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ENGL 100AAZZ.
Honors Seminar
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Student must be enrolled in corresponding English course.
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in one of the following courses: English 113AA-ZZ, 114AA-ZZ, 122AA-ZZ, 128AA-ZZ, 131-134AA-ZZ, 165AA-ZZ, 182AA-ZZ, and 187AA-ZZ. Designed to enrich the lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more extensive study of the reading lists as well as supplementary writing.
ENGL 100AI.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100EN.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100GC.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100LE.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100LL.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100MT.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100NA.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100NW.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100S.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100SA.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100SO.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100TL.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 100WR.
Honors Seminar
ENGL 101.
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed Enlgish 20.
Introduction to English literature from the medieval period to 1650. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.
ENGL 101S.
Seminar on English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 101 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 101 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 102AAZZ.
English and American Literature from 1650-1789
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed English 30.
Introduction to English and American literature from 1650 to 1789. The organizing thread of this course, and the selection of texts to be studied,vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.
ENGL 102S.
Seminar on English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 102 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings, or more intensive study of English 102 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 103A.
American Literature from 1789 to 1900
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed English 136B.
Introduction to American literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing thread of this course, and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.
ENGL 103AS.
Seminar on American Literature from 1789 to 1900
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 103A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 103A reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 103B.
British Literature from 1789 to 1900
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed English 40.
Introduction to British literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.
ENGL 103BS.
Seminar on British Literature from 1789 to 1900
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 103B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 103B reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 104A.
American Literature from 1900 to Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed English 136C.
Introduction to American literature from 1900 to present. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.
ENGL 104AS.
Seminar on American Literature from 1900 to Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 104A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings, or more intensive study of English 104A reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 104B.
British Literature from 1900 to Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Introduction to British literature from 1900 to present. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.
ENGL 104BS.
Seminar on British Literature from 1900 to Present
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 104B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 104B reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 105A.
Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Major poems and plays of Shakespeare, 1593-1602, including such works as the Sonnets, Hamlet, A Midsummmer Night's Dream, Henry the Fourth, Twelfth Night.
ENGL 105AS.
Seminar on Shakespeare: Poems and Earlier Plays
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor; concurrent enrollment in English 105A.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 105A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 105A reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 105B.
Shakespeare, Later Plays
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Major works of Shakespeare from 1603-1613, including such plays as King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Tempest.
ENGL 105BS.
Seminar on Shakespeare: Later Plays
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor; concurrent enrollment in English 105B.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 105B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 105B reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 105C.
Shakespeare, Advanced Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Advanced study of Shakespeare topics.
ENGL 106.
Creative Writing
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Writing in such forms as the short story, poetry, and fiction.
ENGL 106A.
Playwriting Workshop
(4)
MORAGA
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: ENGL 106A is the same course as THTR 104A. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units.
Repeat Comments: This course is a legal repeat of THTR 104A.
An exploration of the essential components of playwriting. Exercises focus on writing dialogue, monologue, creating three-dimensional characters, building effective story structures, and developing action through language and stage images. A series of written assignments.
ENGL 106B.
Advanced Playwriting Workshop
(4)
MORAGA
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units. Same course as THTR 104B.
A continued exploration of the essential components of playwriting. Writing exercises in dialogue, monologue, character, story structure, action and stage images. Students focus on developing their individual writing voice. A series of written assignments.
ENGL 106CW.
Catalyst Writing Collective
(4)
DONNELLY
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; consent of instructor.
Enrollment Comments: Can be repeated for credit to a max of 16 units with no more than 8 units to the major.
An introduction to techniques of creative writing, editing, design, presentation, and production, culminating in the quarterly publication of the English Department Literary and Arts magazine, The Catalyst. This class is a collaborative faculty-student seminar group featuring creative writing and design workshops, and facilitating the production of a dossier of creative work in both the literary and visual arts. Students who have taken the class at least once may apply during the spring quarter to be part of the editorial team for the following academic year. Contact the professor at https://catalyst.english.ucsb.edu/.
ENGL 107.
The Craft of Fiction
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2, or 50, or 109, or English 10 or upper-division standing
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units.
This course focuses on the essential elements of fiction writing. Students learn the basics of characterization, plotting, perspective, thematics, placement, and style. They will explore the power of oral, visual, and written narrative as an individual and communal act. What is at stake in creating a believable fictional world? How does fiction express the truth of reality? How do stories imagine and create new political and social worlds? Coursework involves a combination of written assignments, peer workshops, and public readings.
ENGL 108CC.
Creative-Critical Writing - A Creative Nonfiction Course
(4)
MORAGO, STAFF
This course emphasizes the study and practice of writing that contains a public and private story, navigating an intimate and institutional world. Student writers will serve as public chroniclers whose subjective point of view and experience attempt to provide a truth greater/deeper than what ?the facts? might offer. In-class and take-home writing exercises. Additional lab hours in the form of peer workshops may be required. Course culminates in public readings of students? short selected works.
ENGL 108LP.
Latinx Performance - An Acting and Writing Workshop
(4)
STAFF
This is a practicum course, where the basic tenets and evolving politic and philosophies of Latinx theater are examined through recorded and written performance texts, and direct actorly engagement with theatrical forms, including: social protest and agitprop, myth and ritual, scripting through improvisation, in-depth character and solo work, collective conceptualization and more. The course emphasizes Latinx performance works produced from the margins of the mainstream theater, which serve as a kind of dramatized political forum for Latinx artists, reflective of some of the most transgressive explorations of queer and national/ethnic identities in the U.S today. The course culminates in a public performance of students? work.
ENGL 108MG.
Mixed Genre Creative Writing
(4)
STAFF
This course immerses students in African American approaches to the short story and creative autobiography. Selected authors include, but are not limited to, Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, Richard Wright, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Charles Mingus, and Toni Morrison. Students examine how different Black social movements conceptualized, defined, and thought about the role, function, and importance of writing. Students use these authors? critical and creative work as a model for writing their own short story and creative autobiography.
ENGL 109.
The Craft of Poetry
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units.
Focuses on the essential elements of poetry writing. Students learn the basics of diction, figuration, meter, lineation, rhyme, rhythm, and voice. Students explore the power of oral and written verse as an individual and communal act. What is at stake in choosing to write poetry? How does poetry express the truth of reality? How do poems imagine and create new political and social worlds? Coursework involves a combination of written assignments, peer workshops, and public readings.
ENGL 110.
Methods of Literary Study
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: English 10.
Advanced consideration of methods, techniques, and discipline of literary study. Further acquaints students with strategies of reading, contextualization, and a range of contemporary critical approaches. Topics and course content vary by term.
ENGL 110A.
Introduction to Old English Language and Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10; upper-division standing.
Introduction to Old English language and literature. Students learn to read and translate a selection of prose and verse works. A full description for any given quarter will be available on the English Department's website.
ENGL 110B.
Introduction to Old English Language and Literature: Beowulf
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: English 110A.
Reading, analysis, and interpretation of the Old English poem Beowulf in the original language. Acquaints students with a variety of critical approaches to the poem. A full course description for any given quarter will be available on the English Department's website.
ENGL 110C.
Readings in Old English Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: English 110A.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units, but only 8 units count towards the major.
Study of Old English literature, in the original language. Course contents vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the course listings on the English Department's website.
ENGL 110T.
Old English Literature in Translation
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Study of Old English prose and verse texts in translation. Considers the history, theory and practice of translating Old English literature. Course contents vary from quarter to quarter: to see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the course listings on the English Department's website.
ENGL 111.
The History of the English Language
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10; upper-division standing.
English in its old, middle, and modern forms. Such introductory topics as language families and change; etymology, semantics; grammars; syntax; oral,written; groundwork for such methods of literary analysis as stylistics.
ENGL 113AAZZ.
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10; upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 12 units providing letter designations are different.
Explorations in traditions and innovations of critical theory, literary interpretation, and philosophy. Topics vary from quarter to quarter, but will focus on the major critical figures or movements (from Aristotle to the present) that have shaped our notion of "literature."
ENGL 113LC.
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 113MI.
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 113PS.
Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 114AAZZ.
Woman and Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided the letter designations are different.
The courses offered will include at different times such subjects as feminist theory, women writers, and women in literature.
ENGL 114AA.
Women and Literature
ENGL 114AF.
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
ENGL 114BW.
Women and Literature
ENGL 114EM.
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
ENGL 114FE.
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
ENGL 114GT.
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
ENGL 114I.
Woman and Literature
ENGL 114PC.
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
ENGL 114RW.
Women and Literature
ENGL 114TN.
Women and Literature
ENGL 114WB.
Woman and Literature
ENGL 114WC.
WOMEN AND LITERATURE
ENGL 114WR.
Woman and Literature
ENGL 115.
Medieval Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10; upper-division standing.
English and Continental literature through the fifteent century, exclusive of the Canterbury Tales but including such works as Beowulf, Morte d'Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and selected romances and lyrics.
ENGL 116A.
Biblical Literature: Hebrew Bible
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
A literary approach to the Hebrew scriptures and the Apocyrpha.
ENGL 116B.
Biblical Literature: The New Testament
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10; upper-division standing.
Recommended Preparation: Recommended preparation: English 116A.
A literary approach to the New Testament.
ENGL 116BS.
Seminar for Biblical Literature: The New Testament
(1)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10; concurrent enrollment in English 116Bupper-division standing; consent of instructor.
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 116B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 116B reading list, as well as supplementary writing.
ENGL 119.
Studies in Medieval Literature
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Topics will vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the department's course outline booklet.
ENGL 119X.
Medieval Literature in Translation
(4)
BROWN, ENDERS, PASTERNACK
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as French 153A.
A study of one or more major medieval works in translation such as The Song of Roland, the romances of Chretien de Troyes, the Lais of Marie de France,or The Romance of the Rose.
ENGL 120.
How to Read a Poem
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Advanced studies in the close reading of poems from the seventh century to the present day, with a focus on the intricacies of poetic sound, language, and form. For a fuller description, consult the course listings on the English Department's website.
ENGL 121.
The Art of Narrative
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
An exploration of traditions and functions of story-telling; may include a range of forms from the anecdote to the novel.
ENGL 122AAZZ.
Cultural Representations
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.
ENGL 122AP.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122BH.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122CC.
Cultural Representations - Rhetoric of Climate Change
ENGL 122CD.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122CF.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122CL.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122CM.
Cultural Representations: Climate Media
ENGL 122CR.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122CS.
Cosmopolitan Modernisms / Global Modernities
ENGL 122CU.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122EA.
Environmental Activism
ENGL 122EC.
ELEMENTAL CITIES
ENGL 122EE.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122EN.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122FC.
Cli-Fi - Fictions of Climate Change
ENGL 122FE.
Fantasy and Ecology
ENGL 122FR.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122FS.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122GW.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122IL.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122LE.
Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment
(4)
HILTNER
Prerequisite: Writing 2 upper-division standing.
Environmental survey of Western literature that explores the often-ignored literary history of the natural world.
ENGL 122LJ.
Literature, Law, and Social Justice
ENGL 122MD.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122ME.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122MM.
Cultural Representations
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 upper-division standing.
A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.
ENGL 122NE.
Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment
(4)
BAZERMAN
Prerequisite: Writing 2 upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Environmental Studies 122NE.
Perceptions of nature have changed throughout history and vary across cultures. Course explores changing expressions of our changing relations to the world we live in, with emphasis on cultural movements (films, literature, newspapers, etc.) that have affected contemporary American experience.
ENGL 122NR.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122NW.
Cultural Representations
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 upper-division standing.
A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.
ENGL 122PW.
The Poetics and Politics of Waste
ENGL 122RC.
Reading the Caribbean through Carnival
ENGL 122RE.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122RH.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122RM.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122RS.
Rogues and Scoundrels
ENGL 122RT.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122RW.
Reading the World
ENGL 122RX.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122SN.
The Slave Narrative
ENGL 122SR.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122SW.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122UE.
Cityscapes: The Urban Experience from the Metropolis to the Megalopolis
ENGL 122UK.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 122UM.
The City as a Way of Life: Urban Modernity
ENGL 122WE.
Cultural Representations
ENGL 123.
The Novel in English
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
A survey of British and American fiction from the late eighteenth century to the present.
ENGL 124.
Readings in the Modern Short Story
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Short stories are quick bursts of storytelling, which, much like a short film or a music video, capture an intense burst of feeling, a fleeting mood, a scene of transformation. Or else, you might say they operate like slow motion: they arrest a moment or slice of time, they attend to its nuances and the forces that buffer it, and they ask us to attend to them with extra care. Short stories often show how moments that might appear very ordinary to most of us can in fact be momentous, utterly transformative, for somebody. In this, for modern, humdrum, everyday lives, they can provide a kind of modernist sublime. In this class, we will read a cross-section of short stories, from classic to contemporary, from America and the world.
ENGL 126A.
Survey of British Fiction (I)
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
The eighteenth century. Such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollet, and Sterne.
ENGL 128AAZZ.
Literary Genres
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
Detailed readings in, and critical examinations of, specific literary forms. Recently taught genres have included autobiography, comedy, romance,satire.
ENGL 128AA.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128AF.
Animal Fictions
ENGL 128AN.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128AU.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128CM.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128CO.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128CP.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128ED.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128EN.
Going Postal: Epistolary Narratives
ENGL 128FT.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128GN.
Graphic Novel & Trauma
ENGL 128ML.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128MM.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128NA.
Native Feminist and Queer Memoir
ENGL 128NE.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128PH.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128PM.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128PT.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128RM.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128RT.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128SA.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128SC.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128SN.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128SS.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128T.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128TR.
Literary Genres
ENGL 128ZZ.
Literary Genres
ENGL 129.
Queer Textuality
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Investigation of the interrelations between writing and queer sexualities, i.e. those sexualities (gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, etc.) which represent an averse or contestatory relation to normative heterosexuality. Specific topics vary by quarter.
ENGL 131AAZZ.
Studies in American Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Topics vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the department's course outline booklet.
ENGL 131AR.
Studies in American Literature
ENGL 131AW.
Studies in American Literature
ENGL 131BR.
Boundaryless Reconstruction: Policing, Property & Privacy
ENGL 131GT.
Studies in American Literature
ENGL 131HF.
Studies in American Literature
ENGL 131IS.
Studies in American Literature
ENGL 131SI.
Studies in American Literature
ENGL 131ZZ.
Studies in American Literature
ENGL 132AAZZ.
Studies in American Writers
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Courses in individual American writers such as Hawthorne-Melville; Henry James; Mark Twain; Ernest Hemingway; William Faulkner; Emily Dickenson; Robert Frost; Walt Whitman.
ENGL 132EP.
Studies in American Writers
ENGL 132LE.
Studies in American Writers
ENGL 132MD.
Studies in American Writers
ENGL 132MT.
Studies in American Writers
ENGL 132PR.
Studies in American Writers Philip Roth
ENGL 132WE.
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
ENGL 133AAZZ.
Studies in American Regional Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as the South, the West, New England.
ENGL 133BB.
Studies in American Regional Literature
ENGL 133CL.
Studies in American Regional Literature
ENGL 133GC.
Studies in American Regional Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as the South, the West, New England.
ENGL 133GP.
Studies in American Regional Literature
ENGL 133MV.
Studies in American Regional Literature
ENGL 133PL.
Prisoner Literature in the U.S. & Global South
ENGL 133SA.
Studies in American Regional Literature
ENGL 133SO.
Studies in American Regional Literature
ENGL 133TL.
Transpacific Literature
ENGL 134AAZZ.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Studies in literature of cultural and ethnic communities in the United States. Courses on writing produced by, or associated with, cultural communities in America such as Afro-Americans, Chicanos, Asian-Americans.
ENGL 134AA.
Cultural Poetics of the Asian Americas
ENGL 134AD.
Asian American Literature
ENGL 134AL.
AfroLatinidades Theory and Criticism
ENGL 134BB.
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color 40 Years Later
ENGL 134BL.
Black American Literature, 20-21st
ENGL 134CA.
Studies in the Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134CI.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134CR.
Post-Civil Rights African American Literature
ENGL 134FC.
Floricanto: Chicanx & Indigenous American Poetry Writing & Reading
ENGL 134IA.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134IB.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134IR.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134LC.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134LI.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134LL.
Comparative Pan-Latinx Literatures
ENGL 134MD.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134MP.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134MP.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134NA.
The Body As Archive
ENGL 134NM.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134PC.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134RJ.
Creative Imagination of Racial Justice
ENGL 134RR.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134RS.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134TC.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134TR.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 134XX.
Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States
ENGL 136.
Writing the Early American Self
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
The place that would eventually become the United States was occupied by a remarkable range of selves: Puritan prisoner of war Mary Rowlandson; activist Mohegan minister Samson Occom; condemned criminals Esther Rogers and Joseph Hanno; formerly enslaved abolitionist slave Olaudah Equiano; and revolutionary printer Benjamin Franklin. This course considers not only a rich variety of selves, but the remarkable range of genres that emerged to document those selves, from the spiritual "confessions" of everyday Puritans seeking church membership, to Indian captivity narratives, to gallows literature and the slave narrative.
ENGL 137B.
Poetry in America since 1900
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Developing traditions of American poetry withi a variety of historical and cultural contexts: modern to contemporary.
ENGL 139AAZZ.
Writing Ecology
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Courses focus on ecological literatures and practices of writing. Genres may include poetry, memoir, short story, creative non-fiction, and fiction.
ENGL 141AAZZ.
Global Environmental Literatures
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Courses focus on environmental literatures across global, regional, transnational, transoceanic, and/or diasporic contexts.
ENGL 141MC.
Migrant Ecologies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
The course critically examines literary and cultural works that address the relationships between race, migration, and the environment, illuminating social and political forces that shape human/nonhuman movement and the natural world. How do cultural works centering marginalized communities reveal systemic inequities and imagine more sustainable relationships with land and water? How are our individual and collective identities entangled with a sense of place? We consider how literary and visual narratives can inspire and reflect on social movements at the intersection of racial, migrant, and environmental justice. Course texts may include novels, poetry, documentary film, visual art, and select literary criticism.
ENGL 142AAZZ.
Environmental Justice
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Courses focus on literatures and topics in environmental justice, such as health, toxicity, inequality, risk, race, environmental law, and climate justice.
ENGL 143AAZZ.
Media & Environment
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Courses focus on the relations between environments, media forms, and mediation. Topics may include media about the environment, the environmental impacts of media technologies, and how elements of the environment may store or transfer information. Courses may address documentary films, poetry, literary fiction, soundscapes, photography, and other sensory media.
ENGL 144.
The European Renaissance
(4)
HELGERSON
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or equivalents.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Comparative Literature 180.
The generic forms of cultural issues characteristic of early modern European poetry, fiction, and drama. Such authors as Petrarch, Boccaccio, More, Rabelais, Ariosto, Montaigne, Camoes, Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and Cervantes.
ENGL 145.
Studies in English Renaissance Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
The English Renaissance represents a late blossoming of the general cultural ?rebirth? in Western Europe characterized by the recovery of Greek and Roman classics, the celebration of the multifaceted individual, and a renewed emphasis on the secular world. Alternately labeled ?the early modern period,? this era also saw the voyages of Columbus, the development of the printing press, the Protestant Reformation, and the rise of centralized monarchies. English writers expressed the vitality and volatility of the Renaissance/early modern period in an outburst of prose, poetry, and drama that spanned the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
ENGL 146AAZZ.
Literature of Technology
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided the letter designations are different.
Literary genres, authors, periods, or themes that engage or exemplify technology, whether historical technologies or contemporary digital, bio, nano, and other technologies. Topics include Pynchon's novels and information theory, hyperfiction, the new poetry of codework, cyberpunk, nineteenth century literature and steam technology, and literature of industrialization.
ENGL 146AI.
Literature and/of Artificial Intelligence
ENGL 146CC.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146DM.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146DR.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146DS.
Data Stories: Theory and Practice of Data-driven Narratives in the Digital Age
ENGL 146EL.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146EN.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146FM.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146GB.
Games, Books, and Gamebooks
ENGL 146IF.
Introduction to Interactive Fiction
ENGL 146IR.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146MR.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146SI.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146WF.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146XX.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 146ZZ.
Literature of Technology
ENGL 147AAZZ.
Media History and Theory
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
Studies in historical and contemporary media systems including orality, writing, print electronic media (telegraph, phone, radio, film, TV video, satellite communications), digital media (the Internet, word-processing) in their relation to literary or cultural expression. Topics include Enlightenment media, modern literature, graphic design, film and literature, twentieth-century media theory.
ENGL 147A.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147AB.
Audiobooks and Podcasts
ENGL 147DM.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147ED.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147GM.
Global Media - Media History and Theory
ENGL 147MC.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147MM.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147OM.
Ocean Media
ENGL 147PH.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147SM.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147SS.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147VN.
Visual Narrative
ENGL 147VP.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 147WT.
Media History and Theory
ENGL 148AAZZ.
Society, Culture, and Information
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
Courses on the social, political, legal, economic, gender, race, and other aspects of information technology and its institutions as these affect or are affected by the realm of cultural or symbolic expression, including literature and art. Topics include free speech and censorship from print to the Internet, globalism.
ENGL 148AV.
Society, Culture, and Information
ENGL 148EN.
EPIDEMIOLOGY NARRATIVES: HOW WE TELL STORIES ABOUT DISEASE
ENGL 148KC.
Keyword Cultures
ENGL 148PG.
Society, Culture, and Information
ENGL 148RD.
Reading Data: A Humanist's Guide to Information Culture
ENGL 148RP.
Society, Culture, and Information
ENGL 148RS.
Society, Culture, and Information
ENGL 149.
Decoding Digital Literature (Critical Code Studies)
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10.
A cornerstone of criticism and interpretation is the question of meaning in text, whether a novel, poem, or play... or indeed, in any cultural text, whether an advertisment, campaign speech, or news article, et cetera. This course explores how we can apply this search for meaning and this process of interpretation to computers, software, and code. What is the plain, subtle, or hidden meanings in the source code of a digital story or a video game? For that matter, what about in the code of a computer virus, a space shuttle, or a predictive policing algorithm? What are the narratives, what are the poetics, what are the values and ethics and assumptions?
ENGL 150.
Anglo-Irish Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
This course considers how a series of wishes, lies, and dreams, and about the Irish were invented and read. Ireland, like California, is a territory on the western edge of a continent about which many mythologies have grown up. In Ireland's case, these mostly have to do with the supposed mystery of the place, its romance and mythic past, or its violence, or its long bitter history. Who invented these versions of the place, and whose interests do they serve? Why do people continue to believe them? How have they changed? We consider how one small country has been imagined as "other" - as wild, strange, dangerous, fanatic - and how the Irish in their literature, speak back. In Irish literature, they reinvent Irishness.
ENGL 150S.
Anglo-Irish Literature Seminar
(1)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or equivalents; concurrent enrollment in English 150; upper-division standing; consent of instructor.
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 150 and designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings, or more intensive study of English 150 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 151AAZZ.
Studies in British Writers
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Courses in individual writers such as Spenser, Jonson, Dryden, Pope, Swift,Richardson, Fielding, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, Lawrence, and Yeats.
ENGL 151AG.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151AP.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151AR.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151BR.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151ES.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151JA.
Reading Jane Austen's Mind
ENGL 151JC.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151JJ.
Studies In British Writers
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Courses in individual writers such as Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Dryden, Pope,Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Dickens, Lawrence,and Yeats.
ENGL 151JK.
John Keats
ENGL 151RU.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151SC.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151SR.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151TW.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 151WR.
Studies in British Writers
ENGL 152A.
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Intensive study of the Canterbury Tales.
ENGL 152B.
Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Intensive study of Chaucer's poem Troilus and Criseyde, in the original Middle English. Also considers the poem's reception history from 1400 to the present through a study of poetic and critical responses. For a full description, consult the course listings on the English Department's website.
ENGL 152C.
Chaucer: Dream Visions and Other Works
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: WRIT 2, ENGL 10, or upper-division standing.
Study of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry and prose writings, excluding texts studied in 152A and 152B. Contents vary but may include Chaucer's dream vision poems, philosophical and scientific writings, and lyrics. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the course listings on the English Department's website.
ENGL 153.
Medieval Drama
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 and 50 or equivalents, or upper-division standing.
Studies in medieval dramatic writing and the history of theatrical performance before the English Reformation. Texts vary from quarter to quarter: students should consult the course listings on the English Department's website for a full description.
ENGL 156.
Literature of Chivalry
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109AA-ZZ or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Same course as Medieval Studies 100B.
Study of texts related to the social and cultural practices of chivalry in the Middles Ages, from the seventh through the fifteenth centuries. The course centers on such texts as "The Battle of Maldon", "The Dream of the Rood", "Sir Orfeo", "Gawain and the Green Knight", "Le Morte D' Arthur", and the Middle English lyrics.
ENGL 157.
English Renaissance Drama
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
A course in the English drama of the period from 1500 to 1642, excluding Shakespeare. Such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, Dekker, Heywood, and Webster.
ENGL 160.
Spenser
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: Not open for credit to students who have completed English 151S.
The works of Spenser, with primary focus on the Faerie Queene.
ENGL 162.
Milton
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Intensive Study Of Milton.
ENGL 165AAZZ.
Topics In Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles are announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165AA.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165AC.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165AD.
Transpacific Speculative Fiction: Imagining Asian Pacific Futures
ENGL 165AE.
The Graphic Novel: Animals and Ecology
ENGL 165AM.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165AN.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165AR.
Topics In Literature.
ENGL 165AS.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165BA.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165BB.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165BW.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165CB.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165CC.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165CD.
Topics In Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165CI.
Topics in Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165CL.
Topics in Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary forlimited to a specific author, period, or literary form. specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165CP.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165CT.
Cultural and Critical Theory
ENGL 165CY.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165DD.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165DL.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165DP.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165EB.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165EE.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165EF.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165EM.
Early Modern Topics
ENGL 165EN.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165EW.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165FF.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165FL.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165FS.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165GL.
Topics In Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165GN.
Comics & Graphic Narrative
ENGL 165GS.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165HE.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165HN.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165HR.
Topics In Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165HS.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165IB.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165IF.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165JT.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165JW.
Inside the Creative Industries
ENGL 165LA.
Topics in Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165LB.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165LE.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165LF.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165LG.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165LP.
Topics In Literature: Literature of the Pacific
ENGL 165LR.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165LV.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165LW.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165LY.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165MA.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165MC.
Topics in Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165MI.
Making It: Invention, Creation, and Destruction in English Language Literature Since 1800
ENGL 165ML.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165MM.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165MP.
Topics In Literature.
ENGL 165MT.
Topics in Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific coursetitle will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165NA.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165NC.
Literatures of the Sea
ENGL 165NG.
The Zong Case: Slavery, Abolition, and the Zong Massacre: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ENGL 165NJ.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165NT.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165NV.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165PC.
Topics In Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, or literary form. Specific course titles will be announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 165PH.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165PL.
Prison Literature
ENGL 165PM.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165PP.
Poetry and Painting
ENGL 165PR.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165RC.
Reading Communities: The Social Life of Literature
ENGL 165RD.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165RP.
Race & Politics
ENGL 165RR.
Engaging with Renaissance Romances - The Faerie Queene
ENGL 165RS.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165ST.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165TL.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165TP.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165TR.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165VP.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165WD.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165WH.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165WN.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165WT.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 165XX.
Topics In Literature
ENGL 169.
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50.
Such dramatists as Dryden, Etheredge, Wycherly, Congreve, and Sheridan.
ENGL 170AAZZ.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
How are contemporary studies of the mind relevant to language and literature, and vice versa? How have we imagined the mind at different times and in different cultures? Topics vary but focus especially on interdisciplinarity, history of theories of mind, and creativity.
ENGL 170BL.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
ENGL 170CD.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
ENGL 170CM.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
How are contemporary studies of the mind relevant to language and literature, and vice versa? How have we imagined the mind at different times and in different cultures? Topics vary but focus especially on interdisciplinarity, history of theories of mind, and creativity.
ENGL 170DA.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
ENGL 170IC.
Imagination and Creativity
ENGL 170IM.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
ENGL 170LM.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
How are contemporary studies of the mind relevant to language and literature, and vice versa? How have we imagined the mind at different times and in different cultures? Topics vary but focus especially on interdisciplinarity, history of theories of mind, and creativity.
ENGL 170MB.
Mind Brain and Literature
ENGL 170MI.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
ENGL 170MT.
The Meaning of Life
ENGL 170NV.
Studies in Literature and the Mind
ENGL 170SB.
Story and the Brain
ENGL 170TL.
Trauma-Informed Literature and Classrooms
ENGL 171AAZZ.
Literature and the Human Mind
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2, or 50, or 109, or English 10 or upper-division standing
How are literary studies different from scientific research? What is literature? Science? What kind of evidence does literature provide? What are the main methodological pitfalls when undertaking interdisciplinary research? Students are introduced to the different ways these questions appear from the standpoint of science and literature.
ENGL 171LE.
Literature and Emotion
ENGL 171NH.
Neurohumanism
ENGL 172.
Studies in the Enlightenment
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or equivalents.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit with consent of department chair to a maximum of 8 units if course content varies.
A course in the neoclassical literature of England and the continent. Topics will vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the department's course outline booklet.
ENGL 175AAZZ.
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
Interdisciplinary examination of literary texts broadly construed; course will address texts, topics, theories, or methods relevant to the study of literature in English that speak to other disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, or sciences. Course focus will be determined by instructor(s).
ENGL 175CR.
Culture and Revolution
ENGL 175GW.
Proseminar on Grants, Fellowships, and Scholarships
ENGL 175LL.
Law & Literature
ENGL 176AAZZ.
PERFORMANCE OF LITERATURE
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided letter designations are different.
Explores relationships between performances of identity, literary analysis, and the staging of literature. Students conceptualize the performance of identity, space, and text through original dramatization of literary materials that they prepare, stage, and embody. No theater experience required.
ENGL 176BC.
Performance of Literature: Race, Space, and Black California
ENGL 176ML.
PERFORMANCE OF LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN MODERNISMS
ENGL 176PL.
Performance of Literature
(4)
BATISTE
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Recommended Preparation: One of the following courses is recommended: English 38A, 38B, Black Studies 38A, 38B, 145, or 146.Enrollment Comments: Same course as Black Studies 147PL.
Explores relationships between performances of identity, literary analysis, and the staging of literature. Students conceptualize the performance of identity, space, and text through original dramatization of literary materials that they prepare, stage, and embody. No theater experience required.
ENGL 179.
British Romantic-Era Writers
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or equivalents.
Studies major prose and poetic works from this revolutionary age to analyze the interaction between literary-cultural production and radical social change. How do these texts engage the social ferment of that era--its movements for democracy, abolition, prison reform, (white) women's rights? What does their emphasis on imagination and social dreaming contribute to our times?
ENGL 180.
The Victorian Era
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or equivalents.
Such writers as Browning, Tennyson, Hopkins, Hardy, and the pre-Raphaelites.
ENGL 181AAZZ.
Studies in the Nineteenth Century
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or equivalents.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
A course in the Romantic and Victorian periods. Topics will vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the department's course outline booklet.
ENGL 181AL.
Studies in the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 181LV.
Studies in the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 181MT.
Studies in the Nineteenth Century
ENGL 182AAZZ.
Craft of Prose
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit provided the letter designations are different.
Reading of selected fiction and other relevant prose emphasizing analysis and understanding of literary methods, kinds, techniques, and objectives from the viewpoint of the practicing writer.
ENGL 182WP.
Writing for Performance: Theatrical Jazz and Form
ENGL 183AAZZ.
Craft of Verse
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Reading of selected poems and critical statements by the authors emphasizing analysis and understanding of literary methods, kinds, techniques, and objectives from the view point of the practicing writer.
ENGL 183WP.
Writing for Performance: Theatrical Jazz and Form
ENGL 184.
Modern European Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Modern European literature (1850-2000) through some of its most relevant texts from France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland. Topics: early commodity culture, changing gender roles, boredom, and consumption (Flaubert and Zola); memory in the amnesiac culture of the early 20th century, and time in technologically accelerated modernity (Proust, and Woolf); the importance of the work ethic for the modern subject (Mann, and Kafka); Calvino and postmodernism; Tabucchi the resistance to fascism. Doyle on working-class life in Dublin, and Lakhous on migration and multicultural Europe.
ENGL 185.
European Modernism
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
What, when, and where was Modernism? This course introduces students, whatever their background, to the historical evolution and the variations of the idea of Modernism provided by the European tradition. Our primary authors are Yeats, Eliot, Mann, Woolf, Beckett, and Joyce.
ENGL 187AAZZ.
Studies in Modern Literature
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Topics vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the department's course outline booklet.
ENGL 187AA.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187AG.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187BA.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187BB.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187BP.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187EL.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187FM.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187IL.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187LJ.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187LL.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187ML.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187MT.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187SM.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187TD.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187TM.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187US.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187VW.
Studies in Modern Literature
ENGL 187WW.
World Wild Wests: The Global Western in Film and Literature
ENGL 189.
Contemporary Literature
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Study of English and American contemporary drama, fiction, and poetry written since 1960.
ENGL 189BW.
Between Worlds
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2, or 50, or 109, or English 10 or upper-division standing
Explores a variety of literatures that confront the experience of being between worlds--literally and imaginatively. Being between worlds negotiates senses of belonging, the experience of borders, and also the condition of being suspended in such a way that one may not totally belong to either world. It is possible that being between worlds is also the condition of reading fiction, being as one is between one's lived reality and the story-world. Authors may include Ruth Ozeki, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, and Toni Morrison alongside short excerpts of literary and critical theory. Sub-themes may include diaspora, anti-racism, media, the Anthropocene, settler-colonialism, memory, and temporality.
ENGL 190AAZZ.
World Literature in English
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Literature in English from such countries as India, the Caribbean, and the African nations.
ENGL 190AL.
World Literature in English
(4)
STAFF
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Literature in English from such countries as India, the Caribbean, and the African nations.
ENGL 190CA.
Cognitive Approaches to World Literature
ENGL 190SA.
World Literature in English
ENGL 191.
Afro-American Fiction and Criticism, 1920's to the present
(4)
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Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing.
Such early writers as Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin and such contemporary writers as Reed, Walker, Morrison, Bambara within various cultural and theoretical contexts
ENGL 192AAZZ.
Science Fiction
(4)
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Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Repeat Comments: May be repeated for credit providing letter designations are different.
Examines science fiction as a literary genre. Emphasis throughout is upon the nature and development of the genre in its historical and cultural context. Specific course titles are announced prior to the beginning of each quarter.
ENGL 192CR.
Science Fiction: Charismatic Robots
ENGL 192DF.
Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction
ENGL 192EF.
Science Fiction: Ecofiction
ENGL 192FE.
Fantasy and Ecology
ENGL 192SC.
Science Fiction: Speculations in Color
ENGL 192SF.
Science Fiction
ENGL 192SS.
SCIENCE FICTION: SHORT STORIES
ENGL 192WW.
Women Writers of Science Fiction
ENGL 193.
Detective Fiction
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Critical and historical study of fiction from the classic of Poe, Conan Doyle, and Christie to the many contemporary kinds.
ENGL 193PL.
Detective Fiction
(4)
Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Critical and historical study of fiction from the classic of Poe, Conan Doyle, and Christie to the many contemporary kinds.
ENGL 193S.
Seminar on Detective Fiction
(1)
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in English 193; consent of instructor.
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 193 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplemental readings or a more intensive study of the English 193 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.
ENGL 195I.
Internship in English
(1-4)
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; English majors only; consent of department.
Enrollment Comments: May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 8 units but only 4 units can be applied to the major.
Under supervision of English Department faculty, English majors may obtain credit for work without pay in publishing, editing, journalism, or other employment related to English literature. Required are work hours, weekly meeting with professor, and a final paper or journal.
ENGL 196.
Honors English Senior Thesis
(4)
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Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing; consent of department; successful completion of English 198H.
For students in the English department's honors program only. English 196, which is taken after English 198H in the honors program, focuses on the writing of a 35+ page senior thesis.
ENGL 197.
Upper-Division Seminar
(4)
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Prerequisite: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.
Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in their reading beyond the primary course materials. A full description for any given quarter will be available on the English Department's website.
ENGL 198H.
Honors English Senior Thesis Preparation
(4)
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Prerequisite: Writing 2 or upper-division standing; consent of department.
Enrollment Comments: Not open to students who have completed English 198A or English 198B.
Repeat Comments: May not be repeated by students who have completed English 198A or English 198B.
The Honors Seminar is a one-term course that exposes students to the standards and best practices of research-level literary scholarship while also preparing the ground for the students' intended research topics.
ENGL 199.
Independent Studies in English
(1-5)
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Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; completion of two upper-division courses in English; consent of instructor and department.
Enrollment Comments: Students must have a minimum of 3.0 grade point average for the preceding three quarters and are limited to 5 units total per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199AA-ZZ courses combined. Students may apply a maximum of 8 units of 199/199RA courses toward the English major.
Reading and conference for students with upper-division standing.
ENGL 199RA.
Independent Research Assistant in English
(1-5)
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing; two upper-division courses in English; consent of instructor; consent of department.
Enrollment Comments: Student must have a minimum 3.0 grade-point average for the preceding three quarters and are limited to 5 units total per quarter and 30 units total in all 98/99/198/199/199AA-ZZ courses combined. Students may apply a maximum of 8 units of all 199AA-ZZ coursework toward the English major.
Independent research assistance in English. Coursework shall consist of faculty supervised research assistance.