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The Defense of the University

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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Spring 2019
Courses

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

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 25
    Intro to Literature and the Culture of Information:
    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 ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 65FM
    Fables of Modernity:
    Vampires, Monsters, Madness

    This lecture course (with individual discussion sections) focuses on four ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • 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 ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 128AF
    Animal Fiction

    Engaging our moment of climate crisis and the ongoing extinction ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 128FT
    Fairy Tales

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

    Zinn, Emily
  • ENGL 140
    21st Century American Fiction

    This course will focus on key works of American fiction ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 146GB
    Gamebooks

    May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 28 ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 146MR
    Machine Reading & Writing

    When I first taught this class, in Fall 2016, machine ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 147VN
    Visual Narrative

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 165NT
    Writing 'Nature':
    Wordsworth, Dickinson, Bishop

    What do we mean by ‘nature poetry’? William Wordsworth, Emily ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 169
    Performing the Restoration Playhouse:
    Four Restoration Comedies

    When London theaters re-opened in 1660 after being closed for ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 170LM
    Literature and Medicine

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

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 179
    British Romantic Writers

    Between 1780 and 1830, British writers experimented with radical politics, ...

    Donelan, James
  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction:
    Dystopian Fiction

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Reading in Santa Barbara - Past, Present, and Future

    How do we come to be studying literature in a ...

    Droge, Abigail
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

    Our concern in this class will be less with superheroes ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Picturing Nature: Photography & Narrative

    In this course, students will develop a solid foundation in ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Ulysses

    Ulysses is a celebration, a revolution, a provocation, a political ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 198H
    Honors English Senior Thesis

    The Honors Seminar is a one-term course that exposes students ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 236
    Material Text

    This course studies the materiality of literary production from the ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 236
    Introduction to Literary & Cultural Theory

    The English department has in the past offered a course ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 236
    Unconscious Memory and the Human Mind
    Part II

    Part II is for Crossroads Fellows and those who have ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 265FD
    Friends Across Differences

    Our seminar studies the problematics and possibilities of “friendship” as ...

    Blake, Felice Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Duffy, Enda
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