ENGL 10C

Literatures in English, 1850 to Present

Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisites: English Composition 3 or 3H, English 4W or 4HW, 10A, 10B. Survey of major writers and genres, with emphasis on tools for literary analysis such as close reading, argumentation, historical and social context, and critical writing. Minimum of three papers (three to five pages each) or equivalent required. P/NP or letter grading.

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Winter 2023 - The syllabus for this class was not awful, but the way that many texts were spoken on and discussed made me continuously ill. Minorities were often the topic of the class (Bristow is white btw) and in his eyes they can only exist as people of struggle. Black people could not exist as free people without the help of White people, immigrants only come from countries that are dangerous and never feel welcomed in their own communities, lesbians only want to be men. This was a large majority of the syllabus and what Bristow took away from the readings, if he even did ANY close reading at all. Lectures went over and it often feels as if he focuses more on what historical tidbit he thinks is interesting or the author's struggling parents than the readings themselves. The structure was extremely unorganized and quite a few of the readings ended up being omitted or even added as extra material (in the form of recordings posted less than a week before the final). Bristow is not helpful in any way with student's writing, and instead complained about the abundance of low grades this quarter. He believes there is a standard to be upheld at UCLA; but only by the students, because him as a professor, he's sooooo perfect! There's no way he could improve at all! Don't ask him about your feedback, I hear he will be awful to you. The really saddening part of this class was that while the colored people, immigrants and the lesbians struggled internally with their identity, the gay white men experienced struggles because of society. There was no real internal struggle, and while the colored gay men's stories always ended with them still mentally unsatisfied, the white, gay men's stories ended with them mentally uplifted, discovering their struggle was only placed on them by the boundaries of societal opinions. The next major qualm I had with this class was its paper topics. Topics were trivial, and often worded to make them seem smarter than they are, and you won't really get paper #1 back in time for paper #2 but it's okay! That is completely on purpose. You will not emerge from this class a better writer, or feel like your writing has improved. In fact, you may hate your writing and loose all confidence. It's almost as if he wants you to feel awful about your papers, with no change of getting better, or even knowing what you need to improve on. Just glad I've learned my lesson: I am actively avoiding this distinguished professor and his classes like the plague.
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Spring 2018 - I was one of the few people in my discussion who genuinely enjoyed attending lecture. She's adorable and a bit eccentric and quite clearly adores teaching. Her lectures tend to be quite lacking in structure, and many of my peers had difficulty ascertaining what exactly they should be taking notes on. My advice would be to make a note of which passages she discusses, as well as paying attention to the important historical contexts or styles/literary devices/themes that she points out. She is, for the most part, extremely approachable, considerate, and kind. If your paper is randomly chosen to be graded by her, she will be a bit harsh and leave at most two comments. However, you will have 3 short essays (4 pages!) to prove yourself, and the first one will only count 10% of your grade. I found it most helpful to hound my TA when planning my essays. There is no midterm, and the final is graded more kindly than the essays are. Our final had (if I'm remembering correctly) 17 ID terms, and you only needed to correctly identify 15 of them, with the full title and the writer's full name. There is poetry explication, and then a final long essay in which you are given two "big ideas" and you pick one to write about. It's definitely very helpful to keep up with the reading, but I'll admit that I fell behind on most of the longer works. Reading detailed summaries and taking really good lecture notes will carry you through just fine. I really did enjoy this class, though ultimately the most electrifying lecture had been given by one of the TAs. Nevertheless, I would highly recommend taking 10C with Jaurretche!
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