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1.00 Credits
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. For more information, please consult the English Department's web page . Prerequisites: To be taken only for P/F. Departmental registration required. See www.barnard.edu/english/conference for details. 1 point
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4.00 Credits
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: Registration in each section is limited. Departmental registration required. 4 points
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3.00 Credits
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 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
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. - Fall 08: C. Plotkin; Fall 09: M. Vandenburg General Education Requirement: Reason and Value (REA). General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). 3 points
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3.00 Credits
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 a "racial" art in/for a community comprised of differences in gender, class, sexuality, and geographical origin. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
Major poetry movements since the 1950's, including Beat Poetry, Confessional Poetry, the Black Arts Movement, Black Mountain, the Belfast group, and Language Poetry. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
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 2009-2010. 3 points
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4.00 Credits
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 15 students. Attend first class for instructor permission. 4 points
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4.00 Credits
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 2009-2010. 4 points
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2.00 Credits
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 (BC3996 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 (BC3999 - 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 Enrollment in 3997 and 3998 is limited to senior English majors (and film majors for the English/film section). Signing up is accomplished through a special tab in eBear.
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