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ENGL 1101 R11 - Composition I
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

Instruction in sentence and paragraph construction, reading comprehension skills and analysis, the basic principles of grammar with an emphasis on diagnosing and solving persistent problems, and principles of argumentation and evidence. Weekly assignments and regular grammar exercises to build confidence and competence in college writing.

CRN: 14850

Instructor: Lai, Wing Tan
3 credits

ENGL 1101 R21 - Composition I
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

CRN: 14985

Instructor: Bolger, Elizabeth
3 credits

ENGL 1102 R11 - Composition II
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, with an emphasis on sound logic, correct grammar, and persuasive rhetoric. Introduces research techniques, including use of the library, conventions and principles of documentation, analysis of sources, and ethics of scholarly research. Weekly papers will be written and discussed.

CRN: 14849

Instructor: Castellanos, Maya
3 credits

ENGL 1102 L21 - Composition II
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

CRN: 14954

Instructor: Zaman, Amal
3 credits

ENGL 1102 R21 - Composition II
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

CRN: 14986

Instructor: McEleney, Corey
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: EP2

ENGL 2000 L11 - Texts and Contexts: The Fashion System
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Lincoln Center: TWTh, 09:00AM - 12:00PM

In this course, we’ll examine works of literature that are obsessed with fashion: its cult codes and systems of meaning; its artistic and aesthetic visions; its fetishistic power; its role in economics, politics, and social organization; and its subversive potential. Topics of study will include modernity and urbanism, capitalism and consumerism, colonialism, race and racialization, subculture, and gender and sexuality. As a ‘Texts and Contexts’ course, ‘The Fashion System’ will also focus on critical reading and writing, as students learn to think comparatively about works of literature.

CRN: 14823

Instructor: Enelow, Shonni
3 credits

Prerequisites: ENGL 1102
Fordham course attributes: EP2, TC

ENGL 2000 V11 - Texts and Contexts: Imagining Different Worlds
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course will read Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto as literature—as an imaginative work that comments on its social, political, and economic context. We will supplement this reading with literature that takes this work as a point of departure, imagining and complicating both the authors and their ideas while also making a case for their relevance in the twenty-first century context. Readings will include Howard Zinn’s one-act play Marx in Soho (1999), Juan Goytisolo’s acclaimed novel The Marx Family Saga (2001), and Raoul Peck’s film The Young Karl Marx (2017).

CRN: 14889

Instructor: Chaput, Catherine
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: EP2, TC

ENGL 2000 V12 - Texts and Contexts: Man, Made: Artificial Humanity in Literature and Film
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

What does it mean to be human? Who decides who is human? What do we owe to our fellow humans? In this course, we’ll analyze works of literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present that feature artificial humans alongside a variety of critical, historical, and theoretical texts to think through some of these questions. In doing so, we’ll see how different authors—responding to their social, cultural, and political conditions—have used the artificial human to explore what it means to be a human and question concepts like race, gender, class, citizenship, disability, and animality.

CRN: 14890

Instructor: Bean, Melissa
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: EP2, TC

ENGL 2000 R21 - Texts and Contexts: Predator and Prey: Animals and Horror Fiction Since Darwin
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

Since Charles Darwin showed in 1859 that humans and animals are related via evolution and natural selection, Western culture has grappled with the scientific, social, and philosophical implications of human beings' close ties with their distant, nonhuman cousins. Creatures that were once defined by their otherness and difference came to be understood as relatives, leading to an explosion of human/animal hybridity in popular consciousness, literature, and film. In this course, we will read and explore narrative texts which provide us with understandings of how humans and animals are related and relate to each other, and how horror as a mode is used to articulate those relationships. Examples of such texts may include: Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Du Maurier's ""The Birds"" (1952), and Benchley's Jaws (1974). We will also write three short essays and one longer research essay over the term.

CRN: 14987

Instructor: Clark, Nicholas
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: EP2, TC

ENGL 2000 V21 - Texts and Contexts: Laughing and Screaming - Film and Fiction
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Online: TWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

Why do some people react to absurd comedy and terrifying horror by chuckling, chortling, giggling, shrieking, howling, shrieking, and yelling? What makes mayhem so pleasing to some readers and viewers? We will write about and discuss films and stories from around the world that often make audiences laugh and scream. Whether Chaplin or zombies, we will think about the frightening and funny and their relationships to each other. From the silent film slapstick to Jordan Peele, we will practice the craft of writing about such tales and emotional responses.

CRN: 15017

Instructor: Gold, Moshe
3 credits

Fordham course attributes: EP2, TC

CLAS 2000 R21 - Texts and Contexts: Myth in Greco-Roman Literature
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Rose Hill: TWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

An introduction to the literary analysis of texts and the cultural and historical contexts within which they are produced and read. Significant class time will be devoted to critical writing and to speaking about literature.

CRN: 14983

Instructor: DiProperzio, Joseph
3 credits

Prerequisites: ENGL 1102
Fordham course attributes: EP2, TC

ENGL 3637 V21 - Rhetorics of Resistance and Social Movements
Summer Session II, July 5 - August 7, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

From Black Lives Matter to Standing Rock to the Arab Spring to #MeToo, this course introduces rhetorical theory and analysis through the study of rights-based social movements and their symbolic communicative efforts to argue for legitimacy, equality, and freedom from oppression.

CRN: 15475

Instructor: Colombini, Crystal
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ENRJ, PJSJ, PJST, PPWD

ENGL 4150 L11 - Race and Contemporary Film
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Lincoln Center: MTWTh, 01:00PM - 04:00PM

This course examines contemporary cinema in an effort to understand the racial present. Drawing on theories and methods from sociology, anthropology, history, and literary theory, we will develop a provisional model of interdisciplinary cultural analysis that will help us better understand how representations of race function in our own historical moment. At the same time, we will investigate exactly what constitutes “our own historical moment.” What is the historical present? How and why does it differ from one racial group to the next? And how do these competing racial temporalities affect present-day racial politics? With such questions in mind, we will conduct a series of case studies in racial representation. Each case will be organized around a recent film, and each film will be examined from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with particular emphasis on how various academic disciplines both illuminate and obscure various aspects of the racial representation at hand.

CRN: 14824

Instructor: Kim, James
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ICC, PLUR, COLI, ENRJ

ENGL 4228 V11 - Black Protest from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
Summer Session I, May 30 - June 29, 2023
Online: MTWTh, 06:00PM - 09:00PM

This course will consider the canon of African American literature through an expansive definition of protest. We will examine how the meaning of protest has evolved from the 18th century to the present. As we interrogate the relationship between Blackness and protest, we will also discuss how that history has consistently shaped American identity.

CRN: 14895

Instructor: Tyler, Dennis
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AFAM, AMST, APPI, ASLT, COLE, NRJ, EP4, PJRC, PJST, VAL

ENGL 4403 PW1 - Extraordinary Bodies
Summer Session III, May 30 - August 7, 2023
Online, Asynchronous

From freak shows to the Americans with Disabilities Act, people with non-normative bodies have received special, and not always welcome, attention from their peers. This course will study the experience of people with anomalous bodies from a variety of personal and social perspectives.

CRN: 15059

Instructor: Sanchez, Rebecca
4 credits

Fordham course attributes: ACUP, ADVD, AMST, ASLT, COLI, DISA, EP4, VAL, WGSS

Classes listed as either Lincoln Center or Rose Hill will meet on-campus only. Classes listed as "Online" during Session I or II will meet synchronously online during their scheduled meeting times. Students in different time zones should plan accordingly. Session III online courses are asynchronous (exceptions are noted in course descriptions).

Hybrid courses will meet in person on campus at the times indicated; additional online work will also be required.