English
22 courses · Cuesta College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Summer 2026 · Fall 2026
ENGL 101 SUPPORT FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION
- Units
- 1
- Hours
- 1 hours per week: (1.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours/0.00 activity hours)
- Corequisite
- ENGL C1000
Supports and develops the skills necessary to be successful in English C1000. Students will enhance their reading and writing skills through the practice of active reading, critical thinking, drafting, revising, and editing argumentative essays.
ENGL 180 INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours per week: (4.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- Appropriate Placement.
Provides an accelerated alternative to the English 099 and English 156 sequence that focuses on development of reading, writing, and critical thinking skills necessary in college-level composition, with individual attention to paragraph and essay structure, sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation.
ENGL 193 ENGLISH SPECIAL TOPICS
- Units
- 0.5 to 4
- Hours
- 0.5 to 4 hours per week: (0.50 - 4.00 lecture hours/0.00 - 0.00 lab hours)
Examines a special topic in the field of study related to the discipline offering this course.
ENGL 205 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduces students to the formal and stylistic elements of poetry, providing them with a shared vocabulary for recognizing and analyzing different literary forms, and developing their reading, writing, and critical discussion skills by analyzing exemplary texts from a variety of historical periods, genres, and cultures.
ENGL 206 INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1001
- Advisory
- ENGL C1003
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduces the novel, exploring its history, variations, flexibility, and limitations as a literary genre. Students read from a variety of novels--classic to contemporary and from a variety of cultures--in order to study the diversity of novelistic form and content and to discuss the various uses of and critical approaches to the form.
ENGL 212A SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 130
Presents a survey of American literature from the pre-colonial period to the Civil War era. Introduces the study of major American writers against their historical backgrounds. Writers such as Winthrop, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Franklin, Jefferson, Douglass, Stanton, Fern, Melville, Hawthorne, Wheatley, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson are studied.
ENGL 212B SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 2
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours/0.00 activity hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 135
Presents a survey of American literature from the post-Civil War era to the present. Introduces the study of American authors in the context of their historical backgrounds.
ENGL 213 ETHNIC LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduces the study of American literature by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian-American authors, including the application of literary theory and the analysis of core concepts such as racialization, equity, ethno-centrism, intersectionality, and oppression. Examines and emphasizes the shared and developing traditions of writers of color, focusing on themes of resistance, agency, and self-affirmation. Same as ETHN 213.
ENGL 215 SHAKESPEARE
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduces representative works by William Shakespeare, including a selection of sonnets and history, comedy, and tragedy plays from different stages of his career. This course emphasizes Shakespeare's variety and development as an artist and the historical and sociological influences of the Elizabethan/Jacobean era on his creations.
ENGL 216 LITERATURE AND FILM
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduces students to formal methods for analyzing literature and film, providing them with a discipline-specific vocabulary, teaching them a variety of interpretive strategies and theories, and developing their skills in critical thinking during reading/viewing, class discussion, panel presentation, formal exam, and essay activities. Reading and film texts will represent a variety of genres, cultures, historical periods, and theoretical perspectives.
ENGL 217 WOMEN AND GENDER IN LITERATURE
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Presents a survey of literature by women of English-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, with an emphasis on comparing historically oppressed women writers (including African-American and lesbian writers) to those in the mainstream. Writers covered may include Phillis Wheatley, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Anne Sexton, Maya Angelou, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sylvia Plath, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich, and Gloria Anzaldua.
ENGL 231 CREATIVE WRITING
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 200
Provides an introduction to creative writing as a craft and process. Students will write pieces in poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction or drama (screen or stage). Through the study and analysis of works by established, contemporary, and peer authors in the major genres, students will learn to recognize, utilize, and comment on writing techniques. The course will include various workshop formats, exercises, and instructor feedback.
ENGL 237 INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduces the close analysis of films ranging from the era of silent film to contemporary times. By examining the form, content, aesthetics, and meaning of a diverse series of films, students will be able to identify the historical and cultural significance of this art form. Topics include critical analysis of the function of visual design, editing, sound, genre forms, and ideology in a variety of narrative and non-narrative films produced by key filmmakers in cinema history.
ENGL 242 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE FICTION
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours/0.00 activity hours)
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
Introduces students to the literary genre known as science fiction, which can be defined as a speculative, science-based genre of literature, but which can also include elements of fantasy and horror. The course will examine the canonical traditions of the genre as well as the socio-political contexts from which popular science-fiction stories derive. Students will study the history of science fiction as well as prevailing trends in contemporary SF.
ENGL 245A SURVEY OF WORLD LITERATURE 1
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 140
Focuses on a comparative study of selected works, in translation and in English, of literature from around the world, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and other areas, from antiquity to the mid or late seventeenth century; May include such readings as The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, excerpts from the Old Testament, excerpts from the Koran, Lysistrata, Allegory of the Cave, the Aeneid, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the Inferno, the Canterbury Tales, and Don Quixote.
ENGL 245B SURVEY OF WORLD LITERATURE 2
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 145
Focuses on a comparative study of selected works, in translation and in English, of literature from around the world, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, South America, and other areas, from the mid or late seventeenth century to the present. May include readings from Rousseau, Johnson, Swift, the English Romantics, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, Chekhov, Tolstoy, Conrad, Kafka, Hughes, Baldwin, Stevens, Eliot, Woolf, Mishima, Neruda, Borges, Rushdie, Soyinka, and Silko.
ENGL 246A SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE 1
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 160
Presents a survey of British literature from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. Introduces the study of significant British writers and texts against their historical backgrounds. Such writers as Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Barbauld, Queen Elizabeth I, Donne, Milton, Swift, Pope, Montagu, Haywood, Johnson, and Austen will be studied.
ENGL 246B SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE 2
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 165
Presents a survey of major British writers extending from the Romantic Period through the 20th century, focusing on such writers as William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Olaudah Equiano, Mary and Percy Shelley, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Gaskell, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf.
ENGL 247 INDEPENDENT STUDIES: ENGLISH
- Units
- 0.5 to 2
- Hours
- 1.5 to 6 hours per week: (0.00 - 0.00 lecture hours/1.50 - 6.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- The student must have completed preparatory course work in the field in which the study is to be undertaken.
- Transfers to
- CSU
Provides an opportunity for an in-depth study or a practicum experience by an individual student in a selected topic of English under the direction of an instructor.
ENGL C1000 ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours per week: (4.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours/0.00 activity hours)
- Prerequisite
- Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 100
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.
ENGL C1001 CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours per week: (4.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 105
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. This is an advanced composition course that emphasizes critical reading, informal logic, reasoning methods, and information fluency to develop argumentative skills for a diverse range of contexts and audiences.
ENGL C1003 CRITICAL THINKING AND WRITING THROUGH LITERATURE
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours per week: (4.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours/0.00 activity hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 110, ENGL 120
In this course, students receive instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing. Students develop critical thinking, close reading and literary analysis skills, research strategies, information literacy, and knowledge of accurate documentation through the study of diverse literary works from a variety of literary genres, developing an appreciation for literature.