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8. Course Descriptions

Note: Sequencing rules in effect for many Math courses prohibit students from earning credit for a lower numbered Math course after receiving credit for a higher numbered Math course. Sequencing rules are included in the course descriptions of applicable courses.
 

English
  

  • ENG 498D - Research Assistantship in English

    (1 to 3 units)
    Student will acquire empirical research experience by assisting an English faculty member with research and related professional activity.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 3

    Prerequisite: English major; ENG 303 ; Junior or Senior standing.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Independent Study: 1 - 3 units
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply discipline-specific English methods while assisting a faculty member with their scholarly project(s).
    2. review the relevant literature by retrieving, reading, summarizing, and discussing information of interest to the research study.
    3. collect and analyze data or texts.
    4. complete an independent research project related to the faculty member’s scholarly field, based on an original research question and drawing on current scholarship.


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  • ENG 499B - Senior Research Project in Literature

    (3 units) CO14
    Study of research writing in literature, culminating in a substantive essay.

    Prerequisite(s): Senior standing; General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. articulate an original research question to pursue in a research project.
    2. develop and design appropriate steps and tasks to conduct a research project based on an original research question.
    3. interpret, analyze, discuss, evaluate, and integrate a variety of primary and secondary readings in literature, criticism, and literary theory.
    4. write the results of a research study in the appropriate academic format for the discipline of English.


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  • ENG 499C - Senior Experience: Writing in Communities

    (3 units) CO14
    Engagement in community writing projects to apply the knowledge and skill sets acquired throughout the writing curriculum.

    Prerequisite(s): General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply research, writing, and oral communication skills in a community setting to facilitate a community writing project.
    2. analyze community issues and needs in the context of systemic inequality, discrimination, or social injustice.
    3. demonstrate intercultural communication skills, reciprocity, and responsiveness in service work with their community partners.


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  • ENG 499A - Independent Study

    (1 to 3 units)
    Open to juniors and seniors specializing in English.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 3

    Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303 . 

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. generate a bibliography of primary and secondary sources on the course theme.
    2. analyze literary works in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    4. synthesize primary and secondary readings to write an extended paper on the course theme.


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  • ENG 499D - Senior Experience: Writing for Professional Clients

    (3 units) CO14
    Students will learn how to analyze and meet the writing needs of a specific professional client. The class will help students develop a theoretical and practical understanding of professional writing contexts. A key part of the learning experience will be working closely with a professional partner in a workplace context, receiving feedback and revising accordingly.

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 301 .

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply research, writing, and oral communication skills in a professional setting to facilitate a writing project for a client.
    2. analyze the rhetorical situation surrounding the professional writing needs of specific clients.
    3. demonstrate professionally relevant writing and communication competencies and relationships in a professional setting.


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  • ENG 600A - Topics in Writing

    (3 units)
    Analysis and writing practice in selected genres and themes.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. draft documents in various genres (such as graphic novels, memoirs, and scholarly essays) that demonstrate clear purpose, responsibility to audience, and adherence to generic and stylistic conventions.
    2. assess their own writing process and apply alternative strategies to the continued development of that process.
    3. identify an author’s purpose, audience, genre, and strategies of support.
    4. demonstrate knowledge of the variety of public, literary, and disciplinary situations in which they will be writing when they leave the undergraduate program.
    5. present class lessons and/or essays that articulate a critical response to scholarly conversations about writing in specific genres.


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  • ENG 600 - Film Theory

    (3 units)
    This course moves from film theory’s beginnings in the silent era and progresses to our contemporary moment. We will pair key moments in film theory’s history with a variety of film examples to gain a theoretically sophisticated vocabulary for discussing what movies are and do. (ENG 600 and FILM 600 are cross-listed; credits may be earned in one of the two.)

    Prerequisite(s): ENG 102 .

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. critically discuss and write about the development of movements in film theory.
    2. identify and define key concepts in film theory.
    3. analyze works of film art using theoretical concepts.
    4. apply their knowledge of film theory to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 600B - Topics in Professional Writing

    (3 units)
    Analysis of and writing practice in selected professional genres. Focused study of writing for organizations, periodicals, or popular market. Maximum of six credits.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. draft documents in various professional genres (such as letters, proposals, and reports) that demonstrate clear purpose, responsibility to audience, and adherence to generic and stylistic conventions.
    2. assess their own writing process and apply alternative strategies to the continued development of that process.
    3. identify an author (or group’s) purpose, audience, genre, and strategies of support.
    4. demonstrate knowledge of the variety of public, professional, and disciplinary situations in which they will be writing when they leave the undergraduate program.
    5. present class lessons and/or essays that articulate a critical response to scholarly conversations about writing in professional contexts.


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  • ENG 601B - Advanced Non-Fiction

    (3 units)
    Writing of nonfiction modes from the classical essay to contemporary imaginative prose.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. assemble a polished writing portfolio targeted to specific professional writing goals, using effective drafting, revision, and editing strategies in several nonfiction genres.
    2. revise effectively for style, using readers’ feedback, with attention to such qualities as clarity, concision, coherence, and variety.
    3. conduct rhetorical inquiry into professional and academic contexts and purposes for advanced nonfiction writing.
    4. discuss and critique key genres and documents of creative nonfiction and professional writing—such as narrative journalism, memoir, proposal, and investigative report.
    5. conduct appropriate research for assigned topics and effectively integrate research results into creative and professional writing.
    6. produce oral and written reflections on ethical issues in creative nonfiction and professional writing.
    7. list, integrate, and evaluate resources that assist with developing and revising nonfiction writing for various settings and publication venues.
    8. select, draft, and polish the correct materials for graduate school, publication, and job-seeking in professional writing.


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  • ENG 602B - Advanced Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction

    (3 units)
    Advanced workshop in creative nonfiction. Students will write in various nonfiction forms, including personal narrative, literary profile, memoir, research-based first-person essays and lyric essays. Students will study individual works by established writers, considering questions of style, form, exploring ethical and aesthetic questions particular to creative nonfiction. Students will be expected to produce essays of high quality, demonstrating evidence of significant revision.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. demonstrate skill in manipulation of elements of nonfiction craft and technique, both in composition and revision.
    2. analyze and describe their own and others’ nonfiction, via written and oral discussion, within the context of historical trends/movements and genres in fiction.
    3. demonstrate the ability to write successfully using one or more commonly-used forms of CNF: the memoir, the researched narrative essay, the lyric essay, and so on.
    4. apply their knowledge of creative nonfiction to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 603A - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction I

    (3 units)
    Continuation of ENG 305 - ENG 306 .

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. practice manipulating the elements of fictional craft/technique—forms (the novel, novella, and short story); generic tropes; narrative structure; point of view; tone; and voice—through the composition of original works of fiction.
    2. analyze and describe their own and others’ fiction, via written and oral discussion, within the context of historical trends/movements and genres in fiction.
    3. constructively criticize fiction written by peers, both in writing and in class discussion.
    4. apply literary editing methods to compile and revise their own portfolio of work.
    5. analyze authors’ manipulation of elements of fictional craft/technique in assigned published fiction via a series of short response papers.


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  • ENG 603B - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction II

    (3 units)
    Continuation of ENG 305 - ENG 306 .

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. practice manipulating the elements of fictional craft/technique—forms (the novel, novella, and short story); generic tropes; narrative structure; point of view; tone; and voice—through the composition of original works of fiction.
    2. analyze and describe their own and others’ fiction, via written and oral discussion, within the context of historical trends/movements and genres in fiction.
    3. constructively criticize fiction written by peers, both in writing and in class discussion.
    4. apply literary editing methods to compile and revise their own portfolio of work.
    5. analyze authors’ manipulation of elements of fictional craft/technique in assigned published fiction via a series of short response papers.


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  • ENG 604A - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry I

    (3 units)
    Continuation of ENG 307 .

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. list and discuss the major craft elements of poetry, and recognize those elements within specific texts.
    2. develop strategies for reading and interpreting both formal and free-verse poetry.
    3. practice manipulating a variety of poetic forms (the sonnet, sestina, free-verse), and elements (imagery, voice, metaphor) through the composition of original poetry.
    4. demonstrate, through the revision of creative works, an awareness of the complexity of the revision process.
    5. describe, evaluate and critique student-produced texts in the workshop setting.
    6. present graduate-caliber research at a level in in a format and manner suitable for teaching an undergraduate seminar.


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  • ENG 604B - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry II

    (3 units)
    Continuation of ENG 308 .

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. list and discuss the major craft elements of poetry, and recognize those elements within specific texts.
    2. develop strategies for reading and interpreting both formal and free-verse poetry.
    3. practice manipulating a variety of poetic forms (the sonnet, sestina, free-verse), and elements (imagery, voice, metaphor) through the composition of original poetry.
    4. demonstrate, through the revision of creative works, an awareness of the complexity of the revision process.
    5. describe, evaluate and critique student-produced texts in the workshop setting.
    6. present graduate-caliber research at a level in in a format and manner suitable for teaching an undergraduate seminar.


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  • ENG 605A - Professional Editing and Publishing

    (3 units)
    The principles and practices of editing and publishing books, magazines, and journals in the field of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. develop familiarity with the history and social context of contemporary editing and publishing conventions both in traditional and digital media.
    2. use several major style guides effectively.
    3. edit the writing of others according to an appropriate style guide in an efficient, effective, and collegial manner.
    4. create professional-quality documents using industry-standard techniques that adhere to an appropriate style guide.
    5. present graduate-caliber research at a level and in a format and manner suitable for teaching an undergraduate seminar.


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  • ENG 606A - Document Design

    (3 units)
    Explores fundamental theories and practices of designing professional documents. Considers how design is influenced by genre and rhetorical context.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. develop a vocabulary for discussing and analyzing the visual aspects of documents.
    2. articulate the political and rhetorical force implied by the choice of a certain visual presentation.
    3. analyze the audience(s) targeted by a particular visual presentation.
    4. create visually effective documents and graphics.
    5. present graduate-caliber research at a level and in a format and manner suitable for teaching an undergraduate seminar.


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  • ENG 606B - Electronic Documents and Publications

    (3 units)
    Explores advanced principles of information architecture and content development for web-based documents and publications. Students will plan, design, develop, edit and publish in a variety of web-based genres.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. plan, produce, format, and edit digital media that effectively respond to particular rhetorical situations.
    2. create digital media that circulate in ethically and socially responsible ways.
    3. manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous information.
    4. analyze and evaluate digital media based on sound criteria.
    5. exhibit responsible social networking skills.
    6. conduct and submit graduate-caliber research based on relevant sources in the field.


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  • ENG 607B - Fundamentals of Technical Writing

    (3 units)
    Examines rhetorical principles, composing practices, and genre knowledge involved in effective technical writing. Focused study of technical documents in businesses, organizations, or government agencies.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. assemble a polished workplace writing portfolio, including letter of application and résumé targeted to a specific professional writing position.
    2. conduct rhetorical inquiry into contexts for workplace writing.
    3. demonstrate fluency with the range of genres and documents commonly required in professional workplace writing.
    4. give and receive constructive feedback on portfolio materials.
    5. select and draft the correct materials for job-seeking in professional workplace writing.
    6. demonstrate knowledge of several resources that assist with developing and revising workplace documents.
    7. present graduate-caliber research at a level and in a format and manner suitable for teaching an undergraduate seminar.


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  • ENG 607E - Craft and Forms of Creative Writing

    (3 units)
    Craft and Forms of Creative Writing is a creative writing course that provides students with a grounding in terminology, formal techniques, and innovation within the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, and/or poetry. Students will study published work from a creative writing craft perspective as well as produce their own creative writing.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. recognize and use terminology regarding basic elements of narrative/poetic craft.
    2. identify common forms of fiction, creative nonfiction, and/or poetry in published work and analyze their use.
    3. manipulate elements of narrative/poetic craft and/or narrative/poetic forms via the writing and revision of a portfolio of creative work.
    4. apply knowledge of craft and forms of creative writing to their area of specialization and/or interest.


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  • ENG 608B - Tutoring Student Writers

    (3 units)
    Trains students to work with peers on academic writing projects; prepares students to work in the university’s Writing Center.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 2
    Units of Internship/Practicum: 1
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. connect theory and practice related to ethical writing and consultation processes.
    2. conduct inquiry into students’ difficulties with writing and apply insight gained to create a focus for tutoring sessions.
    3. learn and apply consultation methods appropriate for writers from different backgrounds, learning styles, and levels of writing proficiency.
    4. understand and apply ethical principles of writing as well as supporting student writing.
    5. collaborate effectively with other writers and consultants.
    6. analyze, evaluate, and guide revision of different kinds of written texts with problems in a variety of areas, including audience and task orientation, focus on a specific purpose, development, global/local organization, integration of sources, logical connections, conventions of academic genre, documentation/citation, and sentence style/mechanics.
    7. perform a variety of writing, consulting, research, and critical thinking tasks more effectively.
    8. present graduate-caliber research at a level and in a format and manner suitable for teaching an undergraduate seminar.


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  • ENG 609C - Contemporary Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

    (3 units)
    Surveys contemporary trends in rhetorical theory and criticism, with and emphasis on the increasingly interdisciplinary scope of rhetorical studies.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. define and explain rhetorical theories and discuss their appropriate uses.
    2. apply rhetorical theories to an object of critical inquiry.
    3. write effective rhetorical criticism, using an appropriate theoretical method.
    4. articulate the evolution of rhetorical theory and criticism from neo-Aristotelianism into myriad professional subfields.


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  • ENG 611B - Principles of Modern Grammar

    (3 units)
    Modern English grammar and usage.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. assess and analyze linguistic problems in syntactic structure in English and a limited set of other languages.
    2. apply linguistic principles and theories to language data from English and a limited set of other languages.
    3. demonstrate and synthesize advanced knowledge and skills in syntactic theory and analysis.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project in syntactic theory and analysis.


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  • ENG 612D - Introduction to Phonology

    (3 units)
    Theory and structure of sound systems of language, including the sociolinguistic variation within dialects of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. use the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe words at the phonetic and phonemic levels.
    2. explain the concepts phoneme, complementary & contrastive distribution, and apply them in phonological analysis.
    3. identify and describe common phonological processes.
    4. use the acoustic analysis software Praat to answer questions about the acoustic nature of speech sounds.
    5. explain the relationship between phonetic and phonological representations.
    6. distinguish between sound and unsound interpretations of scientific information in the following ways: 1. by applying the scientific method to formulate, evaluate, and revise their own hypotheses about the phonological phenomena observed in datasets, and 2. by comparing, evaluating, and synthesizing scholarly literature representing competing views of phonological phenomena.
    7. explain the role of phonetics and aerodynamics in phonological change.
    8. explain how the descriptive and analytical mechanisms presented in the course relate to problems of societal concern, for instance by describing how varieties of English and other languages differ in their phonological structure and behavior according to sociolinguistic variables such as origin, ethnicity, gender, and age.


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  • ENG 612A - Linguistics

    (3 units)
    Studies in general linguistics. (ANTH 681 and ENG 612A are cross-listed; credit may be earned in one of the two.)

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. define key terms and apply main concepts in phonology, phonetics, syntax and semantics to both English and foreign languages.
    2. evaluate the role of theoretical linguistics in everyday contexts.
    3. demonstrate and synthesize advanced knowledge and skills.
    4. display through class presentations and written materials an informed perspective on the role of theoretical linguistics in everyday contexts.
    5. synthesize and apply basic methodological approaches.


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  • ENG 612B - Applied Linguistics

    (3 units)
    Modern approaches to language and linguistics.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. define key terms and apply main concepts in phonology, phonetics, syntax and semantics to both English and foreign languages.
    2. evaluate the role of theoretical linguistics in everyday contexts.
    3. demonstrate and synthesize advanced knowledge and skills.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project.


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  • ENG 613A - Sociolinguistics

    (3 units)
    Study of language in relation to society.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. define key concepts in dialect geography and variationist sociolinguistics.
    2. articulate the different approaches of researchers and laypersons to the study of regional and social dialects.
    3. recognize the role of varied social and linguistic perspectives on language variation and language subordination.
    4. display through class presentations and written materials an informed perspective on the question of how race, gender, age, class and ethnicity are enacted and reproduced through linguistic variation.
    5. show mastery of basic field based methodological concepts and the scientific method.
    6. identify the main forces behind the evolution of regional and social dialects.


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  • ENG 613C - Topics in Linguistics

    (3 units)
    Selected topics and issues in linguistics.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. assess and analyze linguistic problems.
    2. apply linguistic principles and theories to language data.
    3. demonstrate and synthesize advanced knowledge and skills.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project.


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  • ENG 613B - Historical Linguistics

    (3 units)
    General principles of historical and comparative linguistics. Theories of language origin, methods of classifying language, processes of language change, techniques of reconstructing older forms of languages. (ANTH 682 and ENG 613B are cross-listed; credit may be earned in one of the two.)

    Maximum units a student may earn: 3

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply the comparative method to the reconstruction of protolanguages.
    2. apply knowledge of typical patterns of phonological, morphological, and syntactic change to the reconstruction of protoforms.
    3. assess the consequences of language contact for language change, language death, and language genesis.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project.


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  • ENG 613D - Introduction to Experimental Phonetics

    (3 units)
    Principles of linguistic phonetics: physiology of human speech production, acoustic analysis of speech sounds, experimental design, and fieldwork methods. Covers use of acoustic analysis software and ethics in human subjects research.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. describe the roles played by the parts of the human vocal tract in the production of speech sounds.
    2. characterize the principal acoustic properties of each category of speech sound.
    3. make basic interpretations of spectrograms and waveforms.
    4. design, run, and analyze the results of a speech-production experiment.
    5. synthesize empirical and theoretical arguments from academic literature with their own work.
    6. conduct basic quantitative analysis of the data collected for their term project.


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  • ENG 614A - History of the English Language

    (3 units)
    History of English from its beginnings to the present.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. master and apply the analytical tools of linguistics.
    2. identify and assess differences of language structure.
    3. synthesize course materials into an overall view of the story of English.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project.


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  • ENG 615D - Introduction to Old Norse

    (3 units)
    Introduction to Old Icelandic language and literature.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. demonstrate their mastery of Old Norse grammar and vocabulary.
    2. synthesize this knowledgeof the grammar as they work with a synthetic language.
    3. demonstrate their ability to translate Old Norse prose and poetry.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project.


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  • ENG 615 - Phonemics and Comparative Phonetics

    (3 units)
    Phonetic phenomena that occur in languages of the world. Phoneme concept as applied to the analysis of speech sounds. Phonological structures.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. identify, transcribe and analyze the major categories of speech sounds.
    2. interpret spectrograms and waveforms and employ speech analysis software to record speech sounds and to make relevant acoustic measurements.
    3. articulate the ethical considerations associated with human-subjects research, and explain how to mitigate them.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project.


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  • ENG 616B - Language and Gender

    (3 units)
    Using sociolinguistic methodology, explores how men and women use language differently and how these differences are biologically and socially conditioned.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. define key concepts in language and gender studies.
    2. articulate, in written materials and in class discussion, the different approaches of language and gender researchers and the socio-historical context in which they emerged.
    3. articulate arguments about the naturalization of gender in our social world by examining and synthesizing primary research articles and summary texts.
    4. display through class presentations and written materials an informed perspective on the question of how the gender order is enacted and reproduced through linguistic variation.
    5. show mastery of basic field based methodological concepts and the scientific method through our own fieldwork and research.
    6. identify, through class discussion and written materials, the reality of and main forces behind beliefs about gendered speech.


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  • ENG 616 - Linguistic Field Methods

    (3 units)
    Procedures in eliciting, recording and analyzing language. Students work with consultants.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 2
    Units of Internship/Practicum: 1
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. demonstrate appropriate use and synthesis of linguistic field methods in collecting and organizing linguistic data.
    2. apply linguistic principles and theories to language data they have obtained.
    3. articulate the ethical considerations associated with human-subjects research, and explain how to mitigate them.
    4. demonstrate mastery of primary data and/or secondary literature through a research project.


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  • ENG 622A - Topics in Literary Theory

    (3 units)
    Selected topics and issues in literary and cultural theory.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. articulate the basic theoretical concepts underlying contemporary approaches to literature and of the major differences between them.
    3. discuss the methods and materials of literary research and to conduct literary research according to established procedures and to use such research effectively and responsibly.
    4. generate and articulate personal responses to literary and critical texts, and to explain the premises and assumptions underlying such personal responses.
    5. discuss the major figures in modern literary theory and to describe their key contributions and principles.
    6. show mastery of basic field based methodological concepts and the scientific method through our own fieldwork and research.


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  • ENG 625B - Topics in Literature

    (3 units)
    Specific topics in literature (e.g., epic form, pastoral elegy, ode, etc.)

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze literary texts in their historical, critical, and theoretical contexts.
    3. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates to the course’s primary texts.
    4. synthesize primary and secondary readings about a particular special topic.
    5. demonstrate mastery of one or more tales and/or the relevant secondary literature through a well-crafted literary analysis or research paper.


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  • ENG 628A - Children’s Literature

    (3 units)
    History, genres, traditions, and illustrations of children’s books in England and America from 1697 to the present.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write a lucid and coherent textual analysis that relies on and integrates textual evidence.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to children’s literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. identify and discuss the role of ideology in children’s texts.
    5. demonstrate mastery of one or more tales and/or the relevant secondary literature through a well-crafted literary analysis or research paper.


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  • ENG 629C - Literature of the American West

    (3 units)
    Writers and works concerning the American West. Readings in such authors as Twain, Wister, Austin, Stegner.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to contemporary American literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. analyze and compare how the American West has been represented in literary texts.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 630A - Major Figures in British Literature

    (3 units)
    Undergraduate seminar on one or two authors, e.g., Pope and Boswell; Johnson and Dryden.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze literary works in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. display working knowledge of the canon of the relevant major British author(s), including an understanding of the traditions in which the author(s) operated and of the contributions made by the author(s).
    4. analyze and discuss the generic and formal features of the key texts of the relevant author(s), and will be able to explain the relationship between those texts and the contexts in which they were written.
    5. describe various debates or theories relating to the major British author(s) being studied, and will be able to demonstrate familiarity with reception history of the author(s) as well as the current state of scholarship about the author(s).


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  • ENG 632A - Chaucer

    (3 units)
    Selections from the works of Chaucer read in Middle English with emphasis on the Canterbury Tales.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply their knowledge of Middle English grammar to read poetry and prose.
    2. analyze the tales according to their generic horizons as well as their contexts in The Canterbury Tales.
    3. analyze the ethical situations within tales, between the tellers and their tales, and among the pilgrims.
    4. distinguish between late Medieval and modern ethics.
    5. demonstrate mastery of one or more tales and/or the relevant secondary literature through a well-crafted literary analysis or research paper.


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  • ENG 633C - Topics in Shakespeare Studies

    (3 units)
    Reading and discussion of Shakespearean drama and poetry focused on a specific topic (e.g. gender, race, censorship, disguise, intertextuality, adaptation, or global reception).

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts. 
    2. analyze literary works in their cultural and historical contexts. 
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to Shakespeare’s works using literary-critical vocabulary. 
    4. describe and analyze important ideas and stylistic features of Shakespeare’s works.
    5. apply critical reading skills when interpreting, analyzing, discussing, and evaluating course texts. 


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  • ENG 635 - Global Cinema

    (3 units)
    Introduces a wide spectrum of students to the rich and diverse world of global cinema. In this course, students will be exposed to the discipline of Cinema Studies as it is specifically related to the cinema of East Asia, South Asia, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply critical thinking skills to works of cinematic art from around the  world (CO11). 
    2. situate, in discussion and writing, works of global cinema in their  appropriate historical and political contexts   (CO11).
    3. apply their knowledge of the aesthetic signature of influential  filmmakers from around the word in class discussion, presentation  form, and written work (CO11).
    4. apply their knowledge of global cinema to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 636A - Major Figures in American Literature

    (3 units)
    Seminar on one or two authors, e.g., Emerson, Thoreau, Hemingway, Morrison.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. describe and analyze important ideas and stylistic features of a major American author’s (or authors’) work.
    5. articulate an understanding about various debates about major American authors through written assignments.


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  • ENG 637 - Topics in Film Studies

    (3 units)
    Allows students to study a topic in Film Studies in-depth. Students are expected to engage in advanced film historical or theoretical study. Subject varies from semester to semester.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. critically discuss and write about the development of movements and innovations in film and media.
    2. demonstrate specialized knowledge of selected film genres and film cycles.
    3. illustrate an advanced understanding of key concepts in Film Studies, including film theory.
    4. apply techniques of critical film analysis and film theory to study and interpret film in the context of culture, society, and individual identity.


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  • ENG 638 - Film Adaptation

    (3 units)
    This course focuses on the theories and practices of adapting literature for film. Students will read short stories, novels, and plays that have been made into films and study the range of approaches filmmakers take to adapting such literature for the screen.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write well-supported and coherent analyses of individual literary works in relation to films adapted from them.
    2. articulate the relationship between literature and film as distinct media.
    3. compose a screenplay that adapts of a portion of a literary work. 
    4. apply their knowledge of film adaptation to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 640A - Medieval English Literature

    (3 units)
    Writers and works from medieval England, excluding Chaucer, e.g., Beowulf, Langland, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Everyman.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply their knowledge of Middle English grammar to read poetry and prose.
    2. identify the features of the various Middle English dialects and distinguish the dialects of the texts we read.
    3. analyze texts according to their generic horizons as well as their cultural and historical contexts.
    4. demonstrate mastery of one or more works and/or the relevant secondary literature through a well-crafted literary analysis or research paper.


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  • ENG 641A - The Renaissance

    (3 units)
    Writers of prose and poetry in 16th-century England, e.g., More, Sidney, Spenser.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. analyze key issues and ideas that shaped the Renaissance.
    5. articulate connections between the Renaissance and earlier Classical and later Modern ideas, practices, and writings.
    6. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 642B - Studies in Early Modern British Literature

    (3 units)
    Survey of, or sustained focus on a topic in, British poetry and prose between 1485 and 1660, e.g. More, Sidney, Spenser, Wroth, Jonson, Herrick, Milton.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze literary works in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to Shakespeare’s works using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. describe and analyze important ideas and stylistic features of early modern literature.
    5. apply critical reading skills when interpreting, analyzing, discussing, and evaluating course texts.


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  • ENG 643B - British Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

    (3 units)
    Readings in drama, poetry, shorter prose fiction and intellectual prose of such writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Hume, Walpole, Blake.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. develop strategies for reading and interpreting the poetry, drama, and fiction of the long eighteenth century.
    4. analyze key issues and ideas that shaped eighteenth-century culture.
    5. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories relating to literature of the long eighteenth century.


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  • ENG 644A - British Romantic Literature

    (3 units)
    English writers from about 1790-1832, e.g., Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. develop strategies for reading and interpreting the poetry, drama, and fiction of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
    4. identify the Romantic movement in literature in Britain, and explain the defining features of Romanticism.
    5. employ and apply critical and theoretical texts to primary works.


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  • ENG 645A - The Victorian Period

    (3 units)
    Social and artistic movements of the later 19th century as revealed in English poetry and prose.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. articulate orally and in written form a close reading of selected passages of literature that identifies and analyzes one or many ethical concern(s).
    2. demonstrate a critical vocabulary and basic knowledge of theories important to literary and cultural analyses and their ethical contexts.
    3. demonstrate familiarity with the major movements in Victorian Britain and their historical and cultural contexts, including the global context of the British Empire.
    4. write a textual analysis that relies on and integrates textual evidence.
    5. apply knowledge of the Victorian period to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 647A - Contemporary British Literature

    (3 units)
    Cross-generic studies in British literature since World War II.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze key early British texts in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. analyze key issues and ideas that shaped post-war British writing.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 654A - Studies in Contemporary United States Literature

    (3 units)
    Cross-generic studies in United States literature since World War II.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to contemporary American literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. analyze the key issues and ideas that shaped contemporary American literature.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic and literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 661B - Modern and Contemporary Poetry

    (3 units)
    Readings in such poets as Auden, Eliot, Frost, Thomas, Stevens, Yeats, Williams.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to poems using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. evaluate the formal and thematic elements of modern British and American poems.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic and literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 662B - American Poetry

    (3 units)
    American poetry from the Puritans to the present.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to poems using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. evaluate the genre-specific features of American poetry.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic and literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 664A - English Drama to 1642

    (3 units)
    Survey of, or intensive topical study in, medieval and early modern drama to the closing of the theaters.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze literary works in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to early English drama using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. describe and analyze important ideas and stylistic features of early English drama.
    5. apply critical reading skills when interpreting, analyzing, discussing, and evaluating course texts.
    6. GRAD - synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 665A - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

    (3 units)
    Plays and playwrights of the 16th and early 17th centuries, e.g., Marlowe, Jonson, Webster.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze key plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in their historical contexts.
    3. describe and analyze important ideas and stylistic and generic features of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
    4. demonstrate familiarity with the major plays and playwrights of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, and to describe the developments in the concept of “theater” in this period.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 665B - Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama

    (3 units)
    English dramatists from about 1660 to 1800 including, e.g., Wycherley, Congreve, Sheridan, Goldsmith.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century plays in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. develop strategies for reading and interpreting the drama written and/or staged in the long eighteenth century (1660-1800).
    4. demonstrate familiarity with the major plays and playwrights of the long eighteenth century, and to describe the developments in the concept of “theater” in this period, including changes in performance venues, scenery, and production.
    5. generate a bibliography of secondary sources for a major subject pertaining to drama in the long eighteenth century and to incorporate that secondary reading into an extended critical paper.


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  • ENG 666B - Modern Drama

    (3 units)
    Study of English and continental drama from the late nineteenth century rise of realism to theater of the absurd, e.g., Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Miller, Camus.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze key texts of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century drama in their historical contexts.
    2. analyze plays for their structure and meaning, using correct terminology.
    3. articulate the importance of performance to the interpretation of drama.
    4. describe the contributions of historically significant playwrights to the emergence of “modern” theater.
    5. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    6. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories relating to modern drama.


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  • ENG 670A - The British Novel I

    (3 units)
    British fiction from its origins to about 1800. Readings in such authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Johnson, Austen.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting the prose fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
    2. analyze eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. identify the generic features of early fiction, and to articulate the relationship between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels and their modern counterparts.
    5. discuss the origins of the novel and of the concept of realistic narration.
    6. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories in early British fiction.
    7. produce written work that demonstrates familiarity with the criticism of a major subject in the field of early British fiction, and makes a contribution to the critical discussion.


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  • ENG 670B - The British Novel II

    (3 units)
    British fiction from about 1800 to World War I; readings in such authors as Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting the prose fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
    2. analyze nineteenth- and twentieth-century British novels in their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. identify the generic features of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction as well as developments and experiments in the genre across that period.
    5. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories in later British fiction.
    6. produce written work that demonstrates familiarity with the criticism of a major subject in the field of later British fiction, and makes a contribution to the critical discussion.


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  • ENG 671C - Twentieth Century British Fiction

    (3 units)
    Selected fiction written in English by, e.g., Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. evaluate the distinctively modern features of Twentieth-Century British Fiction.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 672A - The American Novel I

    (3 units)
    American fiction from its origins to 1900. Readings in such authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. evaluate the genre-sepcific features of American literature prior to 1865.
    5. analyze American literature prior to 1865 drawing from theories in the field.


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  • ENG 672B - The American Novel II

    (3 units)
    American fiction from 1900 to the present. Readings in such authors as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Cather.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. evaluate the genre-sepcific features of American literature after 1865.
    5. analyze American literature after 1865 drawing from theories in the field.


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  • ENG 675A - American Autobiography

    (3 units)
    Reading life stories with attention to gender, race, and class. History, characteristics, and problems of the genre.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. list and discuss the key issues that arise in autobiographical writing and apply them to specific written works.
    2. develop and articulate (orally and in writing) strategies for reading, interpreting, and critiquing memoirists’ choices of materials and literary techniques.
    3. place American autobiographical writing in historical context, tracing trends in the representation of gender, race and class in in life writing. (CO 10)
    4. describe the perceptions, viewpoints, and life experiences of marginalized groups within the United States, as articulated in the life writing of individuals in those groups.
    5. identify and discuss ethical questions relevant to the genre of life writing and to memoirists’ choices, including the ethics of truth-telling, collaboration and representation.
    6. write a successful autobiographical essay, collaborative memoir, and critical interpretation, as measured by a course rubric.
    7. demonstrate, through an annotated bibliography and class presentation, awareness of theories and research relevant to the study of autobiographical genres, and particularly to recurring questions about truth, memory, identity, and representation.


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  • ENG 675B - Literary Nonfiction

    (3 units)
    Analysis of the essay and non-fictional prose works.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. explain and discuss issues in literary nonfiction, such as the writer’s use of memory truth, and fact.
    2. identify and explain the ways nonfiction writers manipulate style and tone to achieve their purpose.
    3. develop critical reading and interpreting strategies for critiquing literary nonfiction.
    4. list and discuss the nonfiction writer’s selection of topics and use of literary techniques.
    5. identify and explain the mechanics and strategies a nonfiction writer employs in creating a voice and style.
    6. demonstrate, through a research essay and presentation, awareness of recent research pertaining to the use of truth and fact in literary nonfiction.


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  • ENG 677C - Genre Studies in Film

    (3 units)
    Studies the generic conventions and approaches of specific cinematic genres such as horror, action, suspense, science fiction, film noir, romantic comedy, gangster, avant-garde, documentary, or the western.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply critical thinking skills to issues related to film genres.
    2. identify and apply, in discussion and/or writing, appropriate methods or theories to cinematic texts. 
    3. situate the specialized topic in its appropriate historical, cultural, and political contexts.
    4. apply their knowledge of film genre to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 680A - Studies in Comparative Literature

    (3 units)
    Literature in English and English translation, following a historical (e.g., Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism) or a formal (e.g., narrative and fiction, drama) approach.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. examine how literary works represent urban life and will be able to put literary representations in dialogue with other ways of representing and analyzing urban experience.
    2. mobilize their knowledge of literary urbanism to produce consequential oral and written literary criticism.
    3. use comparative analysis to identify significant connections and contrasts among texts emerging out of diverse global contexts.
    4. use historical and sociopolitical knowledge and appropriate theoretical concepts to show how literary form can illuminate the contexts out of which texts emerge.
    5. show how literary representations of urban experience are shaped by their distinctive local, national, international, and transnational contexts.


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  • ENG 680B - Topics in Comparative Literature

    (3 units)
    Literature taught in English translation. Cross-listed with FLL,for example, Dante, French feminism, or Hispanic writers. May be repeated for English major or minor credit.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. compare and analyze similarities and distinctions literary works from different periods and national traditions.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 682A - Literature of the Middle Ages

    (3 units)
    Medieval writers and works from the continent, read in translation, e.g., The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied, Dante, Boccaccio.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze Medieval Continental literature in relation to its historical and cultural contexts.
    2. demonstrate a command of the medieval literary genres represented in the course readings.
    3. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    4. demonstrate mastery of one or more works and/or the relevant secondary literature through a well-crafted literary analysis or research paper.


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  • ENG 683A - Studies in World Literature

    (3 units)
    A wide-ranging study of literature from the world at large, emphasizing works from non-Anglophone contexts. Non-English works will be read in translation. Students will also read scholarship engaging in historic and current debates surrounding world literature.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. evaluate and articulate the distinctive features of world literature.
    5. synthesize course-based readings with relevant academic/literary works in written work and class presentations.


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  • ENG 686A - Studies in Postcolonial Literature and Theory

    (3 units)
    Literature, film, and theory from and about the colonized world, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, Ireland, the Pacific, and their diasporas.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. chart the roles that literature has played in decolonization and nation-building in postcolonial societies.
    2. show how postcolonial literary works are shaped in dialogue with precolonial traditions, the culture of the colonizers, and artistic currents in other postcolonial societies.
    3. articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about economic and social justice.
    4. articulate and address the questions raised in postcolonial literary works about diversity and the place of minority communities.
    5. examine the role of postcolonial literary intellectuals in building just and diverse societies.
    6. show how literary works contest or move beyond nation-bound conceptions of postcolonial culture.
    7. use historical and sociopolitical knowledge and postcolonial theoretical concepts to analyze and interpret literary form.
    8. mobilize their knowledge of postcolonial literature and theory to produce consequential oral and written literary criticism.


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  • ENG 687A - Horror in Literature

    (3 units)
    Sustained critical-theoretical analysis of literary horror in one or more genres, periods, or modes. May consider horror as an instrument of critique or a symptom of cultural anxieties.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting horror texts.
    2. analyze a work of horror literature in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to horror literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. identify the conventions, tropes, and sensibilities of horror literature.
    5. apply knowledge of horror in literature to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 687B - Captivity and Freedom in Literature

    (3 units)
    Introduction to literature focused on issues of captivity and freedom. Texts include captivity stories, slave narrative, naturalist fiction, autobiographies, and stories of incarceration exploring themes of bondage and liberation. Considers the significance of narratives of freedom in historical and cultural contexts, introduces writers from diverse backgrounds, and a range of theories of text analysis, e.g. Feminism, Marxism, Poststructuralism, the Critical Study of Race, and Queer Theory.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. critically discuss and write about narratives of captivity and freedom.
    2. situate narratives of captivity and freedom in their cultural, historical and literary contexts.
    3. apply multiple theoretical frameworks to narratives of captivity and freedom.
    4. identify and analyze an ethical issue in the study of captivity and freedom in literature.
    5. apply multiple theoretical frameworks to narratives of captivity and freedom.


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  • ENG 691A - Literature of Environmental Justice

    (3 units)
    Survey of important environmental texts, e.g., Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Octavia Butler. How such literature changes consciousness and influences policy.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze the challenging ethical conundrums of such issues as climate change, biotechnology, GMO foods, biodiversity, and ecological restoration.
    2. assess their own relationship to the competing ethical claims and positions within environmental movements.
    3. identify and summarize current scholarly conversations (e.g., challenges, opportunities, trends) that exist within conversations on environmentalism.
    4. produce a well-supported argument that makes an original contribution to the field and could be submitted for publication in an undergraduate journal.
    5. critically examine how their position within intersecting social forces impacts their worldview relative to environmental issues.
    6. communicate their position on an environmental issue.
    7. describe and synthesize various critical debates or theories about the major texts of the environmental movement.
    8. apply knowledge of environmental literature to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 692C - Language and Culture

    (3 units)
    Nature of language in light of anthropological research, diversity of the world’s languages, relation of language to social organization and world view. (ANTH 685 and ENG 692C are cross-listed; credits may be earned in one of the two.)

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. systematically analyze traditional and indigenous vernacular communities by observing, theorizing, and modeling the practice of oral folktale collection.
    2. demonstrate an understanding of diversity and equity, and the barriers to articulating and achieving same, by explaining and evaluating how diverse experiences and social problems are coded into oral folktale narratives.
    3. integrate and synthesize Effective Composition & Communication, Critical Analysis & Use of Information, and Global Contexts, by analyzing the historical and contemporary practice of oral folktale telling in a world community of their choosing through production of a research project and accompanying poster presentation.
    4. adapt and orally present selected folktales for a modern audience, while communicating understanding of, and respect for, the origins and significance of the stories to their communities of origin.
    5. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories in the realm of language and culture designated by the course topic.


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  • ENG 694A - Native American Literature

    (3 units)
    Contemporary and traditional Native American literature. Emphasis on relationships between oral and written traditions. Different regional focus each semester. (ANTH 600E and ENG 694A are cross-listed; credits may be earned in one of the two.)

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. interpret recurrent features, contradictions, and critical problems in Native American literature.
    3. analyze the historical, thematic, and formal development of Native American Literature.
    4. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates and theories of the development of Native American Literature.


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  • ENG 695C - African American Literature

    (3 units)
    African-American writing from literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Typically includes various genres such as poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze artistic and critical texts within their historical contexts.
    2. demonstrate analytic reading skills in oral and written contexts.
    3. apply critical frameworks to African-American literary texts from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
    4. articulate the connection between fiction, poetry, drama, film, essay, and popular culture.
    5. identify the complex elements important to African Americans in relation to their history, values, politics, economy, or beliefs and practices.
    6. use models and theories of cultural difference to investigate topics in diversity and equity.
    7. demonstrate knowledge of the history, customs, worldviews, and/or other cultural markers of African Americans.
    8. articulate ways in which social identities such as race, class, and gender intersect in order to influence individual life experiences and/or perspectives in African American culture.


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  • ENG 696D - Contemporary Latinx Literature

    (3 units)
    Examines prose and poetry by Latino and Latina writers since 1900 in the United States. (ENG 696D and GRI 696D are cross-listed; credits may be earned in one of the two.)

    Maximum units a student may earn: 3

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. critically discuss and write about Latinx narratives.
    2. situate Latinx texts within their literary traditions, as well as cultural and historical contexts.
    3. demonstrate increased knowledge of U.S. cultural and literary diversity.
    4. apply various theoretical frameworks to Latinx literature.
    5. apply knowledge of Latinx literature to their area of specialization.


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  • ENG 697A - Topics in Multi-Cultural Literature

    (3 units)
    Works by Asian-American, Hispanic, Native American, or African-American writers.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
    2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
    3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
    4. compare and analyze similarities beween and among Asian American, Native American, Latino/Latina, and black American literature.
    5. analyze multi-ethnic American literature drawing from contemporary theories in the field.
    6. articulate an understadning of, and opinions about, varies debates or theories in multi-ethnic American Literature.


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  • ENG 705 - Fiction Writing Workshop

    (3 units)
    Conducted as a writers workshop, specializing in fiction. Required for MFA students in English; elective for other English graduate students. 

    Maximum units a student may earn: 20

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the Department of English

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze the form (the novel, novella, and short story); generic tropes; narrative structure; point of view; tone; and voice using elements of fictional craft/technique.
    2. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates concerning the contemporary fiction-publishing landscape.
    3. analyze and describe their own creative work within the context of historical trends/movements and genres in fiction.
    4. constructively criticize fiction written by peers, both in writing and in discussion.
    5. apply literary editing methods to compile and revise their own portfolio of work.


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  • ENG 707 - Craft and Forms of Creative Writing

    (6 units)
    Provides students with a grounding in terminology, formal techniques, and innovation with genres of fiction and/or poetry.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. recognize and use terminology regarding basic elements of fictional/poetic craft.
    2. identify common forms of fiction/poetry in published work and analyze their use.
    3. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, contemporary arguments in the use of fictional/poetic craft/form, as well as their historical groundings.
    4. manipulate elements of fictional/poetic craft and/or fictional/poetic forms via the compilation and revision of a portfolio of creative work.


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  • ENG 708 - Topics and Problems in Creative Writing

    (3 units)
    Addresses historical movements in fiction/poetry, and/or contemporary theoretical issues/conversations within the field.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 6

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Spring - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. identify and analyze historical movements in fiction/poetry.
    2. identify and analyze contemporary arguments within fiction/poetry, and articulate opinions about those arguments.
    3. analyze and describe their own creative aesthetic within the context of historical movements/contemporary arguments in fiction/poetry.
    4. demonstrate familiarity with historical movements/contemporary arguments in fiction/poetry through the compilation and revision of a portfolio of their own creative work.


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  • ENG 709 - Poetry Writing Workshop

    (3 units)
    Conducted as a writer’s workshop, specializing in poetry. Required for MFA students in English; elective for other English graduate students.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 20

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the Department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall and Spring

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze the traditional forms, line/enjambment, imagery and metaphor, meter, and rhyme and free verse using elements of poetic craft and technique.
    2. analyze various debates concerning the contemporary poetry publishing landscape and articulate their own opinions.
    3. analyze and describe their creative work within the context of historical trends/movements and genres in poetry.
    4. constructively criticize poetry written by peers, both in writing and discussion.
    5. apply literary editing methods to compile and revise a portfolio of their own creative work.


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  • ENG 710 - Literary Editing and Publishing

    (3 units)
    Prepares students for professional work in magazine/journal and book publishing via study of field and specific publications as well as through practical application of skills.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates concerning the literary editing and publishing landscape.
    2. analyze their own aesthetic principles within the context of contemporary debates in publishing.
    3. apply skills in both developmental- and line-editing to their own and others¹ creative work.
    4. articulate an editorial aesthetic in fiction/poetry, and constructively apply that aesthetic in an editorial capacity.
    5. articulate an editorial vision and approach for a literary publishing venture.


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  • ENG 711 - Introduction to Graduate Study

    (3 units)
    Bibliography and modern research techniques in language and literature, methods of literary analysis, preparation of documented investigation.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. demonstrate knowledge of the major research methods in English studies.
    2. demonstrate familiarity with the major lines of analysis in their intended areas of specialization.
    3. demonstrate their fluency in research and analysis by producing a substantial, original scholarly paper.


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  • ENG 713 - Problems in Language

    (3 units)
    Typical problems in advanced study of language.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. frame relevant theories and important research and ideas within a sophisticated, coherent and well-supported arguments.
    2. use scholarly works and research to discover others’ ideas as well as cite and use those sources within written work appropriately.
    3. identify and use specific examples that illustrate and support complex ideas in an effective manner.
    4. synthesize previously learned and newly acquired knowledge of the field.
    5. through class discussion and written materials, to illustrate knowledge of and be able to apply relevant theories and research methods to contemporary issues in the field.


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  • ENG 714 - Problems in Modern Grammatical Study

    (3 units)
    Examination of important current grammatical descriptions, especially of English.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze syntactic data in their proper context.
    2. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates, both recent and historical, to the course material.
    3. produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.
    4. synthesize some aspect of the course materials and the relevant secondary literature to write a well-crafted research paper.


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  • ENG 717 - Old English

    (3 units)
    Introduction to Old English language and literature.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. demonstrate their mastery of Old English grammar, vocabulary and sound changes.
    2. apply their knowledge of the grammar as they work with a synthetic language.
    3. demonstrate their ability to translate Old English prose and poetry.
    4. synthesize their translations and the relevant secondary literature to write a well-crafted research paper.


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  • ENG 718 - Beowulf

    (3 units)
    Beowulf and the Germanic Heroic Age.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply their knowledge of Old English to translate selected passages of Beowulf.
    2. analyze the poem and its episodes according to their generic horizons as well as their cultural and historical contexts.
    3. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates, both recent and historical, to the course’s primary texts.
    4. synthesize their translations and the relevant secondary literature to write a well-crafted research paper.


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  • ENG 720 - Problems in Medieval English

    (3 units)
    Selected subjects in the literature of the Old and Middle English periods, including continental literature in translation.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. apply their knowledge of Middle English grammar to read and analyze Middle English texts in their cultural and historical contexts.
    2. identify the features of the various Middle English dialects and distinguish the dialects of the texts we read.
    3. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates, both recent and historical, to the course’s primary texts.
    4. synthesize the course readings and the relevant secondary literature to write a well-crafted research paper.


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  • ENG 721 - Problems in the History of Literary Criticism

    (3 units)
    Important critical modes and approaches from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. write critical, formal analyses of literary texts.
    2. identify and and critique the argument underlying critical writings.
    3. discuss key texts and authors and movements in the history of literary criticism, and to describe the development of literary criticism from its origins to the present.
    4. articulate the relationship between major texts in literary criticism and the cultural and historical contexts in which they were produced.


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  • ENG 722 - Problems in Literary Theory

    (3 units)
    Problems in criticism and critical theory.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. demonstrate critical thinking and writing skills through careful reading of difficult theoretical texts, rigorous class discussion, and writing papers of the quality expected at the 700 level.
    2. analyze major issues and debates in theory in their critical and historical contexts and their significance for English studies.
    3. demonstrate critical engagement with key concepts in theory by producing a substantial, original scholarly paper on a topic in theory.


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  • ENG 723 - Problems in Themes and Ideas in Literature

    (3 units)
    Themes and ideas in literature and broad literary approaches like comparative literature and the history of ideas.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze literary texts in their historical, critical, and theoretical contexts.
    2. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates to the course’s primary texts.
    3. produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.
    4. analyze a particular theme or idea through a range of literary and theoretical texts.


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  • ENG 724 - Topics in Literature

    (3 units)
    Specific literary topics (e.g., the epic, modernism, myth, and literature).

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. analyze literary texts in their historical, critical, and theoretical contexts.
    2. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates to the course’s primary texts.
    3. produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.
    4. synthesize primary and secondary readings about a particular special topic.


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  • ENG 725 - Problems in the Novel

    (3 units)
    Intensive study of the novel with attention to its history and development.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates about the novel as generic category.
    2. identify the distinctive features of the novel from its origins to the present, and will be able to discuss the contributions of major authors to the form.
    3. produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to ongoing conversations about the status of the novel.
    4. synthesize some aspect of the course materials and the relevant secondary literature to write a well-crafted research paper.


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  • ENG 726 - Problems in Literary Form

    (3 units)
    Generic or cross-generic studies of literary structure.

    Maximum units a student may earn: 8

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. engage with and apply critical and theoretical debates to the course’s primary texts.
    2. produce writing of a professional quality that makes a contribution to the critical conversation.
    3. articulate the defining characteristics of formalist approaches, and to explain formalism’s place in the history of literary criticism and theory.
    4. articulate the major questions and problems posed by genre theory, and to voice opinions about the role of form and genre in interpretation.
    5. synthesize primary and secondary readings about a problem in literary form and genre.


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  • ENG 729 - Contemporary Rhetoric

    (3 units)
    Issues in rhetorical theory and practice from Ca.1900 to the present.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. develop a broad understanding of recent research and developments relative to the students in their classrooms.
    2. analyze and critique the development of lines of research and scholarship over time.
    3. Individually write a publishable article/chapter that brings research from these other fields into play with theory, research, and/or practice in Rhetoric and Composition.
    4. collectively develop a prospectus for an edited collection on these intersections that will include their articles/chapters written for this course.


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  • ENG 730 - Introduction to Graduate Study in Rhetoric and Composition

    (3 units)
    Development of the student’s understanding of their own writing processes in rhetoric and composition.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. discuss and apply foundational composition theory and insights from writing research.
    2. explain and apply basic principles of grammar, style, and text structure.
    3. identify typical academic genres—as well as typical genres for the student’s chosen professional field, if applicable—and select those most suitable for a defined purpose and audience.
    4. Identify social, political, and historical influences on the formation of genres and publishing practices.
    5. choose strategies that result in productive writing habits.
    6. create a timeline for writing and publishing to meet professional goals during graduate study.
    7. produce a polished portfolio containing examples of academic writing and/or other professional writing, as appropriate to the student’s program of graduate study.


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  • ENG 731 - Research in Rhetoric and Composition

    (3 units)
    Review of research methods in composition theory and practice; development of individual research designs.

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.

    Grading Basis: Graded
    Units of Lecture: 3
    Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years

    Student Learning Outcomes
    Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
    1. discuss the range of research options available to them and apply them as appropriate to their chosen topic of study.
    2. evaluate research questions, methods, and sites.
    3. contextualize their work within the larger field(s).


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