Spring 2010 Undergraduate English Courses

Undergraduate Courses - Spring 2010

	Required
	Pre-1800 courses
	Post-1800 courses
	Creative Writing Courses
	CROSS LISTED courses (Not Values)

Fordham College at Lincoln Center

	Required
	pre-1800 courses
	POST-1800 courses
	Creative Writing Courses
	CROSS LISTED courses
	Senior Seminar courses (Not Values)
	Senior Values Courses

Fordham Westchester

LIBERAL STUDIES

GrAdUATE COURSES OPEN TO UNDERGRADUATES


Fordham College at Rose Hill
Junior Theory Requirement at Rose Hill:
Theory for English Majors	ENGL 3045-R01	GoGwilt C.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Literary Studies. This course introduces the English major to debates in literary and critical theory. The goal of the course is to reflect on reading strategies, textual practices, and language itself. Open to English and Comparative Literature Majors andMinors only.			MR	2:30-3:45

Theory for English Majors	ENGL 3045-R02	Badowska E.
See description above.			T	2:30-5:15

Pre-1800 Courses at Rose Hill:
Satire and English Renaissance Drama	ENGL 3231-R01	Kerins F.
A study of some Roman Satirists and how their genre was radically revised in the Christian satires of the age of Shakespeare: involving studies of Marston, Donne, Ben Johnson, and others who used satire methods and models in their own work and in early 17th Century comedies.			TF	1:00-2:15

Slavery and 18th Century Literature	ENGL 3325-R01	Kim J.C.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with American Studies. Britain became a dominant economic and imperial power in the eighteenth century, yet its success was predicated on the labor of slaves, who were forcibly transported by the millions from Africa to the Americas. In this course, we’ll examine the impact of the slave trade and slavery on British and American writing between the years 1700 and 1800. We’ll also look at how slaves and former slaves responded to these institutions in writing and action. Today, slavery seems unjustifiable: how, then, did proponents of slavery explain their participation and reliance upon such a system? How did the British and Americans after the Revolution reconcile their ideals of liberty with the denial of rights to slaves? How did slaves challenge these justifications and contribute to the emergence of an eighteenth-century abolitionist movement? As we’ll see, texts became battlegrounds upon which writers of varying backgrounds and opinions debated the morality of slavery and the validity of racial distinctions. Slavery was a form of oppression, but it also served as the catalyst for literally thousands of essays, poems, novels, travel narratives, and other works on the subject. We won’t read all of these, of course, but we will read a representative sample to understand the central role played by slaves in the development of British and American thought and culture. Texts will include Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Isaac Bickerstaffe’s The Padlock, Phillis Wheatley’s Poems, George Colman’s Inkle and Yarico, Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, John Stedman’s Narrative of an Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond, William Earle’s Obi, and Leonora Sansay’s Secret History.			MR	2:30-3:45

History of the English Language	ENGL 3834-R01	Chase M.
The subject of this course will be the history of English from the Old English period to the present day, and the range of varieties that are found throughout the world. We will study the visual forms English has taken from early runic engravings through medieval manuscripts to recent texts; the radical changes that have taken place in the structure of English over the centuries; the position of English as an "international" language; variation in English grammar and pronunciation; how individual speakers vary their use of the language; and how far it is possible to speak of "good" and "bad" English.			MR	11:30-12:45

Shakespeare's Stage	ENGL 4203-R01	Hallett C.
NOTE: This course is a senior seminar; all others need permission. The course traces the development of Shakespeare's growth as a playwright, starting with his first tragedy, Richard III, and moving on to such plays as Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Julius Ceasar, Anthony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.			MW	1:00-2:15

Post-1800 Courses at Rose Hill:
Charles Dickens	ENGL 3405-R01		McElligott M.
A study of major novels from different periods in the writer's career in light of contemporary theory of narrative structure and point of view.			MR	4:00-5:15

Town, City, Nation 1789-1832	ENGL 3461-R01	Bugg J.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Urban Studies. This course approaches British Romanticism from three perspectives. First, we'll become versed in country things by examining writing about life in England's small towns, from the country balls and provincial ballyhoo of Jane Austen's "three or four familiesin a country village" to the impoverished shepherds and superannuated farmhands of Wordsworth's Lake District. Second, we'll map the vibrant literary culture of London, paying special attention to the political writing that energized the city by Wollstonecraft, Paine, Blake, and others. Finally, looking further afield, we'll follow the expanding vectors of London into the urban centers of the industrial midlands (Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield) and then further, crossing national boundaries, into Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and beyond, charting the course of literary expression in an age of imperial expansion.			TF	2:30-3:45

20th Century African American Literature	ENGL 3629-R01	Christiansë Y.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with American Studies, Literary Studies, Pluralism, and Urban Studies. A study of central African American writers in their cultural and historical contexts.			MR	11:30-12:45

Colonialism and Cosmopolitanism	ENGL 3963-R01	Leung W.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with American Studies. In this course, we will read, think, discuss and write about the ways in which colonization has shaped the different articulations of cosmopolitanism in both the history of European thought and twentiethcentury Asian representational arts. The first section of the course focuses mainly on the philosophical and literary articulations of the notion of cosmopolitanism in European thought (e.g. Cicero's On Duties, Las Casas's In Defense of the Indians, Marx's Communist Manifesto, and E.M. Forster's A Passage to India). In the second section of the course, students will examine literary and filmic representations of cosmopolitan values in Asia, where global cities have been emerging in the post-colonial era (e.g. Macaulay's Minute on Education 1835, Amitav Ghosh's novel The Shadow Lines, Shusaku Endo's novel Silence, and Wong Kai Wai's film Chungking Express).			TF	1:00-2:15

Writing Whiteness	ENGL 3919-R01	Hendler G.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with American Studies and Literary Studies. "As long as you think you are white, there's no hope for you." - James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket (1985) What could Baldwin have meant by su ch a provocative statement? This course will address this question by tracing the process by which some Americans have come to think of themselves as "white," a category defined both against their own ethnic and national origins and against racial "others." We will examine the way writers of color themselves have depicted and analyzed whiteness, but the course will focus most closely on the dynamic that Eric Lott calls "Love and Theft," in which white identity has been constructed through both investments in and hatred toward African Americans. Lott argues that this process can help us interpret popular nineteenth-century practices like blackface minstrelsy, in which working-class men, often Irish, blackened their faces and performed stereotypical versions of African-American culture. We will identify and analyze similar dynamics operating in nineteenth and twentieth century writings by authors such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, and John Howard Griffin, and in films such as Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, Imitation of Life, and Pulp Fiction. We will juxtapose such literary texts with historical and theoretical works ranging from classic essays by W. E. B. Du Bois and James Baldwin to more recent works like David Roediger's Towards the Abolition of Whiteness, Toni Morrison's Playing in the Dark, and Noel Ignatiev's How the Irish Became White, in an effort to understand how fiction and film participate in the social construction of race and racism.			TF	2:30-3:45

Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Literature	ENGL 3930-R01	Cahill E.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Literary Studies. This course will read texts by a diverse range of Anglophone authors, emphasizing the cultural history of same-sex identity and desire, heteronormativity and oppression, and queer civil protest. It will also consider the problems of defining a queer literary canon, introduce the principles of queer theory, and interrogate the discursive boundaries between the political and the personal.			MR	4:00-5:15

Creative Writing Courses at Rose Hill:
Duende: Capturing Poetic Impulse	ENGL 3029-R01	Gambito S.
Federico Garcia Lorca said, "Thus duende is a power and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard an old master guitarist say: 'Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.' Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of real live form; of blood; of ancient culture; of creative action." In this workshop we will consider what literary devices engender creative action and duende in poetry. We will not only explore the forms that poems take but also the processes by which poets come to their poems. Students will be expected to explore their own sources of inspiration, write a series of poems and make presentations.			MR	11:30-12:45

Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction	ENGL 3062-R01	Kaplan J.
Let's linger awhile on two magical forms, prose poetry and flash fiction. Prose poetry: subversive and surrealistic, concerned with the music of the sentence. Flash fiction: miniature tales the writer Joyce Carol Oates calls "timeless…as old as the human instinct to combine power."			TF	2:30-3:45

Performing and Telling Your Life	ENGL 3065-R01	Braly J.
This is a course on writing and performing autobiographical stories. To prepare, we'll screen performances by autobiographical monologists such as Spalding Gray, and humorists such as David Sedaris, examining the difference between writing for the stage and writing for the page. We'll discuss the mechanics of first-person storytelling, and write and perform short weekly assignments, all building to the final class: a public performance of a five-minute autobiographical story.			MR	2:30-3:45

Translating Literature, Why and How?	ENGL 3099-R01	Brandt C.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Literary Studies. What does it take to translate a poem or story well? How be true to the original and carry over its aesthetic excitement as well as its meaning? A course for those with the basic knowledge of a language other than English.			TF	11:30-12:45

Cross-Listed Courses at Rose Hill:
City in Literature	ENGL 4501-R01	Caldwell M.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with American Studies and Urban Studies. A seminar-style exploration of poetry and fiction about cities and city life.			TWF	8:30-9:20

Fordham College at Lincoln Center
Required Courses at Lincoln Center:
Theory for English Majors	ENGL 3045-L01	Kramer L.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Literary Studies. This course introduces the English major to debates in literary and critical theory. The goal of the course is to reflect on reading strategies, textual practices, and language itself.			MW	1:00-2:15

Pre-1800 Courses at Lincoln Center:
Medieval Drama	ENGL 3102-L01	Yeager S.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Medeival Studies. English drama from its origin in the Middle Ages to the beginning of the Renaissance drama in the early Tudor period. Mystery plays. Moralities and interludes.			TF	1:00-2:15

Milton	ENGL 3207-C01	Boyle F.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Religious Studies. A survey of the major poetry and prose of John Milton with strong emphasis on Paradise Lost.			R	6:00-8:45

Post-1800 Courses at Lincoln Center:
Keats and the Romantic City	ENGL 3338-C01	Zimmerman S.
This course takes Keats as our guide to London in the Romantic period. We will focus on a range of poets and prose writers who take the city as their subject and define their art by it.			T	6:00-8:45

19th Century British Women's Tales	ENGL 3434-C01	Vranjes V.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Women's Studies This course will explore the development of the national tale, a feminist genre of the first two decades of the 19thC whose symbolic cross-regional marriages celebrate the British union. We will examine how women writers used the national tale's defining tropes for their own political, national, and feminist purposes throughout the century. Writers we will read include Sydney Owenson, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot. Reading will include some literary criticism.			M	6:00-8:45

Writing and Creative Writing Courses at Lincoln Center:
Journalism Workshop	COMM 2082-L01	Stone E.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English by Media & Communications. A practical workshop in writing news, features, commentary, or sports articles, or doing graphics and layout for The Observer. Students will work as writers or on the layout staff.			T	1:00-2:15

Performance Poetry	ENGL 3026-C01	Agard R.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English by Media & Communications. We will look at what makes certain forms of poverty persuasive in performance, what drawsus in as readers, writers, and audience members. This course will examine performance-based work in addition to page-based work. The emphasis, however, will be on workshopping poems brought into class--training the student's ear for what will make fora dramatic experience of the poem.			W	6:00-8:45

The Stuff of Fiction: A Workshop	ENGL 3040-L01	Kline C.
“‘The proper stuff of fiction’ does not exist,” Virginia Woolf declared in an essay called “Modern Fiction”: “everything is the proper stuff of fiction, every feeling, every thought; every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon; no perception comes amiss.” In this workshop we will explore the process of transforming imaginative musings and life experience into fiction, looking particularly at how memory and place can serve as points of departure. We’ll examine how the details of everyday life can be transformed imaginatively into fiction through the use of character, setting, and dialogue. Along the way, we will stop to examine various aspects of craft such as theme, style, plot, and pacing in students’ own writings as well as in selected readings.			T	2:30-5:15

Interviews & Profiles	COMM 3081-L01	Belsky G.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English by Communications & Media Studies. Intensive work in developing and writing profiles accompanied by readings from Boswell to Mailer.			W	2:30-5:15

Writing for Magazines	COMM 3084-L01	Aronson A.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English by Communications & Media Studies. Intensive practice in developing ideas into nonfiction pieces intended for general interest or specialized publications. Inquiries, field and library research, interviews, presentation of technical subjects to non-specialists. Students may wish to concentrate on areas in which they have particular interest or expertise. Note: Credit will not be given for both this course and CM 4201.			TF	10:00-11:15

Comic Voice	ENGL 3086-L01	Eng A.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English and American Studies by Communications & Media Studies. In the long tradition of the comic voice, the most notable practitioners haveincluded Jonathan Swift, Addison and Steele, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and James Thurber. Among current writers working in the tradition are Calvin Trillin,Woody Allen, Garrison Keillor, Russel Baker, Fran Lebowitz and Molly Ivins. Students will write comic essays and columns, read selections from practitioners and comic theorists (such as Bergson and Freud), and consider evolutions in comic taste.			TF	2:30-3:45

Arts & Entertainment Journalism	ENGL 3097-L01	Kline C.
In this course we will explore writing for the arts: theater, movie, and music reviews; features, news stories, interviews, and opinion pieces. Students will attend performances, gather facts and materials, conduct interviews, and write about everything from live music to independent film to modern dance to Off-Broadway plays. We'll discuss interview techniques, how much research is enough, how to be an impartial journalist and not simply a fan, when to trust a "gut" reaction and when notto. Sharingpieces in a workshop format, we will focus on structure, coherence, style, and voice. Guest speakers will talk about landing an interview with a famous artist or celebrity; getting backstage access to give pieces flavor and style; harnessing research, writingabout difficult or controversial subjects; and the difficulty of remaining impartial.			MR	2:30-3:45

Writing TV Dramas	COMM 3305-L01	Staff
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English by Communications & Media Studies. This course applies traditional principles of dramatic writing to the television genre, including soap operas, pilots, mini-series and duco-dramas. Students will analyze outstanding examples of the genre and are required to produce professional-level scripts.			W	6:00-8:45

Screenwriting I	CMEU 3405-L01	Miller M.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English by Communications & Media Studies. He said, she said? She said, he said? Learn the secrets of writing dramatic dialogue for the movies.			W	6:00-8:45

The Writer's Road	ENGL 3678-L01	Lauer K.
The Writer's Road will have visits from FCLC alumni who are novelists and non-fiction writers and who will talk about their lives as writers. They will read from their work and they will encourage students to read from their work--but only if students wish to present. It is not obligatory. There will be concurrent discussion of those alumnus books as well as discussion of authors who have been important to the development of their works. The class will also feature an agent and an editor. Below are some of the visiting writers' websites: Judith Woolcock Colombo — http://odin.prohosting.com/~night01/about.htm Kevin Killian — http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/Killian Bill McCay — http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/bill-mccay Lev Raphael — http://www.levraphael.com/			MR	2:30-3:45

Master Class:Writing Autobiography/Memoir	ENGL 5200-L01	Stone E.
NOTE: This course is open to five undergraduate students with the instructor's permission and five graduate students for a total of ten students. For more information on undergraduate application to the class, please click here: http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/ english/creative_writing/undergraduate/application_to_maste_73648.asp It's been said that the memoir now has the authority once accorded to fiction. True or not, periodical publications have expanded the space they devote to personal writing, often contracting the space once accorded to the short story. It is increasingly common for fiction writers to write personal essays. This class is a workshop in the personal essay where we will spend most of our time critiquing your works in progress. Since the techniques of memoir are indistinguishable from those of fiction, we will concentrate on dialogue, exposition, scene, character, managing narrative time (past, present, future) and, most of all, the development of a persona. The course will include as models personal essays by writers such as Didion, Quindlen and Mamet, as well as by committed essayists such Sedaris.			M	6:00-8:00

Cross-Listed Courses at Lincoln Center:
Feminist Theories in Intercultural Perspective	WMST 3010-L01	Hoffman A.
Note: This course fulfills the Pluralism requirement and is cross listed with Women's Studies. An examination of contemporary feminist theories, with attention to the construction of gender, sexuality, class, race, ethnicity, and age. Students will analyze Western and non-Western writings from an interdisciplinary perspective.			MR	2:30-3:45

Religion and Literature	THEO 3710-L01	Klein T.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with Religious Studies. A study of religious themes in literature, this course examines Christian faith in the modern world. The course explores basic human questions such as identity, sexuality, community, ethical action, discernment and spirituality. Authors to be examined include Leo Tolstoy, Georges Bernanos, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, T.S. Eliot, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor.			T	2:30-5:15

History of Women's Magaziness	COMM 4606-L01	Aronson A.
NOTE: This course is cross listed with English by Communications & Media Studies. This course will explore the history and mission of Women's magazines from the 19th Century to the 21st Century with special emphasis on magazines such as Godey's Lady Book, Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan.			MR	2:30-3:45

Senior Seminars (Not Values) at Lincoln Center:
American Crime Stories	ENGL 4010-L01	Cassuto L.
NOTE: This Course also fulfills the Post 1800 requirement. Crime narrative has long been a staple of American literature and culture, traversing both high, so-called literary, fiction and lowbrow popular efforts which were sometimes named for how much they cost (dime novels) or for the cheap, coarse paper they were printed on (pulp fiction). We'll be reading a selection of crime stories ranging from the antebellum era to contemporary times, but the main focus will fall on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, the period when the distinctively American hard-boiled style evolved in print and the film noir became an identifiable American movie idiom. Authorsinclude Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, Raymond Chandler, and Patricia Highsmith.			T	2:30-5:15

Senior Values at Lincoln Center:
Modern Drama-Moral Crucible	ENGL 3531-L01	Lamb M.
NOTE: This Course also fulfills the Post 1800 requirement. A study of Ibsen, Chekov, Shaw, Buchner, Wedekind, Strindberg from the perspective of the presentation of moral values.			MR	4:00-5:15

Extraordinary Bodies	ENGL 3843-L01	Petit-Hall C.
NOTE: Seniors Only. This Course also fulfills the Post 1800 requirement amd is cross listed with American Studies, Literary Studies and Women's Studies. Core Curriculum Pre-Fall 2009. From freak shows to the Americans with Disabilities Act, people with odd bodies have received special, and not always welcome, attention from their peers. This course will study the experience of people with anomalous bones from a variety of personal and social perspectives.			TF	8:30-9:45

Fordham Westchester
LIBERAL STUDIES AT WESTCHESTER:
English Poetry 1660-1789	ENGL 3322-W01	Staff
This course primarily consists of reading the principal works of the most important poets of the Restoration and 18th century up to the French Revolution.			R	6:45-10:00

Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates 5000 level courses listed under Graduate / Courses* are open to Seniors with the instructor's and graduate director's permission and after graduate students have registered. Please email requests and instructor's approval to dgsenglish@fordham.edu.