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 ...

Who decides what texts mean? Are some interpretations better than others? Does the author’s intention matter? How does language work? In this foundational course, we will study texts of the culture around us, as well as ...

This course will consider the ways that nineteenth-century Paris inspired artistic creation through its cultivation of a variety of new ways of seeing, which led in turn to new forms of entertainment. The artistic products ...

In the years after the Civil War up to the turn of the twentieth century, huge changes in all areas of life – technological, economic, social, political, intellectual, and cultural – converged to forge the United States ...

This course is an introductory course in creative writing. By the end of the semester, you will gain a better sense of the unique qualities of three genres (poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction). The course will also ...

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with developments in British literature between 1870 and 1930. We will of course only have time for a small sample of writings from these years, so the syllabus should not ...

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 ...

Good advertising doesn’t have to be an oxymoron. In this course, we’ll examine what it takes to make an ad that’s persuasive. One that entertains or makes us laugh, cry, think, or change our minds while simultaneously ...

What, exactly, is a novel? Although this literary genre is quite well-established today, it came into being as an upstart contender, a new or “novel” mode of writing that lacked established conventions, critical respect ...