English Literature – Associate in Arts Degree
This area of emphasis is intended to align student course work with preparation for transfer to universities in such majors as English, Literature, Comparative Literature, World Literature, and other similar disciplines in CSU, UC, and private schools. Courses in this major encompass traditional literary history and interpretation as well as cross-cultural inquiry and current theoretical debates. Literature majors are trained in critical reading, writing, and thinking, as well as in literary interpretation. Literature is the study of representation, ideas, language, and culture. As such, it is a source of knowledge and pleasure, as well as a field of study. Literary texts are social document
Courses
- ENGL 001B — READING AND COMPOSITION
- ENGL 001BH — HONORS READING AND COMPOSITION
- ENGL 024 — LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
- ENGL 025A — LITERARY MODERNISM AND MODERNITY
- ENGL 025C — WOMEN'S LITERATURE
- ENGL 025D — SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
- ENGL 025E — LITERATURE OF HORROR (GOTHIC NOVEL)
- ENGL 025F — COMEDY AND LITERATURE
- ENGL 025G — MYSTERY AND CRIME FICTION
- ENGL 025H — AMERICAN JOURNEYS
- ENGL 025I — POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES
- ENGL 025J — UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN LITERATURE
- ENGL 026 — INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
- ENGL 030A — AMERICAN LITERATURE
- ENGL 030B — AMERICAN LITERATURE
- ENGL 030C — AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1945 TO THE PRESENT
- ENGL 034 — MAJOR NOVELIST
- ENGL 035 — MAJOR DRAMATIST
- ENGL 036 — MAJOR POET
- ENGL 037 — MAJOR CRITIC
- ENGL 044A — WORLD LITERATURE: ANTIQUITY TO LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- ENGL 044B — WORLD LITERATURE: LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT
- ENGL 044C — WORLD LITERATURE: 1800 - MID 20TH CENTURY
- ENGL 045A — LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE: THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES
- ENGL 045B — LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE: THE NEW TESTAMENT
- ENGL 046A — ENGLISH LITERATURE: BEOWULF TO JOHNSON
- ENGL 046B — ENGLISH LITERATURE: ROMANTIC MOVEMENT TO THE PRESENT
- ENGL 048 — ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
- ENGL 049A — FILM AS DRAMATIC LITERATURE - GENRE AND AUTEUR THEORY
- ENGL 049B — FILM AS DRAMATIC LITERATURE - SOCIAL CONTEXTS
- ENGL 053 — INTERPRETING POETRY
- ENGL 054 — CALIFORNIA LITERATURE
- ENGL 055 — NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION
- ENGL 057 — MODERN DRAMA
- ENGL 058 — STUDIES IN QUEER LITERATURE
- ENGL 059 — CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
- ENGL 060 — INTRODUCTION TO DRAMATIC LITERATURE
- ENGL 061 — INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL
- ENGL 065 — AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
- ENGL 075 — ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
- ENGL 078A — INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
- ENGL 078B — SHAKESPEARE: PAGE TO PERFORMANCE
- ENGL 082A — INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
- ENGL 082B — INTRODUCTION TO MYTHOLOGY
- ENGL 085 — CHICANO AND MEXICAN LITERATURE
- ENGL C1001 — CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING
- ENGL C1001H — CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING - HONORS
- ETH 055 — NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION
- ETH 065 — AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
- ETH 075 — ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
- ETH 085 — CHICANO AND MEXICAN LITERATURE