Stern College Syllabi -- Spring and Fall 2021-2022 courses --- ENGL (English): Recent submissions
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ENGL 2921H: Jane Austen in Her Time
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)Jane Austen’s novels have been called “timeless” in the sense that they still appeal to readers today. In this course we examine the assertion by considering the novels as products of their time. In this course we will ... -
ENGL 2925H: Topics: Female friendship
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)The Neapolitan quartet, Elena Ferrante’s series of novels about a friendship between two women who meet as children in Naples, has received extraordinary praise from readers and critics worldwide since its publication ... -
ENGL 2795: Magic realism and literature of Franz Kafka
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)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, ... -
ENG 2903: French women writers from enlightenment to existentialism
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)¶This course will trace how French women writers explore key questions surrounding their female identity by engaging with the literary movements of their time. As we make our way through a series of fascinating novels from ... -
ENGL 2793: Novels and Screens
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)What happens when a novel is adapted into a screen based medium? Are some better than others? Who gets to decide what texts mean? How do novels, movies, miniseries and vlogs generate meaning? Over the course of the semester ... -
ENGL 2710: Introduction to Fiction: Narratology
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)Goals of the Course:¶ The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the functions and workings of fiction. To aid us in this we are turning to the branch of knowledge known as narratology. Narratology studies ... -
ENGL 2600: Historical Topics: Global Short Fiction
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)This is a course about the short story as a literary form with a focus on short stories from around the world. We will acquire a technical vocabulary for discussing how short stories are made and how they can be interpreted. ... -
ENGL 2004: Survey of British Literature II
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)Goals of the Course:¶ The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the developments in British literature between 1660 and 1870. We will of course only have time for a small sample of writings from these years, ... -
ENGL 2000: Ways of Reading
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)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, ... -
ENGL 1815: Writing Women’s Lives
(Yeshiva University, 2022-09)In this course we will study examples of women writing about their lives and practice writing our own autobiographical narratives. The goal of the course is two-fold: first, we will examine the characteristics of the memoir ... -
ENGL1600: Advertising Copywriting
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ENGL 1502: Feature Writing
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)This class focuses on writing digital news features on digital journalism platforms. We will start with journalism basics but you will soon be writing feature articles. We will cover idea generation, pitches, story ... -
ENG 1200H-C: Composition and Rhetoric
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)Utopian and Dystopian Fiction In the twenty-first century, utopian and dystopian fiction is everywhere. This type of fiction portrays imaginary worlds that are either “utopian”—societies that are ideal but that may not ... -
ENGL 1200H: Writing in Academic Prose
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)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 1100-D1: Composition and Rhetoric: Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)In the twenty-first century, utopian and dystopian fiction is everywhere. This type of fiction portrays imaginary worlds that are either “utopian”—societies that are ideal but that may not be realistically achievable in ... -
English 1100: Composition and Rhetoric
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)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 ... -
ENGL1100: Composition and Rhetoric
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)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 ... -
English 1200H: Freshman Honors Seminar
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION:¶ This is an honors writing seminar designed to teach you ways of developing, organizing and presenting your ideas in writing. Although I’ve chosen a subject for you to write about (short stories by ... -
ENGL 1501: News Writing
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)Fundamentals of journalism, featuring news writing skills and reporting techniques. This course will teach the basics of news writing. -
ENGL 1805: Reading, Writing, and Blogging Poetry
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)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 ...