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British-Themed Courses
UC-Berkeley is a vibrant scholary center whose course offerings
regarding Britain, English literature, British visual culture,
the British Empire, and modern politics are constantly
being revised. Course topics range from the cinema of Alfred
Hitchcock to British integration into the EU.
The following departments routinely offer British-themed
courses. Visit their websites for current listings:
Architecture
http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/courses/index.htm
Celtic Studies
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/celtic/
Comparative Literature http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/complit/
English
http://english.berkeley.edu/
Film Studies
http://filmstudies.berkeley.edu/
History
http://history.berkeley.edu/
History of Art http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/
Political Science
http://www.polisci.berkeley.edu/
Rhetoric
http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/
South and Southeast Asian Studies http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/
Urban Planning
http://www-dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/
Older Course Listings:
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003

Fall
2004 British-Themed Courses
Celtic Studies
R1A, "Irish Women Writers and the Influence of Oral
Tradition";
Staff
16, "Beginning Modern Welsh"; Klar
70, "The World of the Celts"; Melia
105A, "Intro to Old and Middle Irish"; Klar
168/Rel Studies 109, "Celtic Mythology and Oral Tradition";
Rejhon
170, "Modern Celtic Literature in Translation"; Klar

Comparative
Literature
CL 24:1, "Reading and Reciting Great Poems in English";
Tollefson; T, 3-4, 204 Dwinelle
CL 154, "Romantic Visions: The Aesthetics of the Sublime";
Prager; T,R, 11-12:30; 205 Dwinelle

English
Undergraduate
R1A, "Shakespeare's Problem Plays and Romances";
Boyarin; MWF, 1-2; 221 Wheeler
R1A, "Sympathy and the Social Contract"; Greiner; T,R,
12:30-2, 103 Wheeler
R1B, "Evolution and Fiction: Generic, Social, and Personal Adaptation";
Infante; MWF, 3-4, 78 Barrows
R1B, "Wisdom Literature"; Allison; T,R, 8-9:30; 109 Wheeler
24/2 Freshman Seminar: "William Blake's Songs of Innocence
and Experience"; Paley; W, 2-4, 360 Bancroft Library
24/3, Freshman Seminar, "British and American Poetry of the
19th Century"; Otter; W, 4-5; 206 Wheeler
24/4, Freshman Seminar, "Joyce's Dubliners in Joyce's Dubliners";
Tracy; M, 3-5, Residence Unit III
45 A/1 Literature in English:- Through Milton
- Late 17thC-Mid 19th Century
- Mid 19th century-20th Century (Multilple Sections)
100/1, Junior Seminar, "Fabricating 'Englishness'"; Joshi;
MW, 1:30-3; 305 Wheeler
100/14 Junior Seminar, "Three 19th Century British Novels";
T,R, 5-6:30, 109 Wheeler
115B, "The English Renaissance: Literature of the 17th Century";
T,R, 2-3:30; 101 LSA
117A, "Shakespeare"; Koory; T,R, 12:30-2; 22 Warren
117S, "Shakespeare: Selected Plays"; Knapp; T,R, 11-12:30;
50 Birge
118, "Milton"; Kahn; MWF, 1-2; 213 Wheeler
119, "The Augustan Age"; Turner; T,R, 3:30-5; 213 Wheeler
125B, "The English Novel: Dickens Through Conrad"; Wurster;
T,R, 11-12:30
150/2, Senior Seminar, "14th Century Alliterative Traditions";
MW, 10-12; 204 Wheeler
150/9, Senior Seminar, "Byron"; Langan; T,R, 11-12:30;
103 Wheeler
165/2, "Elizabethan Renaissance"; Honig; T,R, 9:30-11;
106 Moffitt
Graduate
217, "Shakespeare"; Knapp; R, 2-5; 225
Dwinelle
246F, "Later 18th Century"; Turner; T,R, 11-12:30; 233
Dwinelle
246K, "Literature in English, 1900-1945"; Cheng; T,R, 12:30-2;
305 Wheeler

History
Undergraduate
11, "History of India";
Irschick; MW, 2-3; 209 Dwinelle
151A, "Modern Britain"; Barnes; TR, 9:30-11; 109 Dwinelle
101.007, "Political Theology in Early Modern Britain";
Greenspan; TR, 12-2; 104 Dwinelle
103C.001, "The Modern Babylon: A Cultural History of London";
Taddeo; M, 12-2; 204 Dwinelle
103C(R).002, "Science and the Victorian Mind"; Varno; W,
12-2; 125 Dwinelle
Graduate
275C.001, "Britain"; Vernon; T, 10-12;
108 Wheeler

History of Art
190D, "Elizabethan Renaissance";
Honig; T,R, 3:30-5; 106 Moffitt

Political Science
219, (Graduate) "Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Politcal
Thought: Politics and Play in Shakespeare's English History";
Stimson; T, 12:30-2; 791 Barrows

S. Asian Studies
R005A, "Great Books: India";
(multiple sections; Staff)

Spring 2004 British-Themed Courses
Art History
192G.1, Undergraduate
Seminar: “British Art--England’s
Renaissance”; Honig; F, 9-12; 308B Doe
262, Graduate Seminar: “European
Art—England’s
Renaissance”; Honig; W, 9-12, 425 Doe

Celtic Studies (Undergraduate)
R1B, “Irish Women Writers and the influence of Oral Tradition,” Staff,
TR, 9:30-11138,
“
Irish Literature, 700-1800”; Melia (no other details available)
146B, “Medieval Welsh Texts of King Arthur and the Holy Grail”;
Rejhon (details tba)
171, “Celtic Romanticism”; Klar (details tba)

Comparative Literature (Undergraduate)
190:1, “James Joyce’s Ulysses and Its Heirs”;
Alter; TR, 11-12:30, 125 Dwinelle
190:2, “The Image of Arthur in the Middle Ages”; Rejhon;
TR, 11-12:30, 129 Barrows

English
Undergraduate
R1A, “Arthur: King of the Britons?: Some Medieval and Modern
Views”; Goetz; TR, 9:30-11; 204 Wheeler
R1B, “Deviance, Homosexuality, and Victorian Literature,” McDermott;
TR, 9:30-11; 72 Evans
17, “Growing Up in Shakespeare’s Plays”; Guenther;
TR, 2-3:30; 2060 Valley LSB
24/2, “Freshman Seminar: Shakespearean Comedy”; Nelson;
W, 12-1PM; 203 Wheeler
45A/1, “Literature in English: Through Milton”; Goodman;
MW, 9-10; 141 McCone
45A/2 “Lit. in English: Through Milton”; Adelman; MW,
10-11; 141 McCone
45B/1 “Literature in English: Late 17th Century Through Mid-19th
Century”; Breitweiser; MW; 11-12, 390 Hearst Mining
45B/2 “Lit. in English: Late 17th thru Mid 19th C”; Elliot;
MW, 3-4PM; 101 Barker
45C/1, “Literature in English: Mid 19th Century Through 20th
Century”; Cheng; MW; 12-1; 60 Evans
45C/2 “Lit. in English: Mid 19th-20th C”; Rubenstein;
MW, 3-4; 141 McCone
100/10, “Junior Seminar: Poetry, Autobiography, and Contemporary
Indian Literature in English”; Dutton-Roy; TR, 2-3:30; 204
Wheeler
105, “Anglo-Saxon England”; Niles; TR, 8-9:30 AM; 30
Wheeler
112, “Middle English Literature”; Justice; TR, 9:30-11;
110 Wheeler
117, “Shakespeare”; Altieri; MW; 1-2; 50 Birge
118, “Milton”; Turner; MW, 10-12
121, “The Romantic Period”; Langan; MWF, 1-2; 170 Barrows
125A, “The English Novel”; Starr; MWF, 12-1PM; 141 McCone
136, “Worlding the Asia Pacific” (cross-listed as American
Studies C111E); Lye; TR, 3:30-5; 4 LeConte
150/1, “Senior Seminar: Post-Colonial Writing”; Rubenstein;
MW, 10-12; 103 Wheeler
150/6, “Senior Seminar: Shakespeare’s Versification”;
Hanson; MW, 4-5:30; 103 Wheeler
150/9, “Senior Seminar: Ulysses and the Epic in Modernity”;
Attell; MW, 12-1:30; 305 Wheeler
150/10, “Senior Seminar: Darwin and Culture”; Duncan;
TR, 11-12:30; 204 Wheeler
150/11, “Senior Seminar: Anti-Jewish Diatribe in Medieval England”;
Miller; TR, 12:30-2PM; 103 Wheeler
166/2 “Special Topics: Gothic”; Duncan; TR, 2-3:30; 88
Dwinelle
178, “British and American Folklore”; Niles; TR, 11-12:30;
220 Wheeler
Graduate
211, “Chaucer”; Middleton;
TR, 9:30-11; 108 Wheeler
246C, “Graduate Pro-Seminar: English Renaissance Literature
Survey”; Hutson; T, 2-5PM; 225 Wheeler
246E, “Restoration and the Early 18th Century:’ Turner;
MW, 1:30-3; 305 Wheeler
250/1, “Pound and Stevens”; Bernstein; M, 2-5PM; 108
Wheeler
250/3, “Reading and Translating Beowulf”; Howe; R, 3:30-6:30
PM; 205 Wheeler

History
Undergraduate
11, “History of India”; Irschick;
MW, 2-3PM; 223 Dwinelle
151B, “Britain, 1660-1851”; Lin; MWF, 12-1PM; 182
Dwinelle
152A, “Modern Ireland”; Brady; MWF, 10-11; 110
Barrows
152, “The British Empire and Commonwealth”; Karras;
TR, 11-12:30; 20 Barrows
101.007, “Islands, Colonies, and Empire: Britain and America,
1570-1780”; Knapp; MW, 12-2 PM
101.008, “Sexual Anarchy in Fin de Siecle Britain and Europe”;
Taddeo; MW, 10-12, Rm tba
Graduate
280C.002, “Gender and History in 19th Century Britain”;
Taddeo, M, 12-2, Room tba
280F001, “The Post-Colonial Moment: The Americas, Asia, Africa,
Europe”; Irschick; T, 2-4PM, Room tba

Political Science (Undergraduate)
113A, “American Political Theory: From the European Discovery
to the U.S. Constitution”; Jacobson; TR, 9:30-11; 110 Barrows
140D, “Selected Topics in Comparative Politics: Democratic
and Non-Democratic Ideologies”; Ziegler; TR, 2-3:30; 182 Dwinelle

South & Southeast Asian Studies (Undergraduate)
R5B,
Sec 1, “India in the Writer’s Eye” (5 sections)
108, Sec 1, “Psychology and Traditional India”; Goldman;
11-12; 262 Dwinelle
R5B, Sec 1, “Under Western Eyes”; Tiwon; 9:30-11; 79
Dwinelle

British Themed Courses for Fall 2003
History Department
Undergraduate
24.001: The Gathering Storm: Winston Churchill,
Britain, and Nazi Germany on the Road to World War II (Clemens)
W, 10-12
103C-001: Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Britain
(Taddeo) M, 12-2
103D (R): Riot, Population and Popular Sovereignty: Politics
and Political Culture
in early Modern Britain and America (Knapp)
150A: Medieval England: The Anglo-Saxon Period (Dohar) T, Th
12:30-2
151C: Britain 1848-1997 (Vernon), TT 12:30-
Graduate
280C.001 Governmentality and History (Vernon) T, 10-12

English
Department
Undergraduate
R1A, Sec 4: Arthur, King of the
Britons? (Goetz) MWF, 12-1
R1A, Sec 7: Critics of Modernity: The British Tradition (Allison),
MWF, 3-4
R1A, Sec 8: Which Century is It? (Vranjes) TTh, 8-9:30
R1A, Sec 10: George Orwell (Lewis) T,Th, 9:30-11
R1B, Sec 11: Tracing Orientalism, Past and Present (Rangarajan)
TTh, 2-3:30
24/5: Contemporary Irish Theater: The Plays of Brian Friel
(Tracy) M, 3-5
24/6: Reading Medieval English (Justice), W, 3-4
45A/1: Literature in English: Through Milton (Miller) MW,
1-2
45A/2: Literature in English: Through Milton (Howe) MW, 3-4
45B/1: Literature in English: Late 17th through Mid 19th
Century (Duncan)
MW, 9-10
45B/2: Literature in English: Late 17th through Mid 19th
Century (Puckett)
MW, 2-3
45C/1: Literature in English: Mid 19th through the 20th Century
(Bishop)
MW, 11-12
45C/2: Literature in English: Mid 19th through the 20th Century
(Altieri)
MW, 3-4
100/10: Irish Writing in English 1900-1945 (Rubenstein) TTh,
11-12:30
100/12: Graham Greene (Breitwieser) TTh, 12:30-2
114B: English Drama from 1603 to 1700 (Altman) TTh, 11-12:30
115A: The English Renaissance: Literature of the 16th Century
(Kroeber)
TTh, 2-3:30
117A: Shakespeare (Hutson) TTh, 12:30-2
117J: Shakespeare (Booth) TTh, 5-6:30
117S: Shakespeare: Selected Plays (Knapp) TTh, 11-12:30
119: The Augustan Age (Turner) TTh, 11-12:30
125B: The English Novel: Dickens Through Conrad (Jaffe) TTh,
9:30-11
150/7: John Milton (Goodman) TTh, (9:30-11)
150/13: The Brontes (Elliott) TTh, 2-3:30
Graduate
205A: Old English (Howe), MW, 12-2
218: Milton (Kahn) W, 3-6
250/1: The Epistemology of Modernism (Banfield) M, 3-6
250/2: Walter Scott (Duncan) M, 3-6
250/4: Writing Theology in England c.1375-c.1420 (Justice) T,
3:30-6:30
250/5: Jane Austen and the Theory of the Novel (Miller) W, 3-6

Political Science Department
147B: Western
European Politics (Levy) TTh, 11-12:30 (Undergraduate)
219: Symposium in Political Thought (Stimson) (Graduate)

Comparative Literature (Undergraduate)
40,
#17269: From Automatons and Aesthetes to Autonomy: The
Fin-de-Siecle in Theme and Form (Stenport) TTh, 12:30-2
24:1 #17266: Reading and Reciting Great Poems in English
(Tollefson) T, 3-4
41B #17275: Formal Explosions in the Lyric (Adler-Peckerar)
TTh, 11-12:30
170:3 #17317: Reading Between Cultures (Ram) MWF, 2-3

Rhetoric
Department (Graduate)
240G, Sec 5: Rhetorical Theory:
Postcoloniality and it Critical Tools (Trinh)

Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies (Undergraduate)
R5A,
Sec 1: Self, Representation and Nation (Tiwon) TTh. 11-12:30
120, Sec 4: Reading Between Cultures (Ram) MWF, 2-3

Women’s Studies (Undergraduate)
English
125: The English Novel: Dickens Through Conrad (Marcus)
TTh, 9:30-11
English 150.10: Victorian Literature and Gender
and Sexuality (Marcus) TTh, 12:30-2

Celtic Studies (Undergraduate)
R1B: Irish
Women Writers and the Influence of Oral Tradition (Fulmer)
MWF, 9-10
15: Elementary Modern Irish (O’Hara) MWF, 1-2
70: The World of the Celts (Klar) MWF, 10-11
129: Modern Celtic Cultures and Folklore (Klar) MWF, 12-1
146A: Medieval Welsh language and Literature (Rejhon) TTh, 3:30-5

British Themed Courses for Spring 2003
History Department
Undergraduate
004B: Medieval Europe (Heindl) MWF, 10-11AM
005: Europe Since 1492 (Adamthwaite), TR 12:30-2PM
011: History of India (Irchick), MW, 2-3PM
024: The Gathering Storm: Winston Churchill, Britain, & Nazi
Germany on the Road to WWII (Clemens) T, 10AM-12PM
151B: History of Britain (Laqueur), TR 9:30-11AM
153: The British Empire and Commonwealth (Metcalf), TR, 2-3:30PM
101.007: Women, men, Gender & the Family in Britain, 1500-1800
(Harris) MW, 10AM-12PM
Graduate
280C.001: England (Laqueur), W 12-2PM
285L.001: English Legal History (Barnes) R, 2-4PM
280U.001: Constructing Colonial Societies (Metcalf) W, 2-4PM

English Department
Undergraduate
100/2 Junior Seminar: Introduction to Post-Colonial
Literature and Theory (Mohamed), MW 10AM-12Pm
100/4 Junior Seminar: British Fiction After World War II
(Breitwieser) TR, 9:30-11AM
100/7 Junior Seminar: Implicit Tragedy and Potential Comedy:
The Shifting Borer Between Shakespearean Comedy and Drama (Koory)
TR 11AM-12:30PM
111: Topics in the English Language: Chaucer (Nelson) MWF,
11AM-12PM
114A: English Drama to 1603 (Miller), MWF 2-3PM
117B Shakespeare: becoming Shakespeare-Twelfth Night to The
Tempest (Altman), TR 2-3:30PM
118: Milton (Goodman) MW, 12-2PM
121: The Romantic Period (Langan) TR, 2-3:30PM
122: The Victorian Period (Elliott), TR, 12:30-2PM
150/3 Senior Seminar: James Joyce (Bishop) MW, 12-2PM
150/4 Senior Seminar: Eliot, Thackeray, and the Forms of
Convention (Puckett), MW, 2-4PM
150/7 Senior Seminar: Writing Britain 1760-1815 (Hurley)
TR, 9:30-11AM
150/8 Senior Seminar: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
(Banfield), TR 11AM-12:30PM
150/14 Senior Seminar: 19th Century Literary Siblings (Elliot)
TR, 3:30-5PM
150/16: Senior Seminar: Samuel Beckett: Studies in Form & Medium
(Popov) TR, 5-7PM
Graduate
203/1: Graduate Readings: Renaissance Drama (Knapp)
MW, 1:30-3PM
212: Readings in Middle English (Justice) TR, 12:30-2PM
246F: Graduate Pro-Seminar: Later 18th century (Goodman)
TR, 11AM-12:30PM
246G: Graduate Pro-Seminar: Romantic Period (Goldsmith),
MW 9-10:30AM

Celtic Studies
Undergraduate
R1A: British-American war Poetry (Klar)
R1B: Irish Women Writers and the Influence of Oral Tradition
(Fulmer)
105B: Readings in Old and Middle Irish (Melia)
128: Medieval Celtic Culture (Rejhon)
139: Irish Literature from 1800-Present (McPeake)

Dramatic Arts
Undergraduate
Theater 126 (2): Performance & Literature:
Reading and Performing Medieval Drama
(Whitta), MW 2-3:30PM

Anthropology
Undergraduate
230-2: Special Topics: The Archaeology of Colonialism
(Lightfoot), T, 2-4PM

Political Science
Graduate
217: Political Economy and the Science of Politics (Stimson)
210: The politics of Institutional Change in Europe (Ziegler)

Comparative Literature
Undergraduate
152 (Dramatic Art 126:2): Reading and Performing
Medieval Drama (Whitta) MW
2-3:30PM
170:2: The Modern Masterpiece as a Genre and a Goal (Bernstein)
TR, 3:30-5PM
Graduate
223: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Lyric and Modernity
(Francois) T, 3-6PM
225: Ideological Fantasy at the Fin-de-Siecle (Spackman)
R, 3-6PM
240: Reading Walter Benjamin (Sas) M, 3-6PM
Art History
Undergraduate
190C: Late Medieval/early Renaissance
Art & Architecture (Timmerman)
TR,
9:30-11AM

Architecture
Undergraduate
179: South Asia from 1850 to Present:
Colonial Architecture & Post-Independent
Visions
(Bhatt)
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