This is a link to a course syllabus for English 104A, American Literature from 1900 to present. Designed by Professor Yunte Huang, this course is a survey of twentieth-century American literature with emphases on pluralism, bilingualism, migration, translation, media, and avant-gardism. It presents a picture of American literature rooted in the translocal and translingual, a literature that is not confined to national, cultural, or linguistic boundaries.
This is a sample Writing 2 Syllabus, designed and taught by Eric Martinsen. Writing 2 is the only course required of all undergraduates at UCSB. It not only provides students with a fundamental understanding of academic writing but also helps them with their reading and critical thinking skills. The course addresses the differences in reading, writing, and critical thinking among the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. This year, Writing 2 classes will be using a new textbook, Writing About the World, edited by Susan McLeod, John Jarvis and Shelley Spear. This book provides a wealth of primary source material while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of multiple perspectives as well as racial and cultural diversity. Eric Martinsen’s unit on “Indigenous Identity in Film” is an example of how issues of race can be integrated into a Writing 2 course.
Although these terms are often used as though they signified clear and well-bounded meanings, both words have complex histories and implications that are frequently only discernable once one considers the contexts in which they are used. For the purposes of this site, we offer the following definitions: (Read the article)
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