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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 2017
Courses

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

    Course website: https://introliterature.wordpress.com/(link is external) Note to students wishing to ...

    Raley, Rita
  • 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 25
    Intro to Literature and the Culture of Information

    Image and text collage showing digital manipulations of manuscripts and ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 100SO
    Seminar for Studies in American Regional Literature:
    Southern Literature

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

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

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

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 101S
    Seminar for English Lit from the Medieval Period to 1650

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

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 103AS
    Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 122EA
    Environmental Activism

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

    Hiltner, Ken
  • 122PW
    The Postconsumer World

    Consumer culture–our preoccupation with acquiring material objects–has long been blamed ...

    Meyers, Talya
  • ENGL 122UM
    The City As a Way of Life:
    Urban Modernity, 1940 - Present

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

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 128AN
    Academic Novel

    Detailed readings in, and critical examinations of, specific literary forms. ...

    Steffen, Heather
  • ENGL 131HF
    Studies in American Literature:
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    How can a Bob Marley song help make you a ...

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

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 133SO
    Studies in American Regional Literature:
    Southern Literature

    Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 140
    Contemporary American Literature

    An intensive study of American writing from World War II ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 144
    The European Renaissance

    The generic forms of cultural issues characteristic of early modern ...

  • ENGL 147WT
    History of Writing Technologies

    This course explores methods of textual production and circulation from ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 157
    English Renaissance Drama

    A course in the English drama of the period from ...

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 165EM
    The Politics of Voice in Early Modern Literature

    *Co-taught with Katie Adkison.*

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

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 165PP
    Poetry and Painting

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 170CM
    Comic Mind

    How are contemporary studies of the mind relevant to language ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 192
    Science Fiction

    Over the last century, science fiction has become one of ...

    Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Bad Sex: Censorship, Deviance, and Failure

    Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Attachment and the Novel

    What is love? What is loss? In this seminar we’ll ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    John Keats, Literature and Science

    John Keats (the British Romantic poet) was a qualified surgeon-apothecary ...

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 232
    Reality, Fictionality, and the Novel;
    or, Realism Revisited

    For too long we have emphasized Literature’s power to figure, ...

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 233
    Theory of Literature and Science:
    The Case of John Keats

    This course will examine theories of the relationship between literature ...

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 234
    Twentieth Century Modernity:
    How To

    How can we understand and study twentieth century modernity? What ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 235
    Democratic Dignity:
    Race and Rank in America

    What is dignity? Where does it come from? Who or ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 235
    The Experimental Faulkner

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 236
    The History and Making of Print

    Instructor approval required prior to registration. Please click here for ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Duffy, Enda
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