|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr This survey course introduces students to representative Asian American literary and cultural productions, including fiction, poetry, drama and autobiography by writers across generations. Diverse as these writers are in style and ethnicity, their works, depicting the Asian experience as immigrants and minorities in North America, echo each other. Course analyzes thematic and formal elements such as immigration, cultural assimilation, gender characterization, racial relocation and identity displacement in order to establish an intertextual and coherent understanding of this literary tradition. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
-
3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr (fall only) Representative readings, many in translation, from the great books of Western culture from ancient times to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Exams and essays based on readings. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
-
3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr (spring only) Representative readings, many in translation, from the great books of Western culture from the 18th century to the present. Exams and essays based on readings. Prerequisite: ENG 1101/EG 101
-
3.00 Credits
2 cl hrs, 2 lab hrs, 3 cr A course designed specifically to improve the pronunciation and listening skills of non-native speakers of English. Emphasis is on distinguishing and producing the sounds, stress and intonation patterns of American English. Prerequisites: CUNY ACT writing score of 4 or higher and CUNY reading certification or department approval required
-
3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr An exploration of concepts of justice, higher law, customary law and written law expressed through works of fiction and non-fiction. The course seeks to enhance the student's sensitivity to issues of ethics, gender bias and class consciousness as they affect the administration of justice. Readings improve communication skills and strengthen legal skills of identifying, articulating and locating problems in the context of underlying legal issues. Written assignments emphasize expository writing skills. Prerequisite: ENG 1121/EG 121
-
3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr Specific critical and thematic approaches to selected works in literature written in English. Selected works are studied in relation to a special theme, technique, theoretical issue, or cultural consideration. Possible topics: the geographical journey as a metaphor for maturation; stream of consciousness as a literary technique for heightening reality; the role of Shakespeare as a Tudor propagandist; the issue of how culture shapes identity, as depicted in diverse works of fiction. Prerequisite: ENG 1121/EG 121 or any 2000-level literature course (AFR, ENG, PRS)
-
3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr The works of one English-language author are studied in the context of the author's life, career, and historical and cultural background, and may be considered from crosscultural and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Authors studied may include such major figures as Austen, Baldwin, Crane, Dickinson, Faulkner, Henry James, Melville, Milton, Morrison, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Walker, Whitman, Woolf. Prerequisite: ENG 1121/EG 121 or any 2000-level literature course (AFR, ENG, PRS)
-
3.00 Credits
LIT Core 3 cl hrs, 3 cr An in-depth study of the literature of illness and care through reading and writing about memoirs, fiction, essays and poetry. Prerequisite: ENG 1121/EG 121 or any 2000-level literature course (AFR, ENG, PRS)
-
3.00 Credits
3 cl hrs, 3 cr Students communicate technical and scientific information to a variety of audiences through written and oral presentations, using electronic media such as the Internet, Power Point and graphics programs. Students also analyze readings in science and technology, study technical writing models and practice collaborative research and presentation. Prerequisites: ENG 1121/EG 121 or ENG 1133/EG 133 and MST 1101/MS 101 or equivalent
-
0.00 Credits
6 cl hrs, 0 cr Basic grammatical structures of English and composing skills necessary for effective written communication in an academic context using tasks of lowintermediate difficulty. Grammatical mechanisms and lexical choices, basic rhetorical strategies, editing and other writing conventions. Clear development and expression of an idea using fairly simple sentences. The fundamentals of crafting sentences, paragraphs and simple texts. Prerequisite: CUNY ACT writing score of 4 or 5; corequisites: ESOL 012R/EL 012, ESOL 1300/EG 300, or department approval required
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|