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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 2026
Courses

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

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

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 22
    Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    Beginning with The Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the Wests ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 30B
    Major Works in European Literature

    A survey of European literature. Renaissance and Neoclassical literature from ...

  • ENGL 37
    Law in Everyday Life

    This interdisciplinary course highlights the importance of the humanities to ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 110A
    Introduction to Old English Language and Literature

    Introduction to Old English language and literature. Students learn to ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

    An introduction to techniques of creative writing, editing, design, presentation, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 107
    The Craft of Fiction

    This course focuses on the essential elements of fiction writing. ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 122CL
    Climate Fiction and Imagination

    We will develop a literary approach to climate change by ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 174CA
    From Confession to Autofiction (Inventions of the Self I)

    This course follows a genealogy of confessional and autobiographical writing ...

    Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction

    Introduces the literary genre of science fiction (SF) through the ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 192FE
    Fantasy and the Environment

    Explores how fantasy literature imagines the life we share with ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Poetry and Painting

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    In Search of the Black Fantastic

    Scholar-artist Ekow Eshun describes the “Black fantastic” as the way ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 205A
    Old English

    Introduction to the language, prose, and shorter poems.

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 230
    Studies in Medieval Literature

    Content of the course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory

    May be repeated for credit with the consent of the ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 265CR
    Seminar in Special Topics

    Topics vary.

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 297
    An Introduction to Graduate Study in English

    Introduces graduate students in English to the department, the university, ...

    Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 298
    Doctoral Colloquium

    The English Department’s Doctoral Colloquium provides support and guidance for ...

    Kearney, Jim
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