Primarily contains materials from classes Doherty taught for the Boston College English Department. Also includes materials from courses taught through the Boston College Options Through Education Program, the AHANA Summer Program, the Evening College, and the Harvard Summer School.

Courses Doherty taught regularly over his career include: Advanced Writing; American Short Stories; Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing; First-year Writing Seminar;... Four Major Fictions (also called Four Novels); Homer, Dante, Joyce; James Joyce; Narrative and Interpretation; Problems in Literary Criticism; Prose Fiction; Shakespeare; Theory and Practice of Criticism; Rhetoric and Composition; and Writing Workshop: Imitation.