This course is designed for incoming freshmen who demonstrate a need for improving their reading, writing and reasoning skills necessary for college success. Required for students who have an SAT EBRW Sub-score 450 or below or ACT 18 or below.

This course is an introduction to literature and the fundamentals of academic writing. Students learn the skills essential to college success:critical reading and analytical thinking, interpretation, scholarly discussion and collaboration, effective oral presentation, composition of writing for both readers and listeners.

This course teaches academic writing skills based on a humanities topic, thematically linked to the D'Youville general education. Topics will vary by instructor and will be approached from literary or historical perspectives, with a common focus on cultural studies. Offered both semesters. Crosslisted with HIS-112 beginning Fall 2019.

Critical inquiry is the process of gathering and evaluating information, ideas, and assumptions from multiple perspectives to produce well-reasoned analysis and understanding, and leading to new ideas, applications and questions. This course is intended to introduce new students to intellectual inquiry at the university by engaging them in in-depth study of a single topic utilizing a variety of perspectives and methods. The course emphasizes the essential role of critical and creative thinking to their lives as students, citizens, future professionals, and productive members of their communities.

Critical inquiry is the process of gathering and evaluating information, ideas, and assumptions from multiple perspectives to produce well-reasoned analysis and understanding, and leading to new ideas, applications and questions. This course is intended to introduce new students to intellectual inquiry at the university by engaging them in in-depth study of a single topic utilizing a variety of perspectives and methods. The course emphasizes the essential role of critical and creative thinking to their lives as students, citizens, future professionals, and productive members of their communities. The lab for the course is an interdisciplinary application lab, wherein students work in teams to demonstrate what they learned in the didactic portion of the course through the creation of a project, presentation, art object/installation, play, podcast, short film, co-authored reflection (debrief) on a simulation experience, etc. Faculty who design the didactic portion of the course together will design this portion as a 5-week experiential component of the course, which might include community partnerships or field trips. Students who take the course and lab will be invited to display their project results in a one-afternoon presentation at the end of each semester (to be arranged by college events personnel).

This is a two-semester course designedfor students whose native language is one other than English and who have some previous knowledge of English. Instruction is given in order to understand, speak, read and write English. Individual conferences are part of this course. Credit is not applied to academic concentration or related field.

This course is a continuation of ENG-191.

This survey course focuses on dominant literary trends and major authors, such as Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Bacon and Pope.

This survey course focuses on dominant literary trends and major authors, including the Romantics, the Victorians and modern authors such as Yeats, Eliot, Joyce and Lawrence.

This course is a systematic presentation of the ways of understanding and appreciating fiction. Students analyze, step-by-step, the meaning and techniques of a rich and varied selection of short stories.

The nature of consciousness, the neuroscience of the brain, the (real or imagined) mind/brain divide, the possibilities of artificial or non-human intelligence, the capacity for language and creative expression, and the meaning and limits of personal identity have been the focus of a wide range of literary texts, films, and other cultural productions. Students in this course will investigate these puzzles through literature, film, painting, music, and/or popular culture. In joining a study of the workings of the brain with a study of how those workings manifest in literature and the other arts, we will embark on a journey through the aesthetic, emotional, ethical, and cultural dimensions of some of the most significant questions in neuroscience and cognitive science.

Visual images pervade our everyday lives. We negotiate the world through visual culture, and the world itself is negotiated politically through visual images. This class introduces students to key issues of visual culture and to the critical and historical concepts necessary for understanding the images we routinely consume and produce. We will examine the politics of images, the role images play in producing cultural meaning, seeing and power relations, and images as forms of communication.

This course is an exploration of science fiction as a form of social critique, with an emphasis on themes such as ecology, time travel, mythology, responsibility of the scientist, social relationships, utopias, the alien encounter, and the human and inhuman.

This is a survey course in American literature from its beginnings through the Civil War. Representative authors include Franklin, Irving, Emerson, Thoreau,Hawthorne, Poe, Melville and Whitman.

This is a survey course in American literature from the Civil War to the present day. Representative authors include Twain, James, Chopin, Eliot, Pound, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hughes, Bellow, Baldwin, Oates and Morrison.

Since the first plays were performed in the 5th century B.C.E., human beings have expressed the greatest depths of our emotions, desires, and conflicts in the art of theater. Explore the excitement and energy of drama through reading and analyzing plays, performing scenes together in class, and collectively writing short plays from your own experience and imagination.

This survey course in literary classics offers a variety of genres from non-English speaking cultures, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to continental European literature before 1800. A representative sampling of pre-19th century literature from the Far East will also be included.

This is a survey of recent literature, drawn from outside the English-speaking world, which both contributes to and critiques the dominant 20th century Anglo-American tradition.

This course explores the nature, variety and values as well as the enriching experience and understanding of poetry. A study of selected poems principally by modern poets.

This is a survey of American literature that is written by and about ethnic minorities, including African Americans, Native Americans and others.

This genre course in the novel focuses on the enduring human themes and concerns expressed in the dominant literary form of this age.

Writing is a voyage into the imagination, where we can discover the mystery and wonder in the small moments of everyday life. In this introductory workshop, student writers experiment with techniques and methods of translating their experience of the world into a language and form that show rather than tell; that illuminate rather than dictate; that can touch others in unfathomable ways. The philosophy of a workshop is that writers learn to be better writers by working with other writers as you all work toward the same goals. We will spend some of our class time engaging in informal, in-class writing exercises and discussions of published poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama. Once you begin drafting your own work, you will also begin reading and responding to your classmates' work in in-class constructive critique sessions. The workshop provides students not only with the invaluable gift of an attentive audience for their works-in-progress, but also the gift of learning to give and receive thoughtful, constructive criticism.

What's your story? The deep human need for narrative is as old or older than the most ancient cave paintings. And new media have changed the way that we tell and process stories. Every day, artists and writers are producing new types of narratives about a world transformed by computers and communications networks. This course investigates the ways that new media have changed contemporary society and the cultural narratives that shape it. Through short creative assignments and collaborative group projects, students will have the opportunity to work with text, digital imaging, sound, video, and other media to create new kinds of digital stories that will resonate for them on a personal and, in some cases, a professional and/or societal level as well.

This course explores the radically transformative potential of writing. Students will develop a regular practice of writing as a powerful tool for community activism and political action. We will read, discuss, and write a variety of genres explicitly connected to social and political activism, including: personal narratives, manifestos, action campaigns, letters to the editor, op-ed columns, videos, debate arguments, interviews, blogs, social media campaigns, interactive media projects, etc. We will also explore the role of culture-jamming and DIY art, film, performance, and digital activism as vehicles of participatory social and political action. Assignments will be designed to foster both expressive and critical thinking and writing skills, problem-solving, the ability to research, organize, and synthesize material, and to generate writing that will deeply explore and interrogate social and political systems, particularly those that produce and perpetuate injustices.

This course will provide students with the necessary skills to work consciously and effectively within the discourse of the discipline. Emphasis will be given to the following: further refinement of close critical reading skills; understanding of literary terms; understanding of basic critical and theoretical terms, concepts and methodologies; and understanding of genres.

Explores Shakespeare's plays as texts that people perform, focusing on how performers have adapted Shakespeare's plays for different kinds of audiences and over time. Emphasizes Shakespeare's plays as opportunities for creative thought.

In this course, we will investigate how cultural, political, aesthetic, ideological, and historical notions of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability are represented and explored in the medium of film, and consider film as both product and (re)producer of American culture. We will pay special attention to the way stories by and about marginalized persons are told, and note what happens to these representations when persons of marginalized identities are behind the camera. Further, we will consider the extent to which filmmakers of all identities have navigated, challenged, transformed, subverted, and/or accepted the predominant norms and assumptions of the mainstream systems of film production. Ultimately, we will consider the overall role of film representations and filmmakers in building or sustaining a diverse and democratic society.

This course brings together the artistic vision and contributions of outstanding women writers. The focus is on how women writers view women and the concerns of their time. Possible authors include Gwendolyn Brooks, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty and Sylvia Plath.

This course explores the fiction, prose, and poetry of the Romantic and Victorian period (1785-1900). Readings will vary to highlight the crucial historical events of the nineteenth century, including the rise of the British Empire, the effects of the Industrial Revolution, the emergence of the middle and working classes, and women's changing social roles.

In this course, students explore the relationships between gender, power, and the media. Through a rigorous study of popular media (film, TV, music videos, social media, news media, and advertising) in conjunction with theoretical texts, we will investigate culturally constructed and learned meanings, ideologies, and gendered power relations in our society that inform and perpetuate the production, consumption, and reception of media. In turn, we will analyze the role of the media in structuring and reproducing gendered power relations in contemporary society. In their projects, students will produce their own media texts and images as a way to explore the process of representation and the power of representing themselves.

The images flickering across the cinema screen are the closest thing to our own dreams that humans have created. The medium of film may be the perfect vehicle for creating bizarre dreamscapes, imaginative riddles, and impossible paradoxes. In this course, we will consider movie representations of dreams, consciousness, memory, identity, and time. Exploring these topics from the perspectives of physics, psychology, philosophy, and poetics, we will consider the unique power of film to represent and reflect the nature and limits of human (and non-human) consciousness.

The human body is at once the most intimately private and the most sensationalized and public part of our personal identity. We celebrate its beauty in art and objectify it in advertising; we construct strict rules about which bodies are beautiful and which are not; which are healthy and which are diseased; which body parts may be exchanged or even sold; which bodies are sacred and which profane. Our bodies allow us to affect the world around us, and yet they also allow governments and businesses to control and shape our lives in crucial ways. Our bodies intersect with every other aspect of our identities: gender, gender identity, race, class, age, ability, sexual orientation, sexuality, illness, and health. Even in the virtual world, our bodies seem to matter. This course will introduce students to a wide range of contexts in which the human body is perceived and represented in our culture. We will consider how social relationships, cultural images, and technological and medical practices shape our perceptions and awareness of (our) bodies, and investigate the many possible responses to the question of why bodies matter.

This course explores the language, themes and context of Old English and Middle English literature. Old English texts, read in modern translation, often include the prose of King Alfred, Beowulf, and shorter poems such as The Wanderer and The Dream of the Rood. Selections from Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are read in their original Middle English, while texts such as the Book of Margery Kemp, the Chester Play of Noah's Flood and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight are modernized.

This course examines the writings of one of the richest periods of English literature. The emergence of humanism, the rediscovery of classical texts and the exploration of new lands inspired eminent writers, such as, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Marvell and Milton. The background of the Protestant Reformation, Tudor politics and the Civil Wars informs our close reading of a variety of texts, from love sonnets to the epic, from the demonic to the utopian.

Students will study the prose and poetry of the neoclassical period from its rise to prominence in the Restoration Period through the 18th century. Prerequisites:

This course is an in-depth reading of several major American writers who explore a common literary theme.

ENG 312 explores a particular theme, topic, or genre in the literature of British writers. Contact instructor for details.

This course is a study of post-1950 literary works that include popular fiction writers, poets and playwrights that reflect contemporary thought and life.

This course examines modernist and postmodernist writing and art, exploring the aesthetic theories that inform these movements, and their key historical and cultural events, such as urbanization, Freudian psychoanalysis, and war.

This couorse examines connections between myth and literature across genres and historical periods.

This course is designed for students who are interested in European literature, but who want to elect a course given in English. Based on themes or works of universal interest, it gives students an opportunity to broaden their cultural horizons.

This course is an in-depth examination of selected novels within their historical and theoretical contexts, and focuses on dominant thematic or formal concerns.

This course covers the career and works of a single significant author.

This course focuses on representations of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, class, and other identities in popular culture and news media. Students will learn to critically analyze the relationships between media, audience, information, and power and consider the intersections of representation and power. Through an investigation of the politics of representation, students will learn to recognize and analyze visual and textual systems of cultural codes and ideologies at work in mass media. In their own projects, they will make use of this knowledge to create their own media messages and self-representations by disrupting visual and cultural codes they wish to challenge.

Students are given advanced work in generic types of creative writing and develop a manuscript in one or more genres. The course may be taken as humanities fine arts core option.

This course will focus on honing the screen and/or playwriting skills of students to help them develop a greater creative, critical, and aesthetic understanding of these genres. A variety of dramatic forms will be investigated, with an emphasis on the formal elements of plot, character, dialogue, setting, figurative language,etc. Through reading assignments, writing exercises, and critique of student work, students will hone the techniques of storytelling for film and/or theater and become familiar with a wide range of models and formal strategies for constructing and analyzing scripts. This fulfills the humanities core requirement as a fine arts course.

This course will focus on honing the poetry writing skills of students and to help them develop a greater creative, critical, and aesthetic understanding of this genre. A variety of poetic formats and forms will be investigated, with an emphasis on the formal elements of prosody, metaphor, imagery, language, structure, syntax, patterns, etc. Through reading assignments, writing exercises, and critique of student work, students will become familiar with a wide range of models and formal strategies for constructing and analyzing poetry. This fulfills the humanities core requirement as a fine arts course.

This course will focus on honing the fiction writing skills of students and to help them develop a greater creative, critical, and aesthetic understanding of this genre. A variety of short fiction formats and forms will be investigated, with an emphasis on the formal elements of plot, character, dialogue, setting, point of view, tone, imagery, figurative language, etc. Through reading assignments, writing exercises, and critique of student work, students will become familiar with a wide range of models and formal strategies for constructing and analyzing short fiction. This fulfills the humanities core requirement as a fine arts course.

This course will trace the development of the Latin American fiction style known as magical realism from the early 1920s to contemporary novels. Writers may include Carpentier, Arlt, Lispector, Bombal, Borges, Garcia-Marquez and Allende.

This course is a survey of African American literature from the earliest colonial settlements to the present. The course will cover oral story telling traditions, vestiges of African culture in slave folktales, the relevance of music in African-American literary art, the affects of emancipation and the struggle for civil rights on African American literature, and look at how that literature both represents and affects pertinent issues, such as power, race and gender within the African-American literary community.

This course will be a survey of authors exploring personal spirituality as national identity and vice versa. This is not a course about conventional religious history, nor will we study religious writers of any religious denomination per se. The readings will be primarily a survey of Transcendentalist writers and their spiritual/intellectual descendents with focus on how American writers have sought to integrate individualism with spirituality.

This course will focus on one significant topic or theme and its representation in film; topics will vary from semester to semester. Selected topics may include, but will not be limited to: Masculinity in Film; Women and Film; Sports in Film; Illness in Film; Science in Film; Race and Film; The Environment and Film, etc. Students will consider these topics in terms of how they are framed and represented in cinema.

Students practice the application of the principles of literary criticism and of the norms of aesthetic values in literature.

This is a variable topic seminar that deals with selected themes or authors as announced when the course is offered.

This is a variable topic seminar that deals with selected themes or authors as announced when the course is offered.

Students are given in-depth work in types of creative writing and develop a manuscript in a chosen genre.

The English internship is a variable credit (3-12 hours) required course that encourages juniors/seniors to investigate a career through a placement in a professional setting or in development of future projects (graduate study). This allows students to work under guidance of an immediate supervisor and/or a college faculty sponsor.

Theater can be an incendiary device for revolution, a tool for critical reflection, and a practice of critical resistance. In this course, students will explore the radical potential of theater and performance to effect positive social and political change in the world and in their own communities. We will consider theater artists and movements focused on the potential of performance to effect social change. Students will investigate the ways in which theater has served as a forum to rethink and rehearse notions of community, citizenship, justice, power, authority, and responsibility. Readings and projects will explore what forms and examples of theater best inspire political action; which tactics have had the greatest impact; and in what ways performance might intervene in contemporary crises at home and abroad. Students will experiment with developing scripts and performances based on current events and may collaborate with community groups on performative projects.

This course offers students the opportunity to produce a professional writing portfolio. The portfolio will reflect all the major and/or relevant areas of writing expertise.

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Qualified students may investigate selected topics with the permission of an instructor. The title reflects the course content.