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Before you fill out the 2025-2026 course preference form, please consult the Faculty Instructions for Teaching Requests (linked here and available in text below the form). Provided instructions cover MWF teaching policy, undergraduate courses (including honors seminars, department seminars, special topics, collaborative research courses, quest courses, and film courses), undergraduate scheduling patterns, graduate courses and scheduling patterns, as well as links for more information.
Instructions and Information for AY 2025-2026 Course Requests
MWF Teaching Policy
All English Department faculty must request undergraduate courses for a MWF schedule in one of two consecutive semesters in which they teach, whether the two semesters are in the same academic year (i.e. if faculty will be requesting courses in both Fall 2025 and Spring 2026) or in different academic years (i.e. if faculty will be requesting courses for just one semester in AY 2025-2026 after teaching just one semester in AY 2024-2025). No exceptions.
During semesters not assigned to MWF schedules, faculty may not schedule more than one undergraduate course as a three-hour block except in these instances:
- Undergraduate courses other than departmental seminars, honors seminars, creative writing workshops, and video production courses may be scheduled for three-hour bocks on Tuesdays or Thursdays during periods 9-11, if those times are available and not already scheduled with other courses and if rooms are available.
- Departmental seminars may be scheduled for three-hour blocks.
- Honors seminars may be scheduled for three-hour blocks.
- Creative Writing workshops may be scheduled for three-hour blocks.
- Video Production courses may be scheduled for three-hour blocks.
The Associate Chair / Undergraduate Coordinator, in consultation with the Undergraduate Advisor, will determine a distribution of undergraduate courses that provide parity between semesters in terms of numbers of MWF courses offered.
Undergraduate Courses
You will find a complete list of undergraduate English courses in the Undergraduate Catalog at https://catalog.ufl.edu/UGRD/courses/english/.
Honors Seminars, Department Seminars, Collaborative Research, & Special Topics Courses
You may request an honors seminar (ENG 4936), a department seminar (ENG 4953), a collaborative research course (ENG 4910), or a special topics course (LIT 4930) as part of your undergraduate teaching assignment.
Honors seminars are 15-student classes restricted to English majors who have a 3.5 upper-division GPA, and who are pursuing graduation magna or summa cum laude. The department offers two honors seminars in the fall and two in the spring.
Department seminars are 15-student classes limited to English majors who have completed 9 hours of upper-division English Department coursework. The department offers 1-2 department seminars in each fall/spring semester.
Collaborative research courses are 25-student classes for students who have completed 6 hours of lower-division English. The course immerses students in the research process on a shared topic. The department offers 1-2 collaborative research courses in each fall/spring semester.
Special topics courses are 35-student classes on subjects that don’t fit under any other course rubric in the undergraduate curriculum. While there is no limit on the number of special topics courses offered in fall and spring semesters, instructors are encouraged to use other course rubrics if possible since students may only take LIT 4930 up to nine credits.
Faculty requesting honors seminars or department seminars should keep in mind that the topics they propose should be designed to appeal to an undergraduate audience.
Undergraduate Course Scheduling Patterns
Fall and Spring classes are 50 minutes, as listed below:
| Period | Time |
| 1 | 7:25 – 8:15am |
| 2 | 8:30 – 9:20am |
| 3 | 9:35 – 10:25am |
| 4 | 10:40 – 11:30am |
| 5 | 11:45am – 12:35pm |
| 6 | 12:50 – 1:40pm |
| 7 | 1:55 – 2:45pm |
| 8 | 3:00 – 3:50pm |
| 9 | 4:05 – 4:55pm |
| 10 | 5:10 – 6:00pm |
| 11 | 6:15 – 7:05pm |
| E1 | 7:20 – 8:10pm |
| E2 | 8:20 – 9:10pm |
| E3 | 9:20 – 10:10pm |
Three-credit courses should be scheduled as follows:
- Monday, Wednesday and Friday (M W F), one period a day, at the same period each day
- Tuesday and Thursday (T R), one period on one day and two periods the other day.
- Tuesday/Thursday Scheduling Patterns
| T | 1 | T | 4 | T | 7 | T | 10 | |
| R | 1-2 | R | 4-5 | R | 7-8 | R | 10-11 | |
| T | 2-3 | T | 5-6 | T | 8-9 | T | 11-E1 | |
| R | 3 | R | 6 | R | 9 | R | E1 | |
We don’t schedule classes against the scheduling grid because it decreases the likelihood of being assigned a classroom. Except for film course screenings, we do not schedule courses in periods E2 or E3 because the university reserves these periods for in-term assembly examinations and instructors must excuse students from their classes if they conflict with those students’ in-term assembly examinations.
Film Course Screenings
Film and Media Studies courses carry 4 credits because students must attend 3-hour screenings each week as well as the 3 hours of class meeting time. As a rule, screenings are scheduled in the 3-hour blocks in periods 9-11 and E1-E3 in order not to conflict with class meeting times in periods 1-8.
Graduate Courses
You will find a complete list of graduate English courses athttps://gradcatalog.ufl.edu/graduate/courses-az/english/
You may request a graduate-level Variable Topics course, LIT 6934, but keep in mind that most graduate courses are flexible with respect to content and methodology. The Variable Topics course is used when courses are first taught before they are established as permanent courses or when a course will be taught only once or twice. Students may take LIT 6934 for a maximum number of 12 credits or four individual classes. When in doubt about the course number to choose, consult your Area Group leader or the Graduate Coordinator.
Please consider teaching ENG 6824 Department Proseminar or ENC 7760 From Paper to Publication. We would like to offer one section of each in each academic year.
If you are interested in running your seminar as a department proseminar, please contact the Graduate Coordinator. Proseminars are seminars with roughly 30% of the course material devoted to issues of professionalization and career planning.
If you are interested in offering the ENC 7760 From Paper to Publication, please contact the Graduate Coordinator for information on the course. This course is a professionalization seminar available to those out of coursework, taught for a grade.
Graduate Course Scheduling Patterns
Graduate courses meet in 3-period blocks on one day per week. The blocks are:
Periods 3-5 9:35am-12:35pm
Periods 6-8 12:50pm-3:50pm
Periods 9-11 4:05pm-7:05pm
Periods E1-E3 7:20pm-10:10pm
Graduate Film and Media Studies courses will have 3-hour screenings as well as the 3-hour seminar meeting times. These screenings are generally scheduled for either the 9-11 or E1-E3 time period.
The MFA@FLA Writing series is held on Thursday night at 7pm and, to accommodate students in all seminars, we prefer not to schedule Thursday evening seminars that would conflict with the series.