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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 2026
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  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Instructors Vary
  • ENGL 15SH
    Shakespeare as Popular Culture

    Shakespeare’s plays are designed to entertain. They were written for ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 87LL
    Literature and Life
    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 92RA
    Reading the Apocalypse
    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 92TC
    The Fiction of Ted Chiang
    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 101ML
    British Literature Before 1500

    Introduction to British literature and culture before 1500. Students will ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 102QA
    Algorithmic Poetry: Quantitative Approaches to Literary Analysis and the Sonnet

    How have forms and formulas for composing poetry like the ...

    Coburn, Henry
  • ENGL 103WT
    Wilde Times: Late Victorian Literature and Aesthetics

    This class will focus on the literature of the 1890s ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 104LC
    Literature, Culture, and Society: the 20th and 21st Century

    Modern and postmodern literature by British, Irish, African, Indian, and ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Literature

    Survey of medieval English literature, including such texts as Beowulf, ...

    Donelan, James
  • ENGL 122UE
    Cityscapes: The Urban Experience from the Metropolis to the Megalopolis

    This course focuses on the emergence of the modern city ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 128
    TBA
    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 142TT
    Talking Trees, from Ovid to the Overstory
    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 165AE
    The Graphic Novel: Animals and Ecology

    We live in an era, the Anthropocene that is increasingly ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 165 IB
    Indigenous Border Studies

    A critical perspective on national borders and borderlands through the ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 171NH
    Neurohumanism

    Of what relevance is cognitive neuroscience to literature? This course ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 192SS
    Science Fiction Short Stories

    This course examines key themes in the genre of science ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar Literary Studies is Trauma-Informed
    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar Feminist Interventions: Women/Literature/Film
    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar Early Black Print, Writing, and Political Organizing
    Jim Casey
  • ENGL 198H
    Honors Seminar: Senior Thesis

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 236
    Race, Writing, and Representation
    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 265DC
    Decolonization: Theory, Narrative, & Praxis
    Salomón J., Amrah
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