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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 2026
Courses

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

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

    Instructors Vary
  • ENGL 23
    The Climate Crisis: What It Is And What Each of Us Can Do About It

    Employing a cultural approach, this course explores why our climate ...

    Hiltner, Ken
  • ENGL 39
    Pan-Latinx Literatures of Transformation

    Surveys a wide range of literary genres by authors from ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 40BB
    African-American Literatures from the Great Black Migration to Black Queer Critique

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

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

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

    Blake, Felice
  • ENGL 102WR
    Did Women Have a Renaissance?

    Surveys the major literary movements of the Renaissance through texts ...

    Henderson, Olivia
  • ENGL 103B
    British Literature from 1789 to 1900

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

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 103SH
    The Secret History of Eighteenth-Century Literature

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

    King, Rachael
  • ENGL 103UD
    Transatlantic English Lit 1660-1789: The World Upside Down

    We read, discuss, and write about Transatlantic literature in English, ...

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
  • 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 107
    The Craft of Fiction

    This course focuses on the essential elements of fiction writing. ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 122CL
    Climate Fiction and Imagination

    We will develop a literary approach to climate change by ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 128GN
    Graphic Novel & Trauma

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

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 128NA
    Native Feminist / 2 Spirit Memoir

    Explores life stories produced by Indigenous Women, Queer, Trans, and ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 132EP
    The Shorter Fiction of Henry James

    This course is dedicated to the shorter fiction of Henry ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 132PR
    The Fiction of Philip Roth

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 141ME
    Global Environment Literatures: Ecologies of Race and Migration

    Critically examines literary and cultural works that address the relationships ...

    Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 141PR
    Writing Plant and Food Stories

    A creative writing workshop course where students develop creative works ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL142OH
    Ocean Humanities

    This course introduces students to the ocean humanities. This branch ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 147MC
    Media History and Theory

    Studies in historical and contemporary media systems including orality, writing, ...

    Casey, Jim
  • ENGL 150
    Anglo-Irish Literature

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

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 170IC
    Imagination & Creativity

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

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 173
    Between Text & Reader: Theoretical, Psychological, and Scientific Perspectives

    Reading happens somewhere between texts and readers. What does reading ...

    Amoretti, Valerio
  • ENGL176TJ
    Postmodern African American Literature & Drama

    Studies late 20th & early 21st Century African American Post-Modern ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 192DF
    Science Fiction: Dystopian Fiction

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar Comics and Obscenity
    Comics and Obscenity

    This course focuses on the role of obscenity and censorship ...

    Thomas, Cathy
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Whitman and Dickinson

    Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

    Maslan, Mark
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar J.M. Coetzee: Ethics and the Other

    Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar James Joyce's Ulysses

    James Joyce’s Ulysses is possibly the greatest novel ever written. ...

    Duffy, Enda
  • ENGL 232
    Ethics of Care and the Novel

    This course explores the genre of the novel through the ...

    King, Rachael
  • ENGL 236
    Life/Sciences

    This course will examine how sciences in the plural have ...

    Jue, Melody
  • ENGL 265PP
    Piers Plowman

    In this class, we will get to know one of ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 265TC
    Racial Ecologies of the Transpacific

    Drawing from theories of literature and the environment and Asian ...

    Amin-Hong, Heidi
  • ENGL 298
    Doctoral Colloquium

    The English Department’s Doctoral Colloquium provides support and guidance for ...

    Blurton, Heather
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