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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

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

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

    Raley, Rita
  • 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 50
    Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Literatures

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

  • ENGL 103LL
    Law & Literature of the 1st Civil Rights Movement

    When you think of the Civil Rights Movement, who comes ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 104LC
    Literature, Culture, and Society: the 20th and 21st Century

    Modern and postmodern literature by British, Irish, African, Indian, and ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 106A
    Playwriting Workshop

    An exploration of the essential components of playwriting. Exercises focus ...

    Moraga, Cherríe
  • ENGL 106CW
    Catalyst Writing Collective

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

    Donnelly, Brian
  • ENGL 109
    The Craft of Poetry

    As we face multiple social and planetary crises, how might ...

    Rana, Swati
  • ENGL 115
    Medieval Literature

    Survey of medieval English literature, including such texts as Beowulf, ...

    Blurton, Heather
  • ENGL 133TL
    Transpacific Literature

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

    Huang, Yunte
  • ENGL 134BL
    Studies in Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States

    Studies in literature of cultural and ethnic communities in the ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 134NA
    The Body As Archive: Indigeneity, Felt Theory, and Decolonial Ways of Knowing

    The Body As Archive: Indigeneity, Felt Theory, and Decolonial Ways ...

    Salomón J., Amrah
  • ENGL 136
    Writing the Early American Self

    The place that would eventually become the United States was ...

    DeLombard, Jeannine Marie
  • ENGL 146PB
    Paper Engineering and Pop-up Literature

    A survey of paper as a storytelling technology, beyond the ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 147VN
    Visual Narrative

    Visual Narrative considers the media history and theories of visual ...

    Douglass, Jeremy
  • ENGL 171NH
    Neurohumanism

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

    Park, Sowon S
  • ENGL 176BC
    Performance of Literature: Race, Space, and Black California

    This performance studies class focuses on the relationship between notions ...

    Batiste, Stephanie
  • ENGL 179
    British Romantic-Era Writers

    Studies major prose and poetic works from this revolutionary age ...

    Carlson, Julie
  • ENGL 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Climate Fiction

    In this course, we will explore contemporary literature and films ...

    Shewry, Teresa
  • ENGL 197
    Upper Division Seminar
    Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

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

    Maslan, Mark
  • 197
    Upper-Division Seminar
    Global Latinidades: PanLatinx Travel Literatures

    This course focuses on Latinx travel narratives across genres, subgenres, ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 122NE
    Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

    Perceptions of nature have changed throughout history and vary across ...

    Gilmore, Timothy
  • ENGL 234
    J.M. Coetzee: Art, Ethics, and Politics

    This seminar proposes to work through Coetzee’s texts in relation ...

    Samolsky, Russell
  • ENGL 236
    Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
    Play/Work: Post-desire Capitalism

    If the working body, continually changed by new forms of ...

    Boscagli, Maurizia
  • ENGL 265PL
    Pan-Latinx Literature, Culture, and Ideology

    This graduate seminar focuses on comparative assessments of the ever-expanding ...

    Olguín, Ben V.
  • ENGL 265RP
    Reproduction

    Explores the relationship between textual and sexual cultures via the ...

    Reeve, Daniel
  • ENGL 591
    Doctoral Colloquium

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

    Cook, Elizabeth Heckendorn
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