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CI 161. Mth Mtl Engl

Units: 3, Repeatable up to 999 units

EHD 154B. Final Student Teaching Seminar - English

Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in EHD 155B. Seminar to accompany final student teaching that provides opportunities for candidates to investigate and discuss variety of topics and strategies and to reflect on issues that surface during their student teaching experience.

Units: 1

EHD 155B. Studt Tchg Engl

Prerequisites: admission to student teaching, EHD 155A, CI 161 (or concurrently, depending on major departmental policy); senior or post baccalaureate standing; approval of major department including subject matter competency approval; completion of the subject matter preparation program or passing the subject matter examination(s) designated by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Supervised teaching in single subject classroom; assignment is for the full day; five days per week. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 5-10, Repeatable up to 20 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 1L. Writing Tutorial

May be taken concurrently with ENGL 5A, ENGL 5B, ENGL 10, or ENGL 160W. Students work in a small group of two-three students and a tutor discussing writing assignments and collaborating by giving each other feedback and sharing strategies for revision. The tutor acts as a "personal trainer" by helping understand and fulfill the demands of your assignments according to your individual needs. CR/NC grading only. (2 hours)

Units: 1, Repeatable up to 3 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 2. Writing Workshop

Practical assignments and individual coaching on specific writing problems. For selected students this workshop may be required to be taken concurrently with, or as prerequisite to, other courses.

Units: 1-4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 5A. Academic Literacy I

Practice in reading and writing processes, making literacy decisions based on audience, context, and purpose. Direct instruction on reading comprehension; genre analysis; planning, composing and revising writing; research strategies; paragraph development, sentence competence, and grammatical conventions. With ENGL 5B, equivalent of ENGL 10. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 5B. Academic Literacy II

Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 5A with a grade of C or better. Continued study of reading and writing in various genres. Focus on research, analysis, synthesis, argument, and evaluation. Students guided to analyze the rhetorical qualities of academic literacy and language. Longer papers, portfolio assessment. G.E. Foundation A2.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: A2

ENGL 10. Accelerated Academic Literacy

Reading and writing in academic and public genres, special attention to rhetorical decision-making and critical analysis. Guided instruction in reading and responding to texts. Participation in public and academic conversations via research in primary and secondary sources. (Formerly English 1) Enrollment in ENGL 10 not allowed if already received passing grade in ENGL 5A.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: A2

ENGL 20. Introduction to Literature

Prerequisite: G.E. Foundation A2 (ENGL 5B OR ENGL 10). Introduction to literary appreciation and criticism through reading and close written analyses of short stories, novels, drama, and poetry from diverse Western and non-Western cultures. G.E. Breadth C2.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: C2

ENGL 21. Genre

Prerequisite: ENGL 5B or ENGL 10. Genre explores the history, issues, and trends in genres, considered as authorial technique, audience expectation, and interpretive strategy. May examine forms (like poetry, prose, drama) or topics (such as memoir, mystery, science fiction).

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 30. Readings in World Literature

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation A2. Readings in World Literature provides a chronological survey of World Literature. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction. Examines diverse historical and cultural contexts, literary traditions and movements, canon formation and marginalized texts. G.E. Breadth C2.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: C2

ENGL 31. Readings in British Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 5B or ENGL 10. Chronological survey of British Literature from medieval to contemporary. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction, including historical and cultural contexts. Required for English majors.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 32. Readings in American Literature

Prerequisite: ENGL 5 or ENGL 10. Chronlogical survey of U.S. Literature from Native American oral traditions to contemporary. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction and nonfiction., including historical and cultural contexts. Required for English majors.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 41. Poetry Writing

Beginning workshop in the writing of poetry; appropriate reading and analyses. G.E. Breadth C1.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: C1

ENGL 43. Fiction Writing

Beginning workshop in the writing of fiction; appropriate reading and analyses. G.E. Breadth C1.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: C1

ENGL 44. Creative Nonfiction Writing

Beginning workshop in lyric essay, memoir, and other forms of creative nonfiction writing; appropriate readings and analysis. G.E. Breadth C1.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: C1

ENGL 50T. Studies in Literature

(Same as WS 50T, Women in Novels section.) Prerequisite: ENGL 5 or ENGL 10. Sections designated as emphasizing certain writers, types, or themes, e.g., Shakespeare, The Poem, Literature of Protest, Women in Novels. Appropriate readings and analyses.

Units: 1-4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 70. Public Writing and Argument

Studies rhetorical situations, rhetorical appeals, argumentative discourses, and how writing incites social change. Practices using analytic lenses such as rhetorical criticism, discourse analysis, and critical race theory to analyze public writing and to construct arguments about local community issues.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 100W. Writing Skills

Credit obtained only by passing Upper-Division Writing Skills Examination and upon request. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 101. Masterpieces of World Literature

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction (in translation) from throughout the world, including historical and cultural contexts. Not applicable to the English major. G.E. Integration IC.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IC

ENGL 102. Masterpieces of English Literature

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction by British authors as well as colonial and post-colonial works influenced by English literature. Historical and cultural contexts of literary works. Not applicable to the English major. G.E. Integration IC.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IC

ENGL 102WZ. Masterpieces of English Literature

Units: 4
GE Area: IC

ENGL 103. Masterpieces of American Literature

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Discussion and written analyses of influential drama, fiction, and nonfiction by American authors and representing the cultural diversity of the nation. Historical and social contexts of literary works. Not applicable to the English major. G.E. Integration IC.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IC

ENGL 104. Children's and Adolescent Literature

Survey of the major forms and genres of children's literature. Designed primarily for future elementary school teachers. May not be used for credit toward the English major.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 105. Textual Analysis

Prerequisite: ENGL 31 and ENGL 32. The theory and practice of textual analysis. Examination of the concept of textual traditions; consideration of research methods; application of critical theory to analyzing texts and writing criticism. Required for English majors.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 106W. Writing in English Studies

Prerequisites: GE Foundation A2 Requirement (English 5B or 10) and 60 units of coursework. Methods for reading, writing, research, and inquiry within the discipline of English Studies. Develops literacies to join academic and public conversations. Meets the upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 112. World Literature: Ancient

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Analysis of texts (in translation) from c. 1650 BCE-750 CE, from areas such as China, India, Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Rome. Possible topics: epics and empires, civilization and wilderness, lyric experience, dramatizations of love and terror, and quests for wisdom. G.E. Integration IC.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IC

ENGL 113. World Literature: Medieval and Renaissance

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Analysis of texts (in translation) from c. 750-1650, from areas such as Japan, Mali, Mexico, Spain and Persia. Possible topics: travelers' tales and intercultural encounters, satire and social critique, poetic and narrative self-fashioning, patronage and eroticism in court poetry. G.E. Integration IC.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IC

ENGL 114. World Literature: Modern

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Analysis of texts (Anglophone and in translation) from c.1650 to the present, from areas such as Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Possible topics: imperialism and resistance, enlightenment, Romanticism, nationalism, modernism, postcolonialism, globalization, migration, evolving cultural and sexual identities. G.E. Integration IC.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IC

ENGL 117W. Writing from Children's Lit

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of G.E. Foundation and breadth area C. This course includes intensive, inquiry-based writing that emerges from the study of children's literature from grades K-6. Meets upper-division writing requirement. Enrollment limited to Liberal Studies Majors.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 118. World Literature: Modern and Contemporary

Analysis of texts (written in/translated into English) from c. 1900 to now, from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Possible topics: literary interactions with modernism, postcolonialism, migration, globalization, environmentalism, technology, new media, evolving identities (cultural, gender, sexual), and re-envisioning the future.

Units: 4

ENGL 131. Literacy Studies

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Examines current issues in the field of literacy studies pertaining to English education. Particular emphasis given to literacy acquisition, adolescent literacy, and the discourses of literary analysis and writing pedagogy. Required for English credential majors. (Formerly ENGL 175T)

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 132S. Rhetoric, Grammar, and Writing Instruction

Prerequisite: ENGL 131 or permission of instructor; may be taken concurrently. Rhetoric, grammar, and writing instruction for future English teachers. Focus on structures of English language and role of grammar and usage in writing instruction. Students apply and extend learning through at least 30 hours of service-learning with local literacy organizations. (Formerly ENGL 175T)

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 133. Texts Teachers Teach

Prerequisite: ENGL 105. Co-requisite: ENGL 131. Explore practical ideas for bringing new texts or new ways to teach canonical texts into standardized curriculum environments for middle and high school English Language Arts classrooms. Includes contemporary Young Adult literature, world mythology and folklore, Shakespeare, poetry, and non-fiction.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 141. African American Masterpieces of American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 105 (C or better). English majors may take ENGL 105 concurrently. This course provides a general overview of African Americans within U.S. culture and politics. It explores reconfigurations of "blackness" away from antithetical definitions of humanity and citizenship, and towards self-determination through strategic production of art and literature. (Formerly ENLG 169T.)

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 142. American Indian Masterpieces of American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 105 (C or better). English majors may take ENGL 105 concurrently. This course provides a general overview of American Indian writers within U.S. culture and politics. We will read fiction, poetry, non-fiction prose, creative non-fiction, and genre/popular fiction dealing with topics as related to American Indian lives. (Formerly ENGL 193T.)

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring - odd

ENGL 143. Asian American Masterpieces of American Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 105 (C or better). English majors may take ENGL 105 concurrently. This course provides a general overview of Asian American writers within U.S. culture and politics. It explores how Asian American writers negotiate a myriad of identity formations that rebut many mainstream racialized depictions and how their writing resists restrictive legal contexts. (Formerly ENGL 169T.)

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring - even

ENGL 144. Masterpieces of Chicanx Literature

Prerequisites: ENGL 105 (C or better). English majors may take ENGL 105 concurrently. This course provides a general overview of Chicanx writers within U.S. culture and politics. These texts are artistic representations of historical processes that led to a non-white racial formation, proletarianization, and the systemic disenfranchisement of U.S. peoples of Mexican descent. (Formerly ENGL 193T)

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 146. Medieval Literature

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of British texts, c. 500-1500. Topics may include oral and manuscript cultures; religious, linguistic and political conversion; and class, gender and sexuality in the literatures of monastery, court, and marketplace.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 147. English Renaissance Literature

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts, 1500-1660. Topics may include Renaissance humanism, Reformation, Counter-Refomration, New World exploration, conflicting political and social cultures of court and city, the rise of print, the advent of English theater, and the development of vernacular literary forms.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 150. Restoration and 18th Century Literature

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of British texts, 1660-1800. Topics may include commerce and mercantilism, colonialism, and global trade, crime and poverty, and an increased emphasis on feminine domesticity and masculine civic virtue.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 151. British Romantic Literature

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts from 1789-1832, period of the French and Industrial Revolutions. Topics will examine how expansions in the literary marketplace intersect with the growth of domestic ideology and the idea of 'natural' rights to form national identity.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 152. Victorian Literature

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of British texts, 1832-1901. Topics may include the condition of England, the spiritual crisis and science, empire and travel, cultural identity, and the "Woman Question".

Units: 4

ENGL 153. American Literature to 1865

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts, pre-contact to the Civil War. Topics may include American Indian creation stories and oral narratives, exploration, colonialism, Puritanism, frontier life, transcendentalism, and slavery.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 154. American Literature 1865 to World War I

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts from Reconstruction to 1918. Topics may include the women's rights movement, realism and naturalism, urbanization and industrialization, migration and immigration.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 155. Modern and Contemporary American Literature

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts since World War I. Topics may include alienation and disillusionment, self-conscious experimentation, the impact of the media and technology, social movements and identity politics, globalization, and postmodernism.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 156. Modern and Contemporary British Literature

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Discussion and written analyses of selected poems, plays, and fiction from 1900 to the present by such authors as Forster, Yeats, Woolf, Lawrence, Joyce, Greene, Auden, Thomas, and post-World War II writers.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 156Z. Modern and Contemporary British Literature

Discussion and written analyses of selected poems, plays, and fiction from 1900 to the present by such authors as Forster, Yeats, Woolf, Lawrence, Joyce, Greene, Auden, Thomas, and post-World War II writers.

Units: 4

ENGL 160W. Writing Workshop

Prerequisite: satisfactory completion (C or better) of the ENGL 5B or ENGL 10 graduation requirement. Practical assignments in writing, directed according to each student's individual needs. May be elected as preparation for special composition requirements. Does not apply to the English major or minor. Meets the upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 160WZ. Writing Workshop

Units: 4

ENGL 161. Advanced Writing of Poetry

Prerequisite: ENGL 41. Intensive workshop in the writing of poetry; appropriate readings and analyses.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 163. Advanced Writing of Fiction

Prerequisite: ENGL 43. Intensive workshop in the writing of fiction; appropriate readings and analyses.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 164. Advanced Writing of Creative Nonfiction

Prerequisite: ENGL 44. Intensive workshop in memoir, lyric essay, and all other forms of creative nonfiction writing; appropriate readings and analyses.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 164Z. Advanced Prose Writing

Prerequisite: ENGL 5B or ENGL 10. Workshop in all forms of nonfiction prose writing; appropriate readings and analyses. Designed for majors in all fields who want to develop their writing.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 165. Craft and Technique in Creative Writing

Prerequisite: ENGL 41, ENGL 43, or ENGL 44. Undergraduate seminar in the craft and techniques of creative writing designed to provide intensive study of current and traditional formal, stylistic, and technical issues and developments in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 166. Literary Publishing and Editing

Undergraduate seminar focused on supervised project-based editorial work with online and/or print literary publications.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 167. Mythology and Folklore

Discussion and written analyses of the structure, content, and function of myth and folklore in world literature, with particular emphasis on the relationships among language, myth, and culture.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 168T. Women and Literature

(WS 168T same as ENGL 168T.) Prerequisite: ENGL 20. Discussion and written analysis of literature by and about women. Special emphasis on 19th and 20th Century authors including the Brontes, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and contemporary writers.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 169T. Forms of Literature

Sections designated as emphasizing poetry, drama, novel, short story, perhaps limited to a specific period or subclass; for example, 18th Century English Novel, 20th Century British and American Poetry, Modern Short Stories, 20th Century Drama, Tragedy, Folklore, Mythology. Discussion and written analyses are required.

Units: 1-4, Repeatable up to 8 units
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 169T. Genre: Science Fiction Film

We will be focusing primarily on robot/cyborg films of the 50's, 60's and 70's as apocalyptic narratives. If the apocalyptic narrative means, in part, the scourging of human beings, then can replacing humans with robots be seen as part of that biblical (from St. John) narrative? If the narrative form is one way to understand the human experience, then is the narrative insufficient for understanding artificial intelligence? Transformation themes, from human to cyborg, or from cyborg to human, are a part of many of these films-what are some of the implications for the future? This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)

Units: 4

ENGL 170W. Writing and Teaching Writing

Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion (C or better) of the ENGL 5B or ENGL 10 graduation requirement. Additionally students should complete at least 56 units prior to enrolling in a W course. Designed for future secondary teachers in all disciplines. Practice writing rhetorically using writing processes. Instruction in teaching writing across content areas. Does not apply to the English major or minor, Meets the upper division writing skills requirement for graduation.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 171. Biography and Autobiography

Reading, discussion, and written analyses of selected biographical or autobiographical works, including such topics as literary biography, the autobiographical essay, memoirs, and issues of gender and ethnicity in biographical form.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 172. Advanced Rhetoric and Composition

Introduces students to the interrelated fields of rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies (R/C/L). Familiarizes students with key terms, texts, histories, pedagogical theories, major figures/scholars, conversations, and debates in the discipline of rhetoric and composition.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 173. Cultural Rhetoric(s)

Examines American Ethnic Rhetoric(s) through debates about the social histories of rhetoric. Traces classical, neoclassical, and/or contemporary rhetoricians. First-hand investigation of primary cultural artifacts, including review of archival studies, rhetorical/feminist historiography, and/or qualitative research approaches.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 174. Popular Fiction

Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Survey of major types of popular genre fiction (detective, horror, spy, science fiction, Western, fantasy, etc.) Discussion; writing. Examination of works in cultural and historical context and as literary and commercial art. G.E. Integration IC.

Units: 3
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
GE Area: IC

ENGL 174Z. Popular Fiction - London in Literature

Units: 3
GE Area: IC

ENGL 175T. Topics in Rhetoric and Writing Studies

This course focuses on special topics in Rhetoric and Writing studies, such as rhetorical theory and history, writing theory or pedagogy, literacy studies, research methods, genre studies, writing assessment, teaching with technology.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 175T. Women's Rhetoric and Writing

This course critically examines women's writing and rhetoric, within historical, transnational, and contemporary feminist paradigms. Throughout most of Western history, rhetoric has been gendered as a male domain. This course investigates women's writing and rhetoric as counter-narratives of the early Western rhetorical tradition, and is a critique of dominate narratives that have silenced women rhetors and writers. This course also highlights and explores intersectional power dynamics, inequities, and rhetorical thought in writing, agency, and experiences of women of color. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)

Units: 4

ENGL 176T. Topics in Genre Film: Form and Function

Discussion and close written analyses of selected topics, including such types as comedies, musicals, horror films, westerns, etc.

Units: 1-4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 177. Literature, Cinema and the Liberal Arts

Explores humanistic themes and motifs through comparative analysis of works of literature, drama, and contemporary cinema. Examines how film and the other arts shape and reflect American values. Two essay midterms. Final project/paper. Five thousand work writing requirement. (Formerly INTD 168)

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 178. Lesbian & Gay Literature

(ENGL 178 same as WS 178) ENGL 178 enrollment Prerequisite: ENGL 105; WS 178 enrollment Prerequisite: WS 125 or permission of the instructor. Discussion and written analysis of literature that explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer identities and experience. Also considers how cultural and historical forces shape current notions of sexual identity and community.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 179. Multi-Ethnic Literature and Writing

Corequisite: ENGL 105. Discussion and written analysis of selected writing by authors from diverse multiethnic backgrounds, such as indigenous, Latinx, Black and Asian diaspora.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 181. Literary Theory and Criticism

A survey of literary theory, including Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, structuralism, and post-structuralism. Topics also include the history of literary criticism and the practice of interpretation. Discussion, lectures, written analyses.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 182. English Workshop

Seminar in composition and learning. Discussion and practical exercises concerning theory, evaluation, and improvement of language learning and composition. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 1-4, Repeatable up to 8 units
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 183T. Seminar in Literature

Prerequisite: appropriate upper-division literature course. Designed for students interested in in-depth study of a literary topic; recommended for liberal studies majors. Seminar in an aspect of literary history, type, period, movement, individual author. Reports and written analyses required.

Units: 1-4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 184. Chaucer

Co-requisite: concurrent enrollment in ENGL 105. Reading, discussion, and written analyses of the major works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 185. English Internship Seminar

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Seminar to be taken concurrently with ENGL 186 during the first semester of enrollment in program. Group and individual analyses of writing done in internship assignments. Discussion of the rhetorical problems of writing for public agencies, magazines and journals, and private industry. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 2
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 186I. Internship in English

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. No more than 2 units of ENGL 186 may apply to the English major. See also ENGL 185. Supervised work experience in public agencies and private industry to provide an opportunity to develop professional writing skills. Approved for SP grading. CR/NC grading only.

Units: 2-6
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 187. Milton

Co-requisite: concurrent enrollment in ENGL 105. Reading, discussion, and written analyses of the major works of John Milton.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 188T. Single Author

Reading and written analysis of major works of a single author.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 188T. Author: Ernest Hemingway

Reading and analysis of Ernest Hemingway's most popular novels and short stories. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)

Units: 4

ENGL 189. Shakespeare

Co-requisite: concurrent enrollment in ENGL 105. (ENGL 189 same as DRAMA 194.) Reading and writing analysis of major works of Shakespeare.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 189Z. Shakespeare

Units: 4

ENGL 190. Independent Study

See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for SP grading.

Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units

ENGL 191. Supervised Independent Reading

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Reading works from a literary period (for example, Beowulf to Marlowe, American Literature to Whitman, World Literature: Ancient and Medieval) and discussion in individual conferences. (Formerly ENGL 191T)

Units: 1-4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 192A. Practicum in Tutoring Writing I

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Required as a sequence of courses of undergraduate writing tutors every semester of tutoring at the Writing Center.

Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 192B. Practicum in Tutoring Writing II

Prerequisite: ENGL.192A. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Examines closely theories informing practices tutors were introduced to in ENGL192A of responding to writing, group facilitation and utilizing writing for learning. Introduction to specific methods of one-on-one tutoring. Required for undergraduate tutors tutoring at the Writing Center second semester.

Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 192C. Practicum in Tutoring Writing III

Prerequisite: ENGL 192A and ENGL 192B. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Examination of demands of various writing genres and publishing styles as disciplinary practices; tutoring grammar in the context of genre. Required for undergraduate tutors tutoring at the Writing Center third semester.

Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 192D. Practicum in Tutoring Writing IV

Prerequisite: ENGL 192A, ENGL 192B, and ENGL 192C. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Examines transferability of tutoring practices to classroom and professional settings, building a collaborative community and practices. Required for undergraduate tutors tutoring at the Writing Center forth semester.

Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 192E. Practicum in Tutoring Writing V

Prerequisite: ENGL192A, ENGL 192B, ENGL 192C, and ENGL 192D. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Survey of variety of tutoring and small group practices, history of writing centers, collaborative practices. Required for undergraduate tutors tutoring at the Writing Center fifth semester.

Units: 1
Course Typically Offered: Fall

ENGL 193. Seminar in English Studies

Prerequisites: ENGL 105, ENGL 106W. Research methods and critical theories applied to individual projects on intersections of creative texts, rhetorical analyses, pedagogy, social movements, intellectual history, and cultural traditions. Required for the English Major.

Units: 4

ENGL 194T. Seminar in Women and Literature

(ENGL 194T same as WS 194T.) May be substituted for ENGL 193T in the English major; no more than 12 units of ENGL 193T- ENGL194T applicable to the major. Sections designated by topic. Individual projects; reading, discussion, and writing papers on individual women writers or some aspect of women in literature; for example, Doris Lessing, Myth and Archetypes of Women. ENGL 194T should ordinarily not be taken until 3 upper-division courses in English have been completed.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 195. Senior Seminar

Prerequisites: ENGL105, ENGL 106W, ENGL 179. Undergraduate senior seminar focused on culminating projects and/or theses as well as career and post-graduate preparation in their chosen area of emphasis.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Spring

ENGL 196. Literary Studies Senior Seminar

Prerequisite: ENGL 105. Undergraduate senior seminar focused on culminating projects and/or theses as well as career and post-graduate preparation in their chosen are of emphasis.

Units: 4
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

ENGL 197. Senior Project in English Studies

Prerequisite: ENGL 105. English Education Option students apply English Studies to explore a key question in the field related to professional aspirations, present results in essay, multi-media, or online format, and complete a reflective essay. Evaluate their learning in the field to prepare a professional portfolio that reflects on and demonstrates their achievement of subject matter competency in English Education to support their professional goals.

Units: 1

ENGL 205. Research Methods in English Studies

A graduate-level seminar in research methods in English studies. Students will learn scholarly modes of evaluation, analysis, critical approaches, argumentation, academic conventions, and professional ethics. Required of first year students in the English M.A.

Units: 4

ENGL 241. Seminar in Form and Theory: Poetry

Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program; others admitted by permission of instructor. Seminar in literary craft designed primarily for the graduate writing student to provide intensive study of current and traditional formal, stylistic, and technical issues and controversies in the genre (for example, traditional prosody, non-traditional poetics, and contemporary lyric).

Units: 4

ENGL 242. Literary Editing and Publishing

Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program; others admitted by permission of instructor. Seminar in evaluating literary manuscripts, including but not limited to poetry collections submitted for the annual Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. Issues of aesthetic, book manuscript development, literary contest administration, and poetry book production and marketing.

Units: 4

ENGL 243. Seminar in Form and Theory: Fiction

Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program; others admitted by permission of instructor. Seminar in literary craft designed primarily for the graduate writing student to provide intensive study of current and traditional formal, stylistic, and technical issues and controversies in the genre (for example, narrative theory and non-traditional fictional forms).

Units: 4

ENGL 245. Seminar in Form and Theory: Creative Nonfiction

Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in graduate creative writing program; others by permission of instructor. Seminar in literary craft designed primarily for the graduate writing student to provide intensive study of current and traditional formal, stylistic and technical issues and controversies in the genre (for example, traditional and nontraditional essay forms, memoir, prose theory).

Units: 4

ENGL 250T. Seminar in Literature

Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Seminar in an aspect of literary history, type, period, movement, or an individual author (for example, Fiction, Seventeenth Century Lyric Poetry, The Irish, Dickens).

Units: 4

ENGL 250T. Corporeal: Writing the Hungry, Horny, Sick, Unruly Body

Western thought has long viewed corporeality through a patriarchal, mind-body binary lens. This course will examine the myriad methods through which women, trans, and nonbinary nonfiction writers have "unthought" this lens and moved away from social myths and taboos to re-appropriate the body, its hungers, disabilities, sexualities, and unruliness as a powerful confrontation to the question of self-definition. The authors we will read use race, gender, culture, and sexuality to create nonfiction that transgresses culturally and historically imposed rules of silence around the body as a topic. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)

Units: 4

ENGL 250T. Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group, based in and named after the Bloomsbury neighborhood in London, were artistic and literary avant-garde pioneers of the first half of the 20th Century. Comprised of writers Virginia Woolf and EM Forrester, artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, economist John Maynard Keynes, political theorist and designer of the League of Nations Leonard Woolf, and art critics Clive Bell and Roger Fry, the Bloomsbury group collaborated amongst themselves and with a global network of other artists and writers in innovative ways that transformed the art and literary worlds. This topic may not be repeated for credit. (Offered Spring 2023)

Units: 4

ENGL 250T. Feminism and Science Fiction

Exploration and analysis of feminism in historical and contemporary Sci Fi writing. Special focus on place of gender in questions of race, class, colonialism. Authors such as Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, Ursula LeGuin, Joanna Russ, Suzy Mckee-Charkas, No Hopkinson, Samuel R. Zelaney, Hiromu Arakawa and more.

Units: 4

ENGL 250T. 14th Century: Catastrophe & Revolution

Reading the literature of 14th century Britain in the context of political upheaval, pandemic, climate change and cultural shifts.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 250T. 20th/21st Century United States Women's Writing

Study of different genres written by U.S. women from a variety of ethnic backgrounds since 1900.

Units: 4

ENGL 261. Seminar: Writing Poetry

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced individual projects in the writing of poetry.

Units: 4

ENGL 263. Seminar: Writing Fiction

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced individual projects in the writing of fiction.

Units: 4

ENGL 265. Seminar: Writing Creative Nonfiction

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced individual projects in the writing of creative nonfiction.

Units: 4

ENGL 270. Seminar in Teaching Writing: Theory and Practice

Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Seminar considers histories, philosophies, and research that inform pedagogical practices in rhetoric and composition. It introduces basic teaching methods through such activities as class discussions, curriculum design, and assessments.

Units: 4

ENGL 278T. Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition

Explores special topics in rhetoric and composition studies, such as rhetorical theory and history, composition theory, literacy theory, research methods, genre studies, writing assessment, teaching with technology. ENGL 278T is an approved elective for the Literature Option.

Units: 4, Repeatable up to 8 units

ENGL 278T. Women's Rhetoric and Writing

Units: 4

ENGL 280T. Seminar in Critical Theory

Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Seminar in literary criticism (for example, Literary Critics).

Units: 4

ENGL 281. Current Writing Theory

Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Designed to acquaint the student with current key issues in composition theory and the theoretical implications for course design and pedagogy.

Units: 4

ENGL 282A. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing I

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching college writing including: modeling lesson planning, presenting demonstrations of teaching, and discussing pedagogical issues. Required of all Teaching Associates teaching English 5A for the first time. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1

ENGL 282B. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing II

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching college writing including: supporting decisions about lesson planning, building coherence and scaffolding of activities, and discussing the opportunities and challenges of classroom teaching. Required of all Teaching Associates teaching English 5B for the first time. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1

ENGL 282C. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing III

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching college writing including: designing and implementing English 10 curriculum, teaching analysis from a rhetorical perspective, teaching researched argumentative writing. Required of all Teaching Associates teaching in their third semester of teaching. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1

ENGL 282D. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing IV

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching college writing including: implementing more advanced pedagogical theory and practices, scaffolding major writing project assignments, and integrating formative assessment techniques. Required of all Teaching Associates teaching in their fourth semester of teaching. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1

ENGL 282E. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing V

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching college writing including: experimenting with new approaches and/or observing teaching from new perspectives. Required of all Teaching Associates teaching in their fifth semester of teaching. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1

ENGL 282F. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing VI

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching college writing including: how to represent teaching in professional contexts for employment and within the discipline. Required of all Teaching Associates teaching in their sixth semester of teaching. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1

ENGL 282G. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing VII

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching writing in secondary schools including implementing academic literacy practices to support articulation between secondary and college writing. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1-2

ENGL 282H. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing VIII

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching writing in secondary schools including advanced integration of the teaching of expository writing through developing practices and activities for rhetorical reading, writing, and grammar. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1-2

ENGL 282I. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing IX

Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor. Practical discussions of the daily work of teaching writing in secondary schools across the disciplines, focusing on disciplinary literacies and designing assignments and activities to support the teaching of reading and writing in various disciplinary contexts. May count toward the MA degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Units: 1-2

ENGL 283A. Practicum in Tutoring of Writing I

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Required for graduate tutors during their first semester at the Writing Center. This course introduces students to the practice of responding to writing and group facilitation. Readings in responding to writing, tutoring methods, collaborative learning.

Units: 1

ENGL 283B. Practicum in Tutoring of Writing II

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Required for graduate tutors during their second semester at the Writing Center. This course examines the underlying theories that inform the practices tutors were introduced to in the previous semester of responding to writing, group facilitation and utilizing writing for learning. Introduction to specific methods of one-on-one tutoring.

Units: 1

ENGL 283C. Practicum in Tutoring of Writing III

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Required for graduate tutors during their third semester at the Writing Center. This course is designed to deepen the knowledge and practices developed so far by examining the pedagogical and theoretical foundations that guide tutoring practices. Building a tutoring community and mentoring new tutors, as well as transferring tutoring practices into classroom settings and campus tutoring events.

Units: 1

ENGL 283D. Practicum in Tutoring of Writing IV

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. Required for graduate tutors during their fourth semester at the Writing Center. This course is designed to examine the transferability of tutoring practices into classroom and professional settings (brainstorming sessions, meetings, writing collaboration), building a collaborative community and practices, conveying the knowledge and experience gained as a tutor for professional presentation and purposes. Strengthening a collaborative community at the Writing Center through mentoring and sharing of practices and experiences.

Units: 1

ENGL 283E. Practicum in Tutoring of Writing V

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Pedagogy, theory and practical discussions of tutoring writing. A required course for Writing Center graduate writing tutors during their fifth semester at the Writing Center. This course is designed to deepen knowledge and practices developed so far by examining the pedagogical and theoretical foundations that guide our tutoring practices, survey the history of writing centers and administrative practices.

Units: 1

ENGL 286. Practicum in Literary Arts - Publishing and Programming

Limited to students enrolled in the MFA program. Supervised work on editorial staff of professional literary magazine; projects in arts programming and service-learning. Repeatable for credit. Letter grade only.

Units: 1-6, Repeatable up to 16 units

ENGL 290. Independent Study

See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.

Units: 1-3, Repeatable up to 6 units

ENGL 291. Supervised Independent Reading

Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Reading works from a literary period (for example, More to Milton, 20th Century American Literature, World Literature, Renaissance-Modern) and discussion in individual conferences. Approved for RP grading. (Formerly ENGL 291T)

Units: 1-4

ENGL 298. Project

Prerequisite: See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Revising, amending, and editing of three original scholarly papers produced while enrolled in graduate seminars, with the goal of creating publishable journal articles. The student's committee must approve of the scope and quality of the papers. Abstract required. Approved for RP grading.

Units: 2

ENGL 298C. Project Continuation

Pre-requisite: Project ENGL 298. For continuous enrollment while completing the project. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.

Units: 0

ENGL 299. Thesis

Prerequisite: See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree. Approved for RP grading.

Units: 2-6

ENGL 299C. Thesis Continuation

Prerequisite: ENGL 299. For continuous enrollment while completing the thesis. May enroll twice with department approval. Additional enrollments must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies.

Units: 0

ENGL 422T. Disoriented Word

Units: 3

ENGL 622T. Disoriented Word

Units: 3

ENGL 622T. Cultrs/Chldhd

Units: 3

ESE 1. Introduction to Academic Literacy

Meets the Early Start Requirement. Designed to prepare students for the university's first-year writing requirement by teaching students a variety of academic reading and writing strategies.

Units: 1

ESE 3. English Strategies

Exposure to a variety of texts. Quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing ideas. Attention to vocabulary development and grammar/editing. Application of learning strategies and reflection on use of these strategies. Meets the university remediation requirement.

Units: 3