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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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Courses

Winter 2023
Courses

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

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 18
    Public Speaking

    Practical and historical introduction to public speaking in context (e.g., ...

    Enders, Jody
  • 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
    Honors Seminar on the Climate Crisis

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

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 37
    Introduction to Legal Humanities

    This interdisciplinary course is designed to deepen your understanding of ...

    Moore, Kathleen
  • ENGL 101
    English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

    Introduction to English literature from the medieval period to 1650. ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 101S
    Honors Seminar on English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

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

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 102
    English and American Literature from 1650-1789

    Introduction to English and American literature from 1650 to 1789. ...

    King, Rachael Scarborough
  • ENGL 103A
    American Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 103AS
    Honors Seminar, American Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 105A
    Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

    “This course will focus in on three major plays by ...

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 105AS
    Honors Seminar, Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays

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

    Fumerton, Patricia
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 110B
    Introduction to Old English Language and Literature:
    Beowulf

    In this course we will read the Old English epic ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 122RS
    Rogues and Scoundrels (CANCELLED)

    In memoriam: Glyn Salton-Cox Through readings of novels, films, television ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 128GN
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 132PR
    The Fiction of Philip Roth

    Philip Roth was a central and controversial figure in American ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 132WE
    The Poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

    An in-depth look at American literature’s two most path-breaking poets: ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 134BL
    Black American Literature, 20-21st century

    This course is an advanced survey of African American Literature ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • 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 141MC
    Migrant Ecologies

    The course critically examines literary and cultural works that address ...

    Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • 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 Stegemoeller, Leila
  • ENGL 146GB
    Games, Books, and Gamebooks

    How do we play at stories? How do we use ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 149
    Decoding Digital Literature (Critical Code Studies)

    A cornerstone of criticism and interpretation is the question of ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 165AD
    Transpacific Speculative Fiction:
    Imagining Asian Pacific Futures

    How do transpacific writers and poets imagine the future? In ...

    Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 171NH
    Neurohumanism

    Of what relevance is cognitive neuroscience to literature? This course ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 175CR
    Culture and Revolution

    This undergraduate seminar focuses on foundational and new theories of ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 187ML
    Studies in Modern Literature:
    Contemporary Literature

    When writers write now, what do you write about, and ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 196
    Honors English Senior Thesis
  • ENGL 197
    Humor and Ecology

    In this course, we will explore the surprising humor of ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    JM Coetzee:
    Ethics and the Other

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Trauma and Somatic Reading

    The course starts with a broad discussion of trauma studies ...

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Faulkner’s Mississippi and the Avant Garde

    Beginning in Paris of 1925 with the first surrealist show ...

    Waid, Candace
  • ENGL 205B
    Introduction to Old English Language and Literature:
    Beowulf

    In this course we will read the Old English epic ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 236
    Postcolonial Studies & the Decolonial Turn

    This course maps the relationship between postcolonial studies and the ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 236
    Scabs and Radicals (CANCELLED)

    In memoriam: Glyn Salton-Cox Content of course will vary from ...

    Salton-Cox, Glyn
  • ENGL 236
    Ocean Forms

    This course will survey recent scholarship and fiction in the ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 265CR
    Art and Revolution

    This graduate seminar focuses on foundational and new theories of ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
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