Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in their reading beyond the primary course materials. A full description for any given quarter will be available on the English Department's website.

Prerequisites: Writing 2 or 50 or 109 or English 10 or upper-division standing.

4

Units

Optional

Grading

1, 2, 3

Passtime

Upper division only

Level Limit

Letters and science

College
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RANA S
Swati Rana
3.2
13 reviews

Lecture

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ENGL50 . Rana S 20 Days Ago

I will not tolerate all the Rana slander. Sure, she gets nervous in her lectures, but she is an extremely nice and caring teacher, and I loved all the readings she recommended. I used to have faith in RMF ratings, but you are all just being mean. Maybe she's not the most energetic lecturer ever but everyone has their own style. Solid lectures!!!

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ENGL50 . Rana S 1 Year, 5 Months Ago

If you are looking for an easy GE this is def not the course. The material is interesting and engaging and the exams are easy as long as you do all the reading. That being said there is ALOT of reading. We read 4 novels plus about 20 other readings. There are 2 exams and 2 essays that make up basically the whole grade.

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ENGL50 . Rana S 1 Year, 5 Months Ago

the midterms and final are just memorizing. we read way too much stuff and she quizzes us on identifying texts which is annoying. the essays were fine but get ready to read lots of full novels and long readings to identify a single line for your grade.

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ENGL50 . Rana S 1 Year, 6 Months Ago

Don't take this class if you want to keep your will to live. Personally, I would not take this class or professor knowing what I know now about the class. Lectures are dry and sometimes, professor rana sighs at the start of lecture, telling me she doesn't even want to be there. Sections are ok.

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ENGL50 . Rana S 1 Year, 6 Months Ago

NOT an easy GE. Lots of reading (full novels) and she doesn't post lecture slides even if you are sick. Lectures are dull and the professor scatters her thoughts a lot. The midterm had identification which was hard since we read a lot of long/boring texts and random sentences from long passages were selected. The class is made unnecessarily hard.

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ENGL50 . Rana S 2 Years Ago

Took this class as a GE and was not prepared for how dense all the material is. Lecture attendance is not mandatory but might as well be mandatory because you cannot succeed in this class without diligently taking notes. This class also does not allow P/NP. There were 2 essays worth 20% and 30%, a midterm 20%, final 20%, and participation 10%.

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