Inventory of Undergraduate Courses

Return to full courses list

*Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are not counted toward the requirement of no fewer than 33 credits in advanced courses for majors in this department.

§Independent work means not less than three additional hours each week of conference, research, independent reading, and writing as assigned by the instructor. The student's grade is determined in part by the successful completion of this independent work.

In 2010, the college transitioned to a new course numbering system in preparation for the migration to the CUNYfirst platform. Old course numbers - if available - are provided in the parenthesis after the "/" symbol.

Composition
• English Composition A (ENGL 1001 / ENG 1.11)
• English Composition B (ENGL 1002 / ENG 1.12)
• Approaches to Learning a Modern Language (ENGL *1003 / ENG 1.5)
• English Composition I (ENGL 1010 / ENG 1)
• English Composition II: Seminar in Expository Writing (ENGL *1012 / ENG 2)
• Advanced Exposition and Peer Tutoring (ENGL 2115 / ENG 5)
• Advanced Exposition (ENGL 2116 / ENG 5.1)

Creative writing
• Introduction to Creative Writing (ENGL 2301 / ENG 11.1)
• Writing Prose Nonfiction (ENGL 2302 / ENG 14)
• Writing Fiction I (ENGL 3301 / ENG 15.1)
• Writing Fiction II (ENGL 3302 / ENG 15.2)
• Creative Writing Workshop: Young Adult and Children's Fiction (ENGL 3303 / ENG 15.3)
• Writing Poetry I (ENGL 3304 / ENG 16.1)
• Writing Poetry II (ENGL 3305 / ENG 16.2)
• Writing Plays I (ENGL 3306 / ENG 17.1)
• Writing Plays II (ENGL 3307 / ENG 17.2)
• Writing for Musical Theater (ENGL 3308 / ENG 17.15)
• Advanced Seminar in Creative Writing (ENGL 4301 / ENG 75)
• Advanced Tutorial in Creative Writing (ENGL 5301 / ENG 69.3)

Journalism
• Advanced Multimedia Journalism (ENGL 4404)
• History of News: From Colonial Times to the Present (ENGL 4405)

The English language
• History of the English Language (ENGL 3520 / ENG 24.3)
• Applied Linguistics (ENGL 3521 / ENG 24.61)
• Practical English Grammar (ENGL 3522 / ENG 24.7)
• Introduction to Semiology (ENGL 3523 / ENG 24.9)
• Sociolinguistics (ENGL 3524 / ENG 24.8)
• Introduction to Natural Language Processing (ENGL 3525 / ENG 24.81)
• Introduction to African American English (ENGL 3526)

English literature
• Literature, Ethnicity, and Immigration (ENGL 2001)
• Ideas of Character in the Western Literary Tradition (ENGL 2002)
• Italian American Literature and Film (ENGL 2003)
• Literature and Film (ENGL 2004)
• Text/Context (ENGL 2006)
• The Emergence of the Modern (ENGL 2007)
• The Quest for Ethnic, Cultural, and National Identities in Literature (ENGL 2008)
• Introduction to Literary Studies (ENGL 2009)
• Overview of Literary Study I: Representative Selections of World Literature (ENGL 2120 / ENG 51)
• Overview of Literary Study II: Representative Selections of World Literature (ENGL 2121 / ENG 52)
• Medieval Literature (ENGL 3111 / ENG 30.1)
• Chaucer (ENGL 3112 / ENG 30.2)
• Poetry and Prose of the Sixteenth Century (ENGL 3120 / ENG 30.3)
• Poetry and Prose of the Seventeenth Century (ENGL 3121 / ENG 30.4)
• Shakespeare I (ENGL 3122 / ENG 30.5)
• Shakespeare II (ENGL 3123 / ENG 30.6)
• English Drama from the Beginnings to 1642, Exclusive of Shakespeare (ENGL 3124 / ENG 30.7)
• Milton (ENGL 3125 / ENG 31.1)
• Poetry and Prose of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (ENGL 3131 / ENG 31.3)
• English Drama of the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (ENGL 3132 / ENG 31.4)
• The Eighteenth-Century Novel (ENGL 3133 / ENG 31.5)
• Chief Romantic Poets (ENGL 3140 / ENG 40.1)
• Chief Victorian Poets (ENGL 3141 / ENG 40.3)
• Major English Novels of the Nineteenth Century (ENGL 3142 / ENG 40.4)
• Thematic Studies in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (ENGL 3143)
• British Literature in Transition from 1885 to 1914 (ENGL 3145 / ENG 40.6)
• Modern British Fiction to 1950 (ENGL 3171 / ENG 41.2)
• Modern British Poetry (ENGL 3172 / ENG 41.3)
• Modern Irish Literature and Culture (ENGL 3173 / ENG 41.5)
• Britain and the Transatlantic World (ENGL 3234)
• Aspects of Fiction (ENGL 3287)
• Genre Fiction (ENGL 3288)

Postmodernism and contemporary discourses
• American Literature, 1945-2000 (ENGL 3154 / ENG 62.41)
• Black Women's Fiction (ENGL 3162 / ENG 64.4)
• Contemporary U.S. Women Writers: Diverse Cultural Perspectives (ENGL 3166 / ENG 50.41)
• Contemporary British Writing from 1950 to the Present (ENGL 3174 / ENG 41.4)
• Literature and Cultural Diversity (ENGL 3180 / ENG 6)
• Women and Literature (ENGL 3187 / ENG 50.4)
• Literature and Psychology (ENGL 3191 / ENG 50.3)
• Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory (ENGL 3193 / ENG 50.12)
• Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory (ENGL 3194 / ENG 50.13)
• Global Romanticism (ENGL 3240)
• Contemporary Native American Literature (ENGL 3256)
• Twenty-First-Century World Literature (ENGL 3265)
• Literature and the Environment (ENGL 3281)
• Literature of Migration (ENGL 3282)
• Asian American Pacific Islander Experience Through Literature (ENGL 3289)
• Asian Caribbean Literature (ENGL 3290 )
• Memory Studies (ENGL 3292)
• Politics through Literature (ENGL 3293)
• Seminar in Postmodernism and Contemporary Discourses (ENGL 4109 / ENG 79.7)

Special studies & approaches
• American Folklore (ENGL 3157 / ENG 25.3)
• African-American Folklore (ENGL 3158 / ENG 24.5)
• New York City Folklore (ENGL 3159 / ENG 25.4)
• The Immigrant Experience in Literature, Film, and Photography (ENGL 3165 / ENG 67)
• Modern Drama to 1950 (ENGL 3170 / ENG 41.1)
• Theories and Practice of Composition (ENGL 3177 / ENG 50.14)
• From Epic Tradition to Epic Vision (ENGL 3181 / ENG 50.7)
• The Lyric Tradition: Imagery, Structure, and Meaning (ENGL 3182 / ENG 50.71)
• The Bible as Literature (ENGL 3183 / ENG 31.2)
• Comedy (ENGL 3184 / ENG 50.2)
• Tragedy (ENGL 3185 / ENG 50.5)
• Romance (ENGL 3186 / ENG 50.9)
• Makings of Pastoral Myth (ENGL 3188 / ENG 50.91)
• Literature for Young People (ENGL 3189 / ENG 65)
• The Literature of Fantasy (ENGL 3190 / ENG 50.6)
• Special Topics in Literature (ENGL 3192 / ENG 59)
• Directing Television Adaptation. Analysis and Production (ENGL 3195 / ENG 50)
• Orality, Literacy, and Computer Technology (ENGL 3196 / ENG 10.4)
• Internship (ENGL 5100 / ENG 66)
• Independent Research (ENGL 5101 / ENG 69.1)
• Independent Study (ENGL 5102 / ENG 69.2)

American literature
• American Renaissance (ENGL 3151 / ENG 62.11)
• American Realism and Naturalism (ENGL 3152 / ENG 62.21)
• American Literature, 1900-1945 (ENGL 3153 / ENG 62.31)
• Private Lives: American Autobiography (ENGL 3156 / ENG 61)
• African-American Literature to 1930 (ENGL 3160 / ENG 64.2)
• Modern African-American Literature (ENGL 3161 / ENG 64.3)
• Brooklyn in Literature (ENGL 3163 / ENG 63.1)
• Introduction to Italian American Literature (ENGL 3164 / ENG 63.2)
• Transnational America (ENGL 3167)
• Black Theater (ENGL 3169)
• Twenty-First-Century American Literature (ENGL 3254)
• Twenty-First-Century Innovative U.S. Poetries (ENGL 3286)

Seminars
• Seminar in the Middle Ages (ENGL 4101 / ENG 79.1)
• Seminar in the Renaissance (ENGL 4102 / ENG 79.2)
• Seminar in the Eighteenth Century (ENGL 4103 / ENG 79.3)
• Seminar in the Nineteenth Century and Romanticism (ENGL 4104 / ENG 79.4)
• Seminar in American Literature and Culture (ENGL 4105 / ENG 79.5)
• Seminar in British and Anglophone Authors (ENGL 4106 / ENG 70)
• Seminar in American Authors (ENGL 4107 / ENG 71)
• Seminar in Modernism (ENGL 4108 / ENG 79.6)
• Queer Literary Studies (ENGL 4110 / ENG 74)
• Seminar in Children's and Young Adult Literature (ENGL 4111 / ENG 73)
• Interdepartmental Humanities Seminar (ENGL 4112 / ENG 74.7)
• Introduction to History and Literature (ENGL 4113)
• Theory of History and Literature (ENGL 4114)
• Independent Research (ENGL 5600 / ENG 83)

Honors courses
• Senior Thesis (ENGL 5103 / ENG 89)
• Senior Thesis I (ENGL 5104 / ENG 89.1)
• Senior Thesis II (ENGL 5105 / ENG 89.2)

Return to full courses list.