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Fall
2008
Program Guidance and Early Registration begin on Monday,
April 7, 2008.
English Majors: Please make an appointment to meet
with Wayne Berninger, the
English Department Registration Advisor, as early as possible
to register for the upper-division English classes you need.
Doing so will help ensure that courses are not canceled and
that you don't have to scramble to find replacement courses
at the last minute. Below you will find descriptions of the
upper-division courses being offered in Fall 2008. Be sure
to check the requirements
for your particular concentration (i.e., Creative Writing,
Literature, or Writing & Rhetoric).
Non-English Majors: English courses aren't only for
English majors! The writing and analytical skills that students
gain in English classes are very useful in a variety of professional
careers. So even if you are not an English major, you can
take upper-division English courses--as long as you have already
completed English 16, Core Seminar, and two core literature
classes (from English 61-64). If you really want to build
up your transcript, consider an English
minor, which consists of any four courses numbered 100
or above. If you'd like more information about minoring in
English—or if you think you might like to major in English—contact
Wayne Berninger.
English 101: Introduction to English Studies
Class ID# 15925
Professor Leah Dilworth
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4:00 to 5:15 PM
This course is REQUIRED for English majors in all three
concentrations (Literature, Creative Writing, Writing &
Rhetoric). You MUST take ENG 101 within the first two semesters
after completing the core English courses (ENG 16 and two
courses from ENG 61-62-63-64). If you are at this stage and
you don't take ENG 101 in Fall 2008, then you MUST take it
in Spring 2009. You MAY take other ENG courses at the same
time as ENG 101.
This course offers an introduction to the field of English
studies in general and to the English major at LIU. We will
explore the history of English as an area of university study
and what it means in the 21st century to engage in the intensive
study of reading and writing. Students will learn about the
three concentrations we offer in the LIU English major: Literature,
Creative Writing, and Writing and Rhetoric. We will consider
the many professional opportunities open to English majors.
All students in the class will write a short research paper
on a selected work of literature.
English 104: Creative Writing
Class ID# 15049
Professor Lewis Warsh
Thursdays, 6:00 to 8:30 PM
Due to under-enrollment, this class
was canceled for non-English majors, but it ran as
a tutorial for English majors and minors.
This course is a prerequisite for ENG 165, 166 and 167.
This course is required in the Creative Writing concentration.
It can also be used to satisfy an ENG elective requirement
in the Literature concentration.
The goal of the workshop is to expand our ideas of “what
is a poem” and “what is a work of fiction.”
Are poetry and fiction exclusive or related genres? Weekly
assignments will question preconceived notions of form, content
and gender, with emphasis on the best ways of transcribing
thought processes and experiences into writing. We will also
attempt to engage the present moment--the issues of our time,
if any, that influence our writing. Is it possible to write
in a vacuum while ignoring the rest of the world? What is
the writer’s responsibility? Can writing change the world?
We will read as models the work of Maurgarite Duras, Lydia
Davis, William Carlos Williams, Bernadette Mayer, Amiri Baraka,
Frank O’Hara, Andre Breton, Ted Berrigan, Elizabeth Bishop,
John Ashbery and Ernest Hemingway, among others. Much of the
workshop time will be spent on reading and discussing each
other’s writing.
English 128: Early British Literatures: Making of English
Literary Traditions
Class ID# 15285
Professor Jonathan Haynes
Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:00 to 5:15 PM
Note: Some earlier paper copies of this document (as well
as an earlier version of this Web page) indicated that Professor
Srividhya Swaminathan would be teaching this course. However,
Professor Swaminathan is going to be on academic leave next
year, so she will NOT be teaching English 128. This is the
correct course description.
This course is required in the Literature concentration.
It can also be used to satisfy a literature requirement in
the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing &
Rhetoric concentration.
In this course we will read the authors most responsible
for founding the traditions of British literature: Geoffrey
Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlow, William Shakespeare,
John Donne, and John Milton. We will plunge into the worlds
created by their powerful imaginations, which in part means
understanding what they do with the genres of chivalric romance,
epic, comedy, and lyric poetry. We will also pay steady attention
to the relations of their created worlds to the unfolding
history of English society. Gender relations and the role
of the outsider will be recurring themes.
English 158: Early Literatures of the United States: The
American Renaissance
Class ID# 14885
Professor Patrick Horrigan
Wednesdays, 6:00 to 8:30 PM
This course is required in the Literature concentration.
It can also be used to satisfy a literature requirement in
the Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing &
Rhetoric concentration.
Between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, the United States
witnessed one of its greatest periods of artistic achievement,
sometimes known as the "American Renaissance." The
course will examine representative works by the major writers
of this period, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Herman
Melville, Emily Dickinson, and Louisa May Alcott, as well
as some of the earlier colonial and revolutionary-era works
that inspired them.
Readings will include fiction, poetry, philosophy, sermons,
political manifestos, captivity and freedom narratives, and
criticism. We will also sample the visual and musical art
of the period. A field trip to the American Wing of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art will be arranged. In addition to on-going class
discussion, students will write a series of short essays in
response to the readings, and one longer critical essay or
creative term project.
English 165: Poetry Workshop: Poets Studio: Writing, Performing,
Evolving
Class ID# 15055
Professor John High
Tuesdays 6:00 to 8:30 PM
ENG 104 is a prerequisite for this course. This course
will satisfy a requirement in the Creative Writing concentration.
It can also be used to satisfy an ENG elective requirement
in the Literature concentration.
What if as poets we were allowed to do whatever we wanted?
What would we do? In this class we'll read and perform our
poems and practice critiquing/questioning our own writing
via the poet's studio and workshop method. We'll encourage
and push one another to go deeper into our own language and
our own lives. Every innovation in poetry has grown out of
tradition, and in this course we will attempt to discover
and connect with our own tradition(s) and poetic. What is
the relationship between tradition, innovation, and a writer's
unique voice? If our own voices grow out of the past and from
traditions firmly rooted in the power of language, our goal
is to discover--to see what's out there, both as writers and
readers--as we examine the literary voices and lineages from
which we have grown. We'll do this by writing our own poems
and by exploring various forms and schools of poetry and by
paying close attention to the way that poetry changes through
us. We'll also discuss the act of writing as one of risk-taking
and journey, of reinventing traditions in our own tongue,
of seeing how nothing ever changes unless we experiment and
try something different. Among the poets we'll look at closely
are Whitman, H.D., Williams, Pound, Stein, Bishop, Hughes,
Cullen, Cane, Spicer, Levertov, Brooks, Creeley, Baraka, Whalen,
Snyder, O'Hara, Zukofsky, Mayer, Howe, and Ginsberg.
A final chapbook-portfolio, consisting of all your written
work, is due at the end of the semester.
English 171: Introduction to Classical Rhetoric
Class ID# 18116
Professor John Killoran
Tuesdays 6:00 to 8:30 PM
A new writing and rhetoric course for students in any field,
this course will satisfy a requirement in the Writing &
Rhetoric concentration. It can also be used to satisfy an
ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration.
This course is designed not only for English majors but also
for students from disciplines such as Political Science, Journalism,
Education, and Media Arts who seek to develop their skills
as critical readers and persuasive writers. The course will
satisfy a requirement in the English Writing & Rhetoric
concentration. It can also be used to satisfy an English elective
requirement in the Literature concentration.
Classical rhetoric is among the longest enduring courses
in western education. It has been at the core of students'
learning since a schematized rhetoric first emerged in ancient
Greek oratorical practice and was articulated in Aristotle's
teaching and further developed by such famous orators as Cicero.
In ancient times, rhetoric played a key role in the birth
of our traditions of democratic politics, law, and formal
education. In modern times, classical rhetoric has been revived
as the foundation for students' effective writing, and as
a framework for analyzing persuasive discourse.
In this course, students will learn the principles of classical
rhetoric and apply them to analyze contemporary discourse
in politics, law, the media, and society. As the Fall 2008
semester coincides with one of the most interesting federal
election campaigns of modern times, we will be analyzing in
particular the political rhetoric leading up to the November
vote.
Students will learn perspectives to help them recognize how
language persuades us of what we believe and whom we believe.
By the end of the semester, students will have developed their
sensitivity to the power in others' use of language and will
become more empowered in their own use of language.
English 173: Writing in the Community
Class ID# 15525
Professor Deborah Mutnick
Mondays, 6:00 to 8:30 PM
A new writing and rhetoric course for students in any
field, this course will satisfy a requirement in the Writing
& Rhetoric concentration. It can also be used to satisfy
an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration.
Writing in the Community is designed to acquaint you with
writing about, in, and for communities-neighborhoods, schools,
work-places, museums, organizations, and other social spaces.
Through course readings, library research, fieldwork, and
oral history interviews, we will learn how communities are
formed, develop, thrive, decay, and sometimes "come back."
We will first examine their histories, everyday practices,
and rules, asking how boundaries are drawn, policy decisions
made, and individuals classified as insiders or outsiders.
Second, we will go into communities to record visual and verbal
impressions of communities and re-present them to audiences
within and outside their borders. And third, we will write
for a community--a flier, brochure, proposal, report, or other
type of document. In addition to encouraging the creation
of multimodal digital and print essays, the class will pilot
a Brooklyn Wiki based on your research projects.
Offered in the new Writing and Rhetoric concentration, English
173 is an elective for students across the disciplines as
well as in English who are interested in public and professional
writing. Explore social spaces ranging from the classroom
to political forums and local communities. Experience field
work as well as a workshop format for getting constructive
feedback on your writing. Projects range from oral history
to neighborhood studies and public writing in, for, and about
communities. Readings tentatively include Warren Lehrer and
Judith Sloane's Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors,
Aliens in a New America; Harvey Wang's New York;
Robert Batista's novel, Brooklyn Story; Paul Kutsche's
Field Ethnography; and excerpts from Robert Perks and
Alistair Thomson's The Oral History Reader. The emphasis
of the class, however, is on your writing, which will be discussed
at least twice in workshop during the semester. You will be
required to complete three 4-6-page essays, one of which will
be a Wiki entry, and a 3-5 page reflective essay.
English 259: Fiction's Fiction: The Art of Retooling Classics
of British Literature
Class ID# 18117
Professor Bernard Schweizer
Thursdays 6:00 to 8:30 PM
Due to under-enrollment, this class
was canceled.
This course will satisfy a requirement in the Literature
concentration. It can also be used to satisfy a literature
requirement in the Creative Writing concentration or in the
Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
This course looks at classics of British literature from
the 18th and 19th centuries through the lens of contemporary
fictional re-workings. What happens when texts and their authors
from the past are suddenly catapulted into the era of contemporary
fiction? What about past stories makes them so attractive
that they are being re-tooled today? We will read three successful
novels published just a year ago together with the texts and
authors that originally inspired them. While Tracy Chevalier
has rendered a fictional biography of William Blake in her
book Burning Bright (2007), Sophie Gee's The Scandal
of the Season (2007) dramatizes the affair between two
characters in Alexander Pope's mock epic "The Rape of
the Lock," and Lloyd Jones's novel Mr. Pip (2007)
is based on the idea that reading Charles Dickens's Great
Expectations under special circumstances can be a life-transforming
event. These pairings set up a fascinating basis for comparisons
between original and derivate, between narrative and meta-narrative,
between past and present. Each of these juxtapositions will
give rise to discussions about literary history, literary
transmission, and intertextuality. This course will also expand
our notion of British literature in interesting ways: Lloyd
Jones hails from New Zealand, Sophie Gee grew up in another
part of "Down-Under," i.e. Australia, and Tracy
Chevalier is a Swiss-American expatriate living in England.
If you want to learn about classics of literature but also
enjoy reading today's most vibrant authors, this elective
is for you!
Study Abroad & Earn Credit That Can Be
Applied Toward Your Major
Global College (formerly the Friends World
Program) of Long Island University invites English majors
to study abroad for a semester or a year at our centers in
Japan, Costa Rica, India, China, or South Africa. Not only
will you have the opportunity to study and travel in a foreign
country while earning credit towards your major, you will
also become immersed in another culture, develop your global
awareness and cross-cultural communication skills, and be
provided with a variety of internship and service learning
opportunities. At all centers students are encouraged to engage
in independent study projects relevant to their academic interests.
Please note: Before registering for study abroad, English
majors must meet with the Chair of the English Department
in order to discuss what Brooklyn Campus English requirements
may be satisfied by Global College course offerings.
The Japan Program in Kyoto exposes students
to the ancient capital of Japan through workshops in haiku,
papermaking, tea ceremony, calligraphy, sumie, Taiko drumming,
as well as subjects such as literature, creative writing,
cinema, interactive web publishing, photography, and teaching
English as a Second Language.
The Costa Rica Program in Heredia offers
home stays with Costa Rican families, internships throughout
the region, and courses in writing, Latin American studies,
cross-cultural research methods, Latin American literature,
Spanish language, global health and traditional healing, peace
and reconciliation studies, environmental studies, and an
introduction to experiential education.
The India Program in Bangalore enables
students to explore the country's religious and cultural diversity,
the caste system, travel writing, environmental issues, the
situation of Tibetan refugees, and the status of women. Students
also have the opportunity to study India's art forms, dance,
and music.
The China Program in Hangzhou allows
students to study a wide range of topics including the history
of China, religious life in China, traditional Chinese medicine,
poetry, women's issues, calligraphy, taiji, Mandarin Chinese
language and modernization and economic development.
The South Africa Program in Durban provides
students with the opportunity take courses the history and
culture of South Africa and the region as they hone their
skills in field research as well as gain knowledge of selected
interdisciplinary fields.
The Comparative Religion and Culture Program
teaches students about global citizenship through the lens
of world religions as they travel during the semester. Past
themes include Islam & Culture and Buddhism & Culture.
Long Island University Financial Aid can be
applied to all Global College overseas programs. There are
also a limited number of scholarships available from Global
College. For more information about these scholarships, call
Global College at 718-780-4326.
Lots more information is available at the Global
College website.
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