printer friendly pageENGLISH 1: History and Theory of Novel Group (DLCL 1)
For undergraduates in English, the DLCL, and East Asian literatures interested in the novel and the events sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Novel (CSN) and to prepare them to attend CSN events with some understanding of the material presented. Each CSN event¿the New Book Events, the Ian Watt Lecture on the History and/or Theory of the Novel, and the Center's annual conference¿will either be preceded or followed by a colloquium, led by a member of the graduate student staff. In these colloquia, students will engage with the material under discussion, usually written by the speaker(s) on whose work the events are based. Participation at 75% of events and colloquia is mandatory for course credit. Precirculated readings will be made available for all colloquia preceding an event, and often for those held after the event, to enable students to develop a familiarity with issues pertaining to the theoretical and historical study of the novel.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
5 times
(up to 5 units total)
Instructors:
Ruttenburg, N. (PI)
ENGLISH 16SI: Contemporary Children's Literature
Examination of the changing themes tackled by authors addressing a middle-grade (and occasionally young adult) audience beginning in the mid-twentieth century and carrying on through present day. Texts will be read chronologically, alternating between British and American authors, in order to track the fundamental questions, concerns, and triumphs of children¿s literature both over time and between contemporary texts of different cultures. Texts range from the playfully inventive
Phantom Tollbooth to the psychologically thrilling
Marcelo in the Real World in order to discuss the major developments (as well as the critical constants) of the increasingly significant literary genre of children¿s literature.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Richardson, J. (PI)
ENGLISH 46N: The Hemingway Era
While Hemingway and Fitzgerald were flirting with the expatriate avant-garde in Europe, Hurston and Faulkner were performing anthropological field-work in the local cultures of the American South. This course will address the tremendous diversity of concerns and styles of four writers who marked America's coming-of-age as a literary nation with their multifarious experiments in representing the regional and the global, the racial and the cosmopolitan, the macho and the feminist, the decadent and the impoverished.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Jones, G. (PI)
ENGLISH 50N: The Literature of Inequality: Have and Have-Nots from the Gilded Age to the Occupy Era (AMSTUD 50N)
Not since the turn of the last century have Americans experienced such a profound gap between those who have and those who do not, between wealthy and working poor, between defacto upper and lower classes, between those of the status quo and those who slip to the social periphery. We will be examining literary and artistic explorations of social and economic inequity, fiction and art that looks at reversals of fortune as well as the possibilities for social change. Readings include Jacob Riis¿
How the Other Half Lives, W.E.B. Du Bois¿
The Souls of Black Folk, Edith Wharton¿s
House of Mirth , James Agee & Walker Evans¿
Let Us Not Forget Famous Men , T.C. Boyle¿s
The Tortilla Curtain, Julie Otsuka¿s
When the Emperor Was Divine and Occupy Movement art.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Elam, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 90: Fiction Writing
The elements of fiction writing: narration, description, and dialogue. Students write complete stories and participate in story workshops. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite:
PWR 1 (waived in summer quarter).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Antopol, M. (PI)
;
Clark, H. (PI)
;
Frisch, S. (PI)
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Antopol, M. (PI)
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Clark, H. (PI)
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Frisch, S. (PI)
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Kealey, T. (PI)
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Kletter, D. (PI)
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Quade, K. (PI)
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Schloesser Tarano, N. (PI)
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Soileau, S. (PI)
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Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 91: Creative Nonfiction
(Formerly 94A.) Historical and contemporary as a broad genre including travel and nature writing, memoir, biography, journalism, and the personal essay. Students use creative means to express factual content.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Antopol, M. (PI)
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Clark, H. (PI)
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Evans, J. (PI)
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Antopol, M. (PI)
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Clark, H. (PI)
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Evans, J. (PI)
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Frisch, S. (PI)
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Hummel, M. (PI)
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Kletter, D. (PI)
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Kline, P. (PI)
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Perham, B. (PI)
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Quade, K. (PI)
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Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 92: Reading and Writing Poetry
Prerequisite:
PWR 1. Issues of poetic craft. How elements of form, music, structure, and content work together to create meaning and experience in a poem. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE, WAY-A-II
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 94: Writing Across Genres
For minors in creative writing. The forms and conventions of the contemporary short story and poem. How form, technique, and content combine to make stories and poems organic. Prerequisite: 90, 91, or 92.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE
Instructors:
Ekiss, K. (PI)
;
Wrenn, G. (PI)
ENGLISH 100C: Literary History III
Third in a three quarter sequence. Team-taught, and ranging in subject matter across almost a millennium from the age of parchment to the age of Facebook, this required sequence of classes is the department's account of the major historical arc traced so far by literature in English. It maps changes and innovations as well as continuities, ideas as well as aesthetic forms, providing a grid of knowledge and contexts for other, more specialized classes.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Googasian, V. (PI)
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Jarvis, C. (PI)
;
Jenkins, N. (PI)
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Googasian, V. (PI)
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Jarvis, C. (PI)
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Jenkins, N. (PI)
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Ligda, K. (PI)
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McGurl, M. (PI)
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Ueda, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 123: American Literature and Culture to 1855 (AMSTUD 150)
A survey of early American writings, including sermons, poetry, captivity and slave narratives, essays, autobiography, and fiction, from the colonial era to the eve of the Civil War.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, GER:EC-AmerCul
Instructors:
Davis, C. (PI)
;
Richardson, J. (PI)
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