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 2025 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online) English 1000 Spring 2025 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online, self-paced) English 1000 Fall, Spring, Summer 2025 Cheryl Hall
Writing and Rhetoric (self-paced, online) English 1000 Spring 2025 Cheryl Hall
Honors Writing and Rhetoric English 1000H Spring 2025 Various
Human Language English 1060 Spring 2025 Matt Gordon
Storytelling English 1110 Spring 2025 Nancy West
Themes in Literature: Dramatic Literature English 1160 Spring 2025 Reid Reid
Themes in Literature: Mental Illness in Literature English 1160 Spring 2025 MC Sarafianos
Themes in Literature: Sci-Fi Short Stories: Glimpses of New Worlds English 1160 Spring 2025 Kathleen Buckley
Introduction to Creative Writing English 1500 Spring 2025 Various
Introduction to Folklore Genres English 1700 Spring 2025 Virginia Muller
Introduction to Film Studies/Introduction to Film Studies Honors English 1800/1800H Spring 2025 Various
Studies in English—Prison Literature English 2000 Spring 2025 William Kerwin
Studies in English--Honors: Jane Austen English 2000H Spring 2025 Nancy West
Intermediate Composition English 2010 Spring 2025 Adam Byko
Theory and Practice of Writing Seminar--Honors/Writing Intensive English 2015HW Spring 2025 Aaron Harms and Bailey Boyd
Professional Writing English 2030 Spring 2025 Claire Smith
Professional Writing English 2030 Spring 2025 Annie Trinh
Writing About Literature (English majors only) English 2100 Spring 2025 William Kerwin
Writing About Literature: American Hauntings English 2100 Spring 2025 Sarah Buckner
Writing About Literature: Selfies in the Literary World (online) English 2100 Spring 2025 Kim McCaffrey
Popular Literature: Besties: Literary Duos English 2150 Spring 2025 Donald Quist
Introduction to World Literatures: Good and Evil English 2155 Spring 2025 Chris Wilson
Studies in American Literature: The Longest War: Civil War Literature from 1862 to the Present--Writing Intensive English 2300W Spring 2025 John Evelev
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Spring 2025 Adam Byko
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Spring 2025 Kayla Cayasso
Creative Writing: Intermediate Nonfiction Prose English 2520 Spring 2025 Kofi Opam
Creative Writing: Intermediate Poetry English 2530 Spring 2025 Julia Talen
Beginning Playwriting English 2560 Spring 2025 Talia Gritzmacher
Advanced Composition: Writing with Generative AI--Writing Intensive English 3010 Spring 2025 Kevin Brown
Special Themes in Literature: Gender Issues in the Middle East and North Africa ENGLISH 3110 Spring 2025 Zahraa Habeeb
Special Themes in Literature: The Supernatural in Early America English 3110 Spring 2025 Maureen Konkle
Special Themes in Literature: Young Adult Literature—Diversity Intensive English 3110 Spring 2025 Kim McCaffrey
Survey of British Literature: Romanticism to the Present (online) English 3210 Spring 2025 Ariel Fried
Survey of American Literature: 1865 to the Present (online) English 3310 Spring 2025 Dane Spoltore
Survey of African American Literature, 1900 to the Present—Diversity Intensive English 3410 Spring 2025 Andrew Hoberek
Performance of Literature English 3570 Spring 2025 Kasey Lynch
Languages of the World English 3620 Spring 2025 Rebecca Grollemund
Writing and Theory for Digital Media--Writing Intensive English 3880W Spring 2025 Jared McCormack
Studies in English: Careers in English (1-credit hour) English 4000 Spring 2025 Sam Cohen
Studies in Writing: The Epistolary Essay English 4040 Spring 2025 A. Kendra Greene
Studies in Writing: The Self and the Social English 4040/7040 Spring 2025 Becca Hayes
Rhetorical Studies: Remembering the Past (Capstone eligible) English 4045/7045 Spring 2025 Becca Hayes
Genres: Weird Fiction English 4100/7100 Spring 2025 Andrew Hoberek
Major Authors, Beginning to 1700: Shakespeare: Tragedies and Romances (Capstone eligible) English 4166/7166 Spring 2025 Lee Manion
Major Authors: Melville and Thoreau English 4167/7167 Spring 2025 John Evelev
Comparative Approaches to Literature: Climate Change Fiction (online) [***] English 4170/7170 Spring 2025 Karen Piper
Major Women Writers 1789-1890: The Bronte Sisters (online) [***] English 4188/7188 Spring 2025 Heather Heckman-McKenna
Medieval Literature: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales English 4210/7210 Spring 2025 Elise Broaddus
Restoration and 18th-Century English Literature: Love and Sex in 18th c. Literature (Capstone eligible) English 4240/7240 Spring 2025 Stephen Karian
19th-Century American Literature: Animals and Literature English 4310/7310 Spring 2025 Karah Mitchell
Studies in African Diaspora Literature: Black Love in Text and Film—Diversity Intensive English 4400/7400 Spring 2025 Sarah Buckner
Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction (Capstone eligible) English 4510/7510 Spring 2025 Speer Morgan
Creative Writing: Advanced Nonfiction Prose: Ekphrastic Nonfiction (Capstone eligible) English 4520/7520 Spring 2025 Donald Quist
Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry (online, 2nd 8-week)[***] English 4530/7530 Spring 2025 Aliki Barnstone
History of the English Language English 4610/English 7610 Spring 2025 Matt Gordon
Phonology English 4630/7630 Spring 2025 Michael Marlo
Field Methods in Linguistics--Writing Intensive English 4670W-01/7670-01 Spring 2025 Michael Marlo
Adaptation of Literature for Film: Tales about Human Nature (online) (Capstone eligible) [***] English 4935/7580 Spring 2025 Erick Burdock
Internship in English English 4940 Spring 2025 Kim McCaffrey
Internship in English--Wigleaf (1-credit hour) English 4940 Spring 2025 Scott Garson
Internship in Publishing: The Missouri Review English 4950 Spring 2025 Marc McKee
Internship in Publishing: Persea Books and Persea Books online English 4950/7950 Spring 2025 Gabriel Fried
Capstone Experience--Writing Intensive (0-credit course) English 4970W Spring 2025 Various
Internship in English English 7950 Spring 2025 Anne Myers
Topics in English: Critical Writing Workshop (1-credit hour) English 8001 Spring 2025 Andy Hoberek
The Theory and Practice of Teaching Literature: Teaching English Literature (1-credit hour) English 8020 Spring 2025 Anne Myers
The Theory and Practice of Teaching Creative Writing (1-credit hour) English 8030 Spring 2025 Phong Nguyen
Forms: Victorian and Modern Poetry English 8110 Spring 2025 Frances Dickey
Seminar in Renaissance British Literature: Monumental Significance (Early Modern and the Present) English 8220 Spring 2025 Anne Myers
Seminar in 18th-Century British Literature: Varieties of 18th c. Fiction English 8240 Spring 2025 Stephen Karian
Seminar in 20th-Century American Literature English 8320 Spring 2025 Sam Cohen
The Writing Seminar English 8500 Spring 2025 A. Kendra Greene