Catalog Course Descriptions
Course Number | Catalog Description | Areas Fulfilled |
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ENGL 21S |
A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 21 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplemental readings, or a more intensive study of the English 21 reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 22 | GE Area G Requirement | |
ENGL 225 |
Examines theories of creativity and linkages between philosophical, rhetorical, and psychoanalytical concepts and current creative writing pedagogies. Experiments with classroom practices, with focus on the participants' own creative work. |
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ENGL 22S |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 22 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 22 reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 23 |
Employing a cultural approach, this course explores why our climate is changing and what each of us can do about it. Considers issues such as housing, transportation, diet, consumer products, as well as different forms of climate activism. |
GE Area G Requirement |
ENGL 230 |
Content of the course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 231 |
Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 232 |
Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 233 |
Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 234 |
Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 235 |
Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 236 |
Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 237 |
Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter. |
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ENGL 238 | ||
ENGL 24 |
Focusing primarily on reading, this course is dedicated to understanding the crucial, pleasurable, and troubling genre of the short story. Central to our discussion will be the idea that all acts of reading are attempts to solve a mystery, and texts will come primarily from the American canon. |
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ENGL 24G |
Reading short fiction: the tale, ghost story, and even Freud's case studies, "Ghosts of the Gothic" maps the popular narrative obsession with the unknown in works by Austen, James, Poe, Chesnutt, and others. |
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ENGL 24GS |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 24G designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 24G reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 24S |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 24 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 24 reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 25 |
Introduction to the age of information in its relation to history, society,and the arts. Topics include the history of information, hypertext, virtualreality, cyberspace, and the role of literature and literacy in the digital age. Introduction of practical skills and technologies associated with the digital age. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
ENGL 25S |
Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 25 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 25 reading list, as well as supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 265AA-ZZ |
Topics vary. |
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ENGL 274A |
Explores connections between theorizations of the nature and history of globalization and recent reconceptualizations of American literary and cultural studies and explores issues for future research into potentially productive intersections. Includes readings in the latest research, student presentations, and a research paper. |
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ENGL 274B |
Explores connections between theorizations of the nature and history of globalization and recent reconceptualizations of American literary and cultural studies and explores issues for future research into potentially productive intersections. Includes readings in the latest research, student presentations, and a research paper. |
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ENGL 274C |
Explores connections between theorizations of the nature and history of globalization and recent reconceptualizations of American literary and cultural studies and explores issues for future research into potentially productive intersections. Includes readings in the latest research, student presentations, and a research paper. |
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ENGL 297 |
Graduate tutorial involving regular conferences with instructor and directed research toward seminar paper(s). Attendance at relevant upper-division lectures also required. |
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ENGL 30 |
Introduction to major works and themes of American literature designed for lower-division students and non-majors. Topics vary from one quarter to another. |
Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |
ENGL 35 |
Examines the complex relationship between the American environment and American culture, offering environmentally informed readings of literary landscapes. Syllabus includes significant American writers from the colonial period through the twentieth century. |
Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |
ENGL 36 |
What do literature and critical theory contribute to the reflection on human rights and the analysis of their violation? Inquiry into different ways in which the humanities can re-frame the debate on human rights and act as a social force. |
Writing Requirement, World Cultures Requirement |
ENGL 38A |
African-American literature from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance. |
Ethnicity Requirement, Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |
ENGL 38AS |
Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in English 38A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 38A reading list, and supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 38B |
African-American literature from the 1930s to the present. |
Ethnicity Requirement, Writing Requirement, GE Area G Requirement |
ENGL 38BS |
Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in English 38B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes supplementary readings or more intensive study of the ENGL 38B reading list, and supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 50 |
An introduction providing historical and cultural contexts to one or more American minority literatures usually taken to signify writing from an ethnic community: African American, Asian American, Chicano/a, and Native American. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement, Ethnicity Requirement |
ENGL 500 |
Supervision and instruction of teaching assistants. Teaching assistants must register for this course. |
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ENGL 50S |
Seminar course for a select group of students enrolled in English 50 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 50 reading list, and supplemental writing. |
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ENGL 591 |
Course provides support for graduate students when developing their dissertation ideas. Focus on research in the humanities at a practical level. |
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ENGL 592 |
This colloquium provides graduate students: a) an introduction to the hardware and software used in advanced web-page design; b) an overview of the intellectual issues of "digital culture;" and, c) a context for developing a web-authoring project. |
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ENGL 593 |
Provides guidance, training, a forum, and a common center for the various technical endeavors engaged in by student assistants. |
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ENGL 594 |
Explores connections between theorizations of the nature and history of globalization and recent reconceptualizations of American literary and cultural studies with an eye to exploring issues for future research into potentially productive intersections. |
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ENGL 595AA-ZZ |
Graduate level research colloquia in various areas of study. |
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ENGL 595AR |
Graduate level research colloquia in various areas of study. |
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ENGL 595BP |
Graduate level research colloquia in various areas of study. |
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ENGL 596 |
Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by the graduate adviser. |
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ENGL 596AA |
Individual tutorial. A written proposal for each tutorial must be approved by the graduate adviser. |
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ENGL 597 |
Instructor should be the student's major professor or chairman of his doctoral committee. |
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ENGL 599 |
Only for research underlying the dissertation and for writing the dissertation. |
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ENGL 65AA-ZZ |
Topics will vary from quarter to quarter. |
GE Area G Requirement, Writing Requirement |
ENGL 97 |
A seminar for lower-division students with a strong interest in literature.See departmental course outline booklet for topics. Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints themwith some of the resources of the library and results in their reading beyond the primary course materials. |
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ENGL 99 |
Introduction to research in English. Independent research under the guidance of a faculty member in the department. Course offers exceptional students the opportunity to undertake independent research or work in a research group. |