UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH FLYER SPRING 2022
QUEENS CAMPUS
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Please note: All courses are on campus unless noted as online or hybrid.
ENG. 4994/CRES. 2000: SEMINAR IN THEMES/GENRES (13927/15021)
THEME: OCTAVIA BUTLER IN TIME
*COUNTS FOR THE MINOR IN CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES*
*SENIOR CAPSTONE*
M 5:00 – 7:50 PM
Email: smallss@stjohns.edu
Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls
In this Seminar, we will engage the work of Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), one of the world’s foremost contemporary science fiction and speculative fiction writers. Her work spans four decades (1970s-2000s) and explores themes of environmental disaster, eugenics, inter-species relationships, race, religion, sexuality, antiblackness, and nationalism. We will read four of Butler’s works: Patternmaster (1976), Kindred (1979), Parable of the Sower (1993), and Fledgling (2005), as well as consider commentary, essays, podcasts, and critical scholarship about Butler’s importance and influence of the fields of science fiction, Afrofuturism, Black Studies, Black feminism, and popular culture. The course includes a group presentation and final paper or creative project.
ENG. 3780: ADVANCED POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (14783)
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
*COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES*
MR 3:25 – 4:50 PM Professor Lee Ann Brown
Email: brownl@stjohns.edu
This course explores contemporary poetry as “seed text” for our own new poems. We will form a workshop to deepen our poetry practice in new and traditional forms, including the ballad, calligramme, sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and list poem. We will also practice the reinvention of those forms through tools such as open-ended free writing, free verse, erasures, ekphrastic poetry, documentary poetics, ritual, performance poetry, improvisation, song form, collaborative writing and the formation of our own new poetry manuscripts. Although there are no prerequisites for the course, students should be prepared to draft, revise and develop poems over the course of the semester. We will create a kind of art studio of language.
ENG. 3890: TOPICS IN FILM GENRE (15309)
QUEER CINEMA
*COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES* TF 1:50 – 3:15 PM
Dr. Scott Combs Email: combss@stjohns.edu
When in 1992 B. Ruby Rich first identified “new queer cinema” in response to an emergence of films with queer direction, and content, she raised the question of what films from earlier in film history might be said to precede that moment of transition, and what, indeed, might constitute a definition of queer cinema. This course aims to begin discussing that question by looking at LGBTQ films, performances, and spectatorship from before, during, and after what Rich perceived as “new”. The goal is not to posit a static definition of one notion, or period, or style of filmmaking, but rather to recapture the multiple ways films have addressed queer lives across a range of examples, representational obstacles, and exhibition practices. Weekly screenings will include works by Edison, Rex Ingram, Douglas Sirk, Alfred Hitchcock, Kenneth Anger, Cheryl Dunya, Chantal Ackerman, Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, Todd Haynes, and Isaac Julien. Weekly readings will draw from film and media studies and queer studies.
ENG. 3740: FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (15305)
PANDEMIC WRITING
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
T 3:25 – 4:50 PM; FACE TO FACE AND ONLINE ASYCHRONOUS THE REST OF THE WEEK
Professor Gabriel Brownstein
Email: brownstg@stjohns.edu
How do you turn your experience into fiction? How about your experiences of something that everyone around you shared, like the pandemic? Maybe the secret isn’t in invention of something new, but in combination and in collage, in bringing storytelling elements together in order to form unusual perspectives. “I believe that whatever talent I have,” wrote Carmen Maria Machado, “comes not from some sort of muse or creative spirit, but from my ability to manipulate proportions and time.” As we write fiction that emerges from the experience of the pandemic, we’ll look at Machado’s long story about a plague, “Inventory,” and also at parts of Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year. We’ll read Victor Shklovsky to help us think about representation and defamiliarization. (“The purpose of art,” wrote Shklovsky, “is to import the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known.”) We’ll read Eula Biss to help us think about the poetics of virology. We’ll study two young adult novels, each about a boy and a man setting out to save a plagued world, a world that has been robbed of magic: Ursula LeGuin’s The Farthest Shore and Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories. These readings will help us think about genre and mimesis, about point of view and about voice, about different ways of representing the imagined world in prose. Students will write a series of exercises and experiments, culminating in original works of art, and they will present their writing to class for discussion and critique.
ENG. 3710: CREATIVE WRITING ACROSS GENRES (14853)
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
*COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES*
MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Professor Lee Ann Brown
Email: brownl@stjohns.edu
This class is designed to be a laboratory where students can explore modes and genres of creative writing: poetry, poet‘s theater, flash fiction, memoir, and cross-genre writing. We will collaborate and play generative writing games to get the words flowing. Each week there will be readings to sow “seeds” for our own writing. This course can serve as an introduction to, or a continuation of, an already established writing practice. Writing time is built into the class, with direction to expand, share and revise work into finished pieces gathered in mid–semester and final portfolios. Texts will include Sonnets by Bernadette Mayer, Olio by Tyehimba Jess, Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara, I Remember by Joe Brainard, rewritten fairy tales by Angela Carter and Italo Calvino, Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself, Short Talks by Anne Carson and plays by Suzan– Lori Parks and Kevin Killian, and essays by Solnit, Bachelard, Barthes. Digital and multimedia creative work will be encouraged.
ENG. 3700: THE TEACHING OF WRITING: TEACHING TACO LITERACIES (15310)
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR* TF 1:50 – 3:15 PM
Dr. Steven Alvarez Email: alvares1@stjohns.edu
This course will examine writing pedagogies connected to foodways literacies, the cultural, social, and economic practices in the production, consumption, and meaning of food, focusing primarily on Mexican foodways as exemplary. We will also study the foodways literacies of New York City, particularly the borough of Queens, while also grounding our pedagogical methods for examining and assessing writing, as well as strategies for classroom literacy activities connected to foodways. We will study ways to theorize foodways literacies as transformative practices communities enact when forming solidarities in different situations, and how we can adapt this powerful mode of learning for students of all ages. Students will produce a researched, autoethnographic foodways project over the course of the semester, exploring their own foodways literacies and analyzing how foodways literacies situate different spaces, identities, forms of knowledge, and ways of languaging, while also a lesson plan for a foodways literacy course they could teach. The documentary and pedagogical evidence from this research will draw on the diversity of languages, cultures, and food research traditions within the city and beyond. Final projects will be housed on the Queens Foodways website, archived for future researchers and teachers. Readings will include scholarly articles, various websites centering around the themes of foodways and literacies, and works by Gustavo Arellano, Vandana Shiva, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Hasia R. Diner, Robert Sietsema, Dan Jurafsky, and the Southern Foodways Alliance. The course website, we will host our archive can be found at queensfoodways.org.
ENG. 3680/CRES 1000: CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES (15495/15020)
*COUNTS FOR THE MINOR IN CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES* MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Raj Chetty Email: chettyr@stjohns.edu
This class will introduce students to fundamental concepts and debates within the fields of critical race studies and critical ethnic studies. Students will learn about the emergence of critical race studies and ethnic studies as distinct academic fields of study. 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. The processes of racialization and ethnic group formation will be viewed as components of overlapping historical processes of social stratification that are fundamental features of the modern world-system. Large-scale forms of group-differentiated marginalization will be examined through the lens of “structural racism.” 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 will root itself in Indigenous Studies and Black Studies as foundations for thinking about global forms of racism, anti-racist struggle, and international solidarity movements. In addition to the course texts listed above, we will engage two major relevant journals to Critical Ethnic Studies: The Black Scholar and The Journal of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association. We will also 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 contemporary scholars who take up those earlier thinkers, and the revolutionary movements in which they participated: Gary Okihiro, Vijay Prashad, Jean Casimir, Laurent Dubois, Joseph Pierce, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, among others.
ENG. 3645: COMPARATIVE MIGRATION LITERATURE (15472)
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. Dohra Ahmad Email: ahamadd@stjohns.edu
This class will entail an international, comparative, and multi-genre approach to the literature of migration. We will closely examine poems, short stories, novels, and movies that depict the process of voluntarily or involuntarily relocating to a new place. While themes like language, racialized identities, community, and generational conflict will be important, there will also be constant attention to the artistic techniques that animate these dynamic and compelling texts.
ENG. 3620/CLS. 1210: CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (14850/ 12161)
TF 9:05 – 10:30 AM
Dr. Robert Forman
Email: formanr@stjohns.edu
We will examine the nature of myth using primary sources: the Enuma Elish, Hesiod’s Theogony, the creation accounts of Genesis, the Homeric Hymns, Heracles/Hercules in Euripides and Ovid, and the Underworld in Homer and Vergil. Our objective is to establish what myth means using primary sources as well as how it develops in relation to social and historical concerns. In this connection, we will also examine Sir J.G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough and the structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss.
ENG. 3475: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S RHETORICS (14798)
@NICKIMINAJ, BLACK WOMEN’S REHETORIC AND MEDIA
*COUNTS FOR THE MINOR IN CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES*
*COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES*
*COUNTS FOR THE MINOR IN AFRICANA STUDIES*
TF 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. LaToya Sawyer Email: sawyerl@stjohns.edu
When thinking about rapper Nicki Minaj’s Twitter presence today, one of the first things that comes to mind may be #BallGate and the viral memes and micro-think-pieces that critiqued and ridiculed the unmitigated authority of Minaj’s “cousin’s friend” regarding COVID vaccination and public health. 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 womxn’s discourses and rhetoric online. This course will focus on understanding the critical literacy practices and rhetorical traditions that Minaj used to build a community of fans and how she became an early prototype for Black womxn and other structurally marginalized groups negotiating multiple identities in the digital public sphere. 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 womxn’s digital rhetoric today. Texts will include: Hiphop Literacies by Elaine Richardson, Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere by Gwendolyn Pough, Heaux Tales by Jazmine Sullivan, and other selected texts.
ENG. 3460: CONTEMPORARY DRAMA (14858)
MR 5:00 – 6:25 PM
Dr. Srividhya Swaminathan
Email: swaminas@stjohns.edu
Theater has long been an appropriate vehicle to shine light on societal issues. American theater, in particular, has utilized a wide range of performance styles and theatrical forms to shine a light on issues that are unique to this culture. Contemporary drama will examine a selection of plays from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that grapple with some of the structural issues embedded in American society. We will read work from a diverse array of playwrights who craft their messages through musicals, tragic narratives, and satiric humor. These plays interrogate issues like the American dream, race relations, and gender politics. Since plays are meant to be performed and not read, our class will analyze the plays both as text and as performative lessons for cultural critique. We will watch performances (hopefully at least one in person) and discuss how the movement and interpretative choices of actor and directors inform our reading of the play. Potential texts for the course include: Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, Anna Devere Smith’s Notes from the Field, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, and Stephen Adly Gurgis’s Our Lady of 121st Street.
ENG. 3440: CONTEMPORARY POETRY (14944)
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
W. 10:40 – 1:30 PM ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Stephen Paul Miller
Email: millers@stjohns.edu
This course will explore post-World War II poetry. Students will have a choice of responding either critically or creatively to the poetry we read, which will include a wide array of established and younger poets including Mónica de la Torre, John Ashbery, Mary Jo Bang, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Charles Bernstein, and many others.
ENG. 3430: MODERN POETRY (15306)
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. Stephen Sicari
Email: sicaris@stjohns.edu
In 1982 Marjorie Perloff wrote an essay whose title poses an important question for the study of modern poetry: “Pound/Stevens: Whose Era?” Perloff’s title refers to Hugh Kenner’s influential 1971 book, The Pound Era, which argues that the modernist period (which is roughly the years between World War I and the Second World War) is best approached through the poetry of Ezra Pound. Perloff’s aim in her essay was to suggest that two very different kinds of poetry dominate the period, and by pitting Wallace Stevens against Pound we may fruitfully complicate the discussion of just what in fact constitutes modern poetry. So in this version of “Modern Poetry” we will study the life-long poetic projects of these enormously ambitious poets and watch how the contrast may deepen our appreciation of the “era.”
ENG. 3390/HON. 3390: SPECIAL TOPICS: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE (14847/15555)
*PRE-1900*
MR 9:05 – 10:30 AM
Dr. Granville Ganter
Email: ganterg@stjohns.edu
This is a course that spans a wide range of Native literature, ranging from the Quiche Mayan, Popul Vuh, to Tommy Orange’s novel, There, There. In addition to examining some of the fictional masterpieces of modern Native prose like Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, we will also consider the wider sphere of Native literature that includes creation myth, oratory, and ritual. The course will ask what relationships there are between traditional folk literatures and modern fiction—including Ojibwe writer David Treuer’s controversial assertion that Native literature “doesn’t exist.”
ENG. 3290: SPECIAL TOPICS: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BLACK LIVES (14846)
*COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES*
*PRE-1900*
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. Kathleen Lubey Email: lubeyk@stjohns.edu
This course approaches eighteenth-century British textual culture from the perspective of Black people whose lives were impacted by the transatlantic slave trade. Foregrounding writing by enslaved and formerly enslaved authors and including British abolitionist writers, the course provides a counter-narrative to characterizations of the eighteenth century as a period of enlightenment, morality, and economic order, and it surveys the very public discourse on race that unfolded across the century in a wide array of literary genres—treatises, travel literature, autobiography, poetry, novels, letters, sermons. We’ll find in these readings a combative, fractured, and critical version of the eighteenth century in which a culture explicitly and energetically debated human trafficking, plantation capitalism, and the colonial enterprise on political, ethical, and religious grounds. Authors include Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Phillis Wheatley, John Wesley, Anna Barbauld, and Laurence Sterne. We’ll also read in contemporary theory and criticism to ask questions about the ethics and methodologies of studying race in the historical past, including work by Olivette Otele, Marisa Fuentes, and Saidiya Hartman. Grades will be based on participation and several written and creative assignments.
ENG. 3240: ROMANTIC LITERATURE (14845)
LOVE AND DEATH IN ROMANTIC LITERATURE
*PRE-1900*
T. 9:05 – 10:30 AM FACE TO FACE AND ONLINE ASYCHRONOUS THE REST OF THE WEEK
Dr. Gregory Maertz
Email: maertzg@stjohns.edu
This course explores the themes of love and death in a variety of genres in the literature of the Romantic Period. Works to be read and discussed include a selection of Robert Burns’ love poetry; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, the internationally bestselling novella of star-crossed lovers that ends in suicide; “The Sick Rose,” William Blake’s enigmatic poem about the pathogens unleased by love; William Wordsworth’s cycle of love poems dedicated to a dead child; Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lesbian vampire poem “Christabel”; Jane Austen’s Emma, her great Regency satire of marriage-minded young women; Latitia Elizabeth Landon’s poem “Revenge” which celebrates erotic schadenfreude; Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, a Gothic romance in which love outlasts the grave; and the heartrending lastpoems of the dying John Keats—“Ode on Melancholy,” “To Autumn,” and “Bright Star.”
ENG. 3230: 19TH CENTURY NOVEL (14786)
BIRTH OF GENRE-FICTION
*COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES*
*PRE-1900*
MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Amy King
Email: kinga@stjohns.edu
Few cultural forms have achieved such a balance between mass popularity and aesthetic complexity as the nineteenth-century novel. What we now popularly think of as “genre fiction”—crime, science fiction, thriller, detective, coming-of-age, fantasy, and romance novels— flourished in the long nineteenth century. This semester we will focus on a broad range of nineteenth-century novels both canonical and less canonical in order to understand the origins of what we have come to know as “genre-fiction.” In so doing, we will read four novels and three novellas through their generic context. The novels include: the “marriage plot” and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations as “bildungsroman”/coming of age novel; the “sensation novel” of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret; Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, a “novel of adultery” that in part captures the impact of popular romance narrative on an individual woman’s life. The novellas that we will read include the “gothic/crime” novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde; H.G. Wells’ science fiction The War of the Worlds; and the “detective plot” of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of the Four. In reading these novels, we will acquire a vocabulary and set of skills for grasping the details of how novels work, especially in their generic contexts, in order to become better readers of modernity’s most characteristic literary form.
ENG. 3140: ELIZABETHAN SHAKESPEARE (14797)
PERFORMING RACE IN A POST PANDEMIC WORLD
*PRE-1900*
TF 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Steven Mentz
Email: mentzs@stjohns.edu
The return to live performances will see major new productions of Shakespeare on New York stages in spring 2022, including Daniel Craig (aka James Bond 007) playing Macbeth opposite the brilliant Ethiopian-Irish actress Ruth Negga as Lady Macbeth. The Afro-British-American actor John Douglas Thompson will play the part of Shylock in Brooklyn’s Theatre for a New Audience in February and March. A new film of Macbeth, which should be widely available by early 2021, stars Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the king-killing couple. Our class will engage with these multi-racial casts and performances of Shakespeare’s plays, on film and (I hope!) on live stages. We will also read widely in the #raceb4race critical discourse through which twenty-first century scholars are using Shakespeare to provide a language to think about histories and fantasies of racial divisions past and present. We will read roughly a halfdozen Shakespeare plays, including Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, and/or Henry V.
ENG. 3110: CHAUCER (14855)
CHAUCER’S CANTERBURY TALES
*PRE-1900*
TF 1:50 – 3:15 PM
Dr. Nicole Rice
Email: ricen@stjohns.edu
This course introduces the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s late fourteenth-century poetic masterwork. This is a poem of tremendous variety, containing stories of chivalry and betrayal, fidelity and adultery, piety and blasphemy, romance and bawdy humor. We will study some of Chaucer’s most important and engaging tales, learning to read and pronounce the original Middle English. Chaucer lived during a period of major social, religious, and political upheaval. We will situate the tales in their historical contexts while considering some important recent critical approaches to Chaucer. No previous experience with Middle English is required.
ENG. 2300: INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM AND THEORY (13924)
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. 2210: STUDY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (14796)
FANTASY FROM BEOWULF THROUGH THE LORD OF THE RINGS
*PRE-1900*
TF 9:05 – 10:30 AM
Dr. Steven Mentz
Email: mentzs@stjohns.edu
For millions of readers and fans worldwide, the best–known products of the British
literary imagination are works of fantasy literature, especially J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the
Rings (1937–49) and its twenty-first-century film adaptations (2001–2003). Americans who
grew up with J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels (1997–2007) and films (2001-2011) are already
deeply familiar with the world that Tolkien built, Though widely beloved, these novels are also
controversial, in particular for their racist and sexist depictions of human and nonhuman
figures. This course traces the literary and cultural origins of characters we know from fantasy,
including wizards, dragons, monsters, and kings who mysteriously return to reclaim the throne.
We will consider the long histories behind the blockbuster successes of Tolkien’s world, and we
will also explore how contemporary writers are re–imagining these legacies in anti–racist
and feminist ways. The main texts will include Tolkien’s trilogy The Lord of the Rings alongside
classic works of British literature such as Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, as
well as modern fantasies by authors such as N.K. Jemison and Maria Dahvana Headley.
ENG. 2210: STUDY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (11388)
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. 2200: READING/WRITING FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (14009)
TF 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Nicole Rice
Email: ricen@stjohns.edu
This course introduces analytical, writing, and research methods critical for the English major. Making poetry our focus, we will scrutinize poetic language, learning key terms for analysis and working to connect close readings to larger arguments. We will pay particular attention to the material forms of poetry, from manuscripts to digital editions. The course includes several written assignments of increasing lengths, each incorporating different skills and methods. These will include a close reading essay, a comparative essay, and a final essay on Gwendolyn Brooks. We will make a sustained effort to link careful reading with clear writing, using homework exercises, paper drafts, and peer review workshops.
ENG. 2100: LITERATURE AND CULTURE (15307)
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Professor: TBD
ENG. 2060: AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE MONSTROUS (11390)
*PRE-1900*
Dr. Jennifer Travis
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Email: travisj@stjohns.edu
This course will examine how images of witches, vampires, cannibals, and monsters have shaped American cultural discourse and literary history. Authors we will study include: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, H.P Lovecraft, and Toni Morrison. For information email Dr. Travis, travisj@stjohns.edu
BUSINESS WRITING ONLINE COURSES
ENG. 1040: WRITING FOR BUSINESS (11681)
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Stephen Sicari
Email: sicaris@stjohns.edu
ENG. 1040: WRITING FOR BUSINESS (11681)
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Stephen Sicari
Email: sicaris@stjohns.edu
*WITH PERMISSION OF CHAIR ONLY*
ENG. 4903: Internship In English (11258) 3 CREDITS
ENG. 4906: Internship In English (10742) 6 CREDITS
ENG. 4953: Independent Study (13020) 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 1100C: Literature in a Global Context
English 2200: Reading/Writing for English majors
English 2300: Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory
Courses Prior to 1900: Select any 3 courses.
Courses that qualify are indicated on the course description flier as Pre-1900 (9 credits)
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 has 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. 1100c 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. 1100c 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.
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