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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The course covers modern analyses of the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of American English, and the historical developments that led it through the stages of Old, Middle, and Modern English. It describes how English sounds are produced; how they are grouped mentally and influenced by spelling; how new words are formed, slang terms are coined, and terms are borrowed and lent; how English sentences are structured; and how meaning is influenced by situation, culture, and context. It includes a description of how English changed over time, from the Great Vowel Shift to the development of modern regional and social dialects, standard American English, and the recent emergence of World Englishes. It provides students with an understanding of how the rules, patterns, and characteristics that constitute standard spoken and written American English evolved. (This course is cross-listed with COM 3750. Students will receive credit for either ENG 3750 or COM 3750, not both. These courses may not substitute for each other in the F grade replacement policy.) Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850. ENG/COM 3700 is strongly recommended.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines the revolutionary plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, and Shaw and their achievements in destroying old forms and creating 20th-century drama. It considers the social, political, and psychological ideas advanced by these thinkers and shows how they shaped the thinking and made possible the achievements of other important modern playwrights, such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, and J.P. Sartre. The emphasis throughout is on analysis of representative plays. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course traces contemporary drama's remarkable history of experiments with new and powerful techniques of dramatizing and analyzing human behavior. The emphasis is on groundbreaking works from provocative contemporary playwrights, such as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Bertolt Brecht, Tom Stoppard, Joe Orton, and Sam Shepard. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course exposes students to an array of local, national, and international environmental issues that will serve as a basis for analysis and reporting. Students will focus on environmental problems facing metropolitan New York, such as solid waste disposal, including incineration; air, water, and noise pollution; energy use; transportation; and park development. Students sharpen their research skills as they investigate the relationships among the environment, the business community, and public policy. (This course is not open to students who have taken Environmental Reporting as a special topics course [ENG 3900].) Prerequisite: ENG 2150. ENG 3050 is recommended.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The history of the American short story is a remarkable record of our literary and cultural development. This course explores the popularity and ideas of this genre as reflected in such writers as Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, James, Crane, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Welty, Wright, Flannery O'Connor, Malamud, and Updike. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course examines the various forms of African American literature, the traditions that they embody, and the ways in which writers perpetuate and revise these traditions. Selected readings demonstrate how early writers influence their successors even as these later writers transform traditions to reflect generational, gender, or ideological differences. Texts, which may vary from semester to semester, are analyzed within a specific generic framework, including fiction, poetry, or drama. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits The course examines the oral and written literature of Afro-American women from the 18th century through the present. An exploration of the numerous genres employed by black women writers-slave narratives, autobiography, fiction, poetry, and drama-sheds light on writers' artisticand intellectual responses to the political, social, and cultural currents of their times. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course surveys the philosophical bases of the major religions that originated in South Asia (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism) and others that were introduced into South Asia (notably, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism) and examines how their traditions inform exemplary literary texts from antiquity to modern times. Students read selections from the Mahabharata, including the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana, and Kalidasa's Sakuntala, as well as a wide range of modern texts by figures such as Tagore, Gandhi, and important Pakistani and Sri Lankan authors. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course studies timely and complex journalistic issues, allowing for close, up-to-the-minute examination of their impact on reportorial decisions and their presentation in print and broadcast news. From semester to semester topics will vary; representative subjects include ethics and journalism, environmental reporting, and censorship and propaganda. (Students may enroll in ENG 3900 more than once if the topic is different.) Prerequisites: ENG 2150 and 3050.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits This course provides an opportunity to study important filmmakers, genres, national cinemas, and themes not found or only touched on in other film courses. Representative subjects include the films of Ingmar Bergman, Asian cinema, Eastern European film before and after the fall of Communism, the animated film, the image of the city, and the samurai film and the western. This format allows for an intensive examination of such topics, which may vary from semester to semester. (Students may enroll in this course more than once if the topic is different.) Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
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