LIT 120: Introduction to Literature

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: F, SP, SU

This course provides a general introduction to literary genres--novel, short story, poetry, and drama--in order to enhance students' skills in analyzing texts and performances with insight and appreciation. Students examine fundamentals of literary analysis (plot, character, symbolism, theme, voice, tone, and figurative language) as well as basic critical principles for making literary judgments while reading texts.

LIT 250: American Literature: First Contact Through the Civil War

Units: 3
Prerequisites: ACE 50, ESL 50, ENGL 50 or eligibility determined by the English placement process.
Advisory: ENGL 100
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: F

This course explores America's major writers and literary movements from first contact through the Civil War. Topics include contact and Native American literature, colonial, revolutionary and New Republic writing, the literature of antebellum reform, and the American Renaissance.

LIT 251: American Literature: Mid-1800s to the Present

Units: 3
Prerequisites: ACE 50, ESL 50, ENGL 50 or eligibility determined by the English placement process.
Advisory: ENGL 100.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: SP

This course explores America's major writers and literary movements from 1870 to the present. Authors studied may include Twain, Chesnut, James, Chopin, Hurston, Wharton, Crane, O'Neill, Cather, Hughes, Hemingway, Ellison, Faulkner, Stevens, Plath, O'Connor, Baldwin, Rich, Ginsberg, Kushner, Viramontes, Parks, Silko and Morrison.

LIT 260: English Literature Through the 18th Century

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: F

This course surveys writers in English literature from the Anglo-Saxon era to the 18th century. It covers works of at least two of the three most influential writers in the language (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton) as well as their historical and cultural backgrounds. Students read plays; epic, religious, romantic, and satiric poetry; ballads; and non-fiction prose, including essays and biography. Eras include medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment.

LIT 261: English Literature: Romantic to Contemporary

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: SP

This course surveys major writers in English literature from the late 18th to the 21st century. It covers some of the best-known poetry, essays, drama, and prose fiction written in modern English as well as the historical and cultural backgrounds of these works. Eras include romantic, Victorian, modern, post-colonial, and postmodern.

LIT 265: Shakespeare Studies

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100.
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with credit in LIT 265H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: F OR SP

This course introduces students to selected works by William Shakespeare with the goal of enhancing their understanding and appreciation of his writing. The course emphasizes not only the intrinsic value of the works themselves but also the historical, intellectual, political, social, and psychological forces that influenced Shakespeare and which are manifested in his extraordinary art.

LIT 265H: Shakespeare Studies (Honors)

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100.
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with credit in LIT 265.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: F OR SP

This course introduces highly motivated students to selected works by William Shakespeare with the goal of enhancing their understanding and appreciation of his writing. The course emphasizes not only the intrinsic value of the works themselves but also the historical, intellectual, political, social, and psychological forces that influenced Shakespeare and which are manifested in his extraordinary art. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for LIT 265 or LIT 265H.

LIT 270: World Literature to 1600

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 100.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: F

This course surveys world literature--including the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas--from the ancient period up to the 1600s. The selected literature will be studied for its expression of the human experience and for its generation of cultural and artistic values.

LIT 271: World Literature Since 1600

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Advisory: ENGL 50, ACE 50, or ESL 50.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: SP

This course surveys world literature--the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Americas--from the 1600s up to the present. Students study the selected literature for its expression of the human experience and for its generation of cultural and artistic values.

LIT 292: Internship Studies

Units: 0.5-3
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: Complete 75 hrs paid or 60 hrs non-paid work per unit.
Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center approval. May not enroll in any combination of cooperative work experience and/or internship studies concurrently.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Course Typically Offered: TBA

This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or intern at a new site upon each repetition. Students may not earn more than 16 units in any combination of cooperative work experience (general or occupational) and/or internship studies during community college attendance.

LIT 296: Topics in Literature

Units: 1-3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Lecture 1 hour.
Lecture 2 hours.
Lecture 3 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: TBA

This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Literature that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule.

LIT 298: Directed Study in Literature

Units: 1-3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Instructor and department chair approval and successful completion of 12 units of college work with at least a 3.0 grade-point average.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Laboratory 3 hours
Laboratory 6 hours
Laboratory 9 hours. (1503.00)
Course Typically Offered: TBA

This course allows students to pursue a special area of interest in order to achieve specific goals beyond the scope of existing courses within the discipline. Students work independently and interact directly with an instructor on an individual basis and as prescribed by the Directed Study Agreement.