printer friendly pageENGLISH 43A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (ENGLISH 143A, NATIVEAM 143A)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.)Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography,
Black Elk Speaks.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Fields, K. (PI)
ENGLISH 68N: Mark Twain and American Culture (AMSTUD 68N)
Preference to freshmen. Mark Twain has been called our Rabelais, our Cervantes, our Homer, our Tolstoy, our Shakespeare. Ernest Hemingway maintained that all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. President Franklin D. Roosevelt got the phrase New Deal from
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Class discussions will focus on how Twain's work illuminates and complicates his society's responses to such issues as race, technology, heredity versus environment, religion, education, and what it means to be American.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 4
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Fishkin, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 88N: Graphic Novels Asian American Style (ASNAMST 88N)
Though genre fiction has occasionally been castigated as a lowbrow form only pandering to the uneducated masses, this course reveals how Asian American writers transform the genre to speak to issues of racial difference and social inequality.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Sohn, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 90: Fiction Writing
The elements of fiction writing: narration, description, and dialogue. Students write complete stories and participate in story workshops. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite:
PWR 1 (waived in summer quarter).
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Antopol-Johnson, M. (PI)
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Clark, H. (PI)
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Kletter, D. (PI)
;
Quade, K. (PI)
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Instructors:
Antopol-Johnson, M. (PI)
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Clark, H. (PI)
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Kletter, D. (PI)
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Quade, K. (PI)
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Schloesser Tarano, N. (PI)
ENGLISH 91: Creative Nonfiction
(Formerly 94A.) Historical and contemporary as a broad genre including travel and nature writing, memoir, biography, journalism, and the personal essay. Students use creative means to express factual content.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Clark, H. (PI)
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Hummel, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 92: Reading and Writing Poetry
Prerequisite:
PWR 1. Issues of poetic craft. How elements of form, music, structure, and content work together to create meaning and experience in a poem. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 5
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Ekiss, K. (PI)
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Perham, B. (PI)
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Wrenn, G. (PI)
ENGLISH 100A: Literary History I
First in a three quarter sequence. Team-taught, and ranging in subject matter across almost a millennium from the age of parchment to the age of Facebook, this required sequence of classes is the department's account of the major historical arc traced so far by literature in English. It maps changes and innovations as well as continuities, ideas, and aesthetic forms, providing a grid of knowledge and contexts for other, more specialized classes.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Greene, R. (PI)
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Haas, R. (PI)
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Lewis, R. (PI)
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Ligda, K. (PI)
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Instructors:
Greene, R. (PI)
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Haas, R. (PI)
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Lewis, R. (PI)
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Ligda, K. (PI)
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Treharne, E. (PI)
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Zhu, X. (PI)
ENGLISH 118: Literature and the Brain (ENGLISH 218, FRENCH 118, FRENCH 318, PSYCH 118F)
Recent developments in and neuroscience and experimental psychology have transformed the way we think about the operations of the brain. What can we learn from this about the nature and function of literary texts? Can innovative ways of speaking affect ways of thinking? Do creative metaphors draw on embodied cognition? Can fictions strengthen our "theory of mind" capabilities? What role does mental imagery play in the appreciation of descriptions? Does (weak) modularity help explain the mechanism and purpose of self-reflexivity? Can the distinctions among types of memory shed light on what narrative works have to offer?
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
House, P. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Mann, J. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
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Instructors:
House, P. (PI)
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Landy, J. (PI)
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Mann, J. (PI)
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Vermeule, B. (PI)
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Walser, H. (PI)
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Wiebracht, B. (PI)
ENGLISH 121A: Tattoos, Scars, Marks and American Cultures of Inscription
From Anne Hutchinson to Nathaniel Hawthorne, American writers were drawn to marked, tattooed, and scarred bodies. This course examines how various corporeal inscriptions, real or imagined, have become vehicles of reward and punishment, objects of science, sites of race and gender identities, and vessels of the divine and the unsayable. Considering a wide range of texts, images and movies, we will trace how marks on the very surface of the subject have been read and made meaningful. What is the relationship between body and text? What are the confines of surface and self? How does the body participate in constructions of race, class, and gender?
Terms: Aut
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Units: 5
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Dippold, S. (PI)
ENGLISH 143A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (ENGLISH 43A, NATIVEAM 143A)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.)Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography,
Black Elk Speaks.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBHum
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Fields, K. (PI)
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