Graduate Courses
Spring 2026
CHIN 211B: Seminar: Classical Chinese Poetry
Lecture: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor: Mai, H.
Course description: Seminar, three hours. Preparation: reading knowledge of literary Chinese. Topics rotate among major textual traditions and chronological periods. Emphasis on philological, critical, and historical approaches. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Letter grading.
ENGL 246: Renaissance Literature
Lecture: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor: Fuchs, B.
Course description: Seminar, four hours. Studies in poetry and prose of Renaissance English literature, exclusive of Shakespeare; limits of investigation set by individual instructor. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
CMRS-CEGS Graduate Research Seminar
ENGL 247: England/Beyond England
Lecture: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor: Fuchs, Barbara
Course description: From our current post-Brexit moment, we will explore how the early modern English canon takes shape in relation to other languages and literatures. How does the sense of England’s distinctiveness then and now determine the boundaries of what is English? What is the connection between literary imitatio and broader forms of cultural imitation or imperial emulation? Focusing on problems of vernacularity, translation, and empire, this course examines early modern English texts in a series of overlapping contexts, and considers how models for literary study beyond the nation (oceanic, archipelagic, transnational) serve the early modern period.
GREEK 210: Advanced Greek Prose Composition
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor: Blank, D.L.
Course description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 110. S/U or letter grading.
I E STD 215: Indo-European Syntax
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor: Gunkel, D.
Course description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 210. Comparative and historical study of syntax in proto-Indo-European and most important of oldest attested descendant languages. S/U or letter grading.
I E STD 281A: Seminar: Indo-European Linguistics
Lecture: Sem 1
Units: 2
Instructor: Gunkel, D.; Jamison, S.; Yates, A.D.
Course description: Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 210. Selected topics in Indo-European comparative grammar for advanced graduate students. May be repeated for credit. S/U or letter grading.
JAPAN 297A: Seminar: Premodern Japan
Lecture: Sem 1
Units: 4
Instructor: Duthie, T.
Course description: Seminar, three hours. Selected topics on premodern Japan. Letter grading.
LATIN 200C: History of Latin Literature
Lecture: Lec 1
Units: 4
Instructor: Spielberg, L.M.
Course description: Lecture, three hours. Lectures on history of Latin literature, supplemented by reading of Latin texts in original language. May be taken independently for credit. S/U or letter grading.
LATIN 208: Ovid
Lecture: Sem 1
Units: 2/4
Instructor: Vazquez, A.M.
Course description: Seminar, three hours. S/U (2-unit course) or letter (4-unit course) grading.
MUSCLG 248: Seminar: Special Topics in Musicology: Nostalgia and Music
Lecture: Sem 1
Units: 2/4
Instructor: Upton, E.R.
Course description: Survey of scholarly work on nostalgia from musicology and related fields. Exploration of how nostalgia shapes perceptions of past, and how it is employed in music creation and reception. Using theorists such as Svetlana Boym, study considers nostalgia as both personal and cultural force that impacts notions of history, identity, and memory in music. Class builds on 2022 Nostalgia, Music, and Music Studies conference.