General Course Descriptions
These are general course descriptions for undergraduates. For the current semester's
course offerings, see the undergraduate course offerings.
Lower Division Courses
English 1A – Composition 1
English 1B – Composition 2
English 7 – Critical Thinking
English 10 – Great Works of Literature
English 22 – Fantasy and Science Fiction
English 40 – Contemporary World Fiction
English 56A – English Literature to the Late 18th Century
English 56B – English Literature Late 18th Century to Present
English 68A – American Literature to 1865
English 68B – American Literature 1865 to Present
English 71 – Creative Writing
English 78 – Introduction to Shakespeare's Drama
Upper Division Courses
English 100W – Writing Workshop
English 101 – Introduction to Literary Criticism
English 102 – History of the English Language
English 103 – Modern English
English 105 – Seminar in Advanced Composition
English 106 – Editing for Writers
English 107 – Professional Technical Writing
English 109 – Writing and the Young Writer
English 112A – Children's Literature
English 112B – Literature for Young Adults
English 113 – Gothic Novel and Horror Fiction
English 114 – Myth, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
English 115 – The Bible as Literature
English 116 – Myth in Literature
English 117A – American Literature, Film, and Culture
English 117B – Global Film, Literature, and Cultures
English 118 – Modern European Fiction
English 119 – Topics in Jewish Literature
English 120 (TA 120) – Theatre History
English 121 (CLIT 121) – Introduction to Comparative Literature
English 122 (CLIT 122) – Topics in Comparative Literature
English 123A – Literature for Global Understanding: The Americas
English 123B – Literature for Global Understanding: Africa
English 123C – Literature for Global Understanding: Oceania
English 123D – Literature for Global Understanding: Asia
English 124 (RELS 124) – Literature and Religious Experience
English 125– European Literature: Homer to Dante
English 126 – Holocaust Literature
English 127 (TA 127) – Contemporary Theatre
English 128 (TA 128) – Scriptwriting
English 129 – Introduction to Career Writing
English 130 – Writing Fiction
English 131 – Writing Poetry
English 133 – Reed Magazine
English 134 – Speech Writing
English 135 – Writing Nonfiction
English 139 – Visiting Authors
English 140A – Old English
English 141 – Medieval Literature
English 142 – Chaucer
English 143 – The Age of Elizabeth
English 144 – Shakespeare I
English 145 – Shakespeare and Performance
English 146 – The Later English Renaissance
English 147 – Milton
English 148 – British Literature: 1660-1800
English 149 – The Romantic Period
English 150 – The Victorian Age
English 151 – Twentieth Century Poetry
English 152A – English Drama to 1642
English 152B – English Drama from 1660
English 153A – Eighteenth Century British Novel
English 153B – Nineteenth Century British Novel
English 156 – Black Women Writers: Race, Culture and Life Cycle in Cross-Cultural
Perspective
English 161 – American Literature to 1830
English 162 – American Literature: 1830-1865
English 163 – American Literature: 1865-1910
English 164 – American Literature: 1910-1945
English 165 – Topics in Ethnic American Literature
English 166 – American Literature Since 1945
English 167 – Steinbeck
English 168 – The American Novel
English 169 – Ethnicity in American Literature
English 172 – The Arts in the U.S. Society
English 173 – Thinking About Contemporary World Arts
English 176 – The Short Story
English 177 – Topics in Fiction Since 1900
English 180 – Individual Studies
English 181– Special Topics
English 182 – Women in Literature
English 183 – Major Authors
English 184 – Directed Reading
English 190 – Honors Colloquium
English 193 – Senior Seminar
English 193C – Senior Seminar in Creative Writing and Self Reflection
English 195 – Literary Theory
English 199 – Writing Internship
English 1A – Composition 1
Expository writing, supplemented by critical reading.
Prerequisite: English Placement Test (EPT)
Covers GE Area A2
3 units
English 1B – Composition 2
Continuation of expository writing, supplemented by critical reading and analysis of expository prose or literature.
Prerequisite: English 1A and English Placement Test (EPT).
Covers GE Area C3
3 units
English 7 – Critical Thinking
Nature and meaning of critical thought, Western and non-Western. Relationship between logic and language. Examination of contrasting arguments on related subjects as a means of developing skill in analysis of prose.
Prerequisite: English 1A
Covers GE Area A3
3 units
English 10 – Great Works of Literature
Fiction, drama, and poetry for non-English majors. Emphasis on critical appreciation of various literary forms.
No credit in the English major.
Covers GE Area C2.
3 units
English 22 – Fantasy and Science
Students will examine works of literary fantasy and science fiction to understand them as expressions of human intellect and imagination; to comprehend their historical and cultural contexts; and to recognize their diverse cultural traditions. Both contemporary and historical works will be studied.
No credit in the English major.
Covers GE Area C2
3 units
English 40 – Contemporary World Fiction
A study of selected works of fiction in English and in English translation written since 1975. The course both focuses on international texts that address significant themes of our time and explores ways of reading and understanding literature.
No credit in the English major.
Covers GE Area C2
3 units
English 56A – English Literature to the Late 18th Century
Major literary movements, figures, and genres from Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Works and writers may include Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer, Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell.
3 units
English 56B – English Literature Late 18th Century to Present
Major literary movements, figures, and genres from the Romantic age to the present. Writers may include Austen, the Romantics, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, Yeats, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett.
3 units
English 68A – American Literature to 1865
Survey of American literature. Native-American myths to Walt Whitman.
3 units each
English 68B – American Literature 1865 to Present
Survey of American literature. Emily Dickinson to present.
3 units each
English 71 – Creative Writing
Examinations of works of poetry, creative nonfiction and short fiction as expression of human intellect and imagination, to comprehend the historic and cultural contexts, and recognize issues related to writing by men and women of diverse cultural traditions. Students will also write poetry, creative nonfiction, and a short fiction.
Covers GE Area C2
3 units
English 78 – Introduction to Shakespeare's Drama
Reading of five or six representative plays. The Elizabethan era, dynamics of performance, and close analysis of the plays.
No credit in the English major.
Covers GE Area C2
3 units
English 100W – Writing Workshop
Advanced workshops in Reading and Composition, Creative Arts, English Studies, and Technial Writing. A Writing Workshop is also available for foreign students.
Prerequisite: Completion of Core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test (WST), and upper division standing.
Required of all English majors before they achieve senior standing. Must be passed with C or better to satisfy the CSU Graduation Writing Assessment requirement.
Covers GE Area Z
3 units
English 101 – Introduction to Literary Criticism
Study and application of various historical and contemporary approaches to literature, such as formalism, structuralism, new criticism, cultural studies, new historicism, post-structuralism, Marxism, post-colonialism, feminism, etc. Application of these approaches to works of literature.
Prerequisite: ENGL 100W.
3 units
English 102 – History of the English Language
Course traces the development of the English language—its sounds, word forms, grammatical structures, vocabulary, and punctuation—from its origins as a dialect of the German-speaking peoples to its status as a world language today.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 103 – Modern English
The growth and structure of modern English, including its phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Attention to social and regional varieties, with implications for language development and literacy among native and non-native speakers.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 105 – Seminar in Advanced Composition
Advanced expository writing.
Prerequisite: 6 units of lower division composition and completion of Written Communication II requirement (ENGL100W).
Repeatable once for credit with different instructor and department chair consent.
3 units
English 106 – Editing for Writers
Copy editing, substantive editing, and reorganization of technical documents. Review of grammar and punctuation to insure technical mastery and ability to justify editing decisions. Graphics editing, access aids, and professional skills of an editor.
Prerequisite: ENGL 103
3 units
English 107 – Professional Technical Writing
Research methods, audience analysis, and development of reader-based writing techniques. Writing based on models from scientific and technical discourse.
Prerequisite: ENGL 103
3 units
English 109 – Writing and the Young Writer
This course is designed to strengthen participants' writing skills in both creative and expository genres and to develop participants' knowledge and skill as future teachers of writing.
3 units
English 112A – Children's Literature
Study of literature for elementary and intermediate grades, representing a variety of cultures. Evaluation and selection of texts.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 112B – Literature for Young Adults
Study of selected literary material, representing a variety of cultures, chosen to motivate secondary school readers.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 113 – Gothic Novel & Horror Fiction
Study of the gothic novel in Britain and America 1795-1900. Current trends in horror fiction and films will be traced to these gothic predecessors.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 114 – Myth, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
An historically-based introduction to two of the most popular contemporary literary genres. Authors studied may include: Apuleius, Malory, More, Shelley, Wells, Carroll, Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, Clarke, Bradbury, Le Guin, Bradley, Stephensen, Butler, and Delaney.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 115 – The Bible as Literature
Study of the Bible from the perspective of literature, examining key portions of the Bible, its subjects, themes, literary styles and genres, and contributions to Western Literature.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 116 – Myth in Literature
Relations between archetypes, artistic style and cultural context in masterworks, ancient through modern.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 117A – American Literature, Film, and Culture
Using both film and literature, course examines narratives that create and define cultural identities in the United States. A variety of cultural moments in the history of North America as depicted in both film and literature as well as the artistic practices used to shape those representations will be discussed.
Prerequisites: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area S
3 units
English 117B – Film, Literature, and Culture
Using films and literary works, students will appreciate and understand the narratives (myths and other stories ) that create and define cultural identity, explore cultural interaction, and illustrate cultural preservation and cultural difference over time.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 118 – Modern European Fiction
Representative European novels in English translation--French, German, Scandinavian, Russian, Central European, Spanish, and Italian.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 119 – Topics in Jewish Literature
Topics in Jewish Literature: Studies in Jewish Literature by authors from around the world
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 120 (TA 120) – Theatre History
Examines the historical roots, many manifestations, and diversity of theatrical performances with particular attention to theatre's role within and between cultures. When content changes may be repeated.
Prerequisite: TA 011 or instructor consent.
3 units
English 121 (CLIT 121) – Introduction to Comparative Literature
Critical approaches, reference sources, problems of translation.
Prerequisite: One year of college-level foreign language or instructor consent.
3 units
English 122 (CLIT 122) – Topics in Comparative Literature
An exemplary theme as treated in various literature in different languages (e.g. war, love, freedom, religious experience). May be repeated when course content changes.
Prerequisite: One year of college-level foreign language or instructor consent.
3 units
English 123A – Literature for Global Understanding: The Americas
Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, the Americas, and covers representative texts and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean/West Indies.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 123B – Literature for Global Understanding: Africa
Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, Africa, and covers representative texts and authors from North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 123C – Literature for Global Understanding: Oceania
Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, Oceania, and covers representative texts and authors from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 123D – Literature for Global Understanding: Asia
Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, Asia, and covers representative texts and authors from a sub-region of Asia such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, or West Asia/the Middle East.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 124 (RELS 124) – Literature and Religious Experience
How authors and poets represent spiritual ideals and human dilemmas in a variety of literary genres such as the epic, the novel, the essay, love poetry and the haiku; and writers such as Plato, Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Merton, Shakespeare, Basho, Hanshan, Rumi and Sufi poets, Kabir, Indian Virashaiva poets, and authors of The Book of Odes and The Mahabharata. Course is repeatable as readings and themes change.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor consent.
3 units
English 125 – European Literature: Homer to Dante
Classical and medieval literature in translation: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil, and Dante.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 126 – Holocaust Literature
Survey of literature written by survivors or witnesses of the Holocaust, the destruction of European Jewry during World War II, focusing upon diaries, memoirs, fiction, and occasionally poetry and drama. Writers may include Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Anne Frank, Charlotte Delbo.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 127 (TA 127) – Contemporary Theatre
European and American playwrights from 1950 to the present and important theatre practices for this period.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 128 (TA 128) – Scriptwriting
Writing in dramatic form: plot structure, characterization, content and theme. Analysis of plays. Exercises in writing.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor consent.
3 units
English 129 – Introduction to Career Writing
Practice in various professional writing tasks: instructions, descriptions, reviews, interviews, articles, creative nonfiction. Publication of a newsletter and a magazine. Study of models and application of techniques to achieve given stylistic effects.
Prerequisite: ENGL 103
3 units
English 130 – Writing Fiction
Workshop in short stories or other short fiction. Beginning the novel in individual cases. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: ENGL 71 (or equivalent) or instructor consent.
3 units
English 131 – Writing Poetry
Workshop in verse forms. Study of traditional and contemporary models. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: ENGL 71 (or equivalent) or instructor consent.
3 units
English 133 – Reed Magazine
Student-edited and managed literary magazine. Contents selected from local, national and international submissions. Students urged to work on the magazine for the two semesters required for publication. Open to all majors. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 134 – Speech Writing
Writing speeches for others. Study of audience, language, persuasion, devices, style.
Prerequisite: English 129 or instructor consent.
3 units
English 135 – Writing Nonfiction
Advanced creative writing workshop in literary nonfiction. Study of traditional and contemporary models. May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisite: ENGL 71, ENGL 100W, ENGL 105, ENGL 129, or instructor consent.
3 units.
English 139 – Visiting Authors Seminar
Study of works by contemporary writers participating in the Major Authors series and other programs sponsored by the Center for Literary Arts. Includes meetings with visiting authors and attending their various presentations.
Required for the Creative Writing Concentration.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 140A – Old English
Introduction to the language, with short selections for translation.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units.
English 141 – Medieval Literature
Middle English and continental literature, including such forms as the lyric, allegory, narrative, romance, and biblically based drama.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units.
English 142 – Chaucer
Chaucer's language and major poetic works. The Legend of Good Women, Canterbury Tales, and Troilus and Cressida.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 143 – The Age of Elizabeth
Poetry and prose of the early English Renaissance. Origin and development of English literary genres. Focus on Sidney and Spenser, lyric and narrative poetry of Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 144 – Shakespeare I
Major plays such as Twelfth Night, Henry IV, Part I, and Hamlet.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 145 – Shakespeare & Performance
Course examines in depth several of Shakespeare's plays, specifically addressing issues of performance. We will discuss each play in the context of its original performance during Shakespeare's time and its life on stage and screen in the ensuing centuries.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 146 – The Later English Renaissance
English poetic forms and prose styles from the accession of James I to the fall of the Commonwealth. Writers may include Donne, Bacon, Wroth, Lanyer, Browne, and Marvell.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units.
English 147 – Milton
The man, the thinker, the revolutionary, the poet. English poems, major prose, selected modern criticism.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 148 – British Literature: 1660-1800
Major writers including Dryden, Behn, Swift, Pope, and Johnson. With instructor consent may be repeated.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 149 – The Romantic Period
Study of major British authors and poets from 1780 to 1837, tracing changes in philosophy, religion, society, and culture represented in their works.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 150 – The Victorian Age
Study of major British authors and poets from 1837 to 1900, tracing changes in philosophy, religion, society and culture represented in their works.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 151 – Twentieth-Century Poetry
Major British and American poets, including writers such as Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Frost, Auden, Stevens, Rich.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 152A – English Drama to 1642
Drama and theater in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and other contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 152B – English Drama from 1660
Masterpieces of Restoration and modern drama.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Notes: Offered only occasionally.
3 units
English 153A – Eighteenth-Century British Novel
Study of the novel as a new literary form expressing psychological and sociological realities of the individual as hero/heroine in 18th-century England. Authors may include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Burney, and Austen.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 153B – Nineteenth-Century British Novel
Study of the novel through the modern period. Novelists may include Shelley, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 154 – British & Irish Fiction Since 1900
Study of British and Irish fiction since 1900. Authors may include Conrad, Forster, Ford, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Lessing, Greene, Fowles, Ishiguro, Byatt, Doyle, O'Brien.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 156 (AFAM 156) – Black Women Writers
Comparative analysis of the meaning and developmental stages of womanhood for women of African ancestry as depicted in the fiction of women of African ancestry. Emphasis on the role of race and culture in shaping contemporary conceptions of womanhood among Black women.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor consent.
3 units
English 161 – American Literature to 1830
Major literary figures of the Colonial, Revolutionary, and post-Colonial periods. In addition to selected translations of non-English materials, readings may include Bradstreet, Wheatley, Rowson, Mather, Cooper, Taylor, and Jefferson.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 162 – American Literature: 1830-1865
Writers may include Emerson, Douglass, Fuller, Hawthorne, Stowe, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 163 – American Literature: 1865-1910
Rise of realism and the seeds of modernism. Writers may include Twain, James, Howells, Dickinson, DuBois, Dunbar, Dreiser, Wharton, Chesnutt, and Chopin.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 164 – American Literature: 1910-1945
Writers may include Wright, Hurston, Cather, Eliot, Moore, Faulkner, William Carlos
Williams, and Gertrude Stein.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
3 units.
English 165 – Topics in Ethnic American Literature
Focused study of a topic in ethnic American Literature, such as African American, Asian American, Latino American, or ethnic autobiography. Check schedule of classes for current offering.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 166 – American Literature Since 1945
Major works of American literature since 1945, including writers such as Barth, Reed, Kingston, Lowell, Rich, Pynchon, and Ozick.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 167 – Steinbeck
Major of John Steinbeck. Use of the Steinbeck Center for research.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 168 – The American Novel
Selected American novels from the Revolution to the present.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 169 – Ethnicity in American Literature
Study of race and ethnicity in the literary arts of North America. Selected works of authors from such groups as African Americans, European Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos, Latinos and American Indians.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area S
3 units
English 172 (CA 172) – The Arts in U.S. Society
Study of American arts and artists in their aesthetic, social, and political contexts, focusing on 20th and 21st centuries. Arts examined include architecture, poetry, music, visual arts, dance, theatre, performance art, and fiction. Special emphasis on issues of cultural diversity.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills Test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area S
3 units
English 173 (CA 173) – Thinking About Contemporary World Arts
An interdisciplinary course on contemporary arts and culture which investigates connections between arts disciplines and world cultures. The course uses critical and creative thinking as the lens to focus on issues in the arts, especially personal and cultural identities.
Prerequisite: Completion of core GE, satisfaction of Writing Skills test, and upper division standing. For students who begin continuous enrollment at a CCC or a CSU in Fall 2005 or later, completion of, or co-requisite in a 100W course is required.
Covers GE Area V
3 units
English 176 – The Short Story
Analysis and interpretation of selected short stories from the 19th century to the present.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 177 – Topics in Fiction Since 1900
Course will focus on different topics in modern fiction. Novels and short stories will be examined as works of art and as expressions of intellectual and social movements. May be repeated when course content changes.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 180 – Individual Studies
By arrangement with instructor and department chair approval.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Grading: Credit/No Credit
1-3 units
English 181 – Special Topics
Significant topics or themes in English or Comparative Studies.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 182 – Women in Literature
Image of women in literature or works of significant women writers.
Repeatable for credit.
3 units
English 183 – Major Authors
One major author's works. Author changes each semester. Repeatable for credit.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 184 – Directed Reading
For upper-division students with special objectives. Repeatable for credit.
Prerequisite: Instructor and department chair approval.
Grading: Credit/No Credit
3 units
English 190 – Honors Colloquium
Selected topics.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, 3.5 GPA, 3.0 overall GPA and admission to departmental honors program.
3 units
English 193 – Senior Seminar
Culminating course for majors, requiring students to reflect on experiences in the major. Readings and discussions focus on literature and self-reflection. Each student submits a Portfolio of writing from at least five courses taken in major. Written work for seminar is added to Portfolio.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 193C – Senior Seminar in Creative Writing and Self Reflection
Culminating seminar for the Creative Writing Concentration, requiring students to reflect on experiences and revise work completed in several other courses taken in the Concentration. New writing done for the seminar will be included with revised work in a final Portfolio.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing. For Creative Writing Concentration Credit only.
3 units
English 195 – Literary Theory
Examines major theoretical approaches to literature with attention to the history and politics of reception and canon formation.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
3 units
English 199 – Writing Internship
Internship at a local industry, publisher, arts or public agency. Discussion of experiences and problems in the internship. Study of professional practices and demands, including those of career preparation and development.
Prerequisite: 3.0 GPA both overall and in English; no credit in English major.
Grading: Credit/No Credit
3 units