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Please see the University of California Academic Council’s “The Defense of the University” (April 8 2025), which calls for immediate, sustained, and collective action to defend the University of California:

“We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly . . . Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.”

Visit the Academic Senate’s site to view the full statement.

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Fall 2016
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

    Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces ...

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 15
    Introduction to Shakespeare

    Introduction to Shakespeare in which a number of major plays ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 15S
    Seminar for Introduction to Shakespeare

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 22
    Intro to Literature and the Environment

    Beginning with “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, one of the West’s ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 22S
    Seminar on Literature and the Environment

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 38B
    Introduction to African-American Literature (Part II)

    African-American literature from the 1930s to the present.

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 38BS
    Seminar on African-American Literature (Part II)

    Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

    Introduction to English literature from the medieval period to 1650. ...

    Meyers, Talya
  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

    Introduction to American literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 103B
    British Literature from 1789 to 1900

    Introduction to British literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

    From Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway to Jane Campion’s ‘The Piano,’, ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 104BS
    Honors Seminar, British Literature from 1900 to Present

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 110A
    Old English

    Introduction to language, prose, and shorter poems of seventh to ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 121
    Art of the Narrative

    An exploration of traditions and functions of story-telling; may include ...

    Zinn, Emily
  • ENGL 122AP
    Cultural Representations:
    Literature and the Environment – Imagining Asia and the Pacific

    A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 122CC
    Cultural Representations:
    The Rhetoric of Climate Change

    A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 128PT
    Poetry

    TBA.

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 132MT
    Study in American Writers:
    Mark Twain

    TBA.  

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 132PR
    Studies in American Writers:
    Philip Roth

    To confuse a “balanced portrayal” with a novel is to ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 146MR
    Literature of Technology:
    Machine Reading & Writing

    In March 2016, Google’s AI program AlphaGo beat one of ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 147OM
    Media History and Theory:
    Ocean Media

    Letter grade only. May be repeated for credit provided the ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 165EM
    Topics in Literature: Early Modern
    Shipwrecked!: The Experience of Extremity in Early Modernity

    Co-Instructors: Jim Kearney, Jeremy Chow

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 165IF
    Topics in Literature:
    Imaginary Futures

    This course examines the literary history of fictitious futures, or ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 169
    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

    TBA.

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 178AA
    Studies in Modern Literature
    Asian-American Prose Narratives - The Memoir

    Topics vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is ...

    Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin
  • ENGL 193
    Detective Fiction

    Why is detective fiction so popular? Why are good mysteries ...

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 193S
    Seminar on Detective Fiction

    A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled ...

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    American Lit and Business Culture

    This course uses fictional and non-fiction texts to analyze the ...

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Poetry and Painting

    Ekphrasis — from the Greek — “ek” out, and “phrasis” ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Indigenous Literature

    This course will centralize creative works (novels, poetry, film, short ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Middlemarch

    The greatest English novel of the 19th century, Middlemarch, will ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Figures of Refusal: Work and the Politics of Not Doing

    How is work, and refusing to work, shown in modern ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 205A
    Old English

    Introduction to language, prose, and shorter poems of seventh to ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 233
    19th C. American Poetry and Poetics

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Theory and Criticism:
    Affect Theory and Practice

    How does literature feel? What creates its feelings states? What ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 236
    Psychomatics

    Interaction is the conscious or unconscious exchange of behavioral or ...

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 236
    STS Perspectives on Ecology

    The last 20 years have seen a rise in the ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

    Course provides support for graduate students when developing their dissertation ...

    Duffy, Enda
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