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English (ENGL) 1 ENGL 1501. Imagining New York City in Literature. (3 Credits) ENGLISH (ENGL) New York City has been the home of some of the most significant U.S. writers and artists. The literature of the city explores and tests the very ENGL 0912. Requirement Preparation. (0 Credits) notion of an American identity, and what it means to be an American. This For Ph.D. and Master's students, registration necessary to maintain introductory EP1 course examines literary representations of New York continuous enrollment while preparing for a milestone requirement, such City, exploring topics that include the environment, economic inequality, as comprehensive exam, Master's thesis, or dissertation submission. capitalism, and the changing roles of women, blacks, and workers. ENGL 0914. Requirement Preparation in Summer. (0 Credits) Attribute: AMST. For Ph.D. and Master's students, registration necessary to maintain ENGL 1800. Internship. (1 or 2 Credits) continuous enrollment while preparing for a milestone requirement ENGL 1999. Tutorial. (1 to 4 Credits) during the summer. (e.g., to be used by Ph.D. students after the oral Independent research and readings with supervision from a faculty examination/defense and prior to receiving the degree). member. ENGL 0930. PhD Comprehensive Examination-English. (0 Credits) ENGL 2000. Texts and Contexts. (3 Credits) ENGL 0935. Master's Capstone Preparation. (0.5 Credits) An introduction to the literary analysis of texts and the cultural and In any semester in which Master's Students or Master's w/Writing historical contexts within which they are produced and read. Significant Concentration Students are not registered for any credited coursework class time will be devoted to critical writing and to speaking about and in which they have not completed or are completing their Capstone, literature. Each section of Texts and Contexts will have a focus developed this .5 credit administrative course is required. by the individual instructor and expressed in its subtitle. This course ENGL 0936. Master's Comprehensive Examination-English. (0 Credits) fulfills the Core requirements for the second Eloquentia Perfecta seminar. Attributes: EP2, TC. ENGL 0950. Proposal Development. (1 Credit) Prerequisite: ENGL 1102. ENGL 0960. Proposal Acceptance. (3 Credits) Mutually Exclusive: COLI 2000. ENGL 0970. Dissertation Mentoring - English. (0 Credits) ENGL 2999. Independent Study. (2 Credits) The English PhD. student is required to register for Dissertation ENGL 3000. Literary Theories. (4 Credits) Mentoring, which has a 3 credit fee, the semester after the student's In this course, we will review theories and methods of literary studies, proposal is accepted. using literary theory and criticism as primary readings in conjunction ENGL 1004. Texts and Contexts: Upward Mobility and the Common Good. with primary works of literature from a range of literary traditions. Note: (3 Credits) Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three This course will explore Anglo-American literary representations of additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student socio-economic self-transformation by focusing on its inherent tension in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. between mobility and community. Has the fabled path from rags to riches Attribute: COLI. threatened or sustained neighborhoods and nations? What happens to ENGL 3001. Queer Theories. (4 Credits) virtue, charity, and social cohesion when the desire for wealth acquisition An introduction to the academic discipline of queer theory, focusing on becomes normative? We will address these and other questions through foundational thinkers (e.g., Butler, Foucault, Sedgwick, and others) as well discussions of a wide range of literary texts, from Benjamin Franklin’s as their philosophical and psychoanalytic precursors and interlocutors. Autobiography to Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr., Ripley. But The course will also address selected issues currently under discussion we will also consider how the pervasive contemporary rhetoric of the in the discipline. These may include the role of activism, the relationship “American Dream” in newspapers, magazines, film, and new media between queer theory and feminism theory, attention to race, and negotiates the ideal of upward mobility in relation to such collective intersections with postcolonial theory. Note: Four-credit courses that ideals, such as mentoring, cooperation, and self-sacrifice. meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class Attributes: ACUP, AMST, ASLT, EP2, MANR, TC. preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional ENGL 1101. Composition I. (3 Credits) hour of formal instruction. Instruction in sentence and paragraph construction, reading Attributes: ACUP, ADVD, ALC, AMST, ASHS, ASLT, COLI, DISA, ENRJ, PLUR, comprehension skills and analysis, the basic principles of grammar WGSS. with an emphasis on diagnosing and solving persistent problems, and ENGL 3002. Queer Iconoclasts: Sexuality, Religion, Race. (4 Credits) principles of argumentation and evidence. Weekly assignments and The aim of this course is to interrogate and challenge an assumption that regular grammar exercises to build confidences and competence in religious communities and queer communities stand in direct opposition college writing. to one another. We will investigate citations and reappropriations of ENGL 1102. Composition II. (3 Credits) religious iconography in queer art and literature from the 20th and 21st Intensive training in the principles of effective expository writing, with centuries in order both to understand the controversies that surrounded an emphasis on sound logic, correct grammar, and persuasive rhetoric. these artistic and literary projects and to reimagine literary and artistic Introduces research techniques, including use of the library, conventions experimentation as the site of religious and sexual exploration. Particular and principles of documentation, analysis of sources, and ethics of attention will be paid to the intersection of sexuality, religion, and race. scholarly research. Weekly papers will be written and discussed. Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal instruction. Attributes: ALC, AMCS, ENRJ, PLUR, REST, THEO, WGSS. Updated: 09-23-2021 2 English (ENGL) ENGL 3003. Introduction to Professional Writing. (4 Credits) ENGL 3012. Novel, She Wrote. (4 Credits) Professional Writing is a writing-intensive course designed to help “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, students understand practices of ethical and effective communication then, “Toni Morrison declares, “you must write it.” The impulse for black in a range of public, professional, and workplace settings. In particular, female authors to write novels and the diverse manifestations of that it introduces principles of professional communication through a focus impulse will be of primary concern in this course. What compelled black on social justice. Emphasizing the application of rhetorical principles female authors in the second half of the twentieth century to write to processes of analyzing diverse audiences, designing accessible their first novels? How are themes of sexuality, motherhood, beauty, documents, and composing in culturally sensitive ways, this course will respectability, and intra-and interracial conflict represented in their texts? engage participants in a series of individual and collaborative client- In what ways do their novels complement, build upon, and refer back based projects that will encourage consideration of how writers use to each other and other works? These are few of the questions we will communicative technologies to serve multiple purposes in professional tackle as we read through the literature. Some of the selected texts will and public contexts, including facilitating justice. include Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959); Alice Walker’s Attribute: ENRJ. The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970); Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Prerequisite: ENGL 1102. (1970); Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place (1982); and Ayana ENGL 3006. Nonprofit and Advocacy Writing. (4 Credits) Mathis’s The Twelve Tribes of Hattie. Four-credit courses that meet for Nonprofit and Advocacy Writing is an upper division elective designed to 150 minutes per week require three additional hours of class preparation help participants understand the professional writing and communication per week on the part of the student in lieu of an additional hour of formal skills as well as the social issues that characterize work in the nonprofit instruction. and advocacy sector. As they develop an understanding of the rhetorical Attributes: AFAM, ALC, ENRJ, PLUR, WGSS. ways that nonprofit and advocacy workers communicate and act on ENGL 3013. Fiction Writing. (4 Credits) behalf of social justice, they will also acquire skills for writing in genres The workshop in the craft of writing fiction, with relevant readings in the and media commonly employed in such settings, including press game Four-credit courses that meet for 150 minutes per week require releases, newsletters, reports, grant proposals, and more. When the three additional hours of class preparation per week on the part of the course is run as a Community Engaged Learning course, a significant student in lieu of an