College Catalog 2016-2017 ARCHIVED CATALOG
Course Descriptions
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ENGL 110 - Exploring Literature
An introductory course in the study of literature (topic to be determined by the individual instructor). This course is designed to prepare students for advanced study of literature at the college level, is offered only in the Fall semester, and is open to first-year students and transfers only. It does not fulfill the COM2 writing intensive requirement, but it does count as the gateway/prerequisite for more advanced ENGL courses.
Pre-req: Open only to Freshman
3 credits
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ENGL 120 - Why Read?
This course offers the opportunity to explore the nature and value of literature and to think about how literature can matter in our lives and the world at large. It gives students a chance to use literature to contemplate some of the great questions of life: “Who am I?”, “What is my place in the world?”, “What is the good life?”, and “What does it mean to be human?”
Pre-req: Not open to students that have taken ENGL 110
3 credits
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ENGL 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 201 - Introduction to Journalism
The fundamentals of writing for a newspaper; introduction to the profession of journalism; problems of reporting, editing and publishing.
3 credits
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ENGL 202 - Writing Short Fiction
By writing short stories and critiquing those of peers and published writers, students learn in workshops and conferences to analyze the problems of writing of short fiction. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 203 - Writing Poetry
An introduction to poetry writing, focusing on form and technique. Workshops, outside readings, visits by established poets. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 204 - Playwriting Workshop
The Playwriting Workshop is meant to sharpen student’s creative writing skills and to teach them the elements of playwriting and character development. Through the reading of one-act plays and writing exercises, students will learn the craft of playwriting. They will write scenes, learn how to thoughtfully critique each other’s work, and create their own one-act plays.
3 credits
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ENGL 220 - Major British Writers to 1785
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British literature to 1785, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
Pre-req: ENGL 120
3 credits
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ENGL 221 - Major British & American Writers from 1660
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British and American literature from 1660, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
Pre-req: ENGL 220
3 credits
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ENGL 222 - Literature of the Bible
A study of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, with an emphasis on biblical texts both as literature in their own right and as sources for other literature, art, and music.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
Cross-listed with REL 216
3 credits
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ENGL 270 - Transcultural Literature
An examination of fiction, poetry, or drama in an increasingly interconnected world, where geographic and national boundaries have become inadequate to categorize literary movements. Topics may include globalization, mobility, cosmopolitanism, and flexible citizenship in the works of authors such as Salman Rushdie, Jumpa Lahiri, Orhan Pamuk, Chimamanda Adichie and Frank Chin.
3 credits
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ENGL 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 304 - Literary Translation Workshop
A class in the art and craft of literary translation. Students will read about critical, theoretical, and practical approaches to the translation of literature, develop and define their own ethics and esthetics of the interesting and troubled act of translation, and finally express their esthetic theories in the form first of a manifesto and later of a translator’s preface or afterward to their final project. All students should come to the first class with a reading knowledge of a foreign language, and with a tentative final project in mind, but it will not be expected that all will share the same languages. Students may translate prose or poetry. A prior creative writing workshop is recommended.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 305 - Screenwriting
An introduction to writing aspects for films, including artistic and professional aspects of the trade. Workshops, readings, and writing exercises will lead toward a full-length screenplay.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 306 - Creative Nonfiction
Some of America’s most storied writers work in a genre called, somewhat paradoxically, creative nonfiction. Ever since Truman Capote published the first ‘nonfiction novel’ about the murders of the Clutter family in 1965, the art of presenting facts has cut a major swath across American letters. After Capote and Normal Mailer, a group of writers in the ‘60s and ‘70s found that writing about America’s riotous transformations demanded something other than newspapers’ conventionally dispassionate tone. Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, Gay Talese, Michael Herr and Tom Wolfe wrote about hippies, rock and roll and the Vietnam War and changed the way the culture understood journalism. A variety of contemporary writers like John McPhee, Jon Krakauer, Dave Eggers, Anne Fadiman and Katherine Boo have continued to explore the power and boundaries of nonfiction, covering everything from extremist religious cults to poverty in India to the natural history of oranges. Using the format tools of the best literary fiction - structure, point of view - literary nonfiction brings the full force and grace of the language to bear on narratives carved from observed truth. This class will cover a discussion of journalistic standards and ethics, an introduction to the practice of literary journalism and a survey of some of the important writers in the field.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 308 - Screenwriting: The Television Pilot
This class will introduce students to writing for television, with a focus on creating the first episode of an original television series. From HBOs Game of Thrones to Amazons Transparent, the range of whats possible in this format is wide. We will work on pitches, loglines, outlines, breaking story and finally writing the entire pilot. We will cover acts, structure and other conventions of the industry. Students will be expected to write and polish either a half-hour comedy or a one-hour drama script, with a focus on creating pilots that are, in fact, first episodes in longer narrative arcs (story engine).
3 credits
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ENGL 310 - Linguistics
A study of the sounds, forms, structure, and meanings of human language, alongside the biological and social forces that shape its use and control its evolution over time.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 311 - History of the English Language
A study of the origins of English and its dialects, and of the historical, social, and linguistic forces that shaped its evolution from Prehistoric Germanic through Old English, Middle English, and Modern English.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 319 - Early Modern Drama
An examination of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama in the context of early modern culture and the emergence of the professional theater as a site for social critique. Featured playwrights may include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson, Thomas Middleton, Philip Massinger, Elizabeth Cary, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 320 - Literature of Medieval Europe
A survey of the main trends and genres of literature in Europe from the Fall of Rome (c. 500) to the Protestant Reformation (c. 1500). Most texts (coming from Italy, France and Germany, as well as from England) will be read in translation.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 321 - British Literature 700-1500
A survey of major genres and works of the British Isles to the close of the Middle Ages. Readings include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Second Shepherd’s Play, and the Morte d’Arthur. Except for Middle English texts, work will be read in translation.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 322 - Heroes, Gods, and Gurus
An exploration of the complex and amazing world of classic Hindu literature, with a focus on either the Mahabharata or Ramayana (the focus alternates each semester the course is taught). We examine either the Mahabharata’s or Ramayana’s basic story and characters and seek to learn about their cultural context and impact, across centuries of interpretation and practice.
Cross-listed with REL 313
3 credits
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ENGL 323 - Dante
A close reading (in translation) of Dante’s Divine Comedy in the context both of his Vita Nuova and of various historical and literary movements of his time.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 324 - Chaucer
A close reading of The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, in Middle English and with their medieval background.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 325 - Literature of the English Renaissance
A survey of literature from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, focusing especially on various strains of Renaissance Humanism-including works by Petrarch, Castiglione, Wyatt, the Sidney circle, Spenser, Shakespeare, Southwell, Donne, Wroth, Philips, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell and Milton.
Pre-req: THEA 150, ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 326 - Topics in Shakespeare
Thematic study of Shakespeare’s works and/or adaptations of Shakespeare drama, reflecting current trends in Shakespeare Studies. Topics may include Postcolonial Shakespeares, Hamlet and its Afterlifes, Shakespeare in American Life, and Shakespearean Collaborations.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , ENGL 221 , THEA 150 or THEA 272
3 credits
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ENGL 327 - Reading Renaissance Poetry
A survey of early modern English poetry by both men and women – as well as its Italian influences – from the reign of Henry VIII through the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, this course will consider Petrarch and Italian Petrarchans, as well as Wyatt and Surrey, Spenser, Sidney and Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne, Lanyer, Philips, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Dryden, and Finch.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 or ENGL 120 or ENGL 220 or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 329 - Milton
An examination of John Milton’s poetry and major prose in its biographical and historical context, culminating in a close reading of Paradise Lost.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
Cross-listed with REL 357
3 credits
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ENGL 330 - British Literature 1640-1789
A survey of British literature of the English Civil Wars, Restoration, and eighteenth century, with particular attention to its social context. Special emphasis is given to Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Fielding, and Johnson, as well as to the numerous women writing during the period.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 331 - Rise of the Novel
The pioneers of the novel in English: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 332 - 19th-Century English Novel
Major nineteenth-century novels, selected from the works of Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 333 - Jane Austen in Context
An intensive study of several Austen novels in terms of historical context, formal innovations, and cultural resonances. Readings may also include works by Austen’s literary influences, contemporaries, and heirs.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 335 - Victorian Poetry
Survey of British poetry from 1830 to 1900, emphasizing the formation and influence of the Victorian doctrine of “separate spheres” and the later development of the scientific classifications of sexuality.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 336 - The European Novel
Selected European novels of the 19th century, with particular emphasis on Russian fiction.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 337 - Gothic Fiction
British Gothic fiction from its eighteenth century origins through nineteenth century works such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and Woman in White. Topics will include the Imperial Gothic, feminist psychoanalytic criticism and queer theory.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 350 - Modern Drama
A survey of modern dramatic works from the 1870s to the 1960s, from naturalism to the Theater of the Absurd.
Pre-req: THEA 150, ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 352 - The Modern British Novel
An examination of British novels from 1900 through the 1940s, with an emphasis on modernism and such novelists as Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Ford, Forster, Lawrence, and Orwell.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 353 - James Joyce
Irish nationalism and Irish renaissance; emphasis on Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and O’Casey.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 354 - Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction
A study of British literature and culture since 1950, and of the relationship between literature and national identity in the period.
Pre-req: THEA 150, ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 355 - Contemporary Drama
A study of key figures and movements in drama and performance art since the 1950s.
Pre-req: THEA 150, ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 356 - Twenty-First-Century British Fiction
A study of British literature and culture since 1950, and of the relationship between literature and national identity in the period.
3 credits
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ENGL 358 - Postcolonial Novel
Novels, with some short fiction and essays, about many aspects of colonialism, with particular focus on the British Empire.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 361 - American Romanticism
The major writers of the literary movement known as “transcendentalism” and the response to them. Such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, Whittier, Longfellow, and Bryant will be considered.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 362 - American Realism & Naturalism
The major writers of the last half of the nineteenth century to World War I, with emphasis on the two movements of the course title. Such writers as Stowe, Twain, Howells, Crane, James, Norris, London, Chopin, Gilman, Wharton, and Adams will be considered.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 363 - Modern American Novel
The modernist movement in the American novel from World War I to 1950. Such writers as Cather, Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Hurston, Dreiser, Welty, Stein, Steinbeck, Lewis, Fitzgerald, Hammett, and Chandler will be considered.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 364 - Modern American Poetry
Poets of the modernist era in America, such as Williams, Stevens, Eliot, and Moore. May include some contemporaneous British poets (i.e. Yeats) and American precursors (i.e. Dickinson and Whitman).
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 365 - Hemingway and Eliot
Close reading of major works by Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot, with attention to literary form, ethical situations, and world views.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 or 4 credits
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ENGL 370 - Contemporary American Fiction
A course in American fiction from the late 20th century through the present, with an emphasis on how to distinguish major movements in the period and how print fiction relates to other forms of culture. Pre-req: ENGL 110 or 120 or 220 or 221.
Pre-req: ENGL 110, ENGL 120, ENGL 220, or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 371 - Contemporary American Poetry
Readings in American poetry from post-World War II to the present. May include some contemporaneous world poetry.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 373 - African-American Literary Tradition
An examination of the development of the African-American literary tradition. Among the writers and topics which may be considered are slave narratives, the oral tradition, Wheatley, Douglass, the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes, Hurston, Baldwin, Wright, Ellison, Walker, Angelou, and Morrison.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 374 - Asian-American Literature
A course in contemporary Asian-American fiction, poetry, and drama, with an emphasis on immigrant history and on media images of Asian-Americans.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 or 4 credits
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ENGL 375 - Chicano/Chicana Literature
A survey of Mexican-American literature in various genres, with particular attention to its place within the wider cultural conversation that is American literature. Topics may include the Mexican American Southwest, the Chicano/Chicana Movement of the 1960s, contemporary Chicano & Chicana , and transitional literature.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
Cross-listed with ENGL 275
3 credits
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ENGL 377 - Autobiography & the American Culture
Examination of autobiography as a particularly American genre. Consideration of the theory and history of the genre. Emphasis on autobiography as a literary expression of a variety of literary, historical, and cultural concerns.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 380 - Digital Labor: Race, Gender, and Technology Literature and Film
An upper level interdisciplinary course in the study of literature and media focusing on technology, gender, and labor. This course will give students a foundation in Marxist, feminist, and media theory. Major texts will include non-fiction literature, novels, science fiction, and speculative fiction. In addition, students will view and examine fictional and non-fiction films about technology and computation. Pre-req: One 200-level PHIL or GEN course, or ENGL 110 or 120 or 220 or 221. Suggested: Junior standing or higher.
Pre-req: One 200-level PHIL or GEN course, or ENGL 110 or 120 or 220 or 221
Cross-listed with GEN 380
3 credits
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ENGL 382 - History of Literary Criticism
Major approaches and critical assumptions in the history of literary criticism; special attention to critical movements since 1930.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 383 - Asian Literature
Masterpieces, ancient and modern, of Asian literature-including philosophical writings, poetry, drama, short stories, and novels-from classics such as the Analects of Confucius to contemporaries such as Kobo Abe and Bharati Mukherjee. This class will focus on two or three of the following areas: India, China, Japan, and the Middle East.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 384 - Robin Hood Through the Ages
An intensive study of over 600 years of Robin Hood materials, from the earliest medieval ballads and chronicles through later plays and novels to modern films. The course investigates how each age has reinvented the character to address its own concerns.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
4 credits
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ENGL 385 - Celtic Literature
This course offers an overview of Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, Manx, and Breton literary traditions. Beginning with the ancient texts of the Tain and the Mabinogian, this survey will finish with an exploration of present-day Celtic literature.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 387 - Science Fiction
A reading and viewing of science fiction from H.G. Wells to Octavia Butler in historical, thematic, stylistic, and socio-political terms.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 or 4 credits
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ENGL 388 - Travel Writing
An introduction to writing and reading about travel. Students write their own travel narratives, read recent and historical travel literature, and consider the cultural impact of various forms of travel.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 389 - Lord of the Rings: JRR Tolkien
An in-depth study of Tolkien’s stories and of the medieval works that influenced them. Readings include The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and shorter Tolkien works such as Farmer Giles of Ham, alongside influences such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Snorri Sturlusson’s Edda, The Saga of the Volsungs, and selections from Chaucer, The Kalevala, and the Arthurian legends. We will also delve into Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of Tolkien as well as short lessons in the languages of Finnish and Elvish.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
4 credits
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ENGL 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 400 - Critical Procedures in Language & Literature
Consideration of the major theoretical positions in contemporary criticism with their application to selected literary texts. Designed for senior English majors. The portfolio produced in this course satisfies the Paper-in-the -Major college writing requirement for English majors. Note: Senior English majors only.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 410 - Senior Seminar in English
Intensive study of a particular figure or topic, for seniors.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221 , and instructor permission
3 credits
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ENGL 420 - Preceptorship: Teaching Literature
Collaboration with professors in teaching introductory literature courses. For advanced majors interested in the theory and practice of teaching literature. Requires attendance at the relevant course (ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221 ) and intensive work with the instructor.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
1 credits
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ENGL 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 495 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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Environmental Studies |
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ENST 070 - Practicing Sustainable Urban Agriculture
This course introduces students to the foundations of sustainable urban agriculture through active participation in the campus garden lab. Students will learn how to build healthy soil (including composting and vermiposting), use low-water irrigation techniques, propagate plants, cultivate fruits and vegetables, save seeds, and will be introduced to sustainable modes of disease and pest management. The class meets once a week, has required readings and will ask students to contribute one additional hour of work in the garden lab per week. This course is a pre-requisite for participation in urban agriculture internships.
1 credits
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ENST 245 - Green Politics
This course examines the intersections among ecological, social/cultural, economic and political processes and practices that have produced contemporary ecological crises (climate change, deforestation, air and water pollution, urban sprawl, etc.). We will investigate the complex processes that produce environmental problems, examine how people are differently affected by these problems, and we will look at how people can act to solve these problems. The course will emphasize that environmental issues are almost always social issues: the ecological crises we face are lodged in complex relations of power; embedded in daily practices; bound up with cultural values and priorities; and are inexorably linked with what counts as a pressing issue as well as the tools selected to solve problems. Environmental problems also reflect existing social relations of power and inequality. We do not all pay the same price or pay in the same way, nor do we all have an equal hand in their promulgation.
Cross-listed with SOC 245
3 credits
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ENST 260 - Eco-Philosophy
The evolution of theoretical responses to unprecedented environmental crises such as Global Warming and mass extinctions-from application of traditional ethical theories to the development of comprehensive alternative environmental philosophies.
Cross-listed with GEN 260 / PHIL 260 - Eco-Philosophy
3 credits
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ENST 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENST 301 - Environmental Analysis, Policy and Law
Review of U.S. and California environmental regulations and their application, historical overview of national and international environmental policy development with attention to current environmental policy issues. Lecture and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100
3 credits
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ENST 321 - China: Its Environment and History
This course examines the multifarious ways in which the natural environment conditioned the course of China’s history from Neolithic times to the present, and the ways in which human actions altered China’s environment. The paradox of China’s “sustainable” development over the past 3000 years is explored.
Pre-req: HIST 101 , HIST 220 , or ENVS 100
Cross-listed with HIST 321
3 credits
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ENST 323 - Environmental Anthropology
The changes that humans make in the natural environment are related to their world views and to their ideas about what the relationship between humans and nature should be. This course will explore these relationships cross-culturally through the readings of ethnographies and the viewing of films.
Pre-req: Sophomore standing or above
Cross-listed with ANTH 323
3 credits
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ENST 348 - Food and Food Systems
This course approaches food-something Americans often take for granted-as a complex social system. We will investigate the social relationships and modes of organization that constitute the economic, political, environmental and social contexts for the development, production, distribution, promotion and consumption of food in contemporary society. Thus the course engages topics such as genetically modified food, the politics of food regulation, industrial agriculture, alternative agriculture and/or sustainable development.
Cross-listed with SOC 348
3 credits
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ENST 350 - World Environmental History
An examination of the world’s environmental history from both local (e.g. California and the U.S.) and global perspectives (e.g. deforestation, species extinctions, climate change and global warming, nitrogen flows) designed to explore the interaction between humans and the natural environment, and to assess the extent of the human impact on natural environments over time.
Pre-req: HIST 100 or any 200-level HIST course
Cross-listed with HIST 350
3 credits
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ENST 357 - Globalization and the Environment
Considers development issues related to economics, politics, inequality, human rights, gender, and environment and examines modernization, dependency, and world-system approaches to the theoretical understanding these issues.
Pre-req: ENVS 100
Cross-listed with INTD 357 and SOC 357
4 credits
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ENST 359 - Early North American Environmental History
This course explores the environmental history of early America. It particularly looks at the ways that colonial forms of land use, transportation, technology, and food systems emerged and evolved in early modern North America. Themes include cultural and ecological encounters, epidemiology, consumption, and production.
Pre-req: HIST 101 , HIST 206 or ENVS 100
Cross-listed with HIST 359
3 credits
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ENST 370 - Environmental Sociology
This course focuses on sociological investigations of contemporary environmental/ ecological issues. From a sociological standpoint it is axiomatic that most of the ecological/environmental problems and crisis that we currently face are at their root social problems. This is not to minimize or erase the very real biogeochemical processes that have been disrupted, corrupted and eradicated by human actions; rather this perspective highlights those human actions and their outcomes. This course will be project based and organized around one or more case studies to introduce students to the relevant academic literature and to emphasize data analysis and concrete problem solving.
Pre-req: SOC 200 and Sophomore standing or above
Cross-listed with SOC 370
3 credits
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ENST 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENST 490 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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Environmental Science |
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ENVS 050 - Environmental Science Colloquium
Weekly colloquia from scientists engaged in study of the environment as well as various stakeholders in environmental issues. Students interested in environmental science and/ or environmental issues are encouraged to attend colloquia. Seniors will normally give a colloquium presentation as part of the paper in the major requirement. May be repeated for credit
1 credits
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ENVS 090 - Selected Topics in ENVS
May be repeated for credit. This course may not be used to meet requirements in any major.
1 to 3 credits
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ENVS 100 - Introduction to Environmental Science
An introduction to the field of environmental science, examined from multiple perspectives: biology, earth sciences, chemistry, and physics. The class focuses on the contributions these different disciplines make to the diagnosis and solution of environmental problems, with an emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of these issues. Lecture, laboratory, and field trips.
Co-req: ENVS 100L
4 credits
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ENVS 100L - Introduction to Environmental Science Lab
Co-req: ENVS 100
0 credits
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ENVS 105 - Environmental Geology: Hazards & Resources
An introduction to processes at the Earth’s surface. The class explores the global weather and climate systems, the role of water in the environment, and processes that shape the surface of the earth. The class provides basic information on the physical processes maintaining the environment in which life exists. Special topics include global climate change, the greenhouse effect, tornadoes, hurricanes, El Nino, floods, landslides, and a survey of glacial, costal and stream environments.
Co-req: ENVS 105L
4 credits
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ENVS 105L - Environmental Geology: Hazards & Resources Lab
Co-req: ENVS 105
0 credits
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ENVS 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 200 - Biological Anthropology
This course studies the physical aspects of human populations and the evolutionary history of our species. This history is studied through an overview of genetics and evolutionary theory, the fossil record, our close primate relatives and variation among contemporary humans, which underlies observable changes as our species continues to evolve.
Cross-listed with ANTH 200
3 credits
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ENVS 251 - Ecology & Evolution of Organisms
An introduction to the structure and function of populations of plants and animals. Topics to be covered include growth and behavior of populations, ecology of communities, ecosystem function, transmission genetics, and the evolution of populations and species. Lecture, Laboratories, and Field Trips.
Pre-req: ENVS 100 or BIOL 152
Co-req: ENVS 251L
Cross-listed with BIOL 251
4 credits
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ENVS 251L - Ecology & Evolution of Organisms Lab
Co-req: ENVS 251
Cross-listed with BIOL 251
0 credits
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ENVS 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENVS 291 - Earth’s Atmosphere
Fundamental properties of the atmosphere and the basic scientific principles behind weather and climate. Atmospheric circulation, weather patterns, atmosphere-ocean interactions and the human impact on the atmosphere such as air pollution, ozone depletion and climate change. Lectures and Laboratory.
4 credits
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ENVS 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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