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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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Courses

Winter 2017
Courses

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

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 10S
    Seminar for Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 18
    Intro to Public Speaking

    Practical and historical introduction to the art of public speaking ...

    Enders, Jody
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    When José Martí referred to “Nuestra América” in his famous ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 50S
    Seminar on Intro to 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

    The Enlightenment Rise of the Novel The central literary event ...

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 102S
    Seminar on English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789

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

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

    Designed for majors and non-majors alike, this course surveys American ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 103AS
    Seminar for American Literature from 1789 to 1900

    This additional one-unit discussion section for English 103A is open ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • 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 105A
    Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

    Close study of five important plays from the first decade ...

    Rose, Mark
  • ENGL 108PM
    Peer Mentoring for Intro to Public Speaking

    Students learn how to teach public speaking, assisting the professor ...

    Enders, Jody
  • ENGL 114EM
    Early Modern Women Writers

    Between 1650 and 1780, English readers and writers were part ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 122EA
    Environmental Activism

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

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 122PW
    The Postconsumer World

    Consumer culture–our preoccupation with acquiring material objects–has long been blamed ...

    Meyers, Talya
  • ENGL 132MD
    Reading Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

    An experiment in decelerated pedagogy and immersive attention, this course ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 136
    17th and 18th Century American Literature

    From Puritan execution sermons, Indian captivity narratives, and slave narratives, ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 140
    21st Century Fiction

    An intensive study of American writing from World War II ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 146WF
    Literature of Technology:
    Writing for the Future

    Does writing have a future? This provocative question by media ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 165FS
    Topics in Literature:
    Free Speech and Toleration on Campus

    Do we have free speech on campus? Should we? Can ...

    Warner, William
  • ENGL 165NA
    Topics in Literature:
    Beyond the "Burial Ground": Horror and Survivance Narratives

    Co-instructors: Colton Saylor and Candace Waid Using Native American literature ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 165PM
    Chapbooks to Digital Poetry:
    Poetics Mash-up

    This seminar focuses on four areas. First is the creative ...

    Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin
  • Topics in Literature:
    The World of Hamlet

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

  • ENGL 170LM
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Literature and Medicine

    The practice of medicine is powerfully influenced by cultural assumptions. ...

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 170MB
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    Mind, Brain, and Literature

    Neurocognitive literary criticism emerged as a field of enquiry in ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 170MT
    Studies in Literature and the Mind:
    The Meaning of Life

    What does it mean to be a human being and ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 185
    Modernism in English

    What is Modernism? The aim of this course is to ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 191
    Afro-American Fiction and Criticism,
    1920's to the present

    Such early writers as Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin and ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 192
    Science Fiction

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

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    The Dramatic Monologue and the Mind

    The dramatic monologue—in which a single character (not the poet) ...

    Caldwell, Janis
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar:
    Intellectual Labor and the Work of Literature

    This seminar explores the work that makes literature happen: the ...

    Steffen, Heather
  • ENGL 234
    Sensorium Noir:
    African American Literature, Performance, and Culture

    In this class we’ll read trenchant recent work in Black ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 236
    Race and the New Formalism

    How do we read race? In what ways do aesthetic ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 236
    Ephemera,
    1550 to the Present

    *Please click here for full syllabus.* Riding the recent wave ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 236
    Human Capital:
    Subjectivity and the Culture of Neoliberalism

    During the last thirty years neoliberalism has become the global ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 238
    Digital Humanities:
    Introduction to the Field

    Go to Course Site. In recent years, the digital humanities ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Duffy, Enda
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