Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces techniques and vocabulary of analytic discussion and critical writing. Emphasis is on early modern studies. The class also introduces students to the Early Modern Center located within the English Department.

A seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in one of the following courses: English 113AA-ZZ, 114AA-ZZ, 122AA-ZZ, 128AA-ZZ, 131-134AA-ZZ, 165AA-ZZ, 182AA-ZZ, and 187AA-ZZ. Designed to enrich the lecture experience for the movtivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more extensive study of the reading lists as well as supplementary writing.

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 101 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 101 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 102 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings, or more intensive study of English 102 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 103A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 103A reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 103B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 103B reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 104A designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings, or more intensive study of English 104A reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 104B designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course will include either supplementary readings or more intensive study of English 104B reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

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

Major poems and plays of Shakespeare, 1593-1602, including such works as the Sonnets, Hamlet, A Midsummmer Night's Dream, Henry the Fourth, Twelfth Night.

Writing in such forms as the short story, poetry, and fiction.

Workshop and practice in fiction writing.

Builds on the history, theory, and analysis of rhetoric plus the practice (through multiple speeches) of effecting change through oratory: e.g., public or political advocacy, community work, motivational speaking inside and outside the university. Extensive feedback from peers and professor. 

Students learn how to teach public speaking, assisting the professor as peer mentors in English 18. Initiation to pedagogy of public speaking includes review of such activities as: facilitating discussion, office hours, grading, preparation of review and/or feedback session(s), etc. 

Advanced seminar in verse writing.

Introduces students to literary study’s unique perspectives on social knowledge, public issues, ethics, and global developments. Special emphasis on how literary practice serves as a gateway to the professions, including writing, teaching, law, journalism, counseling, business, medicine, and technological fields.

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 fifteent 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.

Topics will vary from quarter to quarter. To see what is being taught in any particular quarter, students should consult the department's course outline booklet.