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  • ENGL 306: Poetry Writing II

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    This is the second course in the Poetry Writing sequence. It will familiarize students with critical thought and aesthetic discourse in contemporary poetry. Students will explore their own writing processes through the exchange of creative work and guided research. Assigned reading will prepare students to analyze a variety of writing styles with the object of refining their own creative impulses.
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  • ENGL 307: Poetry Writing Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    This is the third and final course in the Poetry Writing sequence. It will expnad upon the skills learned earlier in the sequence by engaging students in the practice of writing with the intent to publish. Students will also be required to produce an academic prose critique of their own work citing their influences and intentions and demonstrating fluency with critical vocabulary. Workshop students will contribute as both editors and poets to a class anthology and share collective responsibility for the quality of work collected and published.
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  • ENGL 327: Caribbean Literature II: 1970 to the present

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    This course consists of selected readings by major Caribbean authors in fiction, poetry, and drama from 1970 through the present. Emphasis is on the stylistic and thematic concerns of the literature as well as its relation to the physical, social, political, and intellectual landscape.
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  • ENGL 331: Asian American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    This course will introduce students to the critical questions that shape and challenge what we know a Asian American literature, a largely emerging, contested field of study. We will examine the political, theoretical implications of the now familair conjunction of "Asian" and "American." Further, we will trace the ways in which Asian American writers themselves try to negotiate the complexity of being Asian and American. Through close readings of the representative literature and criticism, we will locate the sites of Asian America in U.S. political and hsitorical imaginary. Special attention will be given to autobiographical narratives that directly or indirectly questions the status of Asian America as a viable racial, cultural, political identity.
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  • ENGL 334: Popular Fiction

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    The course explores, in depth, a specific genre of contemporary popular fiction and its relation to the canon. These genres may include but are not limited to, horror, detective, science fiction, romance and the graphic novel. From the genre's roots to today's novels, we examine their history, classic titles and authors. We also locate these works in the academic and publishing fields, and explore the gap between them and literary fiction. Through close reading we explore what tropes and themes shape these often controversial literary genres.
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  • ENGL 363: Literature of the Global City I

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    This course will examine the thematic and stylistic characteristics of literary representations of a global city. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, the course will consider the ways that the literature reflects the shift from modern metropolis to global city. The course will also examine the development of a new literature of migration to the global city. This course will focus on an analysis of the literary representations of the contested spaces of the global city.
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  • ENGL 364: Literature of the Global City II

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    This course will examine the thematic and stylistic characteristics of literary representations of a global city. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, the course will consider the ways that the literature reflects the shift from modern metropolis to global city. The course will also examine the development of a new literature of migration to the global city. Focusing on the intersections of ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexuality, class and religion, the course will analyze the literary representations of the contested spaces of the global city.
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  • ENGL 366: African Women's Literature

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    This course focuses on the contemporary literature of African women, examining their works themes and styles. Through the study of this literature and related scholarship, students are also introduced to important debates that affect or define African women's writings, including the politics of the literary canon and language, pre- and post-colonial discourses and African feminism or a newly-envisioned womanhood, as well as the urgent issues of ageism, racism and sexism. Authors to be examined include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Janice Boddy/Aman, Fadumo Korn, Sindiwe Magona, Winnie Mandela, Flora Nwapa, among others.
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  • ENGL 371: Special Topics in Literature II

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    Through selected readings, students will explore special topics in literature through the perspective of a unifying theoretical or thematic concept.
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  • ENGL 372: Special Topics in Literature III

    3.00 Credits
    CUNY Medgar Evers College

    Through selected readings, students will explore special topics in literature through the perspective of a unifying theoretical or thematic concept.
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