English (ENGLISH)
ENGLISH N1A First-Year Reading and Composition 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Passing grade in Subject A (exam or course).
Training in writing expository prose. N1A. Instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
ENGLISH N1B First-Year Reading and Composition 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Passing grade in Subject A (exam or course).
Training in writing expository prose. N1B. Further instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
ENGLISH R1A Reading and Composition 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam. R1A or equivalent course is prerequisite to R1B.
Training in writing expository prose. Instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Formerly known as 1A.
ENGLISH R1AN First-Year Reading and Composition 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 to 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Passing grade in Subject A (exam or course).
Training in writing expository prose. Instruction in writing and reading expository prose. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Formerly known as 1AN.
ENGLISH R1B Reading and Composition 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam. 1A or equivalent course is prerequisite to 1B.
Training in writing expository prose. Further instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Formerly known as 1B.
ENGLISH N17 Shakespeare 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures on Shakespeare and reading of his best works.
ENGLISH 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH N25 English as a Language 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
An introduction to the grammar of English, including phonology (sound structure), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), semantics (linguistic meaning), and pragmatics (contextual meaning), with consideration of different varieties of English in use within the United States and throughout the world, and comparison of English with other languages.
ENGLISH N26 Introduction to the Study of Poetry 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures and discussion on poetry intended to develop the student's ability to understand and evaluate a poem. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome.
ENGLISH N27 Introduction to the Study of Fiction 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures and discussion intended to develop the student's ability to understand and evaluate fiction. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome.
ENGLISH N28 Introduction to the Study of Drama 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures and discussion intended to develop the student's ability to read, understand and evaluate plays. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome.
ENGLISH N30A American Literature 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
An introductory survey of American literature. Through 1865.
ENGLISH N30B American Literature 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
An introductory survey of American literature. Since 1865.
ENGLISH 31AC Literature of American Cultures 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
An introduction to the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" well before the beginning of the semester for details.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH N31AC Literature of American Cultures 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks.
An introduction to the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from term to term. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" well before the beginning of the term for details.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit with a different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH S40 Intermediate Expository Writing 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A-1B and consent of instructor.
Training in expository writing.
ENGLISH 43A Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write fiction or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing.
ENGLISH 43B Introduction to the Writing of Verse 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write verse or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing.
ENGLISH N43A Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write fiction or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing.
ENGLISH N43B Introduction to the Writing of Verse 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write verse or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing.
ENGLISH N43D Introduction to the Writing of Non-Fiction 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A-1B or equivalent and consent of instructor.
A workshop course intended for students interested in the writing of prose non-fiction as an art. Writing and discussion of student work in such genres as the personal essay, biography, autobiography, history, and travel literature; reading and discussion of work by established artists in the same modes.
ENGLISH N44A Masterpieces of Literature 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures on great works of the world's literature. Classical Literature.
ENGLISH N44B Masterpieces of Literature 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures on great works of the world's literature. Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
ENGLISH 45A Literature in English 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
Students may remove a deficient grade in 46A by taking 45A; a deficient grade in 46B may be removed by taking 45B and 45C (2 units from each course). Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH 45B Literature in English 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH 45C Literature in English 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH N45A Literature in English 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
ENGLISH N45B Literature in English 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
ENGLISH N45C Literature in English 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
ENGLISH N50 Freshman and Sophomore Studies 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: R1A or equivalent.
Writing-intensive introduction to the study of literature; fulfills the second half of Reading and Composition requirement. Highly recommended for prospective English majors who have not yet taken R1B. Topics and readings vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the beginning of the semester. Sections limited to 17 students.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
ENGLISH R50 Freshman and Sophomore Studies 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: R1A or equivalent.
Writing-intensive introduction to the study of literature; fulfills the second half of Reading and Composition requirement. Highly recommended for prospective English majors who have not yet taken R1B. Topics and readings vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the beginning of the semester. Sections limited to 17 students.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
ENGLISH C77/ESPM C12 Introduction to Environmental Studies 4 Units
Department: English; Environ Sci, Policy, and Management
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This integrative course, taught by a humanities professor and a science professor, surveys current global environmental issues; introduces the basic intellectual tools of environmental science; investigates ways the human relationship to nature has been imagined in literary and philosophical traditions; and examines how tools of scientific and literary analysis; scientific method, and imaginative thinking can clarify what is at stake in environmental issues and ecological citizenship.
Students will not receive credit for C12 after taking UGIS C12 or EnglWill count toward ESPM Social Science core requirement for the Conservish C77. ation and Resource studies major.
ENGLISH 80K Children's Literature 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The study of selected works written for children.
ENGLISH 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of seminar per week per unit for 15 weeks. 1 and 1 half hours of seminar per week per unit for 10 weeks. 2 hours of seminar per week per unit for 8 weeks. 3 hours of seminar per week per unit for 5 weeks.
Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor.
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 98 Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores 1 - 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Lower division standing.
Group study in a field that may not coincide with that of any regular course and must be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 98BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 hour of directed group study per week.
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
Course may be repeated for credit.
ENGLISH 99 Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Independent.
Prerequisites: Open to sophomore students with an overall G.P.A. of not less than 3.3.
Meetings to be arranged. Reading and regular conference with the instructor in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable students to write essays based on their studies.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 101 The History of the English Language 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The history of the English language from its Indo-European roots, through its Old, Middle, and Early Modern periods, as preserved in the literary heritage, to its different forms in use throughout the world today.
ENGLISH 102 Topics in the English Language 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Topics vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 104 Introduction to Old English 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Basic introduction to the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax of Old English designed to get students reading original texts immediately. Typical Old English texts include: riddles, charms, medical recipes, laws, chronicles, elegies, saints' lives, heroic poetry, and monster lore.
ENGLISH 105 Anglo-Saxon England 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Instruction in the basic elements of the Old English language with analysis of literary and cultural issues relating to the formative period of the English nation. (Undergraduates who pass 105 with a grade of B+ or higher, or with permission of the 205B instructor, are eligible to enroll in 205B, Beowulf.)
ENGLISH C107/RELIGST C119 The English Bible As Literature 4 Units
Department: English; Religious Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Introduction to the English Bible treated as a literary work.
ENGLISH N107 English Bible as Literature 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Introduction to the English Bible treated as a literary work.
ENGLISH 110 Medieval Literature 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Development of literary form and idiom throughout the Christian West from the first to the fifteenth century.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 111 Chaucer 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of Chaucer's major works.
ENGLISH 112 Middle English Literature 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Middle English literature exclusive of Chaucer studied in the original language.
ENGLISH 114A English Drama 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
English drama to 1603.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH 114B English Drama 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
English drama from 1603 to 1700.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH N114A English Drama 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 3 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
English drama to 1603.
ENGLISH N114B English Drama 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 3 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
English drama from 1603 to 1700.
ENGLISH 115A The English Renaissance 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Beginnings of the English Renaissance and literature of the 16th century.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH 115B The English Renaissance 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Literature of the 17th century.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer. Instructor: Friedman
ENGLISH N115A The English Renaissance 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Beginnings of the English Renaissance and literature of the 16th century.
ENGLISH N115B The English Renaissance 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Literature of the 17th century.
Instructor: Friedman
ENGLISH 116 Backgrounds of English Literature in the Continental Renaissance 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A survey of the principal continental documents which are important to an understanding of the English Renaissance.
ENGLISH 117A Shakespeare 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A chronological survey of Shakespeare's career.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH 117B Shakespeare 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A chronological survey of Shakespeare's career.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer. Instructors: Altman, J. Knapp
ENGLISH N117S Shakespeare 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Lectures on Shakespeare and reading of his best works.
ENGLISH 117S Shakespeare 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on Shakespeare and reading of his best works.
ENGLISH 118 Milton 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of Milton's major works.
ENGLISH N118 Milton 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of Milton's major works.
ENGLISH 119 Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and some of their contemporaries.
ENGLISH 120 Literature of the Later 18th Century 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of later eighteenth-century British literature.
ENGLISH 121 Romantic Period 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and contemporaries.
ENGLISH N121 Romantic Period 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and contemporaries.
ENGLISH 122 Victorian Period 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Literature of the Victorian period with an emphasis on poetry and nonfiction prose.
ENGLISH 125A The English Novel 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Defoe through Scott.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
ENGLISH 125B The English Novel 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Dickens through Conrad.
Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer. Instructors: A: Starr, B: Gallagher
ENGLISH 125C The European Novel 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of major European novels.
ENGLISH 125D The 20th-Century Novel 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of major novels of the twentieth century.
ENGLISH 125E The Contemporary Novel 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Important contemporary novels, some of which may be read in translation.
ENGLISH N125B The English Novel 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Dickens through Conrad.
Instructor: Kratins
ENGLISH N125D The 20th-Century Novel 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of major novels of the twentieth century.
ENGLISH N125E The Contemporary Novel 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Important contemporary novels, some of which may be read in translation.
ENGLISH 126 British Literature: 1900-1945 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of British literature written between 1900 and 1945.
ENGLISH 127 Modern Poetry 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
British and American poetry: 1900 to the present.
ENGLISH 130A American Literature: Before 1800 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of the major writers of the early American period.
ENGLISH 130B American Literature: 1800-1865 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of the major texts of the American Renaissance.
ENGLISH 130C American Literature: 1865-1900 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of American literature from the Civil War through 1900.
ENGLISH 130D American Literature: 1900-1945 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A survey of modern American literature.
ENGLISH N130A American Literature: Before 1800 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of the major writers of the early American period.
ENGLISH N130B American Literature: 1800-1865 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of the major texts of the American Renaissance.
ENGLISH N130D American Literature: 1900-1945 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A survey of modern American literature.
ENGLISH 131 American Poetry 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A historical survey of American poetry and its backgrounds.
ENGLISH 132 American Novel 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A survey of major American novels.
ENGLISH N132 American Novel 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
A survey of major American novels.
ENGLISH 133A African American Literature and Culture Before 1917 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from origins through World War I.
ENGLISH 133B African American Literature and Culture Since 1917 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from the Harlem Renaissance through the twentieth century.
ENGLISH 133T Topics in African American Literature and Culture 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 134 Contemporary Literature 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of selected works written since the Second World War.
ENGLISH N134 Contemporary Literature 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Lectures on and discussion of selected works written since the Second World War.
ENGLISH 135AC Literature of American Cultures 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" well before the beginning of the semester for details.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH N135 Literature of American Cultures 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from summer to summer.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Schweik
ENGLISH S135 Literature of American Cultures 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester. Topic for this summer: Theorizing Children's Literature in American Cultures.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Schweik
ENGLISH C136/AMERSTD C111E Topics in American Studies 4 Units
Department: English; American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A course on the intellectual, cultural, historical, and social backgrounds to American literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 137B Chicana/o Literature and Culture Since 1910 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Major literary and cultural texts in the Chicana/o tradition from 1910 through the contemporary Chicana/o period.
ENGLISH 137T Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Topics in Chicana/o literature and culture.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 138 Studies in World Literature in English 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
An examination of various aspects of the modern literature written in English in Africa, the Caribbean, India, and Southeast Asia. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 139 The Cultures of English 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/seminar per week.
Literatures of various regions in which English is one of the spoken languages, such as Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, Africa, India; and the writings of specific groups or distinctive cultures in the English-speaking world, including the U.S. and the British Isles. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 141 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.) 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: R1A-R1B or equivalent.
Writing in connection with reading in recent English literature and its continental background.
Course may be repeated once for credit with different instructor.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units.
ENGLISH N141 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.) 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: R1A-R1B or equivalent.
Writing in connection with reading in recent English literature and its continental background.
Course may be repeated once for credit with different instructor.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 units. Students will receive credit English N141 after taking English 141 for a total of 7 units combined.
ENGLISH 143A Short Fiction 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A seminar in writing short stories.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 143B Verse 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A seminar in writing poetry.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 143C Long Narrative 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Students will work through the semester on a single project, either fiction (novel) or nonfiction (biography, history).
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 143N Prose Nonfiction 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A seminar in the writing of prose nonfiction as an art.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 143T Poetry Translation Workshop 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, willingness to translate, working knowledge of at least one foreign language.
Open to those who wish to assimilate foreign influences for writing poetry or to seek a fuller understanding of any foreign poetry by rendering it into English.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 152 Women Writers 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH N152 Women Writers 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Topics will vary from summer to summer. Topic for this summer: Modern British Women Novelists.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 160 Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
An introduction to issues in literary criticism with emphasis on application of principles and methods to selected literary texts.
ENGLISH 161 Introduction to Literary Theory 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This class will focus on literary theory.
ENGLISH 165 Special Topics 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Designed primarily for English majors. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 165AC Special Topics in American Cultures 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Designed primarily for English majors. Study of a special topic related to the diversity of the United States. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 166 Special Topics 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 166AC Special Topics in American Cultures 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Study of a special topic related to the diversity of the United States. Topics vary from semester to semester. Student's should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH N166 Special Topics 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Topics vary from summer to summer.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 170 Literature and the Arts 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Studies in the relationship of literature in English to the arts.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 173 The Language and Literature of Films 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week plus film viewing.
Studies in film as a mode of representing reality; cinematic techniques and the "language" of film. Lectures, class discussions, and film viewings.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH N173 The Language and Literature of Films 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture per week plus film screenings for 8 weeks.
Studies in film as a mode of representing reality; cinematic techniques and the language of film. Lectures, class discussions, and film viewings.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 174 Literature and History 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH 175 Literature and Disability 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Studies of the relationships among literature, culture, and "disability." The course may range broadly or concentrate on one historical period, genre, or issue.
ENGLISH 176 Literature and Popular Culture 4 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
ENGLISH N176 Literature and Popular Culture 3 Units
Department: English
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks, plus film viewings. 6 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks, plus film viewings.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Hutson
ENGLISH N177 Literature and Philosophy 3 Units