Attached are the spring 2026 flier, registration form, and instructions.
Web Registration Dates Winter and Spring 2026
Undergraduate Web Registration Dates Winter and Spring 2026
| Class Year | Dates |
| Seniors (4Y) or 91+ Credits Completed | October 29 & October 30 |
| Juniors (3Y) or 56-90 Credits Completed | November 4 & November 5 |
| Sophomores (2Y) or 25-55 Credits Completed | November 12 & November 13 |
| First Year (1Y) or 0-24 Credits Completed | November 18 & November 19 |
Web Registration Hours
Monday–Saturday: 7:00a.m.–11:00p.m.
Sunday: 11:00a.m.–11:00p.m.
Have a great day,
Lana
UNDERGRADUATE ENGLISH FLIER
SPRING 2026
http://stjenglish.com
How to Register as an English Major
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ENG. 2100: RACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (13732)
TF 9:05 – 10:30 AM
Dr. Robert Fanuzzi
Email: fanuzzir@sstjohns.edu
Is race an “extra” or “optional” topic for the study of our culture? Not if you study American literature and culture. In every phase, period, and form, American culture creates concepts, identities, and conversations that organize people according to group-differentiated characteristics. Our class uses a wide variety of literature, film, and social media and the methods and vocabulary of cultural studies to interrogate what race is and how it works. Historically-based “case studies” in the cultural representation of Black identity, white identity, and immigrant groups from East Asia and Lain American allow students to bring their research interests to contemporary cultural issues.
ENG. 2100: RACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE (11920)
T. 10:40 – 12:05 PM IN PERSON
AND
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Robert Fanuzzi
Email: fanuzzir@sstjohns.edu
Is race an “extra” or “optional” topic for the study of our culture? Not if you study American literature and culture. In every phase, period, and form, American culture creates concepts, identities, and conversations that organize people according to group-differentiated characteristics. Our class uses a wide variety of literature, film, and social media and the methods and vocabulary of cultural studies to interrogate what race is and how it works. Historically-based “case studies” in the cultural representation of Black identity, white identity, and immigrant groups from East Asia and Lain American allow students to bring their research interests to contemporary cultural issues.
ENG. 2150: LITERATURE AND CULTURE (13815)
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Gregory Maertz
Email: maertzg@stjohns.edu
This entertaining online course will examine three classic British novels that have been made into successful movie and TV adaptations: Jane Austen’s Emma (1815), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). In the process of exploring connections between our literary texts, films, and other media, the course will fill in gaps and sharpen critical reading and writing skills.
*PRE-1900*
ENG. 2200: READING AND WRITING FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (13855)
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. 2210: STUDY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (13733)
SONGS AND SONNETS
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.
*PRE-1900*
ENG. 2210: STUDY OF BRITISH LITERATURE (13071)
SCIENCE FICTION
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
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; 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.
*PRE-1900*
ENG. 2300: TOPICS IN THEORY (13043)
LITERARY THEORY
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. Granville Ganter
Email: ganterg@stjohns.edu
This course is an introduction to a variety of ways the modern age has sought to understand the relation of literature to the “world out there.” Does good literature describe the actual world, or is it a fantasy? Does good literature teach a moral lesson or does it have no “lesson” at all? We honestly do not always know. Learning to discuss literature competently requires being able to balance several of these competing questions. Magritte’s famous modernist claim, “this is not a pipe,” under a picture of a pipe may mean simply that the world of representation is not identical to the world itself. But if a picture is just a picture, what can we say about it? Where does literary or artistic value come from? The sincerity of the artist? The mind of the beholder? The work of art itself? The prejudices of a culture? The clever manipulation of signs and symbols? The first half of this course will explore these questions based on readings ranging from semiotics, to psychoanalysis, to Foucault’s “Death of the Author.” The second half of the course will rely on student groups to pick texts and theoretical paradigms that interest them—questions of literature and environmental theory; cultural appropriation; fantasy and utopianism; comedy; sexuality, etc.
ENG. 2400: ENGLISH, LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES AND POWER (14542)
W. 10:40 – 1:30 PM
Dr. Anne Ellen Geller
Email: gellera@stjohns.edu
St. John’s campus is located in the most linguistically diverse borough of New York City. In fact, census data shows a majority of Queens residents speak a language other than English at home. English 2400 will offer students (both monolingual and multilingual) the opportunity to develop new perspectives on how they have learned and use English in their own lives and to do the following: gain a deeper understanding of the relationship of English to linguistic diversity; learn about how language ideologies are formed and circulate through official and unofficial policies; think about language use and language access through the lenses of colonialism, raciolinguistics, translingualism, multilingualism. This course will be of interest to any student interested in English, language and language use locally and globally, as well as personally and professionally.
* MEETS SOCIAL JUSTICE CORE REQUIREMENT *
ENG. 2720: INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING (14745)
T. 3:25 – 4:50 PM IN PERSON
AND
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Prof. Gabriel Brownstein
Email: brownstg@stjohns.edu
In this class, students will read and write in several forms and genres, mining their own voice, obsessions, and experiences to produce original works of literary art. Over the course of the semester, we’ll explore poetry, essay writing, and fiction. As we work in different genres, we’ll consider problems of form and irony; observation and imagination; experiment, imitation and homage. The class readings will center around the problem of loss. We’ll study mostly contemporary work, including poems by Fady Joudah, essays by Maggie Nelson, and fiction by Clair Keegan.
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
ENG. 2750: WOMEN AND LITERATURE (13784)
WOMEN AND LOVE
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Jennifer Travis
Email: travisj@stjohns.edu
This course invites students to explore how literature written by and about women interrogates love, identity, and social expectation across American culture. Students will be encouraged to engage with texts not only as literary works, but as ethical inquiries into what it means to live with compassion and care for self and others.
* MEETS SOCIAL JUSTICE CORE REQUIREMENT FOR NON-MAJORS *
* COUNTS FOR ENGLISH MAJOR AND MINOR CREDIT *
* COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES MINOR *
ENG. 2750H: WOMEN AND LITERATURE (14059)
WOMEN AND LOVE
TF 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Jennifer Travis
Email: travisj@stjohns.edu
This course invites students to explore how literature written by and about women interrogates love, identity, and social expectation across American culture. Students will be encouraged to engage with texts not only as literary works, but as ethical inquiries into what it means to live with compassion and care for self and others.
* MEETS SOCIAL JUSTICE CORE REQUIREMENT FOR NON-MAJORS *
* COUNTS FOR ENGLISH MAJOR AND MINOR CREDIT *
* COUNTS FOR WOMEN’S, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES MINOR *
ENG. 3100: MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE (14554)
MEDIEVAL DRAMA
TF 1:50 – 3:15 PM
Dr. Nicole Rice
Email: ricen@stjohns.edu
This course introduces some of late medieval and sixteenth-century England’s major dramatic traditions, with their dynamic, often comic, fusions of sacred and secular concerns. We begin with the civic cycles, collections of short plays dramatizing history from Creation to Doomsday. We will also read a play about the Virgin Mary and selected morality plays, in which the vices and the virtues battle for domination. How did medieval city dwellers adapt legendary stories to their contemporary social conditions? How did drama engage with political and religious controversies? How and where did women perform in medieval drama, and how did our plays engage questions of gender and authority? No prior knowledge of Middle English is necessary. We will work with glossed Middle English texts and learn to read the original language. We will complement our readings with videos and recent performances. If there is sufficient interest, students may choose a performance option for their final project.
*PRE-1900*
ENG. 3140/ENG. 3140H: JACOBEAN SHAKESPEARE (13744/14108)
KING LEAR IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
T. 9:05 – 10:30 AM IN PERSON
AND
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Steven Mentz
Email: mentzs@stjohns.edu
How can William Shakespeare, the most celebrated dramatist in the English language, help us understand how to live in this age of climate change and other disruptions. This course will focus on Shakespeare’s great tragedy, King Lear, in dialogue with a new experimental production in Manhattan by the local theatrical company Compagnia de’ Colombani. We will read King Lear in dialogue with contemporary ecocritical responses such as Craig Dionne’s Posthuman Lear (2016) as well as Shakespeare’s primary sources. We will also be in dialogue with the production’s director, Karin Coonrod, and some of the actors in the show. Students will attend the play in early February and develop a response to the production for a mid-term paper. The second half of the semester will explore afterlives of Lear, including films, novels, and Shakespeare’s late romances The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest.
*PRE-1900*
ENG. 3230: NINETEETH CENTURY NOVEL (14551)
TF 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 novel of the nineteenth century. Our goal in this course will be to examine in detail five English novels from a wide variety of genres and to come to an understanding of what “the novel” is and why it managed to hold such a dominant place in British culture. We will be considering the following topics, among others: the subjects of a middle-class world, such as manners (class) and money (economics); the increasingly large, bewildering facts of society in the modern context and how the novel explained, mapped, and made sense out of the forms of a mobile, economic, and increasingly secular society; the psychologies of the novel: its interest in descriptions of mood, consciousness, gendered minds, intimacy and its possibilities; the individual: how the novel represents the modern individual self or subjectivity. The syllabus will be composed of novels from authors such as: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy.
ENG. 3290: SPECIAL TOPICS 18TH – 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE (13747)
EARLY MODERN AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY GOTHIC
M. 10:40 – 12:05 PM IN PERSON
AND
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Melissa Mowry
Email: mowrym@stjohns.edu
This class examines the role of the supernatural and mystery as they relate to concepts of evidence in English literature from Shakespeare through Jane Austen, with a brief foray into the 21st century gothic at the end of the semester. We will start with Shakespeare’s spooky Scottish play, Macbeth, cover Milton’s Comus, Pamphlets of Witchcraft, Walpole’s The Castle of Ortronto, Beckford’s Vathek, Austen’s Northanger Abbey, and finish with the second book in Deb Harkness’s All Soul’s Trilogy, Shadow of Night.
*PRE-1900*
ENG. 3340: AMERICAN REALISM & NATURALISM (14569)
ARE WE STILL HUMAN?
TF 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Robert Fanuzzi
Email: fanuzzir@sstjohns.edu
The American literature written from the 1860s to 1900 used the word “realism” to destroy the world Americans had known. Women’s destiny in the home? Gone. Religion and morality? Try science and technology. “One nation under God”? The real America was a nation of immigrants, more racially divided than ever. By the end of the century, American authors added the word “naturalism” to leapfrog over our pretense of humanity and name the elemental forces that drove us to extremes. Is this the world we still live in now? Students decide by reading the “Realist” and “Naturalist’ fiction of Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris in tandem with the utopian feminism of Margaret Sanger and the Afro-futurism of Pauline Hopkins.
ENG. 3465: YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE (14744)
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. Dohra Ahmad
Email: ahmadd@stjohns.edu
This course will provide an overview of Young Adult literature, from the 1950s to the present. We will choose our course readings collectively, making sure to look at the antecedents of YA literature; its early interest in mental health and development; YA speculative fiction (fantasy, dystopia, etc.); and recent YA novels that engage with contemporary social justice issues. Readings will come from a variety of genres (poetry, long and short fiction, memoir, drama, critical writing), with an emphasis on novels.
ENG. 3490: SPECIAL TOPICS 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE (14559)
JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES
TF 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. Stephen Sicari
Email: sicaris@stjohns.edu
Written during World War I and published in 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses is at the center of modernist literature in English. It is also central to the study of the novel as a literary genre, as well as of the epic, allegory, and myth. It is all these things, as well as a comic masterpiece that inspires hope and confidence. We will read Ulysses with an eye to recognize and appreciate its greatness as literature as well as its prominent place in literary history.
The payoff also includes being able to say to friends and family, “I have read (and understood!) Ulysses.”
ENG. 3560: AMERICAN ETHNIC LITERATURES (14591)
RACIAL RELATIONALITIES
MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Elda Tsou
Email: tsoue@stjohns.edu
This course will examine the concept of racial “relationality” through the lens of Asian American culture. Recent developments in the field of Asian American studies have resulted in scholars unpacking already extant associations and connections between Asian Americans and indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinx peoples, and Asian Americans and white Americans. Our readings will use Asian American cultural productions—a range of materials from literature to op-eds to digital art—as a springboard to explore issues of gender/sexuality, class, settler colonialism, racial capitalism and empire. This class will introduce students to new scholarship on this “relationality,” which has become even more complex in the early 21st century.
ENG. 3620/ CLS 1210: CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY (14563/13894)
TF 9:05 – 10:30 AM
Dr. Robert Forman
Email: formanr@stjohns.edu
We will examine Greek and Roman myths solely from translations of original sources and consider what myths can mean. Why can’t Persephone return to Demeter after eating six pomegranate seeds in the underworld? Why does Zeus have such extraordinary sexual appetites, and why do his liaisons produce daughters rather than sons? Why do the decapitations, castrations, and births from necks and heads so predominate in archaic Greek myths? Why does the nature of Dionysus, a deity who inspires ecstatic religious ritual, change so remarkably into that of a fertility god of the wine grape when the Romans call him Bacchus?
We will do all this and note how the contemporary world maintains and develops these ancient themes through the phenomena of graphic novels and video games.
Women devotees of Dionysus, one playing the auloi, the other
dancing round a statue of the god festooned with honeycombs
ENG. 3645: COMPARATIVE MIGRATION LITERATURE (14565)
TRANSNATIONAL LIVES
MR 12:15 – 1:40 PM
Dr. Steven Alvarez
Email: alvares1@stjohns.edu
How can we theorize the increasingly common lived experience of transnationalism? How is a sense of belonging negotiated and experienced across geographically different places? How is “home” imagined and experienced transnationally? This class critically examines the varied contours of global migration and resulting transnational lives. Recognizing the diverse genres and rich literary textures of transnational lives and the sometimes conflicting theorizations of “transnationalism,” this class will underscore the importance of approaching literature through multiple disciplinary lenses in the service of understanding how transnational spaces are created and experienced locally by migrant communities in our globalized world.
ENG. 3680/CRES 1000: CRITICAL RACE & ETHNIC STUDIES (13736/11825)
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 stratification splay 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. Recently added is 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 also will read contemporary scholars who take up those earlier thinkers, and the revolutionary movements in which they participated, which may include: Gary Okihiro, Angela Davis, Rashid Khalidi, Vijay Prashad, Jean Casimir, Joseph Pierce, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Robin D. G. Kelley, among others.
*COUNTS FOR CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES MAJOR AND MINOR*
*COUNTS FOR THE SOCIAL JUSTICE CORE REQUIREMENT*
ENG. 3690: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL STUDIES (13734)
BASEBALL, BLACK CULTURES, & LITERATURE
*INCLUDES STUDY ABROAD TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC*
MR 3:25 – 4:50 PM
Dr. Raj Chetty
Email: chettyr@stjohns.edu
The course includes a required study abroad trip to the Dominican Republic. The study abroad component will be for one week during Spring Break, making this a short-term, “embedded” study abroad opportunity, so there’s no separate tuition. The details—including costs, program details, tentative syllabus for the week abroad and for the semester—are all available through the website set up by the Office of International Education.
The course presumes no interest in baseball or sport, instead looking at baseball as a meaningful cultural field where race, color, gender, and class are articulated and contested. We will engage critical writings on the concepts of culture, race, and sport, drawing from Black Cultural Studies to counter the idea that certain areas of cultural life, such as sport, are not sufficiently intellectual or academic, not “cultivated” or “cultured” enough for serious reflection or study. We will explore how this is a double dilemma for black sporting cultures. The course centers black cultural life in baseball, in the U.S. and the Caribbean. To develop a set of tools to study baseball as culture, we will study the landmark cultural study of cricket, Beyond a Boundary, by the Trinidadian intellectual C. L. R. James. This class will engage an array of cultural materials: novella, play, poetry, film, short fiction, and print and visual media. In addition to James, we will engage critical studies of baseball and blackness by Rob Ruck, Adrian Burgos, Gerald Early, Amira Rose Davis, Andrew McCutcheon, and José Bautista, and creative cultural productions by August Wilson, Don DeLillo, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Mfoniso Udofia and Katrelle Kindrid, Yolanda Arroyo-Pizarro, Martín Espada, and Alejandro Gautreaux.
*COUNTS FOR CRITICAL RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES MAJOR AND MINOR*
*COUNTS FOR AFRICANA STUDIES MINOR*
ENG. 3740: FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP (13735)
W. 1:50 – 4:40 PM
Prof. Gabriel Brownstein
Email: brownstg@stjohns.edu
This is a class in the art and practice of writing fiction. Every week students will read stories and every week they will write. Over the course of the semester, they will develop a piece of finished, original work. Students will explore their language, imagination, and experiences in order to see what they can write. We’ll talk about sentences, about voice, about point of view, about shaping your language, about revising and rehashing and searching for the right words to capture images, characters, and ideas. This semeseter, the course readings will center on the problem of love, and on the work of the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov. We’ll study Chekhov and some of his contemporary heirs, including Jamaica Kincaid, Edward P. Jones, and Jhumpa Lahiri.
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
ENG. 3780: POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP (14550)
EXPANSIVE PRACTICES
W. 10:40 – 1:30 PM
Dr. Stephen Paul Miller
Email: millers@stjohns.edu
In a language art studio setting, this creative writing course focuses on generative, extended poetry practices. Through assignments, prompts, and our and others’ poetry, we will examine poetry’s potential for generating all manner of meaning, feeling, and communal, experiential, and literary belonging. Students will become familiar with different aspects of their own writing process, new writers and poets to emulate, how audiences receive their work, and how to submit to poetry journals, which will be required by the end of the course.
*COUNTS FOR WRITING MINOR*
ENG. 3830: TOPICS IN FILM AUTHOR(S) (14564)
AUTHORSHIP AND QUEER CINEMA
TF 3:25 – 4:50 PM
Dr. Scott Combs
Email: combss@stjohns.edu
This class traces filmmakers who have engaged with queer-oriented material in cinema, starting with early short films from the beginning of the twentieth century, and moving through examples from classical and post-Code Hollywood to movies made recently in the last twenty years. Of particular concern is authorship: does intention define queer cinema for those directors who keep returning, or have returned, to the theme, and is there indeed a queer film genre?
ENG. 4994: SEMINAR IN THEMES/GENRES (14560)
NOVELS: WHY?
MR 10:40 – 12:05 PM
Dr. Kathleen Lubey
Email: lubeyk@stjohns.edu
Since its early days, the novel genre has been heralded as the cultural form of modernity, specially equipped to get up close to the world and distill its beauties, cruelties, failures, and successes. One of the genre’s first theorists, Samuel Johnson praised novels in 1750 for offering “scenes of the universal drama as may be the lot of any other man”—for telling stories of proximate characters to whom readers could relate. For many critics since Johnson, the protagonists of novels are compelling precisely because they are within reach, figures with whom readers feel affiliated. But novelistic characters can also repel our efforts to know them, inhabiting states of inaction, indecision, or unclear motivation. How do novels work when they make us ask: why? What stories do novels tell about the relationship between desire and human action? How can see what characters want, and why they act—or don’t act? We’ll pursue these and related questions across the genre’s history, from Daniel Defoe’s 1719 Robinson Crusoe to Katie Kitamura’s 2025 Audition, with novels by (this is a tentative list) Edith Wharton, J.M. Coetzee, Raven Leilani, and Ottessa Moshfegh in between. To consider the novel genre’s formal and aesthetic strategies, we’ll draw on critical theory by Virginia Woolf, Mikhail Bakhtin, Sianne Ngai, Lauren Berlant, and others. Writing will be regular, both informal and formal, culminating in a seminar paper due at the end of the course.
*SENIOR CAPSTONE*
ONLINE COURSES
ENG: 1040: WRITING FOR BUSINESS (10806)
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
Dr. Stephen Sicari
Email: sicaris@stjohns.edu
In this course, we will overview and draft many of the conventional forms of writing and communication you’ll use in a professional environment. These include cover letters, memos, business letters, policy positions, and executive summaries.
Just as important as a goal for this course is to recognize that all writing requires imagination, strategy, awareness of audience, the ability to persuade. In essence, ALL writing has these “rhetorical” goals, trying to persuade a reader of the legitimacy of a position, or of an idea, or even of yourself as a prospective employee. Writing is an art, no matter the context or the aim.
In all phases of the course, we will consider writing as a process that depends just as heavily on reading, thinking, collaboration, and revising as it does on writing new material.
That’s why this course, aimed at business students, is something all students with an interest in writing may benefit from. It’s why we count it toward our writing minor in the English department.
ENG. 2060: STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (10698)
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
ENG. 2060: STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (14665)
ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
*WITH PERMISSION OF CHAIR ONLY*
ENG. 4903: INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH (13816) 3 CREDITS
ENG. 4906: INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH (10386) 6 CREDITS
ENG. 4953: INDEPENDENT STUDY (11231) 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.