ENGLT 303    Introduction to the Short Story    3 Units

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGWR 300.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course introduces students to the short story genre, and involves a close study of this genre's role in literary history. Students will read, analyze, and discuss short stories by predominantly American and British authors, but include authors from other countries who have been significant to this genre. Thematic emphasis will focus on the connections between literature, culture, and human experience.

Schedule: Full Term, Aug 22-Dec 17
TTh          01:00PM-02:20PM   LEC   Y.Price              FLC MAIN FL2 232     24194

ENGLT 320    American Literature    3 Units

Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better; or placement into ENGWR 300 via the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course surveys representative early American literature from approximately 1620 to the Civil War period, approximately 1865. It begins with a consideration of pre-colonial American influences such as Native American oral tradition and European exploration of the Americas, through Colonial literature, to the emergence of a distinctive national literature, the "American Renaissance," "reformism," and the diversity of voices that will continue into modern American literature.

Schedule: Full Term, Aug 22-Dec 17
TTh          10:30AM-11:50AM   LEC   J.Jones              FLC MAIN FL5 112     31490

ENGLT 339    Postmodern American Fiction    3 Units

Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or better; or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course analyzes American Fiction (1960-2000) that depicts postmodernism, the radical cultural and intellectual shift that has profoundly altered Western traditional thought and art. Students will gain a more critical awareness of the aesthetic, ideological, and philosophical issues of postmodernism, and understand how traditional assumptions about meaning-making were undermined by doubts about knowledge, perception, and identity. Students from various majors across the curriculum will have the opportunity to explore the important interconnections between literature, cultural studies, philosophy, art, art history, architectural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and physics, all of which intersect in postmodern thought and fiction.

Schedule: Full Term, Aug 22-Dec 17
TTh          05:30PM-06:50PM   LEC   T.Caramagno          FLC MAIN FL5 14      24006

ENGLT 340    World Literature    3 Units

Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better; or placement into ENGWR 300 via the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course involves a survey of significant masterpieces of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance literature from the Hebrew Bible to John Milton's Paradise Lost. Students will analyze numerous works of literature, comparing ideas across time, place, and culture and making connections between different literary works and between different literary periods.

Schedule: Full Term, Aug 22-Dec 17
MW           09:00AM-10:20AM   LEC   F.Fletcher           FLC MAIN FL5 209     24196

ENGLT 345    Mythologies of the World    3 Units

Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENGWR 300.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course examines some of the myths underlying the western world view, and recognizes diversity and commonality in myths from Middle Eastern, Native North American, African, Asian, and South American cultures. Students compare and contrast myths from different cultures and analyze various themes, including: the goddess culture, the nature of creation, the dying and reviving god, and the hero's journey. In addition, students will identify Judaeo-Christian themes in various myths and evaluate the myths' psychological applications. From this process, they will gain an understanding of ethnocentrism, ethnicity and racism and the impact of these on the American experience.

Schedule: Full Term, Aug 22-Dec 17
TTh          10:30AM-11:50AM   LEC   T.Rauschkolb         El Dorado EDC C214   24008

ENGLT 360    Women in Literature    3 Units

Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better; or eligibility for ENGWR 300.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course is a survey of literature from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, designed for students who are interested in examining the writing of women and their roles in literature, both as writers and as protagonists. Emphasis will be placed on literature that develops protagonists and explores literary themes found in these works, such as: women representative of or in conflict with their societies; women and power; women as daughters, wives, mothers, leaders; independence vs. dependence; women in relation to men and to each other. Over the course of the semester, students will also explore related issues as discovered in the readings, including ethnocentrism, racism, ageism, classism, gender construction, gender inequity, and religious differences. The literary selections may include essays, biographies, short stories, novels, poems, and plays. These works will be considered in their historical contexts as well. This course transfers to both the UC and CSU systems and thus is taught at the university level.

Schedule: Full Term, Aug 22-Dec 17
MW           01:00PM-02:20PM   LEC   L.Sapra              FLC MAIN FL1 206     24192