English Courses at Cornell
Every English course at Cornell University, with difficulty, workload, and ratings. 154 courses · 616 ratings across the web
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Students give ENGL courses 3.8 out of 5, and 75% would take one again.
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Easiest course
ENGL1170
FWS: Short Stories · 46/100 difficulty
Most challenging
ENGL1108
71/100 difficulty
All English Courses (154)
ENGL1168FWS: Cultural Studies
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 47 ratings
ENGL1170FWS: Short Stories
4.8 out of 5 stars4.8· 38 ratings
ENGL2800Creative Writing
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 25 ratings
ENGL1191FWS: British Literature
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 23 ratings
ENGL1158FWS: American Voices
4.5 out of 5 stars4.5· 22 ratings
ENGL1167FWS: Reading Now
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 20 ratings
ENGL1111FWS: Writing Across Cultures
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 19 ratings
ENGL1270FWS: Writing About Literature
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 19 ratings
ENGL201
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 16 ratings
ENGL276
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 16 ratings
ENGL1183FWS: Word and Image
4.7 out of 5 stars4.7· 14 ratings
ENGL2890
1.8 out of 5 stars1.8· 12 ratings
ENGL101
3.8 out of 5 stars3.8· 10 ratings
ENGL108
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 10 ratings
ENGL158
4.6 out of 5 stars4.6· 10 ratings
ENGL3270
4.8 out of 5 stars4.8· 10 ratings
ENGL2010Literatures in English I: From Old English to the New World
3.8 out of 5 stars3.8· 9 ratings
ENGL319
3.5 out of 5 stars3.5· 9 ratings
ENGL1120
3.1 out of 5 stars3.1· 8 ratings
ENGL1147
4.4 out of 5 stars4.4· 8 ratings
ENGL2760Desire
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 8 ratings
ENGL311
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0· 8 ratings
ENGL355
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 8 ratings
ENGL402
1.6 out of 5 stars1.6· 8 ratings
ENGL1105FWS: Writing and Sexual Politics
4.2 out of 5 stars4.2· 7 ratings
ENGL1108
2.3 out of 5 stars2.3· 7 ratings
ENGL1140FWS: Writing Medicine: Stories of Illness and Healing
3.0 out of 5 stars3.0· 7 ratings
ENGL140
3.0 out of 5 stars3.0· 7 ratings
ENGL333
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 7 ratings
ENGL000
4.5 out of 5 stars4.5· 6 ratings
ENGL111
2.5 out of 5 stars2.5· 6 ratings
ENGL1131
2.4 out of 5 stars2.4· 6 ratings
ENGL1134FWS: True Stories
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 6 ratings
ENGL1185
4.2 out of 5 stars4.2· 6 ratings
ENGL2070
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0· 6 ratings
ENGL2680
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 6 ratings
ENGL2780
4.7 out of 5 stars4.7· 6 ratings
ENGL3190
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 6 ratings
ENGRC3500
2.9 out of 5 stars2.9· 6 ratings
POLSH1131
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 6 ratings
COML1126
4.2 out of 5 stars4.2· 5 ratings
ENG1170
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0· 5 ratings
ENG403
3.4 out of 5 stars3.4· 5 ratings
ENGL206
3.8 out of 5 stars3.8· 5 ratings
ENGL2100
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0· 5 ratings
ENGL268
4.2 out of 5 stars4.2· 5 ratings
ENGL2810
2.6 out of 5 stars2.6· 5 ratings
ENGL350
4.8 out of 5 stars4.8· 5 ratings
ENGL3820Narrative Writing
4.8 out of 5 stars4.8· 5 ratings
ENGL491
4.4 out of 5 stars4.4· 5 ratings
ENGL185
4.5 out of 5 stars4.5· 4 ratings
ENGL200
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 4 ratings
ENGL2080Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century
4.5 out of 5 stars4.5· 4 ratings
ENGL274
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 4 ratings
ENGL323
4.8 out of 5 stars4.8· 4 ratings
ENGL345
1.3 out of 5 stars1.3· 4 ratings
ENGL3670
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 4 ratings
ENGL381
4.8 out of 5 stars4.8· 4 ratings
FGSS201
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 4 ratings
FWS1170
3.3 out of 5 stars3.3· 4 ratings
ENG1400
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 3 ratings
ENGL1100How Reading Changes Your Life
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 3 ratings
ENGL147
4.7 out of 5 stars4.7· 3 ratings
ENGL2045
2.0 out of 5 stars2.0· 3 ratings
ENGL208
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 3 ratings
ENGL2706
2.4 out of 5 stars2.4· 3 ratings
ENGL271
3.0 out of 5 stars3.0· 3 ratings
ENGL2720
4.0 out of 5 stars4.0· 3 ratings
ENGL2740
2.4 out of 5 stars2.4· 3 ratings
ENGL280
3.0 out of 5 stars3.0· 3 ratings
ENGL288
2.4 out of 5 stars2.4· 3 ratings
ENGL329
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 3 ratings
ENGL353
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 3 ratings
ENGL363
3.6 out of 5 stars3.6· 3 ratings
ENGL4740
5.0 out of 5 stars5.0· 3 ratings
FWS105
4.3 out of 5 stars4.3· 3 ratings
ENG3795
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ENGL1103The Bondswoman's Narrative: America's First Black Woman Novelist & Her Victorian Sources
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ENGL1125FWS: Climate Change and Communications
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ENGL1130FWS: Writing the Environment
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ENGL1132FWS:The Personal Essay
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ENGL1160FWS: Intersections: Race, Writing, and Power
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ENGL1340Books as Data
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ENGL2020Literature in English II: 1750 to the Present
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ENGL2035Science Fiction
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ENGL213
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ENGL2150The American Musical
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ENGL2270Shakespeare
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ENGL2400Introduction to U.S. Latinx Literature
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ENGL2505Reading Harriet: An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Belonging in the Antebellum United States
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ENGL2520Contemporary Anglophone Literature
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ENGL2600Introduction to Native American Literature
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ENGL2603The Novels of Toni Morrison
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ENGL2620Introduction to Asian American Literature
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ENGL2635A Haunted House Divided: The American Gothic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Literature
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ENGL2650Introduction to African American Literature
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ENGL2675Cultures of the Cold War
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ENGL2690American Poetry Since 1850
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ENGL2700What is African Literature?
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ENGL2703Thinking Media
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ENGL2707
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ENGL2754Wondrous Literatures of the Near East
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ENGL2761American Cinema
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ENGL2765Watching Literature and Reading Film
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ENGL2785
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ENGL2860Creative, Lyric, and Expository Writing
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ENGL2880Expository Writing
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ENGL2950Introduction to Humanities
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ENGL2951Poetry's Image
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ENGL2971Reading for the End of Time
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ENGL2999The First American University
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ENGL3021Literary Theory on the Edge
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ENGL3029Revolutionary John Brown: As Figured by W.E.B. Du Bois
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ENGL3075Epic Form and the Inhuman
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ENGL3080Icelandic Family Sagas
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ENGL3110Old English
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ENGL312
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ENGL3120Beowulf
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ENGL3360American Theatre Stage and Screen I
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ENGL3390Jane Austen
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ENGL3505Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
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ENGL3550Decadence
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ENGL3565Black Ecoliterature
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ENGL3610African Mythology: Historical and Speculative Worlds
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ENGL3625Frederick Douglass and Frances E.W. Harper: Major Writers Sounding Out Freedom
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ENGL3674AAPI and Empire
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ENGL3678Diasporas, Disasters, and Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th and 21st Centuries
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ENGL3742Africans and African Americans in Literature
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ENGL3771Contemporary Literature and Crisis
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ENGL3778Free Speech, Censorship, and the Age of Global Media
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ENGL3801Advanced Writing: Audiences, Genres, Media
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ENGL3840Poetry Writing
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ENGL385
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ENGL3850
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ENGL3890The Personal Voice: Nonfiction Writing
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ENGL3903Remembering Socialism: Literature and Film After the End of History
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ENGL3950Beyoncé Nation: The Decennium
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ENGL3954Spoken Word, Hip-Hop Theater, and the Politics of Performance
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ENGL4180
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ENGL4210Shakespeare in (Con)text
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ENGL4230Literature and Constitutionalism
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ENGL4450Literary Time-Travel: Victorian & Neo-Victorian Literature
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ENGL4505The Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937
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ENGL4509Toni Morrison's Novels
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ENGL4567Speculative East Asias
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ENGL4577Desbordando: Reading Caribbean Waters in Latinx Studies
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ENGL4619Writing on Tape in the 60s, 70s, 80s: Art and Politics of the Overdub
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ENGL4640Migrant Aesthetics: Contemporary Fiction on the Move
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ENGL4700Reading Joyce's Ulysses
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ENGL4800Advanced Poetry Writing
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ENGL4801Advanced Narrative Writing
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ENGL4810
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ENGL4850Reading for Writers
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ENGL6180
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