Featured Courses
Session I
ENG211: CRAFT OF REPORTING NEWS
Section: 0929 | M 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m., W 10:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
This course teaches the essentials of researching, reporting, and writing for print, online, and broadcast media. It exposes students to the step-by-step process of producing news content, from understanding the concept of news judgment to production and dissemination of news. Students will learn specific skills, including interviewing, from a diverse and multicultural perspective, keen observation, fact-checking, as well as writing on deadline and using social media.
Journalism Option: Program Core Elective
English Major: Program Elective
ENG238: SCREENWRITING
Section: 0937 | T 2:15 – 5:35 p.m.
This is a course in the art and craft of writing a fictional narrative for the screen. Screenwriting genres and applications vary widely, yet every one reaches its audience through storytelling. Students examine the ways cinematic narratives show, rather than tell. Students then create their own 10-minute movie script. They explore scene and act structure, character development, dialogue, description, etc. Students learn professional standards for writing for the screen and how to use screenplay software.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-Creative Expression
ENG248: LATINO/LATINA WRITING OF THE UNITED STATES
Section: 0940 | M 9:15 – 11:30 a.m.
This course examines the contributions to American literature made by Chicano, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other groups of Latinos/Latinas in the U.S. since the mid-twentieth century. It surveys the variety of Latino/Latina writing, exploring how these writers represent community, class, race, gender, culture, nation, and ethnicity. Fiction, poetry, essays, autobiographical prose, and dramatic works by authors such as Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Nicholasa Mohr, and others will be studied.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-US Experience in its Diversity
Creative Writing Track: Program Elective
English Major: Program Elective
ENG260: INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL
Section: 0957 | M 1 – 3:15 p.m., W 1 – 2 p.m.
This course will explore the literature and experiences of lesbian and gay writers. Examining these works will reveal how sexual orientation influences the authors’ creative interpretations of themselves, their culture, and the world at large. Themes of growing up gay, coming out, families, relationships, communities, homophobia, AIDS, aging, loss and renewal are explored. Such writers as Brown, White, Lorde, Leavitt, Gomez, Beam, Baldwin, Kramer, Anzaldua and Sarton will be studied.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-World Cultures & Global Issues
ENG271: POETRY WRITING
Section: 5890 | T 3:25 – 5:35 p.m., TH 4:25 – 5:35 p.m.
This course is designed to introduce students to poetry writing. In writing and revising poems, students will utilize a variety of writing styles. For example, they will practice formal modes such as sonnet, blank verse, and sestina, and they will also write free verse. In order to locate stylistic and thematic approaches for their own poems, students will read and discuss poetry in a variety of styles and historical modes. They will have the opportunity to hear poets read works and discuss the writing process., engaging frequently in peer critiquing of each other’s work, students will also develop criteria for evaluating their own poetry and for doing revision. By the end of the semester, they will learn how to submit poetry for publication.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-Creative Expression
Creative Writing Track: Creative Writing Workshop
ENG274: CREATIVE NONFICTION WORKSHOP
Section: 0959 | F 10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Online: Synchronous
This course introduces students to creative nonfiction writing, writing that uses true events for literary effect. In writing and revising creative non-fiction, students will learn and practice a variety of forms, including personal essay, memoir, literary journalism (or narrative non-fiction), and biography. Students will work to improve their technique and develop individual voices, but will also work in groups to discuss ways to improve their work. They will read works by published authors and will also learn how to submit their own work for publication.
Flexible Core-Creative Expression
Creative Writing Track: Creative Writing Workshop
Journalism Option: Program Core
ENG276: FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP
Section: 0960 | M 3:25 – 5:35 p.m., W 4:35 – 5:35 p.m.
This course focuses on the technical and stylistic elements of crafting fiction with the goal of creating fully revised, original short stories. The course utilizes draft sessions addressing the critical elements of fiction and the revision process. The course readings will emphasize world writers of the short story, and the course may include field trips to hear published writers reading their work. The final portion of the course will address the preparation of short stories for professional submission.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core – Creative Expression
Creative Writing Track: Creative Writing Workshop
ENG277: CREATIVE WRITING CAPSTONE
Section: 0961 | T 9:15 – 11:30 a.m., TH 9:15 – 10:15 a.m.
In this Creative Writing capstone course, students will focus on their relationship to their audience: students will revisit and revise the work that they have previously created, while reading, discussing and analyzing a diverse variety of published works of creative writing, with a particular eye to the way in which these works are presented. In this workshop, students will work closely together, serving as each others’ audience as everyone endeavors to bring to fruition a body of writing. Students will, in the process of the course, write an “author’s statement,” introducing their work, influences, and literary aesthetic.
Creative Writing Track: Program Core
ENG288: ENGLISH INTERNSHIP
Section: 0964 | TH 2 – 5:35 p.m.
The purpose of the English Major Internship course is to provide majors with internships with a faculty member in order to design and complete, or complete a significant portion of, a major scholarly, research, creative, or social project with the intent to publish, present, or otherwise make available the outcomes of the project. This project may take the form of a group internship course to produce an in-house publication, such as the student newspaper or literary journal.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core- World Cultures
English Major: Program Elective
Journalism Option: Program Elective
ENG289: INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
Section: 5900 | M & W 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Students read, discuss, and write analytical essays about important texts in literary critical theory. They also learn to apply methods to specific literary texts. Some theorists covered might include Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, T.S. Elliot, Mikhail Bakhtin, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Elaine Showalter, Helene Cixous, Edward Said, Henry Louis Gates, and Judith Butler.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-Creative Expression
English Major & Creative Writing Track: Required Program Core
ENG290: BRITISH LITERATURE I
Section: 0966 | M 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m., W 10:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
This course covers the development of early British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon era to 1660. Authors include, among others, the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Mary Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton. In addition to exploring evolving literacy genres and styles, students will study key social, political, and cultural influences on the works and their historical periods. They will also study and reflect on the emerging women voices of the age.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-World Cultures & Global Issues
English Major & Creative Writing Track: Program Core
ENG291: BRITISH LITERATURE II
Section: 5905 | T & TH 6 – 7:30 p.m.
This course covers major writers, genres, and themes in British literature from 1660 to the present. This includes Restoration, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Victorianism, Modernism and Postmodernism. Attention will be given to social, intellectual, cultural, and political contexts in order to help the students understand the works. In addition to reading major authors from John Dryden to Zadie Smith, the course may examine ballads, slave narratives, journalism, diaries, pamphlets, and other genres.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-World Cultures & Global Issues
ENN198: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP
Section: 0970 | T 1 – 2 p.m., TH 1 – 3:15 p.m.
Section: 5925 | T & TH 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Online: Synchronous
This course introduces students to the elements of creative writing by using New York as a writer’s laboratory. Field trips to city places such as schools, streets, and parks will lead to writing that uses these places and their people as themes. Students will write creative pieces — sketches, brief narratives, poems, and dramatic dialogues dealing with this glimpse of New York life. Reading and visits with New York writers writing on New York themes will complement these activities.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-World Cultures & Global Issues
Session II
ENG210: JOURNALISM: ITS SCOPE & USE Workshop
Section: 7466 | T & TH 9:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
This course introduces students to the history, major issues, trends, and principles of journalism with an emphasis on print, broadcast, and online digital media. Students will learn about the origins, growth, shortcomings, and achievements of journalism; definitions of news across eras and media; major legal and ethical doctrines; and the impact of media on society. It also exposes students to news production, newsroom management, and prevailing business models.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-Individual and Society
Journalism Option: Program Core Elective
ENG235: CULTURAL IDENTITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Section: 7470 | T & TH 1 – 4:25 p.m.
Online: Synchronous
This course will explore the diverse voices of writers in the United States through a consideration of cultural context. Literature to be discussed may include the contributions of African-American, Asian-American, Euro-American, Latino/a-American, and/or Native-American writers. Such themes as cultural dislocation, alienation, and re-envisioning identity will be highlighted.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-U.S. Experience in its Diversity
Liberal Arts: Social Science & Humanities Program Core
English Major: Elective
Creative Writing Track: Elective
ENG238: SCREENWRITING
Section: 8439 | T & TH 1 – 4:25 p.m.
This is a course in the art and craft of writing a fictional narrative for the screen. Screenwriting genres and applications vary widely, yet every one reaches its audience through storytelling. Students examine the ways cinematic narratives show, rather than tell. Students then create their own 10-minute movie script. They explore scene and act structure, character development, dialogue, description, etc. Students learn professional standards for writing for the screen and how to use screenplay software.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-Creative Expression
ENG280: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE I
Section: 7474 | W 5:45 – 9:05 p.m.
This course is designed to familiarize students with various types of children’s literature, including folklore, modern fantasy, picture books and realistic fiction. Students also learn how to evaluate the literary standards and pluralistic character of the literature and how to choose books to share with children from preschool through elementary school. Through a study of works from such authors as Hans Christian Andersen, E.B. White, Virginia Hamilton, Pura Belpre, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julius Lester, C.S. Lewis, Jamake Highwalter, A.A. Milne and Maurice Sendak among others, the basic themes of children’s literature will be explored.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-Individual & Society
English Major: Program Elective
ENN198: INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
Section: 7586 | M & W 10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
This course introduces students to the elements of creative writing by using New York as a writer’s laboratory. Field trips to city places such as schools, streets, and parks will lead to writing that uses these places and their people as themes. Students will write creative pieces — sketches, brief narratives, poems, and dramatic dialogues dealing with this glimpse of New York life. Reading and visits with New York writers writing on New York themes will complement these activities.
CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-World Cultures & Global Issues