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COURSES

• Undergraduate English Course (ESE)
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• Graduate English Courses (ENGL)
• In-Service English Courses (ENGL)

Early Start English (ESE)

ESE 1. Introduction to Academic Literacy (1 unit)
Meets the Early Start Requirement. Designed to prepare students for the university's first-year writing requirement by teaching students a variety of academic reading and writing strategies. CR/NC grading only.

ESE 3. English Strategies (3 units)
Exposure to a variety of texts. Quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing, and synthesizing ideas. Attention to vocabulary development and grammar/editing. Application of learning strategies and reflection on use of these strategies. Meets the university remediation requirement.

English (ENGL)

ENGL RS. Writing Skills Application (1-3; max total 3 units)
Covers fundamental composition elements to aid the development of basic writing skills; not applicable toward baccalaureate degree requirements. CR/NC grading only. FS

ENGL 1L. Writing Tutorial (1 unit)
May be taken concurrently with ENGL 5A, 5B, 10, or 160W. Students work in a small group of two to three students with a tutor. They discuss writing assignments and collaborate by giving each other feedback and sharing strategies for revision. The tutor acts as a "personal trainer" by helping students understand and fulfill the demands of their assignments according to their individual needs. CR/NC grading only. (2 hours) FS

ENGL 2. Writing Workshop (1-4; max total 4 units)
Practical assignments and individual coaching on specific writing problems. For selected students this workshop may be required to be taken concurrently with, or as prerequisite to, other courses. FS

ENGL 5A. Academic Literacy I (3 units)
Practice in reading and writing processes; making literacy decisions based on audience, context, and purpose. Direct instruction on reading comprehension; genre analysis; planning, composing, and revising writing; research strategies; paragraph development, sentence competence, and grammatical conventions. With ENGL 5B, equivalent to ENGL 10. CR/NC grading only.FS

ENGL 5B. Academic Literacy II (3 units)
Prerequisite: completion of ENGL 5A with a grade of C or better. Continued study of reading and writing in various genres. Focus on research, analysis, synthesis, argument, and evaluation. Students are guided to analyze the rhetorical qualities of academic literacy and language. Longer papers, portfolio assessment. G.E. Foundation A2. With ENGL 5A, equivalent to ENGL 10. CR/NC grading only. FS

ENGL 10. Accelerated Academic Literacy (3 units)
Reading and writing in academic and public genres; special attention to rhetorical decision-making and critical analysis. Guided instruction in reading and responding to texts. Participation in public and academic conversations via research in primary and secondary sources. G.E. Foundation A2. FS

ENGL 20. Introduction to Literature (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation A2 (ENGL 5B or 10). Introduction to literary appreciation and criticism through reading and close written analyses of short stories, novels, drama, and poetry from diverse Western and non-Western cultures. G.E. Breadth C2. F

ENGL 30. Masterpieces (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation A2 (ENGL 5B or 10). Introduction to literary appreciation and criticism through discussion and written analyses of widely influential poetic, dramatic, and fictional works by British, American, and world authors (Western and non-Western), including the cultural contexts for those works. G.E. Breadth C2. FS

ENGL 31. Readings in British Literature (4 units)
Prerequisite: ENGL 5B or 10. Chronological survey of British literature from medieval to contemporary. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction, including historical and cultural contexts. Required for English majors. FS

ENGL 32. Readings in American Literature (4 units)
Prerequisite: ENGL 5B or 10. Chronological survey of U.S. literature from Native American oral traditions to contemporary writings. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction, including historical and cultural contexts. Required for English majors. FS

ENGL 41. Poetry Writing (4 units)
Beginning workshop in the writing of poetry; appropriate reading and analyses. G.E. Breadth C1. FS

ENGL 43. Fiction Writing (4 units)
Beginning workshop in the writing of fiction; appropriate reading and analyses. G.E. Breadth C1. FS

ENGL 44. Creative Nonfiction Writing (4 units)
Beginning workshop in lyric essay, memoir, and other forms of creative nonfiction writing; appropriate readings and analysis. G.E. Breadth C1. FS

ENGL 50T. Studies in Literature
(1-4; max total 8 units if no topic repeated)
(Same as WS 50T, Women in Novels section.) Prerequisite: ENGL 5B or 10. Sections designated as emphasizing certain writers, types, or themes (for example, Shakespeare, The Poem, Literature of Protest, Women in Novels). Appropriate readings and analyses.

ENGL 100W. Writing Skills (1 unit)
Credit obtained only by passing Upper-Division Writing Skills Examination and upon request. CR/NC grading only. FS

ENGL 101. Masterpieces of World Literature (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction (in translation) from throughout the world, including historical and cultural contexts. Not applicable to the English major. G.E. Integration IC. FS

ENGL 102. Masterpieces of English Literature (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Discussion and written analyses of influential poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction by British authors as well as colonial and post-colonial works influenced by English literature. Historical and cultural contexts of literary works. Not applicable to the English major. G.E. Integration IC. FS

ENGL 103. Masterpieces of American Literature (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Discussion and written analyses of influential drama, fiction, and nonfiction by American authors and representing the cultural diversity of the nation. Historical and social contexts of literary works. Not applicable to the English major. G.E. Integration IC. FS

ENGL 104. Children's and Adolescent Literature (4 units)
Survey of the major forms and genres of children's literature. Designed primarily for future elementary school teachers. May not be used for credit toward the English major. FS

ENGL 105. Introduction to Literary Analysis (4 units)
Prerequisites: ENGL 31 and 32. The theory and practice of literary analysis. Examination of the concept of literary tradition; consideration of research methods; application of critical theory to textual analysis and the writing of literary criticism. Reauired for English majors. FS

ENGL 112. World Literature: Ancient (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Analysis of texts (in translation) from circa 1650 BCE - 750 CE, from areas such as China, India, Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Rome. Possible topics: epics and empires, civilization and wilderness, lyric experience, dramatizations of love and terror, and quests for wisdom. G.E. Integration IC. FS

ENGL 113. World Literature: Medieval and Renaissance (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Analysis of texts (in translation) from c. 750-1650, from areas such as Japan, Mali, Mexico, Spain, and Persia. Possible topics: travelers' tales and intercultural encounters, satire and social critique, poetic and narrative self-fashioning, patronage and eroticism in court poetry. G.E. Integration IC. F

ENGL 114. World Literature: Modern (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Analysis of texts (Anglophone and in translation) from circa 1650 to the present, from areas such as Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Possible topics: imperialism and resistance, enlightenment, Romanticism, nationalism, modernism, postcolonialism, globalization, migration, evolving cultural and sexual identities. G.E. Integration IC. FS

ENGL 115W. Literature of the New Testament (3 units)
(See PHIL 133W.) Meets upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation.

ENGL 116. Literature of the Old Testament (4 units)
(See PHIL 134.)

ENGL 117W. Writing from Children's Literature (3 units)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion of G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Includes intensive, inquiry-based writing that emerges from the study of children's literature from grades K-6. Meets upper-division writing requirement. Enrollment limited to liberal studies majors.

ENGL 131. Literacy Studies (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Examines current issues in the field of literacy studies pertaining to English education. Particular emphasis given to literacy acquisition, adolescent literacy, and the discourses of literary analysis and writing pedagogy. Required for English credential majors. S

ENGL 146. Medieval Literature (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of British texts, c. 500-1500 A.D. Topics may include oral and manuscript cultures; religious, linguistic, and political conversion; and class, gender, and sexuality in the literatures of monastery, court, and marketplace. F

ENGL 147. English Renaissance Literature (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of British texts, 500-1660 A.D. Topics may include Renaissance humanism, Reformation, Counter-Reformation, New World exploration, conflicting political and social cultures of court and city, the rise of print, the advent of English theater, and the development of vernacular literary forms. S

ENGL 150. Restoration and 18th Century Literature (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of British texts,1660-1800 A.D. Topics may include commerce and mercantilism, colonialism and global trade, crime and poverty, and an increased emphasis on feminine domesticity and masculine civic virtue. F

ENGL 151. British Romantic Literature (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts, 1789-1832 A.D., period of the French and Industrial Revolutions. Topics examine how expansions in the literary marketplace intersect with the growth of domestic ideology and the idea of "natural" rights to form national identity. S

ENGL 152. Victorian Literature (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of British texts, 1832-1901 A.D. Topics may include the condition of England, the spiritual crisis and science, empire and travel, cultural identity, and the "Woman Question." F

ENGL 153. American Literature to 1865 (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts, pre-contact to the Civil War. Topics may include American Indian creation stories and oral narratives, exploration, colonialism, Puritanism, frontier life, transcendentalism, and slavery. S

ENGL 154. American Literature 1865 to World War I (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts from Reconstruction to 1918. Topics may include the women's rights movement, realism and naturalism, urbanization and industrialization, and migration and immigration. S

ENGL 155. Modern and Contemporary American Literature (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts since World War I. Topics may include alienation and disillusionment, self-conscious experimentation, the impact of the media and technology, social movements and identity politics, globalization, and postmodernism. FS

ENGL 156. Modern and Contemporary British Literature (4 units)
Corequisite: ENGL 105. Analysis of texts since 1901. Topics may include the collapse of empire, exiles and immigrants, postcolonialism and the commonwealth, the effects of industrialization and urbanization, feminist and sexual liberation movements, and modernism and postmodernism. FS

ENGL 160W. Writing Workshop (4; max total 8 units)
Prerequisite: satisfactory completion (C or better) of the ENGL 5B or 10 graduation requirement. Practical assignments in writing, directed according to each student's individual needs. May be elected as preparation for special composition requirements. Does not apply to the English major or minor. Meets the upper-division writing skills requirement for graduation.

ENGL 161. Advanced Writing of Poetry (4; max total 8 units)
Prerequisite: ENGL 41. Intensive workshop in the writing of poetry; appropriate readings and analyses. FS

ENGL 163. Advanced Writing of Fiction (4; max total 8 units)
Prerequisite: ENGL 43. Intensive workshop in the writing of fiction; appropriate readings and analyses. FS

ENGL 164. Advanced Writing of Creative Nonfiction (4; max total 8 units)
Prerequisite: ENGL 44. Intensive workshop in memoir, lyric essay, and all other forms of creative nonfiction writing; appropriate readings and analyses. FS

ENGL 167. Mythology and Folklore (4 units)
Discussion and written analyses of the structure, content, and function of myth and folklore in world literature, with particular emphasis on the relationships among language, myth, and culture. S

ENGL 168T. Women and Literature
(4; max total 8 units if no topic repeated)
(Same as WS 168T.) Prerequisite: ENGL 20. Discussion and written analysis of literature by and about women. Special emphasis on 19th and 20th Century authors including the Brontes, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and contemporary writers. S

ENGL 169T. Forms of Literature
(1-4; max total 8 units if no topic repeated)
Sections designated as emphasizing poetry, drama, novel, short story, perhaps limited to a specific period or subclass; for example, 18th Century English Novel, 20th Century British and American Poetry, Modern Short Stories, 20th Century Drama, Tragedy, Folklore, Mythology. Discussion and written analyses are required. S

ENGL 171. Biography and Autobiography (4 units)
Reading, discussion, and written analyses of selected biographical or autobiographical works, in cluding such topics as literary biography, the autobiographical essay, memoirs, and issues of gender and ethnicity in biographical form. F

ENGL 174. Popular Fiction (4 units)
Prerequisites: G.E. Foundation and Breadth Area C. Survey of major types of popular genre fiction (detective, horror, spy, science fiction, Western, fantasy, etc.) Discussion; writing. Examination of works in cultural and historical context and as literary and commercial art. G.E. Integration IC. FS

ENGL 175T. Lectures in Literature
(1-4; max total 8 units if no topic repeated)
Lectures in a selected topic in literature or related fields by the regular faculty and/or visiting lecturers.

ENGL 176T. Genre Film: Form and Function
(1-4; max total 8 units if no topic repeated)
(Same as WS 176T.) Discussion and close written analyses of selected topics, including such types as comedies, musicals, horror films, westerns, etc. S

ENGL 177. Literature, Cinema and the Liberal Arts (3 units)
Explores humanistic themes and motifs through comparative analysis of works of literature, drama, and contemporary cinema. Examines how film and the other arts shape and reflect American values. Two essay midterms. Final project/paper. Five thousand word writing requirement.

ENGL 178. Lesbian and Gay Literature (4 units)
Prerequisite: ENGL 105 or permission of the instructor. Discussion and written analysis of literature that explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer identities and experience. Also considers how cultural and historical forces shape current notions of sexual identity and community. (Formerly ENGL 193T)

ENGL 179. Multi-Ethnic American Literature (4 units)
Prerequisite: ENGL 5B or 10. Discussion and written analysis of selected poems, plays, fiction, and memoirs by authors from several American ethnic backgrounds, such as African American, American Indian, Latino/Hispanic American, and Asian American. S

ENGL 181. Literary Theory and Criticism (4 units)
A survey of literary theory, including Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, structuralism, and post-structuralism. Topics also include the history of literary criticism and the practice of interpretation. Discussion, lectures, written analyses. FS

ENGL 182. English Workshop (1-4; max total 8 units)
Seminar in composition and learning. Discussion and practical exercises concerning theory, evaluation, and improvement of language learning and composition. CR/NC grading only. FS

ENGL 183T. Seminar in Literature (1-4; max total 8 units)
Prerequisite: appropriate upper-division literature course. Designed for students interested in in-depth study of a literary topic; recommended for liberal studies majors. Seminar in an aspect of literary history, type, period, movement, individual author. Reports and written analyses required.

ENGL 184. Chaucer (4 units)
Reading, discussion, and written analyses of the major works of Geoffrey Chaucer. F

ENGL 185. English Internship Seminar (2 units)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Seminar to be taken concurrently with ENGL 186 during the first semester of enrollment in program. Group and individual analyses of writing done in internship assignments. Discussion of the rhetorical problems of writing for public agencies, magazines and journals, and private industry. FS

ENGL 186. Internship in English (2-6; max total 6 units)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. No more than 2 units of 186 may apply to the English major. See also 185. Supervised work experience in public agencies and private industry to provide an opportunity to develop professional writing skills. Approved for RP grading. CR/NC grading only. FS

ENGL 187. Milton (4 units)
Reading, discussion, and written analyses of the major works of John Milton. S

ENGL 189. Shakespeare (4 units)
(Same as DRAMA 194.) Reading and written analyses of the major works of Shakespeare. FS

ENGL 190. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6 units)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading. FS

ENGL 191. Supervised Independent Reading
(1-4; max total 4 units if no topic repeated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Reading works from a literary period (for example, Beowulf to Marlowe, American Literature to Whitman, World Literature: Ancient and Medieval) and discussion in individual conferences. FS

ENGL 192. Projects in English (1-4; max total 8 units)
Not applicable to English major. Individual projects in problems related to teaching English composition and literature; for example, tutoring minority students, investigating the effectiveness of programs in English composition and literature, devising new approaches to teaching English. CR/NC grading only.

ENGL 193T. Seminar in Literary Studies
(4; max total 8 units if no topic repeated)
No more than 12 units of ENGL 193T-194T may be applied to the English major. Sections designated by topic. Individual projects; reading, discussion, and writing of papers on individual writers (for example, Milton, D.H. Lawrence), short periods of literary history (for example, Romantic Poets, Modern Novel), literary themes and traditions (for example, Transcendental Vein in American Literature, Arthurian Tradition) literary criticism (for example, Problems in Modern Criticism, Archetype and Myth), and other special topics. ENGL 193T should ordinarily not be taken until 3 upper-division courses in English have been completed. FS

ENGL 194T. Seminar in Women and Literature
(4; max total 8 units if no topic repeated)
(Same as WS 194T.) May be substituted for ENGL 193T in the English major; no more than 12 units of ENGL 193T-194T applicable to the major. Sections designated by topic. Individual projects; reading, discussion, and writing papers on individual women writers or some aspect of women in literature; for example, Doris Lessing, Myth and Archetypes of Women. English 194T should ordinarily not be taken until 3 upper-division courses in English have been completed.

GRADUATE COURSES

(See Catalog Numbering System.)

English (ENGL)

ENGL 241. Seminar in Form and Theory: Poetry (4; max total 12 units)
Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program; others admitted by permission of instructor. Seminar in literary craft designed primarily for the graduate writing student to provide intensive study of current and traditional formal, stylistic, and technical issues and controversies in the genre (for example, traditional prosody, non-traditional poetics, and contemporary lyric).

ENGL 242. Literary Editing and Publishing (4 units; repeatable)
Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program; others admitted by permission of instructor. Seminar in evaluating literary manuscripts, including but not limited to poetry collections submitted for the annual Philip Levine Prize in Poetry. Issues of aesthetic, book manuscript development, literary contest administration, and poetry book production and marketing.

ENGL 243. Seminar in Form and Theory: Fiction (4; max total 12 units)
Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program; others admitted by permission of instructor. Seminar in literary craft designed primarily for the graduate writing student to provide intensive study of current and traditional formal, stylistic, and technical issues and controversies in the genre (for example, narrative theory and non-traditional fictional forms).

ENGL 245. Seminar in Form and Theory: Creative Nonfiction (4; max total 12 units)
Prerequisite: normally limited to students enrolled in the graduate creative writing program; others admitted by permission of instructor. Seminar in literary craft designed primarily for the graduate writing student to provide intensive study of current and traditional formal, stylistic, and technical issues and controversies in the genre (for example, traditional and nontraditional essay forms, memoir, prose theory).

ENGL 250T. Seminar in Literature (4 units; repeatable with different topics)
Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Seminar in an aspect of literary history, type, period, movement, or an individual author (for example, Fiction, Seventeenth Century Lyric Poetry, The Irish, Dickens).

ENGL 261. Seminar: Writing Poetry (4 units; repeatable)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced individual projects in the writing of poetry.

ENGL 263. Seminar: Writing Fiction (4 units; repeatable)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced individual projects in the writing of fiction.

ENGL 265. Seminar: Writing Creative Nonfiction (4 units; repeatable)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Advanced individual projects in the writing of creative nonfiction.

ENGL 270. Writing Workshop for Teachers (4 units)
Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Workshop emphasizing writing theory. Study of current writing theory and pedagogical techniques will be integrated with discussions of writing produced during the course.

ENGL 278T. Seminar in Composition Studies (4; max total 8 units)
Seminar exploring focused topics in composition studies, including but not limited to research methods in the field, literacy theory, rhetorical theory, stylistics, genre studies, writing assessment, teaching with technology, and the intersections of culture and writing.

ENGL 280T. Seminar in Critical Theory
(4; max total 12 units if no topic repeated)
Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Seminar in literary criticism (for example, Literary Critics).

ENGL 281. Current Writing Theory (4 units)
Prerequisites: major or minor in English; permission of instructor. Designed to acquaint the student with current key issues in composition theory and the theoretical implications for course design and pedagogy.

ENGL 282. Practicum in the Teaching of Writing (1 unit)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Discussion of theoretical issues as they apply to the writing classroom. Normally taken concurrently with the composition option teaching requirement. CR/NC grading only.

ENGL 286S. Practicum in Literary Arts Publishing and Programming (1-6; 6 units max total)
Limited to students enrolled in the MFA program. Supervised work on editorial staff of professional magazine; projects in arts programming and service-learning. Repeatable for credit. Letter grade only. (Formerly ENGL 286)

ENGL 290. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6 units)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study. Approved for RP grading.

ENGL 291. Supervised Independent Reading
(1-4; max total 4 units if no topic repeated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Reading works from a literary period (for example, More to Milton, 20th Century American Literature, World Literature, Renaissance-Modern) and discussion in individual conferences. Approved for RP grading.

ENGL 298. Project (2 units)*
Prerequisite: See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Revising, amending, and editing of three original scholarly papers produced while enrolled in graduate seminars, with the goal of creating publishable journal articles. The student's committee must approve of the scope and quality of the papers. Abstract required. Approved for RP grading.

ENGL 299. Thesis (2-6; max total 6 units)*
Prerequisite: See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Preparation, completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree. Approved for RP grading.

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* For 298C and 299C courses, see Graduate Studies.

IN-SERVICE COURSE

(See Catalog Numbering System.)

English (ENGL)

ENGL 300. English Colloquium (2; max total 6 units)
Credit is not applicable to degrees or major requirements in credentials. Prerequisite: teaching experience. Problems in composition, literature, or linguistics in relation to teaching.

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