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Graduate students in English are funded via a variety of university and departmental fellowships and teaching appointments.  All funding packages include full fellowship funding for the first two years of course-work and another for dissertation completion, in addition to multiple years of teaching in the English department. Additional fellowship opportunities are also available, both within and beyond the department. 

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The School of Information is UC Berkeley’s newest professional school. Located in the center of campus, the I School is a graduate research and education community committed to expanding access to information and to improving its usability, reliability, and credibility while preserving security and privacy.

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The School of Information offers four degrees:

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world.

The Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) is an online degree preparing data science professionals to solve real-world problems. The 5th Year MIDS program is a streamlined path to a MIDS degree for Cal undergraduates.

The Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS) is an online degree preparing cybersecurity leaders for complex cybersecurity challenges.

Our Ph.D. in Information Science is a research program for next-generation scholars of the information age.

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The School of Information's courses bridge the disciplines of information and computer science, design, social sciences, management, law, and policy. We welcome interest in our graduate-level Information classes from current UC Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students and community members.  More information about signing up for classes.

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Ph.D. Admissions

Next start date: August 2025

Application Deadline: December 4, 2024, 8:59 pm PST

We welcome students from a diverse set of backgrounds; some will be technically educated, some educated in the humanities and social sciences.

All application materials must be received by the deadline. We encourage you to apply early. The I School’s Ph.D. program does not accept applications for spring term admissions.

Admissions Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree or its recognized equivalent from an accredited institution
• Superior scholastic record, normally well above a 3.0 GPA
• Indication of appropriate research goals, described in the Statement of Purpose
• For applicants whose academic work has been in a language other than English, the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
• Not required: GRE/GMAT . Starting Fall 2021, we no longer require the GRE or GMAT. We recommend you put your time and effort towards the required application materials. Read more about our decision to drop the GRE/GMAT requirement .

Selection Criteria

The I School accepts 3–7 Ph.D. students each year from more than 100 applications. Applications are reviewed by a committee of faculty.

Applicants are evaluated holistically on a number of factors. A strong academic record is important, but not sufficient. A critical factor is the ability to demonstrate a research record and agenda that fit well with specific I School faculty. In a small, interdisciplinary program, it is important that applicants clearly indicate in their Statement of Purpose which faculty member(s) they are interested in researching with, and why.

Application Requirements

We encourage you to check out our Ph.D. Admissions FAQ for information about commonly asked application questions.

(1) Statement of Purpose & Personal History Essay

The Statement of Purpose and Personal History are two separate essays.

The Statement of Purpose should describe your aptitude and motivation for doctoral study in your area of specialization, including your preparation for this field of study, your academic plans and research interests, and your future goals. Please be sure to identify in your Statement of Purpose which faculty member(s) you are interested in researching with, and why. We expect that candidates are able to demonstrate a research record and agenda that fit well with specific I School faculty.

For additional guidance, please review the Graduate Division's Statement of Purpose Guide .

In addition to explaining how your personal experiences have influenced your decision to pursue graduate studies, your Personal History Essay may include any relevant information describing barriers to accessing higher education that you have overcome, efforts you have made to advance equitable access to higher education for women, racial minorities, and other groups historically underrepresented in higher education, or research that you have undertaken that focuses on underserved populations or related issues of inequality.

For additional guidance, please review the Graduate Division’s Personal Statement Guide . There is no minimum length for the Personal History Essay.

These two essays are used in part to evaluate the candidate’s writing skills. Pursuant to UC Berkeley policy, the statements must be written by the candidate her or himself. For admitted students, application materials must comply with the Code of Student Conduct .

Both essays should be uploaded as PDF documents, as part of the online application .

(2) Three Letters of Recommendation

Ph.D. applicants should provide letters which speak directly to their ability and potential to perform academic research at the doctoral level. Recommenders must submit their letters online; please follow the instructions in the online application .

(3) Current Curriculum Vitae

Please upload a current curriculum vitae (C.V.) as a PDF document as part of the online application .

(4) College Transcripts

As part of the online application, upload copies of the official transcripts or academic records for all university-level studies you have completed abroad and at U.S. institutions. Be sure to include a current transcript from every post-secondary school that you have attended, including community colleges, summer sessions, and extension programs.

Each transcript should be uploaded as a separate PDF document; please refer to the instructions on the online application .

Applicants who completed their undergraduate degree in a recognized academic institution outside the United States are required to upload a copy of their degree conferral certificate. If a degree conferral certificate has not yet been obtained, please upload a provisional certificate. Applicants who have not yet graduated from undergrad are not required to submit a provisional certificate at this time. For specific questions, please contact the School of Information at [email protected] .

(5) TOEFL or IELTS Scores

UC Berkeley Graduate Division requires that applicants who received their degrees in countries other than the U.S., U.K., Australia, or English-speaking Canada submit TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or IELTS (International English Language Testing System) scores. This includes applicants with degrees from Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and most European countries. Only applicants who have completed a full year of U.S. university-level coursework with a grade of B or better are exempt from this requirement.

For students taking the TOEFL, UC Berkeley Graduate Division requires that your most recent score be at least 90 on the Internet-based version of the TOEFL.

For students taking the IELTS, UC Berkeley Graduate Division requires that your most recent score be at least 7.0 out of 9.0 on the IELTS Academic test.

UC Berkeley Graduate Division does not accept TOEFL ITP Plus for Mainland China, IELTS Indicator, or Duolingo scores. For more information, see  Graduate Division’s Evidence of English Language Proficiency .

Submitting Scores

To be valid, the TOEFL or IELTS must have been taken within the past 18 months: for applicants for Fall 2025 admission, test scores taken before June 2023 will not be accepted. Please have your test scores sent directly to UC Berkeley by the testing authorities prior to application submission, and at the latest, by the application deadline. It may take 10-15 days for official score reports to transfer to our system. For the TOEFL exam, the school code for UC Berkeley is 4833, and the department code for the I School is 99.

For the IELTS exam, please submit an electronic report from the testing center; no institution code is required. Here is the Graduate Division’s office address for identification purposes: University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division, Sproul Hall Rm 318, MC 5900, Berkeley, CA 94720.

More information: TOEFL website ; IELTS website

(6) Application Fee

(submitted with the online application)

• Fee for domestic applicants: $135.
• Fee for international applicants: $155.

Application Fee Waiver : The I School is pleased to offer application fee waivers to eligible Ph.D. applicants. Prior to submitting your application, please complete our Application Fee Waiver request form , and we will contact you within two business days with further instructions.

All application materials must be received by the application deadline. Applications will be reviewed throughout December and January, and admissions decisions will be released by early February.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us with questions or for additional guidance: [email protected] or (510) 664-4742.

*Test Report Form must be sent directly from IELTS. IELTS Indicator scores are not accepted.

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We require that students own a computer. No particular configuration or operating system is required. However, students will be expected to complete assignments using office productivity software (e.g., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, etc.), web browsers, etc., and should own a computer capable of running such software. More specific guidance will be provided upon acceptance to the program.

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If you’ve completed all your secondary school/high school in a country where English is not the language of instruction, you can demonstrate proficiency by taking one of these exams no later than December of your final year of high school/secondary school and earning the required scores:

• Score 24 or higher on the ACT English Language Arts (ELA)
• Score 31 or higher on Writing and Language in the SAT 
• Score 3, 4 or 5 on the AP examination in English Language and Composition, or English Literature and Composition
• Score 6 or 7 on an IB Standard Level examination in English (Language A only) 
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• Internet-based test (iBT) or  iBT Home Edition or iBT Paper Edition : Minimum score of 80 or better
• Duolingo English Test (DET): Minimum score of 115

Please note: UC does not accept MyBest TOEFL; only the highest composite score from a single sitting is allowed. Also,  the digital SAT Reading and Writing section score has not been approved to meet English language proficiency.

Keep in mind : A UC campus may require a score higher than the minimum for admission selection. And, some campuses may request an interview to determine English skills during the application review process.

How do I send my scores to UC?

Self-report your English proficiency scores in the UC application. If you are offered admission, send your scores after admission only to the campus where you intend to enroll.

We strongly recommend that you take the test as early as possible, because your score may be a factor in whether or not we're able to admit you.

Information about these exams is available at most U.S. consulates and overseas U.S. educational advising offices, as well as by mail and online:

TOEFL Services E-mail:   [email protected] Web:   www.toefl.org

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Applying as a transfer student?

You can demonstrate English proficiency by completing the two UC-transferable English composition courses   required for transfer admission   and receiving at least a “C” or “B” grade/mark, depending on the campuses you’re applying to. If you do so, you are not required to submit IELTS/DET/TOEFL exam scores.

You are considered proficient if:

• You’re applying to Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside or Santa Barbara and received grades/marks of “C” or higher in the English composition courses. 
• You’re applying to UCLA, San Diego or Santa Cruz and received grades/marks of “B” or higher in the English composition courses.

Some campuses may request an interview to determine English skills during the application review process. Davis, UCLA and Santa Barbara may strongly recommend or require additional English proficiency testing for applicants admitted to their campuses. 

Keep in mind : UC does not accept English composition courses from international universities where English is not the language of instruction.

What if I didn’t earn the grades/marks the campuses require for English proficiency?

Depending on the campuses you’re applying to, you may need to take an English as a Second Language (ESL) class or an exam.

Each campus is different, so make sure to contact the campus admissions office for more information.

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Abby Slovick

Abby Slovick (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster in the School of Education. Her research interests encompass a variety of topics including technology in education, district governance, and democratic education.

Abby’s current research projects... Read more about Abby Slovick

Alexandrea Creer Kahn

Alexandrea Creer Kahn began her journey as a doctoral student in the Berkeley School of Education's Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) in 2023. Alexandrea's research areas of focus include equity within teacher education, teacher residencies, and identity affirming teacher education... Read more about Alexandrea Creer Kahn

Alice Taylor

Alice Taylor is a PhD candidate in the School of Education. An interdisciplinary social scientist and ethnographer, she studies youth identity formation and political development; sociocultural approaches to language, literacies, and learning across in-person and digital spaces; and... Read more about Alice Taylor

Allison Bradford

Allison Bradford is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences and Human Development Cluster within the School of Education. She received her BS in Physics from the University of Maryland, and was a high school math and science teacher before attending graduate school.

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Allison Firestone

Allison Firestone is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education. Her research focuses broadly on equity-centered preservice teacher education, with an emphasis on building future teachers' capacity to enact a critically inclusive practice. Her dissertation is a mixed methods experiment that... Read more about Allison Firestone

Amelia Farid

Milly's research explores how student engagement in mathematical disciplinary practices can be leveraged towards advancing conceptual understanding of mathematics content. With a BA and MA in mathematics, Milly is interested in bringing powerful mathematics to all students. She has ... Read more about Amelia Farid

Amy Banas is a doctoral student under the supervision of Dr. Elliot Turiel. She is a former NCAA Division I student-athlete and holds master's degrees in Global Studies and the Intersection of Sport and Education. Her master's thesis explored the use of sport in global peace and ... Read more about Amy Banas

Andrew Phuong

Andrew Estrada Phuong is a Chancellor’s Fellow, consultant, and program developer. He has a master's degree from Harvard University and has conducted mixed-methods experimental research. Phuong has studied how adaptive equity-oriented pedagogies and instructor professional development strategies... Read more about Andrew Phuong

Ankita Rakhe

Ankita Rakhe (she/her) is a doctoral student in Cohort 2 of the Leaders in Equity and Democracy program. She has been a Student Affairs practitioner for 20 years with a deep investment in diversity, equity and inclusion advocacy; conflict mediation; and leadership coaching, all with a holistic... Read more about Ankita Rakhe

Anna Zarkh is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education (SESAME). She holds BA and MA degrees in Mathematics, and a teaching certificate from Israel. Anna’s research focuses on university mathematics education, specializing in socio-cultural theories, ... Read more about Anna Zarkh

Arlyn Moreno Luna

Arlyn Moreno Luna is a doctoral candidate in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender program at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. Her scholarly interests include access and equity in higher education for first-generation and traditionally underrepresented students; students’ ... Read more about Arlyn Moreno Luna

Ashley Zhou

Ashley Zhou is a PhD student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education at the UC Berkeley School of Education and San Francisco State University. Originally from New Jersey, she completed her undergraduate thesis on Asian American women’s mental health and affective responses to ... Read more about Ashley Zhou

Bowen is passionate about promoting the crucial role of input in learning a foreign language, that is, reading/listening to/watching what fascinates the learner in large amounts. He hopes to bridge the gap between research and the language learning/teaching practice by translating research-based... Read more about Bowen Wang

Brittney Cooper

Brittney's research is focused on language development and, in particular, how children develop relational concepts through social interaction and embodied activity. Her current projects are related to language development among children who communicate using Augmentative and Alternative ... Read more about Brittney Cooper

C. Darius Gordon

C. Darius Gordon (they/them) is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator. They are currently a PhD candidate in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, & Gender program cluster. Broadly, they study the histories of 20th-century Black liberation movements throughout the Atlantic world. Drawing... Read more about C. Darius Gordon

Caleb Dawson

Caleb E. Dawson is a community organizer, dancer, and Black feminist ethnographer from Federal Way, Wash. Caleb indulges in reimagining and redistributing state-sanctioned resources to build life-affirming institutions that sustain state-forsaken peoples.

A PhD candidate in Critical... Read more about Caleb Dawson

Cassandra Yee

Cassandra Yee (She/her/ella) is a third year PhD student in the School Psychology program at the Berkeley School of Education. She received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Arizona in 2021. Cassandra’s current research focuses primarily on Latine immigrant youth risk and... Read more about Cassandra Yee

Catherine Park

In a radically interconnected world, Catherine’s research focuses on how ethical, sociocultural, educational desires have turned toward the global. More specifically, she situates her current research project in rapidly urbanizing spaces in China, where urban development and the growth of ... Read more about Catherine Park

Collette Roberto

Collette is a PhD student working at the intersection of Computer Science (CS) Education and Learning Sciences (LS). She has worked across a number of critical computing education projects and their respective incredible teams. One such incredible team includes Dr. Michelle Wilkerson and ... Read more about Collette Roberto

Corrine Aramburo

Corrine Aramburo is a doctoral candidate in the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Her research interests include special education teacher preparation; special education teacher knowledge; on-site administration; special ... Read more about Corrine Aramburo

Cristina Méndez

Cristina S. Méndez is a PhD student in the Critical Studies of Race, Class and Gender. She is also pursuing a designated emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization. Her research interests span disciplines, drawing on sociology, ethnic studies, migration studies, among others. Through her... Read more about Cristina Méndez

Cynthia Valencia-Ayala

Cynthia Valencia-Ayala is a PhD candidate in the School Psychology program and a practicing school psychologist. Prior to coming to Berkeley and throughout her time in graduate school, Cynthia has worked to provide culturally relevant mental health services to youth experiencing carceral ... Read more about Cynthia Valencia-Ayala

Danièle Fogel

Danièle Fogel is doctoral candidate in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender cluster at the School of Education at UC Berkeley. She works to develop rigorous, interdisciplinary, and critical professional development for teachers on issues of racial and social justice; she does ... Read more about Danièle Fogel

David Maldonado

David is a formerly incarcerated PhD candidate in the School of Education. He grew up in Berkeley and Oakland and is interested in refusing/unsettling/troubling the logics of the university and the Carceral State from an abolitionist autonomous sensibility. ... Read more about David Maldonado

David Stevens

David Stevens is a doctoral student in the Social Research Methodologies cluster at the UC Berkeley School of Education. His research interests center on the development of alternative models for educational data analysis and their practical applications including informing instructional ... Read more about David Stevens

Diana Casanova

Diana Casanova is a fourth-year doctoral candidate whose research examines the policies and practices that empower family and community stakeholders to affect social change. Her work explores the ways that families and communities participate in and impact education policymaking, ... Read more about Diana Casanova

Edwin Carlos

Edwin Carlos (He/Him) is a 1st year PhD student in the School Psychology program at the School of Education. He is a 2nd generation Filipino American from Renton, Wash., and graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts in psychology and a minor in education from Stanford University in 2020. ... Read more about Edwin Carlos

Ekene Azuka

Ekene Azuka is a PhD student in the School Psychology Program within the Berkeley School of Education (BSE). Prior to joining the BSE, Ekene received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Cognitive Studies and Psychology from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College in 2021.

As a graduate... Read more about Ekene Azuka

Elaine (Hua) Luo

Elaine Luo is a PhD candidate in the School Psychology Program at Berkeley School of Education (BSE). Prior to joining the BSE, Elaine received her MEd in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2020 and her BA in Education Sciences from the University of... Read more about Elaine (Hua) Luo

Emely N. Lugo (she/ella) is a first-year doctoral student in the School Psychology Program at UC Berkeley's School of Education (BSE).

Before joining BSE, Emely pursued her studies in Psychology and Child Development at California State University, San Bernardino. Her research... Read more about Emely Lugo

Emily Reich

Emily Reich (she/her) is a first-year doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster in the School of Education. She comes to graduate school with questions about the ways in which bureaucracy and the school staff who wield it shape the educational lives of marginalized ... Read more about Emily Reich

Enrique Valencia López

Enrique Valencia López is a PhD student in the Policy, Politics and Leadership cluster at the School of Education. His research interests relate to three broad areas: the stratification of education by gender, immigration status and ethnicity; the measurement of teacher working conditions ... Read more about Enrique Valencia López

Eric Assan (He/Him) is a 1st year Master's degree student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster in the School of Education. He is also pursuing a graduate certificate in Applied Data Science. He is an awardee of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, a fully funded ... Read more about Eric Assan

Francis Rojas

Francis Rojas has been an educational leader at the two largest and diverse high schools in the Bay Area over the last 20 year - James Logan High School in Union City, Calif., (2002-2017) and Milpitas High School in Milpitas, Calif., (2017-current). He has served in various roles from ... Read more about Francis Rojas

Franklin B. Mejía

Franklin B. Mejía received a BA and a Masters in Education at the University of California, San Diego and is currently a 4th year graduate student in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Currently, he is finalizing his third prequalifying paper and is studying for... Read more about Franklin B. Mejía

Griffin Munzel

Griffin has been an educator in Oakland middle schools since 2017. He is a math teacher, and has served in various roles including grade level chair, instructional coach, curriculum consultant, and instructional leadership team subcommittee lead. Additionally, Griffin has led school team’s in... Read more about Griffin Munzel

Haider Ali Bhatti

As a child, Ali and his family immigrated to the United States from Pakistan and settled in Englewood, New Jersey. As a proud New Jerseyan, he earned his Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, followed by a Master's degree in Biological Science Education at... Read more about Haider Ali Bhatti

Hoyun Kim is a PhD student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at the School of Education. Her research interests lie in the experiences of students in higher education and examining postsecondary institutions as organizations: topics pertaining to student agency, equity,... Read more about Hoyun Kim

Ilke Bayazitli

Ilke Bayazitli is a first-year doctoral student in the School Psychology program at UC Berkeley. She received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Boğaziçi University in 2021. She then received her master's degree in Psychological Science with a concentration in Social, Personality, and... Read more about Ilke Bayazitli

Isaac Felix

Isaac Felix (he/him/his) is a doctoral student at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. Originally from Tijuana, Baja California, México, Isaac grew up crossing the México-U.S. border daily to attend public schools in San Diego. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Human Biology and Society and... Read more about Isaac Felix

Isabella Ahrens

Isabella Ahrens is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in the School Psychology Program. She is currently working at an elementary and high school in San Francisco Unified School District as a school psychology intern. Isabella has engaged in assessment, consultation, and therapy practicum ... Read more about Isabella Ahrens

Isabella Brown

Isabella C. Brown is both a Marcus Foster and Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow. She holds an MA from San Francisco State University and is a second-year PhD student in the Joint Doctoral Program with the University of California, Berkeley. In Spring 2019, she was appointed to the... Read more about Isabella Brown

Jackie Lopez Santiago

Jackie is a PhD student in the School Psychology Program under the advisement of Professor Frank Worrell. Jackie’s primary research interest include: understanding the educational experiences of low income, Latine students; parent education as a mediator for Latine students academic ... Read more about Jackie Lopez Santiago

Jacob Barton

Jake grew up in rural New Hampshire in a family of teachers, and learned to admire educators from an early age. In college, he did his best to reconcile his interests in climate science and storytelling, graduating from Harvard with a BA in Environmental Science & Public Policy and a minor... Read more about Jacob Barton

Jacqueline Anton

Jacqueline Anton is a student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education. Her research addresses embodied mathematics interventions for students with moderate/ extensive support needs. She is also interested in inclusive mathematics pedagogy and teacher education. Her work is inspired by... Read more about Jacqueline Anton

Ja’Nya Banks

Ja’Nya is a second year PhD student in the Education Policy, Politics and Leadership cluster. She is a proud East Coast native, raised in the “DMV”: DC, Maryland, Virginia region. She started her career as a Special Education Teacher and case manager, eventually transitioning into roles around... Read more about Ja’Nya Banks

Jennie Greenstein

Jennie Greenstein is a 4th year PhD candidate in the School Psychology Program in the Berkeley School of Education.

Jennie’s research interests include universal social-emotional learning interventions to promote student well-being, as well as school-based mental health services designed... Read more about Jennie Greenstein

Jeremy Martin

Jeremy Martin is a doctoral candidate and Eugene Cota Robles Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He studies the politics of philanthropic organizations and their involvement in K-12 public education with a particular focus on foundations that are created by Black people. More... Read more about Jeremy Martin

Jin Hyung Lim

Jin Hyung Lim is a PhD student in the 2022 cohort of the School Psychology Program at the Berkeley School of Education. He is a recipient of a prestigious scholarship for his five-year PhD study funded by Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies (KFAS). He obtained BA in Education (with Summa Cum... Read more about Jin Hyung Lim

Jose Aguilar

Jose R. Aguilar Jr. is an enthusiastic and driven scholar educator, bringing a wealth of experience and a reliable commitment to addressing systemic issues in education. Born out of his personal experiences as a first-generation college student and a keen observer of the challenges faced by... Read more about Jose Aguilar

Joy Esboldt

Joy Esboldt is a doctoral candidate in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender cluster at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Education. Her research focuses on teachers’ learning about race, racism, and anti-racism as it intersects with gender and cultural politics. Joy’s... Read more about Joy Esboldt

Julia Zhu is a doctoral candidate in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender program at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. Her work explores the ways that college students in China perceive social class and meritocracy, and how social economic and educational changes have shaped their... Read more about Julia Zhu

Julien Putz

Julien Putz is a first-year doctoral student in the Graduate Group of Science and Mathematics Education (SESAME) at UC Berkeley. His primary advisor is Prof. Dor Abrahamson and he is an active member of the Embodied Design Research Laboratory. He is interested in understanding and modelling the... Read more about Julien Putz

Julissa Navas

Julissa is a third year PhD student in the School Psychology program at UC Berkeley. She was born and raised in Southern California to two hard-working immigrant parents from Mexico and El Salvador. Julissa, a first generation college student, completed her undergraduate studies at UC Irvine and... Read more about Julissa Navas

July Córdoba

July Córdoba is a candidate for the Masters In Educational Leadership at the Principal Leadership Institute.

July brings over 15 years of experience in the field of education. She has worked in several capacities and in multiple school districts in her native Colombia, the Bay Area, and... Read more about July Córdoba

Keldon Clegg

Keldon Clegg is a Master's degree candidate in the 23rd cohort of the Principal Leadership Institute program at UC Berkeley's School of Education. His academic interests in education include digital privacy, media literacy, and community engagement.

Keldon currently serves as a leader at... Read more about Keldon Clegg

Kelly Billings

Kelly is a fourth year doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley in the Learning Sciences and Human Development cluster in the School of Education. As a former science teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kelly’s work is deeply informed by her teaching experience and former students. In... Read more about Kelly Billings

Kesha Jenkins

Kesha Jenkins, M.Ed., is a graduate student in the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) program. She has worked in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Oakland Unified School District, and Berkeley Unified School District in various positions. She received her Master of Education and ... Read more about Kesha Jenkins

Kevin Quintero

Kevin Quintero (He/Him/His) is a PhD student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. Kevin’s research interests are using methodological and theoretical approaches to reveal the causes of political, social, and educational inequalities. His current... Read more about Kevin Quintero

Krina Patel

Krina, a Kenyan-born Indian, has always been intrigued by the diverse educational systems across different countries. Her passion for engineering design was sparked during her senior year of high school when a baking mishap inspired her to pursue an engineering degree at Penn State. ... Read more about Krina Patel

Kyla Kemble

Kyla Kemble (she/her) is a PhD student in the 2021 cohort of the School Psychology program, under the advisement of Dr. Frank C. Worrell. A New Jersey native, she received a Bachelor of Science in Psychology Honors at Seton Hall University in 2021.

Kyla’s current research focuses on... Read more about Kyla Kemble

A California Bay Area native, Laleh has always been interested in education, music, writing, and people. In her 20s, she discovered a passion for human health and began studying biology at the local community college. As an undergraduate, she was involved in research in molecular biology;... Read more about Laleh Coté

Lieutenant Darryl Diptee

As a Learning Scientist, Darryl's research investigates how STEM students can academically excel within oppressive social systems filled with negative gender and racial stereotypes.

He is interested in designing means, as informed by the theory of embodied cognition, by which... Read more about Lieutenant Darryl Diptee

Lizzy (she/they) has worked with schools, arts organizations, hospitals and camps to implement healing centered, arts-integrated pedagogy and curriculum. She moved to California in 2020 and currently works as a Literacy Specialist and Instructional Coach for Seneca's five Therapeutic Day schools... Read more about Lizzy May

Mai Xi Lee began her journey in the Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) program at Berkeley School of Education in the summer of 2021.

She has served in K-12 school school systems in a variety of roles, including bilingual paraeducator; elementary teacher; high school counselor and... Read more about Mai Xi Lee

Malcolm Norrington

Malcolm Norrington is a lifelong, holistic, systems thinker with experience as an administrator (vice principal and summer school principal, 2019–2023) at Foothill High School in Pleasanton, California.

Malcolm is currently the principal at El Cerrito Senior High School (2023–present) in... Read more about Malcolm Norrington

María Rojas

María Rojas is a PhD candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Education. She earned her bachelor’s degree in social communications from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and worked as a journalist for international affairs at CNN Chile. María immersed herself in the realm of education... Read more about María Rojas

Mark Pommer

Mark Pommer is a doctoral student in the School Psychology program at UC Berkeley. Mark received his EdS in school psychology from Columbia University. His current research interests include bilingual evaluations, second language acquisition, and addressing disproportionality of English ... Read more about Mark Pommer

Meg Escudé is a phd student in the Learning Sciences and Human Development cluster. Her research engages community-based afterschool educators in the co-development of liberatory learning experiences for young people. Meg has over 12 years of experience as an educator and program director in... Read more about Meg Escudé

Meg Everett

Meg Everett is a Regent’s Fellow and doctoral student in the Learning Sciences and Human Development program with a Designated Emphasis in New Media. Her research interests include critical media literacy, participatory technologies, computer-mediated learning and communication, and the ... Read more about Meg Everett

Megan Frogley

Megan Frogley is a master’s student in the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education (aligned with Critical Studies in Race and Gender) within the School of Education. She received her BA in Sport, Exercise and Physical Activity from the University of Durham in England in 2015, in addition to... Read more about Megan Frogley

Monica Thomas

Monica Thomas is a doctoral candidate in Cohort 1 of the Leadership for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) program in the UC Berkeley School of Education. Her research interests include school improvement and central office reform and the role local politics and community engagement play in ... Read more about Monica Thomas

Nathaly Santos

Nathaly Santos is a doctoral student within the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at the Berkeley School of Education. Her broad research interests include equity and justice in higher education through an organizational lens, with a more specific focus on the Latinx student experience... Read more about Nathaly Santos

Nicole Cedillo

Nicole Cedillo is an accomplished educator, researcher, and advocate for equitable education with a rich background in history, feminist studies, and English language development. With a Master of Arts in History from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in Feminist Studies and History from... Read more about Nicole Cedillo

Nicole Faraci

Nicole is a third year PhD student in the School Psychology program within the School of Education. She graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta in 2019 with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Educational Psychology.

She is currently focusing her research on... Read more about Nicole Faraci

Olufemi Ogundele

Olufemi “Femi” Ogundele (he/him/his) became a doctoral student in UC Berkeley's educational doctorate, Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) in 2021. In his capacity as Associate Vice Chancellor of Admissions & Enrollment at Berkeley, Femi provides vision, strategy and leadership in ... Read more about Olufemi Ogundele

Pa Vue is a PhD student in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender cluster at the School of Education at UC Berkeley. She is also in the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization. Her research interests are in Hmong language resilience, reclamation, and revitalization.... Read more about Pa Vue

Prince Estanislao

Prince Estanislao (he/they) is a student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education. He serves as an intern supervisor and course instructor at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Furthermore, he is a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) contributing to both the Berkeley Center for the... Read more about Prince Estanislao

Qifan Zhang

Qifan Zhang is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, with a concentration in Policy, Politics, and Leadership. Qifan graduated from Tianjin University and received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. From there, she continued... Read more about Qifan Zhang

Quennie Dong

Quennie Dong is a third-year doctoral student in the School Psychology program at the University of California, Berkeley. Quennie graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior and a minor in Education. She then attended Florida International... Read more about Quennie Dong

Rachel Elizabeth Williams

Rachel Williams is a PhD candidate in the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work explores the linkages between the political economy, segregation, education policy, and Black politics. Her dissertation utilizes qualitative and spatial methods to examine the... Read more about Rachel Elizabeth Williams

Ratih Ayu Apsari

Ratih is a first-year PhD student in the cluster of Learning Science and Human Development (LSHD) and is interested in embodied cognition, design-based research, ethnomathematics, cultural funds of knowledge, and cross-cultural epistemic diversity.

She obtained her BA from Universitas... Read more about Ratih Ayu Apsari

Rose Cartwright

Rose Cartwright is a doctoral candidate in the School of Education’s School Psychology program, where she earned her Personal Pupil Services (PPS) credential with a specialization in School Psychology. She works under the advisement of Professor Elliot Turiel – as well as other faculty in the... Read more about Rose Cartwright

Samuel Santos Jr.

Samuel Santos Jr. [he/him/his], began his journey in UC Berkeley’s educational doctorate, Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD), in 2021.

He is a student affairs practitioner with nearly two decades of experience in post-secondary settings. Passionate about equity, access... Read more about Samuel Santos Jr.

Sara Stone has committed her 28 year career in education to creating equitable, welcoming, and joyful experiences for every child. She works collaboratively to produce safe, engaging, and rigorous learning environments where all students are able to thrive. Ms. Stone currently works as the... Read more about Sara Stone

Sarah Manchanda

Sarah Manchanda is pursuing a PhD in School Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her lived experiences as a disabled woman of color shape her research interests, clinical work, and advocacy efforts in graduate school. Sarah is driven by a firm commitment to promote inclusive... Read more about Sarah Manchanda

Shartresa Nixon

Shartresa is currently the Literacy TSA and AVID site coordinator at United for Success Academy. Ms. Nixon also facilitates the second Wednesday professional development for middle school reading intervention teachers in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). She is an OUSD 2022–23 Teacher... Read more about Shartresa Nixon

Siqi is a PhD student in the Graduate Group of Science and Mathematics Education (SESAME) at UC Berkeley, where she is guided by the expertise of Professor Alan H. Schoenfeld. She plays an active role in two research groups: the Functions group and the Teaching for Robust Understanding (TRU)... Read more about Siqi Huang

Sofia Tancredi

Sofia Tancredi conducts design-based research on sensory and perceptual aspects of learning with an emphasis on neurodiverse learners’ sensory experiences, drawing upon embodied cognition theory. Her work is inspired by her background working with K-12 learners, particularly students identified... Read more about Sofia Tancredi

Talia Leibovitz

Talia Leibovitz (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in School Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research explores how white parents’ school choices for their children are informed and shaped by policy; notions of merit;... Read more about Talia Leibovitz

Tamar Sberlo

Tamar is a Peer Resources Teacher and Program Coordinator at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School in the Portola neighborhood in San Francisco. She is working toward her Administrative Credential through Berkeley's Principal Leadership Institute in the hopes of becoming a school... Read more about Tamar Sberlo

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Umara Hansen

Umara Hansen (she/her/hers) is a first year doctoral student in the School Psychology program at UC Berkeley. Umara attended the University of Ottawa, Canada and graduated with the highest distinction of Honours in Psychology, BSc where she studied the impact of stress on wellbeing through ... Read more about Umara Hansen

Vasiliki (Vicky) Laina

Vicky is a PhD candidate in the SESAME program and a member of the CoRE lab (Computational Representations in Education). She is interested in better understanding and supporting productive engagement in mathematical argumentation. Proofs have a central place in her work, and she employs low-... Read more about Vasiliki (Vicky) Laina

Vianney A. Gavilanes

Vianney A. Gavilanes is a doctoral candidate in the Critical Studies of Race, Class and Gender. As a self-identified Mexican migrant child educated in California’s public K-12 schools and universities, she is committed to serving racially and linguistically minoritized students like ... Read more about Vianney A. Gavilanes

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The anti-Israel protester who hijacked a dinner thrown by the Jewish dean of Berkeley Law School is doubling down against the outrage — wildly accusing the educator’s horrified wife of being a racist groper just for trying to get her to leave their home.

Malak Afaneh, who runs an anti-Israel group on campus, went viral for her antics at what was supposed to have been a celebratory dinner for graduates thrown Tuesday by their dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, who begged her: “Please leave! This is my house — you are my guest.”

His wife, Berkeley Professor Catherine Fisk, then attempts to grab the microphone out of Afaneh’s hand, telling her: “This is my house and I want you to leave.”

After the initial clip, seen more than 3.4 million times, sparked outrage, the student defended her antics in a social-media video — painting herself as a victim.

In the student’s eyes, the dean’s wife didn’t just try to grab the microphone from her but “put her arms around me, grasped at my hijab, grasped at my breast inappropriately [and] kept trying to grope my shirt,” Afaneh said.

The clearly horrified host “kept trying to grope my shirt,” Afaneh suggested wildly — claiming she would have been “justified” in striking back in self-defense.

Fisk “dragged” her up steps and “threatened to call the cops on a gathering of majority black and brown students,” she said, suggesting a hidden motive.

“Professor Fisk did not assault me because I was talking about Palestine — I didn’t even get the chance to talk about Palestine,” Afaneh said of the professor, who was heard on other footage from the dinner telling students that “We agree with you about what’s going on in Palestine.”

“She assaulted me because to her, a hijabi-wearing, keffiyeh-wearing Palestinian Muslim student that felt comfortable to speak in Arabic was enough of a threat to her that I was justified to be assaulted,” the student activist said, saying that she had “never in my life felt so traumatized and humiliated.”

“Professor Fisk embodied the Islamaphobia, the deep anti-Arab racism and the deep anti-Palestinian sentiment that these Zionist administrations are built on.”

Her latest claims met further backlash.

“She showed up at a dinner party to protest with a microphone and now she’s playing the victim and claiming Professor Fisk is a racist,” Steve McGuire, a Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom at the American Council of Trustees, wrote while sharing her video.

“She’s lying about ‘genocide’ like she’s lying about what happened at that party,” added author Katya Sedgwick.

Chemerinsky later pointed out that he had never said anything in support of Israel’s actions, and that the law school has no investments in Israel itself.

“So it’s hard for me to see any reason why they are coming after me other than I was Jewish,” the dean told CNN.

She showed up at a dinner party to protest with a microphone and now she’s playing the victim and claiming Professor Fisk is a racist: pic.twitter.com/rHEuH8cf3a — Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 12, 2024

Chemerinsky also said in a statement that he was “enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”

“I have spent my career staunchly defending freedom of speech. I have spent my years as dean trying hard to create a warm, inclusive community,” he continued.

“I am deeply saddened by these events and take solace that it is just a small number of our students who would behave in such a clearly inappropriate manner.”

The dean has since held other dinners for the law school students on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

The Post has reached out to Fisk for comment.

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UC Berkeley graduate programs ranked among best in the nation by 'U.S. News'

The 2024 rankings by U.S. News and World Report were released late Monday.

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UC Berkeley graduate programs are again among the best in the nation, topping several categories, according to the 2024 rankings by U.S. News and World Report released late on Monday, April 8 . In all, some 30 Berkeley graduate programs ranked in the Top 10 in the country.

Every year, U.S. News ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing — plus specialties in each area. (Berkeley Law does not participate in the rankings.) Other schools and disciplines, as well as specialties, in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, health and other fields are ranked periodically by the media company. Berkeley graduate programs that U.S. News ranked this year, in addition to the six professional school programs, include computer science, public health, social work and public affairs. 

Note: Rankings for the best engineering schools, medical schools and clinical psychology programs have been delayed this year.

Schools and disciplines at Berkeley that placed in the Top 10 this year are computer science (No. 1), public affairs (No. 4), social work (No. 4), business (No. 7), public health (No. 10).

Specialities in each area that ranked in the Top 10 include:

Computer science:

Systems (No. 1)

Theory (No. 1)

Artificial intelligence (No. 3)

Programming language (No. 5)

Public Affairs:

Public policy analysis (No. 1)

Social policy (No. 2)

Environmental policy (No. 4)

Health policy (No. 10)

Part-time MBA (No. 2)

Entrepreneurship MBA (No. 4)

Nonprofit management MBA (No. 4)

Real estate MBA (No. 4)

Executive MBA (No. 7)

Business analytics MBA (No. 7)

Management MBA (No. 7)

Finance MBA (No. 8)

MBA marketing (No. 10)

Public Health:

Environmental health science (No. 4)

Health policy and management (No. 9)

Social behavior (No. 9)

Biostatistics (No. 10)

Epidemiology (No. 10)

U.S News collected the data for the 2024 rankings of the six professional schools ranked every year from statistical surveys of 2,225 programs and from reputation surveys sent to approximately 5,766 academics and 10,941 professionals. The surveys were conducted in fall 2023 and early 2024.

This year’s rankings of graduate programs in public affairs, public health, computer science and social work were calculated from qualitative ratings on academic quality submitted by top officials at these schools. Read more about U.S. News’ methodologies.

See a complete list of UC Berkeley’s graduate school rankings — from this year and previous years — on the U.S. News and World Report website.

Berkeley Connect in English

The Berkeley Connect program opens up the extraordinary resources of the university to you: the extraordinary students on our campus. By joining, you will become part of a community of like-minded faculty, mentors, and students that will provide a supportive environment in which to exchange and discuss ideas and goals. Berkeley Connect will help you to make the most of your time at the university as you learn more about the major in English. We’re excited to get to know you!

Message from the Director

Berkeley Connect provides relaxed and fun opportunities to get to know your community and to think together about how to make the most of your Berkeley experience.

Professor Katherine Snyder

Director, Berkeley Connect in English

Program Description

Every semester, Berkeley Connect sponsors a wide range of activities and events for participating studentsThey include:

• small-group meetings  led by your mentor;
• one-on-one meetings  with your mentor;
• special events , including informal lectures by professors and guest speakers, and panels on career options, graduate school admissions, and other topics;
• and  visits to Berkeley resources .

At the heart of Berkeley Connect is the relationship between you and your mentor. The Berkeley Connect mentors are advanced graduate students or recent PhDs in English, who are chosen both for their demonstrated commitment to undergraduates and for their scholarly achievement.  They are dedicated to providing the kind of close-knit community and one-on-one attention that can be hard to find at a large university.

When you sign up for Berkeley Connect, you will join one of several small groups of participants in English.  Your small group will be led by your mentor, and will meet every other week during the semester for an hour-long discussion session. Discussions will focus on key intellectual issues within English as well as key skills you need to succeed in the major. Above all, the small groups will focus on building connections among students, so that each group becomes a supportive community for all participants.

Y ou will meet with your mentor one-on-one at least twice during the semester , to talk about anything you choose related to your academic life—questions you have, challenges you are facing, resources you are seeking, goals you are seeking to achieve.  Your mentor will also hold open mentoring hours throughout the semester , during which you are free to show up and continue these conversations, or just check in.

Elizabeth Abel  ( Assistant Director) is a Professor in the English Department, specializing in twentieth-century British literature, with a focus on issues of gender, race, and sexuality. After receiving her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton, she began her academic career as a Romanticist working on the int ersections between literary and visual arts, but the emergence of feminist literary criticism induced her to shift directions. She teaches courses on twentieth-century literature; Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury; gender, sexuality, and modernism; literature and photography; and literary theory. In addition to numerous essays and co-edited volumes, she has published three books: Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis (1989); Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow  (2010); and Odd Affinities: Virginia Woolf’s Shadow Genealogies  (forthcoming 2024). She looks forward to fostering stronger connections within the English major.

Berkeley Connect Mentors

Eliot D'Silva is a PhD candidate in English.

Where did you grow up?

England, United Kingdom

Where did you go to college and what was your major?

Cambridge University. English major

How would you describe your research in a sentence or two?

My research is about writers and artists who make art out of their everyday lives. I’m interested in how recording daily experiences opens a space for self-reflection and contemplation, as well as the forms of communication these artists use to document whatever is going on at a given time, from letter writing to digital photography.

Jessica Laser  is a PhD candidate in English.

Brown; Literary Arts

I'm writing on Robert Frost and American poetry.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indiana University, Bloomington // English Literature and Creative Writing

I think about how the writings of the enslaved in America participate in the critique of the Enlightenment; the very ideas on which America was founded. I do this in a way that thinks deeply about deception, figuration, and imagined presence.

New York City

Columbia, where I double-majored in English and Creative Writing

I study eighteenth-century British fiction and visual culture, with particular interest in how writers and artists in the period questioned what it meant to make a “just” representation—at once moral and accurate to the particulars of everyday life. I also edit creative nonfiction about urban experience and experiment with writing for nonacademic audiences.

Redding, California

I was an English major at Williams College.

I work mostly with 18th and 19th Century British novels, and I'm especially interested in the formal influence of revolutionary political texts upon novels written in the first-person.

Semester Activities

During a semester in Berkeley Connect in English, you will participate in one-on-one conversations with your mentor, small-group discussions, special events and field trips.

Recent discussion topics have included:

• What is “work” in English?
• How we write
• Connecting with your professors
• Developing as a writer

Berkeley Connect discussion sessions are informal and interactive, with time allowed for students to check in, talk about their experiences on campus, and reflect on current events that create the context for their academic studies.

Recent special events and field trips have included:

• Professors in Dialogue: The Book That Made Me a Professor
• Alumni Panel: What Can You Do with a Degree in English?
• Guided tour of Bancroft Library Collection

How to Sign Up

To sign up, enroll in a Berkeley Connect section when course registration opens.  To participate in Berkeley Connect in English, you enroll in a section of English 98BC (primarily for freshmen and sophomores) or 198BC (primarily for juniors and seniors). Both are offered for one unit, taken on a Pass/Not Pass basis. Participation is NOT restricted to declared majors.

You may enroll in Berkeley Connect more than once (some students choose to participate for a full year by enrolling in both the fall and spring semesters), and you may enroll through more than one department. You may NOT enroll in more than two sections of Berkeley Connect in one semester, or enroll in more than one section in the same department in the same semester.

Please see our  FAQs .  If you have additional questions about Berkeley Connect in English, please contact:  Professor Katherine Snyder, Berkeley Connect Director,  [email protected] .

You can also contact the central Berkeley Connect office  at  [email protected] or (510)664-4182.

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Apply to the MDP

The new Fall 2024 UC Berkeley Graduate Application will open on Wednesday, September 13, 2023. Click here to access the online application .

MDP Application Deadline for Fall 2024 Admission: December 4, 2023 at 8:59 PST.          

• All application materials, including Letters of Recommendation and official GRE, TOEFL or IELTS test scores are due on December 4, 2023 by 8:59 PM PST. Failure to submit required materials by the deadline will cause your application to be incomplete. 
• After submitting your application, you will receive an email from UC Berkeley's Graduate Admissions Office confirming your submission. You may log back into your application to monitor the status of materials received or processed, such as fee waivers, test scores, and letters of recommendation. 
• We will not accept applications after December 4th. There are no rolling admissions; MDP students are admitted for the fall term only.
• Admissions decisions are typically sent in mid-March via email. 

UC Berkeley Minimum Admission Requirements

Berkeley offers admission to applicants who appear to have the highest potential for graduate study and who, with the benefit of a graduate education, are the most likely to contribute substantially to their academic or professional fields through teaching, research, or professional practice.

The minimum graduate admission requirements are listed on the UC Berkeley Graduate Division site. In addition to the campus-wide requirements here all MDP applicants are highly encouraged to take the GRE exam. 

The minimum graduate admissions requirements are:

• A bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent from an accredited institution.
• A satisfactory scholastic average, usually a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 (B) on a 4.0 scale; and
• Enough undergraduate training and/or professional experience to do graduate work in your chosen field.
• Evidence of English Language Proficiency (only for applicants from countries/regions in which the official language is not English); for more information about the TOEFL/IELTS requirement or exemption eligibility, please visit Berkeley Graduate Division's Evidence of English Language Proficiency Guidelines

International applicants must demonstrate English proficiency by taking one of the following exams:

• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or
• International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

Fall 2024 MDP Application Checklist

Before starting your application, please review the following application checklist and resources. If you have any questions about the items on this checklist, please contact the MDP Admissions Office at: [email protected]

The MDP Admissions Office also offers information sessions as well as virtual appointments for Fall 2024 applicants who would like to connect and discuss their application questions. For more details about admissions events, please visit our MDP Admissions Events page. A recording from an earlier Fall 2023 information session can be found here as well.

• Statement of Purpose
• Personal History Statement
• Please note that at least one letter of recommendation must be academic; your letters can be a combination of academic and professional. 
• Transcripts and Grade Point Average (GPA)
• GRE or Quantitative Resume
• English Language Proficiency 
• Resume (Work Experience)

Application Fee

The application fee for U.S. citizens and current permanent residents is $135. The application fee for all other applicants is $155.

Application Fee Waiver

To be eligible for a fee waiver, you must be a U.S. citizen or current permanent resident who demonstrates financial need or participated in certain programs. Please see the Fee waiver eligibility page to find out if you qualify for a waiver exemption. 

Eligible applicants must submit their fee waiver request through the online application portal. MDP cannot process or grant fee waivers.

Note: Fee waiver decisions will be posted on your application status page after submission of the application. Please direct questions to the UC Berkeley Graduate Admissions Office at [email protected] .

Selection Criteria

Selection criteria for the master’s program will include the applicant’s talent, academic background, work experience, leadership experience, vision, involvement in critical issues or new areas of research (such as poverty or climate change) and/or proven entrepreneurship. Applicants oriented towards developing managerial skills, improving public policy, and increasing interdisciplinary capacities as development practitioners will receive priority.

In addition to technical backgrounds and leadership potential, we will aim to establish diverse cohorts seeking balance among gender and ethnicity. We expect a highly competitive selection process leading to a mix of qualified international and domestic students. UC Berkeley requires a minimal level of mathematical and statistical skills that will be augmented by the math, statistics, and economics boot camp.

UC Berkeley Quick Facts

Fall 2023 enrollment, by ethnicity.

• 33,078 Total Undergraduates
• 13,187 Asian Non-Underrepresented
• 6,795 Chicanx/Latinx
• 6,484 White
• 1,320 African American/Black
• 156 Native American/Alaska Native
• 60 Pacific Islander
• 49 Asian Underrepresented
• 1,201 Decline to State
• 3,826 International
• 12,621 Total Graduate Students
• 2,728 Asian Non-Underrepresented
• 1,167 Chicanx/Latinx
• 3,370 White
• 650 African American/Black
• 68 Native American/Alaska Native
• 15 Pacific Islander
• 11 Asian Underrepresented
• 582 Decline to State
• 4,030 International

By Gender Identity

• 18,123 Women
• 437 Nonbinary
• 359 Decline to State
• 6,002 Women
• 157 Nonbinary
• 148 Decline to State

For more detail, see Fall Enrollment Data for New Undergraduates (updated each Fall term), Enrollment Demographic Trends (updated each Spring term), and Enrollment History (updated each Fall term). Fall enrollment data comes from UC Berkeley's student census, which is collected immediately after the 5th Friday of instruction each Fall semester and reported to UC's Office of the President.

2022-23 Degree Recipients

• 8,849 Bachelor's
• 4,380 Master's/Professional
• 840 Doctoral

This section shows degree recipients, excluding any rescinded degrees, for the 2022-23 academic year: Summer 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023. For more detail, see Degrees Recipients by Major and Demographics .

Undergraduate One-Year Retention Rate

• 97% of Fall 2022 new freshman entrants returned in Fall 2023
• 95% of Fall 2022 new transfer entrants returned in Fall 2023

For more detail, see the Undergraduate Graduation & Retention Rates dashboard. One-year retention counts students who are enrolled (or, in very rare cases, have already graduated) in the semester that is one year after they first entered the university.

Undergraduate Graduation Rates

• Of new freshman students who entered in Fall 2017
• 81% graduated within 4 years
• 87% graduated within 4.5 years
• 91% graduated within 5 years
• 93% graduated within 6 years
• Of new transfer students who entered in Fall 2019
• 60% graduated within 2 years
• 75% graduated within 2.5 years
• 87% graduated within 3 years
• 91% graduated within 4 years

For more detail on combined Fall and Spring entrants, see the Undergraduate Graduation & Retention Rates dashboard. Graduation timeframes are elapsed time, not enrolled time. Spring and Summer graduations are grouped together in this data.

2023-24 Undergraduate Admissions

• Freshman Applicants
• 125,917 applied
• 14,715 of those were admitted
• 6,707 of those submitted a statement of intent to register
• Transfer Applicants
• 19,336 applied
• 5,550 of those were admitted
• 3,025 of those submitted a statement of intent to register
• Total Undergraduate Applicants
• 145,253 applied
• 20,265 of those were admitted
• 9,732 of those submitted a statement of intent to register

This data represents final Fall+Spring totals at the end of each annual undergraduate admissions cycle, for freshman and transfer applicants. It may therefore differ slightly from other numbers published earlier in the year.

Applying for Graduate Admission

Applying to uc berkeley.

Thank you for considering UC Berkeley for graduate study! We value and welcome students from a diverse set of backgrounds, nations, cultures, and experiences. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply.

Who is eligible?

You are eligible to apply if you have an undergraduate degree (bachelor’s or equivalent) at an accredited institution or will have completed it prior to matriculating at Berkeley.

We recommend that applicants have a satisfactory average, usually a minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.0 (B) on a 4.0 scale. Undergraduate research, training and/or work experience can be helpful.

Application Process

The 2024-2025 Graduate Admissions Application is now open. Please check your program of interest’s application deadline , and submit by 8:59 p.m. PST.

Reminder: Applicants may apply to only one degree program or one concurrent degree program per application term. UC Berkeley does not offer ad hoc joint degree programs or cotutelle agreements with other universities.

Schools with Separate Applications: Haas Business , Berkeley Law , Optometry OD , Public Health On-Campus MPH , Information Data Science MIDS, and Cyber Security MICS applicants should apply through their respective schools.

Read About the Steps to Apply

Getting started? Read "Steps to Apply" for requirements, a suggested timeline, and application deadlines.

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Spotlight on Berkeley IEOR Alum Bud Lyons BS ‘72

Favorite memory from your time at Cal?

My favorite memory from Cal was the 1971 University of California rugby team’s tour of Australia and New Zealand. It was a six week tour during which we played nine games and had a fabulous time.

Favorite memory from your time within the department?

My favorite memory of my time in the IEOR department was a course on mathematical  modeling. For some reason that course really resonated with me and I often think back on it.

How did studying IEOR impact and shape your career?

My major in IEOR contributed greatly to my admission into Stamford business school. The coursework that I did as an undergrad in IEOR was excellent preparation for the coursework in business school. The IE or classes I took at Cal taught me a great deal about decision-making in the context of optimizing results.

Can you share a work project or achievement you are particularly proud of?

I was in the industrial development business in Northern California in 1993 my partners and I merged our firm into what is now Prologis. I participated in our original IPO, and was fortunate enough to be part of a great organization that today is the largest owner of industrial property in the world.

What are some valuable lessons you’ve learned in your professional journey that you’d like to pass on to current IEOR students?

If I were to advise current students, I would encourage further education beyond their undergraduate endeavors. For me, going to business school, opened up a whole new world of opportunities. I would also advise students to be open-minded about what future opportunities will be of interest to them. For me I had no preconceived notions on what area I would concentrate on after I got my MBA. because of that mindset, I was exposed to a wide variety of interesting opportunities. I was fortunate enough to have an interest in commercial real estate, which turned out to be a very rewarding career for me.

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The Department of English offers courses in literature, in language, and in writing. The courses in literature have many different focuses: major authors, historical periods, genres, critical theories and methods, and cultural and multicultural studies. Courses in language offer instruction in both the history and the structure of the English language. Writing courses offer training in both expository and creative writing.

Entry-Level Writing Requirement

Students must have fulfilled the Entry-Level Writing Requirement before taking any course in the Department of English. For further information, see the  College Writing Programs section of this guide, or the information contained in the  Undergraduate Education section of this guide.

Undergraduate Programs

English : BA, Minor

Graduate Programs

English : PhD

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ENGLISH R1A Reading and Composition 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024 Training in writing expository prose. Instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement. Reading and Composition: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Six hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks. Seven and one-half hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: English/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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ENGLISH R1AN First-Year Reading and Composition 3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 8 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session Training in writing expository prose. Instruction in writing and reading expository prose. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement. First-Year Reading and Composition: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Passing grade in Subject A (exam or course)

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of lecture per week 8 weeks - 5-6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Five to Six hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. Five hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 1AN

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ENGLISH R1B Reading and Composition 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session Training in writing expository prose. Further instruction in expository writing in conjunction with reading literature. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. Reading and Composition: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement

ENGLISH 17 Shakespeare 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2019 Lectures on Shakespeare and reading of his best works. Shakespeare: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 5-7.5 hours of lecture and 2.5-0 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 4-6 hours of lecture and 2-0 hours of discussion per week

Additional Format: Two to three hours of lecture and one to zero hours of discussion per week. Four to six hours of lecture and two to zero hours of discussion per week for 8 weeks. Five to seven and one-half hours of lecture and two and one-half to zero hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.

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ENGLISH 20 Modern British and American Literature 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 Lectures on and discussion of major authors of modern British and American literature. Modern British and American Literature: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023 The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Format: One hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required.

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ENGLISH 25 English as a Language 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2008, Spring 2006 An introduction to the grammar of English, including phonology (sound structure), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), semantics (linguistic meaning), and pragmatics (contextual meaning), with consideration of different varieties of English in use within the United States and throughout the world, and comparison of English with other languages. English as a Language: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 26 Introduction to the Study of Poetry 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Lectures and discussion on poetry intended to develop the student's ability to understand and evaluate a poem. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome. Introduction to the Study of Poetry: Read More [+]

Additional Format: Three hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

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ENGLISH 27 Introduction to the Study of Fiction 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Lectures and discussion intended to develop the student's ability to understand and evaluate fiction. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome. Introduction to the Study of Fiction: Read More [+]

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture per week.

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ENGLISH 28 Introduction to the Study of Drama 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2017, Fall 2014 Lectures and discussion intended to develop the student's ability to read, understand and evaluate plays. Designed primarily for students whose major is not English, but majors and prospective majors are welcome. Introduction to the Study of Drama: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 29 Major Writers 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020 The study of selected works by one or two writers. Major Writers: Read More [+]

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the same semester.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-2 hours of lecture and 0-1 hours of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 0 hours of discussion per week

Additional Format: Three to two hours of lecture and zero to one hours of discussion per week. Six hours of lecture and zero hour of discussion per week for 8 weeks. Seven and one-half hours of lecture and zero hour of discussion per week for 6 weeks.

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ENGLISH 31AC Literature of American Cultures 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 An introduction to the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" well before the beginning of the semester for details. Literature of American Cultures: Read More [+]

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement

Summer: 6 weeks - 6.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 5-6 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week

Additional Format: Two to three hours of lecture and one to zero hours of discussion per week. Five to six hours of lecture and one to zero hours of discussion per week for 8 weeks. Six and one-half to seven and one-half hours of lecture and one to zero hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.

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ENGLISH 33 African American Literature and Culture 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from origins to the present. African American Literature and Culture: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 37 Chicana/o Literature and Culture 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2014 Major literary and cultural texts in the Chicana/o tradition from origins to the present. Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Read More [+]

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam not required.

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ENGLISH 39 Freshman Seminar 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 1987 Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester. (Sections limited to 15 students each.) Freshman Seminar: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

Additional Format: Three hours of seminar per week.

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

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ENGLISH 39A Freshman Seminar 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 1995 Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester. (Sections limited to 15 students each.) Freshman Seminar: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 43A Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write fiction or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing. Introduction to the Writing of Short Fiction: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 43B Introduction to the Writing of Verse 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021 A workshop course intended for students who have recently begun to write verse or who have not previously taken a course in creative writing. Introduction to the Writing of Verse: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 43N Introduction to the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024 A workshop course in creative non-fiction, a prose genre that takes on non-fiction subjects (the world of culture, history, personal experience) but also is alert to the creativity required to translate those subjects into the realm of writing. Students will study exemplary works of creative non-fiction in different modes (e.g. literary journalism, personal essay, travel writing) and write their own works in selected modes as well. Introduction to the Writing of Creative Non-Fiction: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Three hours of lecture per week.

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ENGLISH 45A Literature in English: Through Milton 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 Historical survey of literature in English: Beginnings through Milton. Literature in English: Through Milton: Read More [+]

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for ENGLISH 45A after completing ENGLISH 46A.

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Format: Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.

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ENGLISH 45B Literature in English: The Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 Historical survey of literature in English: The late-17th through the mid-19th century. Literature in English: The Late-17th through the Mid-19th Century: Read More [+]

Credit Restrictions: Offered for 4 units in fall and in spring, 3 units in summer.

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ENGLISH 45C Literature in English: The Mid-19th through the Mid-20th Century 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 Historical survey of literature in English: the mid-19th through the mid-20th century. Literature in English: The Mid-19th through the Mid-20th Century: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 53 Asian American Literatures and Cultures 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2020 This course provides a broad introductory survey of early to contemporary Asian American literary and cultural production and an opportunity to develop and practice techniques for analyzing literary and cultural forms. English 53 aims to serve students from across campus and is especially suitable for students who have never taken a college-level literary or cultural studies course and would like to improve their essay-writing skills. Asian American Literatures and Cultures: Read More [+]

Additional Format: Two to three hours of lecture and one to zero hours of discussion per week.

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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ENGLISH 80K Children's Literature 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Summer 2021 8 Week Session, Spring 2020 The study of selected works written for children. Children's Literature: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 84 Sophomore Seminar 1 or 2 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores. Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: At discretion of instructor

Fall and/or spring: 5 weeks - 3-6 hours of seminar per week 10 weeks - 1.5-3 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-5 hours of seminar per week 8 weeks - 3.5-7 hours of seminar per week

Additional Format: unit(s):one hour of seminar per week; 2 unit(s):two hours of seminar per week. unit(s):one and one-half hours of seminar per week; 2 unit(s):three hours of seminar per week for 10 weeks. unit(s):three and one-half hours of seminar per week; 2 unit(s):seven hours of seminar per week for 8 weeks. unit(s):two and one-half hours of seminar per week; 2 unit(s):five hours of seminar per week for 6 weeks. unit(s):three hours of seminar per week; 2 unit(s):six hours of seminar per week for five weeks.

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

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ENGLISH 84A Sophomore Seminar on Film 2 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023 Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Sophomore seminars on film include dedicated lab time for film screenings. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores. Sophomore Seminar on Film: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar and 2 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Format: Two hours of laboratory and one hour of seminar per week.

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ENGLISH 90 Practices of Literary Study 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 This course is a small, faculty-led seminar on the practice and discipline of literary analysis. It is meant for all students who seek an introductory literature course and would like to improve their ability to read and write critically, including those who may wish to major in English. Focusing on the close study of a few works, rather than a survey of many, the seminar will help students develop college-level skills for interpreting literature , while gaining awareness of different strategies and approaches for making sense of literary language, genres, forms, and contexts. The seminar also will develop students’ ability to write about literature and to communicate meaningfully the stakes of their analysis to an audience. Practices of Literary Study: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

Additional Format: Three hours of seminar per week. Three hours of seminar per week.

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ENGLISH 98 Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores 1 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2019, Spring 2016 Group study in a field that may not coincide with that of any regular course and must be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies. Directed Group Study for Freshmen and Sophomores: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Lower division standing

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Format: One to Four hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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ENGLISH 98BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit

Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session Berkeley Connect is a mentoring program, offered through various academic departments, that helps students build intellectual community. Over the course of a semester, enrolled students participate in regular small-group discussions facilitated by a graduate student mentor (following a faculty-directed curriculum), meet with their graduate student mentor for one-on-one academic advising, attend lectures and panel discussions featuring department faculty and alumni, and go on field trips to campus resources. Students are not required to be declared majors in order to participate. Course may be repeated for credit. Berkeley Connect: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of directed group study per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Format: One hour of directed group study per week. Two and one-half hours of directed group study per week for 6 weeks.

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ENGLISH 99 Independent Study 1 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015 Meetings to be arranged. Reading and regular conference with the instructor in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable students to write essays based on their studies. Independent Study: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Open to sophomore students with an overall G.P.A. of not less than 3.3

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 1-5 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week

Additional Format: Independent.

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ENGLISH 100 The Seminar on Criticism 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 This seminar is designed to provide English majors with intensive and closely supervised work in critical reading and writing. Although sections of the course may address any literary question, period, or genre, they all provide an introduction to critical and methodological problems in literary studies. The Seminar on Criticism: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 101 The History of the English Language 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2018, Spring 2016 The history of the English language from its Indo-European roots, through its Old, Middle, and Early Modern periods, as preserved in the literary heritage, to its different forms in use throughout the world today. The History of the English Language: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 102 Topics in the English Language 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2018, Spring 2014 Topics vary from semester to semester. Topics in the English Language: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 104 Introduction to Old English 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022 Basic introduction to the vocabulary, grammar, and syntax of Old English designed to get students reading original texts immediately. Typical Old English texts include: riddles, charms, medical recipes, laws, chronicles, elegies, saints' lives, heroic poetry, and monster lore. Introduction to Old English: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 105 Anglo-Saxon England 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2013, Fall 2010 The five centuries of the Anglo-Saxon period encompass a remarkably diverse range of literature: heroic epics and lyric laments; riddles, recipes, and magic spells; matter-of-fact accounts of monsters and miracles; and histories that set new standards for scholarship. This course surveys Anglo-Saxon literature in modern translation, encompassing texts originally written in both Old English and Latin, and prose as well as verse. At the heart of the semester is Beowulf, the period's great and enigmatic epic. Anglo-Saxon England: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 107 The English Bible As Literature 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2019 Introduction to the English Bible treated as a literary work. The English Bible As Literature: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 110 Medieval Literature 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2021 Development of literary form and idiom throughout the Christian West from the first to the fifteenth century. Medieval Literature: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 111 Chaucer 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Lectures on and discussion of Chaucer's major works. Chaucer: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 112 Middle English Literature 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Spring 2015 Middle English literature exclusive of Chaucer studied in the original language. Middle English Literature: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 114A English Drama 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2019, Spring 2017 English drama to 1603. English Drama: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 114B English Drama 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2013 English drama from 1603 to 1700. English Drama: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 115A The English Renaissance 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2019 Beginnings of the English Renaissance and literature of the 16th century. The English Renaissance: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 115B The English Renaissance 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020 Literature of the 17th century. The English Renaissance: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 116 Backgrounds of English Literature in the Continental Renaissance 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2001 A survey of the principal continental documents which are important to an understanding of the English Renaissance. Backgrounds of English Literature in the Continental Renaissance: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 117A Shakespeare 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2015, Fall 2012 A chronological survey of Shakespeare's career. Shakespeare: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 117B Shakespeare 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2019 A chronological survey of Shakespeare's career. Shakespeare: Read More [+]

Instructors: Altman, J. Knapp

ENGLISH 117F Shakespeare and Film 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 1985 Close study of the texts and films based on 8 to 10 plays. Lectures will emphasize the critical implications of transposing plays to film. The goal of the course is the critical understanding of Shakespeare, and the course satisfies the departmental requirement of a course on Shakespeare in the major. Shakespeare and Film: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 117J Shakespeare 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Spring 2005 Study of selected plays, with practice in various critical approaches, e.g., establishing text, relation to source, changing concepts of comedy and tragedy, influence of theatrical conditions on technique. Shakespeare: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 117S Shakespeare 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2023 Lectures on Shakespeare and reading of his best works. Shakespeare: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 117T Shakespeare in the Theatre 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2007 The interrelation of Elizabethan plays and stage practices. Classroom exercises, written assignments, and a final examination. The course will usually culminate in the performance of a play. Shakespeare in the Theatre: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Offered in conjunction with or as a sequel to 117S or 117A-117B

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ENGLISH 118 Milton 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021 Lectures on and discussion of Milton's major works. Milton: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 119 Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021 Lectures on and discussion of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and some of their contemporaries. Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 120 Literature of the Later 18th Century 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2017 Lectures on and discussion of later eighteenth-century British literature. Literature of the Later 18th Century: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 121 Romantic Period 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2021, Spring 2019 Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and contemporaries. Romantic Period: Read More [+]

Credit Restrictions: A deficient grade in English N121 may be removed by taking English 121.

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ENGLISH 122 Victorian Period 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 Literature of the Victorian period with an emphasis on poetry and nonfiction prose. Victorian Period: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 125A The English Novel 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022 Defoe through Scott. The English Novel: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 125B The English Novel 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2018, Fall 2015 Dickens through Conrad. The English Novel: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 125C The European Novel 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Lectures on and discussion of major European novels. The European Novel: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 125D The 20th-Century Novel 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2019 Lectures on and discussion of major novels of the twentieth century. The 20th-Century Novel: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 125E The Contemporary Novel 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Summer 2020 8 Week Session Important contemporary novels, some of which may be read in translation. The Contemporary Novel: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 126 British Literature: 1900-1945 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020 Lectures on and discussion of British literature written between 1900 and 1945. British Literature: 1900-1945: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 127 Modern Poetry 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2014 British and American poetry: 1900 to the present. Modern Poetry: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 128 Modern Drama 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2019 British and American drama: 1860 to the present. Modern Drama: Read More [+]

Additional Format: Three to two hours of lecture and zero to one hours of discussion per week.

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ENGLISH 130A American Literature: Before 1800 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2022 Lectures on and discussion of the major writers of the early American period. American Literature: Before 1800: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 130B American Literature: 1800-1865 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019 Lectures on and discussion of the major texts of the American Renaissance. American Literature: 1800-1865: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 130C American Literature: 1865-1900 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019 Lectures on and discussion of American literature from the Civil War through 1900. American Literature: 1865-1900: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 130D American Literature: 1900-1945 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2019, Fall 2017 A survey of modern American literature. American Literature: 1900-1945: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 131 American Poetry 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 A historical survey of American poetry and its backgrounds. American Poetry: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 132 American Novel 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 A survey of major American novels. American Novel: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 133A African American Literature and Culture Before 1917 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from origins through World War I. African American Literature and Culture Before 1917: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 133B African American Literature and Culture Since 1917 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2016 Major literary and cultural texts in the African American tradition from the Harlem Renaissance through the twentieth century. African American Literature and Culture Since 1917: Read More [+]

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Seven and one-half hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.

African American Literature and Culture Since 1917: Read Less [-]

ENGLISH 133T Topics in African American Literature and Culture 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021 Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester. Topics in African American Literature and Culture: Read More [+]

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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ENGLISH 134 Contemporary Literature 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Summer 2021 8 Week Session Lectures on and discussion of selected works written since the Second World War. Contemporary Literature: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 135AC Literature of American Cultures 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2019 Study of the ethnic diversity of American literature. The course will take substantial account of the literature of three or more of the following groups: African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, and European Americans. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" well before the beginning of the semester for details. Literature of American Cultures: Read More [+]

ENGLISH C136 Topics in American Studies 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023 A course on the intellectual, cultural, historical, and social backgrounds to American literature. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Topics in American Studies: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture and 1-0 hours of discussion per week

Additional Format: Three to four hours of lecture and one to zero hours of discussion per week.

Also listed as: AMERSTD C111E

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ENGLISH 137A Chicana/o Literature and Culture to 1910 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2006 Major literary and cultural texts in the Chicana/o tradition from origins through the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Chicana/o Literature and Culture to 1910: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 137B Chicana/o Literature and Culture Since 1910 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2018 Major literary and cultural texts in the Chicana/o tradition from 1910 through the contemporary Chicana/o period. Chicana/o Literature and Culture Since 1910: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 137T Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2020 Topics in Chicana/o literature and culture. Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 138 Studies in World Literature in English 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020 An examination of various aspects of the modern literature written in English in Africa, the Caribbean, India, and Southeast Asia. Topics will vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester. Studies in World Literature in English: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 139 The Cultures of English 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015 Literatures of various regions in which English is one of the spoken languages, such as Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, Africa, India; and the writings of specific groups or distinctive cultures in the English-speaking world, including the U.S. and the British Isles. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for current offerings well before the start of the semester . The Cultures of English: Read More [+]

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture/seminar per week.

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ENGLISH 141 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.) 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024 Lectures and discussion on the crafts and/or processes of writing in various genres including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, etc. Topics for reading and writing assignments vary semester to semester. Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.): Read More [+]

Prerequisites: R1A-R1B or equivalent

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ENGLISH 143A Short Fiction 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 A seminar in writing short stories. Short Fiction: Read More [+]

Short Fiction: Read Less [-]

ENGLISH 143B Verse 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 A seminar in writing poetry. Verse: Read More [+]

Verse: Read Less [-]

ENGLISH 143C Long Narrative 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 Students will work through the semester on a single project, either fiction (novel) or nonfiction (biography, history). Long Narrative: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 143D Expository and Critical Writing 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2015, Spring 2001 A seminar in expository and critical writing. Expository and Critical Writing: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 143E Playwriting 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2004 A seminar in playwriting. Playwriting: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 143N Prose Nonfiction 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022 A seminar in the writing of prose nonfiction as an art. Prose Nonfiction: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 143T Poetry Translation Workshop 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2013, Spring 2013 Open to those who wish to assimilate foreign influences for writing poetry or to seek a fuller understanding of any foreign poetry by rendering it into English. Poetry Translation Workshop: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, willingness to translate, working knowledge of at least one foreign language

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ENGLISH C143V Visual Autobiography 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2002 Since visual and literary studies have historically been viewed as separate disciplines, we will use theories from both to study those forms of self-representation that defy disciplinary boundaries, or what we call "visual autobiography." The course aims to help students become conversant with the elements of alphabetic literacy (reading and writing) and visual literacy (observing and making) in order to develop a third distinctive textual/visual literacy. Visual Autobiography: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Six hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.

Also listed as: AMERSTD C174/UGIS C135/VIS STD C185A

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ENGLISH 145 Writing Technology 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 An introduction to different modes of technological, critical, and creative writing and the intersections among them and to the representation of technology and science in literature, film, and other media. This course is writing-intensive and aims to serve students from across campus. Writing Technology: Read More [+]

Summer: 6 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Format: Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Four hours of lecture and two hours of discussion per week for 8 weeks. Six hours of lecture and two hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.

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ENGLISH 152 Women Writers 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2019 8 Week Session, Spring 2018, Fall 2013 Topics will vary from semester to semester. Women Writers: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 153T Topics in Asian American Literatures and Cultures 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2021 Immersive study of a topic in Asian American Literatures and Cultures. Particular offerings may focus on an author, genre, form, literary historical issue, or theoretical problem. Topics vary from term to term. Students should consult the Department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the term. Topics in Asian American Literatures and Cultures: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 160 Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2018 An introduction to issues in literary criticism with emphasis on application of principles and methods to selected literary texts. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Read More [+]

Additional Format: Three hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.

Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Read Less [-]

ENGLISH 161 Introduction to Literary Theory 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 This class will focus on literary theory. Introduction to Literary Theory: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 165 Special Topics 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2022, Fall 2021 Designed primarily for English majors. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester. Special Topics: Read More [+]

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of seminar per week

Additional Format: Three hours of seminar per week. Seven and one-half hours of seminar per week for 6 weeks.

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ENGLISH 165AC Special Topics in American Cultures 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2010 Designed primarily for English majors. Study of a special topic related to the diversity of the United States. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester. Special Topics in American Cultures: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 166 Special Topics 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 Immersive study of an author, genre, form, or literary historical issue. Topics vary from term to term. Special Topics: Read More [+]

ENGLISH 166AC Special Topics in American Cultures 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2023, Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session In this course, students investigate the way literature and other art forms have both represented the diversity of the United States and shaped conceptions of diversity. English 166AC provides students with an opportunity to deepen and complicate their appreciation of the way fictions make meaning, shape our understanding and experience of the world, and transform society. Topics vary from term to term and might focus on a form (e.g. "Race and Ethnicity in American Cinema"), a literary historical period (e.g. "Race and Revision in Early America"), or a concept (e.g. nationhood in "Literatures of the Asian Diaspora in America"). Special Topics in American Cultures: Read More [+]

ENGLISH N166 Special Topics 6 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2023 8 Week Session, Summer 2019 Immersive study of an author, genre, form, or literary historical issue. Topics vary from summer to summer. Special Topics: Read More [+]

Summer: 5 weeks - 16 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Sixteen hours of lecture per week for five weeks.

ENGLISH 170 Literature and the Arts 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2021 Studies in the relationship of literature in English to the arts. Literature and the Arts: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 171 Literature and Sexual Identity 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 Sexual identity in literature in relation to thematics, literary convention, psychology, and the particular politics and sociology of individual cultures. The course may range broadly over Western literature or concentrate on one historical period. Literature and Sexual Identity: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 172 Literature and Psychology 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2024 8 Week Session, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2022 Studies in the relationship of literature in English to psychology. Literature and Psychology: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 173 The Language and Literature of Films 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2019, Fall 2018 Studies in film as a mode of representing reality; cinematic techniques and the "language" of film. Lectures, class discussions, and film viewings. The Language and Literature of Films: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-7.5 hours of discussion per week 8 weeks - 6-6 hours of lecture and 0-6 hours of discussion per week

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture and zero to three hours of discussion per week. Six hours of lecture and zero to six hours of discussion per week for 8 weeks. Seven and one-half hours of lecture and zero to seven and one-half hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.

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ENGLISH 174 Literature and History 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2021 Topics will vary from semester to semester. Literature and History: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 175 Literature and Disability 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022 Studies of the relationships among literature, culture, and "disability." The course may range broadly or concentrate on one historical period, genre, or issue. Literature and Disability: Read More [+]

Summer: 8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Six hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks.

Literature and Disability: Read Less [-]

ENGLISH 176 Literature and Popular Culture 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session Topics will vary from semester to semester. Literature and Popular Culture: Read More [+]

Literature and Popular Culture: Read Less [-]

ENGLISH 177 Literature and Philosophy 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 2023 Studies in the relationship of literature in English to philosophy. Literature and Philosophy: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 177A Literature and the Environment 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024 Studies in the relationship between literature and the environment. Literature and the Environment: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 178 British and American Folklore 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2004, Fall 2000, Spring 1999 Study of representative forms of folklore and oral literature among the English-speaking people of the British Isles and North America. British and American Folklore: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 178A Literature and Law 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2021 Studies in the relationship between literature and law. 4 units. Literature and Law: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 179 Literature and Linguistics 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2015 Study of the English language as a medium for literature. Topics may include rhyme, alliteration, meter, poetic syntax, metaphor, irony, the language of point of view, narrative tense, orality, literacy, etc. Literature and Linguistics: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180A Autobiography 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018 Lectures on and discussion of autobiographical forms. Autobiography: Read More [+]

Autobiography: Read Less [-]

ENGLISH 180C Comedy 4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2021, Fall 2019 Studies of representative comic forms, techniques, and points of view. Comedy: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180E The Epic 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016 Reading and discussion of epics, considering their cultural and historical contexts, the nature of their composition, and the development of the form. The Epic: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180H Short Story 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2020 Lectures on and discussion of the form of the short story. Short Story: Read More [+]

Summer: 8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture per week. Seven and one-half hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks.

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ENGLISH 180J The Essay 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024 Study of the essay as a literary form, the circumstances of its use and development, and its fortunes in twentieth-century culture. The Essay: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180L Lyric Verse 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2017 Study of lyric forms and techniques. Lyric Verse: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180N The Novel 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Spring 2016 Study of the novel as a literary genre, its formal development and variations, its technical possibilities, its cultural functions. Topics may vary from semester to semester. The Novel: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180R The Romance 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2013 Study of the romance as a literary genre. Topics may vary from semester to semester; focus may be historical or restricted to a particular period (e.g., medieval, modern). The Romance: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180S Satire 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 1985 Study of representative satire forms, techniques, and points of view. Satire: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180T Tragedy 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2020, Fall 1992 Study of representative tragic forms, techniques, and points of view. Tragedy: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH 180Z Science Fiction 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2024 Study of speculative fiction (or science fiction) as a genre. Topics may vary from semester to semester. Focus may be historical or thematic. Science Fiction: Read More [+]

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ENGLISH C181 Digital Humanities, Visual Cultures 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017 “Digital humanities” describes how digital formats and tools can be used to produce knowledge about cultural materials. This course introduces students to techniques used to study visual culture and related disciplines, possibly including mapping, network analysis, digital (re)construction of objects and environments; digital editions of texts or online exhibitions; digital manipulation of images; and content-management systems and structured data. The class also provides a framework to help students think critically about the values that underpin existing DH projects. Digital Humanities, Visual Cultures: Read More [+]

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Additional Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.

Also listed as: HISTART C109

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ENGLISH 190 Research Seminar 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 Research-oriented and designed for upper-division English majors. Intensive examination of critical approaches, literary theory, or a special topic in literary and cultural studies. Topics vary from semester to semester. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings well before the beginning of the semester. Research Seminar: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: English 100 is prerequisite to English 190

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ENGLISH H195A Honors Course 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 H195 is a two-semester course that gives students the training they need to conduct original research and develop their findings into a successful scholarly essay, 40-60 pages in length. Honors Course: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Open only to senior English major honors candidates (i.e., students with an overall GPA of 3.51 or higher and a GPA of 3.65 or higher in courses taken at Berkeley in the major). Consent of instructor is required. English 100 is prerequisite to the English H195A/B series

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series. Final exam not required.

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ENGLISH H195B Honors Course 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022 English H195B is the Spring course in the two-course requirement for the honors program, to be preceded by H195A in the Fall semester. Honors Course: Read More [+]

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series. Final exam not required.

ENGLISH 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023 Enrollment is restricted by university regulations. Group study in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies. Directed Group Study: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Open to students who have completed 12 units of upper division English with an average of not less than B

Additional Format: Meetings to be arranged.

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ENGLISH 198BC Berkeley Connect 1 Unit

English 199 supervised independent study for advanced undergraduates 1 - 4 units.

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022 Meetings to be arranged. Enrollment is restricted by university regulations. Reading and conference with the instructor in a field that shall not coincide with that of any regular course and shall be specific enough to enable students to write essays based upon their studies. Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Prerequisites: Open to students who have completed 12 units of upper division English with an average grade of not less than B

Summer: 6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of independent study per week 8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of independent study per week

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Phone: 510-642-3467

Fax: 510-642-8738

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[email protected]

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Kevis Goodman

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Student dinner at UC Berkeley law professor’s house disrupted by pro-Palestine protester

( KRON ) — A dinner for UC Berkeley law students hosted in the yard of the school dean’s house was interrupted by a pro-Palestine protestor on Tuesday night, the professor said in a letter posted on the law school’s website . A video of the professor’s wife, who is also a UC Berkeley law professor, confronting the protester has gone viral , accumulating more than 5.7 million views on X.

Professors Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk have invited first-year law students to their home for dinner for years, Chemerinsky said. Tuesday’s dinner hosted members of this year’s graduating class, who missed out on a dinner in 2021 due to COVID-19.

About 60 students, all of whom registered in advance, sat in the couple’s backyard to eat on Tuesday when one of the students stood up and read a speech about Ramadan and the current state of Palestine. Chemerinsky and Fisk told the woman to leave, with Fisk attempting to grab the woman’s phone and microphone.

The professors reminded the students that they were in their house and repeatedly asked them to leave. The woman kept reading, citing the First Amendment. In a video shared with KRON4, Chemerinsky can be heard saying, “No, this is my house. The First Amendment doesn’t apply.”

Several other students who Chemerinsky said were “clearly with” the woman speaking stood up in support of her. After about two minutes of the professors talking back and forth with the woman, the group of students left.

The Bay Area chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement called Fisk’s actions “assault,” and credited them to “Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, and religious discrimination.” A community note under the viral tweet cites CA 3475, which says the owner of property is permitted to use “reasonable force” to make a trespasser leave if the person does not leave within a reasonable time and could pose a threat.

“I was attacked not only for speaking about Palestine, but assaulted because I was a Muslim woman that dared to wear a hijab and a keffiyeh and speak in my native tongue of Arabic, equating my identity with something that should be feared and someone that deserved to be silenced,” said the speaker, whose name is Malak Afaneh.

The students’ gripe was with money that they said was being donated by the school to fund Israel’s artillery. The professors said that they and the law school did not control that investment.

“We agree with you about what’s going on in Palestine,” Fisk can be heard saying as the students leave. “We don’t control the investment.”

According to Chemerinsky, antisemitism is a part of the story as well. A poster that showed a caricature of Chemerinsky holding a fork and knife with the words “No dinner with Zionist Chem while Gaza starves” circulated online and on the school’s campus before the dinner, Chemerinsky said.

“I never thought I would see such blatant antisemitism, with an image that invokes the horrible antisemitic trope of blood libel and that attacks me for no apparent reason other than I am Jewish,” he said.

Chemerinsky said he was told there would be a protest if he did not cancel his dinner, but he went forward with the dinner, thinking that any protest would not be disruptive.

“The dinner, which was meant to celebrate graduating students, was obviously disrupted and disturbed. I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda,” he said.

Chemerinsky opted to proceed with additional dinners on Wednesday and Thursday. He said there would be security present.

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