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.
Studies the internals of a database management system, with emphasis on query execution. The final goal of the class is to build a fully-functional database execution engine consisting of all the standard components: storage manager, buffer manager, query execution engine, query optimizer, and query compiler.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: CSE 177 Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: CSE 031 Instructor Permission Required: No
EECS 278: Advanced Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Units: 4
Design and analysis of algorithms plays an increasingly important role in modern science and engineering. Introduces advanced techniques for algorithm design and analysis and covers introductory computational complexity, combinatorial optimization, and online/approximation/randomized/big data algorithms.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Optimization problems are prevalent in many disciplines, and computer science is no exception. Unfortunately, numerous optimization problems are computationally hard (e.g. NP-hard), hence resist efficient algorithms. Covers various approximation algorithms which are polynomial time heuristics that aim to give a solution close to the optimum for all inputs.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No Knowledge of Algorithm Design and Analysis, or an equivalent course, strongly recommended
EECS 280: Advanced Topics in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
Units: 4
Overview of Internet development history and fundamental principles underlying TCP/IP protocol design. Discussion of current networking and distributed systems research topics, including latest research results in routing protocols, transport protocols, network measurements, network security protocols, and clean-slate approach to network architecture design. Fundamental issues in network protocol design and implementations applied to a variety of different applications and environments.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 6
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to following major/minor(s):
Contemporary issues in mobile robotics. Topics include but are not limited to: cooperative mobile robotics, mathematical models for complex tasks (e.g. manipulation), humanoid robotics, human-robot interfaces, robot hardware and middleware.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 3
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: EECS 270 Instructor Permission Required: No
Reviews advanced topics in machine learning. Each edition of the course will focus on a different topic. It will consist of formal lectures, presentation and discussion of papers, and implementation of algorithms in Matlab or C.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: Unlimited
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes
Research in intelligent systems is multi-disciplinary and its foundation can be found from fields such as estimation, communication, and control. Other areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, networking, robotics, security, and signal processing are also highly related. This class will review the most current results in intelligent systems and help students prepare for research in intelligent systems. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 6
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: MATH 032 and MATH 141 Instructor Permission Required: No
Aims to familiarize students with techniques for processing large amounts of data. Starting with the latest innovations in hardware, data processing architectures are presented as well as algorithms for managing large quantities of data. Although the main focus is data analytics, significant attention is dedicated to transactional processing.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No Background in computer architecture, computer system design concepts, and algorithm fundamentals required
Covers advanced algorithms in the motion planning research domain and reviews selected topics in applications to robotics, computer animation, cognitive science and/or bioinformatics. Includes development of a significant programming project and student-led seminars.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: Unlimited
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes Consolidated programming skills, and notions of computer graphics and robotics recommended
Reviews the main topics in computer animation, including: key frame animation and motion capture, direct and inverse kinematics, physics-based animation, particle systems and deformable surfaces, rigid body simulation, collision detection and motion planning. Includes development of programming projects and student-led paper presentations.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: CSE 171 Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes Consolidated programming skills and notions of computer graphics required
EECS 288: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing
Units: 4
Reviews advanced topics in high performance computing. Consists of formal lectures, presentation and discussion of papers, and research projects. Students will gain research experience on modern loarge-scale parallel systems.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No Prior knowledge in Parallel Computing is suggested for successful completion of this course.
EECS 289: Topics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lower Unit Limit: 1 Upper Unit Limit: 3
Under faculty supervision, group of students meets each week for a semester in a student-led study group to pursue a specific topic of their choice that is not covered in other department courses.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: Unlimited
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
EECS 290: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Seminar
Units: 1
This invited speaker seminar course gives electrical engineering and computer science graduate students breadth exposure to all the areas in the field.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 12
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to following major/minor(s):
Starting from the Paleolithic period and moving forward to the end of the 18th century and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, examines the process of technological change and its relationship to societal change.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: HIST 040 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Starting from the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 18th century and moving to the present, examines the process of technological change and its relationship to societal change.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: HIST 041 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Relationship between the structure, processing, properties, and performance of materials. The application of physical and chemical principles in the context of engineering materials: atomic bonding, crystal structure, defects, thermodynamics, and kinetics.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam) and (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam) Instructor Permission Required: No
Fundamental concepts of mechanics, including statics, dynamics, and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam) Instructor Permission Required: No
Basic tools needed for the design and analysis of engineering systems, including data collection, basic algorithm design, implementation and testing, and systems simulation.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam) and (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam) Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or PHYS 018 or equivalent exam) Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: MATH 024 and (PHYS 009 or PHYS 009H or PHYS 019) Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 6
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 4
Crosslisted with: ENGR 197, MGMT 097, MGMT 197 Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
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).
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Fundamentals of equilibrium, temperature, energy, and entropy. Equations of state and thermodynamic properties, with engineering applications.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam) and (MATH 023 or MATH 023H) and MATH 024 and (PHYS 009 or PHYS 009H Instructor Permission Required: No
ENGR 140: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming
Units: 4
Topics include object-oriented programming concepts, such as classes, objects, methods, interfaces, packages, inheritance, encapsulation, and polymorphism.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: CSE 165 Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (CSE 020 or equivalent exam) and (CSE 021 or equivalent exam) Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: ESS 141, GEOG 141 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (WRI 010 or equivalent exam) and any lower-division BIO, ECON, ENVE, ESS, POLI, or PUBP course or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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).
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: ENGR 057 and ENGR 045 Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: MGMT 158, MIST 133 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: ENGR 065 Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: MATH 021 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions 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) Instructor Permission Required: No
ENGR 192: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists
Units: 1
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ENGR 292 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
Students work in multidisciplinary teams completing design projects presented by industrial partners. Teams focus on planning, concept, and system design.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (ENGR 166, which may be taken concurrently, and ENGR 045 and BIOE 130 and BIOE 140) or (ME 120, which may be taken concurrently, and ENGR 135, which may be taken concurrently, and ME 137), or ((ENVE 100 or ESS 100, which may be taken concurrently) and (ENVE 110 or ESS 100, which may be taken concurrently) and ENVE 130 and ENVE 160, any of which may be taken concurrently) or (MSE 112, which may be taken concurrently, and MSE 113, which may be taken concurrently) Cannot also be taken due to similarity of content: ENGR 190 Open only to the following class level(s):
Students work in multidisciplinary teams completing design projects presented by industrial partners. Teams focus on testing and prototyping.
Course Details Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
Fall
Spring
Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: ENGR 193 Cannot also be taken due to similarity of content: ENGR 190 Open only to the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 6
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: Yes Repeat Limit: 6
Crosslisted with: ENGR 097, MGMT 097, MGMT 197 Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
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).
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENGR 270L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Units: 1
Laboratory for principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Graduate requirements include additional laboratory reports and a research project.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENGR 292: Intellectual Property for Engineers and Scientists
Units: 1
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Conjoined with: ENGR 192 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
An introduction to the craft of literary analysis, this course seeks to answer the following questions: What is “literature”? What does it mean to read well? How has the practice of reading changed over the years? What can the study of literature teach us about ourselves?
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 018: Crime and Horror in Victorian Literature and Culture
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 031: Introduction to African-American Literature and Culture
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 032: Introduction to Chicano/a Culture and Experiences
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: CCST 060, SPAN 060 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 001 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 052: Politics and Prose of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Units: 4
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.”
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Concurrent Prerequisites: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Concurrent Prerequisites: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Explores the history of literary and medical representations of illness, physical disability, and cognitive diversity over the past three hundred years.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 100: Engaging Texts: Introduction to Critical Practice
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: SPAN 100 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to following major/minor(s):
ENG 101: Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Culture, 800-1660
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
ENG 102: Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 103: British and American Literature, 1830-1940
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 104: Postwar, Postcolonial, Postmodern Literature and Culture: 1945 to the present
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions 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 Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089 Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 107: “The Age of Enlightenment” in the Long Eighteenth Century
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
ENG 109: Encounters with Islam in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: SPAN 113 Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions 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 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 114: Latinos/as in Children’s Literature and Film
Units: 4
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).
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: SPAN 114 Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions 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 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: SPAN 115 Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions 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 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Crosslisted with: HIST 135 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions 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 the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089) Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeatable for Credit: No Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No