Browsing Yeshiva College Syllabi -- 2021 - 2022 courses (past versions for reference ONLY) -- ENG (English) by Title
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ENG 1001: Books on Books, Films on Films
(2021-01)“Interpreting the Creative” (INTC) courses within the Yeshiva College core curriculum provide students with foundational tools for appreciating, understanding, and interpreting works from various domains of the creative ... -
ENG 1002: Diaspora Literature (COWC)
(2021-01)This course explores literature about diaspora: “ as the abandonment of home, whether voluntary or enforced, and a search for a new home, new opportunities, and new beginnings, even as the home of the past lingers in the ... -
ENG 1034: Stranger Things: The Art of the Unreal (INTC)
(2020-01)In this interdisciplinary core class, we will study how literature and other media can usher us into a claimed actuality very different from the external world as it is collectively perceived or experienced. At least ... -
ENG 1721: Introduction to Creative Writing: Bridging Poetry and Prose
(2021-01)This course will examine three of the major disciplines within creative writing, and through exposure and appreciation teach the tools necessary to engage personally with each. We will work through some of the common ... -
ENG 2010: Interpreting Texts: Literary Reading and Critical Practice
(2021-01)This “gateway” course to the English major is an introduction to critical issues in the discipline of literary studies. It is not, strictly speaking, an introduction to the history of literary criticism or a survey of ... -
ENG 3042: Milton and Religion
(2019-09)This course focuses on the life and work of John Milton (1608-74), with special attention to Paradise Lost in its literary and historical contexts. We will seek to understand how Milton's religious knowledge illuminates ... -
ENG 3589: Literature & Psychology
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course explores poetry and prose in relation to dreams, neurosis, psychosis, and the psychology of mystical experience and sexual difference; it also explores diagnostic narratives and narratives ... -
ENG 4001: Senior Colloquium
(2021-01)This course provides students majoring in English with a culminating, “capstone” experience, which forges links between your previous courses while directing you towards new paths of inquiry. Concluding with a Senior Final ... -
ENG INTC 1005H: Parisian Views: Spectacle, Reality, and the Invention of Mass Culture
(2021-01)“Interpreting the Creative” (INTC) courses within the Yeshiva College core curriculum provide students with foundational tools for appreciating, understanding, and interpreting works from various domains of the creative ... -
ENG INTC 1041: Spoiler Alert: Modern Storytelling Across Genres
(2021-01)This class will explore modern storytelling across genres, from the novel, short story, and graphic novel to film, television, podcasts and beyond. Students will learn to engage deeply with these diverse forms as texts to ... -
ENG/CUOT 1006: The Monstrous
(2019-09)Werewolves, dragons, giants, witches, demons, lepers, anthropophagi (a race of cannibals with eyes in their chests)-the Middle Ages were awash in tales of the monstrous. In this class, we will consider monsters and the ... -
ENG0010/0011 - ESL: Intro to College
(2014-01)Written and spoken English for non-native English speakers, focusing on the fluency, clarity, and correctness of language. Thematically related discussions, essays, presentations, and trips focusing on the international ... -
ENG1001: Books on Books, Films on Films
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)“Interpreting the Creative” (INTC) courses within the Yeshiva College core curriculum provide students with foundational tools for appreciating, understanding, and interpreting works from various domains of the creative ... -
ENG1002: Diaspora Literature
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)This course explores literature about diaspora: “ as the abandonment of home, whether voluntary or enforced, and a search for a new home, new opportunities, and new beginnings, even as the home of the past lingers in the ... -
ENG1009: France And Its Others (CUOT)
(2020-09)“Cultures Over Time” (CUOT) courses allow students to explore the distinctiveness of the past and how it relates to the present through an investigation of values, traditions, modes of thinking, and modes of behavior of ... -
ENG1009H: France and its Others
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)“Cultures Over Time” (CUOT) courses allow students to explore the distinctiveness of the past and how it relates to the present through an investigation of values, traditions, modes of thinking, and modes of behavior of ... -
ENG1013/INTC1013: Words to Live By: Literature, Morality, and Entertainment
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)COURSE DESCRIPTION: The didactic and moral content of English literature often seems in conflict with modern notions of reading as a form of entertainment or imaginative escape. What happens, for instance, if we derive ... -
ENG1020: First Year Writing (FYWR)
(2021-01)First Year Writing introduces students to college-level writing and prepares them for all subsequent academic work by also deepening reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Every section of this course emphasizes ... -
ENG1020: First Year Writing - Honors
(2020-09)Course objectives: We will be writing about our lives, the world, and our lives within the world today—for better or for worse. In this class students will be asked to reflect on themselves, on events occurring in the ... -
ENG1023: Authorship: Plato to Wikipedia
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)Welcome to YU! This course explores a topic that you might be surprised to learn will come up frequently in your work as a college student, representations of authorship over the last ~2500 years. From a historical ...