Yeshiva College Syllabi -- 2021 - 2022 courses (past versions for reference ONLY) -- ENG (English): Recent submissions
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FYWR1020: First Year Writing
(2022-08)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 their own humanity, on events occurring in the ... -
FYWR1020: First Year Writing
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)This course will challenge writers to develop a personal approach to writing and the revision process. We will explore the importance of communication, which begins with articulating our thoughts to ourselves. Through ... -
FYWR1020: First Year Writing
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)What is “good writing”? As Robert Masello’s quote above illustrates, good writing is more than just an introduction, body, and conclusion. Writing is nothing if it doesn’t mean something, for the writer and for the reader. ... -
FYWR1020: First Year Writing
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)Welcome to YU! This course is aimed at ensuring your success in writing for college and beyond, first and foremost by helping you develop as a writer. Luckily, developing as a writer involves many of the skills college ... -
ENG1800: Reading/Writing Poetry
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)This course will examine the contemporary landscape of poetry, and assess on a global scale some of the different voices that have contributed over the last hundred years. While going through the textbook, The Vintage Book ... -
ENG3005: ADVANCED SEMINAR: A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)This advanced level seminar is meant to build on the work you have done in English 2010, while preparing you for the student-led senior colloquium in your final Spring semester. As we approach a variety of texts and ideas ... -
ENG2453H: The Jew in the Western Literary Imagination
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)From medieval blood libels to Ulysses’s Leopold Bloom, the figure of the Jew has loomed large in the Western literary imagination. This course will examine how authors through the ages have represented Jewishness in poetry ... -
ENG2083: Postmodern Fiction: Memory, History, and the Novel
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)In the age of competing “histories from below” and from the margins, of docudramas and historiographic metafiction, and of technologies that render historical evidence increasingly falsifiable and suspect, the traditional ... -
ENG2037: Shakespeare and Film
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)A study of Shakespeare’s principal plays and their adaption into modern and contemporary media, especially film. Emphasis on transnational and non-Anglophone cinema, the idea of a “global” Shakespeare, and the construction ... -
ENG1822: Writing Fiction
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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 ... -
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 ... -
ENG1036: Frontiers and Borders: Travel Writing Through the Ages
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this class, we will explore “travel writing” within its changing cultural and historical contexts. Our investigation begins in classical antiquity, with material focused on the westward migration ... -
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 ... -
ENG2049: Romantic Revolutions
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course examines works by famous British Romantic authors—Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and Austen—through the lens of revolution. Part of the “Age of Revolution,” this ... -
ENG1660H: Writing about Illness and Medicine
(Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University, 2022-08)In this course, we will be exploring the imperatives and the challenges of writing about illness: first as readers, and then—our ultimate focus—as writers. Like other traumas, illness calls out to language and text-making—and, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
