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The Defense of the University

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 2027
Courses

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

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • INT 34LE
    Literature and Experience
    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 46GB
    Games, Books, and Gamebooks

    Explores how games tell stories across diverse play experiences such ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

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

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 87LL
    Literature and Life

    Live life more intensely. Be more passionate, fiery, tender. Achieve ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 103SH
    The Secret History of Eighteenth-Century Literature

    This course looks at the underside of eighteenth-century literature to ...

    King, Rachael
  • ENGL 104A
    American Literature from 1900 to Present

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

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 132JB
    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 134NA
    The Body As Archive

    This course emerges from queer Chumash/Esselen poet and scholar Deborah ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 147WD
    Weird Data
    Casey, Jim
  • ENGL 165AE
    The Graphic Novel: Animals and Ecology

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 169
    Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama

    Such dramatists as Dryden, Etheredge, Wycherly, Congreve, and Sheridan.

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 174
    Inventions of the Self II
    Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: War and Asian American Critique
    Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Literary Scents
    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar: Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
    King, Rachael
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 198H
    Honors Seminar: Senior Thesis

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

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 234
    Finnegans Wake

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 235
    Avant-garde Poetics

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 236
    Black Print and Organizing in the Nineteenth-Century US

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Casey, Jim
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