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Please see the University of California Academic Council’s “The Defense of the University” (April 8 2025), which calls for immediate, sustained, and collective action to defend the University of California:

“We thus call on the Regents, President, and Chancellors of the University of California to expend every effort, commit necessary resources, and use all legal measures to defend our ability to conduct consequential, transformative research and provide high-quality teaching and mentoring. We call on our leaders to ensure the safety and privacy of students, faculty, and staff. And we further call on our leaders to protect academic freedom and faculty control of the curriculum—proactively and publicly . . . Let the future historical record show that we rose to the challenge of defending the University of California, and we did so in ways that did not betray its core values.”

Visit the Academic Senate’s site to view the full statement.

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Spring 2021
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Intro to Literary Studies

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 25
    Literature and the Information, Media, and Communication Revolutions

    How have language, reading, and literature responded to revolutions in ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 25S
    Seminar on Literature and the Culture of Information

    This honors seminar for English 25 is designed for a ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to U.S. Minority Literature

    When José Martí referred to “Nuestra América” in his famous ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 50S
    Seminar on U.S. Minority Literature

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

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 65FM
    Vampires, Monsters, Madness:
    Fables of Modernity

    This lecture course (with individual discussion sections) focuses on four ...

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

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 104A
    American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 104AS
    Seminar on American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 105A
    Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

    This course will be provided both synchronously and asynchronously (taped), ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 105AS
    Seminar Shakespeare

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

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 106CW
    The Catalyst

    This class introduces students to techniques of creative writing, editing, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 122FE
    Fantasy and Ecology

    In this course, we will explore how fantasy literature and ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 122RS
    Rogues and Scoundrels

    Through readings of novels, films, television series, and essays from ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 122UM
    The City as a Way of Life:
    Urban Modernity

    In a 1967 debate, Henri Lefebvre asserted that, “the city ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 128AF
    Animal Fictions

    Engaging our moment of climate crisis and the ongoing extinction ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 134RJ
    Creative Imagination of Racial Justice:
    Contemporary Non-Fiction and Social Transformation

    How is the personal political? How do personal stories and ...

    Rana, Swati Sintura, MariaCarolina
  • ENGL 147GM
    Global Media

    Studies of media globalization analyze communications technologies and infrastructures that ...

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 150
    Irish Literature and Culture

    Ireland is like California: it is a land-mass on the ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 150S
    Irish Literature Seminar

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

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 151JA
    Reading Jane Austen's Mind

    Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion–we’ll study ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 165AE
    Graphic Novel:
    Animals and Ecology

    We live in an era, the Anthropocene, that is increasingly ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 165WN
    Wallace Stevens and the Poetry of Modern Reality

    Course taught by Postdoctoral Scholar, Lindsay Atnip. “After one has ...

    Atnip, Lindsay
  • ENGL 170MB
    Mind Brain and Literature

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

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 170MT
    The Meaning of Life

    What does it mean to be a human being and ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 183WP
    Writing for Performance

    This seminar will be devoted to the reading, theories, and ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 189
    Contemporary Literature

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

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 192WW
    Women Writers of Science Fiction

    Science fiction has long been dominated by male writers and ...

    McCants Forbes, Kristy
  • ENGL 197
    Bad Sex: Censorship, Deviance, and Failure

    What makes sex bad? Censorship, deviance, and failure. Perversion, inversion, ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 197
    Literature and the Internet

    The premise of Jarett Kobek’s perfectly titled book, I Hate ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 197
    Virginia Woolf

    This course offers an opportunity to study all nine novels ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 234
    Utopia and Ecology

    This course explores the relationships between ecological and utopian thought, ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 235
    19th-20th century African American Literature, Culture, and Criticism

    This course surveys canonical literature by African Americans from the ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 235
    Avant-Garde Poetics

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 265IS
    The Latinx Public Voice

    As plague, progressive public protest and rightwing revolt has hit ...

    Moraga, Cherríe
  • ENGL 297
    Virginia Woolf
    Hybrid Course with S. Park ENGL 197

    This course offers an opportunity to study all nine novels ...

    Park, Sowon S
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