Instructions: Spring 2005
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY ALL THE PARAGRAPHS BELOW THAT APPLY TO ENGLISH COURSES IN WHICH YOU WANT TO ENROLL. SOME COURSES HAVE LIMITED ENROLLMENTS AND/OR HAVE EARLY APPLICATION PROCEDURES.
ALL ENGLISH COURSES: Some courses are in such high demand that they will end up having waiting lists on Tele-BEARS. If you end up having to put yourself on one for an English course, please log onto Info-BEARS to check your advancing status on the waiting list.
ENGLISH R1A AND R1B: Note that the book lists and course descriptions for individual sections of English R1A and R1B will be posted on the SOUTHERN-most bulletin board in the hall across from the English Department office (322 Wheeler Hall) as of Monday, October 11th, and they will also be posted on the web at english.berkeley.edu at that time.
ENGLISH MAJORS: The areas of concentration that apply to each upper-division course are listed immediately above the book list for the class. To check the courses that fall under each area of concentration, see the list that follows the last undergraduate course description (H195B/3) in this Announcement of Classes.
ENGLISH 100: In the past, junior English majors have sometimes had trouble being admitted to their first-choice (or even second-choice) English 100 section, largely because many of the spaces had already been taken by students with earlier Tele-BEARS appointments --especially by seniors, many of whom had already satisfied the junior seminar requirement and were taking a second or even third 100 course. We have had to take steps to remedy this situation; please note the following: a) If you will be a SENIOR English major in Spring '05, Tele-BEARS will block you from enrolling directly into a 100 section; instead, please put yourself on the Tele-BEARS waiting list for the ONE section you are most interested in, and we will enroll you into that section within the next day or so IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY TAKEN A 100 COURSE and provided the section is not yet full (which it should not be in Phase I of Tele-BEARS). If you are currently taking or have already taken a 100, you will not be admitted into the class until Phase II of Tele-BEARS is over and all the other English majors seeking admittance who have NOT already taken a 100 have been enrolled (and provided there is still space left in the class, which often there will not be). b) Whether you will be a senior or junior English major or intended English major, Tele-BEARS will block you from enrolling in more than one section of 100; if you choose to waitlist yourself for an additional section, you should be forewarned that you will only be admitted to that waitlisted section if there is still room for you after Phase II of Tele-BEARS is over. c) If you are a student with a major other than English, a sophomore, or a limited-status student, you will not be able to enroll in English 100; although you may waitlist yourself for the course, you will only be enrolled if there is room for you once classes have started. d) Everyone: If you want to be admitted to English 100, it is advisable to enroll (or waitlist) for it in Phase I of Tele-BEARS, as some sections will most likely fill during Phase I.
CREATIVE WRITING COURSES (English 43B, 143A, 143B, 243A, and 243B): These are instructor-approved courses, and enrollment is limited. Only lower-division students should apply for 43B, and only upper-division students should apply for 143A or 143B; graduate students and (in exceptional cases) upper-division students may apply for 243A or 243B. In order to be considered for admission to any of these courses, you must submit a writing sample AND an application form to the corresponding instructor's mailbox in 322 Wheeler Hall BY 4 P.M., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, AT THE LATEST; consult the course description in this Announcement of Classes for the section you are applying to for details concerning the length and nature of the writing sample required, and get the appropriate application form from the racks outside the door to the English Department (322 Wheeler Hall). The instructors will review the writing samples and applications, and the class lists will be posted on the wall in the hall across from the English Department office (322 Wheeler Hall) on Thursday, November 4. Please come on or shortly after Thursday, November 4 to see if your name is on the class list for the section you applied to; please check in person, as this information is NOT available over the phone. ONLY STUDENTS ON THESE CLASS LISTS WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CORRESPONDING CLASSES, AND EACH ADMITTED STUDENT WILL NEED TO OBTAIN HIS/HER INDIVIDUAL CLASS ENTRY CODE (CEC) FROM THE INSTRUCTOR AT THE FIRST CLASS MEETING. NO ONE WILL THEREFORE BE ABLE TO ENROLL IN THESE PARTICULAR CLASSES ON TELE-BEARS UNTIL THE FIRST DAY THESE CLASSES MEET IN THE SPRING. ADMITTED STUDENTS WILL NEED TO LOG ONTO TELE-BEARS SOON AFTER CLASSES HAVE STARTED TO ACTUALLY ENROLL IN THESE COURSES.
ENGLISH 150 AND 117J: These are instructor-approved courses, and enrollment is limited. These courses are normally open to English majors only (SENIOR English majors only for 150), and, in addition, in order to be considered for admission, you must fill out the corresponding application (available from the racks on the wall outside the English Department office [322 Wheeler Hall]) and return it to the box on the counter inside the English Department office BY 4 P.M., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, AT THE LATEST. The instructors will review the applications, and the class lists will be posted on the wall in the hall across from the English Department office on Thursday, November 4. Please come on or shortly after Thursday, November 4 to see if your name is on the class list for the section you applied to; please check in person, as this information is NOT available over the phone. ONLY THE STUDENTS ON THESE CLASS LISTS WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE CORRESPONDING CLASSES, AND EACH ADMITTED STUDENT WILL NEED TO OBTAIN HIS/HER INDIVIDUAL CLASS ENTRY CODE (CEC) FROM THE INSTRUCTOR AT THE FIRST CLASS MEETING--AND THEREFORE WILL NEED TO WAIT TILL THEN TO ACTUALLY ENROLL IN ANY OF THESE PARTICULAR CLASSES ON TELE-BEARS. (Further information regarding full versus still-available 150 sections will be included at the bottom of the posted class lists. Please note that since demand for the course is high, NO ONE MAY APPLY FOR MORE THAN ONE 150 SECTION.)
ENGLISH H195B (HONORS COURSE): This course is open only to students who are enrolled in a Fall 2004 English H195A section. Your H195A instructor will give you a Class Entry Code (CEC) for H195B in class sometime in November.
UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS INTERESTED IN BECOMING WRITING TUTORS (ENGLISH 310): This is an instructor-approved course with limited enrollment. In order to be considered for admission, you must pick up an application for an interview a) for section 1: at the Student Learning Center, Atrium, in the Cesar Chavez Student Center or b) for section 2: at the Re-Entry Program Office, room 104 of the Cesar Chavez Student Center, during the fall semester through finals week or during the week before spring semester classes begin. No one may apply after Wednesday of the first week of classes. Students admitted to 310 will need to appear in person at the corresponding office in the Cesar Chavez Student Center, at the times those offices specify, in order to obtain the course control number and then enroll. For both sections: See the course descriptions in this Announcement of Classes under English 310 for more details.
DE-CAL CLASSES: All DE-Cal courses must have approval several weeks before the end of the previous semester (which means, for Spring 2005, BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5). The department will allow only 10 De-Cal courses per semester, and they will be approved by the Chair's office on a first-come first-served basis. Individual faculty members may sponsor only one De-Cal course per semester. Students wishing to offer a De-Cal course must provide the following for approval: 1) a completed COCI Special Studies Course Proposal Form, available on DE-Cal's website at www.decal.org, for 98 and 198 classes. Students must download and complete this form and obtain the faculty sponsor's signature on it before submitting it to the Chair's office for approval; 2) a copy of the syllabus of the proposed course; 3) a copy of the course description, including the criteria for passing the course. As soon as these courses have been approved, the students who have set them up must see Laurie Kerr in 322 Wheeler Hall for information regarding room scheduling and course control numbers.
INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSES: These are instructor-approved courses and require a written application--obtainable in 322 Wheeler for undergraduate courses and in 319 Wheeler for graduate courses. After you have received the instructor's signature on the form, you will need to return to the appropriate English office to obtain a course control number before you can enroll in the course on Tele-BEARS. Often students will elect to wait until fall courses have started to apply for independent study courses.
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