Announcement of Classes: Summer 2010

The Announcement of Classes is available one week before Tele-Bears begins every semester. Creative Writing and (for fall) Honors Course applications are available at the same time in the racks outside of 322 Wheeler Hall.

All-Courses Lists
Reading and Composition
Upper Division

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N1A/2 Narrative Obsessions MW 12-2 Session:	The aim of any text is to make a claim on a reader’s time, to arouse in him or her an obsession with its narrative world. One way a text can accomplish this is to depict an obsession of its own: unhealthy, often all-consuming, and always fascinating. ...(read more)	Seidel, Matthew	Reading and Composition

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N1A/2

Narrative Obsessions

MW 12-2
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The aim of any text is to make a claim on a reader’s time, to arouse in him or her an obsession with its narrative world. One way a text can accomplish this is to depict an obsession of its own: unhealthy, often all-consuming, and always fascinating. ...(read more)

Seidel, Matthew

Reading and Composition

Course #		Instructor	Course Area
N115B/1 The English Renaissance: Seventeenth Century TTh 10-12 Session:	English writers of the seventeenth century produced some of the most memorable short- to medium-length verse in the English language. Poets of particular note include Aemelia Lanyer, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Andrew Marve...(read more)	Alan H. Nelson	Renaissance and Early Modern
N117S/1 Shakespeare MWF 12-2 Session:	This course is both an intense and an introductory upper-division course on Shakespeare. It is introductory in that it will cover systematically several important aspects of the plays and several critical tools needed to understand and analyze them--l...(read more)	Steven Justice	Shakespeare
N125E/1 The Contemporary Novel MWF 12-2 Session:	In this course, we will read seven contemporary novels published from 1939 to 1997. The common thread in these novels is that they all focus on the internal turmoil of characters involved in social conflicts: war, racism, sexism, sexual abuse, child ...(read more)	Marcial Gonzalez	Novel
N132/1 American Novel MW 2-4 Session:	We will concentrate on the central issues deeded to the American novel by democratic ideology -- refusal and autonomy, loyalty, guilt, and atonement, futurity and the burden of the past -- and try to figure out how the formal innovations in the Americ...(read more)	Mitchell Breitwieser	American Literature
N135/1 Literature of American Cultures: Race, Ethnicity, and Disability in American Cultures MTuTh 4-6 Session:	This course will analyze the categories of “disability,” “race” and “ethnicity” critically. “Disability” as an identity category is always raced, whether we attend to that intersection or not, and people defined in racial terms are also always placed ...(read more)	Susan Schweik	American Cultures
N135/2 Literature of American Cultures: Three California Cultures -- Literature, Film, and Comedy MTuTh 4-6 Session:	This American Cultures course focuses on California representations of Chicana/o, Chinese American, and African American culture in literature and film (and some comedy!). Thanks to the media industry, which circulates its representations worldwide, t...(read more)	Genaro Padilla	American Cultures
N166/1 Special Topics: The Beat Generation TTh 2-4 Session:	This course will examine major works (mostly the early stuff) by four central figures of the Beat Generation-- Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, W.S. Burroughs, and Gary Snyder. First we'll survey the literary/historical context in which these writers fo...(read more)	Ron Loewinsohn	Special Topics