This honors course explores the liminal spaces between the accepted world of our ordinary lives and alternative realities: the world of gods and monsters, spirits and ghosts, magical occurrences, supernatural intuitions, ...

This course focuses on the literature and culture of New York City from its emergence as America’s cultural center until the present time. Beginning with America’s first internationally recognized literary figure, Washington ...

This is an advanced writing seminar for students in the Honors Program at Stern College– a seminar designed to improve your ability to develop, organize, and present your ideas. Our writing and thinking will focus on classic ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES: This course is an introduction to college level writing—a class designed to teach you ways of developing, organizing, and presenting your ideas. Our writing and thinking will focus on ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:¶ Teachers cannot create poets, but we can create the conditions for poetry to emerge. Like any art form, an important part of poetry involves understanding craft, though in an art as ...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on one of the most lively and fascinating periods in American history: the 1920s. Often referred to as "the Jazz Age" or "the Roaring Twenties," this decade saw the United States ...

Who decides what texts mean? Why are some interpretations better than others? How much does the author’s intention matter? How does language generate meaning? In this foundational course, we will study a variety of texts, ...

This course will be an imaginative journey into what happens in fiction when the real, normal or everyday confront the unreal, dreamlike, or downright bizarre. The conjunction in the quotation of the extraordinary situation, ...