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.
WORLD LANGUAGES
No credit is allowed for completing a less advanced course after successful completion (C-or better) of a more advanced course in the world languages. This applies only to lower division world 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.
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 6
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes
Students learn the techniques associated with research and design practices focusing on the user experience of end users and other stakeholders. Topics include, need assessment, market analysis, specification development, user requirements, functional decomposition, DFMEA, prototyping, field testing, product assessment and ethics. Students gain understanding of these concepts through real-world examples of engineering projects in the areas of energy and sustainable design.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Students work in multidisciplinary teams completing design projects for not-for-profit partners. Teams focus on the development of design thinking and skill development.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
Badge: Ethics
Badge: Leadership, Community, and Engaging the World
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses with Concurrent Option: ENGR 096 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: CSE 165 Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: CSE 031 and CSE 100 and MATH 024 Open only to the following class level(s):
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: ESS 141, GEOG 141 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Open only to the following class level(s):
ENGR 156: Technical Writing for Scientists and Engineers
Units: 3
Instructs students on writing scientific and technical documents. Specific assignments will include writing a scientific abstract versus a summary, a research or design proposal, the lab report, and an original research article. Data will be provided for graphical presentation and statistical analyses. Differences between a proposal and a journal article will also be highlighted.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
Approaches to Knowledge: Natural Science
Badge: Scientific Method
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Instructor Permission Required: No Prior completion of any 3 science or engineering courses is recommended.
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: MGMT 158, MIST 133 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Crossroads
Badge: Scientific Method
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Sustainability
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Upper Division: Culminating Experience
Badge: Scientific Method
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Sustainability
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Badge: Ethics
Badge: Leadership, Community, and Engaging the World
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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) or PHYS 160 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Culminating Experience
Badge: Leadership, Community, and Engaging the World
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Culminating Experience
Badge: Leadership, Community, and Engaging the World
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 6
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: Yes
Students work in multidisciplinary teams completing design projects for not-for-profit partners. Teams focus on the implementation of design skills and thinking and project management.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Laboratory included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Badge: Ethics
Badge: Leadership, Community, and Engaging the World
Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
Upper Division: Crossroads
Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: ENGR 097 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Conjoined with: ENGR 192 Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 001: Introduction to Environmental Communications
Units: 4
Introduces the basics of ecology and climate change; scientific methods; environmental justice; and the principles of effective environmental communications. Introduces emotional resources for caring for themselves and others when dealing with heavy issues like environmental injustice and climate change. Features guest speakers from environmental law, business, activism, the National Park Service, and government.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: EC 001 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Ethics
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 011: Introduction to World Literature in English
Units: 4
Provides an overview of stories, poems, and plays composed in English around the world. Students will read literary texts written in a number of regions, including Africa, Asia, Australia, the British Isles, and North and Caribbean America, and from the Middle Ages to the present day. Emphasis will be on global connections between these texts, and students will also explore the way this literature reflects and constructs varying notions of race, nationhood, class, and gender.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 012: Introduction to Drama, Theatre, and Performance
Units: 4
Enhances students’ ability to enjoy, appreciate, and communicate how theatre is a collaborative and necessary art and a reflection of the human experience, in both historical contexts and today. Develops students’ understanding of theatre as an aesthetic form, deepens their appreciation of the arts, and hones critical thinking skills through evaluation and analysis of theatrical events.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: GASP 080A Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Ethics
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Introduces the emerging field of animal studies, and encourages students to consider the role that animals play in literature, in society, and in earth’s ecosystems. Explore questions raised by literary animals from multiple perspectives, including from the point of view of (fictional) animals themselves.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Ethics
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: CCST 060, SPAN 060 Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Sustainability
Badge: Ethics
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Ethics
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: GASP 080B Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Global Awareness
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Read texts from several genres (novels, poetry, plays, and nonfiction) written by women of the Anglophone world during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Students will explore the diverse contributions of these writers to literary history. Attention will be given to the ways in which these texts represent and engage with intersections of gender with other social categories, such as class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, and (dis)ability. Readings will include works by Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Cherríe Moraga, Celeste Ng, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Students will hone their critical thinking, close reading, and analytical writing skills.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Instructor Permission Required: No
Studies 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses with Concurrent Option: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses with Concurrent Option: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Media and Visual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Sustainability
Badge: Ethics
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Global Awareness
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Ethics
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 classes in the English survey sequence. Students are encouraged to be as daring as the texts they encounter.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Discussion included Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Crossroads
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Crossroads
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Ethics
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
During the Romantic period (roughly 1780-1830), British literature and the early British Empire underwent transformations in which the Orient, real and imagined, served as an experimental site for envisioning a global modernity. This course is premised on the assumption that literature served as a crucial medium through which Britons and their colonial subjects understood a developing western empire, and the early empire in turn profoundly informed the themes and forms of literary expression in Britain and India.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: CRES 151 Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
Examines Mesoamerican Indigenous people and culture through literature written from various perspectives. Through an examination of Indigenous writings from around the time of contact and up to contemporary writings, the course will focus on Indigenous methods of cultural survivance in the face of changing modes of colonization, with some attention given to texts written about Indigenous people by both allies and antagonists.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: CRES 153 Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
Read a variety of stories, poems, and plays by and about Latinx people (including Chicanx/Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Central American works) from colonial times to the present. Through the analysis of works from different genres, students are able to consider the variety topics including literary history (including issues of canonicity and reception), bilingualism and literature, ethnicity and race, gender and sexuality, class, and nationality. Taught in English.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Global Awareness
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
Read a variety of stories, poems, and plays by and about Chicanx people, from colonial times to the present, and from all over the United States and Mexico, including the Central Valley. Through the analysis of works from different genres, students are able to consider the variety topics including literary history (including issues of canonicity and reception), bilingualism and literature, ethnicity and race, gender and sexuality, class, and nationality. Taught in English.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: HIST 135 Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Upper Division: Crossroads
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (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 Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
ENG 120: Chicanx, Latinx & Indigenous Representation
Units: 4
Examines the ways that Chicanx, Latinx, and Indigenous people are represented and represent themselves, through an examination of popular culture, movies, television, and literature. Uses a theoretical lens to understand the impacts of these representations on in-group and out-group members. Explores how the historical trajectories of stereotypes overlap across ethnic groups, and how these stereotypes continue to dramatically and negatively affect social and political realities for Latinxs, Chicanxs, and Indigenous people within U.S. society today. Explores the intersectional identities of Latinx, Chicanx, and Indigenous groups with aspects of class, race, sexuality, and gender, while also exploring diverse cultural arenas and media, among them Hollywood films, art, television, literature, and music.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Crosslisted with: CCST 120 Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Societies and Cultures of the Past
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
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.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 2
Crosslisted with: PHIL 141 Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: Any lower-division PHIL or ENG course Instructor Permission Required: No
Read a number of stories, essays, poems, and plays from around the world that address issues related to the natural world, ecological crises, and sustainability, while also discussing the importance of stories in writing in the current battles to save the world’s lands and creatures.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
Engages with the emerging fields of animal studies and posthumanist theory. Explores questions raised by literary animals from multiple perspectives, including from the point of view of (fictional) animals themselves. The texts will encourage us to reexamine our anthropocentric assumptions and to push back against narratives of human exceptionalism.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
ENG 125: Ecology and Indigenous Religious Traditions
Units: 4
Study various Indigenous cultures, and examines how knowledge of the natural world developed through careful observation in a given place over multiple generations. Examine why this knowledge has been rejected by Western cultures, and how with the imminent devastation of climate disaster, scientists are now beginning to recognize that Indigenous Peoples’ data collection of their respective ecosystems has produced valuable knowledge. Understand Indigenous approaches to environmental justice and ecology, recognizing that the Western split from Nature that occurred with the Scientific Revolution erroneously identified humans as superior and separate from non-human life. Read texts from a variety of Indigenous traditions from authors who attempt to heal this split by sharing traditions that emphasize unity of the self, the community, the natural world, and the sacred. Uncover images of Indigenous people not as passive people attempting to live in harmony with nature, but rather as agents of environmental change and stewardship, seeking to maintain the traditional ecological knowledge that may well be vital to surviving our increasing environmental crises.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
Upper Division: Writing in the Discipline
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Open only to the following class level(s):
Students both read texts that urge environmental action, and create their own. They read essays, non-fiction books, poems, plays, and stories about the natural world, ecological disaster and renewal, and climate justice, analyzing what makes this writing effective for its audience. Working individually and in teams, they then turn scientific research on the environment and climate catastrophe into op-eds, tweets, essays, screenplays, graphic novels, websites, and works of literature that could reach larger audiences.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Global Awareness
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Badge: Sustainability
Upper Division: Crossroads
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089) Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
Examines the rich tradition of the working class in the United States, and course focuses on the production and consumption of class, status and identity as a site of social critique. Explores how various expressions of class position function as aesthetic, rhetorical, and ideological texts within specific cultural contexts.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
GE Requirements
Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
Badge: Diversity and Identity
Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
ENG 137: Problems in Literature: Islam in English Literature from the Crusades to the War on Terror
Units: 4
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.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam Instructor Permission Required: No
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.
Course Details Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0
Normal Letter Grade only
Requisites and Restrictions Prerequisite Courses: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089) Instructor Permission Required: No