ENGLISH 190A: AAPI Fiction Writing (ASNAMST 190)
This intermediate fiction writing course will feature readings from a variety of contemporary AAPI fiction writers. We will examine the various approaches and forms writers have utilized in writing about subjects political and personal. We will also look beyond the story itself to understand the authors' approaches to centering the AAPI experience, confronting intergenerational trauma, employing multilingual dialogue, repurposing genre, and navigating the ethics of incorporating family narratives. Students will write their own short stories which will be workshopped by the class. Entry into the course is via application.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 190NS: Novel Salon
Who better to discuss a book with than its author? In this course we will immerse ourselves in eight novels and meet with their authors to hear about their drafting, revising, and publishing experiences. We will read as writers¿for inspiration and craft¿and analyze novels for structure, scope, character development, dialogue, setting, style, and theme. We will examine how craft conventions are applied and subverted, while asking, ¿What makes a novel work?¿ Students will write about, discuss, and present the novels we read, participate in Q&A with visiting authors, and complete in-class writing exercises designed to inform and inspire. Note: First priority to undergrads. Students must attend the first class meeting to retain their roster spot.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Frisch, S. (PI)
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Schloesser Tarano, N. (PI)
ENGLISH 190SW: Screenwriting Intensive
The main requirement for this course is a full length film script. The course explores elements of screenwriting including beat structure, character creation, scene vs. montage, as well as description and dialogue. Students will read four to five screenplays during the first half of the course and then write a 90-page film script in the second half of the course. Students will additionally write synopses, treatments, character sketches, and beat sheets. Designed for any student who has always wanted to write a screenplay
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Beaty, G. (PI)
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Porter, E. (PI)
ENGLISH 191DC: DCI Intermediate Memoir Workshop
Open to DCI Fellows & Partners only. DCI Intermediate Memoir Workshop will take as its occasion for your creative development a continuing examination of memoir essays and memoir book excerpts. These texts broadly innovate within and outside of the formal traditions you studied in DCI Memoir workshop, to find new and exciting ways to represent personal experience. We will read authors including Kathryn Harrison, Brian Doyle, Jerald Walker, Patricia Hampl, MFK Fisher, Jo Ann Beard, and Tressie McMillan Cottom. This course will also serve as the continuing examination and practice of formal memoir writing. My goal for your learning in this class is that you walk out of our last session having done the following: 1) Written a next piece to follow in some way on your work in DCI Memoir: a new or next chapter, a related or new essay, an expansion into a larger piece, etc. 2) Looked at more sophisticated models for writing about your own life in a meaningful way, including hybrids of journal
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Open to DCI Fellows & Partners only. DCI Intermediate Memoir Workshop will take as its occasion for your creative development a continuing examination of memoir essays and memoir book excerpts. These texts broadly innovate within and outside of the formal traditions you studied in DCI Memoir workshop, to find new and exciting ways to represent personal experience. We will read authors including Kathryn Harrison, Brian Doyle, Jerald Walker, Patricia Hampl, MFK Fisher, Jo Ann Beard, and Tressie McMillan Cottom. This course will also serve as the continuing examination and practice of formal memoir writing. My goal for your learning in this class is that you walk out of our last session having done the following: 1) Written a next piece to follow in some way on your work in DCI Memoir: a new or next chapter, a related or new essay, an expansion into a larger piece, etc. 2) Looked at more sophisticated models for writing about your own life in a meaningful way, including hybrids of journalism and personal writing (e.g., The New Yorker), deep dives into personal subjects that twin with passions or areas of expertise, travel writing, and lyric forms of the essay. 3) Written two Short Essays based on more sophisticated writing prompts. 4) Participated in whole-class workshops for both Short Essays, and in a full-class workshop for your next piece. 5) Practiced giving and receiving helpful individual and workshop peer feedback. A variety of creative prompts, critical exercises, and assigned readings will foster your understanding and appreciation of creative nonfiction, as well as your growth as a creative writer. Energetic, committed participation is a must.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
ENGLISH 192V: The Occasions of Poetry
Taught by the Mohr Visiting Poet. Prerequisite: 92. By application. Permission number required to enroll.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 20 units total)
Instructors:
Sze, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 194C: Curricular Practical Training
CPT course required for international students completing degree.Following internship work, students complete a research report outlining work activity, problems investigated, key results and follow-up projects. Meets the requirements for curricular practical training for students on F-1 visas. Student is responsible for arranging own internship and faculty sponsorship.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Osgood, M. (PI)
;
Quayson, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 197: Seniors Honors Essay
In two quarters.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Staveley, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 198: Individual Work
Undergraduates who wish to study a subject or area not covered by regular courses may, with consent, enroll for individual work under the supervision of a member of the department. 198 may not be used to fulfill departmental area or elective requirements without consent. Group seminars are not appropriate for 198.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)
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Beaty, G. (PI)
;
Brewer, W. (PI)
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Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)
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Beaty, G. (PI)
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Brewer, W. (PI)
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Bronstein, M. (PI)
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Carlson-Wee, K. (PI)
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Castle, T. (PI)
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Cohen, M. (PI)
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Cravens, M. (PI)
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Ekiss, K. (PI)
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Elam, M. (PI)
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Evans, J. (PI)
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Fishkin, S. (PI)
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Frisch, S. (PI)
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Gigante, D. (PI)
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Greene, R. (PI)
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Greif, M. (PI)
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Holbert, J. (PI)
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HolyWhiteMountain, S. (PI)
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Hoxby, B. (PI)
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Hutchins, S. (PI)
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Jenkins, N. (PI)
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Johnson, A. (PI)
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Jones, G. (PI)
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Jordan, A. (PI)
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Kantor, R. (PI)
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Kealey, T. (PI)
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Labowskie, M. (PI)
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Lee, C. (PI)
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McGurl, M. (PI)
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Michas-Martin, S. (PI)
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Moya, P. (PI)
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Nguyen, H. (PI)
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Palumbo-Liu, D. (PI)
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Parker, P. (PI)
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Perham, B. (PI)
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Phelan, P. (PI)
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Phillips, P. (PI)
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Porter, E. (PI)
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Pufahl, S. (PI)
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Quayson, A. (PI)
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Richardson, J. (PI)
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Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
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Saldivar, R. (PI)
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Schloesser Tarano, N. (PI)
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Shewmaker, M. (PI)
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Smith, A. (PI)
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Staveley, A. (PI)
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Tallent, E. (PI)
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Tanaka, S. (PI)
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Tomar, R. (PI)
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Trahan, J. (PI)
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Treharne, E. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
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Williams, Z. (PI)
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Woloch, A. (PI)
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Yu, E. (PI)
ENGLISH 199: Why Literature Matters (To Me)
A hands-on, co-taught seminar with English and Creative Writing faculty/lecturers, featuring a complimentary commonplace book and fountain pen as gifts of the department. The development of topic or themes from reading, examination of commonplace books and manuscripts, friendship albums, notebooks, scrapbooks, and journals in Special Collections. Close reading of canonical poets and prose writers on their own reading experience. Study of and creative exercises in notation and annotation. Development of a final project in creative nonfiction on the topic of "Why Literature Matters to Me." Requirements: 5 literature courses in any department.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Gigante, D. (PI)
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Smith, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 215E: Shakespeare and His Contexts: Race, Religion, Sexuality, Gender
This course will explore contexts of race, religion, sexuality and gender in multiple Shakespeare plays (A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, Titus Andronicus, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest), with critical readings on topics including feminist and queer theory, transvestite theater, historically blackface performance, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, forced conversion, competing empires, colonialism and postcolonialism, and racial profiling (among others).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Parker, P. (PI)
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