Recent SemestersSpring 2027, Fall 2026, Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025Class SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteENGL C1000 or ESLW 340 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process. Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionThis course surveys significant works in the English language from Beowulf through the Eighteenth Century. This course requires critical reading and written analysis of poetry, fiction, essays, and plays. Students will also examine the historical and cultural environments in which the literature was created. Other works and writers may include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, John Donne, Renaissance lyric poets, Aphra Behn, and Jonathan Swift.Usually HeldMon Wed 12:00pm–1:20pm 