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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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Winter 2025
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Intro to Literary Studies

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

    Kayal, Surojit
  • ENGL 10
    Intro to Literary Studies

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 23
    The Climate Crisis: What It Is And What Each of Us Can Do About It

    Employing a cultural approach, this course explores why our climate ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 39
    Pan-Latinx Literatures of Transformation

    Surveys a wide range of literary genres by authors from ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

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

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 101ML
    British Literature before 1500

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

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 103SH
    The Secret History of Eighteenth-Century Literature

    This course looks at the underside of eighteenth-century literature to ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 104LC
    Literature, Culture, and Society: the 20th and 21st Century

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

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 105A
    Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

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

    Nowicki, Shaun
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 128GN
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 128JG
    The Jewish Graphic Novel

    Our purpose in this course will be the study of ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 128NA
    Native Feminist/2 Spirit Memoir

    Explores life stories produced by Indigenous Women, Queer, Trans, and ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 132ZH
    ENGL 132ZH
    Studies in American Writers: Zora Neale Hurston

    Explores the iconic interdisciplinary work of American writer Zora Neale ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 133TL
    Transpacific Literature

    Looks at the Pacific as the primary location for literary ...

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 134IB
    ENGL 134IB
    Visibility, Invisibility, and the Black Fantastic

    Explore the complex interplay between invisibility, visibility, and the fantastic ...

    Evans , Kaaronica
  • ENGL 134CR
    ENGL 134PC
    African-American Literature (II): Post Civil Rights

    African-American Literature: Post Civil Rights For those who declared in ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 165AD
    ENGL 165AD
    Transpacific Speculative Fiction: Imagining Asian Pacific Futures

    How do transpacific writers and poets imagine the future? In ...

    Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 169
    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

    When the English monarchy returned to power in 1660 after ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 170CM
    ENGL 170CM
    Kingdom of the Well/Kingdom of the Sick: Approaches to Literature, Power, and the Health Humanities

    What does it mean to be healthy? Susan Sontag begins ...

    Stegemoeller, Leila
  • ENGL 171NH
    Neurohumanism

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

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 192AF
    ENGL 192AF
    Afrofuturism & Black Speculative Poetics

    Focusing primarily on the literary, this course explores Black speculative ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Poetry and Painting

    Ekphrasis — from the Greek — “ek” out, and “phrasis” ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Introduction to Digital Humanities

    This course introduces important types and methods of the digital ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

    Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Chicana/o/x Testimonio and Memoir: Literature and Ideology in Contemporary Chicana/o/x Contexts from 1848 to the Present

    This course focuses on a unique category of literature known ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Controversies in Ethnic Literature

    What controversies arise around literary representations of ethnic identity? How ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 235
    ENGL 235
    Avant-garde Poetics

    An investigation of avant-garde poetics of the twentieth century. We ...

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 236
    ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 236
    ENGL 236
    Oceanic Forms II

    Building on “Oceanic Forms I” (2023), this course will survey ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 265QT
    ENGL 265QT
    Queer Time

    This class will engage a range of works from queer ...

    Reeve, Daniel
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