Announcement of Classes: Summer 2017

All-Courses Lists
Reading and Composition
Upper Division
Berkeley Connect

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N1A/1 Reading & Composition: Sound Counsel MW 12-2 Session: C	(Note the changes in instructor, topic, book list, and course description for this class as of March 29.) In his essay "The Storyteller," Walter Benjamin writes, "The storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers," and declares "Counsel wove...(read more)	Young, Rosetta	Reading and Composition
N1B/1 Reading & Composition: Senses of Magic TTh 2-4 Session: C	One common sense of the term "magic" is that the word pertains to the extraordinary, the otherworldly or the supernatural. We associate it with the belief that one can gain control over external events through special means that defy logic or rational...(read more)	Alexander, Edward Sterling	Reading and Composition
R1A/1 Reading & Composition: Perpetual Decadence MTuW 1:00-3:30 Session: A	Please note the changes in the instructor, topic, book list, and course description for this section of English R1A (as of April 14). Discourses of decadence (etymologically, de- down + cadere to fall), responding to crises about history, science, ...(read more)	Creasy, CFS	Reading and Composition
R1A/2 Reading & Composition: Electoral Fictions TuWTh 1:00-3:30 Session: D	In modern democracies, voting is the primary way in which the average citizen participates in politics. Throughout history and around the world, however, elections have been plagued by corruption and propaganda, racism and sexism. This course explores...(read more)	Mansky, Joseph	Reading and Composition
R1B/1 Reading & Composition: Black Radical Thought, From David Walker to Kendrick Lamar MTuW 2:00-4:30 Session: A	(Note the changes in instructor, topic, book list, and course description for this class as of March 29.) In this course, we'll consider the origins and concerns of a radical African American intellectual tradition. Working with a variety of texts,...(read more)	Muhammad, Ismail	Reading and Composition
R1B/2 Reading & Composition: The Undiscovered Country MTuW 2:00-4:30 Session: D	Please note the changes in the instructor, topic, book list, and course description for this section of English R1B (as of April 14). The experience of death is one of the most difficult, yet most urgent, to imaginatively represent in literature. ...(read more)	Lorden, Jennifer A.	Reading and Composition

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N117S/1 Shakespeare MTTh 12-2 Session: A	Shakespeare’s poems and plays are relentlessly unsettling, extravagantly beautiful, deeply moving, rigorously brilliant, and compulsively meaningful: they complicate everything, they simplify nothing, and for 400 years, they have been a touchstone—ind...(read more)	Marno, David Arnold, Oliver	Shakespeare
N117S/2 Shakespeare MTTh 4-6 Session: D	Note the change in instructor of this course (as of June 20). Methinks I see these things with parted eye, ...(read more)	Liu, Aileen Mansky, Joseph Shelley, Jonathan	Shakespeare
N125D/1 The 20th-Century Novel MTTh 2-4 Session: A	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 thr...(read more)	Jones, Donna V.	British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature Novel
N166/1 Special Topics: Film Noir TTh 4-7 Session: A	A survey of classic mystery and crime films produced in Hollywood between the 1940s and the 1970s. We will consider film noir’s antecedents in German Expressionist cinema and hard-boiled crime fiction as well as its representative themes, techniques, ...(read more)	Wagner, Bryan	American Literature Film
N166/2 Special Topics: Arthurian Literature MTTh 12-2 Session: D	This course will be taught in Session D, from July 3 to August 10. ...(read more)	Miller, Jennifer	Pre-1800 Requirement Renaissance and Early Modern
N166/3 Special Topics: American Poetry, 1650-2016 MTTh 2-4 Session: D	This survey of U.S. poetries will begin with 17th- and 18th-century poems by two women, Anne Bradstreet and Phyllis Wheatley, move to another (19th-century) pairing in Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and then touch down in expatriate and stateside m...(read more)	O'Brien, Geoffrey G.	American Literature Poetry
N173/1 The Language and Literature of Films: The Hollywood Western, 1940-1963 M 2-5 & W 2-4 Session: C	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 Berkeley student...(read more)	Breitwieser, Mitchell	Film Special Topics
N180Z/1 Science Fiction MTTh 10-12 Session: A	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.	British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature Novel

There are no special instructions for Summer 2017 English Department courses, other than to note in which session each course is offered.

The following courses are offered in Session A (May 22 - June 29): English R1A section 1, R1B section 1, N117S section 1, N125D, N166 section 1, and N180Z.

The following courses are offered in Session C (June 19 - August 10): English N1A, N1B, and N173.

The following courses are offered in Session D (July 3 - August 10): English R1A section 2, R1B section 2, N117S section 2, N166 section 2, and N166 section 3.

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