Students enroll in ENGL 100 based on their performance in the essay administered in all ENGL 110 sections during the first week of classes. A course designed to give students essential skills in writing and reading English. Students must earn a grade of C (2.0) or better in order to pass this course. Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 101 required.

ENGL 101
Required Writing Lab—ESL

The required lab component of English 100.
Taken concurrently with English 100.

Credit/No Credit grading.

Students must earn a grade of Credit in this lab course in order to pass ENGL 100.

ENGL 110
College Writing

The art of clear and effective college writing. This course will teach students how to generate clear and persuasive expository prose suitable to a variety of academic disciplines.

A grade of C (2.0) or better is required.

ENGL 111
Elective Writing Lab

A program of individualized tutorial instruction designed specifi cally to reinforce and develop those skills important to improving college level prose.

Credit/No Credit grading.

ENGL 115
University Writing Lab

Intensive work on individual writing issues encountered in course work across the curriculum. Emphasis is placed on clarity and style.

Credit/F grading. This course may be repeated twice for degree credit.

ENGL 116
Practicum in Tutoring Writing and Liberal Arts

Credit/No Credit grading.

ENGL 130
Introduction to Poetry

A course designed to develop an appreciation of the meaning, forms, techniques, and impact of poetry; critical essays based on the reading.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 110.

ENGL 140
Introduction to Fiction

An introduction to significant works in the novel and short story; critical essays based on the reading.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL

110.

ENGL 150
Introduction to Drama

An introduction to signifi cant works of dramatic literature; critical essays based on the reading.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 110.

ENGL 170
Classics of Literature

An introduction to signifi cant works in literature outside the British and American traditions; critical essays based on the reading.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 110.

Not available to students who already have credit in FNLT 180.

ENGL 198
Special Studies

ENGL 199
Independent Studies

ENGL 200
The Language of Drama

An introduction to creating drama and writing about it. Open to English majors and minors, and screenwriting majors.

ENGL 201
The Language of Poetry

An introduction to creating poetry and writing about it.

Required of all English majors.

Open to English majors and minors, and screenwriting majors.

ENGL 202
The Language of Fiction

An introduction to creating fi ction and writing about it.

Open to English majors and minors, and screenwriting majors.

ENGL 203
The History of British Literature I

British literature from the Anglo Saxons to the end of the eighteenth century.

Required of all English majors.

ENGL 204
The History of British Literature II

British literature from Romanticism through the Moderns.

Required of all English majors.

ENGL 205
Creative Writing for Non-Majors

A genre-based writing workshop (fiction, poetry, and drama). Fulfills the core requirement in creative arts. Not open to English majors and minors.

ENGL 298
Special Studies

ENGL 299
Independent Studies

ENGL 301
Writing for Journalism I: Workshop

An intermediate-level writing class and an introduction to journalism. Covers the basic components of both features and news stories, interview strategies, and legal and ethical concerns.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 302
Writing the Article: Workshop

Techniques of writing and marketing the magazine article.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 304
Writing for Advertising

Writing strategies for advertising.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 305
Advanced Composition for Credential Candidates

A review of the principles of exposition and grammar, principally for candidates for the elementary and secondary credentials.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 311
Writing Workshop in Fiction: Intermediate

Junior or senior standing required.

Prerequisite: ENGL 202.

ENGL 312
Writing Workshop in Poetry: Intermediate

Junior or senior standing required.

Prerequisite: ENGL 201.

ENGL 313
Playwriting: Workshop

An introduction to writing for the stage.

Junior or senior standing required.

Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or 201 or 202.

ENGL 316
Modern Drama

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 321
Shakespeare: The Major Plays

A survey course of Shakespeare’s “major plays.” This course intends to cover all the dramatic genres Shakespeare wrote in and at the same time highlight those works which are considered Shakespeare’s most important.

Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.

ENGL 322
Studies in Shakespeare

An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s writings. This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times provided new course material (literature) is covered and a new subtitle has been designated.

Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.

ENGL 324
Faith and American Fiction

The study of literary representations of modern religious concerns in modern and contemporary American fiction.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 325
Contemporary Poetry

British and American poetry from Wallace Stevens to the present.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 326
Contemporary Drama

International and American drama from 1964- the present. Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 332
The Short Story

A study of the short story as a literary form; close reading of representative short stories by American, British, and continental writers.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 341
Studies in World Literature

A study of literature(s) written outside the United States and Britain.

Fulfills comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 342
The Image of Woman in Nineteenth-Century England

A study of the attitudes towards women as they emerge in the writings of both men and women in 19th-century England.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 343
Twentieth-Century Women’s Writing

A study of literary and critical texts written by women in the 20th century.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 344
Survey of African American Writing

Fulfills comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 345
Studies in Multi-Ethnic Literature

The comparative study of literatures within the American experience.

This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times provided new course material (literature) is covered and a new subtitle has been designated.

Fulfills comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 346
Children’s Literature

A study of children’s literature and the critical discussions it raises across literary and educational studies.

Open to Liberal Studies majors who are juniors or seniors.

ENGL 350
Survey in Chicana/o-Latina/o
Literature

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 348
Modern Southern Fiction

A study of the extraordinary artistry and unique vision of novelists from the American South, including Faulkner, Hurston, O’Connor, and Percy.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 351
Classical Mythology

Study of the basic myths and myth patterns of the Greeks and Romans and the mythological heritage in Western Literature (see CLCV 451).

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 352
Portraits of the Artist

Fictional, poetic, and dramatic portraits of the developing artist.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 353
Chicana/o Conciencia

Surveys through literary analysis and critical theory a Chicana/o form of awareness, “conciencia,” with particular attention to the intersection in Latina/o intellectual history of the aesthetic, the ethical, and the political (see CHST 406).

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 354
Prison Literature

Surveys literature written by political prisoners to examine its artistry as well as its attempt to intervene in a culture of incarceration.

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 361
Reading Methods

A survey of various methods of reading literary texts. Fulfills theory requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 362
Reading Cultural Studies

Examines the concept of 

Fulfills theory requirement.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 371
American Literature I

A survey of American literature from colonial times to 1865.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement or American Survey.

Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.

A survey of American literature from 1865 to the present.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement or American Survey.

Junior or senior standing or permission of the Chairperson required.

ENGL 373
RoadRead

This multi-genre course explores the literature of Los Angeles and California. Involves field trips. Lab fee.

Prerequisites: ENGL 201 and either 200 or 202.

Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

ENGL 374
RoadWrite

This multi-genre writing course explores the literature of Los Angeles and California. Involves fi eld trips. Lab fee.

Prerequisites: ENGL 201 and either 200 or 202.

Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

ENGL 375
StreetRead

Students will respond critically to literature in the classroom and run reading groups in the community.

Prerequisites: ENGL 201 and either 200 or 202.

Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

ENGL 376
StreetWrite

Student writers will workshop their own writing and run workshops in the community.

Prerequisites: ENGL 201 and either 200 or 202.

Open to English majors and minors who are juniors or seniors.

ENGL 398
Special Studies

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 399
Independent Studies

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 401
Writing for Journalism II: Workshop

An advanced class in journalistic prose. Readings and assignments cover hard news, feature stories, and New Journalism.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 402
Writing Internship in Media

Students enrolled in this course work 10-12 hours per week with an off-campus media firm.

Permission of the instructor required. Students must submit a portfolio of their writing to the instructor four weeks prior to registration for the course.

Note: This course does not fulfill any requirements of the English major but is recommended for students seeking a career in professional writing. The course is a university elective and may also be used to fulfill requirements of the Pre-Journalism Certificate Program.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 403
Writing Workshop in Non-Fiction:
Advanced

Individually directed projects in a variety of expository forms.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 405
Literary Non-Fiction: Workshop

An advanced course in non-fiction prose, with practice in both creating and analyzing nonfiction.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 406
Journalism: The Interview:
Workshop

A course in interview strategies for journalists.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 407
Reviewing the Arts

A course in writing reviews of fi lm and theatre. Class involves fi eld trips to theatre and film performances.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 408
Journalism: Editing Workshop

A course in editing techniques for journalists. Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 411
Writing Workshop in Fiction:
Advanced

Individually directed projects in a variety of fiction forms. Junior or senior standing required.

Prerequisites: ENGL 202 and 311.

ENGL 412
Writing Workshop in Poetry:
Advanced

A workshop for advanced poetry writing students. Junior or senior standing required.

Prerequisites: ENGL 201 and 312.

ENGL 413
Playwriting Workshop: Advanced

A workshop for advanced playwriting students.

Junior or senior standing required.

Prerequisite: ENGL 313.

119 / ENGLISH

A study of poetic forms, based on the close reading and imitation of those forms. This class may count as either a theory or a writing class.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 463
The Essay

An introduction to the basic styles and forms of the essay, surveyed historically.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 467
Time in 20th Century Literature

A writing and theory course that explores the shift from modernist to postmodernist ideas of time.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 469
Practicum in Journalism I

This course gives students practical journalism experience working on the staff of the 

Consent of instructor required.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 470
Practicum in Journalism II

This course is for advanced journalism students who have served as editors for at least one semester and who have completed ENGL 469.

Consent of instructor required.

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 498
Special Studies

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 499
Independent Studies

Junior or senior standing required.

ENGL 502
The Arthurian Romance

A study of Arthurian legend from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Sir Thomas Malory.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 503
English Literature of the Middle Ages

English literature, from the Normans to the Tudors.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 504
Chaucer

The works of Chaucer, particularly

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 511
Literature of the Renaissance

English literature, exclusive of drama, from Thomas More to the death of Elizabeth I.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 512
Seventeenth-Century Poetry

English poetry in the metaphysical and cavalier traditions, including the works of Jonson, Donne, Herrick, Herbert, and Marvell.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 513
Milton

The poetry and selected prose of John Milton. Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 521
British Literature: 1660-1800

Studies in British literature of the Restoration and eighteenth century, exclusive of the novel.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 522
Eighteenth-Century English Novel

The development of the English novel in its first century.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 531
Romantic Poetry

English poetry from Blake to Keats.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 532
The Nineteenth-Century English Novel

The development of the English novel from Austen to Hardy.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 533
Victorian Literature

Selected works of major poets and prose writers of the period from 1832 to 1900.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 534
Literature of the Holocaust

A study of the literature of the Holocaust including fiction, poetry, drama, and film.

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

A study of British novels and short fi ction from 1900 to 1950.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 542
British Fiction: 1950 to the Present

A study of British novels and short fi ction from 1950 to the present.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 543
British Poetry: 1900-1950

A study of the poetry of Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas, and other modernists.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 544
Modern Irish Literature

A study of Irish literature from 1900 to World War II.

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 545
Contemporary Irish Literature

A study of Irish literature from the end of

World War II to the present.

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 546
Irish Renaissance

A study of the period from the 1890s through the 1920s in Ireland focusing on the effort of Irish writers (and others) to preserve the rich legacy of Irish culture and carry it forward into the modern age.

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 547
Irish Short Story

A study of the short story in Ireland during the twentieth century.

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 551
Early American Literature, Art, and Ideas

An interdisciplinary survey of representative writers, artists, and philosophers from the colonial, revolutionary, and transcendental periods.

Fulfills pre-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 552
American Romanticism

The study of such representative American writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 553
American Realism and Naturalism

The study of such representative American fiction writers as Twain, James, and Crane.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 554
Modern American Fiction

The study of such representative novelists as Hemingway, Faulkner, Anderson, and Fitzgerald.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 555
American Fiction Since 1950

A study of American novels and short fiction from 1950 to the present.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 556
Modern American Poetry

The study of representative American poets from Whitman to the mid-twentieth century.

Fulfills post-1800 requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 558
Caribbean Literature

The study of representative writers from the English-speaking Caribbean, such as George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Sam Salvon, and Jamaica Kincaid.

Fulfills post-1800 or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 559
Survey of Literary Criticism

The principles and practice of literary criticism from the ancient Greeks to World War II.

Fulfills theory requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 561
Contemporary Literary Criticism

The principles and practice of literary criticism from World War II to the present.

Fulfills theory requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 562
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

Textual analysis and production based on contemporary rhetorical theory.

Fulfills theory or writing requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 563
Creative Writing Seminar

An intensive writing class in fi ction, poetry, drama, creative non-fi ction, or some combination of these genres.

This course is repeatable for degree credit up to two times, provided new course material is covered and a new subtitle has been designated.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

Prerequisites: Undergraduates must complete ENGL 311 and 411 or ENGL 312 and 412 or ENGL 313 and 413 before enrolling in ENGL 563.

ENGL 565
Theory of Teaching Writing and Literature

A course for current and future teachers of composition and literature designed to facilitate the application of theory to pedagogy.

Fulfills theory or writing requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 566
Metaphor: Theory and Practice

A course investigating metaphor theoretically and in the students’ own writing.

Fulfills writing requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 567
Style in Writing

An examination of prose styles and theories of style to help students develop their own writing styles.

Fulfills theory or writing requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 569
Linguistics

An introduction to issues in linguistics, such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and sociolinguistics.

Fulfills theory requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 571
Writing the Novella: Workshop

Practice in writing extended narrative forms.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 574
Rhetoric and Media

A study of persuasion and rhetorical strategies used by the media.

Fulfills theory, writing, or comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 575
The Art of Rhetoric

A survey of rhetoric from the classical to the modern period.

Fulfills theory requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 580
Comparative Drama

An exploration of dramatic text, theory, and criticism that leads the student to an appreciation of theatre both as a literary and performance art.

Fulfills comparative/cultural literatures requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 584
The Black Aesthetic

Study of theories of African American aesthetics.

Fulfills theory requirement.

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 598
Special Studies

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

ENGL 599
Independent Studies

Junior, senior, or graduate standing required.

Graduate Seminars

ENGL 600
Critical Methodology

ENGL 601
Seminar in a Literary Period

ENGL 602
Seminary in a Genre

ENGL 603
Seminar in a Major Writer

ENGL 604
Seminar in Literary Theory

ENGL 605
Contemporary Critical Theory

ENGL 606
Seminar in Rhetoric

ENGL 607
Seminar in Composition Theory

ENGL 610
Seminar in Writing

ENGL 691
Comprehensive Examination (M.A.)

ENGL 693
Comprehensive Examination
(M.A.T.)

ENGL 697
Creative Writing Thesis

ENGL 698
Special Studies

ENGL 699
Independent Studies