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Composition I
ENGL1101 L21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 1-4 p.m.
3 credits, Foley, CRN 10172
Instruction in how to generate and present a critical position in the college essay. Emphasis on the development of unity, coherence, and clarity of expression in written communication. Review of basic grammar with emphasis on diagnosing and solving persistent problems.
Composition I
ENGL1101 R21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TWTh, 9 a.m.-Noon
3 credits, Brano, CRN 10183
Instruction in how to generate and present a critical position in the college essay. Emphasis on the development of unity, coherence, and clarity of expression in written communication. Review of basic grammar with emphasis on diagnosing and solving persistent problems.
Composition I
ENGL1101 R22
Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TWTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Beskin, CRN 10181
Instruction in how to generate and present a critical position in the college essay. Emphasis on the development of unity, coherence, and clarity of expression in written communication. Review of basic grammar with emphasis on diagnosing and solving persistent problems.
Composition II
ENGL1102 L11
Session I, May 28-June 27
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Navarro, closed
Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, including attention to the techniques and the ethics of scholarly research. Student papers will be written and discussed.
Composition II
ENGL1102 L21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 9 a.m.-Noon
3 credits, Holm, CRN 10173
Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, including attention to the techniques and the ethics of scholarly research. Student papers will be written and discussed.
Composition II
ENGL1102 R21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TWTh, 9 a.m.-Noon
3 credits, Walker, CRN 10185
Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, including attention to the techniques and the ethics of scholarly research. Student papers will be written and discussed.
Texts and Contexts: Remix
ENGL2000 L11
Session I, May 28-June 27
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 9 a.m.-Noon
3 credits, Fernald, CRN 10167
The newest art often relies heavily on art from the past, whether adapted, quoted, or plagiarized. In this section of Texts and Contexts, we will use T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922) and Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925) as anchor texts, studying their borrowings from Homer and Shakespeare, as well as contemporary remixes of Woolf and Eliot. Students will have the chance to make a remix of their own for a final project.
Texts and Contexts: Race and American Culture
ENGL2000 R11
Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: TWTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Romeo, CRN 10170
We will examine a variety of contemporary American cultural artifacts in order to understand the social construction and lived experience of race in the U.S. We will also examine some theoretical and critical texts in order to attain a rigorous vocabulary for participating in intellectually sophisticated and ethically responsible discussions of race. Primary texts may include writings by Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, and Junot Diaz, as well as a selection of contemporary Hollywood films. Writing instruction will constitute a significant part of the course.
Texts and Contexts: God and New York City
ENGL2000 W11
Session I, May 28-June 27
Westchester: TWTh, 6-9 p.m.
3 credits, Van Wyck, CRN 10171
We'll examine the ways New York City shaped (and was shaped by) nineteenth century religious fiction. Along with explicitly religious writings, we’ll draw upon post-secular theories to rigorously challenge our understanding and use of terms such as “religious” and “secular.”
Texts and Contexts: At Home in the City: The Body, Dwelling, Identity
ENGL2000 L21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 1-4 p.m.
3 credits, Collins, CRN 10175
This course explores the concepts of home and dwelling and how they are represented in 20th century urban texts and projected through visual media. We will read novels, essays, poetry, architectural and urban theory and criticism, look at print media, and screen films to help shape our discussion about what dwelling in a city does to living beings.
Texts and Contexts: Transportation Alternatives
ENGL2000 R21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: TWTh, 1-4 p.m.
3 credits, Olson-Bang, CRN 10187
This course consisters the role and influence of three major inventions--the bicycle, the automobile, and the airplane--on literature and society. Through novels and short stories by H.G. Wells, Samuel Beckett, Don DeLillo, Vladimir Nabokov, and others, we will examine ways in which these forms of transportation dramatically changed depictions and understandings of time, space, mobility, and subjectivity.
Writing Autobiography
ENGL3058 L11
Session I, May 28-June 27
Lincoln Center: MTWTh, 6-9 p.m.
4 credits, Stone, CRN 10168
An advanced writing course that develops students' skills in first-person narrative.
Epic Journeys
ENGL 3225 R11
Session I, May 28-June 27
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 6-9 p.m.
4 credits, Farland, CRN 10257
In this course on the Western epic tradition, we will examine the historical context of epic poems and how each author grapples with the core values of his culture. We will look closely at the changing notions of the hero, divine intervention, the relationship between the poet and audience, and epic verse form as each poet revises the work of his predecessors. Possible authors include Homer, Vergil, Dante, Milton, and Walcott.
American Dreamers, Winners and Losers: Figuring Success in American Literature
ENGL 3602 L11
Session I, May 28-June 27
Lincoln Center: MTWTh, 1-4 p.m.
4 credits, Van Slembrouck, CRN 10256
What lies behind the relentless American drive toward the new and improved self? We'll open with early voices, including Ben Franklin, Horatio Alger, and Frederick Douglass and move to more recent ones, including Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, and David Mamet. Along the way, we'll see that the vaulted American dream is hardly a one-size-fits-all category: one's race, class, and gender all significantly shape one's notion of success or failure.
American Noir
ENGL 3614 L21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Lincoln Center: MTWTh, 6-9 p.m.
4 credits, Northrop, CRN 10258
In this summer elective, we read American noir fiction from the 1920s through the 1960s to examine the genre's representation of gender, deviance, justice, sexuality, aesthetic taste, race, class, and other contended cultural concepts. Meanwhile, examining a variety of kinds of relevant documents (critical, legal, cultural, and journalistic; historical and theoretical; print, film, and radio) we situate the attitudes, language, and ideas in these fictions within various forms of context. This class is designed to refine the student's practical and theoretical expertise as scholarly researchers and writers.
The Short Story
ENGL 3842 R21
Session II, July 2-August 6
Rose Hill: MTWTh, 1-4 p.m.
4 credits, Gold, CRN 10259
A fun and rigorous romp through great short stories, such as those by Poe, Hemingway, Atwood, and O'Connor. We will read and discuss a range of fabulous short fiction to find out how such narratives work and how they challenge our expectations about ourselves and the world around us.
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