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UNDERGRADUATE SPECIALIZATION

UCSB’s English Department encourages its students to pursue their particular interests while also developing a broad understanding of English, American, and Anglophone literature. Accordingly we offer an undergraduate specialization in “Literature and Mind.” Students can specialize in Literature and Mind by taking, at anytime before graduation, four approved courses. At least two of these must be courses taught by the English faculty or affiliates associated with the specialization. Two may be taken from a list of approved courses taught by instructors in other departments. If you are interested in specializing in Literature and Mind you should contact the English Department’s Undergraduate Advisor, Jessica Good. Additional courses may be approved for the specialization by emailing the current Literature and Mind center director a class description, syllabus, and/or an essay submitted for the course.

SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT WEBSITE

ENGL 128NA (Native Feminist/2 Spirit Memoir) - Amrah Salomon

ENGL 134NA (Body as Archive) - Candace Waid

ENGL 134CT (Objectives of Chaos and Caribbean Literature) - Cathy Thomas

ENGL 151NA (Reading Jane Austen's Mind) - Kay Young

ENGL 170CM (Health Humanities) - Leila Stegemoeller

ENGL 170IC (Imagination and Creativity) - Julie Carlson

ENGL 170SB (Story and the Brain) - Aili Pettersson Peeker

ENGL 170TL (Trauma-Informed Literature and Classrooms) - Julie Carlson

ENGL 170TS (Trauma and Somatic Reading) - Sowon Park

ENGL 171NH (Neurohumanism) - Sowon Park

ENGL 171LE (Literature and Emotion) - Maddie Roepe

ENGL 183WP (Memory and Futurity in a Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic) - Stephanie Batiste

ENGL 187LL (Literature and Life) - Enda Duffy

ENGL 190CA (Cognitive Approaches to World Literature) - Daniel Martini

ENGL 192FE (Fantasy and the Environment) - Tess Shewry

ENGL 197 (Shakespeare’s Feelings) - Jim Kearney

MCDB 192 (Extending the Boundaries of Neuroscience to Literature) - Kenneth S. Kosik, Cristina Pato