Announcement of Classes: Summer 2015

All-Courses Lists
Reading and Composition
Upper Division
Berkeley Connect

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N1A/1 Reading & Composition: Love Songs MW 2-4 Session:	This course takes as its object of study works of art that concern themselves with the nature of “love.” Arguably the most popular and ubiquitous of aesthetic productions, what we will broadly be calling Love Songs are now perhaps most closely assoc...(read more)	Perry, R. D.	Reading and Composition
N1B/1 Reading & Composition: Literary Festivity TTh 12-2 Session:	What can a party mean? In this course we will ponder the significance of festivals and merry-making across diverse literary traditions. We’ll first explore the legacy of medieval Church feast-days and folk festivals as an inversion and reinforcement ...(read more)	Mangin, Sarah	Reading and Composition

Course #

Instructor

Course Area

N1A/1

Reading & Composition:
Love Songs

MW 2-4
Session:

This course takes as its object of study works of art that concern themselves with the nature of “love.” Arguably the most popular and ubiquitous of aesthetic productions, what we will broadly be calling Love Songs are now perhaps most closely assoc...(read more)

Perry, R. D.

Reading and Composition

N1B/1

Reading & Composition:
Literary Festivity

TTh 12-2
Session:

What can a party mean? In this course we will ponder the significance of festivals and merry-making across diverse literary traditions. We’ll first explore the legacy of medieval Church feast-days and folk festivals as an inversion and reinforcement ...(read more)

Mangin, Sarah

Reading and Composition

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N117S/1 Shakespeare: Shakespearean Tragedy MTTh 12-2 Session:	In his great book on Shakespearean Tragedy (1905), A.C. Bradley writes that, when we experience one of Shakespeare's tragic plays, "We seem to have before us a type of the mystery of the whole world, the tragic fact which extends far beyond the limit...(read more)	Puckett, Kent	Shakespeare
N125D/1 The 20th-Century Novel MTTh 2-4 Session:	This course is a general survey of the 20th-century novel. The novel is the quintessential form of expression of modernity and modern subjectivity. In this survey of key works of the century, we will explore the novel form as it is framed by these th...(read more)	Jones, Donna V.	British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature Novel
N125E/1 The Contemporary Novel: Selected Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels, 2007-2014 MTTh 12-2 Session:	The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction is awarded for “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” In this course, we will read a selection of the most recent (2007-2014) Pulitzer Prize-winning novels. In addition to...(read more)	Wong, Hertha D. Sweet	American Literature Novel
N173/1 The Language and Literature Films: The Hollywood Western M 2-5 & W 2-4 Session:	Regular attendance is required. Two seven-page essays and a final quiz. Viewing notes taken during films viewed on Mondays will be handed in on Wednesdays. The class will be a mix of lecture and discussion. This class is open to UC students only. Thi...(read more)	Breitwieser, Mitchell	Film Special Topics
N180Z/1 Science Fiction MTTh 10-12 Session:	This course will examine in depth the history of speculative fiction and its engagement with the thematics and topoi of the new life sciences—representation of cloning, ecological dystopias, hybrid life-forms, genetic engineering dystopias. While sci...(read more)	Jones, Donna V.	Novel Special Topics

There are no special instructions for Summer 2015 English Department courses, other than to note in which session each course is offered.

The following courses are offered in Session A (May 26 - July 2): English N117S, N125D, and N180Z.

The following courses are offered in Session C (June 22 - August 13): English N1A, N1B, and N173.

The following courses are offered in Session D (July 6 - August 13): English N125E.

The only graduate-level courses available in the summer are independent study (N299 and N602).