English
About the Program
Welcome to the Department of English at Foothill College, where we read, write, and think critically about a variety of local, regional, national, and global texts and contexts. Through carefully designed courses of study, students are invited to engage with texts that reflect a range of cultural perspectives.
The English Department empowers students by facilitating their understanding and use of language and other media as we support their academic, career-related, and personal endeavors.
What you can do with a degree in English
- Writing & Editing
- Communications
- Education
- Content Strategy & Development
- Law
- Journalism
- Nonprofits
- Business Development
- And so much more!
Why Study English?
The English Major prepares students for a range of careers and disciplines. An English degree enhances students' critical reading, writing, and thinking skills and offers a breadth of cultural and historical knowledge through the study and creation of diverse texts.
Degree & Program Types
View list below for programs offered at Foothill. Then select program map for a possible schedule that fulfills program and college requirements.
Foothill College offers two English degrees. The ADT prepares students for transfer to four-year institutions. Students who complete the ADT in English are ensured preferential transfer status to any California State University (CSU) as an English major.
For program requirements and full course listings, view degrees and certificates information.
Associate in Arts for Transfer |
Associate in Arts |
Fall 2025 Featured Courses in Literature and Creative Writing
In addition to our core English 1A, English 1B, and English 1C courses in a range of modalities, we are offering a selection of compelling literature courses, all offered entirely online asynchronous, and creative writing courses, usually offered online with a hybrid, asynchronous one weekly meeting in Zoom.
Please check current schedule of classes for days and times and any changes or cancellations.
LITERATURE
ENGL 5 Loud & Queer: Literature of Sexual/Gender Identity, Fully Online
This course is a literary exploration of genders and sexualities across different historical periods, geopolitical spaces, and cultural practices within the queer literary tradition. Readings and other works reflecting intersectional approaches to sexuality, race, ethnicity, gender, nation, class, ability, and religion. Critical analysis of fiction, poetry, other texts and performance pieces of queer scholars, writers, and artists through socio-historical contexts, as well as queer, postcolonial, gender, and critical race theories, towards an understanding of diverse, lived queer experiences.
ENGL 8 Children's Literature, Fully Online
This course explores children's literature from many periods and cultures, including classics, picture books, folktales, fairy tales, biography, poetry, fantasy, and fiction. Emphasis on the ideas, didactic and sociological, reflecting relationships among global and multiple cultures included in books usually read by children. Special emphasis on books that explore the cross-cultural influences of our shared oral tradition and folklore, as well as the issues arising from a diversity of U.S. cultures.
ENGL 14 Traveling the World Through Contemporary Literature, Fully Online
Experience different locations and cultures through fiction written between 1950 and the present, with emphasis on literature in translation. Students are introduced to various thematic and stylistic trends in contemporary multicultural fiction within the contexts of contemporaneous scientific discoveries, historical, religious, and cultural developments; as well as multiple theories of identity and power.
CREATIVE WRITING
Take a Creative Writing Course |
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Questions?
Please Contact Me!
Amber La Piana and Ben Armerding, English Department Co-Chairs
Division Office Contacts
| Valerie Fong, Division Dean Phone: 650.949.7135 Email: fongvalerie@fhda.edu |
| Language Arts Division |