Undergraduate courses
See the University Calendar for a list of all English courses.
Search for classes in Online Tools to confirm instructors, dates, times and locations. Courses are dependent upon enrollment numbers.
Visit our Airtable to see in-depth course descriptions, tentative readings and assignments.
Fall Courses
Spring Courses
Fall 2026 courses
- ENSH 101: Themes in Literature
- ENSH 102: Literature in Action
- ENSH 103: Writing, Culture, Power
- ENSH 200: Foundations of Writing Literary Criticism
- ENSH 202: Technical Communications, Written and Verbal
- ENSH 210: How Poetry Works
- ENSH 211: How Fiction Works
- ENSH 230: Banned Books
- ENSH 240: Introduction to a Major Author - Taylor Swift
- ENSH 253: Canadian Literature
- ENSH 254: American Literature
- ENSH 301: Practical Criticism (Honours seminar)
- ENSH 302: Copy Editing
- ENSH 304: Writing for the Government and Private Sector
- ENSH 307: Effective Communication in Health Professions
- ENSH 308: Speech Communication for Public and Private Sectors
- ENSH 314: Young Adult Literature
- ENSH 321: Authors on Screen - Rachel Reid's Heated Rivalry
- ENSH 323A: Heavy Metal and Religion
- ENSH 324: Comics and Graphic Novels
- ENSH 326: American Film Narrative
- ENSH 328: Global Film Movements
- ENSH 341: Jokes, Metaphor, Narrative
- ENSH 342: Special Topics - Love and Nature, Nature and Love
- ENSH 342N: Nietzsche in Fiction
- ENSH 347P: Petrarch's Poetry
- ENSH 348: Medieval Children's Literature
- ENSH 355: Milton
- ENSH 369: 20th-Century Poetry in Britain and Ireland
- ENSH 380: Margaret Atwood
- ENSH 386: Fiction in the U.S.
- ENSH 396: Indigenous Storytelling - Reclaiming Family and Community Medicines
- ENSH 481 A01: Serpents of Division in Medieval Literature
- ENSH 481 A02: Marriage and the Family in Renaissance Literature
- ENSH 486: The Holocaust in Literature
Spring 2027 courses
- ENSH 101: Themes in Literature
- ENSH 102: Literature in Action
- ENSH 103: Writing, Culture, Power
- ENSH 105: Literature of Mental Health
- ENSH 200: Foundations of Writing Literary Criticism
- ENSH 202: Technical Communications, Written and Verbal
- ENSH 222: Erotic Literature
- ENSH 224: Literary Modernism
- ENSH 230: Special Topics - Literature, Self and Society
- ENSH 231: Literature and Psychology
- ENSH 233: The Bible as Literature
- ENSH 255: Indigenous Literatures
- ENSH 301: Practical Criticism (Honours seminar)
- ENSH 302: Copy Editing
- ENSH 303: Writing for Business and the Private Sector
- ENSH 305: Visual Rhetoric for Professional Writers
- ENSH 309: Fashion Communication
- ENSH 310: Speculative Fiction
- ENSH 311: Crime and Detective Fiction
- ENSH 312: Horror
- ENSH 313: Children's Literature
- ENSH 322: Shakespeare on Screen
- ENSH 327: Cinema and Narrative Worlds
- ENSH 330: Literature and the Bible
- ENSH 334A: Adultury in the Novel
- ENSH 335: Literature and Human Rights
- ENSH 340K: Franz Kafka
- ENSH 342 A01: Special Topics - Chaucer Now
- ENSH 342 A02: Special Topics - Scottish Lit & Environmental Imagination
- ENSH 342V: A Cultural History of Vampire in Literature and Film
- ENSH 354: Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances
- ENSH 365: Romantic Period Poetry
- ENSH 383: Poetry in the United States
- ENSH 403: Digital Communication and Social Media
- ENSH 406: Strategic Communication in Arts, Culture and Tourism Sectors
- ENSH 480: Special Topics in Advanced Theories and Methods
- ENSH 481: Special Topics - Horror and History
- ENSH 482: Community-Engaged Learning and Public Humanities - Crafting Literacies
FAQs
Upper-year English classes will often require prerequisites, such as the completion of an Academic Writing Requirement (AWR) course. Reference the Academic Calendar to find each course's prerequisites.
Professional communication courses also have prerequisites. You must have an average grade of B or better or permission of the Professional Communication adviser. Transfer students who meet prerequisites with transfer credits should contact the adviser as course grades that were transferred to UVic will not be seen within the registration system.
Please read our 100-level course descriptions on our Airtable to find a course you would enjoy taking part in.
The academic writing requirement advisor can also suggest which courses that fulfill the academic writing requirement (AWR) would be best suited to you.
If you are still within the registration period, then you may need to waitlist for the course.
If you are having trouble selecting the waitlist option, try searching for the course using the course registration number (CRN). This is located at the bottom of your My Page, course add/drop section. You must change the drop-down menu to "waitlist" and submit the change.
We can not guarantee that you will get an offer to join a class. Every class is different and how many students stay in a particular class or drop is beyond the control of the department.
Ensure you are checking both your email and My Page for registration offers. You only have a 24 hour window to accept. If you miss your registration offer, we are not able to put you into the class or bump you back into first place on the waitlist. You will have to re-join the waitlist and try again.
Yes, you need to attend at least the first class in the first week of the semester.
Failure to attend a class in the first week of the term will result in being removed from the waitlist or class to allow other students the opportunity to register.
All instructors will take attendance of both class and waitlisted students to ensure that active students are able to register before the last day to add. Make sure your instructor knows you have been attending lectures.