Prerequisite: ENG 203. An advanced creative nonfiction course. Emphasis on reading and writing personal essays that could be submitted for publication.
Prerequisite: ENG 122. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s histories and comedies, as well as relevant plays, poetry and prose by contemporary authors. Includes background on literary and theatrical history, and recent criticism.
Prerequisite: ENG 122. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s tragedies and romances, as well as related plays by his contemporaries. Includes background on literary and theatrical history, and recent criticism.
Prerequisite: ENG 122. An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s non-dramatic works, as well as related poetry by his contemporaries. Includes background on literary history and recent criticism.
Describes English as treated by traditional grammarians, structuralists and transformationalists. Topics range from word classes, tense and voice, to operations and processes underlying modern grammar.
Prerequisites: ENG 122 and any course meeting LAC category 1b. This advanced writing course is designed to help students study and employ rhetorical concepts that will enable them to write persuasively in a variety of contexts.
Students will study the history of English from its origins as a Germanic and Indo- European language to the present, with special focus on historical development of modern English varieties.
Different approaches to the literature of wonder, including concentration on a particular writer, a theme such as women in science fiction, or a historical study of the genre.
The contributions of important early and modern women writers. Novels, plays and poetry or short stories of world writers will be studied.
Prerequisite: ENG 122. Study of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature by and about European immigrants to the U.S. Also an introduction to theories of ethnicity and literature in the U.S.
Prerequisite: MAS 100 and MAS 110 or ENG 236. In-depth study of contemporary Chicana/o literature and theory. Course will be thematic and will focus on the disciplinary and cultural connections between the literary, the aesthetic, and the theoretical.
Prerequisites: ENG 122 and any course meeting LAC category 1b. Study and interpretation of biblical texts, including sections from Hebrew, Christian, and Apocryphal scriptures, using cultural, historical, and literary hermeneutics.
Prerequisite: ENG 242. An advanced workshop course focusing on short fiction. Emphasis on the analysis of the short story form and how it works.
Prerequisite: ENG 243. Advanced study of the screenplay’s elements, including premise, plot, subplot, theme, conflict, character, dialogue, and transitions. Students will learn the correct format for a professional screenplay.
Prerequisite: ENG 244. An advanced workshop course focusing on poetry. Emphasis on the analysis of and experimentation with poetic form, and different voices.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 and one British or American literature period course. This course introduces students to major issues and movements in literary theory and criticism, such as structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, theories of gender and sexuality, and post-colonial theory.
Prerequisites: MAS 100 or ENG 345. An in-depth study of issues and topics in Chicana/o theory and related fields. May focus on specific periods, specific issues, and/or specific authors. Repeatable, may be taken two times, under different subtitles.
A historical survey of the development of cultural studies. The investigation of "culture" as a symbolic practice, and the various critical methodologies used to interpret cultural "texts."
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to introduce students to the literature and language of the Anglo-Saxon period. Some works will be read in translation and some in Old English.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course is designed to introduce students to the literature and language of the Middle English period. Some works will be read in translation and some in Middle English.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1485 to 1603, including More, Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. Course will focus on humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and the development of English theater.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1603 to 1714, including Donne, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hobbes, Milton, Dryden, and Behn. Course will focus on English colonialism, the Civil War, and emerging women's voices.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected works from 1714 to 1789, including Pope, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Gay, Haywood, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Mary Collier, Gray, Cowper, Mary Leapor, Burke, Anna Barbauld, Equiano, Charlotte Smith, Boswell, Johnson. Focus on satire, early novel, and emerging women's voices.
Prerequisite: ENG 195 or its equivalent. British poetry and prose of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
Prerequisite: ENG 195 or its equivalent. A study of the major Victorian writers and their themes. Special emphasis upon intellectual currents of the nineteenth century as reflected in poetry and prose.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. Selected reading from authors such as Shaw, Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, Thomas, Lessing and Fowles to bring out themes and intellectual currents of the twentieth century.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course provides a survey of early American literature from the age of exploration through the American Revolution.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course examines major movements in literature and culture in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Major authors will include Irving, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Douglass, Whitman, & Dickinson.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course examines major movements in literature and culture in the decades between 1865 and 1900 focusing on American realism and the making of America.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. A study of Modernism and Postmodernism in twentieth-century American literature, with particular emphasis on innovations in literary form.
Prerequisites: ENG 195 or its equivalent. This course provides a survey of late nineteenth through early twenty-first century American literature focusing on the themes of globalization and diaspora.
Explore human relationships with nature writing from various periods and cultures. Economic, scientific, philosophic and religious attitudes emerge from attitudes about nature. Do these influence human treatment of natural things?
Prerequisites: ENG 122 and any course meeting LAC category 1b. Focus on a critical, rhetorical,or literary problem or theme. Repeatable, maximum of nine credits, under different subtitles.