English Course Descriptions
PLEASE NOTE: Students who fail to pass ENGL 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004 or 3200 after two semesters must submit a petition to the Academic Petition Committee requesting to remain in the University. Please see "Satisfactory Progress in Written English" under "Proficiency/Placement Examinations" in the "Undergraduate Education" section of this catalog for further information.
ENGL 1001 English as a Second Language (4 units)
The first of a two-semester course sequence for students whose first language is not English and whose English Placement Test places them into ESL. Emphasis on the writing of grammatical, well-structured sentences and the development of paragraphs in clear, idiomatic English. Grades: Pass/Fail/Satisfactory Progress. Fall Semesters.
ENGL 1002 English as a Second Language (4 units)
The second of a two-semester course sequence for students whose first language is not English and whose English Placement Test places them into ESL. Continued emphasis on the writing of grammatical, well-structured sentences and the development of paragraphs in clear, idiomatic English. Grades: Pass/Fail/Satisfactory Progress. Spring Semesters.
ENGL 1003 Developmental Writing (3 units)
Preparation for university-level writing. Writing of paragraphs and short essays. Emphasis on coherence, development, and Standard English. Grades: Pass/Fail/Satisfactory Progress. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 1004 Expository Writing (3 units)
University-level writing. Writing of expository essays. Emphasis on essay writing, including essay structure, thesis idea, relation between thesis and rhetorical modes as well as style and correctness. Students must complete this course with a ‘C’ (2.0) or higher to fulfill the first of a two-semester General Education requirement in writing. Prerequisite: placement test or passing ENGL 1003 or its equivalent. Please see also English Placement Policy in this Catalog. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 2305 Introduction to Creative Writing (3 units)
Practice in the many forms of creative writing, including poetry, fiction, and drama writing. Study of key terms and concepts in the writing process and practice in peer workshops. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 2306 Introduction to Literature: Genre and Analysis (3 units)
Analysis of the literary and performance elements of fiction, drama, and poetry covers selected works from ancient through contemporary times. Fall Semesters.
ENGL 3000 Literary Criticism (3 units)
Survey of developments in Anglo-American literary criticism of the 20th and 21st centuries, covering major critical theories such as New Criticism, Psychoanalytic, Marxist, Feminist, Reader-Response, Structuralist, Deconstructive, New Historical approaches. Introduces both theoretical and practical criticism. Completion of ENGL 2306 is strongly recommended before enrolling.
ENGL 3001 Linguistics (3 units)
Introduction to linguistics: the scientific inquiry into human language, its structures and uses and the relationship between them, as well as into the development and acquisition of language. Fall Semesters.
ENGL 3002 Grammar for Everyone (1 unit)
A practical course that covers the essential elements of excellent writing. Review of the parts of speech, sentence construction, and punctuation; attention to voice and style. Through lively readings and in-class activities students gain skill and confidence for any writing project. Fall Semesters.
ENGL 3010 English Literature 1: Medieval-18th Century (3 units)
Major works and movements of English literature from the Middle Ages through the Restoration and 18th century, including such authors as Chaucer, Donne, Milton, Behn, Swift, Defoe, Austen.
ENGL 3015 Shakespeare (3 units)
Shakespeare’s plays (history, comedy, tragedy, romance) and a selection of the sonnets, with some emphasis on Shakespearean criticism. Completion of ENGL 2306 is strongly recommended before enrolling.
ENGL 3017 Children’s Literature (3 units)
Children’s Literature from a range of cultures. Themes are derived from cultural patterns and symbols found in rituals, mythologies, and traditions. Fiction and non-fiction is explored with focus on identifying and analyzing structural devices in prose and poetry (such as rhyme, metaphor and alliteration). For those preparing to teach elementary school. Spring Semesters.
ENGL 3018 English Literature 2: Romantics-1914 (3 units)
Major works and movements of English literature from the Romantic Period through 1914, including such authors as Keats, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, Hardy.
ENGL 3019 English Literature 3: 1914-the Present (3 units)
Major works and movements of English literature from the beginning of World War I through the present, includes authors such as Woolf, Auden, Yeats.
ENGL 3025 United States Literature I (3 units)
Major works and literary movements of the United States from its beginnings to 1914, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by men and women of diverse backgrounds.
ENGL 3026 United States Literature II (3 units)
Major works and literary movements of the United States from 1914 to the present, including short fiction, novel, nonfiction, poetry, and prose written by men and women from a diversity of ethnic backgrounds.
ENGL 3028 Literature by Women (3 units)
The tradition of women’s writings in English from the Middle Ages to the present and from geographically and culturally diverse areas.
ENGL 3029 Early Literacy (3 units)
The theoretical foundations for the development of literacy in school-age children. Special attention will be paid to the social and cultural factors that affect literacy development. Also examines important authors and illustrators and the historical development, current issues, and uses of children’s literature for teachers and others. Spring Semesters.
ENGL 3030 Film as Text (3 units)
The genre of narrative cinema concentrating on the American film tradition, from its origins to contemporary times. Instruction stresses analysis, and theories of how film communicates meaning and basic comprehension of the visual language system cinema employs.
ENGL 3036 From a Woman’s Point of View (3 units)
Development of prose fiction by women from the end of the eighteenth century through the late twentieth century. This course considers how women go about telling stories: their use of language, characterization, plot, setting, imagery, how they weave serious topics into popular sub-genres such as gothic, mystery, and romance.
ENGL 3050 World Literature: Western Classics (3 units)
Major works of Western literature from its beginnings through the Middle Ages, including pieces such as the Old and New Testaments, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer’s Iliad, poetry of Sappho, Virgil’s Aeneid, Tristan & Isolde. Selected works may vary from semester to semester.
ENGL 3051 World Literature: Latin American (3 units)
Major works and movements of Latin American arts from across or within major geographical regions of Latin America; focus on specific literary periods varying from pre-contact indigenous works to 21st century postmodernism. Works and writers may include “Popol Vuh,” “Quetzalcoatl,” Garcia Marquez, Allende, Borges, Neruda, and Paz.
ENGL 3052 World Literature: Asian (3 units)
Major works and movements of one or more Asian literatures, translated into English, in their aesthetic, religious, and cultural contexts.
ENGL 3053 World Literature: Canadian (3 units)
Major works and movements of Canadian literature as a national literature on an international stage. Emphasizing English-Canadian writings, the course also looks at Canadian-Quebec works (in translation) and native or ethnic literatures. Selected authors may include Atwood, Birdsell, Blaise, Davies, Kogawa, Kroetsch, Lawrence, Munro, Ondaatje, Purdy, Shields, Wah, Watson, and many others.
ENGL 3054 World Literature: European (3 units)
Major works of European literature, particularly those written in languages other than English. Selected authors may include Camus, Flaubert, Kafka, Pirandello, and Rilke.
ENGL 3055 World Literature: African (3 units)
Major works and movements of African literature from a variety of cultures and countries; examination of cultural and aesthetic issues in work by such writers as Achebe, Fugard, and Soyinka.
ENGL 3056 World Literature: Literatures of the Middle East (3 units)
Major works of Middle Eastern literature from northern Africa to southwest Asia. Examines various ancient, medieval, and modern texts within their historical, religious, and cultural contexts. May include such works and writers as Gilgamesh, The Quran, Shahnameh, 1001 Nights, Rumi, Nagib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk, Simin Daneshvar, Mahmoud Darwish, Yehudi Amichai, and Arundhati Roy.
ENGL 3060 Ethnic Literature: Asian American (1.5 units)
Writings of Asian American authors from a diversity of national origins: Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and others. In drama, fiction, memoirs, and poetry, the course examines Asian American themes relating to historical, cultural, and societal issues, such as immigration, social conflicts, family, gender, identity.
ENGL 3061 Ethnic Literature: Native American (1.5 units)
Writings and oral traditions from a diversity of North American Indian tribes. This course explores the art of Native American story telling and its themes relating to historical and cultural issues, such as identity, spirit world, earth, and language.
ENGL 3062 Ethnic Literature: African American (1.5 units)
Writings of African American authors from early to contemporary times. In drama, essays, fiction, and poetry, the course examines African American themes relating to historical, cultural, and societal issues, such as folk tradition, language, the blues, slavery, gender, family and ancestors, identity.
ENGL 3063 Ethnic Literature: Hispanic American (1.5 units)
Writings of Hispanic American authors from a diversity of national origins: Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican. From early chronicles and oral traditions to contemporary forms of literature, examines Hispanic American themes relating to historical and cultural issues, such as sense of place, oral tradition, family, love, migration and exile, gender, identity.
ENGL 3064 Ethnic Literature: Middle Eastern American (1.5 units)
Writings of Middle Eastern American authors from a diversity of national origins: Egyptian, Moroccan, Palestinian, Turkish, Iranian, Saudi, Indian, and others. In drama, essays, fiction, and poetry, the course examines Middle Eastern American themes relating to religious, cultural, and societal issues, such as tradition, family, love, gender, immigration, and identity.
ENGL 3071 Studies in Literary Topics: Postcolonialism (3 units)
Advanced seminar on literature produced by cultures that developed in response to colonial domination, using the theoretical framework of colonialist and anticolonialist ideologies. Also study of postcolonial literary criticism. Selected authors may include Achebe, Coetzee, Conrad, Defoe, Gordimer, Kincaid, Kipling, Naipaul, Rhys, Rushdie, Soyinka, Walcott.
ENGL 3072 Studies in Literary Topics: Toni Morrison (3 units)
Advanced seminar on Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels and essays. Close reading of all her novels in print, selected essays, and selected criticism. Analysis of the themes, styles,forms, and contexts of Morrison’s novels as a means of understanding both her individual aesthetics and her specific, African American literary legacy.
ENGL 3073 Studies in Literary Topics: Southern Writing (3 units)
Advanced seminar on literature from the Southern United States, and the literary and cultural perspectives offered by these texts. Considerations of race, post-war identity, regionalism may be examined. Authors may include Welty, Faulkner, O’Connor, Hurston, and contemporary authors Butler and Johnson.
ENGL 3074 Studies in Literary Topics: Virginia Woolf & Co. (3 units)
Advanced seminar on the novels, short fiction, and essays of Virginia Woolf, as well as selected writings of her contemporaries and her influence on later writers. Course includes exploration of critical commentary on Woolf’s work.
ENGL 3076 Studies in Literary Topics: The Brontës (3 units)
Advanced seminar on the works of the Brontë sisters, Anne, Emily, and Charlotte. Close reading of their major novels, in addition to selected juvenilia and personal writings. Special consideration of the British Victorian era and its implications, specifically regarding gender, colonialism, science, domesticity, and morality.
ENGL 3077 Fantasy and Science Fiction
Advanced seminar on works of high imagination through the ages. Speculative fiction by authors such as Lewis, Tolkien, LeGuin and Beagle. Includes some study of theory and criticism.
ENGL 3200 Advanced Writing and Research (3 units)
Practice of research writing and critical thinking. Building on expository writing, with emphasis on research writing and critical thinking. Students must complete this course with a ‘C’ (2.0) or higher to fulfill the second General Education requirement in writing. The corequisite or prerequisite for this course is RES 2000. Prerequisite: passing ENGL 1004 or its equivalent with a grade of ‘C’ or higher. Please also see English Placement Policy in this Catalog. Fall, Spring Semesters, Summer Sessions.
ENGL 3307 Publish Your Writing (1 unit)
Hands-on instruction of the business of getting published, from market research, query letters, and copyright laws to the issues of multiple submissions and print vs. online publications. Through readings, activities and exercises, students learn strategies for submitting work successfully. Spring Semesters.
ENGL 3401 Children’s Literature Writing (3 units)
Study of and practice in forms of writing ranging from the picture book for children to the novel for adolescents.
ENGL 3402 Drama Writing (3 units)
Introduction to the art and craft of writing for the stage. Special emphasis on the technical elements of playwriting, the vocabulary of the playwright, and the nature of the writing experience.
ENGL 3403 Fiction Writing 1 (3 units)
Introduction to the craft of short fiction through study of exemplary models and exercises in such elements of form as point of view, narrative modes, dialog, imagery, etc. Students critique one another’s work and complete a number of stories for a final portfolio.
ENGL 3405 Poetry Writing 1 (3 units)
Introduction to poetry writing, with readings, discussion, workshops, and a revised final portfolio; may include forms, free verse, imitation poems, and public readings of revised student work.
ENGL 3406 Travel Writing (3 units)
Introduction to travel writing, with readings, discussion, workshops, and a revised final portfolio; may include examinations of types of travel writing and explorations of form, voice and audience.
ENGL 3409 Nonfiction Writing (3 units)
Introduction to the art of creative nonfiction writing including autobiography, biography, personal essay, and feature article through readings, exercises, and workshops.
ENGL 3426, 3427, 3428, and 3429 Literary Magazine 1 – 4 (1 unit)
Practical experience in evaluating, editing, and publishing writings submitted for the University literary magazine, Tuxedo. Students gain the skills necessary to produce this online journal. Grade: Pass/Fail. May be taken four times for credit. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 3430 Poetry Writing: 2 (3 units)
Advanced work in the genre of poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 3405.
ENGL 3431 Fiction Writing: 2 (3 units)
Advanced work in the genre of fiction. Prerequisite: ENGL 3403.
ENGL 3442 Critical Inquiry and Reflective Writing (3 units)
Provides the context for the exploration of lifelong learning. Preparation of the Experiential Learning Portfolio that documents prior experience in terms of university-level learning outcomes essays that may be submitted for possible university credit. Practice research writing and critical thinking. Satisfies the second semester General Education requirement in writing for Pathways students only (corequisite or prerequisite GE requirement is RES 2000). Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 3443 Portfolio Redevelopment Workshop (1 unit)
Provides the opportunity for a student to work within a structured course environment to develop the second portfolio submission. This submission may include revisions to the original essays (as recommended by the previous evaluators) and/or new essays and supporting documentation. Prerequisite: ENGL 3442. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 4201 Senior Thesis 1 (1.5 units)
The first semester of a two-semester course to produce the Senior Thesis. Normally enrolling two semesters before graduating, students choose a subject and literary works, develop a thesis idea, working bibliography of primary and secondary sources, and a provisional outline of the Senior Thesis. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 4202 Senior Thesis 2 (1.5 units)
The second semester of a two-semester course to produce the Senior Thesis. Students draft the Senior Thesis, submit the completed paper, and present it orally to the University community. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 4203 Senior Project 1 (1.5 units)
The first semester of a two-semester course to produce the Senior Project. Normally enrolling two semesters before graduating, students develop a portfolio of creative writing in a given genre or genres (e.g., drama, fiction, film, nonfiction prose, poetry) together with an introductory essay discussing their project. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 4204 Senior Project 2 (1.5 units)
The second semester of a two-semester course to produce the Senior Project. Students complete their draft of the Senior Project, submit the completed Portfolio, and present it orally to the University community. Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 4992 Thesis Continuation (0 units)
Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 4994 Teaching Assistant/Tutoring (1-3 units)
Fall, Spring Semesters.
ENGL 4996 Internship (1-3 units)
An internship of 1 unit is a requirement for the majors in English and in English with a Writing Emphasis. For full description see General Description – ART 4996 – All Internships at end of Art Course Descriptions. Grades: Pass/Fail. Fall, Spring Semesters, and Summer Sessions.
ENGL 2999/4999 Independent Study (1-3 units)
Individual or group project entailing literary study, research, and/or writing. Instructor’s permission required. May not be taken as substitute for regularly offered class. Fall, Spring Semesters, and Summer Sessions.
