Information on Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Classes

To view the department's course offerings, please consult the Berkeley Academic Guide. Classes that satisfy the department's undergraduate major requirements are noted in the Class Description section of each class listing. 

If you are trying to take an approved Engl 90,100, or 190 to satisfy a "Literatures in English" or "pre-1800" major requirement, you will need to take an "additional elective" to meet the 12 total major course requirement.  Always check your Academic Progress Report (APR) to review your progress in the major.

If you still have questions regarding our courses and major requirements, please email the English Undergraduate advisors at English_Advising@berkeley.edu.

Course-specific details

Spring 2026

• Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement

• 53| Asian American Literatures and Cultures

• 90 001| Practice in Literary Study: Asian American Short Stories

• 90 006| Practice in Literary Study: Extending the Document: Asian American Lives

• 137T| Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Latinx Poetry

• 166AC 001| Special Topics in American Cultures: Poetry as Political Action

• 166AC 002| Special Topics in American Cultures: Race and Revision in Early America *

•  177 001 |Literatures and Philosophy: Minds, Morals, and the Novel

•  177 002|Literatures and Philosophy: Reading Capital

• Satisfies the "Pre-1800" major requirement

•  110 | Medieval Literature 

• 115B| The English Renaissance, 17th C.

• 121| Age of Revolution: Romantic Experiments

• 166AC 002| Special Topics in American Cultures: Race and Revision in Early America *

• 180T|Tragedy 

• 190 007| Research Seminar: Paradise Lost and its Influence

*For English 166AC 002 - students must confirm with their English Major Advisor which requirement this course will fulfill for the semester. It can only be counted towards either Literature in English or Pre-1800, but not both major requirements.

Fall 2025

• Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement

  • 90  | Practices of Literary Study: The African City 

  • 90 | Practices of Literary Study:  Asian America & Mutual Aid [Recently added 4/22/2025]

  • 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Asian America between Empires 

  • 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Hearing Enslaved Voices 
  • 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Fantasy Literature of the African Diaspora 
  • 138 | Studies in World Literature in English: The Queer Drama of African Literature  [Recently added 4/22/2025]
  • 190 | Research Seminar: Faulkner
  • 190 | Research Seminar: Liminal Lives in Chicanx/Latinx Literatures 
• Satisfies the "Pre-1800" major requirement
  • 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Approaching the Exeter Book: Saints, Birds, Lovers and Things that Speak
  • 104 | Introduction to Old English
  • 112 |Middle English
  • 115A|The English Renaissance
  • 121|Romantic Period

Summer 2025

• Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement
  • English 166AC | Special Topics in American Cultures: Race & the City: American Urbanism & Racial Formation
• Satisfies the "Pre-1800" major requirement 
  • English 166 | Special Topics: Medieval Roots of Modern Fantasy (Pre-1800)
  • English 166 | Special Topics: Early Modern Revenge 

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