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).
