Spring Quarter 2023 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) McCauley M-Th 9:30-10:20 14121

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 B READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) McCauley M-Th 10:30-11:20 14122

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 C READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Babbie M-Th 11:30-12:20 14123

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 D READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Poland MW 12:30-2:20 14124

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

200 E READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) TTh 11:30-1:20 14125

Catalog Description: Techniques and practice in reading and enjoying literature in its various forms: poetry, drama, prose fiction, film. Examies such features of literary meanings as imagery, characterization, narration, and patterning in sound and sense.

202 AA INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Jiang T 11:30-12:20, T 11:30-12:20 14129

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AB INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Jiang T 12:30-1:20, T 12:30-1:20 14130

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AC INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Pruett W 9:30-10:20, W 9:30-10:20 14131

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

202 AD INTRO TO ENGL LANG AND LIT (Introduction to the Study of English Language and Literature) Pruett W 12:30-1:20, W 12:30-1:20 14132

Catalog Description: Gateway course designed for English pre-majors and majors. Introduces critical, historical, and theoretical frameworks important to studying the literature, language, and cultures of English.

204 A POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Shields TTh 10:30-12:20 14133

Catalog Description: Introduces students to the study of popular culture, possibly including print or visual media, understood as sites of critical reflection. Particular attention to dynamics of production and reception, aesthetics and technique, and cultural politics. Topics may foreground genres (science fiction; romance) or forms (comics; graffiti

242 A READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) MW 2:30-4:20 14134

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in works of prose fiction, representing a variety of types and periods

250 A American Literature (American Literature) Griffith M-Th 8:30-80:0p 14135

Catalog Description: Introduces American culture through a careful reading of a variety of representative texts in their historical contexts.

257 A Asian American Lit (Asian American Literature) Wong MW 12:30-2:20 14136

Catalog Description: Examines the emergence of Asian American literature as a response to anti-Asian legislation, cultural images, and American racial formation. Encourages thinking critically about identity, power, inequalities, and experiences of marginality.

281 A INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Hitchman MW 12:30-2:20 14138

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 B INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Jhingran TTh 10:30-12:20 14139

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 C INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Pinnata TTh 1:30-3:20 14140

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

281 D INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Little MW 10:30-12:20 14141

Catalog Description: Writing papers communicating information and opinion to develop accurate, competent, and effective expression.

Prerequisites:

While 281 has no formal prerequisite, this is an intermediate writing course, and instructors expect entering students to know how to formulate claims, integrate evidence, demonstrate awareness of audience, and structure coherent sentences, paragraphs and essays. Thus we strongly encourage students to complete an introductory (100 level) writing course before enrolling in English 281.

282 A INT MULTIMODAL COMP (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) McGowan TTh 12:30-2:20 14142

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

282 B INT MULTIMODAL COMP (Intermediate Multimodal Composition) MW 10:30-12:20 14143

Catalog Description: Strategies for composing effective multimodal texts for print, digital physical delivery, with focus on affordances of various modes--words, images, sound, design, and gesture--and genres to address specific rhetorical situations both within and beyond the academy. Although the course has no prerequisites, instructors assume knowledge of academic writing.

283 A BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Bechtler MW 10:30-11:50 14144

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

283 B BEGIN VERSE WRITING (Beginning Verse Writing) Kenney T 12:30-3:20 14145

Catalog Description: Intensive study of the ways and means of making a poem.

284 A BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Shields MW 1:30-2:50 14147

Catalog Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.

284 B BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Christopher TTh 10:30-11:50 14148

Catalog Description: Introduction to the theory and practice of writing the short story.

288 A Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Kumler TTh 10:30-12:20 14150

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 B Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Macarthy TTh 2:30-4:20 14151

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 C Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Concannon MW 10:30-12:20 14152

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 E Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Wirth TTh 12:30-2:20 14154

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

288 F Intro Prof & Tech Writing (Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing) Ghasedi MW 2:30-4:20 14155

Catalog Description: Engages in professional genres and communication practices in light of emerging technologies. Students produce texts that prepare them to enter professional spaces.

296 A Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences) Macarthy TTh 4:30-6:20p 14157

Catalog Description: Develops critical literacy in the diffuse but interlocking disciplines of the natural sciences. Through analysis and composition of various texts, students become authoritative participants in scientific discourse while also becoming familiar with ways that Western values are embedded and centered (often invisibly) in the sciences and its related institutions. Offered: AWSp.

297 A ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Wirth TTh 2:30-3:50 14160

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

297 B ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Gilbert MWF 2:30-3:20 14161

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

297 C ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Holt TTh 4:00-5:20 14162

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

297 D ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) George MW 2:30-3:50 14163

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified humanities course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

298 A ADV WRITING SOCSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Social Sciences) He MW 10:00-11:20 14164

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified social science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 A ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Peters MWF 12:30-1:20 14165

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 B ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Wacker TTh 8:30-10:20 14166

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

299 C ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Roberts MWF 9:30-10:20 14167

Catalog Description: Expository writing based on materials presented in a specified natural science course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytical prose. Concurrent registration in the specified course required.

300 A READING MAJOR TEXTS (Reading Major Texts) Diment TTh 12:30-2:20 14168

Catalog Description: Intensive examination of one or a few major works of literature. Classroom work to develop skills of careful and critical reading. Book selection varies, but reading consists of major works by important authors and of selected supplementary materials.

302 A CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Clare MW 11:30-1:20 14169

Catalog Description: Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices.

302 B CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Harkins TTh 10:30-12:20 14170

Catalog Description: Intensive study of, and exercise in, applying important or influential interpretive practices for studying language, literature, and culture, along with consideration of their powers/limits. Focuses on developing critical writing abilities. Topics vary and may include critical and interpretive practice from scripture and myth to more contemporary approaches, including newer interdisciplinary practices.

307 A Cultural Studies (Cultural Studies) Roberts MW 12:30-2:20 14171

Catalog Description: Overview of Cultural Studies with a focus on reading texts or objects using cultural studies methods and writing analytic essays using cultural studies methods. Focuses on culture as a site of political and social debate and struggle.

312 A JWSH LIT:BIB TO MOD (Jewish Literature: Biblical to Modern) TTh 11:30-1:20 14173

Catalog Description: A study of Jewish literature from Biblical narrative and rabbinic commentary to modern prose and poetry with intervening texts primarily organized around major themes: martyrdom and suffering, destruction and exile, messianism, Hasidism and Enlightenment, Yiddishism and Zionism. Various critical approaches; geographic and historic contexts.

321 A CHAUCER (Chaucer) Norako MW 10:30-12:20 14174

Catalog Description: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and other poetry, with attention to Chaucer's social, historical, and intellectual milieu.

324 A SHAKESPEARE AFTER 1603 (Shakespeare After 1603) Webster TTh 2:30-4:20 14175

Catalog Description: Explores Shakespeare's later works. Focuses on the mature tragedies and late-career romances, by may include selected comedies and histories.

328 A LATER 18TH C LIT (English Literature: Later Eighteenth Century) TTh 9:30-11:20 14176

Catalog Description: Explores an era of tension between reason and felling; antiquity and modernity; and conservatism and revolution. Readings may include gothic novels by Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis, poetry by Oliver Goldsmith and Robert Burns; and nonfiction prose by Samuel Johnson and Thomas Paine.

329 A RISE OF ENG NOVEL (Rise of the English Novel) Staten TTh 12:30-2:20 14177

Catalog Description: Traces the development of a major and popular modern literary genre - the novel. Readings survey forms of fiction including the picaresque, the gothic, the epistolary novel, and the romance. Authors range from Daniel Defoe to Jane Austen and beyond.

349 A SCI FICT & FANTASY (Science Fiction and Fantasy) Kumler TTh 3:30-5:20 14179

Catalog Description: The study of the development of and specific debates in the related genres of fantasy and science fiction literatures.

351 A NRTH AMERICA TO 1800 (Writing in the Contact Zone: North America to 1800) Cherniavsky MW 2:30-4:20 14180

Catalog Description: Examines writings from the earliest explorations of America, encounters with, and responses from, indigenous peoples, and colorization, through the early period of the United States. Readings may include a variety of genres from histories, captivity narratives, autobiographies, to the first novels and poetry of the republic.

353 A AMER LIT LATER 19C (American Literature: Later Nineteenth Century) Abrams MW 4:30-6:20p 14181

Catalog Description: Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose during the latter half of the nineteenth century. May include such representative authors of the period as Twain, Dickinson, DuBois, Crane, Wharton and Chopin, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.

368 A WOMEN WRITERS (Women Writers) Kaplan TTh 1:30-3:20 14182

Catalog Description: Investigates how perceptions of "woman writer" shape understandings of women's literary works and the forms in which they compose. Examines texts by women writers with attention to sociocultural, economic, and political context. Considers gender as a form of social difference as well as power relationships structured around gender inequality.

370 A ENGL LANG STUDY (English Language Study) Sánchez-Martín TTh 10:30-12:20 14183

Catalog Description: Wide-ranging introduction to the study of written and spoken English. Includes the nature of language; ways of describing language; the use of language study as an approach to English literature and the teaching of English.

378 A TOP GENRE METH LANG (Special Topics in Genre, Method, and Language) Bojan Th 12:30-2:20, T 12:30-2:20 14184

Catalog Description: Introduces and explores a specific area of theory or method as it has influenced the production, practice, study of literature, language and culture in English

381 B ADV EXPOSITORY WRIT (Advanced Expository Writing) Meany TTh 1:30-3:20 14185

Catalog Description: Concentration on the development of prose style for experienced writers.

382 A SPECIAL MULTIMODAL (Special Topics in Multimodal Composition) Wilson TTh 10:30-12:20 14186

Catalog Description: Focuses on emerging questions, debates, genres, and methods of multimodal analysis and production. Topics vary but might include transmedia storytelling, digital humanities, audiovisual essays, new media journalism, and performance. Although course has no prerequisites, instructors, assume knowledge of academic argumentation strategies.

382 B SPECIAL MULTIMODAL (Special Topics in Multimodal Composition) TTh 1:30-3:20 14187

Catalog Description: Focuses on emerging questions, debates, genres, and methods of multimodal analysis and production. Topics vary but might include transmedia storytelling, digital humanities, audiovisual essays, new media journalism, and performance. Although course has no prerequisites, instructors, assume knowledge of academic argumentation strategies.

383 A CRAFT OF VERSE (The Craft of Verse) Triplett TTh 1:30-2:50 14188

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft verse. Readings in contemporary verse and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

384 A CRAFT OF PROSE (The Craft of Prose) Shields MW 3:30-4:50 14189

Catalog Description: Intensive study of various aspects of the craft of fiction or creative nonfiction. Readings in contemporary prose and writing using emulation and imitation.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284

388 A Profnl & Tech Writing (Professional and Technical Writing) Medina TTh 3:30-5:20 14190

Catalog Description: Prepares students to become conscious and conscientious communicators in various modes, platforms, and professions. Recommended: ENGL 288

431 A TOPICS BRIT LIT (Topics in British Literature) LaPorte TTh 9:30-11:20 14192

Catalog Description: Themes and topics of special meaning to British literature.

440 A SPEC STUDIES IN LIT (Special Studies in Literature) Shields TTh 1:30-3:20 14193

Catalog Description: Themes and topics offering special approaches to literature.

470 A TEACHING LITERATURES (Theory & Practice of Teaching Literature) Rai MW 9:30-11:20 14194

Catalog Description: Reviews the institutional history of English as an academic discipline and the core debates and politics that have shaped the content, teaching, and study of literature and literacy theory. Introduces some theoretical and methodological approaches that inform the teaching of literature.

483 A ADV VERSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Verse Workshop) Feld MW 10:30-11:50 14195

Catalog Description: Intensive verse workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student poetry.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

484 A ADV PROSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Prose Workshop) Lenk TTh 1:30-2:50 14196

Catalog Description: Intensive prose workshop. Emphasis on the production and discussion of student fiction and/or creative nonfiction.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

485 A NOVEL WRITING (NOVEL WRITING) Paris Th 4:30-7:20p 14197

Catalog Description: Experience in planning, writing, and revising a work of long fiction, whether from the outset, in progress, or in already completed draft.

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383 or 484

490 A PROFESN PUBLIC LIFE (Looking Forward: Professionalization and Public Life) Liu MW 10:30-12:20 14198

Catalog Description: Offers methods for students to identify transferrable skills gleaned while completing the English major. Connections between specific skills of literary/theoretical and critical reading and writing, and the demands of contemporary workplaces and civic life offer students the opportunity to consider their post-college goals. Students will develop an e-portfolio to help present their skills to potential employers.

496 A H-MAJOR CONF-HONORS (Major Conference for Honors) Norako MW 1:30-3:20 14203

Catalog Description: Individual study (reading, papers) by arrangement with the instructor. Required of, and limited to, honors seniors in English.

496 B H-MAJOR CONF-HONORS (Major Conference for Honors) Gillis-Bridges TTh 11:30-1:20 14204

Catalog Description: Individual study (reading, papers) by arrangement with the instructor. Required of, and limited to, honors seniors in English.

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