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ENGLISH 2A: FRESHMAN ENGLISH

ENGLISH 9: Masterpieces of English Literature I: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and their Contemporaries (ENGLISH 109)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 109.) A survey of English literature from Beowulf through Paradise Lost. Readings from Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Margery Kempe, Langland, Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne, and Milton.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

ENGLISH 20: Masterpieces of English Literature II: From the Enlightenment to the Modern Period (ENGLISH 120)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 120.) British literature from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Topics include the rise of the novel, Romanticism, realism, naturalism, genre, modernism and narration. Authors include Austen, M. Shelley, Dickens and Woolf.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum

ENGLISH 21: Masterpieces of American Literature (ENGLISH 121)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 121.) An exploration of the diverse political, racial, cultural, and sexual questions that inform these outstanding works of American literature, ranging from the early Republic to the late-twentieth century.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ENGLISH 43: Introduction to African American Literature (ENGLISH 143)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143.) The slave narrative and representative genres (poetry, short stories, essays, novels). Works by Douglass, Jacobs, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Dunbar, Toomer, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, and Morrison.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP

ENGLISH 43C: Introduction to Asian American Literature (ENGLISH 143C)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143C.) Asian American literature as an interdisciplinary field, combining history, politics, and literature to articulate changing group and individual identity. Themes include aesthetics, colonialism, immigration, transnationalism, globalization, gender, and sexuality.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul

ENGLISH 45: Another Way to be: Writings by Women of Color (ENGLISH 145)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 145.) Themes include family relations, identity formation, racism and colorism, gender and sexuality, spirituality, and globalization. Rhetorical and aesthetic strategies and the associated development of a method of cultural analysis. Authors may include the following: Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Toni Cade Bambara, Leslie Marmon Silko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Helena Maria Viramontes, Sandra Cisneros, among others.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender

ENGLISH 45F: The Human Love of Mystery (ENGLISH 145F)

A journey through detective fiction, including Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, a Freudian case history, Sherlock Holmes and the U.S. private eye. Topics will include exploration of the reasons for the enduring hold the detective genre has on the imagination, including its fundamental concern with ideas of justice, the raising and laying of the emotion of fear, and its stimulation of the deep human fascination with the apparently inexplicable and the intellectual satisfaction of arriving at understanding.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Drake, S. (PI)

ENGLISH 47: Masterpieces of Contemporary Literature (ENGLISH 147)

Focus on novels spanning the 19th-21st centuries in order to interrogate the meaning of "contemporary." How do writers think about the literary past in their works? How and why do contemporary texts echo, rewrite, reinvent, or renounce their forebears? Readings include novels that speak to one another across time, place, and cultural difference by grouping "older" and "newer" works by Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Mary Shelley, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf, Ian McEwan and Michael Cunningham. Relevant clips from film adaptations will contribute to analysis.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors: Staveley, A. (PI)

ENGLISH 60: Poetry and Poetics (ENGLISH 160)

(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 160.) Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, GER:DB-Hum
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