Summer Quarter 2026 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

111 A COMPOSITION: LIT (Composition: Literature) M-Th 11:30-12:30 11126

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing; topics derived from reading and discussing stories, poems, essays, and plays.

131 A COMPOSITN: EXPOSITN (Composition: Exposition) M-Th 9:40-10:40 11127

Catalog Description: Study and practice of good writing: topics derived from a variety of personal, academic, and public subjects.

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Online 11128

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 B READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Online 11129

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

204 A POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Online 11130

Catalog Description: Introduces students to the study of popular culture, possibly including print or visual media, understood as sites of critical reflection. Particular attention to dynamics of production and reception, aesthetics and technique, and cultural politics. Topics may foreground genres (science fiction; romance) or forms (comics; graffiti

204 B POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Online 11131

Catalog Description: Introduces students to the study of popular culture, possibly including print or visual media, understood as sites of critical reflection. Particular attention to dynamics of production and reception, aesthetics and technique, and cultural politics. Topics may foreground genres (science fiction; romance) or forms (comics; graffiti

206 A Rhetoric in Everyday Life (Rhetoric in Everyday Life) M-Th 10:50-1:00 11132

Catalog Description: Introductory rhetoric course that examines the strategic use of and situated means through which images, texts, objects, and symbols inform, persuade, and shape social practices in various contexts. Topics focus on education, public policy, politics, law, journalism, media, digital cultural, globalization, popular culture, and the arts.

206 B Rhetoric in Everyday Life (Rhetoric in Everyday Life) Online 11133

Catalog Description: Introductory rhetoric course that examines the strategic use of and situated means through which images, texts, objects, and symbols inform, persuade, and shape social practices in various contexts. Topics focus on education, public policy, politics, law, journalism, media, digital cultural, globalization, popular culture, and the arts.

207 A INTRO CULTURE ST (Introduction to Cultural Studies) Online 11134

Catalog Description: Asks three questions: What is Cultural Studies? How does one read from a Cultural Studies perspective? What is the value of reading this way? Provides historical understanding of Cultural Studies, its terms and its specific way of interpreting a variety of texts, i.e. literature, visual images, music, video, and performance.

259 A LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) M-Th 1:10-3:20 11135

Catalog Description: Literary texts are important evidence for social difference (gender, race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship status, sexuality, ability) in contemporary and historical contexts. Examines texts that encourage and provoke us to ask larger questions about identity, power, privilege, society, and the role of culture in present-day or historical settings.

281 A INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Online 11136

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 B INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Online 11137

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 C INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Online 11138

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 D INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Online 11139

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

288 A Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Online 11140

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 B Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Online 11141

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 C Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Online 11142

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

289 A BUSINESS WRITING (BUSINESS WRITING) Online 11143

Catalog Description: Theory and practice of written, visual, and digital writing within business contexts.

295 A English Study Abroad (Study Abroad) Online 11144

Catalog Description: Equivalency for 200-level English courses taken on UW study abroad programs or direct exchanges. May not apply to major requirements

296 A Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences) Online 11145

Catalog Description: Develops critical literacy in the diffuse but interlocking disciplines of the natural sciences. Through analysis and composition of various texts, students become authoritative participants in scientific discourse while also becoming familiar with ways that Western values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and its related institutions. Offered: AWSp.

325 A Early Modern Literature (Early Modern English Literature) Online 11147

Catalog Description: Covers selected poetry, prose, and/or drama from the English Renaissance through the English Civil War and Commonwealth. Readings may include Petrarchism and the early English laureates, early defenses of poesy, the first essays, works by Shakespeare and/or his contemporaries, the metaphysical poets, Milton, and early transatlantic writers such as Anne Bradstreet.

349 A SCI FICT & FANTASY (Science Fiction and Fantasy) M-Th 9:40-11:50 11148

Catalog Description: The study of the development of and specific debates in the related genres of fantasy and science fiction literatures.

395 A STUDY ABROAD (Study Abroad) ARR 11149

Catalog Description: Relates major works of literature, literary theory and criticism, or creative writing to the landscape and activities of their settings for students in UW English Department study abroad programs. Equivalency for upper-division English coursework taken on a UW study abroad program or direct exchange

491 A INTERNSHIP (Internship) ARR 11150

Catalog Description: Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open only to upper-division English majors. Credit/no credit only.

492 A EXPOSIT WRIT CONF (Advanced Expository Writing Conference) ARR 11151

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

493 A CREATIVE WRIT CONF (Advanced Creative Writing Conference) ARR 11152

Catalog Description: Tutorial arranged by prior mutual agreement between individual student and instructor. Revision of manuscripts is emphasized, but new work may also be undertaken.

499 A INDEPENDENT STUDY (INDEPENDENT STUDY) ARR 11153

Catalog Description: Individual study by arrangement with instructor.

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