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“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.”

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Courses

Winter 2021
Courses

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

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

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 23
    The Climate Crisis:
    What It Is And What Each of Us Can Do About It

    In one sense, the climate crisis is being caused by ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 23S
    Seminar on the Climate Crisis

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

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 34
    Pan Latinx Literatures
    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 40BB
    African American Literature from 1920s to Present

    This course examines the relationship between working-class and/or grassroots activism ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

    In 1650, England was an island nation torn apart by ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 102S
    Seminar on English and American Literature from 1650 to 1789

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

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 104B
    British Literature from 1900 to Present

    What is 20th century modernity and what does it mean ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 104BS
    Seminar British Literature

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

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 105B
    Shakespeare, Later Plays

    This course will explore the later plays of William Shakespeare. ...

    McCants Forbes, Kristy
  • ENGL 106CW
    The Catalyst

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 108LP
    Latinx Performance:
    An Acting and Writing Workshop

    This is a practicum course, where the basic tenets and ...

    Moraga, Cherríe
  • ENGL 108MG
    Mixed Genre Creative Writing

    This course immerses students in African American approaches to the ...

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 109
    The Craft of Poetry:
    Poems at the End of the World

    Racial violence, economic inequality, fascist militancy, and environmental degradation permeate ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Women's Writing

    This course will focus on works of medieval women’s writing ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 122LJ
    Literature and Social Justice

    A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 122NE
    Nature and the Environment

    Same course as Environmental Studies 122NE. Perceptions of nature have ...

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 128GN
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

    Our concern in this class will be less with superheroes ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 132PR
    Philip Roth

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 133TL
    Transpacific Literature

    Looks at the Pacific as the primary location for literary ...

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 134NA
    The Body As Archive:
    Indigeneity, felt theory, and decolonial ways of knowing

    This course finds its origins the work of queer Chumash/Esselen ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 146AI
    Literature of/and Artificial Intelligence

    Agency, one of the key literary and philosophical problems, has ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 146DS
    Data Stories:
    Theory and Practice of Data-driven Narratives in the Digital Age

    “Data Stories” introduces students to an increasingly important genre of ...

    Liu, Alan Roland, Edwin "Teddy"
  • ENGL 146MR
    Machine Reading & Writing

    When I first taught this class, in Fall 2016, machine ...

    Raley, Rita
  • ENGL 165EM
    Early Modern Worlds:
    Empire, Race, and Desire

    What does it mean to “worldmake”? How do our visions ...

    Andrea, Bernadette Raychawdhuri, Anita
  • ENGL 170IC
    Imagination and Creativity

    What is creativity? How do creative ideas emerge? Is the ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 189
    Chicanx Masculinities:
    Reorientations, Futurities, (Re)Turns

    ENGL 189, “Chicanx Masculinities: Reorientations, Futurities, (Re)Turns,” attempts to reread ...

    Macias, Roberto
  • ENGL 192SS
    Science Fiction:
    Short Stories

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

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 193
    Detective Fiction

    Critical and historical study of fiction from the classic of ...

    Haber, Baron
  • ENGL 197
    Middlemarch and the Problem of Other Minds

    The greatest English novel of the 19th century, Middlemarch, will ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 197
    Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries

    This course explores the novels of Jane Austen and the ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 197
    J.M. Coetzee:
    Ethics and the Other

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Virginia Woolf's Geographies

    In the photograph above, taken on the occasion of a ...

    Wicke, Jennifer
  • ENGL 197
    Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 233
    The 19th Century English Novel: Forms and Feeling

    Mary Shelley’s *Frankenstein* and the Gothic novel, Jane Austen’s *Emma* ...

    Young, Kay
  • ENGL 235
    Legal Humanities:
    Keywords in Critical Cultural Study

    How can we think of injury apart from harm to ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 236
    Botanical Humanities

    Content of course will vary from quarter to quarter.

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 236
    The Poetics and Politics of Waste

    This seminar studies waste, junk, garbage from an environmental, social, ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 265OO
    Nothing

    This graduate seminar traces a literary genealogy of texts about ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • ENGL 595PP
    The Building of a Benjamin Franklin Press, Part 2:
    Online and in Maker Lab, Music 1404

    This course will consist of a mostly online colloquium that ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
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