COA 09-11 Catalog - Peralta Colleges

132english (ENGL)ENGL 27AThe Bible as Literature: Old Testament3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AAcceptable for credit: CSU, UCClose reading and discussion of the Old Testament:Emphasis on literary forms, philosophical ideas, literarythemes, and symbolism; nonsectarian. 1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3ENGL 27BThe Bible as Literature: New Testament3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AEngl 27A is not prerequisite to Engl 27B.Acceptable for credit: CSU, UCClose reading and discussion of the New Testament andApocrypha: Emphasis on literary forms, philosophicalideas, literary themes, and symbolism; nonsectarian.1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3ENGL 30AIntroduction to American Literature3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AAcceptable for credit: CSU, UCSurvey of American literature: From pre-colonialbeginnings to Walt Whitman. 1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3ENGL 30BIntroduction to American Literature3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AEngl 30A is not prerequisite to Engl 30B.Acceptable for credit: CSU, UCSurvey of American literature: From Americanromanticism to literature of the twentieth century.1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3ENGL 31Survey of African-American Literature3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AAcceptable for credit: CSU, UCMajor works in African-American literature: From theearliest literature through the Harlem Renaissance to thepresent. 1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d, 5; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3ENGL 32AContemporary Women Writers3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AAcceptable for credit: CSU, UCSurvey of contemporary fiction, poetry, andautobiography by women writers: Emphasis on crossculturalperspectives and the works of African, African-American, Asian, Native-American, Hispanic, Jewish,and Northern European women writers. 1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3ENGL 32BContemporary Women Writers3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AEngl 32A is not prerequisite to Engl 32B.Acceptable for credit: CSU, UCContinuation of survey of contemporary fiction, poetry,and autobiography by women writers: Emphasis oncross-cultural perspectives and the works of African,African-American, Asian, Native-American, Hispanic,Jewish, and Northern European women writers. 1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3ENGL 33AIntroduction to Contemporary Literature3 units, 3 hours lecture (GR or P/NP)Prerequisite: Engl 1AAcceptable for credit: CSU, UCStudy of selected literature of the twentieth century:Thematic and stylistic aspects of the individual works;emphasis on European writers to 1970. 1503.00AA/AS area 3, 4d; CSU area C2; IGETC area 3