English Courses Fall 2025
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Fall 2025 English Classes Offered
- ENGL 100 Intro to Literary Analysis(3 units) T/Th 10:05 - 11:20am Sunayani Bhattacharya
- Do you enjoy reading stories, novels, poems . . .? This is an introductory course in close reading and textual analysis. You will learn to read texts slowly and carefully, paying attention to details and patterns within texts, and to understand how they make meaning. The beginning of the journey into English studies. All English Majors begin here but this course is open to all students.
- Note: English 100. Students who score 4 and above on both the AP Literature and AP Language exam can have English 100 waived and can start with English 200!
- Fulfills the Core requirement (HUM) Arts and Humanities analysis.
- Do you enjoy reading stories, novels, poems . . .? This is an introductory course in close reading and textual analysis. You will learn to read texts slowly and carefully, paying attention to details and patterns within texts, and to understand how they make meaning. The beginning of the journey into English studies. All English Majors begin here but this course is open to all students.
- [Couse Cancelled for Sp2025] ENGL 301 British Literature Before 1800(4units) MWF 9:15 - 10:20am Robert Gorsch
- Ranging from the heroic age of the pagan Anglo-Saxons down the centuries to the Elizabethan 鈥淕olden Age鈥 of Shakespeare and Marlowe, this course will explore the development of English literature during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. We will trace the evolution of styles and examine the changes in the characteristic subject-matters of works of literature. Our readings will include texts such as Beowulf, the romances of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, selections from The Canterbury Tales, Everyman, the love poems of the Renaissance sonneteers, and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
- Fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for English Majors.
- Fulfills the pre-1800 requirement for English Majors.
- Ranging from the heroic age of the pagan Anglo-Saxons down the centuries to the Elizabethan 鈥淕olden Age鈥 of Shakespeare and Marlowe, this course will explore the development of English literature during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. We will trace the evolution of styles and examine the changes in the characteristic subject-matters of works of literature. Our readings will include texts such as Beowulf, the romances of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, selections from The Canterbury Tales, Everyman, the love poems of the Renaissance sonneteers, and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.
- ENGL 311 Development of English Fiction(4units) T/Th 1:30 - 3:10pm Sunayani Bhattacharya
- Global Paranormal Literature!!! Need we say more. Get your ghost on in this new class about the development of English Fiction through international ghost stories. Get ready for spooky tales and manifestations.
- Global Paranormal Literature!!! Need we say more. Get your ghost on in this new class about the development of English Fiction through international ghost stories. Get ready for spooky tales and manifestations.
- ENGL 328 Children鈥檚 Literature(4units) MWF 10:40 - 11:45am Robert Gorsch
- Children鈥檚 and Young Adult (YA) Fantasy. The fiction we read as children and young adults may well be the most important fiction we ever read as it helps to shape and furnish our growing imaginations and prepare us for life. In this course we will explore the tradition of children's literature, focusing on children's and young adult fantasy, including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, The Hobbit, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (from Narnia), A Wizard of Earthsea, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Giver. Why has fantasy been so important in the tradition of children's and YA literature? Does it run the risk of promoting an unhealthy 鈥渆scapism鈥?
- Fulfills the Core Requirement of (HUM) Arts & Humanities Analysis.
- Fulfills the Core Requirement of (HUM) Arts & Humanities Analysis.
- Children鈥檚 and Young Adult (YA) Fantasy. The fiction we read as children and young adults may well be the most important fiction we ever read as it helps to shape and furnish our growing imaginations and prepare us for life. In this course we will explore the tradition of children's literature, focusing on children's and young adult fantasy, including Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, The Hobbit, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (from Narnia), A Wizard of Earthsea, A Wrinkle in Time, and The Giver. Why has fantasy been so important in the tradition of children's and YA literature? Does it run the risk of promoting an unhealthy 鈥渆scapism鈥?
- ENGL 352 Topics in Drama(4units) T/Th 11:40 - 1:20pm Emily Klein
- Theatre of the Absurd. New Feminist, Queer, & BIPOC Absurdism in Plays & Film. Absurd Theatre was hot in the 1950s when the movement was first defined but now absurdism is being exploded and redefined by feminist, queer, and BIPOC playwrights and film directors. We鈥檒l study the history of theatre of the absurd as well as its wild new iterations. Texts include plays, films, and essays by playwrights and directors including Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Adrienne Kennedy, Jackie Sibblies-Drury, Young Jean Lee, The Daniels, Greta Gerwig, and others. Join us for a deep dive into the crazy on stage and screen, both then and now!
- Theatre of the Absurd. New Feminist, Queer, & BIPOC Absurdism in Plays & Film. Absurd Theatre was hot in the 1950s when the movement was first defined but now absurdism is being exploded and redefined by feminist, queer, and BIPOC playwrights and film directors. We鈥檒l study the history of theatre of the absurd as well as its wild new iterations. Texts include plays, films, and essays by playwrights and directors including Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill, Adrienne Kennedy, Jackie Sibblies-Drury, Young Jean Lee, The Daniels, Greta Gerwig, and others. Join us for a deep dive into the crazy on stage and screen, both then and now!
- ENGL 354 Topics in Film(4units) MWF 12:05 - 1:10pm Kathryn Koo
- Black Cinema. This course serves as both an introduction to film analysis and a survey of the history of Black artistic achievement in film, from the first films of the early twentieth century to contemporary movies of the last decade. Given the dual nature of this course, we will simultaneously examine the technical aspects of filmmaking and the rich history of Black cinema that first emerged in the early twentieth century, often in opposition to the Hollywood filmmaking industry. By the end of this course, you will be able to analyze film as a powerful form of artistic expression, a critique of the existing social order, and a means of furthering the aims of social justice. Join us as we examine the technical power of film and the artistic richness and diversity of Black cinema.
- Fulfills the Core Curriculum requirements of (IPE) Identity Power and Equity and (HUM) Arts and Humanities Analysis.
- Fulfills the Core Curriculum requirements of (IPE) Identity Power and Equity and (HUM) Arts and Humanities Analysis.
- Black Cinema. This course serves as both an introduction to film analysis and a survey of the history of Black artistic achievement in film, from the first films of the early twentieth century to contemporary movies of the last decade. Given the dual nature of this course, we will simultaneously examine the technical aspects of filmmaking and the rich history of Black cinema that first emerged in the early twentieth century, often in opposition to the Hollywood filmmaking industry. By the end of this course, you will be able to analyze film as a powerful form of artistic expression, a critique of the existing social order, and a means of furthering the aims of social justice. Join us as we examine the technical power of film and the artistic richness and diversity of Black cinema.
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