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ENG. 2060: STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (10816) AMERICA’S APOCALYPTIC TURN
T. 12:15 – 1:40 PM IN PERSON
F. 12:15 – 12:40 PM ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Brian Lockey
Email: lockeyb@stjohns.edu
American culture is often associated with new beginnings, but during the twentieth century, the works of many American writers take an apocalyptic turn. Recent years have witnessed an explosion of novels, films, video games, and popular music that portray the end of the world. Whether it is imagined as a Biblical event, as involving a plague or weapons of mass destruction, or as involving Zombie flesh-eaters, there seems to be no end to the popular demand for fictional works about the apocalypse. We will explore the twentieth-century origins of this trend, by considering thematically the question of how a number of prominent fiction writers have portrayed Eden and the Apocalypse, the mythical beginning and ending of the world. We will read works by Ernest Hemingway, H.P. Lovecraft, James Baldwin, Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and Cormac McCarthy.
ENG. 2150: LITERATURE AND CULTURE (15000)
READING ABOUT HEALTH T. 3:25 – 4:50 PM FACE TO FACE
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ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS ONLINE
Professor Gabriel Brownstein Email: brownstg@stjohns.edu
As many disability activists have pointed out, “health” is a strange concept—a body without illness or mortality, something that doesn’t really exist, yet that’s often considered “normal.” “Mental health” is an even trickier concept—Freud defined it as “ordinary unhappiness,” but oftentimes “mental health” is advertised as something much more—the great psychoanalyst and pediatrician, D. W. Winnicott, offered a definition that included “tingling life and the magic of intimacy.” What do we mean when we say that we’re “healthy”? What do we mean when we say someone else is “sick”? These are questions that have been addressed by some of the greatest essayists ever to write. We will begin with Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, and move backwards in history to the sixteenth century, to Michel de Montaigne, and up to the
present, with the prose-poet Claudia Rankine. We’ll discuss the borderlands between health and illness, sanity and madness, and how these borders shape and define our world.
ENG. 2100: RACE AND LITERARY CULTURE (12379) ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Robert Fanuzzi Email: fanuzzir@sstjohns.edu Can we ever stop talking about race? Not if you study American culture. In every phase, period, and form, American culture creates racial concepts, identities, and conversations. Our class uses the methods and vocabulary of cultural studies and a wide variety of literature, film, and social media to study our culture’s pivotal, enduring conversations. Topics include the birth of white liberalism and white ethnicity through the 20th century US civil rights struggle; the story of Black people’s representation in American mass culture from the 19th century and 21st century Black media self-representation; and the changing symbols of American immigration and the cultural identities of East Asian and Latina/o immigrants.
ENG. 2100: RACE AND LITERARY CULTURE (14884) MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Robert Fanuzzi Email: fanuzzir@sstjohns.edu Can we ever stop talking about race? Not if you study American culture. In every phase, period, and form, American culture creates racial concepts, identities, and conversations. Our class uses the methods and vocabulary of cultural studies and a wide variety of literature, film, and social media to uncover the “racialization strategies” that circulate among us. Class case studies include the “white savior” complex; the history of Black people’s media representation and contemporary self-representation; and East Asian immigration stories. From these case studies, students learn to apply cultural studies analyses and tools to contemporary racial justice and media issues that impact them.
ENG. 2200: READING AND WRITING FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (12669)
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM Dr. Dohra Ahmad
Email: ahmadd@stjohns.edu
This highly collaborative course is designed to give students the opportunity to gain and practice the skills that will help all you succeed as an English major, minor, or concentrator. We will read a small number of texts of various genres and historical periods at a fairly slow pace, collectively generating critical analyses and essay topics. Some of the skills to be covered include identifying genres and literary techniques; assembling and analyzing evidence; developing an argument; and drafting and revising essays.
ENG. 2200: READING AND WRITING FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (15054)
MR 3:25– 4:50 PM Dr. Rachel Hollander
Email: hollanr1@stjohns.edu This course serves as an introduction to the kinds of reading and writing that are expected of English majors, minors, and concentrators. We will read a wide variety of poetry and fiction, all of which share a common theme of “the double.” Our first unit will focus on close reading of literary texts, our second unit will combine close reading with primary historical sources from the late nineteenth century, and our final unit will familiarize you with integrating critical secondary sources into your analysis. Authors may include Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and Nella Larsen.
ENG. 2210: STUDY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (14886) SONGS AND SONNETS
*PRE-1900* ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS Dr. Nicole Rice Email: ricen@stjohns.edu This course offers a selective study of British poetry written from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century. We will mainly be reading short lyric poems, working closely with the texts at a formal level. The major goal of the course is to become conversant with the terms of formal analysis and proficient in the close reading and analysis of poetry. We will be focusing on the links between poetry and song, and we will become experts in the lyric form known as the sonnet.
ENG. 2210: STUDY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (13883) SCIENCE FICTION T. 10:40 – 12:05 PM IN PERSON
F. 10:40 – 12:05 PM ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Brian Lockey
Email:lockeyb@stjohns.edu Science fiction / fantasy fiction emerged as a major genre of popular and literary writing during the early 20th century. In this course, we will consider two prominent traditions of science fiction and fantasy fiction writing. The first tradition emerges from the Greek myth of Prometheus, taking shape in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and involving prohibited knowledge or a human invention which threatens to destroy the world. The second, embodied in C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, involves the discovery of a new or parallel world. Among the questions we will ask are the following: How does speculative fiction respond to the scientific revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries? How does science fiction register the 19th and 20th century tensions between religion and science? How does speculative fiction reflect transforming gender roles of men and women, especially given how
many prominent speculative fiction writers have been women? We will read a selection of short fictional works and view some related films as well: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, H. G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau; Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World; C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe; J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings; and Ursula Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea.
ENG. 2300: TOPICS IN THEORY (13821) MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM Dr. Elda Tsou Email: tsoue@stjohns.edu
This course is an undergraduate introduction to the key concepts, thinkers, and intellectual movements called literary theory. What we term “theory” is a diverse a group of texts drawn from various disciplines like philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics, history, anthropology and sociology. The goal of this course is less about mastery than familiarity with a set of thinkers and their key concepts. Since this course takes the position that theory is not a set of formulas to be applied to various texts but a critical way of thinking, our emphasis will be on understanding these thinkers and comprehending their relationship to the conversations that preceded them. Our ultimate goal will be to try to understand theory as a way of thinking about the activity of thinking itself. We will try to view theory as a series of questions about the activities of thinking, interpreting, and meaning-making as they apply to different objects of study: the human subject, literature, language, sex, gender, race, society. In our readings, we will learn to think critically and carefully about the object of our scrutiny, and to examine our ways of knowing that object, and what that knowledge entails for us as knowing subjects.
ENG. 2750: WOMEN AND LITERATURE (14956)
T. 10:40 – 12:05 PM FACE TO FACE
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ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS Dr. Amy King
Email: kinga@stjohns.edu * MEETS SOCIAL JUSTICE CORE REQUIREMENT FOR NON-MAJORS *
* COUNTS FOR ENGLISH MAJOR AND MINOR CREDIT *
* COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES MINOR *
At least since Sojourner Truth insisted on being recognized as a woman by white suffragettes in 1851, the category of “women” has been recognized as both politically meaningful and socially exclusive. An exploration of the categories of “women” and “literature,” this course will engage authors and artists who think critically about gender and its relationship to creativity, identity, and politics in both the past and present. In the first part of the course, we will read texts from “first wave feminism” from the mid-to-late nineteenth century, and then we will turn to literature, theory, and criticism from the 1970s—the era of “second-wave feminism”—to see how women writers imagine and define their gender, and what it has to do with sex, race, and class. We’ll think about how literature attends to the particularities of individual experience
while mobilizing collective politics, recognizing especially how trans women and women of color conceive of gender and demand its expansion as a category. Reading both literature and theory, we will ask whether certain genres of writing are especially equipped to articulate women’s experience, and we will explore those texts for the varied experiences of gender articulated through literature.
ENG. 2750H: WOMEN AND LITERATURE (14957)
T. 1:50 – 3:15 PM FACE TO FACE
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ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS Dr. Amy King
Email: kinga@stjohns.edu * MEETS SOCIAL JUSTICE CORE REQUIREMENT FOR NON-MAJORS *
* COUNTS FOR ENGLISH MAJOR AND MINOR CREDIT *
* COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES MINOR *
At least since Sojourner Truth insisted on being recognized as a woman by white suffragettes in 1851, the category of “women” has been recognized as both politically meaningful and socially exclusive. An exploration of the categories of “women” and “literature,” this course will engage authors and artists who think critically about gender and its relationship to creativity, identity, and politics in both the past and present. In the first part of the course, we will read texts from “first wave feminism” from the mid-to-late nineteenth century, and then we will turn to literature, theory, and criticism from the 1970s—the era of “second-wave feminism”—to see how women writers imagine and define their gender, and what it has to do with sex, race, and class. We’ll think about how literature attends to the particularities of individual experience while mobilizing collective politics, recognizing especially how trans women and women of color conceive of gender and demand its expansion as a category. Reading both literature and theory, we will ask whether certain genres of writing are especially equipped to articulate women’s experience, and we will explore those texts for the varied experiences of gender articulated through literature.
ENG. 3000: MEDIEVAL ROMANCE (14895)
*PRE-1900* TF 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Nicole Rice Email: ricen@stjohns.edu In this course, we will study the romance, one of the most popular medieval European literary forms, from twelfth-century France to fifteenth-century England. No previous knowledge of medieval literature is required, and all texts will be in translation. We will focus on Arthurian romances and trace their intertwined representations of adventure, chivalry, race, sexuality, geography, and the supernatural. Some of our primary readings will include Tristan’s absurdly tragic Romance of Lancelot (paired with the wacky Art of Courtly Love and the pious Book of the Order of Chivalry); Béroul’s over-the-top Romance of Tristan; Marie de France’s mysterious
short romances; and the eerie classic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. We will enhance our text with study of medieval manuscript images, and we will engage with several recent critical readings.
ENG. 3140: SHAKESPEARE: THE JACOBEAN PLAYS (14901)
IMAGINING A NATION
*PRE-1900* T.9:05 – 10:30 AM FACE TO FACE AND
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Steve Mentz
Email: mentzs@stjohns.edu
No English-language writer has been more influential in the ways that English speakers imagine national unity and political leadership than William Shakespeare. This course will read a series of Shakespeare’s histories and tragedies to explore how these works imagine a nation, including national diversities across class, race, gender, and linguistic lines. We will start with the two parts of King Henry IV, which we will also see live in a new production at Theatre for a New Audience in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. We will then turn to two tragedies of national disunity, Hamlet and King Lear. The course will conclude with the tragicomedy The Winter’s Tale, which proposes that the magic of Time and the theater can redeem the kingdom.
ENG. 3290: SPECIAL TOPICS – 18TH – 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE (14904) MILTON *PRE-1900* M. 12:15 – 1:40 PM FACE TO FACE AND R. 12:15 – 1:40 PM ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS Dr. Melissa Mowry Email: mowrym@stjohns.edu
John Milton is most famous for having written the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), which adapted and expanded the story of creation as told in Genesis to the epic form. In his own lifetime Milton was both famous and infamous. His early prose works, some of which justified the monarchy’s abolition in 1649, were considered so treasonous that, when the monarchy was restored in 1660, the new king, Charles II, ordered Milton’s works to be collected and burned by the public hangman. Milton’s literary reputation owes much to the English Romantic poets who found inspiration in Milton’s exploration of the battle between good and evil and as well as the pursuit of liberty and justice. This class will engage with Milton’s major prose and poetry and conclude with a full reading of Paradise Lost as well as works by some of Milton’s contemporaries such as Richard Overton, Andrew Marvell, and John Dryden. This is a hybrid class and will meet Mondays in-person and Thursdays on-line.
ENG. 3375: ENVIRONMENTAL LITERATURE (14894) NATURE’S NEW DEAL *PRE-1900* MR 9:05 – 10:30 AM Dr. Robert Fanuzzi Email: fanuzzir@sstjohns.edu We had a deal. America, you give us your natural resources, and we will write beautiful literature about you. Now the deal is off. Climate crises are here. Environmental racism is real. And just whose land was this anyway? In this course we revisit and rethink the rich traditions of American environmentalism from European colonization onward in light of contemporary environmental concerns so they can help us navigate challenges of climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice. Our survey of classic American environmental writers such as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir is undertaken in partnership with pathbreaking women activists and contemporary indigenous American writers who seek a new partnership with nature.
ENG. 3475: BLACK WOMEN’S RHETORICS (14896) @NICKIMINAJ, BLACK WOMEN’S RHETORIC, AND MEDIA MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. LaToya Sawyer Email: sawyerl@stjohns.edu
When thinking about rapper Nicki Minaj’s online presence today, one of the first things that come to mind may be Twitter beefs and rants. However, before this recent fall from Twitter grace, Minaj developed mass appeal and an audience of over 22 million followers in large part because of her skillful mediation of Black women’s discourses and rhetoric online. This course will focus on understanding the specific critical literacy practices that Minaj has used and the broader rhetorical tradition that they come from. We will employ an intersectional Black feminist lens to interrogate the uses and limits of Minaj’s rhetorical performances and consider the larger socio-political implications of Black women’s rhetoric for Black women and other structurally marginalized groups negotiating multiple identities in the digital public sphere. Texts will include Hiphop Literacies, and selected readings from Contemporary Perspectives in Rhetoric, Check It While I Wreck It, and Misogynoir Transformed.
ENG. 3500/CLS 3500: GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE (15110/15116) LOVE, GENDER, AND SEXUAL TRANSFORMATION *COUNTS TOWARD AN ELECTIVE CREDIT IN THE ENGLISH MAJOR*
*COUNTS FOR THE MINOR IN CLASSICS OR ANCIENT STUDIES*
TF 9:05 – 10:30 AM Dr. Robert Forman Email:formanr@stjohns.edu
Our course explores the Achilles-Patroclus relationship as described in the Iliad; Euripides’ portrait of Pentheus in the Bacchae; the discussion of love, lovers, and love deities in Plato’s Symposium; Sappho and Catullus’s love poems; the gender war of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata; Vergil’s fated lovers Dido and Aeneas; the sexual transformations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses; and Apuleius’s Lucius and the Egyptian mystery religions of The Golden Ass (The Metamorphosis).
ENG. 3680/CRES. 1000: CRITICAL RACE & ETHNIC STUDIES (14891/12263) *POST-1900* *COUNTS FOR CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES MAJOR AND MINOR*
MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM Dr. Raj Chetty Email: chettyr@stjohns.edu This course will introduce students to fundamental concepts and debates within the fields that can be collected under “critical race and ethnic studies.” Students will become familiar with the particular ways in which these fields analyze the phenomena of racial formation, ethnic group formation, racism and racial discrimination, ethnic life, and ethnic stratification as central features of global modernity. Students will explore the role that ethnic and racial stratifications play in dominant economic and political systems and institutions, and the role they have played throughout the world.
This course roots itself in Indigenous Studies and Black Studies as foundations for thinking about global forms of racism, anti-racist struggle, and international solidarity movements. New to this semester will be a unit of study on Palestine. We will read excerpts of works by mid-century writers, thinkers, and activists whose works are now central to these interdisciplinary
fields: Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, the Combahee River Collective, June Jordan. We will read also contemporary scholars who take up those earlier thinkers, and the revolutionary movements in which they participated, which may include: Gary Okihiro, Angela Davis, Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Vijay Prashad, Jean Casimir, Joseph Pierce, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Robin D. G. Kelley, among others.
ENG. 3690: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES (14887) RACE, COLONIALISM, AND ENVIRONMENT *POST-1900* MR 3:25 – 4:50 PM
Dr. Dohra Ahmad
Email: ahmadd@stjohns.edu
This class will use literary sources (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and film, as well as visual art) to consider how colonialism, plantation slavery, and racial capitalism formed the environmental crises that we know today. We will begin with the histories of enslavement, land theft, displacement, and colonial exploitation that underlie our current reality. Following this general introduction, we will carry out literary case studies that show how those histories resonate and recur in the specific areas of oil, tourism, industry, and water. The course holds the fundamental premise that only intersectional environmentalisms (incorporating race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, ability, and other categories of identity and experience) can mitigate environmental catastrophe.
Throughout the semester, we’ll pay careful attention to the literary forms that our authors choose to convey these cataclysmic topics, and what impact the resulting creative works have on us as readers, thinkers, and potential activists.
ENG. 3700: THE TEACHING OF WRITING (14903) *COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
R. 12:15 – 1:40 PM
AND ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Anne Geller
Email: gellera@stjohns.edu
Although we usually think of the teaching – and learning – of writing as something that happens within school, there are multiple contexts in which writing is used, practiced, learned and taught. In this course, we will spend the semester considering these many contexts for writing. We will pay particular attention to how writing and literacy are sponsored (and self-sponsored) within organizations (religious, cultural, social, athletic, and/or activist) and spaces (homes, workplaces, libraries, digital/online) and in families/households and communities. By exploring these non-classroom contexts, and the people who learn, teach and mentor writing within them, we will question our understandings of what it means to be a writer: What aspects of writing and literacy
are (de)valued and performed in varied contexts and why? What does institutionalized schooling teach us about writing—and what might we want to unlearn?
ENG. 3730: POETRY WORKSHOP (14954) *COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR* TF 3:25 – 4:50 PM Lee Ann Brown
Email: brownl@stjohns.edu
In this poetry writing course, we will “read poetry and imagine ourselves writing it” (Alice Notley).
We’ll also explore the relationship of poetry to collage, song, sound, performance, poets theater, ritual and other visual work. Linked readings in contemporary poetry and poetics lead to class members’ new poems and individual statements of poetics.
Resources include the Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms, and anthologies such as Sleeping on the Wing by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell, and African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song edited by Kevin Young.
Word artists read and listened to this semester will include Apollinaire, Joe Brainard, Teresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lucille Clifton, Terrance Hayes, Adrienne Kennedy, Bernadette Mayer, Harryette Mullen, Lorine Niedecker, Frank O’Hara, Julie Ezelle Patton, Sei Shonagon, Cecilia Vicuña, Whitman, Dickinson and others.
Playing with a range of traditional and experimental poetic forms, students will develop original poetry manuscripts of at least 22 pages by the end of semester, as well as a short poetics statement, and a response paper on a poetry performance or event.
Willingness to try out new forms and modes of writing in a participatory setting is central to the course.
ENG. 3740: FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (14889) MONSTERS! *COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR* W. 1:50 – 4:40 PM Professor Gabriel Brownstein
Email: brownstg@stjohns.edu
This class is an introduction to writing fiction—students will write stories, fragments, chapters, and even pieces of novels. We’ll read great writers and think about their work, and students will write regular exercises which will lead to original works of fiction. You’ll share your work with your classmates, receive and offer critiques, and work toward developing a style and subject that suits you. While you won’t be required to write a monster story, all the fiction we will read this
semester will be about monsters. The writers we will study include: Carmen Maria Machado, Victor Lavalle, Angela Carter, H. P. Lovecraft, and Franz Kafka.
ENG. 3750: ADVANCED WRITING WORKSHOP (15112) POETS’ TOUR OF THE ESSAY * WITH PERMISSION OF CHAIR ONLY*
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR* MR 3:25 – 4:50 PM
Professor Erica Hunt – D’Angelo Chair Email: mentzs@stjohns.edu
In The Poets’ Tour of the Essay, we will read essays that draw us into the question of art and evidence, surveying hybrid forms that blend elements of poetry and prose to create innovative writing to animate memoir, letter, argument, and observation. We will read looking for the poetic and the “news we can use” in writing by James Baldwin, Eula Biss, Anne Carson, Don Mee Choi, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Maggie Nelson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Tracy K. Smith, David Foster Wallace, and others. Students will respond with poetry/essay hybrids in response to readings and assigned prompts.
ENG. 3760: WRITING AS SOCIAL ACTION (14990) *COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR* MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM Dr. Steven Alvarez
Email: alvares1@stjohns.edu
This course will be an overview to the field of literacy studies, focusing on the study of
literacy as praxis informed by social theory. Literacy as praxis posits that individuals
perform from their language repertoires to make existential changes in their
sociohistorical circumstances. From this position, we will examine literacy not as
decontextualized rote skills, but, rather, as transformative actions communities enact
when forming liberatory solidarities in different situations. Readings for the course will
include works by Pierre Bourdieu, bell hooks, Shirley Brice Heath, June Jordan, Valerie Kinloch, Paolo Freire, Ofelia García, and Anne Haas Dyson.
ENG. 3890: TOPICS IN FILM GENRE (14893) THE HORROR FILM TF 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Scott Combs Email: combss@stjohns.edu
This course tracks the horror film from its silent film origins to current experiments and redefinitions. With horror we see a cinegenre engage with social, political, and historical climates—sometimes transparent, other times not. Our work will be to find out what horror
movies are really fundamentally “about.” Screenings will include films by Wiene, Murnau, Whale, Hitchcock, Polanski, Romero, Peele, and others.
ENG. 4992: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN STUDIES (14907) THE LITERATURE OF BOHEMIA *SENIOR CAPSTONE*
TF 10:40 – 12:05 PM Dr. Granville Ganter Email: ganterg@stjohns.edu
This course will trace the emergence of bohemian literature in Europe and America as a lifestyle and discourse from the 1840s to the present. It will discuss the emergence of bohemian clubs and artist communities in New York in the mid-nineteenth century, bohemianism and the outsider literatures of Decadence; queer Harlem Renaissance bohemians, and move toward the later 20th century bohemians of the West and East Villages (ie: Rent, a modernized version of Puccini’s La Boheme). Readings will be drawn from the Beats and Kerouac’s On the Road, counter-culturals, hippies, tribalists, and ravers from the 1950s to the present, arguing that these are not a break from the past as much as a re-imagining of transgressive impulses of Euro-America’s mid-nineteenth century spirit of reform, and a desire to explore different social conventions of sex and value. Principal literary authors will likely include Whitman, Nugent, Ginsberg, DiPrima, Baraka, Kerouac, Johnson, Wolfe, and The Last Poets.
*WITH PERMISSION OF CHAIR ONLY*
ENG. 4903: INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH (15001) 3 CREDITS
ENG. 4906: INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH (10436) 6 CREDITS ENG. 4953: INDEPENDENT STUDY (11539) 3 CREDITS
The English Major and
Minors in English and Writing
The major in English is a 36-credit program.
Core Courses (9 credits)
English 1100: Literature in a Global Context
English 2200: Reading/Writing for English majors English 2300: Topics in Theory
Courses Prior to 1900:
Select any 3 courses.
Courses that qualify are indicated on the course description flier as (9 credits)
Pre-1900
Additional Electives
to be drawn from any SJC English courses (15 credits)
Senior Capstone (3 credits)
Total credits in the English major: (36 credits)
Please note: the credit requirements for the English and Writing Minors have changed from 18 credits to 15 credits for all students:
Minor in English: 15 credits
Students wishing to minor in English must 15 credits in English. Eng. 1100 may count toward the total number of credits.
Minor in Writing: 15 credits
Students who minor in writing must take the following courses:
* Four writing courses
* Any additional course in the SJC English Department. Eng. 1100 may count toward the total number of credits.
Note: English majors who minor in writing must take four writing courses plus one additional English course (fifteen credits in all) in addition to their major coursework.