Jun 26, 2024  
2021-2022 Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Lower Division Courses numbered 1–99 are designed primarily for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all students for lower division credit. (Graduate students requesting to enroll in lower-division undergraduate courses will not receive unit credit nor will the course fulfill degree requirements.)

Upper Division Courses courses numbered 100–199 are open to all students who have met the necessary prerequisites as indicated in the catalog course description. Preparation should generally include completion of one lower division course in the given subject or completion of two years of college work.

GRADUATE COURSES

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

CROSS-LISTED/CONJOINED COURSES

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

COREQUISITE COURSE

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

PREREQUISITES

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

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

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

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.

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

 

Engineering

  
  • ENGR 053: Materials and the Environment


    Units: 3

    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


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  • ENGR 057: Statics and Dynamics


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 065: Circuit Theory


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 091: Professional Development


    Units: 1

    Seminars and exercises focus on insights and preparation for professional engineering practice and future career advancements.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • Bioengineering (Undergraduate) - BENG
    • Computer Science & Engineering (Undergraduate) - CSE
    • Environmental Engineering (Undergraduate) - ENVE
    • Materials Sci & Engineering (Undergraduate) - MSE
    • Mechanical Engineering (Undergraduate) - ME
    • Undeclared Engineering (Undergraduate) - UENG

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 095: Lower Division Undergraduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 096: Human-Centered Research and Design


    Units: 2

    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


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  • ENGR 097: Engineering Service Learning I


    Units: 2

    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):
    • Freshman
    • Sophomore

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 098: Lower Division Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 99

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 099: Lower Division Individual Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 99

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 108: BioEntrepreneurship


    Units: 3

    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


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  • ENGR 120: Fluid Mechanics


    Units: 4

    Introduction to and application of the mechanics of fluids and fluid flow in natural and engineered systems.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    GE Requirements
    • Approaches to Knowledge: Engineering Science

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite Courses: ENGR 057
    Prerequisite Courses with Concurrent Option: MATH 024
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 130: Thermodynamics


    Units: 3

    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


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  • ENGR 135: Heat Transfer


    Units: 4

    Study of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, with applications to engineering problems.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite Courses: ENGR 120 and ENGR 130 and MATH 131
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 141: Environmental Science and Policy


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 151: Strength of Materials


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 155: Engineering Economic Analysis


    Units: 3

    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):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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.


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  • ENGR 158: Service Innovation


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 166: Analog and Digital Electronics


    Units: 3

    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


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  • ENGR 170: Introduction to Electron Microscopy


    Units: 3

    Principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials. Emphasis upon practical applications.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 170L: Introduction to Electron Microscopy Laboratory


    Units: 1

    Laboratory for principles and techniques of electron microscopy used in the study of materials.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Corequisite Courses: ENGR 170
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 175: Information Systems for Management


    Units: 4

    Introduces organizational use of information systems and information technology, and discusses how these create value for organizations.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

    Crosslisted with: MIST 175, MGMT 170
    Normal Letter Grade only

    GE Requirements
    • Upper Division: Crossroads
    • Badge: Scientific Method
    • Badge: Quantitative and Numerical Analysis
    • Badge: Global Awareness
    • Badge: Practical and Applied Knowledge
    • Badge: Ethics

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • Cognitive Science (Undergraduate) - COGS
    • Materials Sci & Engineering (Undergraduate) - MSE
    • Bioengineering (Undergraduate) - BENG
    • Environmental Engineering (Undergraduate) - ENVE
    • Management & Business Economics (Undergraduate) - MBE
    • Economics BA (Undergraduate) - ECON
    • Economics BS (Undergraduate) - ECON
    • Computer Science & Engineering (Undergraduate) - CSE
    • Mechanical Engineering (Undergraduate) - ME

    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 180: Spatial Analysis and Modeling


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 190: Engineering Capstone Design


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 191: Professional Seminar


    Units: 1

    Seminars and exercises focused on preparation for professional practice and future career advancements in engineering and computer science.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 0

    Pass/No Pass only

    GE Requirements
    • Badge: Ethics

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • Bioengineering (Undergraduate) - BENG
    • Computer Science & Engineering (Undergraduate) - CSE
    • Environmental Engineering (Undergraduate) - ENVE
    • Materials Sci & Engineering (Undergraduate) - MSE
    • Mechanical Engineering (Undergraduate) - ME
    • Undeclared Engineering (Undergraduate) - UENG

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 193: Engineering Capstone Design I


    Units: 2

    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):
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 194: Engineering Capstone Design II


    Units: 3

    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):
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 195: Upper Division Undergraduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 4

    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


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  • ENGR 197: Engineering Service Learning II


    Units: 3

    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):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENGR 198: Upper Division Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 99

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 199: Upper Division Individual Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 99

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 208: BioEntrepreneurship


    Units: 3

    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


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  • ENGR 270: Introduction to Electron Microscopy


    Units: 3

    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


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  • 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


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  • 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


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  • ENGR 295: Graduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 6

    Supervised research in engineering.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 99

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 298: Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 6

    Group project under faculty supervision.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 99

    Laboratory included
    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENGR 299: Directed Independent Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 6

    Independent project under faculty supervision.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 99

    Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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English

  
  • 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


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  • ENG 010: Foundations of Literary Studies


    Units: 4

    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


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  • 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


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  • 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


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  • ENG 017: Why Harry Potter? Why Literature?


    Units: 4

    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


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  • 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


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  • ENG 019: Animals and Literature


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 020: Introduction to Shakespeare


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 021: Jane Austen and Popular Culture


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 030: Literature of Childhood


    Units: 4

    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


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  • 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


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  • 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


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  • ENG 033: Literature and Sexuality


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 049: Introductory Topics in Literature


    Units: 4

    Introduces students to the tasks of closely reading and writing about literature, and will be focused on a particular topic.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 2

    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    GE Requirements
    • Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
    • Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 050: Readings in Close Reading


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 051: The Bible as Literature


    Units: 4

    A study of the Judeo-Christian Bible as literary text, of its influence on later works, and of issues of translation, politics, and canonization.

    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


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  • 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


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  • ENG 054: Introduction to the American Novel


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 055: Introduction to the Short Story


    Units: 4

    Provides an introduction to the development of the short story, from the earliest oral and written literatures to the 21st century.

    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


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  • ENG 056: Introduction to World Drama


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 057: Introduction to Poetry


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 059: Apocalyptic Literature


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 062: Literature and Gender


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 063: 20th Century Women Writers


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 064: LGBT Fiction


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 065: Literary Comedy


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 066: Literary Romance


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 067: Environmental Ethics in Beast Fables


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 071: Literature of Illness and Disability


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 090: Topics in Literature


    Units: 4

    Introduces students to the tasks of closely reading and writing about literature focused on a particular topic.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 1

    Normal Letter Grade only

    GE Requirements
    • Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
    • Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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


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  • 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


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  • 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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 105: Shakespeare’s Medieval Inheritance


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 106: Early English Drama


    Units: 4

    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


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  • 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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 108: Romanticism and Apocalypse


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 110: British Romanticism and India


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 111: Mesoamerican Literature and Culture


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 113: Latinx Literature


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 115: Chicanx Literature


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 116: Literature and History of the 1960s


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 117: Literature of California


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 118: Literature and Philosophy


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 119: Fashion and Fiction


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 121: Topics in Continental Philosophy


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 122: Nature Writing and the Environment


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 123: Literature and Animal Studies


    Units: 4

    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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • 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):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 129: Topics in Literature and Culture


    Units: 4

    Focuses on literature addressing a specific topic, developing advanced reading, writing, and research skills.

    Course Details
    Repeats Allowed for Credit: 3

    Normal Letter Grade only

    GE Requirements
    • Approaches to Knowledge: Arts and Humanities
    • Badge: Literary and Textual Analysis

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite Courses: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 130: Writing to Save the Planet


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 132: Human Rights and Literature


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 135: Working Class Literature: British


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 136: Working Class Literature: American


    Units: 4

    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


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  • 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


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  • ENG 138: Gothic Literature


    Units: 4

    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


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  • ENG 150: Geoffrey Chaucer


    Units: 4

    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


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