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Courses

Spring 2016
Courses

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

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

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 10S
    Seminar for Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 24G
    Ghosts of the Gothic

    Reading short fiction: the tale, ghost story, and even Freud’s ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 24GS
    Seminar on Ghosts of the Gothic

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

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 25
    Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions

    How have language, reading, and literature responded to revolutions in ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    This course is designed to introduce students to critical approaches ...

  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    This course is designed to introduce students to critical approaches ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 50S
    Seminar on U.S. Minority Literature

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

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

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

  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

    Not open for credit to students who have completed English ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • 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 103B
    British Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 105A
    Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

    Please use the follow link to the course page: http://english105a2016s.pbworks.com/w/page/105789735/FrontPage

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 105AS
    Seminar on Shakespeare:
    Poems and Earlier Plays

    Major poems and plays of Shakespeare, 1593-1602, including such works ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 108AP
    Advanced Public Speaking

    Builds on the history, theory, and analysis of rhetoric plus ...

    Enders, Jody
  • 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 122CF
    Cultural Representations:
    Climate Fiction

    Recent literary fiction has begun to investigate the possibilities and ...

  • ENGL 122UM
    Cultural Representations:
    The City As a Way of Life – Urban Modernity 1940 to Present

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

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 128EN
    Going Postal:
    Epistolary Narrative

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

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 128FT
    Literary Genres:
    Fairy Tales

    Happily Ever After?: Classic Fairy Tales and Contemporary Revisions — ...

    Zinn, Emily
  • ENGL 128GN
    Literary Genres:
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 129
    Queer Textuality:
    Sexual Revolutions

    Investigation of the interrelations between writing and queer sexualities, i.e. ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 140
    Contemporary American Literature:
    Encryption

    This experimental course will consider a number of works of ...

  • ENGL 147OM
    Media History and Theory:
    Ocean Media

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

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 152A
    Chaucer:
    Canterbury Tales

    Intensive study of the Canterbury Tales.

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 165IF
    Topics in Literature:
    Imaginary Futures

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 170CD
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Cognitive Dickens

    Charles Dickens is the great English novelist of identity “wounded ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 170CM
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Comic Mind

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

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 170IC
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Imagination and Creativity

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

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 192
    Science Fiction

    The course examines science fiction as a literary genre. Emphasis ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 193
    Postmodern Detective Fiction

    This course will consider the genre of detective fiction as ...

    Horton, Zach
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    J.M. Coetzee: Ethics, Animal Stories, and the Lives of Others

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Improvisation

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

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    James Joyce

    James Joyce may well be the most important, the most ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Picturing Nature: Photography and Narrative

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

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    "Crazy Talk: Madness, Neurodiversity, and Literature"

    Syllabus Link

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Model Minorities - Controversies in Ethnic Literature

    How do ethnic writers promote or critique the model minority ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Good Comrades and Splendid Creatures – Queer Leftists in Literary Culture

    Despite the widespread recognition that many of the best-known British ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 231
    Studies in Renaissance Literature:
    Modernity and Early Modernity

    Please click here to access the syllabus.

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 235
    Studies in American Literature:
    Communities of Fiction

    The Story Cycle Novel examines this major literary form as ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Global Popular

    Culturally and politically, we now inhabit the realm of the ...

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Race and Theory

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
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