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Course Descriptions

 

Electrical Engineering
  
  

  • EE 260 - RFID Systems

    3 units
    This course gives an introduction to RFID systems. Emphasis is on RFID technology applications in biomedical devices, object tracking and identification. Complemented with practical laboratory experiments. A final project (written report and oral presentation) covers RFID applications in a topic of interest to the student.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 251  or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 261 - Acq. & Analysis of Biomedical Imaging

    3 units
    Study of the image acquisition physics and analysis concepts of biomedical imaging systems like X-Ray, MRI, Ultrasound etc. currently used for patient care in diagnosing various disease conditions.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 210  or equivalent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 263 - Digital Image Processing

    3 units
    Teaches the fundamental principles and algorithms for digital image processing and introduces students to computer vision and important applications. Topics include image formation, modeling, transforms, enhancement, segmentation, representation, feature extraction, and object recognition. Through a set of homework assignments and a comprehensive project, students will implement cutting-edge computer vision algorithms.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 265 - Software-Defined Radio Communications

    3 units
    Experimental approach to designing and building wireless communications. Topics include analog/digital transmission, ADC/DAC, and wireless channel modeling. Students are exposed to MATLAB, software defined radios (USRP boards), GNU Radio, GRC (GNU Radio Companion) in homework assignments and projects.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 210  or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 267 - Computer Vision with Artificial Intelligence Applications

    3 units
    Fundamental concepts of computer vision and image processing with applications in artificial intelligence (AI). The course first covers basic techniques of digital image processing and computer vision, including image convolution, transformation, segmentation, and pattern recognition. In connection with these techniques, the theory of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and related DNN is covered, with AI applications including object recognition and scene understanding for various autonomous systems.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 270 - Advanced Logic Design

    3 units
    Logic design theory, advanced logic minimization, design and analysis of sequential circuits, asynchronous circuit design, logic circuit testing and design for testability. Review Verilog/VHDL. CAD tools are used for design, modeling and simulation.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 271 - Digital System Design and Synthesis

    3 units
    In depth study of concepts and practices in modern digital system design, such as high-speed arithmetic, cache memory design, advanced pipelining and processor design. Verilog or VHDL is used for simulation and synthesis.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 270 .
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 272 - SoC Design & Verifi. with System Verilog

    3 units
    The course covers topics in System-on-Chip design and verification with SystemVerilog. Major topics include top-down SoC design; design metrics, techniques, and system-level synthesis; IP integration and system-level verification; SystemVerilog design hierarchy, data types, assertions, interfaces, verification constructs, and testbench structures.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 271  or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 273 - Logic Verification with UVM

    3 units
    EE273 covers non-design System Verilog and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM). It introduces logic verification methodologies and techniques. No prior object oriented programming is assumed. UVM is practiced on sample designs in lab projects with industrial simulation tools.

    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 275 - Advanced Computer Architectures

    3 units
    Performance metrics, instruction set architectures, instruction pipelining and pipeline hazards, instruction-level parallelism, multithreading, cache and virtual memory, I/O performance and advanced topics in storage systems, topologies and hardware/software issues of interconnection networks.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 270  or EE 271 .
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 276 - Parallel Computer Systems

    3 units
    Advanced concepts in parallel computer architectures and algorithms. Cache memory for multiprocessor systems, multistage networks, pipelined vector processors, massive parallel processors, systolic arrays and array processors, parallel processing algorithms and time complexity analyses. Design project.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 270 .
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 276B - Multi-core Architectures

    3 units
    Topics cover various areas of parallel computation including performance metrics, shared memory computer, snoop-based multiprocessor design, directory-based cache coherence, multiple level cache, multi-core architecture symmetric and asymmetric. The commercial multi-core architectures and multi-core programming will also be addressed in this course. There will be a term project be developed and presented by students on selected topics.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 275  or Lecturer Consent
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 277A - Embedded SoC Design

    3 units
    Embedded system design challenge and metrics. Processor and compiler technologies. Software and hardware architectures for embedded system design. The design of co-processors, parallel processors, graphics processors and MPSOC processors. Basic concept of high performance computing (HPC)

    Prerequisite(s): EE 210 
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 278 - Digital Design for AI and DSP

    3 units
    Digital design and FPGA/ASIC/VLSI-based implementation of high-performance DSP/AI/Machine Learning systems. FPGA and GPU architectures, various deep neural network design examples of video/imaging/speech and AI/machine learning include applications to object recognition for autonomous vehicles and speech recognition.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 270  or EE 271 
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 280 - Advanced Network Security

    3 units
    Current topics in advanced network security topics related to IoT systems, blockchain, SDN (software-defined networks), wireless networks, and cloud computing. Machine/deep learning with applications in network security. Course blends theory and practice.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 281  and EE 209  or instructor consent
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 281 - Internetworking

    3 units
    Network layers, packet networks, ATM, SONET, TCP/IP protocols, high-performance switches and routers, queuing theory, error detection coding, quality of service, multicast, IPv6.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 250  or equivalent. Allowed Declared Major: Electrical Engineering.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 283 - Broadband Communication Networking

    3 units
    Broadband Networks Overview, Tunneling, VPNs, and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS); All-Optical Networks, Architecture of High-Speed Switches and Routers, Data Center Networks, Network Virtualization, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Packet Delay and Network Queueing Models, and Quality of Service.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 281  or equivelant
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 284 - VoIP and Multimedia Networks

    3 units
    Public-Switched Telephone Network and SS7 Protocol, Voice over IP (VoIP) Signaling Protocols, H.323, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Internetworking VoIP, Regular, and Wireless Cellular Networks, Media Gateways, Media Preparation and Compression, Codecs, Multimedia Networks, IPTV, VoD, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs).

    Prerequisite(s): EE 281  or equivalent
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 286 - Mobile and Wireless Networking

    3 units
    This course covers recent and upcoming networking topics on mobile and wireless scenarios and applications. The course focuses on mobile and wireless network standards including cellular (LTE), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and routing algorithms including DSDV, DSR, TORA, and AODV.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 250 
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 287 - ASIC CMOS Design

    3 units
    CMOS ASIC design principles. Topics include ASIC architectures, cell libraries, synthesis issues, latches, clocking multiple clock synchronizers, delay calculation, timing closure, I/O specification, and testing.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 271  or Instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 288 - Data Conversions/Analog Mixed Signal ICs

    3 units
    Study of different architectures for analog to digital convertors and digital to analog convertors. System level modeling & simulation. Design considerations and techniques for circuit implementation. Data conversion testing methods.

    Prerequisite(s): EE 221 
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 289 - Special Topics in Networking

    3 units
    Advanced topics in networking that are currently of high interest to both industry and academia. Content varies from semester to semester, and may include, but not limited to, network security, virtual private network, network availability and reliability, network management.

    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 295 - Technical Writing - Engineering Ethics

    3 units
    Students learn to analyze and write about issues in engineering ethics. Three types of ethics are explored: ethics of the person, the process, and the product.

    Satisfies GWAR: Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): This course satisfies graduate-level GWAR in this master’s program.


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  • EE 296A - ES-level and Physical-level Design

    3 units
    Electronic System Level (ESL) Description of Systems using SystemC/OpenCL, High Level Synthesis from ESL Languages, Physical design and verification, Floorplanning, Placement, Routing, Power Analysis, Signal Integrity Analysis, ESL simulations and automate physical design tasks

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
    Grading: Graded


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  • EE 297A - MSEE Project Proposal

    3 units
    Written project proposal development for MSEE research/design project, subsequently culminating in EE 297B  or EE 299B . An approved application for EE 297A registration including project title and abstract and graduate seminar participation required.

    Misc/Lab: 9 hours lab

    Prerequisite(s): Classified Standing, GPA of at least 3. 3 or GPA of at least 3. 0 and graduate coordinator consent, satisfied GWAR requirement or EE 295  may be taken concurrently.
    Grading: Credit/No Credit


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  • EE 298I - Electrical Engineering Internship Experience

    1-3 units
    For this course a student is employed in industry as an electrical engineering intern or in an equivalent position. The course supplements and supports student’s plan of study.

    Course may be repeated for credit for up to 9 units.

    Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.
    Grading: Mandatory CR/NC/RP


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  • EE 299A - MSEE Thesis Proposal

    3 units
    Written Thesis proposal development for research/design, subsequently culminating the MSEE work in EE 299B  or EE 297B . An approved application for EE 299A registration, including project title and abstract and graduate seminar participation required.

    Prerequisite(s): Classified, GPA of at least 3. 3 or above (GPA GPA of at least 3. 0 and graduate coordinator consent) consent, satisfied GWAR requirement or EE 295  may be taken concurrently.
    Grading: Credit/No Credit


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  • EE 1290R - Culminating Experience Supervision

    1 units
    Continued work on thesis or project beyond minimum required units, for cases in which final deliverables are still in progress.

    Course may be repeated for credit for up to 16 units.

    Prerequisite(s): RP grade in a preceding thesis or project semester
    Grading: CR/NC, No Degree Credit

    Note(s): No Degree Credit.


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Elementary Education
  

  • EDEL 102 - Psychological Foundations of Education

    3 units
    Cognitive, affective and social/emotional development related to school settings. Theories of development, learning and instruction critically examined. Other topics include individual differences, measurement, evaluation, instructional goals, classroom management and diversity in the classroom.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EDEL 103 - Social-Multicultural Foundations of Education

    3 units
    Foundational preparation focused on implications of social, cultural, linguistic and economic diversity on teaching and learning. Emphasis on understanding the implications of history and social context on the educational endeavor in a pluralistic and democratic society.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EDEL 108A - Curriculum: Reading/Language Arts

    2-6 units
    Elementary school language/literacy acquisition in culturally diverse classrooms; emphasis on listening, speaking, reading and writing within the context of theory and practice. May be repeated for different subtitle.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EDEL 108B - Curriculum: Science

    1-3 units
    Elementary school science curriculum and theoretical approaches; emphasis on materials, methods, content and evaluation procedures for teaching science in elementary and middle schools in a multicultural and technological society. May be repeated for different subtitle.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EDEL 108C - Curriculum: Social Studies

    1-3 units
    Elementary school social studies curriculum and instruction with emphasis on the influence of ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic, gender and disability factors on present day culture.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EDEL 108D - Curriculum: Mathematics

    1-3 units
    Elementary school mathematics curriculum and methodology relationships between instructional materials and how children construct knowledge; the role of technology and issues that bear on the teaching of school mathematics. May be repeated for different subtitle.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • EDEL 108E - Teaching Reading in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms

    3 units
    Assessing and teaching reading in diverse classrooms in grades K-8. Integrates research, theory and practice. Requires some classroom observation and working in schools with K-8 students.

    Course is repeatable for up to 6 units.

    Prerequisite(s): LING 108 , ENGL 103  or LING 107 .
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): Should be taken in final semester of undergraduate program.


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  • EDEL 143A - Beginning Student-Teaching (Phase I)

    1-6 units
    Role of state and local government in education. Clinical observation of classroom, school and district organization. Emphasis on lesson planning.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Credit/No Credit


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  • EDEL 143B - Advanced Student-Teaching (Phase II)

    1-10 units
    Practicum in public school classrooms at two grade levels for student teaching experience; includes field and campus seminar. Supervision by College of Education faculty.

    Prerequisite(s): EDEL 143A .
    Grading: Credit/No Credit


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  • EDEL 192 - International Program Studies

    1-6 units
    Study Abroad and Away transfer credit course. Study Abroad and Away provides students the opportunity to study abroad on long term programs (Exchange Programs, CSU International Programs, and International Student Exchange Programs) and short-term programs (Faculty-Led Programs and Summer School Abroad Programs) for academic credit, offering Alternative Break Programs for cultural immersion, and designing other globally focused opportunities. This course is designated as a placeholder course for Study Abroad and Away programs.

    Grading: Mixed Grading


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  • EDEL 294 - Research and Practices in Health and Special Education

    3 units
    Introduces students to issues in health and special education that are necessary for them to know and be able to meet their legal and professional responsibilities. The course includes identifying, referring, and supporting students who may be at risk of health problems and have special needs. Students will also learn about effective instruction in health and special education content and skill development and how to create and support a safe and healthy environment for learning for all students.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper Division Standing
    Grading: Graded


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English
  

  • ENGL 1A - First Year Writing

    3 units
    English 1A is an introductory course that prepares students to join scholarly conversations across the university. Students develop reading skills, rhetorical sophistication, and writing styles that give form and coherence to complex ideas for various audiences, using a variety of genres.

    Satisfies A2: Written Comm 1A

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of Reflection on College Writing
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 1AF - First-Year Writing: Stretch English I

    3 units
    Stretch I is the first semester of a year-long ENGL 1A  that prepares students to join scholarly conversations across the university. Students develop reading skills, rhetorical sophistication, and writing styles that give form and coherence to complex ideas for various audiences, using various genres.

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of Reflection on College Writing.
    Grading: Credit/No Credit


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  • ENGL 1AS - First-Year Writing: Stretch English II

    3 units
    Stretch II is the second semester of a year-long ENGL 1A  that prepares students to join scholarly conversations across the university. Students develop reading skills, rhetorical sophistication, and writing styles that give form and coherence to complex ideas for various audiences, using various genres.

    Satisfies A2: Written Comm 1A

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1AF  Stretch English I (formerly HA 96F (FYC Stretch I))
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 1B - Argument and Analysis

    3 units
    English 1B is a writing course that focuses on argumentation and analysis. Through the study of literary, rhetorical, and professional texts, students will develop the habits of mind required to write argumentative and critical essays. Particular emphasis is placed on writing and reading processes. Students will have repeated practice in prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing, and repeated practice in reading closely in a variety of forms, styles, structures, and modes.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1A  or ENGL 1AS  with a C- or better.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): ENGL 1B is not open to students who successfully completed ENGL 2 .


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  • ENGL 2 - Critical Thinking and Writing

    3 units
    Focuses on the relationship between language and logic in composing arguments. Students learn various methods of effective reasoning and appropriate rhetorical strategies to help them invent, demonstrate, and express arguments clearly, logically, and persuasively.

    Satisfies A3: Critical Thinking

    Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Areas A1 and A2 each with grades of C- or better.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): ENGL 2 is not open to students who successfully completed ENGL 1B .


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  • ENGL 10 - Great Works of Literature

    3 units
    Fiction, drama and poetry for non-English majors. Emphasis on critical appreciation of various literary forms.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): No credit in the English major.


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  • ENGL 20 - The Graphic Novel

    3 units
    Approaching the graphic novel as a form of popular literature, students examine the narrative and textual aspects of the form including the function of the text, its integration with the graphics, and formal aspects of narrative such as plot, character, theme, and symbol.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 21 - Mystery and Detective Fiction

    3 units
    Examines mystery or detective fiction from its inception in the 19th century and follow it across the globe as the genre has been taken on and developed by a variety of cultures.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 22 - Fantasy and Science Fiction

    3 units
    Students will examine works of literary fantasy and science fiction to understand them as expressions of human intellect and Imagination; to comprehend their historical and cultural contexts; and to recognize their diverse cultural traditions. Both contemporary and historical works will be studied.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): No credit in the English major.


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  • ENGL 30 - Literature and the Environment

    3 units
    Explores the ways in which writers and literary texts engage environmental issues and represent the natural world and humanity’s place in it, paying close attention to issues of ecology, the landscape, conservation, sustainability, and human intervention/interference. Possible areas of inquiry include nature writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, environmental justice, postcolonial environments, and the Anthropocene.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 40 - Contemporary World Fiction

    3 units
    A study of selected works of fiction in English and in English translation written since 1975. The course both focuses on international texts that address significant themes of our time and explores ways of reading and understanding literature.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): No credit in the English major.


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  • ENGL 50 - Beginnings to the American Experiment

    3 units
    Exploration of Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Colonial Writings in Britain and America. Class engages literary text, literary history, and historical events that shape the literature of the period.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1A  
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 60 - The Emergence of British and American Literatures (1680 to 1860)

    4 units
    Exploration of Restoration, Early American, Romantic, American Romantic, and Victorian writings in Britain and America. Class engages literary text, literary history, and historical events that shape the literature of the period.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1A  
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 70 - Emerging Modernisms and Beyond

    3 units
    Exploration of Modernist and twentieth-century writings in Britain and America. Class engages literary text, literary history, and historical events that shape the literature of the period.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1A 
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 71 - Creative Writing

    3 units
    Examinations of works of poetry, creative nonfiction and short fiction as expression of human intellect and imagination, to comprehend the historic and cultural contexts, and recognize issues related to writing by men and women of diverse cultural traditions. Students will also write poetry, creative nonfiction, and a short fiction.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 78 - Introduction to Shakespeare’s Drama

    3 units
    Reading of five or six representative plays. The Elizabethan era, dynamics of performance and close analysis of the plays.

    Satisfies C2: Letters

    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): No credit in the English major.


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  • ENGL 92 - International Program Studies

    1-12 units
    Study Abroad and Away transfer credit course. Study Abroad and Away provides students the opportunity to study abroad on long term programs (Exchange Programs, CSU International Programs, and International Student Exchange Programs) and short-term programs (Faculty-Led Programs and Summer School Abroad Programs) for academic credit, offering Alternative Break Programs for cultural immersion, and designing other globally focused opportunities. This course is designated as a placeholder course for Study Abroad and Away programs.

    Grading: Mixed Grading


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  • ENGL 96RWS - Integrating Reading and Writing

    1 units
    Co-requisite course offered in conjunction with a primary content-area course in which students engage reading and writing activities to learn disciplinary content. Activities support students to learn about their own learning processes as they build content knowledge in a discipline.

    Course may be repeated for credit for up to 2 units.

    Corequisite(s): Early Start or GE course
    Grading: Credit/No Credit


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  • ENGL 100A - Writing Competency Through Genres

    3 units
    Satisfies the Writing Skills Test (WST) requirement if passed with a C or better (C- or lower will not satisfy the WST). Prepares students for 100W through drafting, feedback, and revision to demonstrate writing competency. Develops ability to analyze written genres used in the students’ chosen disciplines as well as write analytical and reflective essays.

    Prerequisite(s): Must have failed the WST or students who have not taken the WST must have completed GE area A3, ENGL 1B , HUM 2B , or equivalent with a C- or better.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): A Credit/No Credit grading option may not be used to satisfy the WST requirement.


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  • ENGL 100W - Writing Workshop

    4 units
    Integrated writing and literature course to develop advanced proficiency in college-level reading and writing that broadens and deepens understanding of forms and genres, audiences, and purposes of college writing developed in lower-division composition courses while developing mastery of the discourse and methods specific to the field of English literary studies. Repeated practice in close reading of literary texts, writing and revising informal and formal essays of literary analysis, and peer review of other students writing.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies Z: Written Communication II.

    Prerequisite(s): A3 or equivalent second semester composition course (with a grade of C- or better); completion of core GE; satisfaction of Writing Skills Test or completion of ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with C or better; and upper division standing. Allowed Declared Majors: All College of Humanities & Arts majors, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Public Health, Nutritional Science, Math, Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology, Geology, Special Majors, Social Work, Environmental Studies. Or Graduate or Postbaccalaureate level.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): Must be passed with C or better to satisfy the CSU Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR). Required of all English majors before they achieve senior standing.


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  • ENGL 100WB - Written Communication: Business

    3 units
    Written communications for business majors; includes minimum of 8,000 words of writing spaced throughout the semester. GE Area: Z.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies Z: Written Communication II.

    Prerequisite(s): A3 or equivalent second semester composition course (with a grade of C- or better); completion of core GE; satisfaction of Writing Skills Test or completion of ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A   with C or better; and upper division standing. Allowed Declared Majors: All Business Administration majors, Industrial Arts, Industrial Technology, Professional & Technical Writing, Public Relations, Hospitality Management. Or Graduate or Postbaccalaureate level.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): Must be passed with C or better to satisfy the CSU Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR).


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  • ENGL 101 - Introduction to Literary Criticism

    4 units
    Study and application of various historical and contemporary approaches to literature, such as formalism, structuralism, new criticism, cultural studies, new historicism, post-structuralism, Marxism, post-colonialism, feminism, etc. Application of these approaches to works of literature.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100W .
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 102 - History of the English Language

    4 units
    Course traces the development of the English language–its sounds, word forms, grammatical structures, vocabulary, and punctuation–from its origins as a dialect of the Germanic-speaking peoples to its status as a world language today.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 103 - Modern English

    4 units
    The growth and structure of modern English, including its phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Attention to social and regional varieties, with implications for language development and literacy among native and nonnative speakers.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 106 - Editing for Writers

    4 units
    Copy editing, substantive editing and reorganization of technical documents. Review of grammar and punctuation to ensure technical mastery and ability to justify editing decisions. Graphics editing, access aids and professional skills of an editor.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2  or A3 equivalent
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 107 - Professional Technical Writing

    4 units
    Survey of technical and professional writing. Students learn how to write and design persuasive documents that get real things done in the real world. Projects include resumes, instructions (video and print), presentations, user manuals, and augmented reality apps. Includes learning digital tools used to author and publish writing in the current tech landscape such as DITA, Augmented Reality (AR), SnagIt, Adobe Premiere, and Madcap Flare.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2  or A3 equivalent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 108 - Gaming and Narrative

    4 units
    Study of the relationship between literary narrative theory (narratology) and interactive fiction (books and games designed to produce different stories for different readers or players). Course focuses on whether interactive fiction has changed or reinvented the possible spaces of narrative.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper Division Standing
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 109 - Writing and the Young Writer

    4 units
    Emphasis on workshop approach to improve creative and expository writing skills and to transfer knowledge grained as a writer into practice as a prospective teacher of writing.

    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 110 - Visual Rhetoric and Digital Document Design for Writers

    4 units
    Combines visual rhetorical theory with design techniques to teach writers about the visual aspects of written and digital communication. In this hands-on course, students will design documents, including a poster, a book chapter, and promotional materials for local nonprofits.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100W 
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 111 - Writing Online: Strategic Digital Content and Social Media

    4 units
    Content writing and management, creating effective and ethical content, content auditing, integration and assessment. Applications may include social media posts/campaigns, website copy, promotional materials, videos, podcasts, product and event descriptions, blog posts or articles, how-to/user guides, infographics, and FAQ pages. Activities include producing reports, conducting user research, and giving verbal presentations.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper-division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 112A - Children’s Literature

    3 units
    Study of literature for elementary and intermediate grades, representing a variety of cultures. Evaluation and selection of texts.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 112B - Literature for Young Adults

    4 units
    Study of selected literary material, representing a variety of cultures, chosen to motivate secondary school readers.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 113 - Gothic Novel and Horror Fiction

    4 units
    Study of the gothic novel in Britain and America 1795-1900. Current trends in horror fiction and films will be traced to these gothic predecessors.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 115 - The Bible as Literature

    4 units
    Study of the Bible from the perspective of literature, examining key portions of the Bible, its subjects, themes, literary styles and genres, and contributions to Western Literature.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 117A - American Literature, Film, & Culture

    3 units
    Using both film and literature, course examines narratives that create and define cultural identities in the United States. A variety of cultural moments in the history of North America as depicted in both film and literature as well as the artistic practices used to shape those representations will be discussed. GE Area: S.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies S: Self, Society & Equality in U.S.

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.


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  • ENGL 117B - Global Film, Literature, and Cultures

    3 units
    Using films and literary works, students will appreciate and understand the narratives (myths and other stories ) that create and define cultural identity, explore cultural interaction, and illustrate cultural preservation and cultural difference over time. GE Area: V.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies V: Culture, Civil & Global Understanding.

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended. 
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.


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  • ENGL 120 - Theatre History

    3 units
    Examines the historical roots, many manifestations, and diversity of theatrical performances with particular attention to theatre’s role within and between cultures.

    Prerequisite(s): TA 11  or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded

    Cross-listed with TA 120 . Film and Theatre is responsible for scheduling.


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  • ENGL 121 - Introduction to Comparative Literature

    4 units
    Critical approaches, reference sources, problems of translation.

    Prerequisite(s): One year of college level foreign language or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded

    Cross-listed with COLT 121  / FORL 121  / HUM 121 . English and Comparative Literature is responsible for scheduling.


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  • ENGL 122 - Topics in Comparative World Literature

    4 units
    An exemplary theme as treated in various literatures in different languages, e.g., war, love, freedom, religious experience. May be repeated when course content changes.

    Prerequisite(s): One year of college level foreign language or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded

    Cross-listed with COLT 122  / FORL 122  / HUM 122 . English and Comparative Literature is responsible for scheduling.


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  • ENGL 123A - Literature for Global Understanding-The Americas

    3 units
    Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, the Americas, and covers representative texts and authors from Latin America and the Caribbean/West Indies. GE Area: V.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies V: Culture, Civil & Global Understanding.

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.


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  • ENGL 123B - Literature for Global Understanding-Africa

    3 units
    Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, Africa, and covers representative texts and authors from North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. GE Area: V.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies V: Culture, Civil & Global Understanding.

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.


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  • ENGL 123C - Literature for Global Understanding-Oceania

    3 units
    Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, Oceania, and covers representative texts and authors from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. GE Area: V.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies V: Culture, Civil & Global Understanding.

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.


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  • ENGL 123D - Literature for Global Understanding-Asia

    3 units
    Course promotes global understanding by examining the cultures and literary arts of a selected region of the world, Asia, and covers representative texts and authors from a sub-region of Asia such as East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, or West Asia/the Middle East. GE Area: V.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies V: Culture, Civil & Global Understanding.

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.


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  • ENGL 125 - European Literature: Homer through Dante

    4 units
    Classical and medieval literature in translation: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Virgil and Dante.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 126 - Holocaust Literature

    3 units
    Survey of literature written by survivors or witnesses of the Holocaust, the destruction of European Jewry during World War II, focusing upon diaries, memoirs, fiction, and occasionally poetry and drama. Writers may include Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi, Anne Frank, Charlotte Delbo.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies V: Culture, Civil & Global Understanding

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.

    Cross-listed with FORL 126  / HUM 126  / JWSS 126 . English and Comparative Literature is responsible for scheduling.


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  • ENGL 127 - Contemporary Theatre

    3 units
    European and American playwrights from 1950 to the present and important theatre practices for this period.

    Satisfies SJSU Studies V: Culture, Civil & Global Understanding.

    Prerequisite(s): Passage of the Writing Skills Test (WST) or ENGL 100A  / LLD 100A  with a C or better (C- not accepted), completion of Core General Education and upper division standing are prerequisites to all SJSU studies courses. Completion of, or co-registration in, 100W is strongly recommended.
    Grading: Graded

    Note(s): All of SJSU Studies courses require completion of the WST and upper division standing.

    Cross-listed with TA 127 . Film and Theatre is responsible for scheduling.


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  • ENGL 128 - Scriptwriting

    3 units
    Writing in dramatic form: plot structure, characterization, content and theme. Analysis of plays. Exercises in writing.

    Course may be repeated for credit for up to 6 units.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded

    Cross-listed with TA 128 . Film and Theatre is responsible for scheduling.


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  • ENGL 129 - Introduction to Career Writing

    4 units
    Professional and workplace writing where students learn new writing skills and expand their professional portfolio. Content may include writing for social media, marketing copy, nonprofits, and website content. Students write to get published on topics such as food, music, movies, video games, fashion, high-tech, and science. Class projects may include feature articles, reviews, interviews, marketing plans, the English Department magazine, an in-class podcast series, instructional videos, and a weekly updated blog. 

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 130 - Writing Fiction

    4 units
    Workshop in short stories or other short fiction. Beginning the novel in individual cases. May be repeated twice for credit.

    Course may be repeated for credit for up to 12 units.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 71  (or equivalent) or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 131 - Writing Poetry

    4 units
    Workshop in verse forms. Study of traditional and contemporary models. May be repeated twice for credit.

    Course may be repeated for credit for up to 12 units.

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 71  (or equivalent) or instructor consent.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 133 - Reed Magazine

    4 units
    Student-edited and managed literary magazine. Contents selected from local, national and international submissions. Students urged to work on the magazine for the two semesters required for publication. Open to all majors. May be repeated once for credit.

    Course may be repeated for credit for up to 8 units.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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  • ENGL 139 - Visiting Authors

    4 units
    Study of works by contemporary writers participating in the Major Authors series and other programs sponsored by the Center for Literary Arts. Includes meetings with visiting authors and attending their various presentations. Recommended for the Creative Writing Concentration.

    Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
    Grading: Graded


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