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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.

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Academic Level:

Undergraduate

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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Fall 2024

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-2100-1: Weaving Resistance: Storytelling in Text and Textile
Anne Shea
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P1
WRLIT-2100-2: Listen Close: Documentary Theater & the Journalism of Hanging Out
Daniel Hoyle
  • Thu 12:00-03:00PM, Hooper GC - GC7
WRLIT-2100-3: Building Radical Worlds
Hugh Behm-Steinberg
  • Tue 4:00-07:00PM, 80 Carolina - P4

Spring 2024

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-2100-1: Abroad at Home: International Fiction
Juvenal Acosta
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hubbell - 161 C
WRLIT-2100-2: Ocean Stories: Environment in Pacific Poetry and Narratives
Rebekah Bloyd
  • Mon 12:00-03:00PM, Hubbell - 151

Fall 2023

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

Spring 2023

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

Fall 2022

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

Spring 2022

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

Spring 2020

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

Fall 2019

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

Spring 2019

Section Name Meeting Info
WRLIT-210-01: L: Gender in Literature
Dodie Bellamy
  • Wed 7:15-10:15PM, Main Building - 101
WRLIT-210-02: L: Writing the Past
Jasmin Darznik
  • Tue 8:00-11:00AM, Grad Center - GC6

Fall 2018