Courses
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024
Training in writing expository prose. Instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Reading and Composition: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 8 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session
Training in writing expository prose. Instruction in writing and reading expository prose. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
First-Year Reading and Composition: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Passing grade in Subject A (exam or course)
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5-6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Formerly known as: 1AN
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session
Training in writing expository prose. Further instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Reading and Composition: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2019
Lectures on Shakespeare and reading of his best works.
Shakespeare: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
Lectures on and discussion of major authors of modern British and American literature.
Modern British and American Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2008, Spring 2006
An introduction to the grammar of English, including phonology (sound structure), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), semantics (linguistic meaning), and pragmatics (contextual meaning), with consideration of different varieties of English in use within the United States and throughout the world, and comparison of English with other languages.
English as a Language: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Lectures and discussion on poetry intended to develop the student's ability to understand and evaluate a poem. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome.
Introduction to the Study of Poetry: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Lectures and discussion intended to develop the student's ability to understand and evaluate fiction. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome.
Introduction to the Study of Fiction: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Fall 2014
Lectures and discussion intended to develop the student's ability to read, understand and evaluate plays. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome.
Introduction to the Study of Drama: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020
The study of selected works by one or two writers.
Major Writers: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-2 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
An introduction to the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" well before the beginning of the semester for details.
Literature of American Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 6.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 5-6 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from origins to the present.
African American Literature and Culture: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2014
Major literary and cultural texts in the Chicana/o tradition from origins to the present.
Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 1987
Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester. (Sections limited to 15 students each.)
Freshman Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 1995
Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester. (Sections limited to 15 students each.)
Freshman Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write fiction or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing.
Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write verse or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing.
Introduction to the Writing of Verse: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024
A workshop course in creative non-fiction, a prose genre that takes on non-fiction subjects (the world of culture, history, personal experience) but also is alert to the creativity required to translate those subjects into the realm of writing. Students will study exemplary works of creative non-fiction in different modes (e.g. literary journalism, personal essay, travel writing) and write their own works in selected modes as well.
Introduction to the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Introduction to the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Historical survey of literature in English: Beginnings through Milton.
Literature in English: Through Milton: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for ENGLISH 45A after completing ENGLISH 46A.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Historical survey of literature in English: The late-17th through the mid-19th century.
Literature in English: The Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Literature in English: The Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Historical survey of literature in English: the mid-19th through the mid-20th century.
Literature in English: The Mid-19th through the Mid-20th Century: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Literature in English: The Mid-19th through the Mid-20th Century: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020
This course provides a broad introductory survey of early to contemporary Asian American literary and cultural production and an opportunity to develop and practice techniques for analyzing literary and cultural forms. English 53 aims to serve students from across campus and is especially suitable for students who have never taken a college-level literary or cultural studies course and would like to improve their essay-writing skills.
Asian American Literatures and Cultures: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Spring 2020
The study of selected works written for children.
Children's Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week
10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week
8 weeks - 3.5-7 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Sophomore seminars on film include dedicated lab time for film screenings. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
Sophomore Seminar on Film: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar and 2 hours of laboratory per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
This course is a small, faculty-led seminar on the practice and discipline of literary analysis. It is meant for all students who seek an introductory literature course and would like to improve their ability to read and write critically, including those who may wish to major in English. Focusing on the close study of a few works, rather than a survey of many, the seminar will help students develop college-level skills for interpreting literature, while gaining awareness of different strategies and approaches for making sense of literary language, genres, forms, and contexts. The seminar also will develop students’ ability to write about literature and to communicate meaningfully the stakes of their analysis to an audience.
Practices of Literary Study: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2019, Spring 2016
Group study in a field that may not coincide with that of any regular course and must be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies.
Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Lower division standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate.
Course may be repeated for credit.
Berkeley Connect: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of directed group study per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Meetings to be arranged. Reading and regular conference with the instructor in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable students to write essays based on their studies.
Independent Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open to sophomore students with an overall G.P.A. of not less than 3.3
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
This seminar is designed to provide English majors with intensive and closely supervised work in critical reading and writing. Although sections of the course may address any literary question, period, or genre, they all provide an introduction to critical and methodological problems in literary studies.
The Seminar on Criticism: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2018, Spring 2016
The history of the English language from its Indo-European roots, through its Old, Middle, and Early Modern periods, as preserved in the literary heritage, to its different forms in use throughout the world today.
The History of the English Language: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2018, Spring 2014
Topics vary from semester to semester.
Topics in the English Language: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022
Basic introduction to the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax of Old English designed to get students reading original texts immediately. Typical Old English texts include: riddles, charms, medical recipes, laws, chronicles, elegies, saints' lives, heroic poetry, and monster lore.
Introduction to Old English: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2013, Fall 2010
The five centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period encompass a remarkably diverse range of literature: heroic epics and lyric laments; riddles, recipes, and magic spells; matter-of-fact accounts of monsters and miracles; and histories that set new standards for scholarship. This course surveys Anglo-Saxon literature in modern translation, encompassing texts originally written in both Old English and Latin, and prose as well as verse. At the heart of the semester is Beowulf, the period's great and enigmatic epic.
Anglo-Saxon England: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2019
Introduction to the English Bible treated as a literary work.
The English Bible As Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2021
Development of literary form and idiom throughout the Christian West from the first to the fifteenth century.
Medieval Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
Lectures on and discussion of Chaucer's major works.
Chaucer: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Spring 2015
Middle English literature exclusive of Chaucer studied in the original language.
Middle English Literature: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
English drama to 1603.
English Drama: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2013
English drama from 1603 to 1700.
English Drama: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2019
Beginnings of the English Renaissance and literature of the 16th century.
The English Renaissance: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020
Literature of the 17th century.
The English Renaissance: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2001
A survey of the principal continental documents which are important to an understanding of the English Renaissance.
Backgrounds of English Literature in the Continental Renaissance: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Backgrounds of English Literature in the Continental Renaissance: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2015, Fall 2012
A chronological survey of Shakespeare's career.
Shakespeare: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2019
A chronological survey of Shakespeare's career.
Shakespeare: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Instructors: Altman, J. Knapp
Terms offered: Fall 1985
Close study of the texts and films based on 8 to 10 plays. Lectures will emphasize the critical implications of transposing plays to film. The goal of the course is the critical understanding of Shakespeare, and the course satisfies the departmental requirement of a course on Shakespeare in the major.
Shakespeare and Film: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
Study of selected plays, with practice in various critical approaches, e.g., establishing text, relation to source, changing concepts of comedy and tragedy, influence of theatrical conditions on technique.
Shakespeare: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2023
Lectures on Shakespeare and reading of his best works.
Shakespeare: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2007
The interrelation of Elizabethan plays and stage practices. Classroom exercises, written assignments, and a final examination. The course will usually culminate in the performance of a play.
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Offered in conjunction with or as a sequel to 117S or 117A-117B
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021
Lectures on and discussion of Milton's major works.
Milton: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
Lectures on and discussion of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and some of their contemporaries.
Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2017
Lectures on and discussion of later eighteenth-century British literature.
Literature of the Later 18th Century: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2019
Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and contemporaries.
Romantic Period: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Credit Restrictions: A deficient grade in English N121 may be removed by taking English 121.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Literature of the Victorian period with an emphasis on poetry and nonfiction prose.
Victorian Period: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022
Defoe through Scott.
The English Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Fall 2015
Dickens through Conrad.
The English Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021
Lectures on and discussion of major European novels.
The European Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2019
Lectures on and discussion of major novels of the twentieth century.
The 20th-Century Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Summer 2020 8 Week Session
Important contemporary novels, some of which may be read in translation.
The Contemporary Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020
Lectures on and discussion of British literature written between 1900 and 1945.
British Literature: 1900-1945: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2014
British and American poetry: 1900 to the present.
Modern Poetry: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2019
British and American drama: 1860 to the present.
Modern Drama: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-2 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2022
Lectures on and discussion of the major writers of the early American period.
American Literature: Before 1800: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019
Lectures on and discussion of the major texts of the American Renaissance.
American Literature: 1800-1865: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019
Lectures on and discussion of American literature from the Civil War through 1900.
American Literature: 1865-1900: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2019, Fall 2017
A survey of modern American literature.
American Literature: 1900-1945: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
A historical survey of American poetry and its backgrounds.
American Poetry: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020
A survey of major American novels.
American Novel: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from origins through World War I.
African American Literature and Culture Before 1917: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
African American Literature and Culture Before 1917: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2016
Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from the Harlem Renaissance through the twentieth century.
African American Literature and Culture Since 1917: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
African American Literature and Culture Since 1917: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021
Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Topics in African American Literature and Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Topics in African American Literature and Culture: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Summer 2021 8 Week Session
Lectures on and discussion of selected works written since the Second World War.
Contemporary Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019
Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" well before the beginning of the semester for details.
Literature of American Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
A course on the intellectual, cultural, historical, and social backgrounds to American literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Topics in American Studies: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Also listed as: AMERSTD C111E
Terms offered: Spring 2006
Major literary and cultural texts in the Chicana/o tradition from origins through the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Chicana/o Literature and Culture to 1910: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2018
Major literary and cultural texts in the Chicana/o tradition from 1910 through the contemporary Chicana/o period.
Chicana/o Literature and Culture Since 1910: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
Topics in Chicana/o literature and culture.
Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020
An examination of various aspects of the modern literature written in English in Africa, the Caribbean, India, and Southeast Asia. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester.
Studies in World Literature in English: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-2 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015
Literatures of various regions in which English is one of the spoken languages, such as Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, Africa, India; and the writings of specific groups or distinctive cultures in the English-speaking world, including the U.S. and the British Isles. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester.
The Cultures of English: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024
Lectures and discussion on the crafts and/or processes of writing in various genres including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, etc. Topics for reading and writing assignments vary semester to semester.
Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.): Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: R1A-R1B or equivalent
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.): Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
A seminar in writing short stories.
Short Fiction: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
A seminar in writing poetry.
Verse: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Students will work through the semester on a single project, either fiction (novel) or nonfiction (biography, history).
Long Narrative: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
Since visual and literary studies have historically been viewed as separate disciplines, we will use theories from both to study those forms of self-representation that defy disciplinary boundaries, or what we call "visual autobiography." The course aims to help students become conversant with the elements of alphabetic literacy (reading and writing) and visual literacy (observing and making) in order to develop a third distinctive textual/visual literacy.
Visual Autobiography: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Also listed as: AMERSTD C174/UGIS C135/VIS STD C185A
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2015, Spring 2001
A seminar in expository and critical writing.
Expository and Critical Writing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2004
A seminar in playwriting.
Playwriting: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
A seminar in the writing of prose nonfiction as an art.
Prose Nonfiction: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2013, Spring 2013
Open to those who wish to assimilate foreign influences for writing poetry or to seek a fuller understanding of any foreign poetry by rendering it into English.
Poetry Translation Workshop: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, willingness to translate, working knowledge of at least one foreign language
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020
An introduction to different modes of technological, critical, and creative writing and the intersections among them and to the representation of technology and science in literature, film, and other media. This course is writing-intensive and aims to serve students from across campus.
Writing Technology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2018, Fall 2013
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Women Writers: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021
Immersive study of a topic in Asian American Literatures and Cultures. Particular offerings may focus on an author, genre, form, literary historical issue, or theoretical problem. Topics vary from term to term. Students should consult the Department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the term.
Topics in Asian American Literatures and Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-2 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Topics in Asian American Literatures and Cultures: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018
An introduction to issues in literary criticism with emphasis on application of principles and methods to selected literary texts.
Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
This class will focus on literary theory.
Introduction to Literary Theory: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
Designed primarily for English majors. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Special Topics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2010
Designed primarily for English majors. Study of a special topic related to the diversity of the United States. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Special Topics in American Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Immersive study of an author, genre, form, or literary historical issue. Topics vary from term to term.
Special Topics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session
In this course, students investigate the way literature and other art forms have both represented the diversity of the United States and shaped conceptions of diversity. English 166AC provides students with an opportunity to deepen and complicate their appreciation of the way fictions make meaning, shape our understanding and experience of the world, and transform society. Topics vary from term to term and might focus on a form (e.g. "Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema"), a literary historical period (e.g. "Race and Revision in Early America"), or a concept (e.g. nationhood in "Literatures of the Asian Diaspora in America").
Special Topics in American Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2023 8 Week Session, Summer 2019
Immersive study of an author, genre, form, or literary historical issue. Topics vary from summer to summer.
Special Topics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Summer: 5 weeks - 16 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2021
Studies in the relationship of literature in English to the arts.
Literature and the Arts: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
Sexual identity in literature in relation to thematics, literary convention, psychology, and the particular politics and sociology of individual cultures. The course may range broadly over Western literature or concentrate on one historical period.
Literature and Sexual Identity: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2022
Studies in the relationship of literature in English to psychology.
Literature and Psychology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Studies in film as a mode of representing reality; cinematic techniques and the "language" of film. Lectures, class discussions, and film viewings.
The Language and Literature of Films: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-7.5 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6-6 hours of lecture and 0-6 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Literature and History: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
Studies of the relationships among literature, culture, and "disability." The course may range broadly or concentrate on one historical period, genre, or issue.
Literature and Disability: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session
Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Literature and Popular Culture: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2023
Studies in the relationship of literature in English to philosophy.
Literature and Philosophy: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024
Studies in the relationship between literature and the environment.
Literature and the Environment: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2004, Fall 2000, Spring 1999
Study of representative forms of folklore and oral literature among the English-speaking people of the British Isles and North America.
British and American Folklore: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2021
Studies in the relationship between literature and law. 4 units.
Literature and Law: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2015
Study of the English language as a medium for literature. Topics may include rhyme, alliteration, meter, poetic syntax, metaphor, irony, the language of point of view, narrative tense, orality, literacy, etc.
Literature and Linguistics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018
Lectures on and discussion of autobiographical forms.
Autobiography: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2021, Fall 2019
Studies of representative comic forms, techniques, and points of view.
Comedy: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016
Reading and discussion of epics, considering their cultural and historical contexts, the nature of their composition, and the development of the form.
The Epic: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
Lectures on and discussion of the form of the short story.
Short Story: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer: 8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024
Study of the essay as a literary form, the circumstances of its use and development, and its fortunes in twentieth-century culture.
The Essay: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Study of lyric forms and techniques.
Lyric Verse: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2016
Study of the novel as a literary genre, its formal development and variations, its technical possibilities, its cultural functions. Topics may vary from semester to semester.
The Novel: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2013
Study of the romance as a literary genre. Topics may vary from semester to semester; focus may be historical or restricted to a particular period (e.g., medieval, modern).
The Romance: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 1985
Study of representative satire forms, techniques, and points of view.
Satire: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 1992
Study of representative tragic forms, techniques, and points of view.
Tragedy: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024
Study of speculative fiction (or science fiction) as a genre. Topics may vary from semester to semester. Focus may be historical or thematic.
Science Fiction: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Terms offered: Spring 2017
“Digital humanities” describes how digital formats and tools can be used to produce knowledge about cultural materials. This course introduces students to techniques used to study visual culture and related disciplines, possibly including mapping, network analysis, digital (re)construction of objects and environments; digital editions of texts or online exhibitions; digital manipulation of images; and content-management systems and structured data. The class also provides a framework to help students think critically about the values that underpin existing DH projects.
Digital Humanities, Visual Cultures: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Also listed as: HISTART C109
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Research-oriented and designed for upper-division English majors. Intensive examination of critical approaches, literary theory, or a special topic in literary and cultural studies. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Research Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: English 100 is prerequisite to English 190
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
H195 is a two-semester course that gives students the training they need to conduct original research and develop their findings into a successful scholarly essay, 40-60 pages in length.
Honors Course: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open only to senior English major honors candidates (i.e., students with an overall GPA of 3.51 or higher and a GPA of 3.65 or higher in courses taken at Berkeley in the major). Consent of instructor is required. English 100 is prerequisite to the English H195A/B series
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
English H195B is the Spring course in the two-course requirement for the honors program, to be preceded by H195A in the Fall semester.
Honors Course: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open only to senior English major honors candidates (i.e., students with an overall GPA of 3.51 or higher and a GPA of 3.65 or higher in courses taken at Berkeley in the major). Consent of instructor is required. English 100 is prerequisite to the English H195A/B series
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023
Enrollment is restricted by university regulations. Group study in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open to students who have completed 12 units of upper division English with an average of not less than B
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session
Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate. Course may be repeated for credit.
Berkeley Connect: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of directed group study per week
Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of directed group study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Meetings to be arranged. Enrollment is restricted by university regulations. Reading and conference with the instructor in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies.
Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open to students who have completed 12 units of upper division English with an average grade of not less than B
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.
Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Approaches to literary study, including textual analysis, scholarly methodology and bibliography, critical theory and practice.
Problems in the Study of Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open only to students in the English Ph.D. program
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2007
Studies in the structure of the English language, varying by semester. Possible topics include phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, either separately or in relation to literature, culture, and society.
Topics in the Structure of the English Language: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Topics in the Structure of the English Language: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2009
Topics in the History of the English Language: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Topics in the History of the English Language: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Graduate lecture courses surveying broad areas and periods of literary history, and directing students in wide reading. Offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Graduate Readings: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open to advanced undergraduates, with the consent of the instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2009
Old English: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open to undergraduates with the consent of the instructor
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014
Old English: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Open to undergraduates with the consent of the instructor
Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2018
Discussion of Chaucer's major works.
Chaucer: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2012
Rapid reading of selections in Middle English, from the twelfth century through the fifteenth.
Readings in Middle English: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2016, Fall 2014
Discussion of selected works of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2019
Discussion of Milton's major works.
Milton: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2020
A writing workshop in fiction for graduate students.
Fiction Writing Workshop: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, normally based on prior writings submitted
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022
A writing workshop in poetry for graduate students.
Poetry Writing Workshop: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, normally based on prior writings submitted
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020
A writing workshop in prose nonfiction for graduate students.
Prose Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, normally based on prior writings submitted
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2017
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Renaissance: Sixteenth century (excluding, or at least not prominently featuring, Skakespeare): Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2017, Spring 2015
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Renaissance: Seventeenth century through Milton: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Graduate Proseminars: Renaissance: Seventeenth century through Milton: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Fall 2008
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Restoration and early 18th century: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Graduate Proseminars: Restoration and early 18th century: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2016
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Later 18th century: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2015
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Romantic: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2020
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Victorian: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2012, Fall 2011
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: American to 1855: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2014, Spring 2011
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: American 1855 to 1900: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2019, Fall 2014
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Literature in English 1900 to 1945: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Graduate Proseminars: Literature in English 1900 to 1945: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2014, Fall 2007
Proseminars in the major chronological fields of English and American literature providing graduate instruction in scholarly and critical approaches appropriate to each field.
Graduate Proseminars: Literature in English 1945 to Present: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Graduate Proseminars: Literature in English 1945 to Present: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
Required of all Ph.D. students. Advanced study in various fields, leading to a substantial piece of writing. Offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester.
Research Seminars: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Directed research. Open to qualified graduate students wishing to pursue special topics. If taken to satisfy degree requirements, must be taken for four units and a letter grade.
Special Studies: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-12 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
Normally reserved for students directly engaged upon the doctoral dissertation.
Special Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-30 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 2-23 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Summer 2010 10 Week Session, Summer 2009 10 Week Session
Primarily for students engaged in preliminary exploration of a restricted field, involving research and the writing of a report. May not be substituted for available seminars.
Special Study: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Summer:
6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Discussion of course aims, instructional methods, grading standards, and special problems in the teaching of composition and literature, with practice in handling sample essays. When given for graduate student instructors in the English R1A-R1B Program or the English 45 series, the course will include class visitation.
The Teaching of Composition and Literature: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Formerly known as: English 302
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. May not be used for unit or residence requirements for the doctoral degree.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: English/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.