Browsing Stern College Syllabi -- Spring and Fall 2021-2022 courses --- ENGL (English) by Issue Date
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ENGL 3525 - F Transcendentalism (advanced English course)
(2021-01)Course Description Between the 1830s and 1860s this country's most talented writers forged a distinctively American literature and philosophical outlook on the world known as Transcendentalism. What is our best self? What ... -
ENGL 2923 - D1 Topics: American Countercultures
(2021-01)Course Description and Objectives The word “counter-culture” probably first calls to mind the counter-cultures of one’s own generation, usually music-related, whether hipster DIY culture, goth, hip-hop, or, if one is a ... -
ENGL 2835 Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies - B
(2021-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION Derided in 1592 as an “upstart crow”-- an arrogant literary hack from nowhere-- William Shakespeare spent his early professional years in London writing histories and comedies for the stage, eventually ... -
ENGL 2792 - M Comedy and Satire
(2021-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION What makes jokes funny? Can humor really effect social change? These are two of the questions we will consider as we think about comedy and satire, as distinct genres and as particular modes of expression. ... -
ENGL 2901 - N Introduction to Women Studies
(2021-01)This course is an introduction to Women’s Studies, an interdisciplinary field that grew out of the twentieth-century women’s movement. In its early years, those in the field concentrated on the “absence” of women (from ... -
ENGL 2810H - K Harlem Renaissance
(2021-01)In the 1920s and 1930s, between World War I and the Great Depression, African American culture experienced a flourishing both in literature and the arts known as the Harlem Renaissance. The goal of this course is to give ... -
ENGL 1900 - E Advanced Creative Writing
(2021-01)Course Description and Objectives This advanced creative writing course will allow students to further develop their skills in whatever genre of creative writing interests them, including both poetry and prose, fiction ... -
ENGL 1721 - M Topics: Media Photojournalism / ARTS 3970 - M Topics: Photojournalism
(2021-01)Course Description: How can photography act as a witness? How can an image empower change? In this course we will consider these questions and more as we examine core ideas for understanding the creation, gathering, and ... -
ENGL 1100 - K2 Composition and Rhetoric
(2021-01)Course Description In 1967, as the civil rights and feminist movements continued to make waves, Gerry Goffin and Carole King co-wrote “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” and Aretha Franklin turned their song it ... -
ENGL 1100 - K Composition and Rhetoric
(2021-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION The reading in this course is organized around the idea of crime and community. Over the course of the semester, we will divide our time between exploring the assigned texts and learning college-level ... -
ENGL 1100 - A Composition and Rhetoric
(2021-01)This class focuses on five 19th- and 20th-century short stories by women writers. These stories have relevance to our current world because they are thematically concerned with confinement and claustrophobia, gender and ... -
ENGL 1502 - FGW Feature Writing
(2021-01)Focuses on the skills and techniques to write articles or stories for newspapers, magazines or news websites. 3.000 Credit hours -
ENGL 1100 - B & D1 Composition and Rhetoric
(2021-01)In the twenty-first century, dystopian fiction is everywhere. From Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale to Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games trilogy, which were recently adapted for television and film, this type of fiction ... -
ENGL 2750-C The Graphic Novel
(2021-01)In the early part of the twentieth century, American newspapers began publishing strips of sequential art that became known as “comics,” because of their often humorous nature. Decades later, publishers started to collect ... -
ENGL 1200H-E Freshman Honors Seminar
(2021-01)This class will explore the various assumptions and protocols of academic writing. Academic writing is your passport to success, both within the academy and in much of the professional world. It is a form of writing with ... -
ENGL 1651 - FGM Developing Effective Messages
(2021-01)SYLLABUS Explore how to break through the clutter with public relations techniques to help ensure your key audience is listening to your message. The course will include individual papers, workshops, and a team project ... -
ENGL 1100 - L Composition and Rhetoric
(2021-01)Course Description: “Facing Challenges” Goal: The goal is for you to write an academic essay that articulates a clear, logical thesis and supports that thesis through well-chosen evidence and effective analysis. We will ... -
ENGL1610 & MAR3324 - PQT Advanced Advertising Copywriting
(2021-01)Course Description: What does it take to get a job as a copywriter in the advertising business? A good book, for sure. The “book” means your portfolio, the spec ads that you’ll need to show to a prospective employer. This ... -
ENGL 2003 - A Survey of British Literature I
(2021-01)History of British literature and culture focusing on major works from the earliest literature through Donne. 3.000 Credit hours ___ In this survey of the first ten centuries (!) of literature written in English, we ... -
ENGL 3792 - L American Autobiography
(2021-01)This course will examine the development of American autobiography from the early captivity narratives written in the colonial period to the contemporary memoirs of today. We’ll begin by focusing on a few early examples ...