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 2026 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online) English 1000 Fall 2026 Various
Writing and Rhetoric (online, self-paced) English 1000 Fall 2026 Cheryl Hall
Honors Writing and Rhetoric English 1000H Fall 2026 Penny Smith-Parris
Human Language English 1060 Fall 2026 Rebecca Grollemund
Human Language English 1060 Fall 2026 Nergis Danis
Reading Literature/Reading Literature Honors: Banned Books English 1100 Fall 2026 Sam Cohen
Themes in Literature: Black Mothers in the 21st Century English 1160 Fall 2026 Ayotola Tehingbola
Themes in Literature: Dystopian Fiction and Social Critique English 1160 Fall 2026 Jeremy Daugherty
Themes in Literature: Fairy Tales and Their Contemporary Adaptations English 1160 Fall 2026 Colleen Hollister
Introduction to Creative Writing English 1500 Fall 2026 Various
Introduction to Creative Writing—Honors English 1500/1500H Fall 2026 Emma DePanise
Introduction to Film Studies/Honors Introduction to Film Studies English 1800/1800H Fall 2026 Various
Studies in Literature: Monster Lit English 2000 Fall 2026 Lee Manion
Studies in English/Honors Studies in English: Jane Austen English 2000/2000H Fall 2026 Nancy West
Intermediate Composition English 2010 Fall 2026 Penny Smith-Parris
Theory and Practice of Tutoring Writing Seminar—Writing Intensive, Honors English 2015HW Fall 2026 Bailey Boyd and Aaron Harms
Professional Writing English 2030 Fall 2026 Eszi Waters
Professional Writing English 2030 Fall 2026 Annie Trinh
Writing About Literature: Origin Stories English 2100 Fall 2026 Anne Myers
Writing About Literature: Real and Unreal English 2100 Fall 2026 Maureen Konkle
Writing About Literature: Selfies in the Literary World—online English 2100 Fall 2026 Kim McCaffrey
Story of an Illness: Literature and Medicine English 2105/2105H Fall 2026 William Kerwin
Popular Literature: Literature and Baseball—online, 2nd 8-wk English 2150 Fall 2026 Gabriel Fried
Popular Literature: The Dirty South English 2150 Fall 2026 Donald Quist
Introduction to World Literatures: Exploring Good and Evil English 2155 Fall 2026 Chris Wilson
Introduction to World Literatures: Virginity Codes in Global Literature and Cultural Narratives English 2155 Fall 2026 Zahraa Habeeb
Introduction to Women’s Literature: SciFi by Women Writers English 2180 Fall 2026 Trudy Lewis
The Art and Science of Living English 2311 Fall 2026 Laura King and Jacob Hall
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Fall 2026 Emily Clemente
Creative Writing: Intermediate Fiction English 2510 Fall 2026 Subraj Singh
Intermediate Creative Writing: Intermediate Nonfiction Prose English 2520 Fall 2026 Matthew Morris
Intermediate Creative Writing: Intermediate Poetry English 2530 Fall 2026 Rachel Walker
Beginning Playwriting English 2560 Fall 2026 David Crespy
Film Themes and Genres: Cinema of Resistance English 2860 Fall 2026 Andrew Hoberek
Special Themes in Literature: Exploring American Masculinity English 3110 Fall 2026 Chris Wilson
Special Themes in Literature: Middle Grade Literature English 3110 Fall 2026 Kim McCaffrey
Special Themes in Literature: Narrating the Unspeakable English 3110 Fall 2026 Brad Prager
Survey of British Literature: Beginnings to 1784 English 3200 Fall 2026 Elise Broaddus
Survey of American Literature: Beginnings to 1865 English 3300 Fall 2026 John Evelev
Survey of African American Literature, Beginnings to 1865–Writing Intensive, online-2nd 8-wk [***] English 3400 Fall 2026 Ayotunde Afolabi
American Folklore: Rumors, Legends, and Conspiracy Theories English 3700 Fall 2026 Ginny Muller
Genres, 1700-1900: The Sensation Novel English 4107/7107 Fall 2026 Nancy West
Major Authors, Beginning to 1700: Shakespeare, Histories and Comedies (Capstone eligible) English 4166/7166 Fall 2026 William Kerwin
Major Authors, 1700-1900: Moby Dick vs. Middlemarch English 4167/7167 Fall 2026 Andy Hoberek
Major Women Writers, 1700-1900: The Bronte Sisters—online [***] English 4188/7188 Fall 2026 Heather Heckman-McKenna
Major Women Writers, 1900-Present: Virginia Woolf (Capstone eligible) English 4189/7189 Fall 2026 Frances Dickey
Early Medieval Literature: Early Medieval Women: Queens, Saints, and Dragon Slayers—Writing Intensive English 4206W/7206 Fall 2026 Johanna Kramer
Early American Literature: The Puritan Heritage (Capstone eligible)—online [***] English 4300/7300 Fall 2026 John Evelev
Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction English 4510/7510 Fall 2026 Phong Nguyen
Creative Writing: Advanced Fiction: Shapeshifters (Capstone eligible) English 4510/7510 Fall 2026 Trudy Lewis
Creative Writing: Advanced Nonfiction Prose: Remixes: Creative Adaptation (Capstone eligible) English 4520/7520 Fall 2026 Donald Quist
Creative Writing: Advanced Poetry English 4530/7530 Fall 2026 Jacob Hall
Structure of American English English 4600/7600 Fall 2026 Matthew Gordon
Regional and Social Dialects of American English (Capstone eligible) English 4620/7620 Fall 2026 Matthew Gordon
Syntax English 4640/7640 Fall 2026 Michael Marlo
Historical Linguistics English 4660/7660 Fall 2026 Rebecca Grollemund
Adaptation of Literature to Film: Tales of Human Nature--online (Capstone eligible)[***] English 4935/7580 Fall 2026 Carsten Strathausen
Internship in English English 4940 Fall 2026 Kim McCaffrey
Internship in English—Wigleaf English 4940 Fall 2026 Scott Garson
Internship in Publishing: Persea English 4950/7950 Fall 2026 Gabriel Fried
Internship in Publishing: The Missouri Review English 4950/7950 Fall 2026 Speer Morgan
Honors Seminar in English—Writing Intensive English 4995W Fall 2026 Stephen Karian
Topics in English: Critical Writing (1-credit course) English 8001 Fall 2026 Frances Dickey
Introduction to Graduate Study (1-credit course) English 8005 Fall 2026 Stephen Karian
Theory and Practice of Composition English 8010 Fall 2026 Becca Hayes
Theory and Practice of Teaching Literature (1-credit course) English 8020 Fall 2026 Andy Hoberek
Seminar in Criticism and Theory: Archives and Historical Narrative English 8060 Fall 2026 Maureen Konkle
Forms: Victorian and Modern Poetry English 8110 Fall 2026 Frances Dickey
The Writing Seminar: In Living Color English 8500 Fall 2026 Donald Quist