23H World
Literature: Antiquity to the Early Modern World 3 units
Prerequisites: Admission to the Honors Program and eligibility
for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU 54 hours lecture
This is a comparative study of works that have made important
contributions to world literature. Students learn to recognize
and explain developmental stages of world cultures from antiquity
to early modem world, and to analyze literary expressions of the
multicultural issues, values and ideas typical of particular eras
and cultures. An important goal of the course is to examine significant
aspects of culture, contributions, and social experiences of non-western
cultures. Class is conducted as a seminar; students give oral
presentations, write research papers and take a midterm and final
exam. Students write at least 6,000 words during the semester.
24H World
Literature: 3 units
The Modern World/Seventeenth Century - Present
Prerequisites: Admission to the Honors- Program and eligibility
for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU 54 hours lecture
This is a comparative study of works that have made important
contributions to world literature. Students learn to recognize
and explain developmental stages and important themes in representative
works written from seventeenth century to the present and to analyze
multicultural issues. Students analyze literary expressions of
the multicultural issues, values and ideas typical of major world
cultures. An important focus of the course is to examine significant
aspects of culture, contributions, social experiences of non-western
cultures. The class is conducted as a seminar in which students
give oral presentations, write research papers, and take a midterm
and final. Students write at least 6,000 words.
25 Studies
in Literature 3-3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU 54 hours lecture
This course is scheduled as needed under a title describing specific
content. Students study of the works of a significant writer or
group of writers, or of works on one theme, region, vocation,
or human experience. Possible titles: Death in Literature, The
Literature of the Occult, Film and Literature, The Hero in Fiction,
The Love Story, The Literature of War. Not recommended as substitute
for genre or survey courses. May be taken twice for credit.
26 Mythologies
of the World 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU 54 hours lecture
This course offers a thematic approach to myth and legend from
a variety of cultures, stressing the following types of stories:
beginnings of the world, creation of living creatures, explanation
of natural phenomena, relationships between god, and mortals,
and deeds of superhumans, destruction, death and afterlife.
27 Women in
Literature 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU 54 hours lecture
This course studies writings by and/or about women. It emphases
American and British writers and the multicultural nature of the
women’s canon. Reading may include literature from any nation,
culture, or historical period.
29 Women in
Film and Literature 3 units
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 1A. 54 hours lecture
From its earliest days, Hollywood has played an important role
in shaping and reflection cultural assumptions, myths, and fears.
This course examines the assumptions and values that underlie
the portrayal of women and the messages that medium conveys about
the nature and role of femininity. In addition to viewing a variety
of film genres, the reading assignments include works of fiction
and essays from sociology, psychology, linguistics, and critical
theory.
30 American
Literature 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU 54 hours lecture
This course surveys representative works in American literature
from approximately 1493 to 1865. The literary canon will be presented
as a reflection of the multicultural nature of American literature
and society.
31 American
Literature 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
This course surveys representative works in American literature
from the American Civil War to the present. The literature canon
will be presented as a reflection of the multicultural nature
of American literature an society.
32 American
Novels of Social Criticism 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
Students read and discuss a study of selected American novels,
poems, and plays dealing explicitly with social problems and attitudes.
Emphasis will be on novels of literary or historical importance,
particularly novels. Topics may include, but will not necessarily
be limited to, such problems as industrialization, urbanization,
poverty, race relations, ,sexual equality, and war. Students will
gain greater insight into and understanding of the American mosaic
through this course in which the will read at least four full-length
novels.
35 English
Literature 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A -
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
This course surveys significant works in the English language
from Beowulf through Sam Johnson. Other works and writers include
"Gawain and the Green Knight," "Debate of the Body
and Soul," Morte d'Arthur, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare,
Marlowe, Bacon, Donne, Dryden, Swift and Pope.
36 English
Literature 3 units
Perquisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
This course surveys significant works in the English language
from the beginning of Romanticism in the 18th Century to the poetry
of Dylan Thomas in the 20th Century. Other writers include Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Carlyle, Arnold,
the Brownings, the Rossettis, Housman, Yeats, Joyce, Thomas Lawrence,
and Pinter.
37B Studies
in the Literature of Diverse Cultures: Asian American Autobiography
and Fiction. 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
This course surveys autobiographies and fiction written by Asian
Americans within the last 60 years. The course focuses Primarily
on works written by Filipino-, Chinese-, Japanese-, And Korean-
Americans, but also includes the work of other Pan-Asian American
writers. Students explore the ways these writer shape their experiences
of being Asian American in America and examines the differences
and similarities of these experiences across cultures , generations,
and genders.
38 Science
Fiction and Fantasy 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
The course consists of a survey of the major types of science
fiction and fantasy novels and other related works as well as
critical reading of such representative works. Such works include
the following: Harrison Bergeron, Vonnegut; Time Machine, Verne;
Brave New World, Huxley; Space Merchants, Pohl.
39 Children
and Literature 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU. 54 hours lecture
This course is designed for parents, prospective teachers, nursery
school workers, those who are or will be, in frequent contact
with children, and students interested in literature written for
children. Wide reading of historical and contemporary children's
literature, discussion of criteria for selection, and practice
in story telling and oral reading is included.
40A African-
American Literature 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
54 hours lecture
English 40A is a study of major African-America authors and their
literature from 1730 to 1930. This course includes critical reading
of slave narratives, autobiographies, essays, novels, plays, short
stories, poetry, and folklore. Some of the writers studies include
Lucy Terry, Jupiter Hammon, Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley,
William Wells Brown, Francs Harper, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B.
DuBois, Charles Chestnutt, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Huston and
may others.
40B African-
American Literature 3 units
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 1A.
54 hours lecture
English 40B is a study of major African-American authors and their
literature from 1930 to the present. This course includes critical
ready of essays, novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and folklore.
Some of the writers studies include Richard Wright, Ann Petry,
Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Owen Dodson, August Wilson, Rita
Dove, J. California Cooper, Bebe Moore Campbell, Mari Evans, Ralph
Ellison, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and many others.
42 Introduction
to the Short Story 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
This course is designed to introduce students to the art of the
short story. It will provide a history to the short story. It
will provide a history of the short story and distinguishing characteristics
of the genre. The emphasis will be on the connections between
literature and the human experience. The purpose will be to help
students develop an appreciation, understanding and knowledge
of literature. (CAN ENGL 18)
43 Introduction
to Poetry 3 units
Prerequisites: English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
Designed to introduce students to the art of poetry, English 43
includes analysis and appreciation of poems by a wide variety
traditional and contemporary poets. This course focuses on how
to respond as a reader and how to help give poetry meaning in
the light of one's accumulated feelings, interests, and ideas.
47 Introduction
to Shakespeare 3 units
Prerequisites: Eligibility for English 1A.
Acceptable for credit: UC, CSU. 54 hours lecture
The course will guide the student through a close reading of a
selection of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. It attempts to demonstrate
the essential modernity of Shakespeare’s themes and the vitality
of the aesthetic values in inherent in his work. It will facilitate
access to his work by clearing away the fog of misconception as
to the archaic nature of his language and the obsolete character
of his world view. It should heighten the student’s awareness
of general literary concepts and of the fundamental unity of the
culture of Western civilization.
49 Special Studies in English (see college catalog) 1-3 units