91 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 103Writing Lab: Introduction to Composition for Science Students2
This course introduces science students in the C-Step program to college-level expository writing. Focusing on writing and research about science, it pursues an inquiry-driven approach to teach analysis and argumentation. Students will develop a range of rhetorical skills as they learn the process of writing. Open only to C-STEP students. Permission of C-STEP Advisor.
English 106 prepares students for English 110 through introductory level assignments designed to acclimate students to narrative, argumentative, and expository writing. The course employs a variety of exercises to teach students about the stages of composition: invention, revision, and reflection. Course assignments provide students with the intellectual tools to write argumentative essays.
English 110 pursues an inquiry-driven approach to writing and research, teaching rhetorical analysis and argumentation. The course emphasizes writing as an intellectual, social process both in terms of content and structure. Sections are thematically organized and use writing to explore that particular theme and frame writing as a process that involves stages of invention, revision, and reflection; course activities and assignments provide students with the rhetorical tools to understand how language works in defining reality, explaining positions, and persuading others. The course aims to prepare students for the responsibilities of literate adult citizenship and the rhetorical challenges of their chosen fields and careers.
An intensive and critical examination of selected literary texts and developments from the medieval period to the present that contribute to an understanding of the modern world.
An intensive and critical examination of selected literary texts and developments from the medieval period to the present that contribute to an understanding of the modern world. First Year Seminar.
A study of the art and craft of playwriting focused on dramatic structure, genre, and audience. The course combines analysis of significant plays from various historical periods and workshopping of students' original dramatic work.
This course is designed to train students to be competent tutors in the Manhattan University Writing Center. By permission of instructor. Does not satisfy English literature requirement in Business, Education, or Engineering.
An advanced alternative to English 110, the course emphasizes writing as an intellectual, social process both in terms of content and structure. An exploration of strategies for expository and argumentative writing and research techniques, English 210 pursues an inquiry-driving approach to writing and research, teaching rhetorical analysis and argumentation. Emphasizing writing as a process that involves stages of invention, revision, and reflection, course activities and assignments provide students with the rhetorical tools to understand how language works in defining reality, explaining positions, and persuading others. This course will fulfill the ENGL 110 requirement for advanced freshman students placed by the Department Chair. Does not satisfy English literature requirement in Business, Education, or Engineering.
An intermediate course focusing on the specialized communications skills required by professionals. Emphasis on research techniques and on the rhetoric and diction necessary to persuade different audiences, as demanded by a variety of case studies. (For students in the School of Business only). Does not satisfy their English literature elective.
The course examines key themes and narrative impulses of Latino/a literature. Students will engage the work of authors from a range of time periods. They will also study a variety of genres, such as novels, short stories, drama, poetry, and/or non-fiction essays.
A study of the craft of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction writing. Exercises in form and technique and the creation of original stories and poems. Introduction to the creative writing workshop.
An introduction to the formal/aesthetic analysis of film. Through screening and discussion of representative films, students develop their ability to describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate the film experience. Not open to students who have taken COMM 212. Does not satisfy English literature requirement in Business, Education, or Engineering.
An introduction to the cultural/ideological analysis of film. Through screening and discussion of representative films, students explore the ways in which cinema reflects and shapes contemporary society. Specific topics covered include, but are not limited to, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and class and power as they relate to film experience. (Does not satisfy English literature requirement in Business, Education, or Engineering.) Repeatable with permission of the Chair.
An introduction to interpreting literature through the lens of gender. A specific theme (for example, women's writing, masculinity, gay and lesbian literature, the gendered body) will be explored in selected literary texts.
A comparative study of selected literary texts by African, Asian, Caribbean, Australian, and Latin and North American writers responding to the impact of Western colonization and imperialism.
The origin, development, and achievement of the detective story and the crime novel. Most readings will be drawn from 19th and 20th century authors, but some attention will be given to possible precursors such as Sophocles and Shakespeare.
The study of the important role the environment plays in literary texts. Themes may include the relationship between the urban and the wild, the role of animals in human affairs, and the question of human stewardship of this planet.
An introduction to selected traditional myths and western European fairy tales, focusing on the literary rather than on the oral folk tradition and analyzing the pervasive influence of myth and fairy tale on modern western literature.
A study of selected literary works in which New York City figures prominently as a subject, a metaphor, or a muse. Satisfies 200-level literature elective in Business, Engineering, and Education.
An introduction to speculative literature: fantasy, gothic, and science fiction; their relation to each other; the relation of the fantastic to fiction.
ENGL 292Topic in the Study of Literature and Film3
An intensive study of a genre, period, literary form, or theme not currently listed in the general literature courses (200-level). The subject to be studied will vary from semester to semester. This course may be repeated with permission of the Chair.
This course will focus on the representation of business in literature from the 19th century to the present. Depictions of industrial and technological production, economic systems, capitalism, globalization, and working life will be explored. Assignments will be designed to target critical thinking and writing skills valuable in a professional context.
Learning to think and write like an English major. Emphasis on close reading of texts, developing a heightened sense of language, making cogent literary arguments with well-integrated evidence, and developing familiarity with literary terms and different critical approaches. Should be taken during the first semester of major course-work. For English majors and minors only.
ENGL 309British Literature: Beowulf to the Augustan Age3
The development and continuity of British literature studied in significant writers, works, literary movements, social and historical backgrounds. For English majors and minors only.
ENGL 310British Literature II: The Romantics through the 20th Century3
Continuation of the study of key British writers, works, and literary movements and their social and historical backgrounds. For English majors and minors only.
An in-depth study of medieval writers, themes, genres, on literary movements through critical reading of prose, drama, and poetry of Great Britain. The subject to be studied will vary from semester to semester.
ENGL 323Studies in Eighteenth-Century British Literature3
An in-depth study of eighteenth-century writers, themes, genres, or literary movements through critical reading of prose, drama, and poetry from Great Britain. The subject to be studied will vary from semester to semester.
This course focuses on writing about or within a specific topic, genre, or theory to be announced in advance and will vary by semester. This course is writing intensive and offers students a practical, historical, and theoretical understanding of the art and craft of writing they may not otherwise have the opportunity to explore. Examples include, but are not limited to: Feminist and Critical Writing Pedagogies; Memoir Writing; and Multimodal Writing.
ENGL 329Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Hamlet3
Beginning with Romeo and Juliet and culminating with Hamlet, this course explores the comedies, histories, and early tragedies that earned Shakespeare his reputation as England’s leading dramatist. Class sessions will focus on close readings of the plays, the conditions under which they were originally performed, and the society and culture from which they emerged.
This course explores the works that secured Shakespeare’s status as the greatest writer in any language, including Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Class sessions will focus on close readings of the plays, the conditions under which they were originally performed, and the society and culture from which they emerged.
The development, structure, and function of the English language. (Does not satisfy English literature requirement in Business, Education, and Engineering.).
An overview of contemporary composition studies, examining various movements in the field and the ways in which these movements define the act of writing. The course will focus on both theoretical principles of composition and practical concerns of writing pedagogy. Does not satisfy English literature requirement in Business, Education, and Engineering.
ENGL 333Sin and Syntax: Grammar, Identity, and the Writer3
This course provides an in-depth analysis of how grammar works by contextualizing grammar usage in a variety of contexts. We examine not only standard usage, but also language use in daily life, including the impact of emerging technologies on usage. Students will be encouraged to write academically as well as personally in order to cultivate a space where we can see grammar at work and how it helps us achieve the goals of our work—whether those goals be creative, academic, or otherwise.
Rather than focusing on the self and its transcendent imagination traditionally central to Romantic studies, this class explores objects, bodies, and things and their emotional, material affects in the production of the subject and the pursuit of love and desire. It considers how the subject (the lyric I and its self-affirming eye/gaze) that takes central stage in the Romantic period cannot be separated from the objects it claims to perceive. The course examines the complexity of agency through a study of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literary, political, philosophical, and scientific writers imaginings of the entangled relations of subject and object, mind and body, reason and emotion, human and nonhuman.
This course studies one of the world’s great media revolutions. We investigate the full range of media technologies invented by British writers, artists and scientists during the reign of Queen Victorian (1837-1901): from the photograph, the telegraph, and the moving image to new forms of fiction, journalism, and advertising. We study art and literature that recount the experience of new media. Through readings in literary and media theory, we furthermore explore the social and political ramifications of those innovations.
An intensive study of the history and development of the essay genre. With an emphasis on historicizing the definition and function of the essay, this course investigates how issues regarding authorship and authority have evolved and contributed to how we understand the form today, including, but not limited to, its rhetorical and academic functions.
A study of the intersections of gender studies and literary analysis. Focusing on a specific theme (e.g. women's writing, the nature of gender, masculinity and race, queer identity), this course will study how literature shapes and is shaped by issues of gender and sexuality as they intersect with other markers of difference and power, including race, class, nation, ability, and species.
ENGL 338Studies in Twentieth-and Twenty-first-Century American Literature3
An in-depth study of twentieth and twenty-first century American writers, themes, genres, and literary movements through critical reading of prose, drama, and/or poetry.
An intensive study of poetics of witness in the creation and consumption of literature. The course will use various historical periods, geographic locations, and cultural and social movements to interrogate a poetry of witness.
ENGL 340Studies in Creative Writing - Poetry Workshop3
Advanced creative writing workshop in poetry with generative exercises, and with a focus on aspects of poetic craft such as images, figurative language, forms, rhythm, and poetic leaps. Students will develop voice, style, and technique. Each technique element will also be accompanied by an extensive study of contemporary poetic texts and poetic craft theory. Writing will culminate in small and large-scale workshops where students will read each other’s work and learn to offer constructive feedback on revision.
ENGL 343The Art of Dying: Studies in Renaissance Literature3
Working at the intersection of literary and historical analysis, this course investigates how early modern writers responded to a culture-wide preoccupation with death and its relationship to commemoration. Authors include John Donne, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.
ENGL 345Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism3
An exploration of environmental literature, a genre whose primary focus is the natural world and the human relationship to it. Primary literary texts will be viewed through the lens of ecocriticism, an emergent critical theory that examines the representation of the natural world in literature and culture with a commitment toward environmentalism.
An examination, through readings in various genres, of the expressive and varied literature of Ireland in the 20th century as well as the development of cultural narratives of Ireland.
A sampling of world fiction (in English) written since the era of decolonization. Authors employ widely divergent techniques to address the issues of colonialism, history, politics, social change, and art. Emphasis on the novel as an arena for heterogeneity of sensibilities and the clash of ideologies.
This course will study adaptation theory by examining multiple case studies, prioritizing the relationship between film and the literary arts. By reading literature, watching adaptations, and considering other modes of delivery (e.g., video games), the course will consider such issues as mise-en-scène and acting styles; shared plotting strategies; forced perspective; and narrative voice. Counts toward the English major/minor and the Film Studies minor.
ENGL 350Studies in Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop3
This course is designed for students to examine the short story form and to provide space to practice their own short story writing. By closely examining the ways in which some of the most influential short story writers have engaged with voice, style, characterization, plot, aesthetics, and experimentation, this course will help students develop a finer understanding of the elements of fiction.
ENGL 355Studies in Creative Writing: Non-Fiction Workshop3
Advanced creative writing workshop in non-fiction with generative exercises, and with a focus on developing the craft of lyrical essay techniques. Students will also develop voice and style. Each technique element will be accompanied by an extensive study of contemporary non-fiction texts. Writing will culminate in small and large-scale workshops where students will read each other’s work and learn to offer constructive feedback on revision.
ENGL 356Latino New York: Cultural Identities and Expressions3
This course examines the literature and culture of Latinos in New York City. It explores how authors of Latin American and Spanish Caribbean descent have contributed and responded to New York City as a multilingual and multicultural modern metropolis and considers recurrent topics such race/ethnicity, class, bilingualism, and immigration.
ENGL 357Postcolonial Caribbean Literatures: Defining a Region3
This course provides an overview of postcolonial fiction, poetry, drama, and essays from the Caribbean region. It explores major themes and theoretical concepts on issues such as identity, migration, race, gender, nationhood, and representation, as well as the specific cultural and historical contexts from which postcolonial Caribbean literatures emerge.
ENGL 358Bibliomania, Archives, and the Afterlives of Books3
This course studies the material lives and afterlives of books. Working in digital archives and physical archives around New York City, students have hands-on experience of rare books and literary artifacts. Through experiential learning, students investigate printing practices, publication histories and preservation techniques. We learn to tell stories in and with archives, contemplating the manifold pasts and futures of books.
This course studies works of fantasy and science fiction that explore the radical potential of technology. Considering the new worlds--the technotopias--envisioned by them, we explore a range of topics: the relationship between imagination and reality; the consequences of progress; the fear of/desire for newness and “the other”; and perhaps most exciting and unsettling of all, what it means to be human.
ENGL 360The Little Magazine: Contemporary Literary Publishing3
This course is an introduction to literary magazines and to the work of editing, examining the history of “little” magazines from the mid-nineteenth-century to the present day and investigating their impact on literary culture. We will take stock of the current magazine landscape, print and digital, with a special focus on Manhattan Magazine, for which students will also engage in active editing work.
ENGL 361Radical Stages: Modern and Contemporary British Drama3
Survey of celebrated and innovative British plays from the nineteenth century through the present. Close reading of text will supplement discussions of genre and production, alongside considerations of British history and politics.
A study of major innovations in the British novel from the early 20th century to the present. The course will explore the formal and stylistic upheavals of modernism, in relation to radically new ideas concerning gender, psychology, and social structures, as well as the legacy of these experiments through the contemporary period.
A study of widely read, influential and sometimes controversial books for children, surveying major achievements and genres in children's literature, examining various approaches to the field, and commenting on social and pedagogical issues that surround it. Limited to students in the School of Education.
ENGL 366Modernism: Eliot, Woolf, Lawrence, and Company3
An exploration of literary modernism in English as a phenomenon that swept European cities in the early twentieth century, which will consider experiments with literary form that meditate on the relationship of the individual consciousness to the material reality surrounding it. We will explore the modernist scene through intellectual contexts, periodical culture, and the relationship of literature to art.
This class focuses on current methodologies of interpretation—theories of reading, language, literature, and analysis—in the discipline of English. It explores a variety of answers to the questions of how, why, and what we read. A brief history of criticism since Plato will ground the work of the course: understanding and applying contemporary literary and cultural theories, including formalism, reader response, structuralism, post-structuralism, feminist analysis, psychoanalytic approaches, new historicism, postcolonialism, queer theory, critical race studies, cultural studies, eco-critical approaches, new materialism, affect theory, and thing theory approaches. This class is necessary for any graduate work in literature and writing. Does not satisfy English literature requirement in Business, Education, and Engineering.
A study of significant trends in the novel and other forms of prose narrative written by United States-based writers in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Some emphasis will be placed on the relationship between fiction and historical events, such as world war, civil and human rights movements, and globalization.
ENGL 374Lust, Passion, and the Body: The American Novel to 19143
This course focuses on how issues of lust, passion, and the body figure in the American novel from the late eighteenth century to 1914. Students also will examine the rise of the novel as a genre (a relatively new art form at the time) and the crisis it evoked regarding reading, readership, and morality.
ENGL 375Landscape & Identity: Studies in Early & Nineteenth Century American Literature3
This course explores the converging representations of race, ethnicity, and the environment in American literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, with a theoretical grounding in critical race theory and ecocriticism. Texts will include both novels and non-fiction accounts, along with art, music, and period films.
ENGL 380Growing Up Ethnic: The Ethnic-American Bildungsroman3
This course examines the Ethnic American Bildungsroman, broadly construed, in order to understand how America’s ethnic and racial diversity is expressed in literature and helps create a more inclusive national imaginary. We will study “coming-of-age” narratives by Native American, African American, Jewish American, Italian American, Asian American and/or Latinx writers, among others, and explore how their accounts of “growing up ethnic” broaden and challenge the boundaries of what constitutes representative U.S. literary voices.
ENGL 381Studies in Identity: 20th Century American Drama3
A study of major and transformative American dramas of the 20th and 21st century, from Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill to Sarah Ruhl and Paula Vogel. Course will consider what it is that defines these plays as “American,” and how do these plays challenge previously held assumptions about identity, race, gender, and sexuality in America. Texts will be studied as literature and well as blueprints for theatrical events. That is, we will consider not just the text on the page but its performative aspects and its production history, wherever possible.
ENGL 382New York City, Modernity, and Postmodernity3
This course explores representations of New York in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. It covers various literary genres and other cultural forms. The primary focus is on New York’s iconic presence in American literature and culture, emphasizing its status as an emblem of “modernity” and “postmodernity.”.
This course seeks to explore how select playwrights, across centuries and a variety of genres, have engaged violence as a means to represent and explore the human condition. This class will be guided by questions of what a damaged body onstage mean to an audience, how playwrights differ in their use of stage violence, and what the limits are, for scholars of theatre and performance, of understanding theatre as an efficacious form of public art and expression.
An intensive examination of the components and history of film narrative. Students view films and read critical essays and foundational theoretical works in order to gain an understanding of the unique mechanisms of film narrative (cinematography, sound, editing, etc.).
ENGL 386Literature and Early Cinema at the Turn of the Twentieth Century3
An examination of U.S. literature and select silent films from the turn into the twentieth century, which will study—and problematize—important categories of writing in this era such as realism, naturalism, local color, and novels of manners. Studying select silent films, students will show how authors in the era relied heavily on visual images and often borrowed strategies from early silent cinema.
This class will focus on the reading and interpretation of queer literary texts in the context of LGBTQ history, lives, and issues. We will situate our reading of these queer texts in their legal, medical, social, and historical contexts and look backward to precursors.
With its pseudo-medieval tropes of ruined castles, dark dungeons, sadistic villains, and threatened heroines set in non-English settings, the gothic was the antithesis of Enlightenment rationalism and the locus of English cultural fears and desires. Focusing primarily on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British texts from the 1790s gothic heyday, this course will explore the historic development of gothic literature through different genres (the novel, poetry, drama, film) and forms (horror gothic, terror gothic, female gothic, queer gothic, orientalist gothic) into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including American gothic, postcolonial gothic, and horror.
A major-level study of a genre, period, literary form, author, or theme not currently listed in the general literature courses. The subject to be studied will vary for each offering.
A capstone course that examines 1. a literary period, genre, theme, or author(s); or 2. an issue, theme, theory or practice of composition or rhetoric through readings, class discussion, and student papers; student papers will emphasize research methodologies and will be presented and critiqued in class. The subject of the course will vary each semester. Required for senior English majors in the School of Arts and for those concentrating in adolescent or childhood English in the School of Education and Health.
Individual study of a major writer or movement in English or American literature with a member of the department. Open only to seniors majoring in English who secure the approval of the Chair of the Department and the consent of the individual instructor. A student may elect this course once only.
Taking full advantage of the spectrum of Broadway and Off-Broadway performance, this course invites students to experience theater as a multi-dimensional and collaborative art. Class discussions, on-site performances, and behind-the-scene accounts of selected theatrical events will enlighten the students' knowledge and appreciation of drama. (Special fee; permission of the chair.).
Students participate in an off-campus training experience closely related to their area of study. Frequent meetings with the internship advisor and a paper are required. Internships are arranged through the Center for Career Development and must be approved in advance by the chair and the Dean of the School of Arts.
