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Courses

Winter 2015
Courses

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

    As the title suggests, this course will provide an introduction ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 24G
    Ghosts of the Gothic

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

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 655IC
    Topics in Literature:
    Imagination and Creativity

    What is creativity? From where do bursts of genius come? ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 100GC
    Honors Seminar:
    Noir California

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

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 100NA
    Honors Seminar:
    Native American

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

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
    Neighbors, Human and Inhuman

    This course will investigate humans’ relationship with their neighbors (both ...

  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
    Neighbors, Human and Inhuman

    This course will investigate humans’ relationship with their neighbors (both ...

  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

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

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 102S
    Seminar on English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789

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

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

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 104A
    American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 104AS
    Seminar on American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

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

  • 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

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

    Palmer-Browne, Megan
  • ENGL 105B
    Shakespeare, Later Plays

    Major works of Shakespeare from the later part of his ...

    Rose, Mark
  • ENGL 110
    Methods of Literary Study

    Course Website: http://methodsliterarystudy.wordpress.com/ This is a new course with content ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 110B
    Old English:
    Beowulf

    Reading and translation of Beowulf. Analysis of meter and style ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 110B
    Old English:
    Beowulf

    Beowulf.

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 122UM
    Cultural Representations:
    The City As a Way of Life – Urban Modernity Post 1940

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

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 129
    Queer Textuality:
    Sexual Revolutions of the 20th Century

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

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 132PR
    Studies in American Writers:
    Philip Roth

    Courses in individual American writers such as Hawthorne-Melville (132HM); Henry ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 133GC
    Studies in American Regional Literature:
    Noir California

    What swims beneath the sun-drenched surface of California life?   Where ...

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 133SA
    Studies in American Regional Literature:
    The Gulag in America - The Tortured Soviet Author on American Soil

    Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as ...

    Wender, Irina Vladi
  • ENGL 133TL
    Studies in American Regional Literature:
    Transpacific Literature

    Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as ...

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 147WT
    Media History and Theory:
    History of Writing Technologies

    This course investigates modes of textual production and circulation from ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 148RP
    Society, Culture, and Information:
    Can We Have a Fourth Amendment Right to Privacy in a National Security State?

    The revelations by Edward Snowden regarding illegal NSA surveillance of ...

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 149
    Media and Information Culture:
    The Digital Humanities

    Focuses on the history and theory of the twentieth and ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 151JA
    Studies in British Writers:
    Reading Jane Austen's Mind

    Courses in individual writers such as Spenser, Jonson, Dryden, Pope, ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 165IF
    Topics in Literature:
    Imaginary Futures

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 165FS
    Topics in Literature:
    Free Speech and Censorship – from Milton and Locke to Justice Brandeis and the latest ‘Free Speech Incident’

    Americans take pride in their Constitutionally guaranteed right to the ...

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 170LM
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Literature and Medicine (Canceled)

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

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 170MT
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    The Meaning of Life

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

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 179
    British Romantic Writers

    Such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Lamb, ...

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Black Women and Fiction

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

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Early Modern Drama and Historiography

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

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Epistolary Literature

    ‘A letter is a joy of Earth,’ wrote Emily Dickinson ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    George Eliot's Middlemarch

    This course will focus entirely on one of the greatest ...

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Indigenous Literatures

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

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 231
    Studies in Renaissance Literature:
    Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Politics

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Griffin, Andrew
  • ENGL 233
    Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature:
    Romantic Transport

    How do we get from here to there and what ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Colorblindness

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Ecology and Psychology

    In this class, we will study some of the theoretical ...

    Fradenburg, L.O. Aranye
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Intro to Game Studies

    This course presents an introduction to game studies, considering theories ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory:
    Slow Modernity

    If the 20th century, as the time of two different ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 134NA
    Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States:
    Late 20th and Early 21st Century Native American Novel and Narrative

    Studies in literature of cultural and ethnic communities in the ...

    Waid, Candace
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