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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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Summer A 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 ...

  • ENGL 22
    Introduction to Literature and the Environment

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

  • ENGL 34NA
    Animacy and the Speaking Earth: The Power of Native Story

    Designed to serve as a preparatory entry to the American ...

  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

    Designed to introduce students to critical approaches to the study ...

  • ENGL 103B
    British Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Literature

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

  • ENGL 134AA
    Studies in the Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States: Cultural Poetics of the Asian Americas

    Intro course on Asian American literature. Studies a wide range ...

  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction

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

  • ENGL 192FE
    Science Fiction: Fantasy and Ecology

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

  • ENGL 193
    Detective Fiction

    Critical and historical study of fiction from the classic of ...

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