California Community Colleges System Courses

INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE

Introduction to selected tragic, comedic, romance, history plays, and sonnets of Shakespeare, with focus on detailed analysis of texts. Includes critical theory and secondary source research. Intended

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

GOTHIC & HORROR LITERATURE

A survey of gothic and horror literature from its 18th-century beginnings to its 21st-century manifestations, including subgenres such as haunted spaces, poltergeists, and demonic possession; werewolv

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

WOMEN WRITERS

An examination of the works of multicultural women poets, novelists, dramatists, and essayists and their aesthetic and sociopolitical contributions to American literature and literatures written in En

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

UNMASKING COMICS: THE DAWN OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

Introduction to the history of graphic communication, emphasizing the burgeoning and dynamic form of contemporary graphic narrative: from memoir writing, to crime fiction, to the superhero, to socio-p

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

DETECTIVE & MYSTERY FICTION

A study of mystery, detective, and crime fiction from the 19th to 21st centuries, paying attention to the evolution of various sub-genres, such as Golden Age mysteries, hard-boiled detective novels, t

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

LATINO/A LITERATURE

Reading and discussion of Latino/a literature and its relationship to social issues and identity politics of Latinos/as. Critical examination of fiction, poetry, essays, and drama by and about the Lat

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE: REIMAGINEERING REALITY

Introduction to the evolution of science fiction, emphasizing analysis of literature and artwork in or after the age of reason, exploring how new scientific insights and technologies hypothetically sh

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

LITERATURE OF PROTEST

An exploration of protest found in literature, music, and art in the United States. Texts, such as essays, short stories, poetry, drama, music, paintings, photography, and film, which helped to inform

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Introduction to Asian American literature. Readings in 20th and 21st century works, with an emphasis on three relevant themes: problems of identity as they relate to class, gender, mixed heritages, an

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I: BEOWULF TO THE LATE 18TH CENTURY

A survey of literature spanning the earliest Old English texts, Middle English period, Early Modern period, through Neoclassicism, including early writers of the British colonies. Texts discussed and

• California Community Colleges System
• 60 hours
• Paid Course

HONORS SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I: BEOWULF TO THE LATE 18TH CENTURY

A survey of literature spanning the earliest Old English texts, Middle English period, Early Modern period, through Neoclassicism, including early writers of the British colonies. Texts discussed and

• California Community Colleges System
• 60 hours
• Paid Course

SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD TO THE PRESENT

A survey of literature beginning with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads, through the Romantic period, Victorian period, 20th-century modernism and postmodernism, to the present. Texts discussed

• California Community Colleges System
• 60 hours
• Paid Course

HONORS SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD TO THE PRESENT

A survey of literature beginning with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads, through the Romantic period, Victorian period, 20th-century modernism and postmodernism, to the present. Texts discussed

• California Community Colleges System
• 60 hours
• Paid Course

LOUD & QUEER: LITERATURE OF SEXUAL/GENDER IDENTITY

Literary exploration of genders and sexualities across different historical periods, geopolitical spaces, and cultural practices within the queer literary tradition. Readings and other works reflectin

• California Community Colleges System
• 48 hours
• Paid Course

TECHNICAL WRITING

An introductory course in technical and workplace communication. Focus on the strategic implementation of technical writing process, including assessment of context, purpose, and audience; evaluation

• California Community Colleges System
• 60 hours
• Paid Course