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Courses

Fall 2019
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 189
    Post-Obama American Literature

    Opioids, addiction, viral media, conspiracies, anger, anxiety, temp work, oligarchs, ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

    Acquaints students with purposes and tools of literary interpretation. Introduces ...

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 15
    Introduction to Shakespeare

    Introduction to Shakespeare in which a number of major plays ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 15S
    Seminar for Introduction to Shakespeare

    Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 22
    Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    Introduction to Literature and the Environment This course is a ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 50
    Pan-Latinx Literatures of Transformation

    This course surveys a wide range of literary genres by ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 65WW
    World Wide Wests:
    The Global Western in Film and Literature

    Topics will vary from quarter to quarter.  

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 103B
    British Literature from 1789 to 1900

    Introduction to British literature from 1789 to 1900. The organizing ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 104A
    American Literature from 1900 to Present

    Introduction to American literature from 1900 to present. The organizing ...

    Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin
  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

    British Literature Since 1900. This course explores the imaginative experiments ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

    The Catalyst Writing Lab is a collaborative, interdisciplinary space for ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 128EN
    Going Postal:
    Epistolary Narratives

    “Going Postal: Letter-Narratives” looks at creative fictional works that play ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 131
    Racism, Law & the Press:
    Richard Wright's Native Son

    In this research-intensive course, we will reconstruct the 1939 murder ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 132PR
    Studies in American Writers:
    Philip Roth

    Philip Roth, who died last year at the age of ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 148RS
    Reading with Scientists:
    How to Export Literature

    This course considers an experiment: what would happen if we ...

    Droge, Abigail
  • ENGL 165AT
    Writing for Performance

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

    Moraga, Cherríe
  • ENGL 165PP
    Poetry and Painting

    Studies of topics not limited to a specific author, period, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 170MB
    Mind, Brain and Literature

    Aim and Scope of the Course This is an interdisciplinary ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 175GW
    Pro-Seminar:
    Grant Writing

    Interdisciplinary examination of literary texts broadly construed; course will address ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 193
    Detective Fiction

    Why is detective fiction so popular?  Why are good mysteries ...

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 197
    Indigenous Literatures and Ecology

    Indigenous peoples have long been imagined as exemplary environmental figures ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    The Post-Literary Condition

    What are the new modes of literary expression now—after the ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 197
    Affect and the City:
    Millennial Literatures of Los Angeles

    This class investigates intersections of race and affect in the ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 197
    James Joyce

    Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 197
    Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

    This course offers students an in-depth encounter with the two ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 231
    Shakespeare's Feelings

    In this course we will consider Shakespeare’s feelings, or rather ...

    Kearney, Jim
  • ENGL 236
    The Case of Crime Fiction:
    Noir Culture in Literature and Film

    English 236 Fall 2019 The Case of Crime Fiction: Noir ...

    Newfield, Christopher
  • ENGL 236
    Neo/Post/Meta/Trans

    If the aim of critical theory is to generate new ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 238
    The Humanities and Data Science

    “Nowhere in our history of the humanities did we come ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 265BM
    Sensorium Noir:
    African American Literature, Performance, and Culture

    In this class we’ll study the ways African American theorists ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 265GW
    Advanced Grants & Fellowships

    Topics vary.

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

    Course provides support for graduate students when developing their dissertation ...

    Duffy, Enda
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