University General Course Catalog 2019-2020

Dec 06, 2025

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English Literature Elective Courses

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List of Elective Courses

Courses should be selected in consultation with the student’s advisory chair/committee.

ENG 600A - Topics in Writing (3 units)
ENG 600B - Topics in Professional Writing (1 to 3 units)
ENG 601B - Advanced Non-Fiction (3 units)
ENG 603A - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction I (3 units)
ENG 603B - Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction II (3 units)
ENG 604A - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry I (3 units)
ENG 604B - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry II (3 units)
ENG 605A - Professional Editing and Publishing (3 units)
ENG 606A - Document Design (3 units)
ENG 607B - Fundamentals of Technical Writing (3 units)
ENG 608B - Tutoring Student Writers (3 units)
ENG 609C - Contemporary Rhetorical Theory and Criticism (3 units)
ENG 611B - Principles of Modern Grammar (3 units)
ENG 612A - Linguistics (3 units)
ENG 612B - Applied Linguistics (3 units)
ENG 612D - Introduction to Phonology (3 units)
ENG 613A - Sociolinguistics (3 units)
ENG 613B - Historical Linguistics (3 units)
ENG 613C - Topics in Linguistics (3 units)
ENG 614A - History of the English Language (3 units)
ENG 615D - Introduction to Old Norse (3 units)
ENG 616B - Language and Gender (3 units)
ENG 621A - Modern Literary Criticism (3 units)
ENG 622A - Topics in Literary Theory (3 units)
ENG 625A - Study of Literary Themes (3 units)
ENG 625B - Topics in Literature (3 units)
ENG 628A - Children’s Literature (3 units)
ENG 629C - Literature of the American West (3 units)
ENG 630A - Major Figures in British Literature (3 units)
ENG 632A - Chaucer (3 units)
ENG 633A - Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories (3 units)
ENG 633B - Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances (3 units)
ENG 635A - Milton (3 units)
ENG 636A - Major Figures in American Literature (3 units)
ENG 640A - Medieval English Literature (3 units)
ENG 641A - The Renaissance (3 units)
ENG 642A - The Seventeenth Century (3 units)
ENG 643B - Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature (3 units)
ENG 644A - The Romantic Movement (3 units)
ENG 645A - The Victorian Period (3 units)
ENG 647A - Contemporary British Literature (3 units)
ENG 654A - Studies in Contemporary American Literature (3 units)
ENG 661B - Twentieth Century British and American Poetry (3 units)
ENG 662B - American Poetry (3 units)
ENG 662D - American Poetry, 1865-1945 (3 units)
ENG 662E - American Poetry, 1945-Present (3 units)
ENG 664B - Drama Before Shakespeare (3 units)
ENG 665A - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (3 units)
ENG 665B - Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama (3 units)
ENG 666B - Modern Drama (3 units)
ENG 670A - The British Novel I (3 units)
ENG 670B - The British Novel II (3 units)
ENG 671C - Twentieth Century British Fiction (3 units)
ENG 672A - The American Novel I (3 units)
ENG 672B - The American Novel II (3 units)
ENG 675B - Literary Nonfiction (3 units)
ENG 680A - Studies in Comparative Literature (3 units)
ENG 680B - Topics in Comparative Literature (3 units)
ENG 682A - Literature of the Middle Ages (3 units)
ENG 683A - International Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (3 units)
ENG 686A - Studies in Postcolonial Literature and Theory (3 units)
ENG 691A - Major Texts of the Environmental Movement (3 units)
ENG 691C - Topics in Culture and Environment (3 units)
ENG 692C - Language and Culture (3 units)
ENG 694A - Native American Literature (3 units)
ENG 695C - African American Literature (3 units)
ENG 697A - Topics in Multi-Cultural Literature (3 units)
ENG 705 - Fiction Writing Workshop (4 units)
ENG 707 - Craft and Forms of Creative Writing (4 units)
ENG 708 - Topics and Problems in Creative Writing (4 units)
ENG 709 - Poetry Writing Workshop (4 units)
ENG 710 - Literary Editing and Publishing (4 units)
ENG 713 - Problems in Language (3 to 4 units)
ENG 714 - Problems in Modern Grammatical Study (3 to 4 units)
ENG 717 - Old English (3 units)
ENG 718 - Beowulf (3 units)
ENG 720 - Problems in Medieval English (4 units)
ENG 721 - Problems in the History of Literary Criticism (4 units)
ENG 722 - Problems in Literary Theory (4 units)
ENG 723 - Problems in Themes and Ideas in Literature (4 units)
ENG 724 - Topics in Literature (4 units)
ENG 725 - Problems in the Novel (4 units)
ENG 726 - Problems in Literary form (4 units)
ENG 729 - Contemporary Rhetoric (4 units)
ENG 730 - Introduction to Graduate Study in Rhetoric and Composition (4 units)
ENG 731 - Research in Rhetoric and Composition (4 units)
ENG 732 - Problems in Writing (4 units)
ENG 733 - Classical Through Medieval Rhetoric (4 units)
ENG 734 - Writing in the Academy (4 units)
ENG 735 - Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition (4 units)
ENG 736 - Internship (1 to 4 units)
ENG 737 - Teaching College Composition (1 to 3 units)
ENG 738 - Seminar in Professional Writing (4 units)
ENG 739 - Renaissance Through Modern Rhetoric (4 units)
ENG 740 - English Studies and Public Intellectualism (4 units)
ENG 741 - Problems in Early American Literature (4 units)
ENG 743 - Problems in Later American Literature (4 units)
ENG 745 - Seminar in Ecocriticism and Theory (4 units)
ENG 761 - Problems in the Early Renaissance (4 units)
ENG 762 - Problems in 17th Century Literature (4 units)
ENG 764 - Problems in Non-Shakespearean Drama (4 units)
ENG 765 - Problems in Shakespeare (4 units)
ENG 767 - Problems in Milton (4 units)
ENG 771 - Problems in the Age of Reason (4 units)
ENG 775 - Problems in the Romantic Movement (4 units)
ENG 781 - Problems in the Victorian Age (4 units)
ENG 783 - Problems in Early 20th Century British Literature (4 units)
ENG 784 - Problems in 20th Century British and American Literature (4 units)
ENG 785 - Problems in Contemporary American Literature (4 units)
ENG 786 - Topics in Anglophone Literature (4 units)
ENG 787 - Problems in Contemporary British Literature (4 units)
ENG 788 - Problems in Modern Comparative Literature (4 units)
ENG 790 - Special Topics (1 to 3 units)
ENG 791 - Special Topics (1 to 3 units)
ENG 793 - Pedagogical Practicum in Creative Writing (2 units)