printer friendly pageENGLISH 172D: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE 196C, PSYCH 155, SOC 146, TAPS 165)
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows. Includes an optional Haas Center for Public Service certified Community Engaged Learning section.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
ENGLISH 175C: Literature and Culture of the American Landscape
This course examines a wide range of American literary engagements with nature: as a determinant of national character and destiny; as a source of spiritual, sexual, and moral revitalization; as a battleground for the survival of races and ethnicities; as a molding mechanism of citizenship and gender; as the basis of a national art and culture; and as a resource for exploitation or preservation.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Spingarn, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 184: The Novel, the Global South (COMPLIT 123)
Literary inventiveness and social significance of novelistic forms from the Great Depression to the present.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Saldivar, J. (PI)
ENGLISH 184C: Data and Knowledge in the Humanities
How different disciplines understand and use data, and how skills such as interpretation and critical thought work with data to create knowledge. How the introduction of mathematics reshaped disciplines like cosmology and sociology in the past and how, in the present, the humanities are facing the same challenges with the emergence of fields such as spatial history and the digital humanities. In addition to readings and class discussion, this course will also feature guest lectures from scholars from different disciplines, including the natural and social sciences, who will discuss how their fields create knowledge from data.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Algee-Hewitt, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 186: Tales of Three Cities: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles (AMSTUD 186)
How urban form and experience shape literary texts and how literary texts participate in the creation of place, through the literature of three American cities as they ascended to cultural and iconographical prominence: New York in the early to mid 19th century; Chicago in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; and Los Angeles in the mid to late 20th century.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Richardson, J. (PI)
ENGLISH 190: Intermediate Fiction Writing
May be taken twice for credit. Lottery. Priority to last quarter/year in school, majors in English with Creative Writing emphasis, and Creative Writing minors. Prerequisite: 90 or 91.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
ENGLISH 190F: Fiction into Film
Workshop. For screenwriting students. Story craft, structure, and dialogue. Assignments include short scene creation, character development, and a long story. How fictional works are adapted to screenplays, and how each form uses elements of conflict, time, summary, and scene. Priority to seniors and Film Studies majors. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Kealey, T. (PI)
;
Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 190H: The Graphic Novel
Continuation of
English 190G. Interdisciplinary. Evolution, subject matter, form, conventions, possibilities, and future of the graphic novel genre. Guest lectures. Collaborative creation of a graphic novel by a team of writers, illustrators, and designers. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Hutchins, S. (PI)
;
Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 190T: Special Topics in Intermediate Fiction Writing
Focus on a particular topic or process. Work includes aspects of reading short stories and novels, writing at least 30-50 pages of fiction, and responding to peers' work in workshop. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: 91 or 90.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-CE
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Ekiss, K. (PI)
;
Frisch, S. (PI)
;
Hutchins, S. (PI)
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Instructors:
Ekiss, K. (PI)
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Frisch, S. (PI)
;
Hutchins, S. (PI)
;
Kealey, T. (PI)
;
Pufahl, S. (PI)
;
Schloesser Tarano, N. (PI)
;
Tanaka, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 190V: Reading for Writers
Taught by the Stein Visiting Fiction Writer. Prerequisite: 90.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Smith, J. (PI)
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