ENGL BC 1201x and y First-Year English: Reinventing Literary History

[For more information, see course website.] Close examination of texts and regular writing assignments in composition, designed to help students read critically and write effectively. Sections of the course are grouped in three clusters: I. Legacy of the Mediterranean; II. The Americas; III. Women and Culture. The first cluster features a curriculum of classic texts representing key intellectual moments that have shaped Western culture. Offering revisionist responses to the constraints of canonicity, the last two clusters feature curricula that explore the literary history of the Americas and the role of women in culture.
Prerequisites: Required for all first-year students. Enrollment restricted to Barnard. May not be taken for P/D/F. Consult department bulletin board for section times.
3 points

ENGL BC 1204x First-Year English: Reinventing Literary History (Workshop)

Close examination of texts and regular writing assignments in composition, designed to help students read critically and write effectively. Sections will focus on Legacy of the Mediterranean or The Americas and meet three times a week. For more information on the curriculum, please visit the Course Website (http://firstyear.barnard.edu/rlh).
Prerequisites: Consult department bulletin board for section times. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
4 points

ENGL BC 3101x The Writer's Process: A Seminar in the Teaching of Writing

Exploration of theory and practice in the teaching of writing, designed for students who plan to become Writing Fellows at Barnard. Students will read current theory and consider current research in the writing process and engage in practical applications in the classroom or in tutoring.
Prerequisites: Application process and permission of instructor. Does not count for major credit.
3 points

ENGL BC 3102x Academic Writing Intensive

Writing Tutorial is an intensive writing course for second-year Barnard students. Students will attend a weekly seminar and schedule an individual 30-minute conference with the instructor each week. This focused, individual attention to a student's writing is designed to help the student strengthen her critical thinking, reading and writing skills.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 8 students. Nomination and instructor's permission required.
4 points

ENGL BC 3103x Essay Writing

English composition above the first-year level. Techniques of argument and effective expression. Weekly papers. Individual conferences. Some sections have a special focus, as described.
Prerequisites: Can count towards major. Enrollment limited 12 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center
3 points

ENGL BC 3104y Essay Writing

English composition above the first-year level. Techniques of argument and effective expression. Weekly papers. Individual conferences. Some sections have a special focus, as described.
Prerequisites: Can count towards major. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center
3 points

ENGL BC 3105x Fiction and Personal Narrative

Short stories and other imaginative and personal writing.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3106y Fiction and Personal Narrative

Short stories and other imaginative and personal writing.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details. No First-Year Students.
3 points

ENGL BC 3107x Introduction to Fiction Writing

Practice in writing short stories and autobiographical narrative with discussion and close analysis in a workshop setting.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3108y Introduction to Fiction Writing

Practice in writing short stories and autobiographical narrative with discussion and close analysis in a workshop setting.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3110x and y Introduction to Poetry Writing

Varied assignments designed to confront the difficulties and explore the resources of language through imitation, allusion, free association, revision, and other techniques.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3113x Playwriting I

A workshop to provoke and investigate dramatic writing.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details. No First-Year Students.
3 points

ENGL BC 3114y Playwriting II

Workshop to facilitate the crafting of a dramatic play with a bent towards the full length form. NOTE: Playwriting I (ENGL 3113) is NOT a prerequisite, and students need not have written a play before.- Kathleen Tolan
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3115x Story Writing I

Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story.
Prerequisites: Some experience in the writing of fiction. Conference hours to be arranged. Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3116y Story Writing II

Advanced workshop in writing, with emphasis on the short story.
Prerequisites: Some experience in writing of fiction. Conference hours to be arranged. Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3117x or y (Section 1) Fiction Writing

Assignments designed to examine form and structure in fiction. - Darryl Pinckney
Prerequisites: Previous experience or introductory class strongly recommended. Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3117x or y (Section 2) Fiction Writing

Assignments designed to examine form and structure in fiction. - H. Matar
Prerequisites: Previous experience or introductory class strongly recommended. Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3118x or y Advanced Poetry Writing I

Weekly workshops designed to critique new poetry. Each participant works toward the development of a cohesive collection of poems. Short essays on traditional and contemporary poetry will also be required.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details. Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3120x and y Creative Non-Fiction

Explores how to apply a literary sensibility to such traditional forms of Non Fiction as the personal essay, general essay, profile, and feature article.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3125y Advanced Poetry Writing II

A further study of poetic practice for committed student-writers with considerable experience in writing and reading poems. In the classroom student poems and ideas about poetics are shared, questioned, and critiqued. Readings in and critical interpretation of traditional and contemporary poetry will also be required.
Prerequisites: Writing sample required to apply; see instructions in the preface to the Creative Writing section for details.
3 points

ENGL BC 3121x and y (Section 1) Public Speaking

Effective oral presentation in speeches, discussions, and interviews. We will explore the reciprocal relationship between active listening and extemporaneous speaking, structured writing and spontaneous remarks, rhetorical strategy and audience analysis, historical models and contemporary practice.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Preference given to juniors and seniors.
3 points

ENGL BC 3121x and y (Section 2) Public Speaking and Debate

This course will introduce you to principles of effective public speaking and debate, and provide practical opportunities to use these principles in structured speaking situations. You will craft and deliver speeches, engage in debates and panel discussions, analyze historical and contemporary speakers, and reflect on your own speeches and those of your classmates. You will explore and practice different rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on information, persuasion and argumentation. For each speaking assignment, you will go through the speech-making process, from audience analysis, purpose and organization, to considerations of style and delivery. The key criteria in this course are content, organization, and adaptation to the audience and purpose. While this is primarily a performance course, you will be expected to participate extensively as a listener and critic, as well as a speaker.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. Preference given to juniors and seniors.
3 points

ENGL BC 3123x Rhetorical Choices: the Theory and Practice of Public Speaking

Speaking involves a series of rhetorical choices regarding vocal presentation, argument construction, and physical affect that, whether made consciously or by default, project information about the identity of the speaker. In this course students will relate theory to practice: to learn principles of public speaking and speech criticism for the purpose of applying these principles as peer tutors in the Speaking Fellow Program.
Prerequisites: Application process and permission of instructor. Does not count for major credit. Enrollment restricted to Barnard students.
3 points

ENTH BC 3136x or y Shakespeare in Performance

Offered in Fall 2010; not offered in the 2011-2012 academic year. Shakespeare's plays as theatrical events. Differing performance spaces, acting traditions, directorial frames, theatre practices, performance theories, critical studies, cultural codes, and historical conventions promote differing modes of engagement with drama in performance. We will explore Shakespeare's plays in the context of actual and possible performance from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Preference given to juniors and seniors. Attend first class for instructor permission. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENTH BC 3137y Restoration and 18th-Century Drama

Performance conventions, dramatic structures, and cultural contexts from 1660 to 1800. Playwrights include Wycherley, Etherege, Behn, Trotter, Centlivre, Dryden, Congreve, Farquhar, Gay, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENTH BC 3140y Women and Theatre

Exploration of the impact of women in theatre history--with special emphasis on American theatre history--including how dramatic texts and theatre practice have reflected the ever-changing roles of women in society. Playwrights include Glaspell, Crothers, Grimke, Hellman, Finley, Hughes, Deavere Smith, and Vogel.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENTH BC 3144y Black Theatre

Exploration in Black Theatre, specifically African-American performance traditions, as an intervening agent in racial, cultural and national identity. African-American theater artists to be examined include Amiri Baraka, Kia Corthron, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angelina Grimke,Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks, Adrian Piper and August Wilson. (Also listed as AFRS 3144.)
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
4 points

ENTH BC 3145y Early American Drama and Performance: Staging a Nation

Offered Spring 2011; not offered in the 2011-2012 academic year. Competing constructions of American identity in the United States date back to the early republic when a newly emerging nation struggled with the questions: What makes an American American? What makes America America? From colonial times forward, the stage has served as a forum to air differing beliefs as well as medium to construct new beliefs about Nation, self and other. The texts we will read, from colonial times through WWI, explore diverse topics such as politics, Native American rights, slavery, labor unrest, gender roles, and a growing immigrant population.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENTH BC 3147x or y Shakespeare, Theory, Performance

See complete details under the Theatre Department course listings.
Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENTH BC 3186x or y Modern Drama

Course traces the literary, theoretical, and historical development of drama from the 1850s onward, treating the plays of (among others) Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, Soyinka, Churchill, and critical/theoretical texts by Nietzsche, Freud, Brecht, Artaud, Butler, and others.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3094y English Conference: The Lucyle Hook Guest Lectureship

Please consult the English Department's web page.
Prerequisites: To be taken only for P/F. Limited to 60 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center
1 point

ENGLISH CONFERENCE (3093x, 3094y, 3095x, 3096y): Various topics presented by visiting scholars in courses that will meet for two to four weeks during each semester. Topics, instructors, and times will be announced by the department. Students must attend all classes to receive credit for this course.

ENGL BC 3095x The English Conference: The Lucyle Hook Guest Lectureship

Please consult the English Department's web page .
Prerequisites: To be taken only for P/F. Limited to 60 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center
1 point

ENGL BC 3129x Explorations of Black Literature: Early African-American Lit. 1760-1890

Poetry, prose, fiction, and nonfiction, with special attention to the slave narrative. Includes Wheatley, Douglass, and Jacobs, but emphasis will be on less familiar writers such as Brown, Harper, Walker, Wilson, and Forten. Works by some 18th-century precursors will also be considered.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3130y The American Cowboy and the Iconography of the West.

We will consider the image and role of the cowboy in fiction, social history, film, music, and art. Readings will include Cormac McCarthy's "The Border Trilogy."
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. PLEASE NOTE that in spring 13 semester, this will be an L-course--there will not be a departmental sign-up sheet for this class. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3131x The Shadow Knows

Offered Fall 2010; not offered in the 2011-2012 academic year. The well-known story of Peter Pan’s lost shadow, attached by Wendy, seems to belong to the world of fantasy. But it reminds us of an everyday fact: in the world of art, shadows are arbitrary. They can come and go at the whim of artist or writer. While in life we have shadows with us as long as we breathe, in literature and the visual arts, and often in our spoken words, they require â€" and deserve â€" constant attention. If on a literal level shadows emphasize light, space, and corporeal reality, in artistic uses and metaphoric speech they express some of our deepest emotions, from fear to desire; they invoke mystery and misery; they teach us and tease us. This course will investigate both real-world and artistic shadows, using texts and images from philosophy, literature, painting, sculpture, photography, and film. We will study texts by Plato, Pliny, Chamisso, Andersen, Shakespeare, Donne, Dickens, Poe, Conrad, Barrie, and others; and visual images by Masaccio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Munch, Hopper; Talbot, Stieglitz, Strand, Brassai, Murnau, Wiene, Duchamp, DeChirico, Warhol, and others.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 25 students. Sign up through the Registrar's "L-course" process. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).

ENGL BC 3132y Reading Barnard Writing

A century of American literature seen through the lens of works by women who were all Barnard undergraduates. Topics include Jewish immigration, the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, feminism, black pride, sexual liberation, the rise of ethnic American identity, the "downtown" scene of the 1980s, etc. Authors may include Antin, Millay, Hurston, Calisher, Chang, Jong, Shange, Gordon, Quindlen, Janowitz, Danticat, Lahiri, and others. - W. Sharpe
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 30 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center Corequisites: NOTE: This course has been re-numbered. It was previously 3140, section 6 and has not changed in content. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3133x or y Early Modern Women Writers

Offered Fall 2013. Despite popular conceptions insisting that the ideal Renaissance woman was silent, as well as chaste and obedient, many women in the early modern period (c. 1550-1800) defied such sentiments by writing, circulating and publishing their own literature. Under the influence of humanism, a generation of educated women arose who would become both the audience for and contributors to the great flowering of literature written in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. As we examine how these women addressed questions of love, marriage, age, race and class, we will also consider the roles women and ideas about gender played in the production of English literature. We will read from a range of literary (plays & poetry) and non-literary (cookbooks, broadside, midwifery books) texts. - K. Hall
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 25 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
4 points

ENGL BC 3134y Black Internationalisms

Offered Spring 2011; not offered during the 2011-2012 academic year. This course locates itself in renewed, energetic debates around contemporary and deeper histories of transnationalism and Diaspora studies, particular the work of Brent Hayes Edwards in The Practice of Diapora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism(a required text). African American and Africana studies have never been confined to national borders, but how has this Diasporic sense been reflected in the popular imaginary and other exchanges? We also engage the interdisciplinarity of knowledge production in these studies, and we ask what the current status is of black internationalisms are, and how and where they are most readily expressed in the arts.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 16 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center
3 points

ENGL BC 3137x (Section 1) Wit and Humor in the Renaissance

An examination of the varieties of wit and humor in the european Renaissance, with an emphasis on England. How was wit imagined? What were its benefits? How did laghter affect the body? How does wit relate to cruelty? Authors include Arentino, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Thomas More, Philip Sidney, John Harrington (inventor of the water closet), John Donne, Aphra Behn, and some joke collections.
Prerequisites: No sign-ups required: Class size is not limited. Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3137x (Section 2) Coetzee, Ishiguro and Sebald

This seminar will undertake close readings of works by three masters of the contemporary novel. Their narrative engagements with the watershed events of the Twentieth Century will draw our attention to matters of collective and national memory, dislocation, migrancy, bare life, human rights, dignity, the human and post-human, loss, reconciliation, forgiveness. The narrative innovations introduced by these authors re-calibrate interiority and advance an ethics of reading.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 with priority given to Juniors and Seniors. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3138x (Section 1) Transformation, Transgression, & Desire

Transformation, Transgression, & Desire
Prerequisites: Enrollment is unlimited. No sign-up required.
3 points

ENGL BC 3138x (Section 2) "a d--d mob of scribbling women": 19th-cent. Am. Women Writers

In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne complained that American publishing was "wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women," and that he could not hope to compete with women writers for popularity or sales. Yet Hawthorne's texts were canonized as American classics, while texts by nineteenth-century women writers were largely ignored by the academy until late in the twentieth century. This course considers a variety of texts by nineteenth-century American women, including novels, short fiction, poetry, and journalism. We'll consider women's writing and women's reading through a variety of lenses, including domesticity and women's sphere, political action and suffrage, the economics of writing and publishing, sentimentality and anger, and canon formation and literary merit. Authors include Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa May Alcott, Fanny Fern, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Nellie Bly and Emily Dickinson.
Prerequisites: NOT limited. No sign-up is required.
3 points

ENGL BC 3140y (Section 7) Doubt, Death, and Desire in 17th-century Prose

NEW COURSE NUMBER TBA. Reading, from multiple perspectives, the great "metaphysical writers" on these big issues, including faith. John Donne's Devotions and selected Sermons; Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy(i.e., madness and depression); Sir Thomas Browne's Urne Buriall, and Richard Crashaw's bizarre poems "St. Mary Magdalene or The Weeper" and "Hymn to St. Teresa" will be included. - A. Guibbory and M. Gordon
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3141x Major English Texts I

A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Autumn: Beowulf through Johnson. Guest lectures by members of the department. - M. Ellsberg
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3142y Major English Texts II

A chronological view of the variety of English literature through study of selected writers and their works. Spring: Romantic poets through the present. Guest lectures by members of the department.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3143y Middle Fictions: Long Stories, Short Novels, Novellas

Discussion of fictions between 60-150 pages in length. Authors include James, Joyce, Mann, Nabokov, Cather, Welty, West, Porter, Olsen, Trevor.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENWS BC 3144y Minority Women Writers in the United States

Literature of the 20th-century minority women writers in the United States, with emphasis on works by Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Native American women. The historical and cultural as well as the literary framework.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3147y Introduction to Narrative Medicine

Narrative Medicine was designed to give doctors and healthcare professionals a more profound understanding of, and empathy for, the experience of illness. It teaches how to listen and what to listen for. While the skills developed are directly applicable to the practice of medicine, they are also important in any field in which human relationships are central: business, law, architecture, social work, and the creative arts. The practice of narrative medicine calls for a rigorous integration of intellect and emotion that helps to develop a heightened awareness of self and others. It is productive - in that its application in the "outside world" is continually called out. It is generative - by developing the capacity to articulate self-knowledge and consciousness of others, personal and professional relationships are changed and the desire in others for the same is catalyzed. Narrative Medicine utilizes both didactic and experiential methodology to build a practical set of narrative competencies and skills. Correlations are consistently made to the practice of medicine in an effort to connect the work of the class to their science-based studies and to their future careers. The mix of students-undergraduate premed and humanities majors-creates a rich variety of perspectives in the classroom that is often missing for students focused on purely scientific or humanities curriculums. Additionally, Narrative Medicine offers the intersection of many disciplines including literature, philosophy, ethics, psychology, creative writing, anthropology and the sciences.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center
4 points

AFEN BC 3148y Literature of the Great Migration: 1916-1970

Explores, through fiction, poetry, essays, and film, the historical context and cultural content of the African American migration from the rural south to the urban cities of the north, with particular emphasis on New York, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited 15 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3149y Cultures of Colonialism: Palestine/Israel

The significance of colonial encounter, statehood, and dispossession in Palestinian and Israeli cultures from 1948 to the present, examined in a range of cultural forms: poetry, political tracts, cinema, fiction, memoirs, and travel writing. Authors include: Darwish, Grossman, Habibi, Khalifeh, Khleifi, Kanafani, Oz, Shabtai, Shalev, and Yehoshua.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3154x or y Chaucer Before Canterbury

Chaucer's innovations with major medieval forms: lyric, the extraordinary dream visions, and the culmination of medieval romance, Troilus and Criseyde. Approaches through close analysis, and feminist and historicist interpretation. Background readings in medieval life and culture.
3 points

ENGL BC 3155x Canterbury Tales

Chaucer as inheritor of late-antique and medieval conventions and founder of early modern literature and the fiction of character. Selections from related medieval texts.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3158y Medieval Literature: Literatures of medieval Britain

A survey of medieval literatures of the British Isles, and related European texts, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century. Although the course covers many genres and topics, the legends of King Arthur will be a connective thread. Medieval literature and the British Isles as colonized space. Literature before the invention of "England." The multi-ethnic and multilingual culture of the British Middle Ages. The challenge of texts originally accompanied by illustrations. Selfhood as more a social than a private entity. Two papers, mid-term, and take-home final.
Prerequisites: Will be offered in the Spring of the 2009-10 academic year. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

BC 3159-3160 - THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM PREFACE: Required of Barnard English majors in the junior year. Signing up is accomplished through a special tab in eBear. All sections of 3159 (fall semester) are on the Renaissance; all sections of 3160 (spring semester) are on the Enlightenment. Students may substitute 3 courses--from ENGL BC3154-BC3158, BC3163-BC3164, BC3165-BC3167, BC3169, BC3173-BC3174, BC3179 or ENTH BC3136-BC3137. Students may also take 1 colloquium and 2 substitutions. At least one of these courses must cover Medieval or Renaissance material; at least one material of the 17th or 18th Century. One of these will also count toward satisfying the "before 1900" requirement.

ENGL BC 3159x-BC3160y (Section 1) The English Colloquium: Imitation and Creation

New ideas of the mind's relation to the world. New perspectives, the emergence of new forms, experimentation with old forms, and the search for an appropriate style.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. Sign up through special tab in eBear. Corequisites: See "The English Colloquium Preface" above. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: Ethics and Values.
4 points

ENGL BC 3159x-BC3160y (Section 2) The English Colloquium: Skepticism and Affirmation

The development of modern concepts of subjectivity and authority. The rise of art and the artist. Myth versus science. Knowledge versus experience. Humanism, Rationalism, Empiricism. The tension between belief and doubt. The exploration of limits and the limitless. Definition of the beautiful and the sublime.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. Sign up through special tab in eBear. Corequisites: See "The English Colloquium Preface" above. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: Ethics and Values.
4 points

ENGL BC 3159x-BC3160y (Section 3) The English Colloquium: Reason and Imagination

Humanism, reformation, and revolution: the possibilities of human knowledge; sources and strategies for secular and spiritual authority; the competing demands of idealism and experience.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. Sign up through special tab in eBear. Corequisites: See "The English Colloquium Preface" above. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: Ethics and Values.
4 points

ENGL BC 3159x-BC3160y (Section 4) The English Colloquium: Order and Disorder

The tension, conflicts, and upheavals of an era in the arts, religion, politics, aesthetics, and society.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. Sign up through special tab in eBear. Corequisites: See "The English Colloquium Preface" above. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: Ethics and Values.
4 points

ENGL BC 3163x Shakespeare I

A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students. This class is open to Juniors and Seniors only. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3164y Shakespeare II

Critical and historical introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3165x The Elizabethan Renaissance

Literature and culture during the reign of Elizabeth I. Topics include God, sex, love, colonization, wit, empire, the calendar, cosmology, and Elizabeth herself as writer and topic. Authors include P. Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Mary Sidney Herbert. - R. Eisendrath
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3166y Seventeenth-century Prose and Poetry

Lyric poetry about love, sex, death, and God by John Donne and others (e.g., George Herbert, Aemelia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Robert Herrick and Andrew Marvell). Also selections of prose about science, politics, religion, and philosophy (e.g., Francis Bacon, John Donne, perhaps Thomas Browne, and early communists "The Levellers") in this "century of Revolution" that inaugurated more modern ways of thinking and doubting. Donne's poetry and prose may well receive the most extended attention.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3167x or y Milton

Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and selections of Milton's earlier poetry and prose (defenses of free press, divorce, individual conscience, political and religious liberty) read within the context of religious, political, and cultural history, but with a sense of connection to present issues.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3168y Lyric Poetry: an Introduction

This course studies the lyric poem (primarily in English and English translation), its forms, features, and sources, its histories and traditions in print from the fourteenth to the twenty-first centuries. We will review sonnets, ballads, hymns, odes, and elegies; fragments and free verse; the pastoral and its relatives (nature poetry, political poetry); the roles of allusion, metaphor, and figuration. Formal and historical questions will be central to discussions.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3169x Renaissance Drama

This class will examine English drama at the moment when it arose as a major art form. In Renaissance London, astonishingly complex plays emerged that reflected the diverse urban life of the city, as well as the layered and often contradictory inner life of the individual. This poetically rich theater was less concerned with presenting answers, and more with staging questions-about gender, race, religion, literary tradition, love, sex, authority, and class. In this course, we will try to tap into this theater's cosmopolitan, enlivened poetics by studying not only Shakespeare, but also the various other major authors who constituted this literary world: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and the female playwright Aphra Behn. - R. Eisendrath
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3171x The Novel and Psychoanalysis

The novel in its cultural context, with an emphasis on psychoanalysis. Reading selected novels from Austen to W.G. Sebald.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3173x or y Eighteenth-Century Novel: Origins of Psychology

This course proposes to map a history of psychology through the eighteenth-century novel. In novels, writers and readers imagined their lives, and in so doing created a new, private understanding of their selves, an awareness that comes -- a century later -- to be analyzed by means of the "new discipline" of psychology. Novels by Lafayette, Defoe, Cleland, Heywood, Godwin and Austen, readings in philosophy and science, as well as art.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3174x or y The Age of Johnson

The works of Johnson, Boswell, and their contemporaries in historic context; rise of the novel (Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne); poets from Pope to Blake and Wordsworth; women writers from Carter to Collier to Wollstonecraft; working class writers; topics include slavery and abolition in literature, the democratization of culture, and the transition to romanticism.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3176x or y The Romantic Era

Romantic writers in their intellectual, historical, and political context, with reference to contemporary movements in philosophy, music, and the plastic arts. Authors include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, and Keats. An emphasis on close reading of the poetry.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3177y Victorian Age in Literature: the Novel

Offered in Spring 2011; not offered in the 2011-2012 academic year. Works by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront�, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle. Attention to form and style in the development of the novel; examination of how the novels reflect or challenge Victorian ideas about ambition, education, labor, gender, domesticity, and global empire.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3178y Victorian Poetry and Criticism

Poetry, art, and aesthetics in an industrial society, with emphasis on the role of women as artists and objects. Poems by Tennyson, Arnold, Christina and D.G. Rossetti, Swinburne, and Elizabeth and Robert Browning; criticism by Ruskin, Arnold, and Wilde; paintings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Whistler; photographs by J.M. Cameron.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited 35 students. PLEASE NOTE that in spring 13 semester, this will be an L-course--there will not be a departmental sign-up sheet for this class. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3179x American Literature to 1800

Early American histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, and novels tell stories of pilgrimage and colonization; private piety and public life; the growth of national identity; Puritanism, Quakerism, and Deism; courtship and marriage; slavery and abolition. Writers include Bradford, Shepard, Bradstreet, Taylor, Rowlandson, Edwards, Wheatley, Franklin, Woolman, and Brown.
General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: Ethics and Values.
3 points

ENGL BC 3180y American Literature, 1800-1870

Texts from the late Republican period through the Civil War explore the literary implications of American independence, the representation of Native Americans, the nature of the self, slavery and abolition, gender and woman's sphere, and the Civil War. Writers include Irving, Emerson, Poe, Fuller, Thoreau, Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, Whitman, and Dickinson.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3181x American Literature, 1871-1945

American literature in the context of cultural and historical change. Writers include Twain, James, DuBois, Wharton, Cather, Wister, Faulkner, Hurston.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3182y American Fiction

American fiction from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Writers include Rowson, Hawthorne, Melville, Alcott, Twain, James, Wharton, Faulkner, Wright.
3 points

ENGL BC 3183y American Literature since 1945

SPRING 2014 In the wake of World War II, the so-called American Century rises out of the ashes of fascism, haunted by the specter of bombs rendering victory and defeat indistinguishable. Unable to tolerate this postmodern condition, the United States plunges into an ideological civil war that is waged most dramatically in its literature since 1945. Authors include O'Connor, Ellison, Ginsberg, Doctorow, Nabokov, Pynchon, Robinson, Hejinian, Waldrop, Hass, Morrison, and DeLillo. SPRING 2013 American fiction, literary and cultural criticism since 1945. Topics include: the authorial and critical search for the great contemporary American novel, the particularity of "American" characters, genres, aesthetics, subjects, the effect of these debates on canon formation and the literary marketplace. Authors may include: Bellow, Ellison, Nabokov, Kerouac, Didion, Pynchon, Morrison, and Lahiri.
General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3184y House and Home in American Culture

Interdisciplinary examination of house, home, and family in American life from 1850 to the present. Attention to the interrelation between architectural design, ideologies of family, class identity, racial politics and gender formation. Historical sites include the plantation, the nomadic dwelling, the mansion, the tenement, the apartment, and the suburb.
Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3185x Modern British and American Poetry

Poetry written in English during the past century, discussed in the context of modernism, postmodernism, literary theory, and changing social and technological developments. Students will participate in shaping the syllabus and leading class discussion. Authors may include Yeats, Williams, Eliot, Moore, Bishop, Rich, Ginsberg, Stevens, O' Hara, Plath, Brooks, Jordan, Walcott, Alexie, and many others.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 35 students. Sign up through the Registrar's "L-course" process. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3187y American Writers and Their Foreign Counterparts

Developments in modern literature as seen in selected 19th- and 20th-century American, European, and English works by Flaubert, James, Proust, Joyce, Chekhov, Porter, Cather, Ibsen, O'Neill, Fitzgerald, Rilke, and others.
Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3188x or y The Modern Novel

Examines formal changes in the novel from nineteenth-century realism to stream of consciousness, montage, and other modernist innovations. Social and historical contexts include World War I, urbanization, sexuality and the family, empire and colonialism. Works of Henry James, E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce.
Prerequisites: Lecture - no sign up. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3189y Postmodernism

Examines literary forms emerging from the rubble of representation produced by the tyranny of progress (commodification, mass media, globalization) and the deconstruction of grand narratives. Works by Auster, Barnes, Barthelme, Coetzee, Pynchon, Reed, Robinson, Rushdie, and Stoppard.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3190y Global Literature in English

Selective survey of fiction from the ex-colonies, focusing on the colonial encounter, cultural and political decolonization, and belonging and migration in the age of postcolonial imperialism. Areas covered include Africa (Achebe, Aidoo, Armah, Ngugi); the Arab World (Mahfouz, Munif, Salih, Souief); South Asia (Mistry, Rushdie, Suleri); the Carribean (Kincaid); and New Zealand (Hulme).
General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3192x Exile and Estrangement in Global Literature

This course examines the experiential life of the novelist as both artist and citizen. Through a diverse selection of global novels and novellas, we will investigate the seemingly contradictory condition of the novelist as both outsider and integral to society, as both observer and expresser of society's yearnings and passions. We will look at how women and men, from different countries and epochs, have addressed the issues of social and political alienation, national crisis, and individual narrative voice. The main objective is to pinpoint, through close reading and open discussion, connections between novelistic form, national time and social conjuncture. The uniqueness of the novels we read lies not just in their articulation of a historical moment or in their response to national myth, but in their resistance to generalization. We will examine how our novelists' aesthetic figuration, as both witnesses and participants, creates an opportunity for fiction to reveal more than the author intends and, on the other hand, more than what power desires.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 18 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
4 points

ENGL BC 3193x and y Critical Writing

(Formerly called Literary Criticism & Theory.) Provides experience in the reading and analysis of literary texts and some knowledge of conspicuous works of literary criticism. Frequent short papers. Required of all majors before the end of the junior year. Sophomores are encouraged to take it in the spring term even before officially declaring their major. Transfer students should plan to take BC3193 in the autumn term.
Prerequisites: Enrollment restricted to Barnard students. Registration in each section is limited. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center
4 points

ENGL BC 3194x (Section 1) Critical & Theoretical Perspectives on Literature: A History of Literary Theory & Criticism

What is literature? Does it tell the truth? What is its relation to the other arts? How do we judge it? How can we talk about it? Such questions form the matter of a conversation among philosophers, writers, and, latterly, "critics" that has gone on for two-and-a-half thousand years. Their responses both influence and reflect the literature contemporary with them. Readings from critics and theoreticians from the Classical world to the beginnings of poststructuralism, with attention to contemporaneous literature.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3194x (Section 2) Critical & Theoretical Perspectives on Literature: Literary Theory

FALL 2013 Examines nineteenth century foundational texts (Marx, Freud, Nietzsche), landmarks of the twentieth century (Gramsci, Foucault, Deleuze, Butler, Jameson, Spillers, Said, Spivak, Anzaldua, Debray, Kelly, Rafael), the novels of Jose Rizal, and selected critical essays. - R. Hamilton
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
3 points

ENGL BC 3194x (Section 3) Critical and Theoretical Perspectives on Literature: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature

Literary expression in the light of psychoanalytic thought. Psychoanalytic writings by Freud and Lacan; literary works from Shakespeare to the present.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3194x (Section 4) Critical and Theoretical Perspectives on Literature: Postmodern Texts and Theory

Literary and theoretical postmodern texts. Our focus will be the revolutionary redefinition of the image, word, pleasure, love, and the unconscious.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENGL BC 3194x (Section 5) Critical and Theoretical Perspectives on Literature: Marxist Literary Theory

Evolution of Marxist criticism from Marx to Jameson and Eagleton. Central questions: What is unique about Marxist cultural analysis? What are the different Marxist schools of criticism? Is there a future for Marxism? Issues considered: capitalism and culture, class analysis, commitment, modernism and postmodernism, commodification and alienation, and postcolonialism.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3195x or y Modernism

Modernist responses to cultural fragmentation and gender anxiety in the wake of psychoanalysis and world war. Works by Woolf, Joyce, Yeats, Eliot, Stein, Hemingway, Toomer, H.D., Pound, Lawrence, Barnes, and other Anglo-American writers.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 55. Sign up through the Registrar's "L-course" process. General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). General Education Requirement: Ethics and Values.
3 points

ENGL BC 3196x Home to Harlem: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance

Explores the cultural contexts and aesthetic debates surrounding the Harlem or New Negro literary renaissance, 1920-30s. Through fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork, topics considered include: modernism, primitivism, patronage, passing and the problematics of creating racialized art in/for a community comprised of differences in gender, class, sexuality, and geographical origin.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3198x Poetry Movements since the 1950s

Major poetry movements since the 1950s, including Beat Poetry, Confessional Poetry, the Black Arts Movement, Black Mountain, the Belfast group, and Language Poetry.
Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3199x Poetics.

Investigation of poetry and imagination in practice and theory in the work of lyric poets from the fourteenth century to the present. Selected prose and poetry by Petrarch, Herbert, Cowper, Blake, Keats, Clare, Dickinson, Baudelaire, the Modernists, Celan, and others.
General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2013-2014.
3 points

ENGL BC 3252x Contemporary Media Theory

Explores the transformation of social organization and consciousness by and as media technologies during the long 20th century. Students will read influential works of media analysis written during the past century, analyze film and digital media, and explore political and media theory generated since the rise of the internet. - J. Beller
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 18 students. Attend first class for instructor permission. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment.
4 points

ENGL V 3260y The Victorian Age in Literature

The 19th century saw the birth of the social and psychological sciences, along with new representations of the self in everyday life. Works by Dickens, Eliot, Meredith, Darwin, Arnold, Mill, Ellis, and others.
Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

AFEN BC 3525y Atlantic Crossings: The West Indies and the Atlantic World

This course examines the literature of transatlantic travel from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 to Caryl Phillips's re-tracing of his mother's migration in The Atlantic Sound(2000) to recent re-imaginings of slavery and the Middle Passage by M. Nourbese Philip and Marlon James. Even before Columbus's first encounter, the "Indies" sparked English desires for riches and adventure. We will first investigate how English writers promoted an idea of the West Indies and then came to inhabit its heterogeneous spaces, filling them with longing and anxiety. The class will chart the emergence of modern race thinking from the rich interaction of peoples and goods in the early modern Caribbean. We will also question how ideals of freedom and "English-ness" co-existed with slavery, bondage and creole life. The class will then look at the ways later writers revisit the Caribbean's colonial origins and discuss how notions of the West Indies may haunt modern Atlantic travel.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 20 students. Sign-up with the English Department is required. Registering for the course only through eBear or SSOL will NOT ensure your enrollment. The date and time that sign-up sheets go up is listed on the English Dept.'s Announcements Page: http://english.barnard.edu/course-information/news-center Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENRE BC 3810y Literary Approaches to the Bible

Interpretive strategies for reading the Bible as a work with literary dimensions. Considerations of poetic and rhetorical structures, narrative techniques, and feminist exegesis will be included. Topics for investigation include the influence of the Bible on literature.
Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. PLEASE NOTE that in spring 13 semester, this will be an L-course--there will not be a departmental sign-up sheet for this class. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).
4 points

ENGL BC 3992x Senior Postcolonial Literature Seminar: The Literature of the Middle Passage

Focusing on the literature of the Atlantic Slave Trade, this course culminates in a trip to Ghana. Texts from Africa, Britain, and the Americas, reflecting the historical impact of involuntary migration out of Africa, will include Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Du Bois, Conrad, Equiano, and Baldwin. Open to all seniors by application.
Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENGL G 3995x Reading Lacan

FALL 2013 - An intensive reading of selections from Lacan's Seminar VI: Desire and Its Interpretation with Shakespeare's Hamlet; Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis with Sophocles's Antigone; Seminar VIII: The Transference with Plato's Symposium; and Seminar XX: Encore: On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge with Clarice Lispector and Marguerite Duras. Emphasis on the relevance of Lacan's thought to contemporary literature, culture, and neuroscience, and to questions about happiness, democracy, and peace. - M. Jaanus
3 points

All INDEPENDENT STUDY projects require a completed form being filed with the English Department (417 Barnard Hall).

ENGL BC 3996x and y Special Project in Theatre, Writing, or Critical Interpretation

Senior majors who are concentrating in Theatre or Writing and have completed two courses in writing or three in theatre will normally take the Special Project in Theatre or Writing (ENGL BC 3996 x or y) in combination with an additional course in their special field. This counts in place of one of the Senior Seminars. In certain cases, Independent Study (ENGL BC 3999 - see below) may be substituted for the Special Project.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and chair required. In rare cases, with the permission of the chair, a special project in conjunction with a course may be taken by other English majors.
1 point

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 1) Senior Seminars: Human and Other Animal Identities in Literature and Philosophy

FOR FALL 2013 An interdisciplinary study of the construction of animal identities in selected literary and philosophical texts and of the ways in which such representations of non-human animal identities inform conceptions of human identities, including racialized and gendered ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description from FALL 2012 - Humans & Other Animals: Metamorphoses & Blurred Identities An interdisciplinary study of the construction of animal identities in selected literary and philosophical texts and the ways in which such representations of non-human animal identities inform conceptions of human identities, including racialized and gendered ones. Readings include Aristotle, Ovid, Descartes, Shakespeare, Kafka, Melville, and Morrison.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 2) Senior Seminars: John Donne and Friends

NEW FOR FALL 2013 The course will devoted to one of the greatest writers of love poetry and devotional poetry, John Donne His intense, witty writing has had a long afterlife, influencing writers from George Herbert and John Suckling (in the seventeenth century) to Coleridge in the nineteenth) to T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Hecht, and A. S. Byatt (in the twentieth). We will read Donne's poetry (The Songs and Sonets, and Holy Sonnets and other poems)-his exploration of sex and love, death and God, doubt and faith-- but also his later Devotions, his prose meditations on his near-fatal sickness, a text still relevant as he struggles to understand the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of illness. We also will read "friends" of Donne-other writers who have been influenced by Donne, and whose writing is in conversation with him. Among those we might read are: George Herbert (along with Donne, the best seventeenth-century writer of religious lyrics), other seventeenth-century poets taken by Donne's erotic poetry (Suckling, Rochester, both of whom tend towards the obscene), a few poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Hass, late twentieth-century plays Wallace Shawn (The Designated Mourner) and Margaret Edson (Wit)--plays that "stage" Donne in different ways); A. S. Byatt's novel Possession. We can't cover all these in the senior seminar, but this list gives an idea of the rich possibilities of the topic. The course aims to get students to understand Donne's poetry, and have a sense of how later writers have understood Donne and been in conversation with him. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------Description from FALL 2012 - (S. Hamilton) How do poets' letters inform our understanding of their poetry? From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, poets have used their intimate correspondence to "baffle absence," as Coleridge remarked. This course will examine the ways several masters of the letter (including Cowper, Keats, Dickinson, Eliot, Bishop, and Lowell, among others) shaped their prose to convey spontaneity in paradoxically artful ways, illuminating their major work as poets and making the private letter a literary form in its own right.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 3) Senior Seminars: Revolution in Literature and Theory

NEW FOR FALL 2013: Our question: how are revolutions -political, social - anticipated or reflected in literature and theory? In the Renaissance, the word revolution describes the turning of fortune's wheel, the changing seasons, a natural process: after winter, spring will come again. But the great social upheavals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave the term its modern meaning, that of a cataclysmic rupture in the political world, and its transformation: a new way of being. A second question: is this true? As Giuseppe di Lampedusa writes in his great novel The Leopard"everything needs to change, so everything can stay the same." Wordsworth, Goya, Zola, Lampedusa, Eisenstein, Wertmuller, Arenas; Marx, Lenin, Adorno, Gramsci.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------Description from FALL 2012 - The Art of Jane Austen We will read all of her work, as well as the most significant criticism. Among the topics we will consider: Austen's innovations in plot and character, the relation of her work to the "sister arts," as well as to politics, history, women, and her contemporary allure. - R. Hamilton
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 4) Senior Seminars: The American Sublime

FOR FALL 2013 "The empty spirit / In vacant space": gothicism, transcendentalism, and postmodern rapture. Traces of the sublime in the American literary landscape, featuring Poe, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop, Reed, Pynchon, Robinson, and Harding.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------Description from FALL 2012 -(L.Gordis) In April 1645, John Winthrop lamented the sorry state of Ann Yale Hopkins, "who was fallne into a sadd infirmytye, the losse of her vnderstandinge & reason . . . by occasion of her giving her selfe wholly to readinge & writing, & had written many bookes." This course considers colonial women as authors and as readers, sampling a variety of genres (court transcripts, confessions, poetry, autobiographies, captivity narratives, novels, and commonplace books) and exploring topics including theology, marriage, scribal publication, and the American Revolution. We will read texts by women writers, including Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Phillis Wheatley, and Hannah Foster, as well as texts that reveal women's reading and publication practices, such as accounts of Anne Hutchinson and Milcah Martha Moore's Book.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 5) Senior Seminars: Late Victorian and Modern Drama

FOR FALL 2013. Drama in transition. Changing social structures and dramatic structures at the turn of the century. The relationship between convention and invention and the interface of text and performance in the plays of Pinero, Wilde, Shaw, Strindberg, Ibsen, Chekhov, Robins, and others.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 5) Senior Seminars: Postmodernism

WAS OFFERED FALL 2012 This course examines literary forms emerging from the rubble of representation produced by the tyranny of progress (mass media, globalization, nuclear proliferation) and the deconstruction of grand narratives. Writers include Pynchon, Barthelme, Reed, Robinson, Barnes, Coetzee, Ishiguro, Banville, Ashbery, Waldrop, and Hejinian.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 6) Senior Seminars: Political Love

WAS OFFERED FALL 2012 A philosophical exploration of notions of 'political love' from Aristotle's happiness to Martin Luther King's agape. In what way is love the foundation of human community, and what is a revolutionary conception of love today?
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors. Not offered in 2013-2014.
4 points

ENGL BC 3997x (Section 6) Senior Seminar: Utopia, from Thomas More to Ursula LeGuin.

NEW FOR FALL 2013 A look at Thomas More's Utopia and then at the dreams or nightmares it inspired, whether hopeful, ironic, serious, parodic, speculative, nightmarish, or interrogatory. Authors include More, Campanella, Rabelais, Bacon, Margaret Cavendish, Morris, Bellamy, Wells, Orwell, Ursula LeGuin and, if there is time, R.A. Lafferty's scifi novel starring More and some young adult fiction by Lois Lowry.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3998y (Section 1) Senior Seminars: Studies in Literature: On Happiness

Concepts of happiness as they apply to various novels and novellas from the 18th century to the present.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3998y (Section 2) Senior Seminars: The Family in Fiction & Film: The Poetics of Growing Up

Looking closely at late Twentieth and Twenty-First Century stories, novels, memoir and films that center on the logic, dysfunction, romance, system, morphing, divorcing and curious maturation of the family. From Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, Fun Home, to the Korean film, The Host, we will explore fresh and a few classic cinematic takes on this theme. We will explore renderings of "family cultures," family feeling, family values, the family as a narrative configuration, and home as a utopian space, a nightmarish landscape, a memory palace and more. Authors and directors will include: Wes Anderson, Gaston Bachelard, Mira Bartok, Alison Bechdel, Joon-ho Bong, Jonathan Franzen, Vivien Gornick, Lasse Hallstrom, Tamara Jenkins, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Jim, Sheridan, Todd Solondz, Francois Truffaut, Tennessee Williams, D. W. Winnicott, Andrei Zvyagintsev.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English Film majors. Priority given to Barnard Film majors and English majors with a Film concentration.
4 points

ENGL BC 3998y (Section 3) Senior Seminars: Studies in Literature: Sense and Disability

American narratives of disability at the turn of the twentieth century with special attention to gender, race, class, technology and law. Authors include Stephen Crane, Helen Keller, Edith Wharton, Pearl Buck, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3998y (Section 4) Charles Dickens (SPRING 2013)

Offer in Spring, 2013: Charles Dickens: the life, the works, the legend, in as much detail as we can manage in one semester. Reading will include Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and selections from his friend John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, as well as other works to be chosen by the class. Special emphasis will be given to Dickens's literary style and genius for characterization, in the context of Victorian concerns about money, class, gender, and the role of art in an industrializing society. Students will be expected to share in creating the syllabus, presenting new material, and leading class discussion. Be prepared to do a LOT of reading--all of it great!--plus weekly writing on Courseworks.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3998y (Section 5) Senior Seminars: Short Fiction by American Writers

We will explore the rich variety of fiction in shorter forms--short stories and novellas--written by American women. Writers to be studied will include Porter, Stafford, Welty, O'Connor, Olsen, Paley.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
4 points

ENGL BC 3998y (Section 6) Senior Seminars: Studies in Literature: Eros in the Renaissance

OFFERED SPRING 2013 This course studies some Renaissance writers who explore how Eros relates to a variety of human situations and dilemmas. Eros himself is a complex and contradictory god and Renaissance writers tend to be complex and contradictory when allowing him to influence what they think and say. Eros, moreover, is not always the enemy of other gods or God, so we will also consider how some have treated his relation to the religious imagination. Eros can even support "family values," so we will also look at how he can energize one's hopes to marry and procreate, but sometimes Eros expresses same-sex love. Eros is a complex energy; so are the texts that express him, whether comic, tragic, funny, or poignant, and whether in dialogues, sonnets, stories, satires, or plays. Writers include Plato, Ovid, Petrarch, Gaspara Stampa, Rabelais, Ronsard, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Richard Barnfield, and Tom Nashe.
Prerequisites: Sign up through special tab in eBear. Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.

PREFACE for 3999: All independent study projects require a completed form being filed with the English Department (417 Barnard Hall).

ENGL BC 3999x and y Independent Study

Senior majors who wish to substitute Independent Study for one of the two required senior seminars should consult the chair. Permission is given rarely and only to students who present a clear and well-defined topic of study, who have a department sponsor, and who submit their proposals well in advance of the semester in which they will register. There is no independent study for screenwriting or film production.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and Department Chair.
4 points

CLEN W 4121x Renaissance in Europe: Sonnet Sequences

(Lecture) Key texts of 15th- and 16th-century humanism in their rhetorical and philosophical contexts, including works by Petrarch, Erasmus, More, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Sidney, and Montaigne.

CLEN W 4122y The Renaissance in Europe II : Women Writers in the Renaissance

This course examines texts by Renaissance women writing in four different languages: Italian, French, English, and Latin. What role does gender play in such texts? How did women exploit and modify literary traditions dominated by men? Is there anything here to modify older views of women in the Renaissance? And, although this question may have no good answer, why were Englishwomen so much slower than their Italian and French counterparts to write on love? See Cross-listing below for class time and location. - A. Prescott
Not offered in 2013-2014.

CLEN G 4205x 17th-Century Literature and Culture: Religious Difference and the English Revolution

Explores the intertwining of religion, politics, and literature during the seventeenth century, focusing on the English Revolution (1640-1660). What was the role of religion, and the nature of religious differences in post-reformation England? Beginning with brief selections from Herbert's The Temple but focusing on writings by religio-political radicals and self-proclaimed prophets such as Gerrard Winstanley and Anna Trapnel but especially Milton (e.g., probably Areopaglitica, Paradise Regained), we will consider the proliferation of religious divisions and sectarian options, anti-Catholicism, the question of Jewish readmission, and the relation between religion and "nation."

ENGL W 4502x British Literature, 1950 to the Present

This course will trace English fiction (and a few films) from the center and from the margins, from the post-WWII era to contemporary social and narratological preoccupations. Writers will include: Martin Amis, John Banville, Pat Barker, Graham Greene, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, David Mitchell, V.S. Naipaul, John Osborne, W.G. Sebald, and films by Carol Reed, Michael Apted, Joseph Losey, Tony Richardson, Mike Leigh, Stanley Kubrick and Stephen Frears.