General Option Electives (9 units)

In consultation with your faculty mentor, select three courses from the following list. Notes to selected courses:

1. Selected courses may not be double-counted for the Directed Electives for Core, 
2. SeIected courses may not include more than two total courses from the following: up to two 2000-level ENGL courses and one ENGL 3800 series upper-division GE course.

• ENGL 2070 - Beginning Creative Writing [3]
• ENGL 2090 - Introduction to Playwriting (also listed as TA 2760) [3]
• ENGL 2100 - Language and Society (also listed as ANTH 2300) [3]
• ENGL 2260 - A Journey Through World Cinema (also listed as TVF 2260) [3]
• ENGL 2310 - Gods, Monsters, and Heroes in World Mythology [3]
• ENGL 2600 - Literary Los Angeles [3]
• ENGL 2665 - Race and Ethnicity in Science Fiction (also listed as LBS 2665) [3]
• ENGL 2700 - Why Literature Matters [3]
• ENGL 2710 - Contemporary World Literature [3]
• ENGL 2730 - Fictions of Gender and Sexuality [3]
• ENGL 2760 - Pulp Fictions and Popular Literatures [3]
• ENGL 2800 - Shakespeare and Popular Culture [3]
• ENGL 3010 - Advanced College Writing [3]
• ENGL 3030 - Professional and Technical Writing [3]
• ENGL 3050 - Issues in Writing Pedagogy [3]
• ENGL 3060 - Discourse Analysis for Language Studies [3]
• ENGL 3810 - Literary Explorations of Racism and Justice (also listed as PAS 3810) [3]
• ENGL 3815 - Money and Meaning [3]
• ENGL 3820 - The Body in Literature and Culture [3]
• ENGL 3822 - Ethnicity and Emotions in U.S. Film (also listed as PAS 3822) [3]
• ENGL 3825 - Psychology in Fairy Tales and Fantasy Literature [3]
• ENGL 3830 - Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture (also listed as TVF 3830) [3]
• ENGL 3835 - Sex and Gender in Language and Literature (also listed as COMM 3835) [3]
• ENGL 3840 - Aging in Literature [3]
• ENGL 3850 - Violence, Ethics and Literature [3]
• ENGL 3855 - Crimes, Scenes, Interpretations: Literature and the Law [3]
• ENGL 3900 - Research Tutorial and Symposium [3]
• ENGL 3920 - Statement and Literary Magazine Editing [1-3]
• ENGL 4020 - Evolving Literacies, Cultures, and Writing Technologies [3]
• ENGL 4060 - Writing Nonfiction [3]
• ENGL 4070 - Writing Fiction [3]
• ENGL 4080 - Writing Poetry [3]
• ENGL 4100 - Introduction to Linguistics (also listed as ANTH 4710) [3]
• ENGL 4101 - Introduction to English Linguistics [3]
• ENGL 4110 - History of the English Language [3]
• ENGL 4111 - Topics in the History of the English Language [3]
• ENGL 4120 - Language in Space and Time [3]
• ENGL 4130 - Language and Culture (also listed as ANTH 4700) [3]
• ENGL 4170 - Modern English Grammar [3]
• ENGL 4180 - Issues in English Language Teaching [3]
• ENGL 4200 - Topics in Theory [3]
• ENGL 4205 - Signs, Texts, Meaning: An Introduction to Semiotics [3]
• ENGL 4210 - Cultural Studies and Literature [3]
• ENGL 4260 - Film and Literature [3]
• ENGL 4303 - The Bible as Literature: Old and New Testaments [3]
• ENGL 4305 - The Medieval Amatory Tradition [3]
• ENGL 4306 - The Arthurian Tradition [3]
• ENGL 4320 - Anglo-American Modernism [3]
• ENGL 4330 - Transnational Women Writers [3]
• ENGL 4340 - Diasporic Literatures [3]
• ENGL 4370 - Greek and Roman Drama in Translation [3]
• ENGL 4371 - Medieval Drama [3]
• ENGL 4379 - Modern and Contemporary Poetry [3]
• ENGL 4401 - Medieval English Literature [3]
• ENGL 4402 - Dramatic Literature of the English Renaissance [3]
• ENGL 4403 - The English Renaissance [3]
• ENGL 4404 - Seventeenth-Century Literature [3]
• ENGL 4405 - The Augustan Age [3]
• ENGL 4406 - The Romantic Age [3]
• ENGL 4407 - The Victorian Age [3]
• ENGL 4408 - Modern British Literature [3]
• ENGL 4409 - Contemporary British Literature [3]
• ENGL 4421 - Chaucer [3]
• ENGL 4422 - Piers Plowman [3]
• ENGL 4423 - Shakespeare I: Poetry and Performance [3]
• ENGL 4424 - Shakespeare II [3]
• ENGL 4425 - Milton [3]
• ENGL 4460 - The British Novel: The Eighteenth Century [3]
• ENGL 4461 - The British Novel: The Nineteenth Century [3]
• ENGL 4462 - The British Novel: The Twentieth Century [3]
• ENGL 4510 - Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays [3]
• ENGL 4540 - Selected Topics in Literature and Language [3]
• ENGL 4601 - American Literary History Before 1877 [3]
• ENGL 4602 - American Literary History After 1877 [3]
• ENGL 4630 - American Women Writers [3]
• ENGL 4660 - The American Novel I [3]
• ENGL 4661 - The American Novel II [3]
• ENGL 4680 - The Politics of American Literature [3]
• ENGL 4690 - Ethnic Literature in the U.S. [3]
• ENGL 4691 - Black American Literature [3]
• ENGL 4692 - U.S. Latino/a Literature [3]
• ENGL 4693 - Asian American Literature [3]
• ENGL 4760 - Major Continental Fiction: Cervantes to Balzac [3]
• ENGL 4761 - Major Continental Fiction: Stendhal to Tolstoy [3]
• ENGL 4762 - Twentieth Century Continental Fiction [3]
• ENGL 4778 - Contemporary Drama: Continental, English, and American [3]
• ENGL 4780 - Latin American Literature in Translation [3]
• ENGL 4785 - Postcolonial Literature and Criticism [3]
• ENGL 4801 - The English Court in Literature, Art, and Culture [3]
• ENGL 4840 - Environment, Ecology, and Literature [3]
• ENGL 4860 - Fictions of Finance: Economic Criticism [3]
• ENGL 4880 - Children’s Literature [3]

Engaged English Requirement (3-4 units)

• Required:

• ENGL 3950 - English Major Mentorship and Professionalization [1]

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  And select 2 to 3 units of coursework from the following list:

• ENGL 3900 - Research Tutorial and Symposium [3]
• ENGL 3910 - Engaged English Studies [1-3]
• ENGL 3920 - Statement and Literary Magazine Editing [1-3]
• ENGL 3930 - Introduction to Archival Research [2]
• ENGL 3940 - Introduction to Grant Writing as Community Engagement [3]
• ENGL 3960 - Introduction to Narrative Practices of Healing [2]
• ENGL 3970 - Internship Supervision [1-3]
• ENGL 3980 - Cooperative Education [1-6]
• ENGL 4855 - Words Uncaged Journal Production: The Humanities as Social Practice [3]

Senior-Level Culminating Course (3 units)

• ENGL 4910 - Practicum in the Teaching of Literature [3]
• ENGL 4920 - Seminar in Literature and Language [3]
• ENGL 4925 - Practicum in Literature and Language [3]

Lower Division Required Course (3 units)

• COMM 1100 - Oral Communication [3]

Upper Division Required Courses (15 units)

• ENGL 3050 - Issues in Writing Pedagogy [3]
• ENGL 4180 - Issues in English Language Teaching [3]
• ENGL 4910 - Practicum in the Teaching of Literature [3]

• and select one course from the following:

• ENGL 4423 - Shakespeare I: Poetry and Performance [3]
• ENGL 4510 - Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Plays [3]

• and select one course from the following:

• ENGL 4690 - Ethnic Literature in the U.S. [3]
• ENGL 4691 - Black American Literature [3]
• ENGL 4692 - U.S. Latino/a Literature [3]
• ENGL 4693 - Asian American Literature [3]

Engaged English Requirement (2-4 units)

• Required:

• ENGL 3950 - English Major Mentorship and Professionalization [1]

• Select 1 to 3 units of Engaged English coursework from the following list:

• ENGL 3900 - Research Tutorial and Symposium [3]
• ENGL 3910 - Engaged English Studies [1-3]
• ENGL 3920 - Statement and Literary Magazine Editing [1-3]
• ENGL 3930 - Introduction to Archival Research [2]
• ENGL 3940 - Introduction to Grant Writing as Community Engagement [3]
• ENGL 3960 - Introduction to Narrative Practices of Healing [2]
• ENGL 3970 - Internship Supervision [1-3]
• ENGL 3980 - Cooperative Education [1-6]
• ENGL 4855 - Words Uncaged Journal Production: The Humanities as Social Practice [3]