2026-27 Courses & Variable Topics Offerings
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courses For Minor, Certificate Programs |
FALL 2026 topic (INSTRUCTOR) |
SPRING 2027 TOPIC (INSTRUCTOR) |
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3000-level courses & variable topics |
FALL 2026 topic (INSTRUCTOR) |
SPRING 2027 TOPIC (INSTRUCTOR) |
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SAN LUIS OBISPO CAMPUS (ENGL) |
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| 3335: British Literature: 1914 to Present | (Kauffmann) | |
| 3342: U.S. Literature: 1914-1956 | NOTE: HNRS section (Campbell) |
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3345: Women Writers of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
(Clemons) | |
| 3346: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. | (Carrero) (Martinez) |
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| 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) |
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3386: Creative Nonfiction |
(Carrero) |
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3387: Fiction Writing |
(Prow) |
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| 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) |
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SOLANO CAMPUS (EGL) |
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| 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) |
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4000-level courses & variable topics |
FALL 2026 TOPIC (iNSTRUCTOR) |
sPRING 2027 tOPIC (iNSRUCTOR) |
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| 4403: Advanced Topics in Literature |
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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) |
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| 4449: Topics in U.S. Literature |
Americans in Paris (Campbell)
Reconstruction Stories (Forster) |
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| 4459: Topics in Transatlantic and/or World Literature |
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Existentialism (Hampsey)
Modern Arthurian Literature (Schwartz) |
| 4467: Topics in Rhetoric and Writing |
Language Law: Literacy, Politics, and Equal Access (Peters) |
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| 4470: Special Advanced Topics |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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5000-level courses & variable topics |
fall 2026 topic (instructor) |
spring 2027 topic (instructor) |
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| 5501: Introduction to English Studies | ||
| 5502: Graduate Intro to Criticism and Theory |
(Hatch) |
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| 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) |
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| 5512: Graduate Seminar in British Literature |
Slavery & Abolition (Allen)
Seminar in British Literary Period (Dewey) |
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| 5513: Graduate Seminar in Global Anglophone Literature or Literature in Translation |
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Modernist Stages (Hatch) |
| 5514: Graduate Seminar in Film and Media Studies | ||
| 5516: Graduate Seminar in Cultural Studies | ||
| 5519: Graduate Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing |
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| 5520: Graduate Seminar in Criticism and Theory | ||
| 5521: Graduate Seminar in Technical Communication | ||
| 5523: Graduate Topics in Literature |
TBD (Campbell) |
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| 5524: Graduate Topics in Film and Media Studies | ||
| 5525: Graduate Topics in Cultural Studies | ||
| 5570: Special Advanced Topics | ||
| 5599: Thesis | (Hatch) | (Campbell) |