Topics vary from term to term.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ENGL-UA 735-000 (9244)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Freedgood, Elaine
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20th Century African- American Literature (ENGL-UA 251)
Prerequisite: V41.0185 or V41.0230. Survey of major texts?fiction, poetry, autobiography, and drama?from Du Bois?s The Souls of Black Folk (1903) to contemporaries such as Amiri Baraka, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. Discussion of the Harlem Renaissance and its key figures, including Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Ralph Ellison.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
17th Cent English Lit (ENGL-UA 440)
Introduction to the prose and poetry of the 17th century, an age of spiritual, scientific, and political crisis. Readings in Jonson, Donne, Bacon, Herbert, Marvell, Milton, Browne, and others.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ENGL-UA 440-000 (20221)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gilman, Ernest
Colloq: Shakespeare (ENGL-UA 415)
Intensive reading of six to eight plays of Shakespeare chosen from among the comedies, tragedies, and histories, with attention to formal, historical, and performance questions.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2022)
ENGL-UA 415-000 (20220)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon,Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Archer, John
American Short Story (ENGL-UA 240)
Study of theme and technique in the American short story through readings in Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, James, Hemingway, Faulkner, Porter, and others, including representative regional writers.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Major Texts in Critical Theory (ENGL-UA 712)
Major texts in critical theory from Plato to Derrida, considered in relation to literary practice. The first half of the course focuses on four major types of critical theory: mimetic, ethical, expressive, and formalist. The second half turns to 20th-century critical schools, such as Russian and American formalism, archetypal criticism, structuralism, psychoanalytic criticism, feminism, reader theory, deconstruction, and historicism.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Machines made of Words II: Designing Poetry (EN-UY 3434W)
In this seminar/workshop, students read a wide range of poetic forms or structures and practice making poems, focusing on the reading and composition of poems as forms of design. | Prerequisites: Completion of first year writing requirements.
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
EN-UY 3434W-000 (24090)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Felsenthal, Alan
Ethical Questions in Literature (EN-UY 3194W)
This course examines the implications of ethical questions posed in works of poetry, drama, and fiction. Attention will be paid to historical context. This course satisfies HUSS elective requirements and 3000-level writing intensive requirements for all Poly majors. | Prerequisites: Completion of first year writing requirements
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
EN-UY 3194W-000 (17686)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Marks, Sylvia
Analytical Approaches to Poetry and Art (EN-UY 3144W)
The poems of John Ashbery and the art of Richard Serra confront the respective reader/viewer: find a methodology based upon the structural configuration of the poem and sculpture to enable a “reading” of the work. The works that will be addressed reject impressionistic, subjective commentary. The beauty of word or artifact is not applicable. Post-1900 non-referential sculptures and paintings will be juxtaposed with poems that disassociate themselves from narrative content, poems whose only subject matter is language configuration – even when there is apparent thematic material – poems of Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Amy Clampitt, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, Clark Coolidge, and Louis Zukofsky. The poets so listed complement preoccupations of artists such as Mark di Suvero, David Smith, Richard Serra, Anthony Caro, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson, and Marcel Duchamp. | Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year writing requirements
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 6 Weeks
Sections (Summer 2021)
EN-UY 3144W-000 (4036)05/24/2021 – 07/05/2021 Mon,Tue,Wed10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Nadler, Alan
Science, Technology, and Literature (EN-UY 2534W)
This online course examines how diverse authors of literature have approached and continue in critically evaluate developments in both science and technology. This course will introduce students to major works in the literary canon through the lens of scientific developments. The historical topics that we will address are the advent of the printing press, the Copernican revolution, Enlightenment thought, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, the rise of modern warfare, medical advances, and ultimately, the age of the Internet. In particular, we will study how writers portrayed the individual and society as well as examined social interactions in the scientific world. How did the introduction of literature of the “masses” ultimately transform plot, character development, and the objective of narrative fiction? Authors and works we will read include: Anonymous, Everyman, William Shaespeare’s Sonnets, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Voltaire’s Candide, Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way, George Orwell’s 1984, and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. | Prerequisites: EXPOS-UA 1 or EXPOS-UA 4
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
EN-UY 2534W-000 (24106)at ePolyInstructed by Stark, Rachael
EN-UY 2534W-000 (24107)at ePolyInstructed by Stark, Rachael
Medicine and Literature (EN-UY 2424W)
This course examines the implications of medicine, mental or physical illness, and death in works of poetry, drama and fiction. Some attention will be paid to historical context. This course satisfies HUSS elective requirements and HUSS writing-intensive requirements. | Prerequisites: Completion of first year writing requirements
English (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Fall 2020)
EN-UY 2424W-000 (19891)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Mon,Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by