Courses

0-99Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose
100-199Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses
200-399Undergraduate courses above introductory level
400-499Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses
500-699Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates
700-999Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates)

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Number Title Codes
ENGLISH 20 Literature and Composition
ENGLISH 22 Composition and Language
ENGLISH 89S First-Year Seminar on Literature
ENGLISH 90S Special Topics in Literature
ENGLISH 101S The Art of Reading W, ALP
ENGLISH 102 The Art of Storytelling CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 110S Introduction to Creative Writing W, ALP
ENGLISH 160 Fantasy: The Borders of Genre, Medium, and Culture CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 172 American Indians Go Graphic CCI, SS
ENGLISH 181 Introduction to Film Studies ALP
ENGLISH 187A Reading Theater in New York CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 187S Reading Theater CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 190-1 Special Topics in Language and Literature
ENGLISH 190FS-2 Focus Program Seminar: Topics on Literature
ENGLISH 190S-1 Special Topics in Language and Literature
ENGLISH 190SA Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in English
ENGLISH 198FS Performing Science: Experimentation, Collaboration, and Artistry R, STS, ALP
ENGLISH 202 Introduction to Performance Studies CCI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 203A The Arts, Culture, and Performance of New York CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 204 History of English SS
ENGLISH 206 Variety in Language: English in the United States CCI, SS
ENGLISH 208S Criticism and the Arts W, ALP
ENGLISH 212S Writing Across Borders CCI, EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 212SA Writing the City: New York As Subject and Source of Literary Production W, ALP
ENGLISH 217S Writing Flash Nonfiction W, ALP
ENGLISH 218S Plays That Change the World EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 220S Introduction to the Writing of Poetry W, ALP
ENGLISH 221S Introduction to the Writing of Fiction W, ALP
ENGLISH 222S Introduction to the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction W, ALP
ENGLISH 223S How to Write a Horror Movie CCI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 224S Ready for Prime Time: Writing the Dramatic TV Episode W, ALP
ENGLISH 225S Writing the Movie. Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Writing for the Screen W, ALP
ENGLISH 226S Dramatic Writing W, ALP
ENGLISH 227S Writing Movies and Plays: Adaptation W, ALP
ENGLISH 229S Musical Shakespeare CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 235 Shakespeare EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 236S Shakespeare's Nature EI, ALP
ENGLISH 237 America from Abroad: Literature and Cinema CCI, EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 243S Literatures and Films of Pandemic CCI, EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 244 Modern European Short Fiction CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 245 English Literature of the Romantic Period ALP
ENGLISH 246 Jane Austen ALP
ENGLISH 247 Victorian Literature ALP
ENGLISH 251 British Literature: 1900 to 1945 ALP
ENGLISH 254 From History to Fantasy: Medieval Religions in Film & Fiction CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 258 Religion and the Novel in Modern India CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 264S Modern American Drama CCI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 266S American Crime: Fiction and Film
ENGLISH 269 Classics of American Literature, 1820-1860 ALP
ENGLISH 269S Classics of American Literature, 1820-1860 W, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 270 Classics of American Literature, 1860 to 1915 CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 271 Classics of American Literature, 1915 to 1960 ALP
ENGLISH 273AS Duke in London: Arts CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 275 Introduction to Asian American and Diaspora Studies CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 276 African Diaspora Literature: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Black Writers CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 277 African American Theater and Performance CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 278S Transformative Ideas: Power, Theater, and Politics CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 279S Docu-Poetry: Real Life Truths Outside and Inside the Poetic Narrative EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 282S Modernism and the Arts CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 284S Book Publishing & Marketing: A Case Study of the Romance Fiction Industry CCI, W, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 285S Existentialism CCI, EI, ALP
ENGLISH 286 The Legend of King Arthur in Literature and Film CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 287 Romantic Fairy Tales: Literary and Folk Fairy Tales from Grimms to Disney CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 288 American Dreams, American Movies ALP
ENGLISH 289 America Dreams American Movies II: Independents Through Streaming CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 290-7 Special Topics in Language and Literature
ENGLISH 290AS-2 Topics in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
ENGLISH 290S Special Topics in Language and Literature
ENGLISH 290S-1 Special Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
ENGLISH 290S-2 Special Topics in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Lit
ENGLISH 290S-3 Special Topics in English Literature: Modern and Contemporary
ENGLISH 290S-4 Special Topics in Creative Writing
ENGLISH 299 Hip Hop and Religion CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 301S Imagining Human Rights: Science Fiction, Culture, and the Creation of Rights CCI, EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 313 Internship in New York
ENGLISH 313A-1 Internship in New York
ENGLISH 314A Internship in New York
ENGLISH 316S-1 Playmaking for Writers: Collaboration from Page to Stage W, ALP
ENGLISH 317S Screenwriting W, ALP
ENGLISH 318S Expressing Immigrant Experience: The Russians CCI, EI, ALP
ENGLISH 319S Narrative and Moral Crisis EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 320S Intermediate Workshop in the Writing of Poetry W, ALP
ENGLISH 321S Intermediate Workshop in the Writing of Fiction W, ALP
ENGLISH 322S Intermediate Workshop in the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction W, ALP
ENGLISH 325S Literary Translation: History, Theory, and Practice CCI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 330 The Seven Deadly Sins: Representing Vice and Virtue in Christian Tradition CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 331S Late Medieval Literature and Culture CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 332S Chaucer I CCI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 333 Chaucer II CCI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 336 Shakespeare through 1600 EI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 337 Shakespeare After 1600 EI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 338S Milton EI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 344 Eighteenth-Century British Novel W, ALP
ENGLISH 345 Nineteenth-Century British Novel ALP
ENGLISH 346 Victorian Poetry ALP
ENGLISH 350S Asian American and Latinx Literature and Film
ENGLISH 351S Global Hispanophone in Translation CCI, EI, ALP
ENGLISH 352S Asian American Literature CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 353S Black Feminism and Fashion CCI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 354S Picaras and Outlaws: Global South Feminisms CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 355S The Radical Narratives of Toni Morrison ALP
ENGLISH 358S Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Film EI, STS, ALP
ENGLISH 360S The Environment in Literature, Law, and Science CCI, EI, ALP
ENGLISH 362D What Is Beauty? CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 365S Modern Drama: 1940-2000 CCI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 371S Studies in American Literature, WWI-WWII ALP
ENGLISH 372S Modern American Poetry R, ALP
ENGLISH 373 American Literature, Cold War and After ALP
ENGLISH 373S Studies in American Literature, Cold War and After ALP
ENGLISH 374 Contemporary American Writers ALP
ENGLISH 375S Contemporary American Drama CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 376S The Detective Novel ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 377 Contemporary Novel ALP
ENGLISH 378S Popular Arts and Culture in Africa CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 379S Fictions That Mark the Moment CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 380 Popular Representations of Black Masculinity CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 380S James Baldwin and Toni Morrison CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 381 The History of Hip-Hop CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 382S Mapping Jewish Modernism CCI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 385S Fiction/Reality/Autofiction: The Existential Turn in Contemporary Literature CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 386 Science Fiction Film CCI, EI, STS, ALP
ENGLISH 386S Science Fiction Film EI, ALP
ENGLISH 387S Asian American Theater CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 388S Hitchcock: Master of Suspense CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 389S American Independent Cinema CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 390-1 Special Topics: Single American Author
ENGLISH 390-2 Special Topics in a Single British Author
ENGLISH 390-5 Special Topics in Genre
ENGLISH 390-6 Special Topics in Film
ENGLISH 390A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in English
ENGLISH 390S-1 Special Topics in a Single American Author
ENGLISH 390S-2 Special Topics in a Single British Author
ENGLISH 390S-6 Special Topics in Film
ENGLISH 390S-7 Special Topics in Language and Literature
ENGLISH 391A Duke in New York Arts and Media Independent Study
ENGLISH 392S Autobiographical Writing: The Power and the Pitfalls of 'Me' EI, W, ALP
ENGLISH 395 Language and Society CCI, SS
ENGLISH 396S Language in Immigrant America CCI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 397S Narratives of Migration CCI, R, ALP
ENGLISH 398 Digital Media Internship
ENGLISH 409D Black (In) Translation CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 420S Advanced Workshop in the Writing of Poetry W, ALP
ENGLISH 421S Advanced Workshop in the Writing of Fiction W, ALP
ENGLISH 422S Advanced Writing for Stage and Screen CCI, ALP
ENGLISH 460S Weil, Beauvoir, Murdoch: Three Women Philosophers in Mid-Twentieth Century Europe CCI, EI, ALP
ENGLISH 480S Understanding Mediation CCI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 482S Studies in Contemporary Theory ALP
ENGLISH 490 Special Topics in Language and Literature
ENGLISH 490-1 Current Topics in Linguistics
ENGLISH 490-7 Special Topics in Literature and the Other Arts
ENGLISH 490S Special Topics in Language and Literature
ENGLISH 490S-1 Special Topics in Linguistics
ENGLISH 490S-10 Special Topics in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology
ENGLISH 490S-2 Special Topics in African American Literary Studies
ENGLISH 490T Tutorial (Area I, II, or III as determined by instructor)
ENGLISH 491 Independent Study
ENGLISH 493 Research Independent Study R
ENGLISH 495 Distinction Creative Writing Independent Study
ENGLISH 496 Distinction Creative Writing Independent Study
ENGLISH 497 Distinction Critical Research Independent Study R
ENGLISH 498 Distinction Critical Research Independent Study R
ENGLISH 537S Shakespeare & Co.: English Renaissance Drama CCI, R, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 538S Special Topics in Renaissance Prose and Poetry: 1500 to 1660 R, ALP
ENGLISH 540S Special Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature (DS3) ALP
ENGLISH 545S Romantic Literature: 1790 to 1830 ALP
ENGLISH 546S Special Topics in Victorian Literature R, W, ALP
ENGLISH 550S Black Culture and Performance CCI, R, W, ALP
ENGLISH 571S Dystopia, Speculation, and the Transhuman: Octavia Butler CCI, EI, ALP
ENGLISH 581S Mimesis in Theory, Embodied Practice, and Literary Arts CCI, FL, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 582S Wittgensteinian Perspectives on Literary Theory ALP
ENGLISH 590-1 Special Topics I
ENGLISH 590-2 Special Topics II
ENGLISH 590-4 Special Topics in Criticism
ENGLISH 590S-1 Special Topics Seminar I
ENGLISH 590S-2 Special Topics Seminar II
ENGLISH 590S-3 Special Topics Seminar III
ENGLISH 590S-4 Special Topics Seminar in Criticism, Theory, or Methodology
ENGLISH 590S-5 Special Topics Seminar on Diversity
ENGLISH 591 Special Readings - Independent Study
ENGLISH 616S Literature and Philosophy EI, ALP
ENGLISH 620S Film-philosophers/Film-makers STS, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 680S Blackness, Social Death, and the Volatile Sacred CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
ENGLISH 691S Black Sonic Culture—Analog to Digital
ENGLISH 765S Existentialism, Nihilism, and Religion
ENGLISH 767S How Blackness Thinks
ENGLISH 822S Writing is Thinking
ENGLISH 823S History of Literary Criticism
ENGLISH 826S Contemporary Genre Fiction: The Global Novel
ENGLISH 827S The Global Novel: Post, What?
ENGLISH 860S Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy
ENGLISH 890 Special Topics
ENGLISH 890S Special Topics Seminar
ENGLISH 890T Tutorial in Special Topics
ENGLISH 891 Special Readings
ENGLISH 900S African American Religion Through the Literary Imagination
ENGLISH 996 Practicum in Teaching College English