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
Fall 2025
- Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement
- 90 | Practices of Literary Study: Asian America & Mutual Aid [Recently added 4/22/2025]
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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
Summer 2025
- Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement
- Satisfies the "Pre-1800" major requirement
Previous Courses
Spring 2025
- Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement
- English 190 | Research Seminar: The Queer Drama of African Literature
- English 190 | Research Seminar: Harlem Renaissance
- English 177 | Cults in Popular Culture
- English 166AC |Racial Capitalism
- English 154 | Native American Literatures and Cultures
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Crip Theory and Crip-of-Color Critique, or How to Read for the Body
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Queer and Trans Criticism
- English 90 | Practices of Literary Study: Coming of Age in Native America: Zitkala-Ša to Reservation Dogs
- English 90 | Practices of Literary Study: Asian American Short Stories
- Satisfies the "pre-1800" major requirement
- English 190 | Research Seminar: Green Thought in a Green Shade
- English 190 | Research Seminar: Beowulf
- English 119 | Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
- English 118 | Milton
- English 111| Chaucer
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Metamorphoses into English
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Race, Gender, Enlightenment
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Troilus and Criseyde
Fall 2024
Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement
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- English 190 | Research Seminar: The History of Latine Sexuality
- English 175 | Literature and Disability
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Atlantic Haunts, Black Possessions
- English 90 | Practices of Literary Study: Literature of Racial Passing
- English 90 | Practices of Literary Study: The Literatures of Identity
- Satisfies the "pre-1800" major requirement
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: Poetry and Prophecy
- English 100 | The Seminar on Criticism: The Faerie Queene: The Ethics of Imagination
- English 104 | Introduction to Old English
- English 110 | Medieval Literature
- English 115A | The English Renaissance
- English 125A | The English Novel: 18th Century Novel
- English 130A | American Literature: Before 1800
Summer 2024
- Satisfies the "Literatures in English" major requirement
- Satisfies the "pre-1800" major requirement