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Spring
2009
Program Guidance and Early Registration begin on Monday,
November 17, 2008.
English Majors: If you are an English major, please
meet with Wayne Berninger
(the English Department's new Registration Advisor) as early
as possible to register for the English classes you need.
Doing so will help ensure that courses are not cancelled and
that you don't have to scramble to find replacement courses
at the last minute. Attached to this flyer you will find descriptions
of the courses being offered in Spring 2009. Consult the English
Department website to determine which courses you still need
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 majoring in English, you can
still take upper-division English courses-as long as you have
completed the prerequisites. If you really want to build up
your transcript, consider an English Minor, which consists
of any four English 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 in the English Department.
English 101: Introduction to English Studies
Class ID# 6714
Professor Patricia Stephens
Tuesdays 6:00-8:30pm
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 Spring 2009, then you MUST take
it in Fall 2009. Yes, you MAY take other ENG courses at the
same time as ENG 101.
This course will introduce students to the broad field of English
Studies, with a specific focus on the areas of concentration
offered at LIU/Brooklyn: Literature, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric
and Writing. In general, the course is designed to familiarize
English majors and minors with 1) the history and scope of English
studies, 2) the use of literary and rhetorical theories to interpret
texts, and 3) the tools necessary for close reading, written
analysis, and research in the field. During the semester, students
will learn about literary genres, periods, and terminology;
creative experimentation in texts; and the foundations of argument.
Along the way, we will also explore potential job options for
students with a major or minor in English. Students will write
one research paper and produce a portfolio of written work at
the end of the semester.
English 104: Introduction to Creative Writing--Spoken Poetry--Finding
Our Voices
Class ID# 6716
Professor John High
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45 pm
This course is required in the Creative Writing concentration.
It is a prerequisite for ENG 165, 166 and 167. It can also
satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature concentration.
English majors concentrating in Creative Writing may take
this class twice.
This class is designed for anyone who has ever wanted to
write creatively yet who is not sure how to begin or how to
move beyond where they are presently in their own writing.
Topics include: getting started with the spoken poem, making
it alive for you, and establishing a passionate discipline.
The course will also zero in on backbone issues of style and
technique, ranging from those of characterization and plotting
in poetic diction, continuity and vividness of imagery, clarity
and music, and the use of phrasing and structure. There will
be weekly creative writing exercises and group discussions
to guide you through the writing process where we will explore
our ideas and feelings and give them shape through the langu
age of our own voices. What is a spoken poem-what is a metaphor,
the magic of language, the ghost of echoes and music that
reflect your own vision of the world? How do we mine our experiences,
our pasts, and our dreams? What do we mean when we talk about
taking chances in writing? We'll look at the work of ancient
and contemporary writers as well as younger writers publishing
today. Critiques will focus on motivating you to tap the undefined
territory of your own imagination in order to more fully cultivate
and mature your own voice/s and styles. The goal of the course
includes completion of a chapbook and/or anthology of our
work and an in-class reading of your spoken poems.
English 129: Later British Literatures: The Artist Coming
of Age: Creating the "Uncreated Conscience"
Class ID# 7636
Professor Maria McGarrity
Thursdays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course is required in the Literature concentration.
It can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative
Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
This course will examine the development of artistic consciousness
in the British tradition. We will examine the role of the
artist in society, his or her alienation from society, the
unique perspectives of the artist and his or her role as critic,
both literary and social. We will begin with the youthful
artistic idealism of Keats, move onto a discussion of Wordsworth's
vision of the poet, Byron's art in action, and expand our
vision of the artist to include the feminine with Elizabeth
Barrett Browning and George Eliot. We will transition into
the Modern period with Wilde's conception of criticism as
art. Finally we will examine modernity and the aftermath of
Joyce's achievement through Yeats, Woolf, Sitwell, and Beckett.
We will challenge the idea that any writer can, as Joyce claimed
to through his character Stephen Dedalus, "create the
uncreated conscience of [his] race." Selected Texts:
Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh; Beckett, More Pricks
than Kicks; Byron, Don Juan; Eliot, The Mill
on the Floss; Keats, Selected Letters; Joyce, Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man and "The Dead";
Sitwell, "The Poet's Lament"; Wilde, "The Critic
as Artist"; Woolf, A Room of One's Own; Wordsworth,
The Prelude; Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium,"
"Byzantium," "Lapis Lazuli," and The
Trembling of the Veil.
English 159: American Literature After the Civil War:
Modern American Culture and the Myth of Oz
Class ID# 6452
Professor Patrick Horrigan
Mondays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course is required in the Literature concentration.
It can also satisfy a literature requirement in the Creative
Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric concentration.
The course follows the figure of the wanderer in search of
home as he/she is reincarnated again and again throughout
modern American culture. Taking Frederick Jackson Turner's
seminal 1893 essay "The Significance of the Frontier
in American History" as our point of departure, we will
read L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and
then go looking for later descendants of his pilgrims (Dorothy,
Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion) in the mournful wanderer of
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, the restless and love-hungry
heroine of Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching
God, the tragically self-ignorant American in Paris of
James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, the sympathetic midwestern
murderers of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and the
real-life child star and lost boy of Margo Jefferson's On
Michael Jackson. The course is writing intensive.
English 166: Fiction Writing Workshop
Class ID# 6690
Professor Lewis Warsh
Mondays & Wednesdays 1:30-2:45 pm
ENG 104 is a prerequisite for this course! This course
will satisfy a requirement in the Creative Writing concentration.
It can also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature
concentration.
This workshop will focus on the way autobiography overlaps
with fiction and how the past is fictionalized as a way of
keeping it alive. The premise is that the source of most fiction
is fading memories, whether we're aware of it or not. Though
Jack Kerouac is the most obvious exponent of this method,
we'll look at other writers of the last century (Marguerite
Duras, Thomas Bernhard, Lydia Davis, John Edgar Wideman, Georges
Perec, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Laura Riding, Jamaica
Kincaid, James Ellroy, Maurice Blanchot) who struggle to cross
the borders between fiction and life story. We'll concentrate
on the conventions of fiction--plot, character, conflict--with
an eye towards expanding on what's already been done. Our
writing projects will include working with secrets, memories,
observations, opinions, overheard conversations--ragments
of everything.
English 168: Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop
Class ID# 7802
Professor Harriet Malinowitz
Wednesdays 6:00-8:30 pm
ENG 104 is a prerequisite for this course. This course
will satisfy a requirement in either the Writing & Rhetoric
concentration or the Creative Writing concentration. It can
also satisfy an ENG elective requirement in the Literature
concentration. English majors concentrating in Creative Writing
may take this class twice.
This is an intensive workshop devoted to writing literary
essays, with a focus on the personal essay. The first few
weeks will be devoted to reading literary essays by published
authors and analyzing their form, style, the rhetorical strategies
they employ, and their use of language. We will then move
to a workshop format in which students read and critique each
other's essays in detail. The goal of the workshop is to help
the writer move toward effective revision; each student will
be expected to produce either one long (20-30 pages) or two
shorter (10-15 pages) revised piece(s) of creative nonfiction
by the end of the term. We will use as a common text Philip
Lopate's The Art of the Personal Essay, as well as
selected handouts. The writers we will read may include George
Orwell, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Natalia Ginzburg, Eric
Liu, Atul Gawande, Richard Rodriguez, Patricia Williams, Cherie
Moraga, Vivian Gornick, Gayle Pemberton, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
English 170: Contemporary African Literature and Film
Class ID# 10161
Professor Jonathan Haynes
Tuesdays & Thursdays 4:30-5:45 pm
Attention: This semester only, this course can be used
to satisfy the ENG 169 requirement in the Literature concentration.
If you have already received credit for ENG 169, it can be
used as an upper-division ENG elective in the Literature concentration.
This course can also satisfy a literature requirement in the
Creative Writing concentration or in the Writing & Rhetoric
concentration.
This course explores contemporary Africa through the eyes
of some of its most talented writers and filmmakers. They
see a continent that is increasingly urbanized and exposed
to globalization, but where deep cultural traditions continue
to assert themselves and a vibrant popular culture compliments
the perspectives of internationally-recognized artists. The
problems of poverty, corruption, violence, and disease loom
large, but so do the humor and resilience that keep Africa
alive. The emergence of women's voices has fundamentally reoriented
Africa's self-representation. Some recent works by towering
senior figures of African culture will be included (the filmmaker
Ousmane Sembene, the writer Wole Soyinka), but the emphasis
will be on newer talents such as Ben Okri, Jean-Marie Teno,
Jean-Pierre Bekolo, and Chimamanda Adichie.
English 175: Writing for the Professions
Class ID# 10162
Professor John Killoran
Thursdays 6:00-8:30 pm
This course will satisfy a requirement in the Writing
& Rhetoric concentration. It can also satisfy an ENG elective
requirement in the Literature concentration.
This is a writing course for students in any field preparing
for their careers. When you are given your first writing project
on the job, will you know what to do? Writing for the Professions
is an elective for students across the disciplines as well
as in English who are looking ahead to prepare themselves
to write for their careers in business, law, the health professions,
science, technology, education, and the arts. Students will
learn to orient their writing toward different audiences,
such as managers, customers, clients, and professional colleagues.
Students will also learn to write in ways that result in action.
By the end of the semester, students will have written their
resume and other career-related documents, and will be more
confident in their abilities to write effectively.
English 190: Senior Seminar in Literature
Class ID# 6058
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Literature concentration.
Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of
the English Department (Professor Sealy
Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne
Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
English 191: Senior Seminar in Creative Writing
Class ID# 7390
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Creative Writing concentration.
Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult the Chair of
the English Department (Professor Sealy
Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor (Wayne
Berninger) if you think you need to take this course now.
English 192: Senior Seminar in Writing & Rhetoric
Class ID# 6470
instructor & times to be arranged
This course is required in the Writing & Rhetoric
concentration. Instructor and times to be arranged. Consult
the Chair of the English Department (Professor
Sealy Gilles) or the Undergraduate Registration Advisor
(Wayne Berninger) if you
think you need to take this course now.
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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