214 courses with the subject ENGL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENGL 1001English Composition A multiple genres. Major assignments include a literacy narrative
3 hours and conference; 1½ credits an analytical essay, and an Workshop in expository writing: strategies of, and practice in, argumentative essay. Instruction in drafting, feedback, revision, analytical eading and writing about texts. Fundamentals of and reflection. Development of grammar and syntax. requent assignments in writing analytical thinking, idea development, and evidence-based summaries, analyses, comparisons of texts, and such other argumentation. Guided practice in forms as narration, description, and argumentation. Emphasis research and source-based writing for future courses. on writing as a process: invention, revision, editing. (Not open Reflection and portfolio-based assessment to students who are enrolled in or who have completed English supporting transfer to disciplinary, professional, and public 1010 [1]. Students may not receive credit for both English 1010 contexts. Satisfies Pathways Required [1] and English 1001 [1.11].) Core English composition requirement.
3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of ways in which ethnicity, migration, and immigration are represented in literature. Development of students' understanding of aesthetics of literature and acquaintance with new approaches to reading. Topics include literary conceptions of national belonging, ethnic identity, home and family, immigration, memory, and diaspora. (Not open to students who have completed Core Curriculum 3101.) 2017- 2018: Satisfies Pathways College Option requirement. Starting Fall 2018 Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core US Experience in Its Diversity requirement. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1010 [1].
3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of the possibilities for storytelling in the genres of Italian American literature and film. The focus of discussion is character development, structure, and point of view, as well as the conflict between stereotype and anti-stereotype. (Not open to students who have completed Core Curriculum 3103.) 2017- 2018 and 2018-2019: Satisfies Pathways College Option requirement. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1010 [1].
3 hours; 3 credits Exploration of the intersection of literature and film. Development of students' understanding of aesthetics of language and literature and acquaintance with new approaches to reading. Topics include narrative structure; character; setting; point of view; representation of emotion and thought. This course is the same as Classics 2104. (Not open to students who have completed Core Curriculum 3104.) 2017-2018: Satisfies Pathways College Option requirement. Starting Fall 2018 Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core World Cultures and Global Issues requirement. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1010 [1].
3 hours; 3 credits Study of a text in its literary, historical, and cultural contexts across time. Focus on textual analysis; literary, historical, and cultural influences on the production of the text; and responses to the text across time. Reactions to the text in different media. (Not open to students who have completed Core Curriculum 3106.) 2017-2018: Satisfies Pathways College Option requirement. Starting Fall 2018 Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core Individual and Society requirement. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1010 [1].
3 hours; 3 credits Study of a series of major works in literature, from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, with special attention to the development of secular culture. Attention to the rise of the bourgeoisie, the growth of individualism and of subjectivity, and the transformations in codes of representation. (Not open to students who have completed Core Curriculum 3107.) 2017- 2018: Satisfies Pathways College Option requirement. Starting Fall 2018 Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core World Cultures and Global Issues requirement. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1010 [1].
3 hours; 3 credits This course introduces the academic discipline of literary study, involving a threefold emphasis: (1) on the close reading of texts, attending to their sounds and structures, modes and genres; (2) on recognizing literature as a conversation between texts across space and time; and (3) on the history of literary critical methods, terms, and concepts. *English courses numbered lower than 2115 may not be counted toward the English major. Satisfies Pathways Flexible Core World Cultures and Global Issues requirement. Department.
English 1012, or by permission of the chair of the
ENGL 2115Advanced Exposition and Peer Tutoring
practical self-monitoring and self-evaluating strategies to promote successful language acquisition and cultural 3 hours lecture, 3 hours tutoring; 4 credits competence. For students studying or planning to study a Intensive study of and practice in writing the principal rhetorical modern language, including English at the college level. forms. Training in principles of peer tutoring and three hours of tutoring writing in the Learning Center or other appropriate of English.
permission of the chairperson of the Department setting. A grade of A in English 1012 or the equivalent and
ENGL 2116Advanced Exposition
4 hours; 4 credits Intensive study of and practice in essay writing for a variety of audiences and purposes. English *1012 [2] may waive the English *1012 [2] prerequisite for English 2116 [5.1].
4 hours; 4 credits Introduction to interpretive methods and critical lenses used to analyze fiction, poetry, and drama, drawn from multiple periods and diverse cultural traditions. Examination of the historical, social, and political contexts and the formal and genre-based practices that shape interpretation and meaning. Development of close textual analysis, interpretative methods, and research strategies. [2] or 2.7
English 1010 [1] or 1.7; Co-requisite: English 1012
ENGL 2120Overview of Literary Study I: Representative
Selections of World Literature 4 hours; 4 credits Studies in literature and culture from the Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century. Part I of a two-course overview with three principal focuses: 1) the major literary and intellectual movements in historical perspective; 2) the language of literary analysis and the close reading of texts in the genres; and 3) literature as viewed through the various lenses of contemporary theory and critical discourses.
Representative Selections of World Literature 4 hours; 4 credits Studies in literature and culture from nineteenth-century Romanticism through the present. Part II of a two-course general survey and overview with three principal focuses: 1) the major literary and intellectual movements in historical perspective; 2) the language of literary analysis and the close reading of texts in the genres; and 3) literature as viewed through the various lenses of contemporary theory and critical discourses.
4 hours; 4 credits Introductory workshop in writing stories, poems, and short plays; students’ creative practice developed in response to readings representing a diverse array of voices, styles, subject positions, and points of view.
4 hours; 4 credits Works read in Middle English: The Canterbury Tales; The House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; Chaucer’s shorter works. Their relation to medieval literature; modern adaptations. Possible themes include: courtly love and gender and sexuality; animals and the environment; race and racialization.
ENGL 3120Poetry and Prose of the Sixteenth Century
4 hours; 4 credits English poetry from Wyatt through Shakespeare's sonnets; English prose from Thomas More through Richard Hooker. Possible subjects include: love and courtship; gender and sexuality; religion; utopia and political satire; exploration and travel narratives; race and colonialism.
4 hours; 4 credits This course explores a range of Shakespeare's plays representing the histories, comedies, and tragedies, with attention to cultural and historical contexts; discussion topics may include the plays' treatment of bodies, gender, sexuality, race, class, political power, the environment, and theater history.
4 hours; 4 credits This course explores a topic of the instructor's choice in Shakespeare's plays and nondramatic writings. Course topics will vary; possible directions could include, but are not limited to, a more focused study on any of the areas covered in Shakespeare I.
4 hours; 4 credits Development of prose fiction as the main vehicle for portraying the middle class and its values. Such writers as Richardson, Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, and Austen. Topics may include: the epistolary novel; courtship, marriage, and class; the country and the city.
4 hours; 4 credits Poetry of Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, and Hopkins studied in detail. Supplementary reading from such poets as the Rossettis, Swinburne, Morris, and Clough.
ENGL 3145British Literature in Transition from 1885 to
1914 4 hours; 4 credits Significant developments in the novel, poetry, and drama between the Victorian period and the modern period. Work of such writers as George Moore, Wilde, Shaw, Wells, Hardy, Yeats, and Kipling and of such groups as the Aesthetes, Decadents, Activists, Symbolists, and Imagists.
4 hours; 4 credits The passage of American literature into the twentieth century with such poets and fiction writers as James, Dickinson, Twain, Crane, Chopin, Wharton, Dreiser, and Frost.
4 hours; 4 credits Literary experimentation and innovation in early twentieth- century U.S. society. A range of arts (novel, poetry, manifesto, film, photography), movements (the avant-gardes, feminism, the Harlem Renaissance, the 1930s Cultural Front), and contexts (immigration, WWI, Jim Crow and white supremacy, the Great Migration, the Great Depression). Writers may include Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, T.S. Eliot, Muriel Rukeyser, Richard Wright, Sui Sin Far, H.T. r Tsiang, Meridel Le Sueur, and others.
4 hours; 4 credits American literature from World War II to the end of the twentieth century. A range of arts (novel, poetry, drama), forms (post- modernism, realism, genre fiction), and contexts (the Cold War, Civil Rights and other social movements, new patterns of immigration, the sexual revolution, and the emergence of a truly . global economy). Writers may include James Baldwin, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, Tony Kushner, Jamaica Kincaid, Adrienne Rich, Maria Helena Viramontes, and others.
4 hours; 4 credits Autobiography and its special importance to the process of defining the self in America. Examination of the theme of the New World and the "new" man and the "new" woman. The relation between private identity and national character as revealed in the autobiographical writings of immigrants, workers, and plainfolk. This course is the same as American Studies 3302.
4 hours; 4 credits Myths, legends, tales, proverbs, riddles, songs, dances, beliefs, rituals, celebrations, and folk art of American folk groups. Ethnic, regional, and occupational folklore. The relationship of oral folk culture to popular expression and written literature. Independent work in collecting folklore. This course is the same as American Studies 3402.
3 hours; 3 credits African-American oral tradition and African-American culture. Survival of the African culture. Oral history, spirituals, folktales, blues, toasts, dozens, etc. Uses of the oral tradition in literature. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3230.
4 hours; 4 credits Folklore of the streets and neighborhoods of New York City. The urban environment as a region generating its own folklore and traditions. Customs, language, and symbols of urban life,
4 hours; 4 credits Literature from the colonial period through the Harlem Renaissance. Slave narratives, rhetoric of abolition, formal and vernacular aesthetics. Such writers as Phyllis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Paul L. Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3220.
4 hours; 4 credits Literature from 1930 to the present. Naturalism and protest, the Black Aesthetic, women's literature. Such writers as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3221.
4 hours; 4 credits Black women novelists, short story writers, and essayists. Cross-cultural comparisons with African and Caribbean novelists. Readings of selected essays in Black feminist criticism. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3260 and Women Studies 3117.
4 hours; 4 credits Selected fiction, drama, and poetry set in various Brooklyn neighborhoods, with emphasis on setting, historical background, and such themes as the assimilation of immigrants and urban alienation.
ENGL 3164Introduction to Italian American Literature
4 hours; 4 credits The struggle and development of a distinctive Italian American tradition in literature. Discussion of language, class, assimilation, gender, literary form, and the search for a usable past.
4 hours; 4 credits Literary works, historical documents, and theoretical paradigms that situate U.S. cultural production in relation to places outsid its borders, with particular attention to the Western hemisphere. Topics include: globalization, first contact between Europe and the Americas, cultural dimensions of U.S. foreign policy, forms of expression arising from diaspora experience, and the reception of U.S. culture abroad. This course is the same as American Studies 3307.
3 hours; 3 credits Lectures, studies and workshops in Black theater. Liaison with professional and community theater. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3225 and Theater 2502.
4 hours; 4 credits Development of prose fiction as a vehicle for the examination of self and society. Such writers as Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Huxley, Lawrence, and Forster.
4 hours; 4 credits Irish literature and culture. Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O'Casey, and others. Historical, political, and cultural backgrounds. Irish nationalism, Gaelic Ireland, literary Dublin.
ENGL 3174Contemporary British Writing from 1950 to
the Present 4 hours; 4 credits Plays, novels, and poems of such writers as Beckett, Pinter, Osborne, Behan, Lessing, Anthony Powell, Murdoch, Durell, Spark, Ted Hughes, Charles Tomlinson, Thom Gunn, and Thomas Kinsella.
4 hours; 4 credits Workshop in understanding the nature of writing and how to teach it. Writing as a process: invention, revision, editing; effective structures; writing about literature; experimenting with genres; writing as a way of learning. Social and linguistic influences on writing. Responding to other people’s work. Frequent in-class writing; several short papers taken through drafts; compilation of a portfolio.
4 hours; 4 credits Analysis of differing uses and evaluation of literature. Focus on standard texts (short stories, plays, novels, and poems) as well as representative works which emerge from the family and home communities of the students and/or different cultures and historical periods.
4 hours; 4 credits Western literature illustrating developments in the epic genre from the Middle Ages to the present. Adjustment of the epic tradition to differing cultural values through a continual process of translation, imitation, adaptation, and transformation of epic form and content which has led to expressions of the modern "epic vision." This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3601.
4 hours; 4 credits Representative Biblical selections evaluated by literary criteria. English 241 Origin and development of the English Bible as a literary classic.
4 hours; 4 credits The comic mode in dramatic and nondramatic forms of literature. Aesthetic, philosophical, and psychological theories of comedy. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3604.
4 hours; 4 credits The tragic mode in dramatic and nondramatic forms of literature. Aesthetic, philosophical, and psychological theories of tragedy. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3603.
4 hours; 4 credits An examination of romance as a literary genre: the historical development of its conventions, narrative formulas, and characteristic themes; its relationships with and contributions to other forms of literature. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3605.
4 hours; 4 credits Sexual roles and the sources of sexual conflict in English and American literature. Problems of sensibility, style, and audience. Function of literary images of women. Same as Women’s and Gender Studies 3119.
3 hours; 3 credits Pastoral, a powerful mode of mythic imagination, studied in its roots and transformations: plots and themes (herdsmen as lovers, rulers, and poets; kings as herdsmen and poets) originating in ancient Mediterranean cultures and still at work in imagination today. Return and change of basic mythemes to meet the challenges of new times and worlds. This course is the same as Classics 3224 and Comparative Literature 3602. chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits Literature appropriate for students in elementary and secondary schools. Fundamentals of literature and basic reading of interest to young people.
4 hours; 4 credits Fantasy and its many modes, including the gothic tale, the literary fairy tale, the animal tale, surrealism and the absurd, time and space travel, and futuristic fiction. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3612.
4 hours; 4 credits Relationship of literature to psychological theories in specific readings. Freudian, Jungian, and/or other psychological techniques applied, compared, and evaluated as tools of literary criticism. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3628.
ENGL 3193Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory
4 hours; 4 credits Major approaches to literature since 1960. Topics may include semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, narratology, new historicism, feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism, and social constructionism. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 3626.
ENGL 3195Directing Television Adaptation. Analysis
and Production 2 hours lecture, 2 hours television laboratory; 3 credits A workshop combining literary and technical skills. In-depth analysis of scenes from critically acclaimed adaptations of literary and dramatic texts. Principles and techniques of directing adaptation for television. Students learn elements of all phases of production: research and interpretation, working with actors, studio production techniques, teleplay director's craft, editing and mixing sound in multi-camera live environment and post production. Students direct their own interpretation of a script provided by professor. For the final common class project students choose one production position, according to their interests and skills. This course is the same as Television, Radio and Emerging Media 3850. and Emerging Media 3824 [24.1] or 3861 [26.1] or 3871 [27.1].
A course in dramatic literature or Television, Radio
ENGL 3196Orality, Literacy, and Computer Technology
3 hours; 3 credits The evolution from orality to writing, to print culture, to compute technology, and the relationship of each to the cognitive process and human culture. (This course is the same as Communication 3000)
4 hours; 4 credits The study of literary texts that explore and reflect the momentous historical, economic, and cultural changes tied to the expansion of Britain’s empire starting in the 17th, and its consolidation in the 18th, century. Topics may include: trade, travel, and the transatlantic slave trade as foundations of wealth, consumerism, and political power; the loss of the American colonies; the burgeoning of abolition by the end of the eighteenth century. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies A requirement: Race/Ethnicity or Empire/Post-colonialism, or alternatively, Period Courses 3: 1700–1800. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1012 [2] Programs and Courses of Instruction
4 hours; 4 credits Anglophone Romanticism in conversation with writers from Continental Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. Possible topics: Black Romanticism; indigenous response to the British/colonial canon; new anticolonial, antiracist readings of Romantic poetry in the academy. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies A requirement: Race/Ethnicity or Empire/Post- colonialism, or, alternatively, Period Courses 4: 1800–1900. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1012 [2]
4 hours; 4 credits American literature of the twenty-first century. A range of genres (novel, poetry, drama, literary nonfiction, and multimodal or intergenre works) in twenty-first-century contexts.
4 hours; 4 credits Native American literature of the late 20th and 21st century. Focus on works on identity, race, and the natural and spiritual world, engaging each writer and work in their geographical, cultural, and literary context. Such writers as Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, Leslie Marmon Silko, and N. Scott Momaday. This course fulfills the requirement: Breadth and Depth Area Studies A: Race/Ethnicity or Empire/Post-Colonialism; or Breadth and Depth Area Studies B: Genre; Thematic Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies.
4 hours; 4 credits This class will ask questions about the formal, thematic, and sociological reasons why certain books come to speak to readers around the world. Formally, we will look at flows of literary influence across borders and languages, as well as techniques of representing a complex, interconnected world. We will also consider how certain prevalent themes find success internationally: migration and exile, globalization and geo-politics, the oppression of women, war and traumatic memory. Finally, the class will analyze the “world republic of letters” sociologically, including the material role of an unequitable system of book prizes, translations, and film adaptations in shaping a canon of world literature. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies B requirement: Genre, Thematic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1012
4 hours; 4 credits Introduction to the environmental humanities as a topic in literary studies. A focus on works whose representations of the natural world express a range of theoretical, practical, aesthetic, and ethical concerns. Specific topics may include: the conventional opposition between nature and culture as a way to promote different ideas, ideals, and interests; the contrast between human-centered and ecological conceptions of the natural world; nature as a concept associated with the exercise of power, especially as seen in the emergence of colonialism, empire, and capitalism, and in the pursuit of environmental
4 hours; 4 credits An international perspective on stories that personalize the interconnected reasons for, and consequences of, global migration and dislocation. Topics covered may include: economic collapse; environmental catastrophe; geo-politics; social injustice; war; the hardships of the journey; the challenges of arrival. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies A requirement: Race/Ethnicity or Empire/Post-colonialism; or, alternatively, Breadth and Depth Area Studies B requirement: Genre, Thematic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies.
4 hours A study of the novel and short story from various perspectives; history of the forms; elements of construction–plot, character, point of view, time; literary influences; social, political, and cultural issues of class, race, gender, etc. Emphasis varies by semester and interests of the instructor. Wherever appropriate, readings to be chosen from among a diverse group of writers. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies B requirement: Genre, Thematic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1012 [2]
4 hours; 4 credits Introduction to the study of popular literature through works in a single category of genre fiction. The genre may be broad— science fiction, mystery, romance, horror, western—or a subspecies—e.g., Afrofuturism; the Asian-American detective; queer historical romance; ecological horror; young adult dystopias. Coursework will include examples of the genre, theory and criticism, and may include study of related cultural objects—e.g., cinematic adaptations, merchandise, fan clubs and fan fiction. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies B requirement: Genre, Thematic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1012 [2 or 2.7]
4 hours; 4 credits Survey of poetry and prose by Caribbean authors of Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern and mixed descent. Themes include brutality of plantation labor; struggle to retain Indian and Chinese cultural traditions; creolization and the emergence of syncretic African-Asian-European-Indigenous cultural forms; inter-ethnic violence and political instability; out-migration to Europe and North America; complexity of multiple diasporic identities. This course fulfills the requirement: Breadth and Depth Area Studies A: Race/Ethnicity or Empire/Post- Colonialism; or Breadth and Depth Area Studies B: Genre; Thematic Studies; Interdisciplinary Studies. [2] or 2.7
English 1010 [1] or 1.7; Co-requisite: English 1012
ENGL 3292Memory Studies
4 hours; 4 credits The study of memory, both individual and collective. Why and how are certain personal or public events and actions memorialized while others are forgotten or buried? Literature, chosen by the instructor, from a range of periods and genres– fiction, poetry, memoir, plays–will be placed in conversation with each other and with photography, painting, music, architecture, sculpture, and film, as well as with historical and theoretical texts, to offer students an introduction to the Programs and Courses of Instruction interdisciplinary field of memory studies. Possible topics: trauma; collective memory; monuments; memorials; genocide; nationalism; ethnic cleansing; war; slavery; vernacular memory; archives; the relationship between consciousness, self-identity, and memory; the relationship between metaphor, language, narrative structure, and memory. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies B requirement: Genre, Thematic Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1012 [2]
3 hours; 3 credits Contribution of literary sources to the study of politics. Political concepts and problems include freedom, authority, race, sex, property, and marriage. Application of political criteria and aesthetic criteria to works by such authors as Aeschylus, Austen, Melville, Hurston, Morrison, Ngu~gi~, Naipaul, Danarembga, Butler, Bechdel, Achebe, E. P. Jones, and Marshall. Satisfies the Depth and Breadth Area Studies B requirement of the English major. This course is the same as POLS 3440. department.
4 hours; 4 credits Workshop in writing short fiction, with a focus on narrative techniques, collaborative workshopping, and the exploration of a diverse array of voices, styles, and perspectives, through reading the work of published authors. (Not open to students who have completed English 15.)
4 hours; 4 credits Continuation of English 3301 [15.1]; second semester of workshop in writing short fiction, with a focus on narrative techniques, collaborative workshopping, and the exploration of a diverse array of voices and styles. Students are expected to achieve a level of sophistication—of voice, characterization, plot, etc.—greater than they exhibited in Writing Fiction I.
and Children's Fiction 4 hours; 4 credits A workshop seminar in the practice of writing and critiquing literature for young people; focus on the construction of plot, voice, character, setting, and dialogue.
4 hours; 4 credits Workshop in writing the book and lyrics for a one-act musical comedy or for serious musical theater. No knowledge of music is necessary.
4 hours; 4 credits Introduction to key issues in the field of applied linguistics, including theories and concepts related to language learning, language analysis, and language assessment presented through the examination of the teaching of English language learners and language minority students. The linguistic, psychological, sociolinguistic, and pedagogical parameters of human language learning; source materials and approaches for investigating language learning processes; bidialectalism, intercultural communication, forensic linguistics, language policy, and discourse analysis. This course is the same as Linguistics 3028.
4 hours; 4 credits Essentials of the structure and nature of the English language. A systematic study of English grammar: the elements and processes of the sound system, the system of grammatical markers, the syntax and the semantic systems of English.
4 hours; 4 credits The study of semiology as a branch of linguistics. Its influence on the analysis of language, culture, and text. The nature of structures and systems of signs in relationship to literature and culture.
4 hours; 4 credits The study of language as it is used by various social groups. Language and gender, language and culture. Creole languages, Black English, linguistic change. This course is the same as Anthropology 3390 and Linguistics 3029. Starting Fall 2019 qualifies as an Inter-Cultural Competency (ICC) course for Pathways College Option purposes.
4 hours, 4 credits Introduction to the historical development and linguistic structure of African American English presented through the analysis of its underlying linguistic structure; comparison of the major theories of African American English development, including its relationship to other dialects of American English and Caribbean creole languages. This course is the same as LING 3024 and AFST 3232. Fulfills Breadth and Depth Area Studies A requirement: Race/Ethnicity or Empire/Post- colonialism
Caribbean, Brooklyn, and Beyond 4 hours, 4 credits Introduction to the historical development of pidgin and creole languages, as well as their linguistic properties: vocabulary, word and sentence structure, and sound patterns. Brooklyn is home to a great many communities of people who speak creole languages—Kreyòl, Patois (Patwa), Creolese, and others— contributing to the rich cultural diversity of our own student population at Brooklyn College. This course takes a close look at the social and cultural aspects of these language varieties, presented through an analysis of their underlying linguistic structure. Students will explore the debates surrounding the historical origins and structure of pidgins and creoles, and examine the role of creoles in education. This course is the same as CREO 3025 and LING 3025.
ENGL 3606European Novel of the Nineteenth Century4
4 hours Works of authors such as Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Manzoni, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy in the context of 19th-century history, philosophy, art, fashion, and music. Topics may include: realism, social and political climate, provincial life and cityscapes, father-son relationships, the new woman, the prostitute, the peasant and the worker, food, martyrdom, stylistic techniques, the bildungsroman. This course is the same as CMLT 3606.
4 hours European novel from 1900 to 1935. Representative works of such authors as Proust, Gide; Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse; Unamuno. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 51.) This course is the same as CMLT 3607.
4 hours Comparative study of the shorter forms of prose fiction. Reading and discussion of such works as Gogol's The Overcoat, Dostoevski's Notes from the Underground, Flaubert's A Simple Heart, Mann's Death in Venice, and Kafka's The Metamorphosis. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 5 or 13.) This course is the same as CMLT 3608.
4 hours European prose fiction from 1935 to the present. Representative works of such authors as Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet; Beckett; Moravia; Grass; Solzhenitsyn. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 52.) This course is the same as CMLT 3609.
4 hours Development of the drama from 1870 to 1935. Ibsen to the post-World War I period. Plays by such authors as Ibsen, Strindberg; Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Wedekind, Kaiser, Brecht; Maeterlinck, Claudel, Cocteau; Chekhov, Gorky; Pirandello; Lorca. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 70.) This course is the same as CMLT 3610.
4 hours Development of the drama from 1935 to the present. Plays by such authors as Brecht, Durrenmatt, Weiss; Anouilh, Sartre, Camus, Genet, Ghelderode, Beckett, Ionesco, Arrabal; Betti; Lagerkvist; Mrozek. Contemporary theater theory and practice in the work of such writers as Brecht, Artaud, and Grotowski and by such groups as the Living Theater. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 71.) This course is the same as CMLT 3611.
4 hours Themes, patterns, and structures of folk literature in literate societies of Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the present. Literary application of folklore and legendry. Such narrative forms as the fairy tale, the fable, and fabliaux. This course is the same as CMLT 3613.
4 hours Readings in medieval literature with emphasis on literature in translation and on cross-cultural genres. Original languages may include Arabic, Old and Middle English, French, Ge'ez, German, Italian, Old Norse, Persian, and Spanish. Epic. Lyrics. Chivalric narrative. Life writing. Allegory. Mysticism. Drama. Fables. This course is the same as CMLT 3614.
4 hours Such topics as the beginnings of humanism; Petrarch and Boccaccio, Florentine Platonism; the High Renaissance: Machiavelli, Ariosto, Tasso; the northern Renaissance: Erasmus, Rabelais, Ronsard and The Pleiade, Montaigne. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 25.) This course is the same as CMLT 3615. English 237 Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1010
4 hours Survey of the main currents of European literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 31.) This course is the same as CMLT 3616.
4 hours Origins, development, and characteristics of the Romantic movement. Seminal ideas of the German Romantik. Readings from such authors as Novalis, Kleist, Hoffmann, Pushkin, Gogol, Leopardi, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Musset. This course is the same as CMLT 3617. Prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1010
4 hours Survey of twentieth-century fiction, drama, poetry of sub- Saharan Africa. Works by such authors as Achebe, Ekwensi, Emecheta, Ngugi, Oyono, Laye, Dadie, Clark, Sembene, Senghor, Soyinka. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3205 [24.8] and CMLT 3619.
4 hours Sex and sexuality in the Caribbean and its diaspora; exploration of how sexuality intersects with and diverges from culture and nationalism, notions of gender, race, and ethnicity. Social science and literary texts explore a range of experiences from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, including heterosexuality, interracial relationships, homosexuality, love, violence, and desire; critical and theoretical texts examine the structures of gender and sexual relations, and relationships between sex and race. This course is the same as AFST 3246, CAST 3118, CMLT 3620 and WGST 3118.
4 hours Representative works in the context of Buddhism and Hinduism. Readings from the Vedas, epics, the Bhagavad Gita, Dhammapada, classical drama, Panchatantra, Bhakti poetry, and Tagore and other modern authors. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 75.) This course is the same as CMLT 3621.
4 hours The new Latin American literature from its origins to independence and maturity. Such twentieth-century writers as Carpentier, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Guimaraes Rosa, and Paz. Impact abroad of the new masters of Latin American literature: Neruda's on North American poetry, Borges's on the New Criticism, Cortazar's on the cinema. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 60.) This course is the same as CMLT 3622.
4 hours Black culture and writing in the Caribbean. Reflections on alienation and independence. Literary liberation movements, Negrism, Indigenism, and Negritude as first step towards emancipation from a European cultural vision. Writers from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking countries will be examined. All readings will be in English. This course is the same as AFST 3240, PRLS 3315W, and CMLT 3623. (Not open to students who have completed Puerto Rican and Latino Studies [54].)
3 hours Literary responses to the Destruction of European Jewry, 1933– 1945. Reading diaries, leters, poetry, fiction, reportages, and other contemporaneous documents. Examination of postwar Holocaust literature, including memoirs, fiction, and testimonies Contrasting contemporaneous works with postwar literary works. All readings are in English or English translation. This course is the same as CMLT 3625 and JUST 3535.
3 hours Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 48 for credit twice.) This course is the same as CMLT 3629.
4 hours The course explores the oral tradition in Africa. It gives specific attention to its interpretations, its compositions, and its transformation. It introduces the student to poetry, prose, epics, folktales, sagas storytelling, folk drama, drum language praise and freedom songs, contemporary styles of oral literature and the performers who shape these forms. This course is the same as AFST 3201 and CMLT 3632.
4 hours; 4 credits Study in a genre, theme, or movement in the Middle Ages with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. elective, or permission of the chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits Study in a genre, theme, or movement in the Renaissance with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. elective, or permission of the chairperson. e
4 hours; 4 credits Study in a genre, theme, or movement in the eighteenth century with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. elective, or permission of the chairperson.
ENGL 4105Seminar in American Literature and Culture
4 hours; 4 credits Study in a genre, theme, or movement in American literature and culture with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. elective or permission of the chairperson.
ENGL 4106Seminar in British and Anglophone Authors
4 hours; 4 credits Study of an author or authors in British and Anglophone literature with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration.
4 hours; 4 credits Study of an author or authors in Anglophone literature of the Americas with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. elective or permission of the chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits Study in a genre, theme, or movement in Modernism with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. elective or permission of the chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits Introduction to the theory and practice of queer literary studies. Focused examination of relevant literary texts from one or more historical and/or national tradition, as well as other genres and media. elective, or permission of the chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits A significant recurrent theme in Western literature and philosophy, with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Offered jointly by the Departments of English, Classics, and Philosophy. This course is the same as Classics [74.7], Comparative Literature 4602, Philosophy 4120. English 2120 [51]; English 2121 [52]; one advanced elective in the major field; and permission of the instructor(s) and the chairperson.
4 hours; 4 credits An introductory seminar for students in the history and literature Programs and Courses of Instruction concentration. Introduction to the concept of interdisciplinarity and to fundamental methods of analyzing history and literature.
4 hours; 4 credits A capstone seminar for students in the history and literature concentration. Close examination of the methodologies practiced in the study of history and literature. Focus on approaching literary texts in historical and theoretical contexts. Integration of methodologies and independent research resulting in a final project intended as the groundwork for a senior thesis.
4 hours; 4 credits Capstone seminar in the craft of creative writing (fiction, poetry, playwriting). Focus on both experimentation and development of personal style through writing exercises and workshops. Emphasis placed on mutual influences of the three genres. Topics for discussion include: narrative and poetic techniques; writing practices; revision; publishing. Short readings and individual conferences. (Not open to students who have taken English 5301 [69.3] with this topic.) permission of the instructor.
4 hours An author, period of literature, literary movement affecting two or more countries or cultures, or a literary problem of international scope with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department before registration. This course is the same as CMLT 4601. 2120 [51], English 2121 [52], one advanced elective in the major field, or permission of the chair. Postmodernism and contemporary discourses
ENGL 1012 [2] or 2.7; two of the following: English
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CMLT 4601
ENGL 5100Internship
7 hours field work, 1 hour conference; 3 credits Students work seven hours a week in editing, technical writing, and report writing, or in allied fields under supervision. Final report based on the internship experience. Students may take this course for credit twice but may not repeat topics. permission of the chairperson.
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Independent research on a major writer or group of writers or special problem supervised by a faculty member. Approved topic. Periodic conferences. Research paper. Students may take this course for credit twice. instructor.
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Independent study of a major writer, group of writers, or special problem supervised by a faculty member. Approved reading. Periodic conferences. Final examination. Students may take this course for credit twice. permission of the instructor Programs and Courses of Instruction
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Individual study and research under supervision of a faculty member. Students in English 5103 [89] or 5104 [89.1] will select a topic and prepare a research prospectus, outline, and bibliography. Students in English 5103 [89] and 5105 [89.2] will conduct the research and write the final paper. advanced English Department electives, a grade of B or higher in an English department seminar (English 4106 [70], 4107 [71], 4112 [74.7], 4101 [79.1], 4102 [79.2], 4103 [79.3], 4104 [79.4], 4105 [79.5], 4108 [79.6], 4109 [79.7], or Comparative Literature 4601 [74], 74.9), and permission of the instructor and department chairperson.
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§, 3 credits Individual study and research under supervision of a faculty member. Students in English 5103 [89] or 5104 [89.1] will select a topic and prepare a research prospectus, outline, and bibliography. Students in English 5103 [89] and 5105 [89.2] will conduct the research and write the final paper. advanced English Department electives, a grade of B or higher in an English department seminar (English 4106 [70], 4107 [71], 4112 [74.7], 4101 [79.1], 4102 [79.2], 4103 [79.3], 4104 [79.4], 4105 [79.5], 4108 [79.6], 4109 [79.7], or Comparative Literature 4601 [74], 74.9), and permission of the instructor and department chairperson.
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Writing a substantial piece of prose or poetry such as a short novel, play, or group of short stories, poems, or articles. Students may take this course for credit twice but may not repeat topics. and permission of the instructor.
Minimum of 9 hours conference and independent work§; 3 credits Independent research in a major writer or group of writers or special problem supervised by a faculty member. Approved topic. Periodic conferences. Research paper. higher in a program, approved by the chairperson, of advanced English Department courses and permission of the instructor and the chairperson.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Survey of literature written for children from preschool through adolescence; consideration of related issues such as developing approaches that will promote critical reading and thinking and selecting literature that is appropriate in our multicultural society.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Introduction to practical criticism, bibliographical methods, and literary criticism as a genre. Reading and analysis of several genres of literature from several historical periods. Analysis of representative texts, literary periods and literary history, and critical approaches including structuralism, post-structuralism, feminism, post-colonialism, and new historicism.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected literary works drawn primarily but not exclusively from British and other European literatures, 700-1500. (Not open to students who have completed English 718X.)
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits each term Intensive study in selected texts. Selection of authors varies from year to year at the discretion of the instructor. Seminars , are offered as follows: 7120X [791X], area 1; 7220X [792X], area 2; 7320X [793X], area 3; 7420X [794X], area 4; 7520X [795X], area 5; 7620X [795.6X], area 6; 7720X [795.7X], area 7. With the permission of the graduate deputy, students may take a seminar in the same area twice if the topics are different.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected works in prose and verse drawn primarily but not exclusively from British and other European literatures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Problems of interpretation in relation to selected comedies, histories, tragedies. (Not open to students who have completed English 736X.)
ENGL 7205XLiterature of the Long Eighteenth Century
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Reading and analysis of major works, exclusive of the novel, drawn primarily but not exclusively from British and other European literatures produced 1660 to 1800.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Intensive study in selected texts. Selection of authors varies from year to year at the discretion of the instructor. Seminars are offered as follows: 7120X [791X], area 1; 7220X [792X], area 2; 7320X [793X], area 3; 7420X [794X], area 4; 7520X [795X], area 5; 7620X [795.6X], area 6; 7720X [795.7X], area 7. With the permission of the graduate deputy, students may take a seminar in the same area twice if the topics are different.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected literary works of the first half of the nineteenth centur drawn primarily but not exclusively from British and other European literatures.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected literary works of the second half of the nineteenth century drawn primarily but not exclusively from British and other European literatures.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected novels of the nineteenth century drawn primarily but not exclusively from British and other European literatures.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Intensive study in selected texts. Selection of authors varies from year to year at the discretion of the instructor. Seminars are offered as follows: 7120X [791X], area 1; 7220X [792X], area 2; 7320X [793X], area 3; 7420X [794X], area 4; 7520X [795X], area 5; 7620X [795.6X], area 6; 7720X [795.7X], area 7. With the permission of the graduate deputy, students may take Programs and Courses of Instruction a seminar in the same area twice if the topics are different.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Characteristic works of an expanded corpus of twentieth- century poetry drawn primarily but not exclusively from the literatures of Europe and the Americas.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected short stories, novellas, and novels with focus primarily but not exclusively on fiction of the United States.
y 30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected short stories, novellas, and novels with focus primarily but not exclusively on fiction of Britain and other European countries.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Selected works primarily but not exclusively by modern and postmodern American and British and other European playwrights. (Not open to students who have completed English 758X.)
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Intensive study in selected texts. Selection of authors varies from year to year at the discretion of the instructor. Seminars are offered as follows: 7120X [791X], area 1; 7220X [792X], area 2; 7320X [793X], area 3; 7420X [794X], area 4; 7520X [795X], area 5; 7620X [795.6X], area 6; 7720X [795.7X], area 7. With the permission of the graduate deputy, students may take a seminar in the same area twice if the topics are different.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits A general introduction to such major contemporary critical theories as structuralism, new criticism, Marxism, feminism, queer studies, poststructuralism, and postcolonialism.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Social factors conditioning the composition and enjoyment of literature. The place of literature (oral or written) as an institution in several historical periods or cultures.
ENGL 7504XLiterature, Psychology, and Mind: Theory
and Practice 30 hours plus conference; 3 credits A survey of theories in psychoanalytic criticism and/or adjacent literary theories interested in psychology and the mind, such as reader-response theory, affect theory, narrative theory, memory studies, and cognitive literary studies. Application of these theories to analysis of selected literary works.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Literary and philosophical responses to European colonialism and its aftermath. Readings are drawn from around the world to suggest the global character of the postcolonial condition.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Intensive study in selected texts. Selection of authors varies from year to year at the discretion of the instructor. Seminars are offered as follows: 7120X [791X], area 1; 7220X [792X], English 163 area 2; 7320X [793X], area 3; 7420X [794X], area 4; 7520X [795X], area 5; 7620X [795.6X], area 6; 7720X [795.7X], area 7. With the permission of the graduate deputy, students may take a seminar in the same area twice if the topics are different.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Description of modern English based on modern linguistic theory. Comparison of traditional grammar with more recent grammars. Relation of written language to spoken language. Usage. (Not open to students who have completed English 725X.)
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Introduction to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics. Current problems in linguistic theory and methodology. (Not open to students who have completed English 726X.)
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Examination of the various formulations of the interconnections among language, culture, and society. Focus on the interplay of language, society, and power with particular attention to issues of linguistic diversity based on gender and race, and to issues of multilingualism in education. Readings from the fields of linguistics, linguistic anthropology, philosophy, and literary theory. This course is the same as Liberal Studies 7005X.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Applications of linguistic theories, methods, and findings to educational and social issues involving language, with a focus on adult second language learning, and college level language teaching and language assessment.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits each term Intensive study in selected texts. Selection of authors varies from year to year at the discretion of the instructor. Seminars are offered as follows: 7120X [791X], area 1; 7220X [792X], area 2; 7320X [793X], area 3; 7420X [794X], area 4; 7520X [795X], area 5; 7620X [795.6X], area 6; 7720X [795.7X], area 7. With the permission of the graduate deputy, students may take a seminar in the same area twice if the topics are different. Thesis and independent study
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Introduction to methods of research and scholarly procedure as preparation for the M.A. Thesis. Topics include: building a
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits An extensive research project normally based on the thesis proposal developed in English 7800X [700X], which is supervised by a member of the faculty, and which leads to submission of a master's thesis. Students may receive credit for this course only after approval of the completed thesis. the graduate deputy chairperson
Hours to be arranged; 1 credit Independent study of selected readings approved by a faculty advisor. One or more written reports, or final examination.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Overview of the past, present, and possible future of the book publishing industry. Historical analysis is integrated with hands- on, collaborative training in the skills required to shepherd books from authors to readers.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Close examination of digital publishing models, analysis of case studies, and introduction to industry-standard software. Students create and maintain an online publication, develop a publicity and marketing campaign, and address the design and legal aspects of the emerging digital publishing environment.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Work in a publishing company or literary agency in one of the following capacities: editorial, sales, marketing, publicity, legal or literary agent. Students must take this course twice toward the degree requirements.
30 hours recitation, 30 hours lab; 3 credits Aspects of the craft of writing the novel from the perspective of a writer of fiction; topics include voice, tone, time, structure, character development, plotting, and ending. fiction or permission of the deputy chairperson.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Advanced textual analysis of selected literary works; creative writing related to these works. Weekly course meetings for first- year students in the M.F.A. Fiction program. This course may be taken two times in the first year but not more than once in any semester. Topic to be chosen by the instructor. concentration in fiction or permission of the deputy chairperson.
matriculation in the creative writing program with a
ENGL 7912XFiction Workshop
30 hours recitation, 30 hours lab; 3 credits Detailed examination in seminars of stories or segments of novels written by class members. This course may be taken four times, but not more than once in any semester. concentration in fiction or permission of the deputy chairperson.
matriculation in the creative writing program with a
ENGL 7913XThe Craft of Fiction
Hours to be arranged; 3 credits Intensive examination of the student's fiction. Advice on the preparation of a substantial manuscript in publishable form. The course may be taken two times, but not more than once in any semester. concentration in fiction or permission of the deputy chairperson.
matriculation in the creative writing program with a
ENGL 7922XPoetry Workshop
30 hours recitation, 30 hours lab; 3 credits Detailed examination in seminars of poems written by class members. This course may be taken four times, but not more than once in any semester. concentration in poetry or permission of the deputy chairperson.
matriculation in the creative writing program with a
ENGL 7923XThe Craft of Poetry
Hours to be arranged; 3 credits Intensive examination of the student's poetry. Advice on the preparation of a substantial manuscript in publishable form. The course may be taken four times, but not more than once in any semester. Programs and Courses of Instruction ndergraduate courses toward fulfillment of that prerequisite. rses in English on the 7000 level with permission of the deputy poetry or permission of the deputy chairperson.
30 hours recitation, 30 hours lab; 3 credits Detailed examination in seminars of scenes or plays written by class members and selections from contemporary dramatic literature. This course may be taken four times, but not more than once in any semester. concentration in playwriting or permission of the deputy chairperson.
matriculation in the creative writing program with a
ENGL 7933XThe Craft of Playwriting
Hours to be arranged; 3 credits Intensive examination of the student's plays. Advice on the preparation of a substantial manuscript in producible and/or publishable form. The course may be taken four times, but not more than once in any semester. playwriting or permission of the deputy chairperson.
30 hours plus conference; 3 credits Advanced textual analysis of selected literary works and creative writing related to these works and to the M.F.A. project. The course will substitute for one of the four literature courses required for the M.F.A. degree. Weekly course meetings and individual tutoring. M.F.A. creative writing students may take the tutorial twice with different instructors, with each section individually credited as a substitution for the four-literature- course requirement.
30 hours recitation; 30 hours lab; 3 credits Comparative analysis of seminal translation theory essays and a range of approaches to the craft and practice of translation from different languages into English, alongside the development of students’ awareness of translation as a critical and artistic mode. Focus on advancing students’ critical reading, analytical writing, and translation skills.
