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Contact Information
Contact Information
Please reach out to me anytime with any questions, comments or thoughts about the course. The best way to contact me is through Canvas email. I'm always available Monday through Friday, between 10 and 12. Even after those hours, I'll usually be able to respond to an email within a few hours (48 hours at the absolute most).
If you're not yet enrolled in the class but would like to talk with me about it, shoot me an email at cgreger@ccsf.edu!
Course Information
Course Information
English 46A is a fully online course. As you probably know, this class is being taught online and asynchronously. “Asynchronous” means that we won’t be meeting all together at a scheduled time; instead, we’ll all be working together online at various times, finishing weekly modules.
Each weekly module builds upon the last, so even though you’ll be able to work according to your own schedule, you’ll need to complete each weekly module before you can move on to the next. Although there will be no required Zoom meetings, though there may be some optional ones in which we meet for live lectures, discussions, questions. If so, they’ll be scheduled in advance, and recorded so that even if you can’t make it, you can catch up with what went on.
Please note: This section of English 46A is a 16 week course, beginning on January 26th, 2026 rather than on January 12th, when the regular Spring semester at CCSF actually starts.
Checking in: Please plan to log into the course on Monday, January 26th 2026 so I can ensure everyone has access to the course material. If you don't log in by the end of the day on Wednesday, January 28th, be prepared to receive a friendly nudge from me. Those who have not logged on and/or completed the initial log on activities could lose their seat to a waiting student!
Important Dates
Important Dates
Important Class Dates
Class starts: 01/26/26
Class ends: 05/20/26
Important School Dates
Last Day to Drop with a refund: January 30th 2026
Last Day to Drop without a 'W': January 30th 2026
Priority deadline to file a petition for the Associate of Arts or Science degrees, and credit Certificates: April 9th, 2026
Last Day to Drop: April 16th 2026
Course Syllabus
Course Syllabus
The Class Syllabus will be available to read soon.
Here's a tentative schedule of reading assignments, if you want to get started early!
City College San Francisco
ENGL 46A Online
Spring 2026
Tentative weekly schedule of Readings (Subject to some changes and tweaks)
Main Textbook: Norton Anthology of English Literature volumes A and B (11th edition, though earlier editions will work okay as well and are available online for only a few bucks)
Week one
Intros, Old English, short poems and riddles
Week two
Beowulf
Week three
Matter of Britain and Romance – Early Arthurs (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace Layamon) and Marie de France, “Lanval”
Week four
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Week five
Chaucer: Prologue, Miller’s Tale
Week six
Chaucer: Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale, The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Week seven
Religious Transitions: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Mystery Plays (2nd Shepherd’s Play and Everyman).
Week eight
Thomas Malory, Morte d’Arthur (selections); Essay #1 due.
Week nine
Intro: The Renaissance. Thomas More, Utopia.
Week ten
Marlowe, Dr. Faustus.
Week eleven
Spenser, The Faery Queen (selections) and Sir Philip Sydney, “Defense of Poesy” and selected poems.
Week twelve
The Sonnets (selected) – Wyatt, Sydney, Spenser, Shakespeare and Donne
Week thirteen
Webster, Duchess of Malfi, Milton, Paradise Lost part 1.
Week fourteen
Milton, Paradise Lost part 2
Week fifteen
Milton, Paradise Lost part 3
Week sixteen
Final exam and Essay #2 due.
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