the end of time and of the world and sometimes its new beginning. Spanning from ancient ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2271

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2582 ENGL 2971   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Melas, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    To be added to the waitlist, please email complit@cornell.edu.

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ENGL 3910
Poetry and Poetics of the Americas

As globalization draws the Americas ever closer together, reshaping our sense of a common and uncommon American culture, what claims might be made for a distinctive, diverse poetry and poetics of the Americas? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  2550 ENGL 3910   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Monroe, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 3989
The Revolutionary as Author: Autobiography and Political Myth

In this course, we will read some of the most influential examples of a genre at the intersection of literature and history: the memoir of the revolutionary. Along the way, we will consider some of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 3389, RUSSL 3389

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2598 ENGL 3989   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Pinkham, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4133
From the Conquest to Caxton: Middle English Language, Literatures, History

This seminar will explore the English language and its literatures in its most diverse centuries, which 19th century philologists saw as the middle span: after the collapse of Old English language, poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 6133, LING 4220, LING 6220

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2354 ENGL 4133   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  2355 ENGL 4133   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 4380
Imagining Utopia

Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? At a time when reality appears dystopian, many are quick to dismiss utopian visions as naive or irresponsible. In this seminar, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4380, FGSS 4380, GERST 4380

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2619 ENGL 4380   SEM 101

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Jarris, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 4511
The Global South Novel and World Literature

The driving dialectic in post-colonial studies has been the colonizer/colonized, or the Third World vs. the West. But slowly the field is letting go of this arrested dialectic and in its place various ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ASRC 4512, COML 4511

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2662 ENGL 4511   SEM 101

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    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  2663 ENGL 4511   IND 601

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    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ENGL 6021
Literary Theory on the Edge

This course examines a range of exciting and provocative 20th- and 21st- century theoretical paradigms for thinking about literature, language and culture. These approaches provide differing, though often ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6159, PMA 6421

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2574 ENGL 6021   LEC 002

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    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Caruth, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ENGL 6133
From the Conquest to Caxton: Middle English Language, Literatures, History

This seminar will explore the English language and its literatures in its most diverse centuries, which 19th century philologists saw as the middle span: after the collapse of Old English language, poetic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 4133, LING 4220, LING 6220

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  2352 ENGL 6133   SEM 101

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    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026

    • Galloway, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person