Spring Quarter 2025 — Undergraduate Course Descriptions

200 A READING LIT FORMS (Reading Literary Forms) Sobers MW 9:30-11:20 14070

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) Butler MW 12:30-2:20 14071

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) Hitchman MW 12:30-2:20 14072

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) Moore TTh 12:30-2:20 14073

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) Gilbert TTh 11:30-1:20 14074

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) Garduno M 11:30-12:20 14076

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) Garduno M 12:30-1:20 14077

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) Ayala-Patlan W 1:30-2:20 14078

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) Ayala-Patlan W 12:30-1:20 14079

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) Baker MW 10:30-12:20 14080

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

204 B POPULAR FICTION & MEDIA (Popular Fiction and Media) Baker TTh 3:30-5:20 14081

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

206 A Rhetoric in Everyday Life (Rhetoric in Everyday Life) Rai TTh 9:30-11:20 14082

Catalog Description: Introductory rhetoric course that examines the strategic use of and situated means through which images, texts, objects, and symbols inform, persuade, and shape social practices in various contexts. Topics focus on education, public policy, politics, law, journalism, media, digital cultural, globalization, popular culture, and the arts.

212 A LIT 1700-1900 (Literature, 1700-1900) Staten TTh 12:30-2:20 14083

Catalog Description: Introduces eighteenth and nineteenth -century literature, focusing on representative works that illustrate literary and intellectual developments of the period. Topics include: exploration, empire, colonialism, slavery, revolution, and nation-building

225 A SHAKESPEARE (SHAKESPEARE) Streitberger TTh 10:30-12:20 14084

Catalog Description: Survey of Shakespeare's career as dramatist. Study of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and history plays.

242 A READING Prose FICTION (Read Prose Fiction) TTh 10:30-12:20 14085

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

243 A READING POETRY (Reading Poetry) MW 1:30-3:20 14086

Catalog Description: Critical interpretation and meaning in poems. Different examples of poetry representing a variety of types from the medieval to modern periods.

257 A Asian American Lit (Asian American Literature) Wong MW 2:30-4:20 14088

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.

259 A LIT & SOC DIFFERENCE (Literature and Social Difference) Roberts MW 12:30-2:20 14089

Catalog Description: Literary texts are important evidence for social difference (gender, race, class, ethnicity, language, citizenship status, sexuality, ability) in contemporary and historical contexts. Examines texts that encourage and provoke us to ask larger questions about identity, power, privilege, society, and the role of culture in present-day or historical settings.

265 A INTRO ENVIR HUMANITIES (Introduction to Environmental Humanities) McCauley MW 12:30-2:20 14090

Catalog Description: ntroduces the study of the environment through literature, culture, and history. Topics include changing ideas about nature, wilderness, ecology, pollution, climate, and human/animal relations, with particular emphasis on environmental justice and the unequal distribution of environmental crises, both globally and along class, race and gender lines.

281 B INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Chavez TTh 10:30-12:20 14092

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) Gilbert TTh 1:30-3:20 14093

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) Lehosit MW 10:30-12:20 14094

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 E INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Wilson MW 1:30-3:20 14095

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 F INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Resendez TTh 8:30-10:20 14096

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 H INTERMED EXPOS WRIT (Intermediat Expository Writing) Moore TTh 2:30-4:20 14098

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) Brend MW 10:30-12:20 14099

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) Lovett MW 10:30-12:20 14100

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) Goldenbaum TTh 1:30-2:50 14102

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 14104

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

284 B BEG SHORT STRY WRIT (Beginning Short Story Writing) Shields MW 3:30-4:50 14105

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) Adent TTh 8:30-10:20 14107

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) Ahmad MW 2:30-4:20 14108

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) Lamptey TTh 11:30-1:20 14109

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 MW 2:30-4:20 14111

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.

296 B Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences) Macarthy MW 4:30-6:20p 14112

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.

296 C Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences (Critical Literacy in the Natural Sciences) Halvorsen TTh 3:30-5:20 14113

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 B ADV WRITING HUM (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Humanities) Babbie MWF 12:30-1:20 14115

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) Gonzalez-Garduno WF 2:30-4:20 21850

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) Matthews TTh 2:30-4:20 14116

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) Wacker MW 8:30-10:20 14118

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) Gaul MWF 10:30-11:20 14119

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) Callow TTh 1:00-2:20 14120

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 D ADV WRITING NATSCI (Advanced Interdisciplinary Writing/Natural Sciences) Callow TTh 1:00-2:20 14121

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.

302 A CRITICAL PRACTICE (Critical Practice) Wong MW 11:30-1:20 14122

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) Rodriques TTh 2:30-4:20 14123

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) Harkins TTh 10:30-12:20 14124

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.

317 A LIT OF THE AMERICAS (Literature of the Americas) Suhr MW 9:30-11:20 14125

Catalog Description: Examines writings by and about people of the Americas, with a focus on intersections of gender, colonialism, race, sexuality, and ethnicity.

318 A BLACK LIT GENRES (Black Literary Genres) Retman TTh 1:30-3:20 14126

Catalog Description: Considers how generic forms and conventions have been discussed and distributed in the larger context of African American, or other African diasporic literary studies. Links the relationship between generic forms to questions of power within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Offered: jointly with AFRAM 318; AWSp.

322 A MEDVL LIT OF ENCONTR (Medieval and Early Modern Literatures of Encounter) Hokama MW 12:30-2:20 21386

Catalog Description: Cultural encounters across medieval and early modern worlds, with particular attention to how these works depict cultural difference, race/racism, and geopolitical power.

323 A SHAKESPEARE TO 1603 (Shakespeare to 1603) Knight TTh 11:30-1:20 14127

Catalog Description: Explores Shakespeare's early drama and poetry. May include the sonnets, narrative poems, and selected comedies, histories, or tragedies.

327 A NARRATIVE BONDAGE & FREEDOM (Narratives of Bondage and Freedom) Weinbaum TTh 1:30-3:20 14129

Catalog Description: Examines the impact of historical changes including urban growth and imperial expansion on print culture through selections of poetry, prose, and drama from authors such as Aphra Behn, John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and Jonathan Swift.

330 A ROMANTIC AGE (English Literature: The Romantic Age) Poland MW 2:30-4:20 14130

Catalog Description: Literary, intellectual, and historical ferment of the period from the French Revolution to the 1830s. Readings from major authors in different literary forms; discussions of critical and philosophical issues in a time of change.

336 A EARLY 20TH C ENGL LIT (English Literature: Early Twentieth Century) Burstein MW 1:30-3:20 14131

Catalog Description: Explores fiction, poetry, and drama in English from the period of 1900-1945. Considers the literature in socio-historical context. Modernism, realism, imperialism, and questions f nationality may be foregrounded.

343 A CONTEMPORARY POETRY (Contemporary Poetry) Sokoloff TTh 11:30-1:20 14132

Catalog Description: Explores poetry since World War II. Focus can be American, British, or global Anglophone.

345 A STUDIES IN FILM (Studies in Film) Gillis-Bridges MW 2:30-4:20 14133

Catalog Description: Types, techniques, and issues explored by filmmakers. Emphasis on narrative, image, and point of view.

352 A US LIT TO 1865 (Literatures of the United States to 1865) Abrams MW 3:30-5:20 14134

Catalog Description: Explores American fiction, poetry, and prose from the early nineteenth century through the Civil War. May include such representative authors of the period as Emerson, Melville, Hawthorne, Douglass and fuller, along with supplementary study of the broader cultural and political milieu.

362 A US LATINO/A LIT (U.S. Latino/a Literature) Ramos TTh 11:30-1:20 14135

Catalog Description: Addresses selected contemporary and historical works by United States Latino/a authors from the nineteenth century to the present, tracing their genealogy from a foundational triad of communities - Mexican, American, Puerto Rico, and Cuban American. Engages with issues of power, inequality, and marginality stemming from ethnic, linguistic, and racial experience.

375 A RHETORICAL GENRE (Rhetorical Genre Theory and Practice) Bawarshi TTh 9:30-11:20 14136

Catalog Description: Explores the workings and evolution of rhetorical genres as they emerge from and shape recurring social situations. Focuses on the relationship between form and content, and how the typified rhetorical features and linguistic styles of genres are related to specific purposes, activities, relations, and identities.

382 A SPECIAL MULTIMODAL (Special Topics in Multimodal Composition) Gillis-Bridges MW 11:30-1:20 14138

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 B CRAFT OF VERSE (The Craft of Verse) Triplett TTh 1:30-2:50 14141

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) Paris Th 4:30-7:20p 14142

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

384 B CRAFT OF PROSE (The Craft of Prose) Sonenberg MW 9:30-10:50 14143

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

407 A TOPICS CULTURE ST (Special Topics in Cultural Studies) Clare MW 1:30-3:20 14148

Catalog Description: Advanced work in cultural studies.

422 A ARTHURIAN LEGENDS (Arthurian Legends) Remley TTh 3:30-5:20 14149

Catalog Description: Medieval romance in its cultural and historical setting, with concentration on the evolution of Arthurian romance.

440 A SPEC STUDIES IN LIT (Special Studies in Literature) LaPorte MW 11:30-1:20 14151

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

478 A LANG & SOCL POLICY (Language and Social Policy) Bojan TTh 12:30-2:20 14152

Catalog Description: Examines the relationship between language policy and social organization; the impact of language policy on immigration, education, and access to resources and political institutions; language policy and revolutionary change; language rights.

483 A ADV VERSE WORKSHOP (Advanced Verse Workshop) Triplett Th 4:30-7:20p 14153

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) Sonenberg MW 12:30-1:50 14154

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

Prerequisites:

ENGL 383, 384

490 A PROFESN PUBLIC LIFE (Looking Forward: Professionalization and Public Life) Liu TTh 11:30-1:20 14155

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) Weinbaum TTh 11:30-1:20 14160

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) Chrisman MW 12:30-2:20 14161

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

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