ENGL 302 Writing: Advanced Composition (4)
Writing and analysis of expository and argumentative papers at an advanced level. Discussion and application of rhetorical, stylistic and grammatical principles through writing and critical reading of essays. Practice in revising and editing papers. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 310 Corporate Communication (4)
Instruction and practice in forms of communication characteristic of business and industry. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 311 Advanced Professional Writing (4)
Professional writing as produced in industry and government. Analytic reports, manuals, instructions, specifications. Trade journal articles. Editing skills. Orientation to professional communication careers. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 318 Writing for Scientific Journals (4)
Practice of the skills necessary in the preparation of articles for scientific journals. Extensive writing and copy-editing, and study of the forms and styles required by the professional societies in each field. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 325 Creative Writing (4)
Instruction and practice in the writing, revising, and evaluating of fiction, poetry, or drama. Total credit limited to 8 units. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 326 Literary Criticism (4)
Instruction and practice in writing, revising, and evaluating various kinds of critical writing. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 330 British Literature: Medieval Period (4) GEB C.3.
Major works of the Old and Middle English periods in modern translation, including epic and lyric poetry, early religious writings, romance cycles and mystery and morality plays. Representative works include Beowulf, the Arthurian legends, Everyman and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 331 British Literature: The Renaissance (4) GEB C.3.
Major works of Elizabethan and Jacobean prose, poetry and drama. Literary responses to the foundations of humanism, individualism, nationalism and other forces of change leading from the medieval to the modern world. Representative writers include Spenser, Sidney, Donne, Jonson, Bacon and Milton. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 332 British Literature: The Enlightenment (4) GEB C.3.
Major prose, poetry, and drama from 1660 to 1800, emphasizing the period's interest in order, reason, rules and decorum in both life and literature. Representative writers include Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell and Defoe. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 333 British Literature: Romanticism (4) GEB C.3.
Major works of the Romantic period. Romantic concepts of imagination, individualism, nature and the organic qualities of art. Representative writers include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 334 British Literature: The Victorians (4) GEB C.3.
Major prose and poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Victorian concerns such as progress, belief, alienation and threats to the sense of personal identity in a technological age. Representative writers include Carlyle, Ruskin, Tennyson, Browning and Arnold. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 335 British Literature: Twentieth Century (4) GEB C.3.
Selected prose, poetry, and drama reflecting major movements of British literature from Modernism through Postmodernism, including Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Waugh, Amis, Drabble, Yeats, Eliot, Smith, Stoppard. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 338 Shakespeare in London (4) GEB C.3.
Readings from such works as Hamlet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the sonnets. Attendance at performances of these plays in or near London. Not open to students with credit in ENGL 339. 3 lectures, 1 activity. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 339 Introduction to Shakespeare (3) GEB C.3.
Readings from such works as Hamlet, King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the sonnets. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 340 American Literature to 1860 (4) GEB C.3.
Selected prose and poetry by American writers to 1860, showing the Colonial foundation of our national literature, developments of the Enlightenment and achievements of the Romantic age. Representative writers include Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Paine, Emerson, Poe, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Melville. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 341 American Literature: 1860-1914 (4) GEB C.3.
Selected prose and poetry by American writers from the Civil War to World War I with the focus on local-color fiction and on literary Realism and Naturalism. Representative writers include Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, James, Howell, Chopin and Crane. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 342 American Literature: 1914 to the Present (4) GEB C.3.
Selected prose, poetry and drama by American writers from World War I to the present, depicting the social and psychological complexities of the Twentieth Century. Representative authors include Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner and O'Neill. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 345 Women Writers (4) GEB C.3. USCP
Literature by women with attention to the woman artist and the creative process. Women writers and the dominant literary tradition with consideration of the existence of a women's literary tradition. Special emphasis upon the intersections of race, gender, and class as these intersections affect the creative process. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253, or consent of instructor.
ENGL 346 Ethnic American Literature (4) GEB C.3. USCP
Literature by Black, Latino, Asian American and Native American writers. Historical contexts which affected these writers and the effect of marginalization on the creative process. Relationship of such writers to the American canon and a revised canon, discussion of the intersections of race, gender, and class as these intersections shape the creative process. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253, or consent of instructor.
ENGL 350 Modern Novel (3) GEB C.3.
Readings in representative Twentieth Century novels with special emphasis on form and ideas. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 351 Modern Poetry (3) GEB C.3.
Readings in representative Twentieth Century poetry with special emphasis on form and ideas. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 352 Modern Drama (3) GEB C.3.
Readings in representative Twentieth Century drama with special emphasis on form and ideas. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 353 Modern Drama in London (4) GEB C.3.
Readings in representative Twentieth Century drama with special emphasis on form and ideas. Attendance at play performances required. 3 lectures, 1 activity. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 355 The Bible as Literature (3)
Old and New Testaments with historical background. Literary forms and characteristics of Hebraic writing. Appreciation of the far-reaching use of Biblical narrative and reference in literature, speeches, art, drama, and modern film. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 or equivalent or consent of instructor.
ENGL 360 Literature for Adolescents (3)
Readings in literature suitable for use in secondary schools. 3 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 362 Classics for Children and Youth (4)
Classic works of children's literature from the Eighteenth Century to the present. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253, or consent of instructor.
ENGL 370 World Cinema (4) GEB C.3.
Major works of international cinema with emphasis on critical interpretation, on the ways film communicates visually and verbally, and on the historical and cultural contexts in which films are created. Contains films by directors such as Howard Hawks, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 372 Film Directors (4) GEB C.3.
Significant film directors from the Western world and non-Western world, and their cinematic and technical achievements. Demonstrates relationships of Twentieth Century modes of thought. Class Schedule will list topic selected. Total credit limited to 12 units. 3 lectures, 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253, or consent of instructor.
ENGL 380 Contemporary Literary Ideas (4) GEB C.3.
Literature of the modern period. Significant writers, both from the Western world and the non-Western world, and their literary achievements. Demonstrates relationships of prevailing Twentieth Century modes of thought. Class Schedule will list topic selected. Total credit limited to 12 units. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 and ENGL 230, ENGL 231, ENGL 240, ENGL 251, ENGL 252, ENGL 253 or consent of instructor.
ENGL 385 Mass Media Criticism (4) (Also listed as JOUR 385 and SPC 385)
Examines mass media (especially broadcasting) from a rhetorical/critical perspective. Aims to expand students' understanding of media issues, media's role as critic, and the role of criticism. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: SPC 201 or SPC 202.
ENGL 390 Modern English Grammar (4)
Linguistic analysis of the English language. Phonology, morphology, and syntax. Traditional, descriptive-structural, and transformational-generative grammars. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 114 or equivalent.
ENGL 391 Topics in Applied Linguistics (4)
Issues in applied linguistics including sociolinguistics, first and second language acquisition, literacy, bilingualism, and dialectology. Applications to teaching the English language. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 395 History of the English Language (4)
Development of the English language from its origins to its present forms and practices. 4 lectures. Prerequisite: ENGL 215 or ENGL 218.
ENGL 399 Tutor Training (2) (CR/NC)
Studies of approaches tutoring one-on-one. Practice in tutoring, with supervision, in the University Writing Lab. Two hours of lecture per week which reviews the special needs of ESL, dialect-different, dyslexic, and remedial students. Overview of Writing Lab administration and design. Repeatable. Credit/No Credit grading only. 1 lecture, 1 laboratory. Prerequisite: ENGL 114, ENGL 215, ENGL 302.