Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces techniques and vocabulary of analytic discussion and critical writing. Emphasis is on American identities and global crisis. The class introduces students to the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center located within the English Department.

Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces techniques and vocabulary of analytic discussion and critical writing. Emphasis is on literature and the culture of information. Introduces students to the Literature.Culture.Media Center located within the English Department.

Introduction to English literature from the medieval period to 1650. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.

Not open for credit to students who have completed English 30.

Introduction to English and American literature from 1650 to 1789. The organizing thread of this course, and the selection of texts to be studied,vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.

Introduction to American literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing thread of this course, and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.

Introduction to British literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.

Introduction to American literature from 1900 to present. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.

Introduction to British literature from 1900 to present. The organizing thread of this course and the selection of texts to be studied, vary from quarter to quarter. Consult the department's Course Description Booklet to see what will be taught in any particular quarter.

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 105A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 105A reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

Advanced study of Shakespeare topics.

Major works of Shakespeare from 1603-1613, including such plays as King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Tempest.

The Catalyst Writing Lab is a collaborative, interdisciplinary space for producing The Catalyst Literary Magazine. Those enrolled will take part in producing three issues of the Catalyst.

Advanced seminar in fiction writing.

This course emphasizes the study and practice of writing that contains a public and private story, navigating an intimate and institutional world. Student writers will serve as public chroniclers whose subjective point of view and experience attempt to provide a truth greater/deeper than what “the facts” might offer. In-class and take-home writing exercises. Additional lab hours in the form of peer workshops may be required. The course culminates in public readings of students’ short selected works.

This course immerses students in African American approaches to the short story and creative autobiography. Selected authors include, but are not limited to, Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, Richard Wright, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Charles Mingus, and Toni Morrison. Students examine how different Black social movements conceptualized, defined, and thought about the role, function, and importance of writing. Students use these authors’ critical and creative work as a model for writing their own short story and creative autobiography.  

Workshop and practice in verse writing.

A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 10 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 10 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

Advanced consideration of methods, techniques, and discipline of literary study. Further acquaints students with strategies of reading, contextualization, and a range of contemporary critical approaches. Topics and course content vary by term. 

Reading and translation of Beowulf. Analysis of meter and style study of the manuscript; and discussion of critical issues.

English in its old, middle, and modern forms. Such introductory topics as language families and change; etymology, semantics; grammars; syntax; oral,written; groundwork for such methods of literary analysis as stylistics.

Explorations in traditions and innovations of critical theory, literary interpretation, and philosophy. Topics vary from quarter to quarter, but will focus on the major critical figures or movements (from Aristotle to the present) that have shaped our notion of "literature."

English and Continental literature through the fifteenth century, exclusive of the Canterbury Tales but including such works as Beowulf, Morte d'Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and selected romances and lyrics.

A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 116A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more intensive study of the English 116A reading list, as well as supplementary writing.

A literary approach to the New Testament. Recommended preparation: English 116A.