2026-27 Courses & Variable Topics Offerings

 

 

courses For Minor, Certificate Programs

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3000-level courses &

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SAN LUIS OBISPO CAMPUS (ENGL)

   
3335: British Literature: 1914 to Present (Kauffmann)  
3342: U.S. Literature: 1914-1956 NOTE: HNRS section
(Campbell)
 

3345: Women Writers of the Twentieth

and Twenty-First Centuries

(Clemons)  
3346: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. (Carrero)
(Martinez) 
3347: African American Literature (Hislop)  
3354: The Bible as Literature and in Literature and the Arts (Marchbanks)  
3361: Reading Instruction for the Teaching of Young Adult Literature    (Guise)
3373: Topics on Gender Representation in Film

Defying Gender Norms in Film

(Helmbrecht)

 

3386: Creative Nonfiction

(Carrero)

 

3387: Fiction Writing

(Prow)

 

3388: Poetry Writing (Coffman)  
3390: The Linguistic Structure of Modern English (Yip)  
3392: Reading Instruction for the Teaching of Young Adult Literature   (Elvin)
3611: Literary Themes

Horror Fiction

(Bates, B.)

 

Literature of the Sea

(Dewey)

 

SOLANO CAMPUS (EGL)

   
3301: Project Based Writing for Science (Sinha)  
3302: Nonfiction Writing (Sinha)  
3305: 20th Century American Literature (Richards)  
3310: U.S. Literature of the Sea (Parsons)  
3320: Literature of the Fantastic (TBA)  

4000-level courses &

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4403: Advanced Topics in Literature

 

Reading Sexual Violence & White Supremacy

(Hislop)

 

TBD

(Kauffmann)

4424: Teaching English Language Arts in Secondary Schools (Guise)  
4425: English Clinical Experience Seminar   (Elvin)
4427: User Experience Writing and Research for Social Impact  (Sarraf)  
4429: Writing for Nonprofits   (Reynoso)
4439: Topics in British Literature 

Gender in Medieval Literature

(Schwartz)

 

 

4449: Topics in U.S. Literature

Americans in Paris

(Campbell)

 

Reconstruction Stories

(Forster)

 

4459: Topics in Transatlantic and/or World Literature

 

Existentialism

(Hampsey)

 

Modern Arthurian Literature

(Schwartz)

4467: Topics in Rhetoric and Writing

Language Law: Literacy, Politics, and Equal Access

(Peters)

 

4470: Special Advanced Topics  

 

4474: Editing and Publishing: Fields and Practices (Martinez)  
4475: Editing, Publishing, and Community Literacies   (Martinez)
4487: Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction  (Prow)  
4488:  Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry  (Coffman)  
4491: Practicum in Technical and Professional Communication (Sarraf) (Reynoso)
4495: Topics in Applied Language Study 

Sociolinguistics

(Yip)

 
4497: Theories of Language Learning and Teaching  (Yip)  
4498:Approaches to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages   (Yip)
4499: Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages   (Yip)

5000-level courses &

variable topics

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5501: Introduction to English Studies    
5502: Graduate Intro to Criticism and Theory

(Hatch)

 
5504: Introduction to Technical and Professional Communication    
5505: Composition Theory   (Peters)
5506: Pedagogical Approaches to Composition (Peters)  
5511: Graduate Seminar in U.S. Literature

California Literature & Geography

(Campbell)

 

5512: Graduate Seminar in British Literature

Slavery & Abolition

(Allen)

 

Seminar in British Literary Period

(Dewey)

 

5513: Graduate Seminar in Global Anglophone Literature or Literature in Translation

 

Modernist Stages

(Hatch)

5514: Graduate Seminar in Film and Media Studies    
5516: Graduate Seminar in Cultural Studies    
5519: Graduate Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing  

 

5520: Graduate Seminar in Criticism and Theory    
5521: Graduate Seminar in Technical Communication    
5523: Graduate Topics in Literature  

TBD

(Campbell)

5524: Graduate Topics in Film and Media Studies    
5525: Graduate Topics in Cultural Studies    
5570: Special Advanced Topics    
5599: Thesis (Hatch) (Campbell)

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