California Community Colleges System Courses

Major American Writers (The Modern Age, 1914-the Present) - HONORS

This course explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by major writers of the modern and postmodern periods, such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, Morrison, Fitzgerald, Hughes

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Special Topics in Literature

This course involves an intensive study and analysis of a special topic in literature.

• California Community Colleges System
• 24 hours
• Paid Course

Special Topics in Literature

This course involves an intensive study and analysis of a special topic in literature.

• California Community Colleges System
• 36 hours
• Paid Course

Special Topics in Literature

This course involves an intensive study and analysis of a special topic in literature.

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Introduction to Poetry

Intensive study of poetry; reading, discussion, and analysis of structure and meaning in selected poems.

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Introduction to Dramatic Literature

This course is an intensive study of dramatic literature through reading, discussion, and analysis of structure and meaning in selected plays.

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Introduction to Shakespeare

This course analyzes representative Shakespearean sonnets, histories, tragedies, and comedies, placed within the literary and social context of the Renaissance as well as the context of contemporary c

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Introduction to the Bible as Literature

This is an introduction to the study of the Bible, in English, from a literary, cultural, and historical point of view, with consideration of its influence on our culture. Selected readings will be fr

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Asian Pacific American Literature

This course is an introduction to Asian Pacific American literature. Through readings in twentieth and twenty-first century works, students will explore and analyze issues related to complexities of i

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Young Adult Literature

This course examines significant authors, movements, and traditions (continuing as well as emerging) in a diverse range of young adult literature.

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Utopian/Dystopian Literature

In this course students will examine critically texts of this genre, with particular attention to contemporary (postwar) dystopian novels, and with additional readings at instructor's discretion from

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

African American Literature

Examines significant authors, movements, and traditions in African American literature from the era of slavery to the present. Attention to key trends, styles, and issues related to race in the United

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Ethnic Literature of the United States

Examines significant authors, movements, and traditions (continuing as well as emerging) in a diverse range of ethnic literature of the United States.

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

Special Topics in Literature

This course involves an intensive study and analysis of a special topic in literature.

• California Community Colleges System
• 12 hours
• Paid Course

Academic Reading and Writing

Part 1: In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic resea

• California Community Colleges System
• 60 hours
• Paid Course