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  "college": "berkeley-city-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "English",
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  "name": "English Literature/Writing",
  "award": "A.A. Degree",
  "department": "english",
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      "markdown": "##### Program Description\n\nThe Berkeley City College A.A. in English Literature/Writing serves students with diverse goals, including development of strong skills in creative and/or expository writing. This degree prepares students for transfer, leading to careers in education, editing, advertising, business, and all fields in which strong writing and analytical skills are valued.\n\n**\n\n##### Career Opportunities\n\n**\n\nN/A\n\n**\n\n##### Learning Outcome(s)\n\n**\n\n1.  write well organized, well developed, effective, well edited, logically sound, and clear essays\n2.  apply active reading strategies in order to identify main ideas and critically analyze and explain ideas in texts\n3.  apply writing strategies in a variety of genres, considering audience, context, purpose, and genre-specific conventions"
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          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Required Courses",
          "units": "7-8"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C1000",
          "title": "Academic Reading and Writing",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select one course for the following list:",
          "units": "3-4"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C1002",
          "title": "Introduction to Literature",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 20",
          "title": "Introduction to Dramatic Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 23",
          "title": "Contemporary Queer Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 44B",
          "title": "Masterpieces of World Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 50",
          "title": "Multicultural American Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select 2 Literature Electives from the following list:",
          "units": "6-8"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 17A",
          "title": "Shakespeare",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 17B",
          "title": "Shakespeare",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 47",
          "title": "Children’s Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 85A",
          "title": "Literature in English Through Milton",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 85B",
          "title": "Literature in English: Late 17th through Mid-19th Century",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 85C",
          "title": "Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "or any of the following if not taken as a required course:",
          "units": "9"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 23",
          "title": "Contemporary Queer Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 44B",
          "title": "Masterpieces of World Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 50",
          "title": "Multicultural American Literature",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select 2 Writing Electives from the following list:",
          "units": "6"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C1001",
          "title": "Critical Thinking and Writing",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 10A",
          "title": "Creative Writing I",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 70A",
          "title": "Transforming Autobiography into Creative Writing",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 71A",
          "title": "Introduction to Fiction Writing",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 86",
          "title": "Introduction to Playwriting and Screenwriting",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL 91A",
          "title": "Introduction to Poetry Writing",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
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