ENGL 1140, 1160, 1180, 1190, and 1200 all count toward three courses of the four-course nonfiction writing focus. One other course must be a topically related literature course. Courses listed below can be used as a guide, and other literature courses topically related to the student's work in nonfiction writing may be applied to the focus with advisor approval.
| Course # | Semester | CRN | Instructor(s) | Section Title |
| ENGL0800F | 1 | 14839 | Reichman | Being There: Bearing Witness in Modern Times |
| ENGL1180K | 1 | 14676 | Imbriglio | The Art of Literary Nonfiction |
| ENGL0800K | 2 | 25066 | Reichman | Catastrophic Communities |
| ENGL1140A | 2 | 24592 | Stanley | The Literary Scholar |
| ENGL1140B | 2 | 24593 | Imbriglio | The Public Intellectual |
| ENGL1180G | 2 | 24597 | Imbriglio | Lyricism and Lucidity |
| ENGL1190L | 2 | 24599 | Taylor | Creative Nonfiction: Practice and Criticism |
| ENGL1310B | 2 | 24609 | Egan | American Degenerates |
| ENGL1561O | 2 | 24715 | Gould | Lincoln, Whitman, and The Civil War |
| ENGL1761R | 2 | 25078 | Kim | The Non-Fiction of “Race” in 20th-Century American Culture |
| ENGL2760Y | 2 | 24795 | Kim | American Orientalism and Asian American Literary Criticism |