38 courses with the subject ENG, 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.
ENG 1050Integrative Language Seminar1
(s) 2 Equated Credit(s) Hours: 2 hrs. This one-semester ESL Learning Community course offered in the fall semester, open to all incoming student's whose first language is not English and whose results on the CUNY Reading and Writing exams indicate that they need to work on developing these areas. Students in ENG 1050 will build language awareness through an integrative, content-based, and contextualized approach. Students act as "language researchers," attending to language form as they build fluency, and drawing meaningful links between work in all Learning Community courses from a linguistic perspective. Prerequisite(s): ESL Student Group and CUNY Assessment Scores on the CATW of 22 to 47 and any
(s) Hours: 4 hrs. An introductory course in critical reading and writing emphasizing the development and communication of ideas in written form and a basic rhetorical understanding of how language communicates facts, ideas, and attitudes. Students apply basic rhetorical concepts in reading and composing texts in several genres; compose texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from other texts, including research materials; and develop writing projects through drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing. Prerequisite(s): Eligibility is determined as follows: (1) CUNY Proficiency Index score of 65 or higher; or (2) instructor placement from ESL coursework or placement via the ELSDA, or (3) Q exemption for English, or (4) passing grade in ENG 93A9, or (5) grade of P in UIP ENGRW, or (6) passing grade in CUNY Start, or (7) score of 55 or higher on the CATW and passing score on the CUNY assessment test in reading. Required Core: English Composition Department: English
0 Credit(s) 1 Equated Credit(s) Hours: 2 hrs. The Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) is a two-hour companion course to ENG 1200 for students who pass the CUNY administered Reading exam, but score 51 to 55 on the CATW. ALP provides small-group instruction that will reinforce the reading and writing activities of ENG 1200. Corequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English 447
(s) Hours: 4 hrs. The course extends the work of Composition I, requiring students to apply rhetorical concepts as they read and compose texts in both academic and public genres. Students engage in primary and secondary research in order to develop writing projects that integrate their own ideas, observations, and material from relevant textual sources. Through these projects, students continue to develop their understanding of effective written communication and the various processes involved in research-based writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Required Core: English Composition Department: English English - Literature and Writing ENG 81XX - Independent Study 1-3 Credit(s) Hours: 1-3 hrs. Independent study of English is developed individually between student and faculty member and must be approved by the Department. Department: English 437
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Close reading of texts in a range of forms, including poetry, fiction, and drama, providing an introduction to the methods and tools of literary studies. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Introduction to ancient works that have inspired and influenced world literature, including works of Greek and Roman authors, and selections from the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Texts are read in English translation. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. The diverse body of literature written by authors around the globe, including works written in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from the Far East and Africa as well as from Europe and the Americas. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: World Cultures and Global Issues (Group A) Department: English 438
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Teaches students methods for analyzing, interpreting and writing about literature, including schools of thought such as psychoanalytic, new historic, and race, class, and gender perspectives. Students demonstrate proficiency in interpretation and critique, employing terms, tools and concepts of literary critic, and identifying assumptions informing analysis of poetry, drama, fiction, film, etc. The course looks at critical history reviews, foundations from the 19th and 20th centuries, and surveys the critical approaches important today. Students enrich their skills as scholastic writers by applying learned methodologies to close reading of literary texts. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. An introduction to and survey of the great works of European literature in English translation, including poems, plays, and fiction. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
0 Credit(s) 3 Equated Credit(s) Hours: 3 hrs. A pre-freshman course focused on the development of critical reading, writing, and thinking abilities through instruction and intensive practice in vocabulary and comprehension. Students will read and analyze interdisciplinary materials in preparation for required readings in typical college courses. Prerequisite(s): A passing score of 56 or above on the CUNY Writing exam and a CUNY Reading exam score below 70. Incoming Students Only Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Great short works of fiction, by authors representing different cultures and eras, with an emphasis on what makes the short story a distinctive literary form. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. An introduction to the study of poetry, in a range of styles and from various historical periods and cultures, including the spoken word performances and electronic poetry of the present day. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English 439
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Plays by a range of contemporary and classic dramatists, with attention to such literary elements as dramatic form, character, and action. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. A survey of American nature writing and environmental literature from its roots in the colonial era through its flowering in the twentieth century. Examples of reading include Thoreau's Walden, Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac, and Rachel Carson's Silent Song and a representative range of shorter works from four centuries to explore the evolution of ideas about nature. Selections include natural histories, travelogues, journals and diaries, essays, poetry, and short stories. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: U.S. Experience in Its Diversity (Group B) Department: English
(s) Hours: 2 hrs. This course serves as a place where students in learning communities can practice integration and application of thematic concepts explored in the Integrative Studies Link. Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. This course offers students study in examining and crafting writing for public advocacy. Students identify the rhetorical situations of community-based writing and learn how to produce texts and documents in the interest of effecting local social change. Equal attention is paid to the craft of analyzing and developing organizational and advocacy documents used by nonprofits and community groups such as: mission statements, grant proposals, and social media organizing and outreach materials. Prerequisite(s): ENG 12A0 or ENG 1200 Department: English 440
ENG 5500Cultural/Linguistic Aspects of Teaching Language3
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Prepares students for work as tutors in the Writing Center, emphasizing various aspects of the English language and the cultural awareness needed for effective tutoring. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Instruction and practice in the forms and types of fiction. Analysis of peer writing on a workshop basis, assists students develop mastery of the form of fiction best suited for them. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Practice in the art and craft of writing poetry. Includes extensive reading in poetry, from traditional to experimental. Classes will be both workshop and discussion-based. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Instruction and practice in the art of writing non-fiction, including autobiography and memoir, cultural memoir and critique, nature, travel, community writing, and literary journalism. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 Introduction to the writing of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, in which students explore literary form and the writing process. Students will write, revise, and share their work with other members of the class, and read and analyze selected works by contemporary authors. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English 441
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Instruction and practice in the art of writing screenplays and scripts, along with study of works of screenplays as examples and models. Analysis of peer writing in a workshop format. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Writing for Digital Spaces offers students intensive study of and practice in composing beyond print. The course focuses on widely applicable considerations in written communication while centering those specific to composition and publication in digital environments. Students will learn principles of public- facing online communication by studying and producing several forms of digital writing across a variety of genres and spaces. This course includes the opportunity for students to develop a professional website portfolio showcasing their digital writing artifacts and learning. Prerequisite(s): ENG 12A0 or ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. This course provides students with an introduction to Shakespeare, including plays and sonnets. Students pay close attention to language and meaning in Shakespeare's texts, analyze the readings in historical context, and consider what makes these works extraordinary. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. How literature is interrelated with film, explored through analysis of fictional works and their film treatments. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: Creative Expression (Group C) Department: English 442
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Imaginative literature as a source of insight into human psychology. Works include classics of world literature in a range of genres. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. This course explores selected themes by women authors drawn from worldwide literature in a range of genres, such as fiction, drama, poetry, and memoir, and includes consideration of how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, sexuality, and/or class to shape women's writing. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. Survey of British and American Gothic and horror literature, including short stories, novels, and narrative poetry. Analysis of Gothic trappings and creatures such as vampires and werewolves as they appear in literature. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. This course examines the experience of Caribbean peoples in literary works from colonialism to the present day. By reading a range of Caribbean writers, including Aimé Césaire, Derek Walcott, Edwidge Danticat, Frantz Fanon, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, Jean Rhys, Junot Diaz, Mahadai Das, and Merle Hodge, students will consider how Caribbean people have negotiated issues of identity and self, racial dynamics, what it means to be "Afro-Caribbean," nationalism, gender, politics, creolization, carnival culture, class conflict, and globalization. Prerequisite(s): ENG 12A0 or ENG 1200 Department: English 443
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. An introduction to the study of literature with a focus on sexuality and gender. Students will explore the relationships between these works and the larger historical, philosophical, political, and cultural contexts. The analysis of Queer literature will include discussion of local and global intersections among identity categories like race, class, ethnicity, nationality, and ability Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
ENG 7100Exploring Food Studies: Literature & Rhetoric3
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. This course explores food as a broad historical category through literary and rhetorical/journalistic texts, applying methodologies of Food Studies, the academic discipline analyzing systems through which food is produced, distributed, purchased, and consumed, the history of food, food as a critical aspect of cultural and individual identities, and food systems and structures. Literary and rhetorical texts will focus on themes of Health, Ethics, and Politics. Students will learn to recognize significant aspects of literary and rhetorical forms including the novel, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, journalism, essays, and visual media. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
ENG 7300Themes in American Literature I: Beginnings to 18653
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. A survey of American literature and literary history from early America through the Civil War, focusing on the historical, philosophical, religious and literary forces that shaped American life. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
ENG 7400Themes in American Literature II: 1865 to Present3
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. A survey of American literature and literary history from the late 19th century to the present, examining works that depict urbanization, immigration, class conflict, and social change. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English 444
ENG 7600Violence in American Literature and Visual Culture3
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. The course explores the ways in which violence permeates and shapes people's different experiences in the United States. Students will examine different forms of violence, from war and terrorism, to crime and domestic violence, as they appear in post-1945 American literature, film, and photography. Students will also explore related issues such as punishment and justice. Students will discuss, analyze, and compare the different texts and their relevance to one's daily life. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
ENG 7700African-American Literature: Beginnings to the Harlem Renaissance3
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. An overview of early African-American literature from the slavery era to the Harlem Renaissance. Genres such as oral and slave narratives, poetry, fiction and nonfiction will be covered. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Flexible Core: U.S. Experience in its Diversity (Group B) Department: English
(s) Hours: 3 hrs. An introduction to African-American literature in the United States from 1940 to the present. Works studied span a variety of genres, from poetry and rap lyrics to realist fiction; themes may include identity, freedom and responsibility, individualism and community. Prerequisite(s): ENG 1200 Department: English
0 Credit(s) Hours: 2 hrs. Development of critical thinking and writing skills needed for freshman-level college coursework. Students create portfolios based on freshman-level reading assignments in the sciences. Students are urged to participate in a 3-credit "College Now" course Department: English
0 Credit(s) Hours: 2 hrs. Course builds on the work of ENG W100. Based on readings in psychology, students develop advanced critical thinking and writing skills required for success in English classes during and beyond the freshman year. Students are urged to participate in a 3-credit "College Now" course Department: English
