Courses

On this page, you will find our current course offerings with instructor information, course times, and course descriptions. For information about course modality, classrooms, and the requirements that courses fulfill, please go to MyZou and look up the course you are interested in.

NOTE: Courses marked with [***] on this page are part of the English Department’s online graduate program. These courses do not count towards Mizzou’s MA or PhD degrees in English for students receiving assistantships but are open to self-funded English MA students with the Director of Graduate Study’s approval. You can find a listing of only these online English graduate courses here: https://english.missouri.edu/undergrad/online-english-graduate-courses.


Title Course Number Semester Year Instructor
Writing and Rhetoric English 1000 Spring 2026 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online) English 1000 Spring 2026 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online, self-paced) English 1000 Spring 2026 Cheryl Hall
Writing and Rhetoric Honors English 1000H Spring 2026 Penny Smith-Parris
Human Language English 1060 Spring 2026 Matt Gordon
Human Language English 1060 Spring 2026 Nergis Danis
Storytelling English 1110 Spring 2026 Phong Nguyen
Themes in Literature: Gardens, Whale Sharks, Warming English 1160 Spring 2026 Emma DePanise
Themes in Literature: Literature (Taylor’s Version) English 1160 Spring 2026 Makayla Dublin
Themes in Literature: Mental Health and Literature English 1160 Spring 2026 Julia Talen
Introduction to Creative Writing English 1500 Spring 2026 Trudy Lewis
Introduction to Creative Writing English 1500 Spring 2026 Various
Introduction to Creative Writing (online) English 1500 Spring 2026 Jacob Hall
Introduction to Folklore Genres English 1700 Spring 2026 Virginia Muller
Introduction to Film Studies/Introduction to Film Studies Honors English 1800 Spring 2026 Various
Studies in English: Banning Books in America: Not a How-to—online, 2nd 8-week English 2000 Spring 2026 Sam Cohen
Studies in English: Folk & Fairy Tales--online, 2nd 8-week English 2000 Spring 2026 Erick Burdock
Studies in English: Vampires in Literature and Culture-online, 2nd 8-wk session English 2000 Spring 2026 Yoonjae Shin
Intermediate Composition English 2010 Spring 2026 Penny Smith-Parris
Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing Seminar Honors/Writing Intensive English 2015HW Spring 2026 Bailey Boyd and Aaron Harms
Professional Writing English 2030 Spring 2026 Eszi Waters
Professional Writing English 2030 Spring 2026 Annie Trinh
Writing about Literature: The Modern City (online) English 2100 Spring 2026 Frances Dickey
Writing about Literature: Thinking and Feeling English 2100 Spring 2026 Karah Mitchell
Writing about Literature: Women's Work English 2100 Spring 2026 Elise Broaddus
Introduction to World Literature: Virginity Codes in Global Literature and Cultural Narratives English 2155 Spring 2026 Zahraa Habeeb
Introduction to Women’s Literature: Future Fictions: Speculative Fiction by Women Writers English 2180 Spring 2026 Trudy Lewis
Studies in American Literature: The Gothic in American Literature English 2300 Spring 2026 Maureen Konkle
Missouri Writers English 2310 Spring 2026 Samuel Cohen
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Spring 2026 Ayotola Tehingbola
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Spring 2026 Scott Garson
Creative Writing: Intermediate Nonfiction Prose English 2520 Spring 2026 Ainsley Kelly
Creative Writing: Intermediate Poetry English 2530 Spring 2026 Colleen Hollister
Special Themes in Literature: Arthurian Legend English 3110 Spring 2026 Lee Manion
Special Themes in Literature: Monstrous, Horrible, and Weird Literature English 3110 Spring 2026 Yoonjae Shin
Special Themes in Literature: Queer Bodies and Texts English 3110 Spring 2026 Sarah Buckner
Special Themes in Literature: Young Adult Literature—Diversity Intensive (online) English 3110 Spring 2026 Kim McCaffrey
Survey of British Literature: Beginnings to 1784 English 3200 Spring 2026 Section 03
Survey of British Literature: Romanticism to the Present English 3210 Spring 2026 Kim McCaffrey
Survey of American Literature: 1865-Present English 3310 Spring 2026 Maureen Konkle
Survey of American Literature: 1865-Present--online English 3310 Spring 2026 Dane Spoltore
Survey of African American Literature, 1900 to Present English 3410 Spring 2026 Sarah Buckner
Intermediate Playwriting English 3560/3560W Spring 2026 David Crespy
Performance of Literature English 3570 Spring 2026 Mary Carver
Languages of the World English 3620 Spring 2026 Rebecca Grollemund
Studies in Film History: Screen Adaptations of Elena Ferrante’s Novels English 3850 Spring 2026 Roberta Tabanelli
Writing and Theory for Digital Media—Writing Intensive English 3880W Spring 2026 Jared McCormack
Advanced Studies in English: Corpus Linguistics English 4000/7004 Spring 2026 Nergis Danis
Studies in Writing: Writing about Objects—Capstone eligible English 4040/7040 Spring 2026 Becca Hayes
Studies in English: Writing Grief and Loss--Writing Intensive English 4040W/7040 Spring 2026 Cass Donish
Studies in Critical Theory English 4060/7060 Spring 2026 Carsten Strathausen
Genres 1700-1900: Adventure Novel: Defoe to Stevenson—Capstone eligible English 4107/7107 Spring 2026 Andy Hoberek
Major Authors, Beginning to 1700: Shakespeare--Capstone eligible English 4166/7166 Spring 2026 William Kerwin
Major Authors, 1700-1900: Blake--Capstone eligible English 4167/7167 Spring 2026 Noah Heringman
Major Authors, 1900-Present: T. S. Eliot and Elizabeth Bishop--Online [***] English 4168/7168 Spring 2026 Frances Dickey
Major Women Authors, 1700-1900: Emily Dickinson and Film English 4188/7188 Spring 2026 Karah Mitchell
Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Literature--Capstone eligible, Online [***] English 4220/7220 Spring 2026 William Kerwin
Studies in Native American and Indigenous Literature: Contemporary Indigenous Literature—Online—Capstone eligible [***] English 4490/7490 Spring 2026 Maureen Konkle
Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction--Capstone eligible English 4510/7510 Spring 2026 Speer Morgan
Creative Writing: Advanced Nonfiction Prose: The Untamed and the Unseen English 4520/7520 Spring 2026 Traci Cox
Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry (online, 2nd 8-week)[***] English 4530/7530 Spring 2026 Gabriel Fried
History of the English Language English 4610/7610 Spring 2026 Matthew Gordon
Phonology: Discover the sound systems of the world's languages in Phonology! English 4630/7630 Spring 2026 Michael Marlo
Field Methods in Linguistics: Documenting Language, Discovering Structure—Writing Intensive English 4670W/7670 Spring 2026 Michael Marlo
Film Theory English 4810 Spring 2026 Bradley Prager
Internship in English English 4940 Spring 2026 Kim McCaffrey
Internship in English--Wigleaf English 4940 Spring 2026 Scott Garson
Internship in Publishing--Missouri Review English 4950/7950 Spring 2026 Marc McKee
Internship in Publishing: Persea Books Online English 4950/7950 Spring 2026 Gabriel Fried
The Story of English: Medieval to Modern--1st 8-week [***] English 7611 Spring 2026 Johanna Kramer
Internship in Publishing English 7950 Spring 2026 Stephen Karian
Topics in English: Critical Writing Workshop--1 credit hour English 8001 Spring 2026 Johanna Kramer
Theory and Practice of Teaching Literature--1 credit hour English 8020 Spring 2026 Samuel Cohen
Seminar in Criticism and Theory: Feminist Theory English 8060 Spring 2026 Emmett Harsin Drager
Forms: Transformative Romance English 8110 Spring 2026 Lee Manion
Seminar in 19th-Century Literature: American Gothic English 8310 Spring 2026 John Evelev
The Writing Seminar: Considering Audience English 8500 Spring 2026 Phong Nguyen