General Instructions

Concentration Areas

Announcement of Classes

RIA/BCourses

LOWER DIVISION COURSES (Eng. 17 to Eng. 95)

FALL 2002

Shakespeare

17 MWF 12-1

M. A. Koory 4 Le Conte

Book List: Greenblatt, S., ed.: The Norton Shakespeare

Course Description: This course focuses on six of Shakespeare's plays as literature of immense cultural importance and also as popular entertainmentóboth in Shakespeare's day and in our own. It is designed to give you a better understanding and appreciation of Shakespearean language and literary forms and a critical awareness of the continuing use reinterpretation or reinvention of Shakespeare's plots and characters, even in our own time. We will read plays and poetry from the entire chronology of Shakespeare's work: The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest and a selection of the Sonnets. These selections will give us room to explore, among other issues, the difference in genre between comedy and tragedy, the use of Petrarchan rhetoric, and the development of strong shrewish women protagonists and male Vice and artist characters.

Freshman Seminar: Visual Culture and Autobiography

24/1 Note time change: Tues. 5-7

H. Sweet Wong University Art Museum,

conference room

1 unit

NOTE: This course will meet for the first eight weeks of the semester only (from Aug. 27 through Oct. 15).

Book List: Momaday, N.S.: The Way to Rainy Mountain; Spiegelman, A.: Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Parts I and II

Course Description: Visual culture is not just about pictures, but the (post) modern tendency to picture or visualize existence what W.J.T. Mitchell calls the pictorial turn. Not surprisingly, as contemporary writers and artists struggle to find forms that convey postmodern individual identities in multicultural, often urban, social landscapes, they experiment with visual/verbal forms of self-representation and self-narration: story quilts, family photo albums, letters, comic books (co-mix), artists' books, photo-biographies, video and film, performance art, homepages,ìzines, and more. Course requirements include attendance, participation, completion of in-class activities, and a short course journal.

Freshman Seminar: Contemporary Irish Theater: The Plays of Brian Friel

24/2 M 4:30-6:30

R. Tracy 305 Wheeler

1 unit

NOTE: This course will meet from Sept. 30 through Nov. 25 only.

Book List: Friel, B.: Selected Plays, Dancing at Lughnasa

Course Description: Brian Friel (b. 1928) is the most prominent playwright of the contemporary Irish theater, best known for Translations (1981) and Dancing at Lughnasa (1991). In a series of innovative plays, he has examined some of the stories the Irish tell themselves about their past and present. He uses the theater to examine issues of role-playing, story-telling, and self-delusion, that is, the nature of theatricality. While he explores Ireland's national and personal myths, Friel is saying something about us all and the parts we cast ourselves in when rehearsing our own dramas. This is a seminar, not a lecture course, so I will expect you all to contribute to discussions. Students will also be paired to lead discussions.

Freshman Seminar: Aesthetic Theory and the Arts in the Bay Area

24/3 Thurs. 1-2

C. Altieri 202 Wheeler

1 unit

Book List: Townsend, D.: Aesthetics: Classic Readings from the Western Tradition

Course Description: In this seminar we will read and discuss some classic ideas in aesthetics and test them in relation to museum shows and performances in dance and theatre. Almost all the events will be on campus (for which the instructor hopes to get the students 75% discounts), but one or two may be in the City. This seminar received a special grant from the Consortium of the Arts.

English as a Language

25 TTh 3:30-5

K. Hanson 103 Moffitt

Book List: Brinton, L: The Structure of Modern English

Recommended Text: Pinker, S: The Language Instinct

Course Description: This course examines the structure of modern English, including its phonology (sound structure), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), and semantics (linguistic meaning), as well as some aspects of pragmatics (contextual meaning). The focus is on standard American English, but some consideration is also given to other varieties of English throughout the world and to comparison of English with other languages. No previous background in linguistics is required.

Requirements: Three quizzes, a short paper and a final exam.

Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction

43A This Course has been Cancelled.

Introduction to the Writing of Verse

43B MW 9-10:30

I. Reed 301 Wheeler

Book List: The text will be provided by the instructor.

Course Description: Poetry workshop. This course will include exercises in the techniques of Modern American Poetry. The work of key poets from Imagists to the multi-cultural poets of the 1990's will be examined and discussed. Student work will be read and criticized. THIS COURSE CAN BE TAKEN ON A PASS/NOT PASS BASIS ONLY. I WON'T MAKE ANY EXCEPTIONS TO THIS.

Admission will be by permission of the instructor, based on photocopies of at least five of your poems, to be submitted, along with an application, to Prof. Reed's mailbox in the English Department (322 Wheeler) BY 4:00 P.M., TUESDAY, APRIL 23, AT THE LATEST.

Be sure to read the paragraph concerning creative writing courses on page 2 of this Announcement of Classes for further information on enrollment in such courses!

Literature in English: Through Milton

45A/1

K. Goodman

Lectures MW 10-11 in 160 Kroeber, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 10-11)

Book List: Chaucer, G.: The Canterbury Tales; Spenser, E.: Edmund Spenser's Poetry; Donne, J.: John Donne's Poetry; Milton, J.: Paradise Lost

Recommended Texts: Davis, N. et al.: A Chaucer Glossary; Abrams, M. H.: A Glossary of Literary Terms

Course Description: An introduction to English literary history from the late fourteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. The Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost will be our main texts, but we will also look at selected Renaissance lyrics (primarily by John Donne). Among other issues, we will consider poetic, religious, and political authority in relation to historical experience, shifting definitions of place and personhood, wandering quests, and the challenge to didacticism posed by wandering or playful literary form.

Literature in English: Through Milton

45A/2

S. Justice

Lectures MW 1-2 in 2 LeConte, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 1-2)

Book List: Chaucer, G.: Canterbury Tales; Spenser, E.: Poetry of Edmund Spenser; Donne, J.: John Donne's Poetry; Milton, J.: Paradise Lost

Course Description: An introduction to English literary history from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost will dominate the semester, as objects of study in themselves, of course, but also as occasions for considering issues of linguistic and cultural change, and of literary language, form, and innovation.

Literature in English: Late-17^th through Mid-19^th Century

45B/1

K. Elliott

Lectures MW 3-4 in 390 Hearst Mining, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 3-4)

Book List: Burney, F.: Evelina; Dickens, C.: Great Expectations; The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I; Carroll, L.: Alice in Wonderland

Course Description: We touch down at various points in British and American literary history to read coming-of-age/class/gender/race narratives by Burney, Dickens, Franklin, Douglass, and Jacobs; examine literary constructions of society in Congreve, Pope, Byron, Emerson, and Whitman; and explore intersections of religion, psyche, history, and nation in works by these authors as well as Bradstreet, Edwards, Radcliffe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Arnold, Clough, Christina Rossetti, and Dickinson. The course introduces various approaches to literary criticism as well.

Literature in English: Late-17^th through Mid-19^th Century

45B/2

S. Marcus

Lectures MW 4-5 in 3 LeConte, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 4-5)

Book List: Wycherley, W.: The Country Wife; Pope, A.: The Rape of the Lock; Edwards, J.: ìSinners in the Hands of an Angry Godî; Franklin, B.: Autobiography; ìThe Declaration of Independenceî; poems by Wheatley, Blake, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson; Shelley, M.: Frankenstein; Dickens, C.: Bleak House; Douglass, F.: Autobiography; Melville, H.: ìBartleby the Scrivenerî

Course Description: This course is a survey of British and American literature from 1675 to 1865. We will focus on how these readings explore freedom and its corollaries mobility, independence, emancipation, and revolution. We will read poems, plays, and prose by authors including Wycherley, Pope, Wheatley, Franklin, Jefferson, Blake, Wordsworth, Douglass, Marx, and Melville.

Literature in English: Mid-19^th Century through the 20^th Century

45C/1

D. Hale

Lectures MW 11-12 in 390 Hearst Mining, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 11-12)

Book List: James, H.: The Portrait of a Lady; Eliot, T.S: The Waste Land and Other Poems; Stevens, W.: The Palm at the End of the Mind; Woolf, V.: To The Lighthouse; Hurston, Z.: Their Eyes Were Watching God; Beckett, S.: Waiting for Godot; Plath, S.: Ariel; Pynchon, T.: The Crying of Lot 49; a course reader (available at Odin Copy)

Course Description: In surveying British and American literature from 1865 to 1965, this course will focus on what might be called the modernist tradition of innovation. We will study authors--such as Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Beckett--whose revolutionary experiments in form established a new orthodoxy of representation: the belief that to write literature is to reinvent literature. Our study of literary form will lead us to engage larger socio-literary issues such as the relationship between high art and mass culture; the redefinition of national identity entailed by expatriatism; the search by cultural minorities for their own literary traditions and "voices"; and the role of academic literary criticism in canon formation.

The written work required for the course includes two short essays and a final exam. Expect to be quizzed without notice in lecture. Attendance at and preparation for discussion sections is mandatory.

NB: It is strongly recommended that students complete 45A and 45B before taking this particular 45C.

Literature in English: Mid-19^th through the 20^th Century

45C/2

E. Abel

Lectures MW 2-3 in 390 Hearst Mining, plus one hour of discussion section per week (all sections F 2-3)

Book List: Conrad, J.: Heart of Darkness; Faulkner, W.: The Sound and the Fury; Hurston, Z.N.: Their Eyes Were Watching God; James, H.: The Turn of the Screw; Rhys, J.: Wide Sargasso Sea; Woolf, V.: To the Lighthouse

Course Description: This course is primarily an introduction to literary modernism in early- through mid-twentieth-century Britain, America, and Ireland. We will be asking what constitutes the modern in a range of now canonical texts that broke with narrative, rhetorical, and cultural traditions. Some of the specific topics we will explore are the relations between formal innovation and transformations of sexual, racial, and national identities; the methods of composing a usable past; the self-representation of the modern author; and the cultural status and uses of literature. In addition to the books listed above, we will be studying a selection of poetry and essays collected in a reader. Written work will consist of three short papers, a final, and a midterm. Regular attendance at lecture and active participation in discussion sections are essential.

Introduction to Environmental Studies

C77

R. Hass and G. Sposito

Lectures TTh 12:30-2 in 105 North Gate, plus 1ý hours of discussion section per week (sec. 101: Tues. 11-12:30; secs. 102 & 103: W 11-12:30; sec 104: W 12:30-2; sec. 105 [note time and location changes]: Thurs. 11-12:30 in 128 Giannini; sec. 106: Thurs. 11-12:30)

This course is cross-listed with E.S.P.M. C12 and U.G.I.S. C12.

Book List: Nebel, B.J. and R.T. Wright: Environmental Science; Gilbar, S, ed.: Natural State; also a course reader

Course Description: This is an innovative team-taught course that surveys global environmental issues at the beginning of the twenty-first century and that introduces students to the basic intellectual tools of environmental science and to the history of environmental thought in American poetry, fiction, and the nature writing tradition. One instructor is a scientist specializing in the behavior of soils and ecosystems (Garrison Sposito); the other is a poet (Robert Hass). The aim of the course is to examine the ways in which the common tools of scientific and literary analysis, of scientific method and imaginative thinking, can clarify what is at stake in environmental issues and environmental citizenship.