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 Fall 2025 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online) English 1000 Fall 2025 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online, self-paced) English 1000 Fall, Spring, Summer 2025 Cheryl Hall
Writing and Rhetoric Honors English 1000H Fall 2025 Smith-Parris
Human Language English 1060 Fall 2025 Rebecca Grollemund
Human Language English 1060 Fall 2025 Nergis Dannis
Reading Literature/Reading Literature Honors: Banned Books English 1100/English 1100H Fall 2025 Sam Cohen
Themes in Literature: AI in Contemporary Literature: Androids, Sexbots and Overlords English 1160 Fall 2025 Adam Byko
Themes in Literature: Popular 19th Century American Women Writers: “A Damned Mob of Scribbling Women” English 1160 Fall 2025 Caitlin Doherty
Themes in Literature: Reading Fiction in the Age of the Internet: Going Viral English 1160 Fall 2025 Dane Spoltore
Introduction to Creative Writing English 1500 Fall 2025 Various
Introduction to Creative Writing (online) English 1500 Fall 2025 Gabriel Fried
Studies in English: Enjoying Poetry English 2000 Fall 2025 Karah Mitchell
Studies in English: Monster Lit English 2000 Fall 2025 Lee Manion
Studies in English: Women Rewrite Faith, Belonging & Identity Across Borders English 2000 Fall 2025 Zahraa Habeeb
Studies in English/Studies in English Honors: Literature and Medicine English 2000/2000H Fall 2025 William Kerwin
Intermediate Composition English 2010 Fall 2025 Penny Smith-Parris
Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing Seminar—Honors, Writing Intensive English 2015HW Fall 2025 Bailey Boyd and Aaron Harms
Professional Writing English 2030 Fall 2025 Ayotola Tehingbola
Professional Writing English 2030 Fall 2025 Annie Trinh
Writing about Literature: Haunted America English 2100 Fall 2025 Sarah Buckner
Writing about Literature: Reconsidering Love (English majors only) English 2100 Fall 2025 John Evelev
Writing about Literature: Selfies in the Literary World (online) English 2100 Fall 2025 Kim McCaffrey
Twentieth-Century Literature: Writing the Environment English 2140 Fall 2025 Frances Dickey
Introduction to World Literature: Exploring Good and Evil English 2155 Fall 2025 Chris Wilson
The Art and Science of Living English 2311 Fall 2025 Laura King and Jacob Hall
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Fall 2025 Kathleen Buckley
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Fall 2025 Kayla Cayasso
Creative Writing: Intermediate Nonfiction Prose English 2520 Fall 2025 Traci Cox
Creative Writing: Intermediate Poetry English 2530 Fall 2025 Emma DePanise
Beginning Playwriting English 2560 Fall 2025 Talia Gritzmacher
Advanced Composition: Writing with Generative AI--Writing Intensive English 3010 Fall 2025 Kevin Brown
Special Themes in Literature: Middle Grade Literature English 3110 Fall 2025 Kim McCaffrey
Special Themes in Literature: Monstrous, Horrible, and Weird Literature English 3110 Fall 2025 Yoonjae Shin
Survey of British Literature: Beginnings to 1874 English 3200 Fall 2025 Bill Kerwin
Survey of American Literature: Beginnings to 1865 English 3300 Fall 2025 John Evelev
Survey of African American Literature, Beginnings to 1900 (online, 2nd 8-wk)--Diversity Intensive, Writing Intensive English 3400W Fall 2025 Andy Hoberek
Special Themes in Native American and Indigenous Studies: Myth and Indigenous Narrative—Diversity Intensive English 3490 Fall 2025 Maureen Konkle
Performance of Literature English 3570 Fall 2025
American Folklore: Rumors, Legends, and Conspiracy Theories English 3700 Fall 2025 Virginia Muller
Historical Survey of Rhetoric: Global Histories of Rhetoric English 4050/7050 Fall 2025 Becca Hayes
Major Authors, Beginning to 1700: Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies English 4166/7166 Fall 2025 Anne Myers
Major Women Writers, 1700-1900: The Bronte Sisters (online) [***] English 4188/7188 Fall 2025 Yoonjae Shin
Major Women Writers: 1900-Present: Virginia Woolf (Capstone eligible) English 4189/7189 Fall 2025 Frances Dickey
Introduction to Old English English 4200/7200 Fall 2025 Johanna Kramer
Early Medieval Literature: Early Medieval Women: Queens, Saints, and Dragon Slayers--Writing Intensive (Capstone eligible) English 4206W/7206 Fall 2025 Johanna Kramer
19th-Century American Literature: Melville and Hawthorne—Online (Capstone eligible) [***] English 4310/7310 Fall 2025 Maureen Konkle
20th-Century American Literature: The Political Novel (online) (Capstone eligible) [***] English 4320/7320 Fall 2025 Sam Cohen
Major African Diaspora Women Writers English 4480/7480 Fall 2025 Sarah Buckner
Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction English 4510/7510 Fall 2025 Phong Nguyen
Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction (Capstone eligible) English 4510/7510 Fall 2025 Trudy Lewis
Creative Writing: Advanced Nonfiction Prose English 4520/7520 Fall 2025 Cass Donish
Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry English 4530/7530 Fall 2025 Jacob Hall
Structure of American English English 4600/7600 Fall 2025 Matthew Gordon
Regional and Social Dialects of American English (Capstone eligible) English 4620/7620 Fall 2025 Matthew Gordon
Syntax English 4640/7640 Fall 2025 Michael Marlo
Historical Linguistics English 4660/7660 Fall 2025 Rebecca Grollemund
Internship in English English 4940 Fall 2025 Kim McCaffrey
Internship in English--Wigleaf (1-credit hour) English 4940 Fall 2025 Scott Garson
Internship in Publishing--Missouri Review English 4950/7950 Fall 2025 Speer Morgan
Internship in Publishing: Persea Books (online) English 4950/7950 Fall 2025 Gabriel Fried
Capstone Experience--Writing Intensive (0-credit course) English 4970W Fall 2025 Various
Honors Seminar in English--Writing Intensive English 4995W Fall 2025 Stephen Karian
Internship in English English 7950 Fall 2025 Stephen Karian
Topics in English: Academic Job Workshop (1-credit course) English 8001 Fall 2025 Becca Hayes
Topics in English: Researching Primary Materials English 8001 Fall 2025 Stephen Karian
Topics: Critical Writing Workshop (1-credit course) English 8001 Fall 2025 Frances Dickey
Introduction to Graduate Study (1-credit course) English 8005 Fall 2025 Stephen Karian
Theory and Practice of Composition English 8010 Fall 2025 Becca Hayes
Contemporary Critical Approaches English 8050 Fall 2025 Carsten Strathausen
Seminar in 20th-Century American Literature: The Novel: 1890-1910 English 8320 Fall 2025 Andy Hoberek
The Writing Seminar: Thresholds English 8500 Fall 2025 Cass Donish
The Writing Seminar: Time Machine English 8500 Fall 2025 Trudy Lewis