# English (ENGL) courses

Berkeley City College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 45 courses

Source: https://bcc.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/39665/39964/39682

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### ENGL 10A — Creative Writing I

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **C-ID:** ENGL 200
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 3;

Writing fiction, poetry, and drama: Careful analysis of the techniques used by established writers.

### ENGL 10B — Creative Writing II

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 3;

Continuation of writing fiction, poetry, and drama: Careful analysis of techniques used by established writers.

### ENGL 17A — Shakespeare

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Study of selected works of Shakespeare.

### ENGL 17B — Shakespeare

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Continued study of selected works of Shakespeare. ENGL 17A is not prerequisite to ENGL 17B.

### ENGL 20 — Introduction to Dramatic Literature

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Survey of history and literature of the theater focusing on major theatrical periods: Classical, Elizabethan, Restoration and twentieth century.

### ENGL 23 — Contemporary Queer Literature

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Introduction to literature written by queer (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or gender non-conforming) writers: "Queerness" expressed in literature from 1945 to the present; literary analysis, including queer theory; gender and sexual identity, homophobia/transphobia, multiculturalism, and interpersonal relationships.

### ENGL 44B — Masterpieces of World Literature

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Study of selected masterpieces of world literature, in translation and in English, from the late 17th century to the present.

### ENGL 47 — Children’s Literature

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **C-ID:** ENGL 180
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Introduction to children’s literature: Fairy tales and tale types; interpretation of children’s literature from the perspectives of children, teachers and parents; study of books by authors such as Brown, Dahl, Juster, Rowling, Sendak, Soto and others.

### ENGL 49 — Independent Study in English

- **Units:** .5-5
- **Hours:** .5 - 5 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

In-depth exploration of an area or problem of the student's choice not covered by regular catalog offerings in English. Student must obtain approval from an appropriate faculty member. For more details, see the section on independent study in the college catalog.

### ENGL 50 — Multicultural American Literature

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Multicultural American Literature: African-American, Asian-American, Latino/Chicano, Native American, and other literatures; relevant history and cultural development; influence of the dominant culture on minority experiences; multiple genres, including oral tradition, poetry, memoirs, short stories, and novels.

### ENGL 70A — Transforming Autobiography into Creative Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Autobiographical writing techniques: Transforming personal experience into autobiographical scenes, sketches, short poems, and short stories, as well as memoirs, anecdotes, histories, memory poems, tall tales, and yarns.

### ENGL 70B — Transforming Autobiography into Creative Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Autobiographical writing techniques: Transforming reminiscences, sketches, and vignettes into autobiographical free verse, adventures tales, and novellas. ENGL 70A is not a prerequisite to ENGL 70B.

### ENGL 71A — Introduction to Fiction Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Introduction to fiction writing techniques: Overcoming writing fears; introduction to description, characterization, dialogue, plotting, avoiding cliches, and showing vs. telling.

### ENGL 72A — Intermediate Fiction Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 071A
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Intermediate fiction writing: Refining description techniques, major and minor characters, dialect, interior monologue, plot design and revising first drafts.

### ENGL 73A — Intensive Fiction Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 072A
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

For experienced fiction writers: Developing root material; structuring ideas; using characterization and dialogue to plot; working on first, second and third drafts; and giving and receiving feedback.

### ENGL 74 — Fiction: Special Projects

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 073A
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Advanced fiction writing: Developing project ideas and themes, peer review techniques, maintaining pace and discipline, chapter and scene linkages, revision to sustain tone, book proposals, and copyright law.

### ENGL 85A — Literature in English Through Milton

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 4 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **C-ID:** ENGL 150
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Introduction to English literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Study of major works by Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton as well as their contemporaries, such as Donne and Marlowe.

### ENGL 85B — Literature in English: Late 17th through Mid-19th Century

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 4 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **C-ID:** ENGL 152
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Introduction to English literature of the late seventeenth through mid-nineteenth century: Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Bronte, Dickens, Austen, Whitman, and selected others. ENGL 85A is not a prerequisite to ENGL 85B.

### ENGL 85C — Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 4 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **C-ID:** ENGL 155
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

Introduction to English literature of the mid-nineteenth through twentieth century: Wilde, Shaw, James, Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner, Eliot, Hurston, and selected others. ENGL 85A and 85B are not prerequisites to ENGL 85C.

### ENGL 86 — Introduction to Playwriting and Screenwriting

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Introduction to playwriting and screenwriting: Introduction to films & theater, formatting of screenplays and plays, direction, study of techniques, rehearsal, and critique.

### ENGL 87 — Intermediate Playwriting and Screenwriting

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 086
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Intermediate playwriting and screenwriting: Plays and film scenes; play and screenplay structure; intermediate direction, rehearsal, and critique; further study of techniques.

### ENGL 88 — Intensive Playwriting and Screenwriting

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 087
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Intensive playwriting and screenwriting: Critique and revision of multiple drafts, three-stage method of giving and receiving criticism, intensive study of techniques.

### ENGL 89 — Playwriting and Screenwriting: Special Projects

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 088
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Advanced Playwriting and Screenwriting: Completion of a play or screenplay in an advanced condition with first draft completed; editing, discussion of collaboration, critiquing, copywriting, and promotion

### ENGL 91A — Introduction to Poetry Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 1AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Introduction to writing poetry: Writing process and revision; introduction to simile, metaphor, diction, line, image; readings and critical response to earlier and contemporary poetry, and to student work; overcoming writing fears.

### ENGL 92A — Intermediate Poetry Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 091A
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Intermediate poetry writing: Overcoming writing blocks, refining simile, extended metaphor, complex imagery, sonnets, villanelles, haiku, and free verse.

### ENGL 93A — Intensive Poetry Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 092A
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Intensive Poetry Writing: Reviewing meter, iambs, anapests, dactyls; extended imagery, linguistics and poetry, sestinas, and collage poetry.

### ENGL 94 — Poetry: Special Projects

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL 093A
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Special projects in poetry: Developing a poetry series or book-length manuscript, peer review techniques, maintaining a writing pace and discipline, revision to sustain tone, book proposals, and copyright law.

### ENGL 99 — Development and Publication of Full-Length Manuscript

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Advisory:** ENGL 010A
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Creation of book, anthology, zine, or journal: Conceptualization and mission statement; selecting, sequencing and editing work; exploring publication platforms; selecting and incorporating artwork; publicizing, distributing, and fundraising; development of portfolio of creative writing. Capstone course for writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or playwriting/screenwriting.

### ENGL 130 — Introduction to English Syntax and Grammar

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL 001AS or ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Survey of present-day English syntax and grammar as informed by contemporary linguistic theories: The major syntactic structures of English; integration of the sentence into its logical and rhetorical contexts; review of traditional grammar and usage; applications to pedagogical practices.

### ENGL 208A — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control and essay organization.

### ENGL 208B — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Advisory:** ENGL 208A
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control, essay organization, and idea development.

### ENGL 208C — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Advisory:** ENGL 208B
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control, essay organization, idea development, and sentence structure.

### ENGL 208D — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 1
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Advisory:** ENGL 208C
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control, essay organization, idea development, sentence structure, and editing/proofreading.

### ENGL 217A — Shakespeare

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Peralta GE Areas 3;

Study of selected works of Shakespeare.

### ENGL 501 — Supervised Tutoring in Composition and Reading

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 1 - 15 hours lab
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Supervised tutoring in English: Tutoring either individually or in small groups, to assist students in increasing their success in composition and reading for college courses.

### ENGL 508A — Academic Composition Skills: Prewriting and Organization

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 1 - 15 hours lab
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 6 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Individualized instruction in academic composition: Prewriting and essay organization.

### ENGL 508B — Academic Composition Skills: Paragraph Development, Analysis, & Research

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 1 - 15 hours lab
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 6 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Individualized instruction in academic composition: Paragraph Development, Analysis, and Research.

### ENGL 508C — Academic Composition Skills: Sentence Structure and Proofreading

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 1 - 15 hours lab
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 6 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)

Individualized instruction in academic composition: Sentence structure and proofreading.

### ENGL 518A — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control and essay organization.

### ENGL 518B — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control, essay organization, and idea development.

### ENGL 518C — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control, essay organization, idea development, and sentence structure.

### ENGL 518D — Writing Workshop

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** .5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours lab
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Individualized instruction in writing: Thesis control, essay organization, idea development, sentence structure, and editing/proofreading.

### ENGL C1000 — Academic Reading and Writing

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 4 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process
- **C-ID:** ENGL 100
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 23 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Peralta GE Areas 1A; Cal-GETC Area 1A;

In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research. Formerly ENGL 001A.

### ENGL C1001 — Critical Thinking and Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 3 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** College-level composition (ENGL C1000/ ENGL C1000H/ ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent.
- **C-ID:** ENGL 105
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 7 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Other: Equivalent courses: ENGL 001A or ENGL 001AS
- Peralta GE Areas 1A, 1B; Cal-GETC Area 1B;

In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 College Reading and Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. Formerly ENGL 005.

### ENGL C1002 — Introduction to Literature

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 4 hours lecture
- **Prerequisite:** Successful completion of college-level composition (ENGL C1000/ENGL C1000H/ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent.
- **C-ID:** ENGL 120
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/berkeley-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md)
- Other: Equivalent courses: ENGL 1A or ENGL 1AS
- Peralta GE Areas 1A, 3; Cal-GETC Area 3B;

In this course, students are introduced to works by diverse authors and major literary genres, developing close reading and analytical writing skills. Students also develop appreciation for and critical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature. Formerly ENGL 1B.