WRLIT-2100 (Course Details)

WRLIT-2100: Literature: Modern Topics

Course Description

Modern Topics courses are designed for Writing and Literature Majors and Minors and are focused on the critical investigation of a specific modern topic, movement, style, or tradition of literary and performative production, typically after the year 1900. Students will read and write critically on these topics, including multi-modal responses, and will position the texts within a socio-historical context.

In subject:

Writing and Literature

Academic Level:

Undergraduate

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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Sections:

Spring 2025

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: Literature: Modern Topics: Black Feminist Eco-Stories Faith Adiele	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P3	Faith Adiele
WRLIT-2100-2: Literature: Modern Topics: Film and Fiction: Abroad @ Home Juvenal Acosta	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC3	Juvenal Acosta

Fall 2024

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: Weaving Resistance: Storytelling in Text and Textile Anne Shea	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P1	Anne Shea
WRLIT-2100-2: Listen Close: Documentary Theater & the Journalism of Hanging Out Daniel Hoyle	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - E2	Daniel Hoyle
WRLIT-2100-3: Building Radical Worlds Hugh Behm-Steinberg	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P4	Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Spring 2024

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: Abroad at Home: International Fiction Juvenal Acosta	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hubbell - 161 C	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-2: Ocean Stories: Environment in Pacific Poetry and Narratives Rebekah Bloyd	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hubbell - 151	Rebekah Bloyd

Fall 2023

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: Eating Words: The Literature + Film of Food Faith Adiele	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P2	Faith Adiele
WRLIT-2100-2: Fiction and Film: Asian Dreams and Nightmares Juvenal Acosta	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P1	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-3: Weaving Resistance: Storytelling in Text and Textile Anne Shea	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC3	Anne Shea
WRLIT-2100-4: Literature: Modern Topics - Building Radical Worlds Hugh Behm-Steinberg	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC1	Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Spring 2023

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: Tiny Books: The Novela Tom Barbash	San Francisco	Mon 7:15-10:15PM, Hooper GC - GC3	Tom Barbash
WRLIT-2100-4: Modern International Novel Gloria Frym	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - E1	Gloria Frym
WRLIT-2100-5: To Have & Have Not: Social Class in Literature Gloria Frym	San Francisco	Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Hooper GC - GC2	Gloria Frym
WRLIT-2100-6: Coming of Age Around the World Faith Adiele	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 102 A	Faith Adiele
WRLIT-2100-7: Asian American Literature Julie Thi Underhill	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, 80 Carolina - P4	Julie Thi Underhill

Fall 2022

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-3: Ocean Stories: Environment in Pacific Poetry and Narratives Rebekah Bloyd	San Francisco	Fri 4:00-07:00PM, Main Bldg - E1	Rebekah Bloyd
WRLIT-2100-4: The Future is Now! Reading Science Fiction Hugh Behm-Steinberg	San Francisco	Tue 4:00-07:00PM, Hubbell - 151	Hugh Behm-Steinberg
WRLIT-2100-6: Reading and Writing Children's Literature Aimee Phan	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 103	Aimee Phan

Spring 2022

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-3: Race and Performance Devorah Major	San Francisco	Wed 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - N13	Devorah Major
WRLIT-2100-4: The Short Story in Fiction and Film Tom Barbash	San Francisco	Thu 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 140	Tom Barbash
WRLIT-2100-7: Film and Fiction: Asian Dreams and Nightmares Juvenal Acosta	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - E4	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-8: Literature of San Francisco Jasmin Darznik	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103	Jasmin Darznik

Fall 2021

Section Name	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: Fiction and Film: Found in Translation Juvenal Acosta	Thu 11:00AM-12:30PM, Online - HS-2	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-2: Literature: The Art of Witness Jasmin Darznik	Tue 8:00-09:30AM, Online - HS-1	Jasmin Darznik
WRLIT-2100-3: Pacific Pages Rebekah Bloyd	Mon 11:00AM-12:30PM, Online - HS-2	Rebekah Bloyd
WRLIT-2100-4: Postmodern American Poetry Joseph Lease	Thu 8:00-09:30PM, Online - HS-1	Joseph Lease
WRLIT-2100-5: Tiny Books: The Novella and the Short Novel Tom Barbash	Thu 8:00-09:30PM, Online - HS-5	Tom Barbash
WRLIT-2100-6: Reading and Writing Children's Literature Aimee Phan	Mon 11:00AM-12:30PM, Online - HS-6	Aimee Phan

Spring 2021

Section Name	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: Digital Graffiti Faith Adiele	Tue 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-2	Faith Adiele
WRLIT-2100-4: The Short Story in Fiction and Film Tom Barbash	Tue 9:30-10:55AM, Online - HS-3	Tom Barbash
WRLIT-2100-5: Pacific Pages Rebekah Bloyd	Tue 6:30-07:55PM, Online - HS-6	Rebekah Bloyd
WRLIT-2100-7: Film and Fiction: Asian Dreams and Nightmares Juvenal Acosta	Wed 5:00-06:25PM, Online - HS-2	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-8: Literature of San Francisco Jasmin Darznik	Tue 8:00-09:25AM, Online - HS-2	Jasmin Darznik

Fall 2020

Section Name	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-11: Fiction and Film: Found in Translation Juvenal Acosta	Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Online - HS-1	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-12: Literature: Confluence in the Arts Ishmael Reed	Fri 8:00-11:00AM, Online - HS-1	Ishmael Reed
WRLIT-2100-13: Literature: The Art of Witness Jasmin Darznik	Wed 8:00-11:00AM, Online - HS-2	Jasmin Darznik
WRLIT-2100-14: Pacific Pages Rebekah Bloyd	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Online - HS-2	Rebekah Bloyd
WRLIT-2100-16: Strange Fictions Juvenal Acosta	Tue 12:00-03:00PM, Online - HS-4	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-17: Graphic Novel Matt Silady	Fri 12:00-03:00PM, Online - HS-1	Matt Silady
WRLIT-2100-18: To Have & Have Not: Social Class in Literature Gloria Frym	Wed 4:00-07:00PM, Online - HS-2	Gloria Frym
WRLIT-2100-19: Music and Literature Steve Dickison	Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Online - HS-2	Steve Dickison
WRLIT-2100-20: The First Person Tom Barbash	Mon 4:00-07:00PM, Online - HS-2	Tom Barbash

Spring 2020

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-12: L: Gender in Literature Dodie Bellamy	San Francisco	Wed 7:15-10:15PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101	Dodie Bellamy
WRLIT-2100-13: L: Children's Literature Aimee Phan	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 141	Aimee Phan
WRLIT-2100-15: L: Postmodern American Poetry Joseph Lease	Oakland	Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B5	Joseph Lease
WRLIT-2100-16: L: Contemp. British Authors Tom Barbash	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2	Tom Barbash
WRLIT-2100-19: L: Travel Writing Faith Adiele	Oakland	Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B3	Faith Adiele
WRLIT-2100-20: L: Playing at the Ready: Modern Plays Tonya Foster	San Francisco	Mon 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101	Tonya Foster
WRLIT-2100-21: L: Pacific Pages Rebekah Bloyd	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4	Rebekah Bloyd
WRLIT-2100-22: L: 20th Century American Literature Judith Serin	San Francisco	Fri 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101	Judith Serin

Fall 2019

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-2100-1: L: Three Poets: Langston Hughes, Pablo Neruda, and Adrienne Rich Judith Serin	San Francisco	Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 101	Judith Serin
WRLIT-2100-3: L: Mad Girls, Bad Girls Donna de la Perriere	Oakland	Thu 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B2	Donna de la Perriere
WRLIT-2100-4: L: Music and Literature Steve Dickison	San Francisco	Wed 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7	Steve Dickison
WRLIT-2100-5: L: Megacities of the Americas in Word, Song, and Image—1930 to 1980 Tonya Foster	San Francisco	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC7	Tonya Foster
WRLIT-2100-6: L: The First Person Tom Barbash	San Francisco	Mon 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC2	Tom Barbash
WRLIT-2100-9: L: Strange Fictions Juvenal Acosta	Oakland	Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B3	Juvenal Acosta
WRLIT-2100-10: L: Food Literature Faith Adiele	Oakland	Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Oakland - B Building - B2	Faith Adiele
WRLIT-2100-11: L: Graphic Novel Matt Silady	San Francisco	Fri 12:00-03:00PM, San Francisco - Main Building - 103	Matt Silady
WRLIT-2100-12: L: Young Adult Literature Aimee Phan	Oakland	Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Oakland - B Building - B3	Aimee Phan
WRLIT-2100-13: To Have & Have Not: Social Class in Literature Gloria Frym	San Francisco	Wed 4:00-07:00PM, San Francisco - Grad Center - GC4	Gloria Frym

Spring 2019

Section Name	SF/Oak	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-210-01: L: Gender in Literature Dodie Bellamy	San Francisco	Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Main Building - 101	Dodie Bellamy
WRLIT-210-02: L: Writing the Past Jasmin Darznik	San Francisco	Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC6	Jasmin Darznik

Fall 2018

Section Name	Meeting Info	Instructor(s)
WRLIT-210-01: L: Modern Literature Judith Serin	Mon 4:00-07:00PM	Judith Serin
WRLIT-210-02: Contemp Middle Eastern Lit Anita Amirrezvani	Tue 4:00-07:00PM	Anita Amirrezvani
WRLIT-210-03: L: Mad Girls, Bad Girls Donna de la Perriere	Thu 7:15-10:15PM	Donna de la Perriere