Humboldt offers the largest variety of special topics courses of any English department among the 23-campus CSU system. This practice enriches our major in all areas, but particularly in literary studies.

Some of the special topics courses we have offered:

• Audre Lorde: Language & Power
• Black Lives Matter
• Asian American Literatures
• Literature of the Americas
• Chican@ Literature
• BIPOC Comics & Graphic Novels
• Shakespeare and Colonialism
• Queer Women's Memoir
• Women and Work
• Bodies, Land, Black Speculation
• Theories of Embodiment
• Reading and Writing the Borderlands
• Composing Beautiful Sentences
• Literature and Imprisonment
• Law and Literature of Slavery and Resistance
• Black Feminist Literary Innovators
• 21st-Century Virginia Woolf
• Art, War, and Politics in Modernist Literature
• Queer Theories
• Englishness and Otherness in Modernist Britain
• Contemporary Native American Fiction
• Decolonizing British Literature: How to Grow an Empire
• Crime and Capitalism in Modern British Literature
• Caribbean Literature
• Satire in a Post-Irony World
• Collaborative Writing
• Witchcraft and Witches
• Palestinian Literature
• Latinx Literature
• Multicultural Queer Narratives
• Shakespeare and Metamorphosis
• Shakespeare and the Body
• Sexology and Literary Scandal
• Black Britain
• Poetry and Protest
• Power in and of the Home
• Afrofuturism and Chicanx Futurism
• Literature of North Africa and the Middle East
• Speculative Fiction: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Marxist Literary Theory
• Politics and Aesthetics
• Performing Race and Gender
• Modern Arabic Literature

This list is constantly growing, in response to new students' interests.