ENGL 1700 — Global Literatures 1

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath ICusually offered: springtypical days: M/T/W/ThBostonTraditional

Introduces students to global works from the earliest literatures to 1500. May include texts from Africa (Sunjara); the Americas; Asia (Murasaki Shikibu’s Tale of Genji from Japan and Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching from China); Europe (Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy from Italy, the Song of Roland from France, Homer’s Iliad from Greece); and the Middle East (The Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia and One Thousand and One Nights from Arabic, Indian, and Persian sources). Works in translation where necessary.

Prerequisites

one of:
- ENGL 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
- ENGL 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
- ENGW 1102 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
- ENGW 1111 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
- WRIT 201M
- ENGW 1113 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)
- ENGW 1114 (min C) (may be taken concurrently)

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Spring 2024	1	34	35	97%	1.0
Spring 2025	1	32	35	91%	3.0
Fall 2025	1	30	35	86%	5.0
Spring 2026	1	31	35	89%	4.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 50% · T 50% · W 50% · Th 50% · F 27%

Common patterns: MWR (50% of sections), TF (27% of sections), T (24% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Isabel Sobral Campos (100% of students) · reviews

Spring

Erika Boeckeler (65% of students) · reviews
Isabel Sobral Campos (35% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

Official catalog (ENGL course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All ENGL courses · Plan it at numap.app