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• Prerequisite: English 30A.

This course continues the student’s training in the craft and technique of writing short fiction or poetry, and introduces creative non-fiction.

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This advanced writing course is intended especially for English majors and other students desiring to develop rhetorical skills beyond those practiced in English 1. It stresses critical analysis and argument, and focuses on style in effectively communicating with various audiences.

• Prerequisite: None.

Formerly same course as History 30.

This course examines the works of African writers of the essay, the novel and shorter fiction, drama and poetry, with emphasis on the interpersonal, cultural, and political tensions of modern and post-modern Africa as expressed in its literature and history. It explores the universality of this literature while at the same time recognizing its sources in the conflicts of modern history and society.

C-ID: ENGL 120.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course explores the works of Afro-American writers of the essay, novel, short fiction, drama, and poetry. The course develops students’ close reading, analytical writing skills, and promotes an appreciation and a critical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of this portion of the American literary tradition.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course is an examination of the novel, short fiction, and drama which may be categorized as “absurd.” These writings portray humans as bewildered beings in an incomprehensible or meaningless universe.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course analyzes the images of women presented in fiction, poetry and drama in various historical periods. Special attention is given to the way women writers transform women’s psychological, sociological and political experience into literature, but course readings may also include male writers.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

The course explores significant works of fiction, poetry, and drama from the Enlightenment to the present. In addition, the course examines the social, intellectual, and historical foundations that have shaped the literature of this period.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

Major works of Asian literature will provide a window to the rich cultures of a fascinating part of the world. Students will study literature of at least four Asian countries. The course is designed to introduce students to the important values of the society, the major beliefs and traditions of the culture, and prominent motifs of the arts of these countries.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course will study the major literary works of Asian American writers who form the rich mosaic of contemporary American culture. Students will be introduced to the literature of at least four Asian American communities each semester. The course will explore the complex nature of the Asian American experience and locate the literature of these communities in the broader context of contemporary American literature.

IGETC Area 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This introductory course will study contemporary Asian literature and film as reflections of the cultural values and important social and political movements in some Asian countries. Students will study selected films and literature from at least three Asian countries each semester in order to highlight and explore the relationship between images and words, between the verbal text and the visual text.

• Prerequisite: None.
• Skills Advisory: Eligibility for English 1.

This course is designed for college-level readers who wish to develop reading versatility, effectiveness and efficiency in reading and studying. It includes rapid reading applied to general materials, skimming, study-reading of college texts, an introduction to critical reading, and general vocabulary building.

IGETC Area 3B (Humanities)

Satisfies Global Citizenship

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course studies the major characters and tales from the mythologies of several Asian societies. A sort of ur-knowledge or ur-science, mythology in Asian societies is both an attempt to understand the nature of the cosmos and a human being’s place in it as well as a means of organizing relationships among people to form a cohesive, functioning society. The course takes a thematic approach to myths and legends from a variety of sources, especially literature and the visual arts, to examine humanity’s attempt to explain the unknown and the meaning of life: the beginning of the world, creation of living creatures, explanation of natural phenomena, relationships between gods and mortals, deeds of super heroes, duties of an individual in a society, death, and afterlife. The resonance of these mythological motifs and characters in modern Asian cultures will also be studied.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.
• Advisory: English 2.

This course traces the historical development of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the end of the Neo-Classical Period in 1798.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course studies the major characters and tales from Greek and Roman mythology. It takes a thematic approach to myths and legends from a variety of sources, examining humanity’s attempt to explain the unknown: the beginning of the world, creation of living creatures, explanation of natural phenomena, relationships between gods and mortals, deeds of super heroes, testing, death, and afterlife. The emphasis is primarily on Western culture -- Greek and Roman myths which have influenced literature and allied arts from earliest time.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course provides an analytical and critical study of the Old Testament of the Bible, focusing on its component genres and literary qualities. Attention is given to how Biblical literature has been and can be interpreted, studied, and used. Representative types of Biblical literature are examined.

English 51 is the same course as Religious Studies 51. Students may receive credit for one, but not both.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course introduces the students to the variety and wealth of literature contained in the New Testament. Attention is given to the ways in which Biblical literature has been and can be interpreted, studied, and used. The various types of literature in the Bible are set forth and representative pages of each of these types are presented and examined.

English 52 is the same course as Religious Studies 52. Students may receive credit for one but not both.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

This course explores literature by Latino American writers whose primary purpose is to view life in the United States through the perspective of the Latino community. Through fiction, non-fiction, poetry, theater, and film, students study such topics as history, identity, culture, sexuality, and socio-political aspects of the ever-changing U.S. Latino community. The course studies the ways in which Latino Americans writing has been part of the fabric that is the United States, from the indigenous cultures of Mesoamerica through the turbulent 1960s in the U.S. and into the present, from Mexico, South and Central America, the Caribbean, New York to Los Angeles.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

Selected poems, short stories, novels, tribal tales, speeches, and memoirs of Native Americans will be examined to deepen the student’s understanding of the experiences and perspectives of native peoples in American and native cultures.

IGETC AREA 3A (Arts) or 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

Formerly same course as Theatre Arts 7.

This course surveys the work of the great modern dramatists, from Henrik Ibsen (“The Father of Modern Drama”) through Edward Albee.

IGETC AREA 3B (Humanities)

• Prerequisite: English 1.

As a study of the 20th Century novel, this course includes the English novel and the European novel in translation.