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Berkeley City College’s English major options offer a wide variety of language, literature, and writing courses to serve students with diverse goals, including transfer to U.C., C.S.U., or other four-year colleges.

Students intending to transfer to U.C. Berkeley as English majors can complete all the lower-division major preparation coursework at BCC (English 17A or B, 85A, 85B, and 85C).

Those intending to transfer to San Francisco State University as creative writing majors can complete the portal course (English 10A or B) at BCC.

Tuesday, December, 15 (7:30 p.m., BCC auditorium) — English 85A, 85B, and 85C present From Chaucer to Pynchon in Ninety Minutes, a semi-annual exercise in showcasing the English major’s knowledge and passion for literature, as combined with extreme silliness.