May 20, 2024

2017-2018 Catalog

2017-2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Lower Division Courses numbered 1–99 are designed primarily for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all students for lower division credit. (Graduate students requesting to enroll in lower-division undergraduate courses will not receive unit credit nor will the course fulfill degree requirements.) Upper Division Courses courses numbered 100–199 are open to all students who have met the necessary prerequisites as indicated in the catalog course description. Preparation should generally include completion of one lower division course in the given subject or completion of two years of college work.

GRADUATE COURSES

Courses numbered 200–299 are open to graduate students. (Undergraduate students must obtain the signature of the instructor, School Dean, and the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate level units will count towards the required 120 units for graduation; however students are urged to meet with their academic advisor in order to determine if graduate course units may be used to fulfill a graduation requirement.)

CROSS-LISTED/CONJOINED COURSES

Cross-listed Courses are the same course offered under different course subjects at the same level (either undergraduate or graduate) that share the same meeting time, requirements, units, etc. Conjoined Courses are the same course but one is undergraduate and one is graduate.

COREQUISITE COURSE

A corequisite course is a course that must be taken at the same time as another course.

PREREQUISITES

Prerequisites for courses should be followed carefully; the responsibility for meeting these requirements rests on the student. If you can demonstrate that your preparation is equivalent to that specified by the prerequisites, the instructor may waive these requirements for you. The instructor also may request that a student who has not completed the prerequisites be dropped from the course. If the prerequisite for a course is not satisfied, students must obtain the approval of the instructor (or school designee) of the course they wish to take.

For all undergraduate courses a “C-” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “P/NP” grade then a “P” grade is required.

For all graduate courses a “B” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “S/U” grade then a “S” grade is required.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

No credit is allowed for completing a less advanced course after successful completion (C-or better) of a more advanced course in the foreign languages. This applies only to lower division foreign language courses, not upper division courses.

GRADING OPTIONS

Unless otherwise stated in the course description, each course is letter graded with a P/NP or S/U option (unless required for your major or graduate program). The policy regarding Grading Options , can be found in an alternate section of the catalog.

More information about Course Substitutions and Course Materials and Services Fees can be found in alternate areas of the catalog.

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Engineering
	ENGR 053: Materials and the Environment [3 units] Impact of materials mining, processing, synthesis, use, and disposal on the environment, including cost-benefit analyses of environmentally “friendly” vs. “unfriendly” materials. Energy properties, cost, durability, disposal, and other considerations in materials selection. Materials challenges in fuel cell, battery, solar, and water filtration applications. Environmental costs and benefits of emerging nanotechnologies. Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam) and (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam). Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 057: Statics and Dynamics [4 units] Fundamentals of statics. Kinematics and equations of motion of a particle for rectilinear and curvilinear motion. Planar kinematics of rigid bodies. Kinetics for planar motion of rigid bodies, including equations of motion and principles of energy and momentum. Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or PHYS 018 or equivalent exam). Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 065: Circuit Theory [4 units] Offers essential foundations for engineering students to analyze basic circuits and signals in circuit systems. Static and dynamic circuit analysis using Laplace transforms; active circuits involving operational amplifiers. Signal classifications, representations using Fourier transform, filtering, sampling process. Time and frequency domain responses. Prerequisite: MATH 024 and (PHYS 009 or PHYS 009H or PHYS 019 ). Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 095: Lower Division Undergraduate Research [1-4 units] Laboratory, field, theoretical, and/or computational research under the supervision of a faculty member on a topic of mutual interest and appropriate to class standing. A written report is required. Permission of instructor required. Pass/No Pass option. Course may be repeated for credit. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 097: Engineering Service Learning [1-2 units] Multi-disciplinary student teams working with community organizations to design, build, test and implement solutions to real-world problems. Students gain experience in regard to functioning effectively in a work environment with peers and clients, and insight into the design and development process. Open only to standing(s): Freshman, Sophomore. Normal Letter Grade only. Course may be repeated 4 times for credit. Laboratory included. Cross-Listed with ENGR 197 , MGMT 097 , MGMT 197 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 098: Lower Division Directed Group Study [1-5 units] Permission of instructor required. Pass/No Pass only. Course may be repeated for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 099: Lower Division Individual Study [1-5 units] Permission of instructor required. Pass/No Pass only. Course may be repeated for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 108: BioEntrepreneurship [3 units] Introduces upper division undergraduate and graduate students to entrepreneurship. We start with a history of biotechnology and medical devices which hopefully inspires them to integrate entrepreneurship with engineering and/or life sciences. We work through case studies of start-up companies (including Genentech) brainstorm ideas about new inventions, and walk them through the requisite steps to start a new business venture (IP issues, team formation, raising capital). Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 120: Fluid Mechanics [4 units] Introduction to and application of the mechanics of fluids and fluid flow in natural and engineered systems. Prerequisite: MATH 024 , which may be taken concurrently, and ENGR 057 . Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 130: Thermodynamics [3 units] Fundamentals of equilibrium, temperature, energy, and entropy. Equations of state and thermodynamic properties, with engineering applications. Prerequisite: (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam) and (MATH 023 or MATH 023H ) and MATH 024 and (PHYS 009 or PHYS 009H . Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 135: Heat Transfer [4 units] Study of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, with applications to engineering problems. Prerequisite: ENGR 120 and ENGR 130 and MATH 131 . Normal Letter Grade only. Offered fall only. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 140: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming [4 units] Topics include object-oriented programming concepts, such as classes, objects, methods, interfaces, packages, inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism. Prerequisite: (CSE 020 or equivalent exam) and (CSE 021 or equivalent exam). Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. Cross-Listed with CSE 165 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 141: Environmental Science and Policy [4 units] In depth-analysis of environmental case studies. Focus on science critical to policy development and implementation, the policy-making process, and policy outcomes. Special emphasis on interaction between scientific information and policy-making. Example topics include Western water resources, biodiversity conservation, and global warming. Emphasis on written and oral communication and critical analysis. Prerequisite: (WRI 010 or equivalent exam) and any lower-division ESS, ENVE, BIO, ECON, POLI, or PUBP course or equivalent exam. Pass/No Pass option. Discussion included. Cross-Listed with ESS 141 , GEOG 141 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 151: Strength of Materials [4 units] Fundamental concepts of how objects deform or fail under loading, and related concepts by analyzing stretching, bending and torsion of beams/ rods along with their stress and strain analysis; Stress and strain analysis in pressure vessels; strength and elastic instability (buckling). Prerequisite: ENGR 057 and ENGR 045 . Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 155: Engineering Economic Analysis [3 units] Microeconomic principles and methods. Time value of money, interest and equivalences, analysis of economic alternatives, depreciation, inflation and taxes, estimates of demand, cost and risk, decision theory. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Pass/No Pass option. Offered fall and spring. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 158: Service Innovation [4 units] Focuses on service innovation, generation of new successful service ventures. Helps students gain the skills necessary to be successful in three main aspects of service production and delivery systems: the back office, the front office, and service design. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Offered fall and spring. Discussion included. Cross-Listed with MGMT 158 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 166: Analog and Digital Electronics [3 units] Intended for the upper division engineering student to facilitate the student’s development into bioengineering investigation. Designed to introduce fundamental principles of analog and digital electronics commonly used in biomedical research. Prerequisite: ENGR 065 . Normal Letter Grade only. Offered fall and spring. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 170: Introduction to Electron Microscopy [3 units] Principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Emphasis upon practical applications. Normal Letter Grade only. Offered fall and spring. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 170L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory [1 unit] Laboratory for principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Corequisite: ENGR 170 . Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 175: Information Systems for Management [4 units] An introduction to organizational use of information systems and information technology, and discusses how these create value for organizations. Open only to major(s): Bioengineering, Management and Business Economics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Sci and Engineering, Management, Economics, Cognitive Science, Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with MGMT 170 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 180: Spatial Analysis and Modeling [4 units] Principles of geographic information systems [GIS]; applications of GIS to environmental, water, and resource management issues; problem solving with GIS. Other topics include spatial analysis interpolation techniques and model integration. Prerequisite: MATH 021 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 190: Engineering Capstone Design [4 units] Students will work on multidisciplinary teams on selected and approved design projects, practice design methodology, complete project feasibility study and preliminary design, including optimization, product reliability and liability, economics, and application of engineering codes. Final report and presentation. Prerequisite: (ME 120 and ENGR 135 and ME 137 ) or (ENVE 100 and ENVE 130 , which may be taken concurrently, and ENVE 160 , which may be taken concurrently, and ENVE 110 ) or (BIOE 100 , which may be taken concurrently, and ENGR 045 and (CHEM 008 or CHEM 008H ) and ENGR 130 and BIOE 104 and ENGR 166 ) or (MSE 112 or MSE 113 ) or (ENGR 065 and CSE 100 ). Open only to standing(s): Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. Cross-Listed with BIOE 150 , ENVE 190 , ME 170 , MSE 120 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 191: Professional Seminar [1 unit] Presentation and discussion of professional engineering practices. Professional ethics and the roles and responsibilities of public institutions and private organizations pertaining to engineering. Open only to standing(s): Senior. Permission of instructor required. Pass/No Pass only. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 192: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists [1 unit] Intended for undergraduate and graduate students who may pursue a career in research and technology. Examines the laws behind Intellectual Property, covering material on copyrights for technology protection, trademarks, trade secrets, patent information including the patenting process, claim drafting, design patents, engineering ethics, and more. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Conjoined with ENGR 292 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 195: Upper Division Undergraduate Research [1-4 units] Laboratory, field, theoretical, and/or computational research under the supervision of a faculty member on a topic of mutual interest and appropriate to class standing. A written report and oral presentation are required. Permission of instructor required. Pass/No Pass option. Course may be repeated for credit. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 197: Engineering Service Learning [1-2 units] Multi-disciplinary teams of freshman through senior students work with community organizations to design, build, and implement engineering-based solutions for real-world problems. Students gain insight into the design and development process. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Course may be repeated for credit. Laboratory included. Cross-Listed with ENGR 097 , MGMT 097 , MGMT 197 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 198: Upper Division Directed Group Study [1-5 units] Permission of instructor required. Pass/No Pass only. Course may be repeated for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 199: Upper Division Individual Study [1-5 units] Permission of instructor required. Pass/No Pass only. Course may be repeated for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 208: BioEntrepreneurship [3 units] Introduction for upper division undergraduate and graduate students to entrepreneurship. We start with a history of biotechnology and medical devices which inspires them to integrate entrepreneurship with engineering and/or life sciences. Case studies of start-up companies (including Genentech) brainstorm ideas about new inventions, and the requisite steps to start a new business venture (IP issues, team formation, raising capital). Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 270: Introduction to Electron Microscopy [3 units] Principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Emphasis upon practical applications. Graduate requirements include additional assignments, quiz problems, and a project. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 270L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory [1 unit] Laboratory for principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Graduate requirements include additional laboratory reports and a research project. Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 292: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists [1 unit] Intended for undergraduate and graduate students who may pursue a career in research and technology. Examines the laws behind Intellectual Property, covering material on copyrights for technology protection, trademarks, trade secrets, patent information including the patenting process, claim drafting, design patents, engineering ethics, and more. Normal Letter Grade only. Conjoined with ENGR 192 . View course scheduling information
	ENGR 295: Graduate Research [1-6 units] Supervised research in engineering. Permission of instructor required. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only. Course may be repeated for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 298: Directed Group Study [1-6 units] Group project under faculty supervision. Permission of instructor required. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only. Course may be repeated for credit. Laboratory included. View course scheduling information
	ENGR 299: Directed Independent Study [1-6 units] Independent project under faculty supervision. Permission of instructor required. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only. Course may be repeated for credit. View course scheduling information
English
	ENG 017: Why Harry Potter? Why Literature? [4 units] A study of Harry Potter novels, their literary ancestors, their popularity, and efforts to censor them. This study will enable students to investigate how authors and readers co-create meaning, how stories create individual and group identity, how stories elicit emotion, and how stories engage ethical questions. Pass/No Pass option. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 018: Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture [4 units] From Jack the Ripper to the Elephant Man, from venereal disease to self-murder, this course explores the nineteenth-century British obsession with crime and horror, with phenomena that rattle one’s sense of self. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 020: Introduction to Shakespeare [4 units] An introduction to the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare, as well as the world of Elizabethan England. Considers why Shakespeare’s works continue to be so popular, and students will both write about his works and act in or recite something he wrote. Pass/No Pass option. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 021: Jane Austen and Popular Culture [4 units] Explores Austen’s contribution to literary and cultural history and her enduring popularity, first through an examination of her novels, and then through a study of their remarkably prolific, creative, and diverse adaptations. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 030: Literature of Childhood [4 units] Reading includes books written for children: books that explore the hilarity of childhood, but also its poignancies; and books written for adults that use the idea of childhood to explore a variety of themes from poverty to race to gender. Pass/No Pass option. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 031: Introduction to African-American Literature and Culture [4 units] Examines the social thought, religious institutions, intellectual history, political challenges, literary traditions and expressive arts of people of African descent in the Americas. Among the focal points are the centrality of the African American experience to important legal, historical, political, and cultural developments in the formation of the United States. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 032: Introduction to Chicano/a Culture and Experiences [4 units] Introduction to Chicano/a cultural practices and experiences, with emphasis on the ties between culture, race, gender, social class, language, historical developments, artistic and literary expression, migration and transculturation. We will analyze changes in Chicano/a culture and cultural practices as Chicanos/as adapted to different historical and social circumstances. Taught in English. Prerequisite: WRI 001 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. Cross-Listed with CCST 060 , SPAN 060 . View course scheduling information
	ENG 033: Literature and Sexuality [4 units] Over the last 300 years, “sexuality” has gradually displaced “soul” and “mind” as the most essential ingredient in modern subjectivity. How has Western literature grappled with, embraced, or resisted the sexualization of subjectivity? From Freud to Foucault, Sade to Nabokov, we will map the uneasy alliance between literature and sexuality. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 050: Readings in Close Reading [4 units] Intensive seminar on the history, practice, varieties, rise, fall, conflicts and anxieties of close reading in literature. Emphasis on the relationship of close reading to literature and literary theory. Required texts comprise important acts of close reading as well as primary texts that lend themselves to close reading. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 051: The Bible as Literature [4 units] A study of the Judeo-Christian Bible as literary text, of its influence on later works, and of issues of translation, politics, and canonization. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 052: Politics and Prose of the Nobel Prize in Literature [4 units] Delves into the art and politics of the Nobel Prize in Literature, reads major works of recent laureates, and contends with claims and imaginings of a universal canon, a new “literary space.” Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 054: Introduction to the American Novel [4 units] Survey of the novel in the United States in the 20th century with an emphasis on realism, modernism, naturalism, postmodernism, and innovations and reactions after the second World War. Examination of shifting representations of race, gender, class and sexuality in the novel amid political, cultural and social shifts. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 055: Introduction to the Short Story [4 units] Introduction to the development of the short story in 19th-, 20th- and 21st century literature. An emphasis will be placed on innovations in technique and craft, and the short story as a space for political, social and artistic transformation. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 056: Introduction to World Drama [4 units] Read plays from across the globe and thousands of years, learning about the theatrical and historical contexts of each play. Students will explore this drama with their voices as well as their minds, performing in a scene and developing reading and writing skills. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 057: Introduction to Poetry [4 units] Teaches students how to read a poem. Equips students with the tools necessary to approach, evaluate, and enjoy this infamously peculiar and wonderful medium of language, reading everything from classic sonnets to cutting-edge poetry of today. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 058: Literature of the Natural Environment [4 units] Introduces students to literature about the natural environment. Surveys poetry, essays, and fiction while also keeping in mind specific developments in land uses and political responses to owning the environment. Explores a variety of genres and topics within the wide rubric of nature writing. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 059: Apocalyptic Literature [4 units] The question that this course’s texts will think about is none other than what happens when the world ends. This seminar will delve (without fear) into a diverse selection of historical and contemporary narratives of apocalypse and doomsday scenarios, while focusing on close reading and writing skills. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 062: Literature and Gender [4 units] Read several kinds of literature that deal with issues of gender, including works written by men and women in various times and places, and think about the way that gender is portrayed and performed by the narrators, speakers, and characters involved. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 064: LGBT Fiction [4 units] A study of classic works of twentieth- and twenty-first-century LGBT fiction, welcoming all students interested in the politics of identity, in representations of sexuality, and in edgy works of literature. Prerequisite: WRI 010 , which may be taken concurrently, or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 065: Literary Comedy [4 units] By reading various kinds of comedy in a variety of literary genres, try to examine humanity’s strange ability to take deep pleasure in disrupting the serious order of things. By reading theories of comedy, also investigate both the psychological and ethical dimensions of comedy. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 066: Literary Romance [4 units] Explores literary romances–adventure stories–written in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We will encounter poems, plays, stories, and films that exhibit the properties of literary romance. Prerequisite: WRI 010 , which may be taken concurrently, or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 067: Environmental Ethics in Beast Fables [4 units] Examines fables featuring talking creatures who implore human readers to examine their ethical and spiritual responsibility toward the environment, a fragile ecosystem that cannot endure society’s unsustainable practices. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 071: Literature of Illness and Disability [4 units] Explores the history of literary and medical representations of illness, physical disability, and cognitive diversity over the past three hundred years. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 090: Topics in Literature [4 units] Introduces students to the tasks of closely reading and writing about literature focused on a particular topic. Normal Letter Grade only. Course may be repeated 1 time for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENG 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice [4 units] Introduction to issues and approaches in literary theory and criticism, with an emphasis on applications of methods to selected literary texts. Provides an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of the critical tradition as well its major movements, schools, thinkers, tensions, and interventions. Documents and critical readings prepare students for textual interpretation. Open only to major(s): English, Literatures and Cultures, Spanish. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with SPAN 100 . View course scheduling information
	ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660 [4 units] Read about men who battle green knights, lovers who communicate through a swan, and a sympathetic Satan. Learn about England from the eighth through seventeenth centuries, the music and art of these periods, and the politics and religions that shape this literature. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 102: Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830 [4 units] A transatlantic approach to the literature of what is often called the long eighteenth century, in which the court literature of the Restoration, the neoclassicism of the Augustans, and the anti-classicism of the Romantics all engage the major cultural changes of the Enlightenment. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 103: British and American Literature, 1830-1940 [4 units] Explores the literary history of the British Isles and North America in the Great Age of Modernization. The period of the American Civil War, WW1, the Great Depression. The story of the women and men who write of the discombobulating experience of modern life. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present [4 units] Introduces students to an array of postcolonial/post-colonial and post-modern/ postmodern literature and theory that signifies, plays with and forms an inter-textual relationship with narratives they will have encountered in earlier surveys in the ENG 100s sequence. Students are encouraged to be as daring as the texts they encounter. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. View course scheduling information
	ENG 105: Shakespeare’s Medieval Inheritance [4 units] Read a number of early English plays before exploring a selection of Shakespearean drama, to re-think this period of theatrical history. Consider the emergence of the public theatre, the impact of the Reformation, and the roles of memory and ritual. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089. ENG 101 or ENG 020 or ENG 056 recommended. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 106: Early English Drama [4 units] Read medieval and Renaissance plays from a variety of genres, including mystery plays, moralities, musical interludes, comedies, and tragedies. Also learn about the theatrical, religious, social, and political contexts that surround these plays. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 107: “The Age of Enlightenment” in the Long Eighteenth Century [4 units] Reads works of Defoe, Pope, Swift, Equiano, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and others to explore how they cast skepticism on projects of human emancipation and called into question many of our cherished assumptions about the role of the Enlightenment in the larger narrative of Western history. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 108: Romanticism and Apocalypse [4 units] Treats contemporary apocalyptic anxieties as deeply rooted in the cultural and literary transformations that we now retrospectively call “British Romanticism.” Studies doomsday writing by Wordsworth, Blake, Keats, Byron, PB Shelley, and Mary Shelley. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 109: Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature [4 units] Focuses on how representations of Islam were intimately woven into the fabric of 18th and 19th century English cultural and political life, calling into question entrenched notions that continuously cast Islam as an “unenlightened” and “terroristic” religion. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 113: U.S. Latino/a Literature [4 units] Representative overview of U.S. Latino literature, from colonial times to the present. Through the analysis of works from different genres, the student is exposed to the main themes, techniques, styles, etc. of some of the most influential Latino authors, including several writers from the Central Valley. Taught in English. Prerequisite: CCST 060 or SPAN 050 or SPAN 051 or SPAN 060 or ENG 032 or ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 or any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 Pass/No Pass option. Cross-Listed with SPAN 113 . View course scheduling information
	ENG 114: Latinos/as in Children’s Literature and Film [4 units] In-depth study of Latinos/as in children’s literature and film, with special attention to issues of representation and self-representation, reception, publishing, markets, stereotypes, historical evolution, bilingualism and other linguistic issues. Combines film analysis and literary criticism to explore how Latinos/as have been represented (and have represented themselves). Prerequisite: CCST 060 or SPAN 050 or SPAN 051 or SPAN 060 or ENG 032 or ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 or any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089. Pass/No Pass option. Cross-Listed with SPAN 114 . View course scheduling information
	ENG 115: Chicano/a Literature [4 units] Representative overview of Chicano/a literature, from colonial times to the present. Main aspects to be covered include: literary history, bilingualism and literature, ethnicity and race, gender parameters, the aesthetics of the borderlands, class and regional variations, migration and diaspora, children’s literature, among others. Taught in English. Prerequisite: CCST 060 or SPAN 050 or SPAN 051 or SPAN 060 or ENG 032 or ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 or any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 Pass/No Pass option. Cross-Listed with SPAN 115 . View course scheduling information
	ENG 116: Literature and History of the 1960s [4 units] Examines factors within the United States, such as war protests, radical movements, and racial stands, which led to permanent changes in politics, society, and culture, and their literary and historical expression. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and (any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 or HIST 016 or HIST 017 or equivalent exam). Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with HIST 135 . View course scheduling information
	ENG 117: Literature of California [4 units] Through film, essays, poetry, and fiction (short and long) students will address California’s immigrant and migrant realities, acknowledge its economic turbulence, and explore the notion of a canonical literature focused on this hybrid and often confusing state. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 118: Literature and Philosophy [4 units] The history of ideas in the Western tradition has from its inception hosted a dynamic relationship between literature and philosophy. This course traces the genealogy of the relationship between literature and philosophy, as well as their intersections, tensions, affinities, and inter-textuality. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 119: Fashion and Fiction [4 units] Utilizes examples in literature and film to explore the impact and meaning of fashion in past and contemporary culture. Students will write two papers and give a presentation. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 121: Topics in Continental Philosophy [4 units] In-depth study of one or more figures or topics in continental philosophy. Possible topics include German idealism, Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, the Frankfurt school, cultural studies, and critical theory. Prerequisite: Any lower-division PHIL or ENG course. Pass/No Pass option. Course may be repeated 2 times for credit. Cross-Listed with PHIL 141 . View course scheduling information
	ENG 122: Nature Writing and the Environment [4 units] Explores a variety of genres and topics within the wide rubric of nature writing. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 129: Topics in Literature and Culture [4 units] Focuses on literature addressing a specific topic, developing advanced reading, writing, and research skills. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Course may be repeated 3 times for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENG 132: Human Rights and Literature [4 units] Traces the development of the social, legal and political discourses of global human rights, and the inter-related emergence of art forms—novels, stories, films, public spaces, monuments, museums, theater, paintings, sculpture, etc.—that embody, challenge and critically engage with human rights ideas. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 135: Working Class Literature: British [4 units] Read novels, plays, and poems that depict and/or are written by members of the working classes in Victorian England; interrogate the ways that working classes are portrayed by middle and upper class authors, but also read texts written by members of the working class. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 136: Working Class Literature: American [4 units] Examines the rich tradition of the working class in the United States. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 137: Problems in Literature: Islam in English Literature from the Crusades to the War on Terror [4 units] Looks at concepts of holy war; Islam on the early English stage; 17thc. polemics surrounding the study of Islam and the Koran; Enlightenment obsessions with “Mahometanism;” women in Islam; Romantic imagination and the East; the Rushdie ‘affair’; and West-East relations after 9-11. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 138: Gothic Literature [4 units] Examines the concept of the Gothic in British literature and culture from 1764 to the present. Focuses on literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, but also considers 20th and 21st century treatments of the Gothic. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 150: Geoffrey Chaucer [4 units] Read the extraordinary and extraordinarily influential work of the 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer, and learn about the ways in which his writing forever changed both Western literature and the English language. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 151: Advanced Shakespeare [4 units] Read several of Shakespeare’s plays; discover the political, religious, and social contexts that shaped these plays; and learn about both historical and modern-day performances of Shakespeare by viewing and acting in his plays. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 103B . View course scheduling information
	ENG 152: William Blake [4 units] Studies William Blake’s poetry and prose as he produced it, complete with illustrations, and historicizes Blake’s works and life. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 153: Robert Louis Stevenson [4 units] Author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, RLS was a poet, essayist, travel writer, and master of the short story. His life was as adventurous and romantic as his fiction. Follow him from Edinburgh to the South Pacific, where his literary interests turned anthropological. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 154: Emily Dickinson: Her Poems, Her Letters, Her Life [4 units] “This was a Poet – it is That/Distills amazing sense/From ordinary Meanings –” Examine the poems of Emily Dickinson and explore how she expressed her thoughts on nature, love, God, pain, death, and womanhood. Learn how to analyze difficult poetry, and produce a creative response to her work. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 155: Toni Morrison and James Baldwin [4 units] Examines the inter-sectional aesthetics of critical categories such as race, gender, sexuality, politics and religion, through a comparative reading of the novels, stories, plays, essays, speeches and biographies of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 156: Oscar Wilde: Artist, Martyr, Celebrity [4 units] Explores the plays, philosophical writings, poetry, journalism, literary criticism, and fiction of the nineteenth century’s most flamboyant writer. Studies Wilde’s life and legend, his literary influences, his critics, and his rebirth in the twentieth century as a “gay martyr.” Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 157: Virginia Woolf and EM Forster [4 units] Examines the groundbreaking novels, short stories and political essays of two of the most influential, stylish and enigmatic writers in Great Britain in the early twentieth century. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 158: The Brontes [4 units] From their small brick house in the Yorkshire countryside, three sisters—Charlotte, Emily and Anne—changed the face of British literature in the 1840s, penning some of the most beloved and poignant novels in the English canon, the subject of this class. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 159: Rudyard Kipling [4 units] Kipling’s writings explore the inherent strangeness of identity, the disorienting nature of youth, the multicultural experience of India. An alternately beloved and derided author, Kipling has been called the British Empire’s greatest champion, as well as its shrewdest and most subtle critic. Prerequisite: WH 010 or equivalent exam. Open only to standing(s): Sophomore, Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 164: Author Study [4 units] A close examination of one particularly influential writer, in addition the work of that writer’s contemporaries, predecessors, and descendants. An exploration of how this writer uniquely expressed her or his ideas, and their influence on later writers. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Normal Letter Grade only. Course may be repeated 3 times for credit. View course scheduling information
	ENG 165: Tragic Drama: from Ancient Greece to the Present Day [4 units] By reading several plays, question what makes a play a tragedy and what function tragedy serves diverse societies, from Ancient Greece to Elizabethan England to 19th century Russia to modern America. Also think about these plays in performance by watching filmed productions and acting out scenes. Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. At least one prior ENG class recommended. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 166: Nineteenth Century Drama and Adaptation [4 units] From Peter Pan to Oscar Wilde comedies to Gilbert and Sullivan operas, nineteenth century England produced several important kinds of theater. This class explores Romantic verse drama, comic opera, farce, melodrama, and dramatic “realism.” Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 185: Reading from the Margin [4 units] Explores the question of how to read canonical works from the margins. Analyzes such issues as: difference and sameness; the construction of the self and of the other; and reading as a culturally-situated activity. Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 ) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089). Pass/No Pass option. View course scheduling information
	ENG 186: Language, Gender, and Culture [4 units] Explores questions like: How do patterns of speaking reflect, perpetuate, and create our experience of gender? Does gender connect to language change? What do controversies about sexism and other biases in language suggest about the connections between language, thought, and political struggles? Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information
	ENG 190: Senior Thesis [4 units] In this capstone course, students demonstrate, extend, and reflect on their learning by exploring a literary topic in depth. They extend their learning by producing a thesis, and reflect on their learning in a short essay discussing their major or minor as part of their entire education. Prerequisite: Completion of two lower-division ENG courses and one survey course out of the following: ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104 . Open only to major(s) and minor(s): English, Literatures and Cultures. Open only to standing(s): Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. View course scheduling information

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ENGR 053: Materials and the Environment

ENGR 057: Statics and Dynamics

ENGR 065: Circuit Theory

ENGR 095: Lower Division Undergraduate Research

ENGR 097: Engineering Service Learning

ENGR 098: Lower Division Directed Group Study

ENGR 099: Lower Division Individual Study

ENGR 108: BioEntrepreneurship

ENGR 120: Fluid Mechanics

ENGR 130: Thermodynamics

ENGR 135: Heat Transfer

ENGR 140: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

ENGR 141: Environmental Science and Policy

ENGR 151: Strength of Materials

ENGR 155: Engineering Economic Analysis

ENGR 158: Service Innovation

ENGR 166: Analog and Digital Electronics

ENGR 170: Introduction to Electron Microscopy

ENGR 170L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory

ENGR 175: Information Systems for Management

ENGR 180: Spatial Analysis and Modeling

ENGR 190: Engineering Capstone Design

ENGR 191: Professional Seminar

ENGR 192: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists

ENGR 195: Upper Division Undergraduate Research

ENGR 197: Engineering Service Learning

ENGR 198: Upper Division Directed Group Study

ENGR 199: Upper Division Individual Study

ENGR 208: BioEntrepreneurship

ENGR 270: Introduction to Electron Microscopy

ENGR 270L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory

ENGR 292: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists

ENGR 295: Graduate Research

ENGR 298: Directed Group Study

ENGR 299: Directed Independent Study

ENG 017: Why Harry Potter? Why Literature?

ENG 018: Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture

ENG 020: Introduction to Shakespeare

ENG 021: Jane Austen and Popular Culture

ENG 030: Literature of Childhood

ENG 031: Introduction to African-American Literature and Culture

ENG 032: Introduction to Chicano/a Culture and Experiences

ENG 033: Literature and Sexuality

ENG 050: Readings in Close Reading

ENG 051: The Bible as Literature

ENG 052: Politics and Prose of the Nobel Prize in Literature

ENG 054: Introduction to the American Novel

ENG 055: Introduction to the Short Story

ENG 056: Introduction to World Drama

ENG 057: Introduction to Poetry

ENG 058: Literature of the Natural Environment

ENG 059: Apocalyptic Literature

ENG 062: Literature and Gender

ENG 064: LGBT Fiction

ENG 065: Literary Comedy

ENG 066: Literary Romance

ENG 067: Environmental Ethics in Beast Fables

ENG 071: Literature of Illness and Disability

ENG 090: Topics in Literature

ENG 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice

ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660

ENG 102: Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830

ENG 103: British and American Literature, 1830-1940

ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present

ENG 105: Shakespeare’s Medieval Inheritance

ENG 106: Early English Drama

ENG 107: “The Age of Enlightenment” in the Long Eighteenth Century

ENG 108: Romanticism and Apocalypse