ENGLISH DISCOVERY TIER COURSES

These courses fulfill Discovery Tier requirements in the Marquette Core Curriculum. Full course descriptions are available at the English department website. Themes vary by instructor and by semester.

Basic Needs and Justice
Cognition, Intelligence, Memory

Crossing Boundaries
Expanding Our Horizons
Individuals and Communities

Basic Needs and Justice
ENGL 3222  Writing for Health and Medicine 
ENGL 3223 The Rhetoric of Black Protest
ENGL 3756 The Jury Project
ENGL 3760 Introduction to Health Humanities
ENGL 3761  Medicine and Literature 
ENGL 3762  Disability and Literature 
ENGL 3780 Water is Life: Indigenous Art and Activism in Changing Climates 
ENGL 3785  LGBTQ+ Narratives: Literature, Film,Theory 
ENGL 3820 Introduction to Critical Race and Ethnic Studies 
ENGL 4423  Legal Fictions of the Enlightenment 
ENGL 4472  British Literature of the Victorian Period  
ENGL 4631 Toni Morrison
ENGL 4739 Narrative 4: Storytelling for Others
ENGL 4755  Law and Literature
ENGL 4820 Advanced Critical Race and Ethnic Studies 
ENGL 4830 Africana Literatures
 
Cognition, Intelligence, Memory
ENGL 2011 Books that Matter 
ENGL 2012 Well Versed
ENGL 3110  Exploring the English Language 
ENGL 3221 Technical Writing
ENGL 3241  Crafting the Short Story 
ENGL 3250 Life-Writing, Creativity and Community
ENGL 3410 Drama
ENGL 3503  British Literature Since 1900 
ENGL 3513  Modern Irish Literature 
ENGL 3514 Contemporary Irish Literature
ENGL 3515 Rhetorics of Irish Storytelling
ENGL 3517 Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary Historical Fiction
ENGL 3611 Jane Austen
ENGL 3736  Fiction 
ENGL 4715  Children’s Literature 
ENGL 4717  Comics and Graphic Narrative 
ENGL 4746 Game Studies
 
Crossing Boundaries
ENGL 3301  Here Be Monsters 
ENGL 3302  Crossing Over 
ENGL 3453  Romanticism and Nature 
ENGL 3740  Film Studies 
ENGL 3841 Global Hip Hop 
ENGL 4412  Transatlantic Literature, 1700-1900 
ENGL 4825  Native American Literature 
ENGL 4826  Global Indigenous Literatures 
ENGL 4840 Postcolonial Literatures 

Expanding Our Horizons
ENGL 3221 Technical Writing
ENGL 3242 Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy 
ENGL 3462  Introduction to Gothic Fiction 
ENGL 3617  James Joyce’s Ulysses 
ENGL 3730 What is a Book? 
ENGL 3765  Material Cultures 
ENGL 3766 Environmental Protection
ENGL 3734  The Epic 
ENGL 3860  The Russian Novel and the Search for Meaning 
ENGL 4616  Moby Dick 
ENGL 4716  Science Fiction/Fantasy 
 
Individuals and Communities
ENGL 3140 Sociolinguistics
ENGL 3211 Writing, Literacy, and Rhetoric Studies
ENGL 3220  Writing for Workplaces 
ENGL 3240  Introduction to Creative Writing 
ENGL 3261  Poetry and Community 
ENGL 3738  Poetry 
ENGL 3751  The Art of War 
ENGL 3775  Literature and Place 
ENGL 3786 Women Writers 
ENGL 4402  The Novel to 1900 
ENGL 4612  J. R. R. Tolkien 


Questions? Email the chair of the English department, Dr. Gerry Canavan (gerry.canavan@marquette.edu).