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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 2024
Courses

  • Course #
    Title
    Description
    Instructor
  • ENGL 10
    Introduction to Literary Study

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 11
    Literature and its Uses

    Introduces students to literary studys unique perspectives on social knowledge, ...

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 24
    The Climate Crisis: Local and Global Perspectives

    Designed to introduce students to a variety of perspectives on ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

    Designed to introduce students to critical approaches to the study ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 101ML
    British Literature before 1500

    Introduction to British literature and culture before 1500. Students will ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 105A
    Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

    Major poems and plays of Shakespeare, 1593-1602, including such works ...

    Nowicki, Shaun
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

    An introduction to techniques of creative writing, editing, design, presentation, ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 128GN
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

    The focus of this course is less with superheroes and ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 134RJ
    Creative Imagination of Racial Justice
    Placemaking and the Poetics of Return

    This course explores the creative imagination of racial justice through ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 150
    Anglo-Irish Literature

    This course considers how a series of wishes, lies, and ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 152B
    Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

    Intensive study of Chaucer’s poem Troilus and Criseyde, in the ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 159
    English Renaissance Printing Practice and Literature

    This course investigates how English Renaissance literature was practically, creatively, ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 165NJ
    Native Justice: Settler Colonialism, Legality, and Decolonization

    What is justice for Native American and Indigenous communities? How ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction

    Introduces the literary genre of science fiction (SF) through the ...

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 192SS
    SCIENCE FICTION: SHORT STORIES

    This course examines key themes in the genre of science ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Introduction to Digital Humanities

    This course introduces important types and methods of the digital ...

    Liu, Alan
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    "J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other." The course description is below.

    Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize, J.M. Coetzee writes fiction ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    The Culture and Politics of the Long 1960s

    What makes art revolutionary? Many of our commonplace assumptions about ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 198H
    Honor English Senior Thesis Prepartation

    The Honors Seminar is a one-term course that exposes students ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 231
    “The Journey In”: Subaltern Travelers and the Global Renaissance

    This seminar will pursue theoretical, methodological, and critical questions prompted ...

    Andrea, Bernadette
  • ENGL 234
    Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    High Energy: Biopolitics, Global Energy, Modernist Art

    Between 1875 and 1955, western medicine turned its attention to ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
    Accompanying Edward Said

    Edward Said’s (1935-2003) intellectual impact across the humanistic disciplines can ...

    Ghosh, Bishnupriya
  • ENGL 265WB
    Writing the Body-Other/The Othered Body

    An advanced graduate-level Creative/Critical Writing Workshop designed for those “other” ...

    Moraga, Cherríe
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