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Deadline Reminders:
Program Filing for Fall, 2012 courses is now closed until
- The results of the on-line sign-ups for Fall 2012 for the English Junior Colloquium and Senior Seminars is posted in eBear. Contact Lucy Coolidge if you have questions.
- Sign-up sheets for other fall restricted-enrollment English and Film courses are in the English office. Email english@barnard.edu if you have questions.
- The deadline for applications for either acceptance into the Creative Writing Concentration or any of Barnard's fall Creative Writing courses was Tuesday, April 17th. Questions about Barnard's creative writing courses or majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing should be directed to Timea Szell, Director of the Creative Writing Program.
Updates:
- ENGL BC 3101x: Writer's Process will meet T Th at 2:40 instead of earlier on those days.
- ENGL BC 3120x: Creative Non-Fiction, being taught by Richard Panek in the fall, will meet on Mondays from 11-12:50 instead of on Wednesdays.
- ENGL BC 3121x: Public Speaking will meet on M/W at 10:10-11:25 am instead of T/Th.
- ENGL BC 3124x: Rhetorical Choices will meet on T/Th at 10:10-11:25 am.
- ENGL BC 3159.4x: Colloquium: Order & Disorder will be taught by our new faculty member, Rachel Eisendrath and meet Th 4:10-6.
- ENGL BC 3165x: Elizabethan Renaissance will not be offered in 2012-13.
- ENGL BC 3192x: Exile and Estrangement in Global Lit will be offered by Hisham Matar again this fall (M 4:10-6), but the enrollment will be limited to 18. You must sign-up with the English Department to enroll.
New requirement for English majors graduating in 2014 and later: You must take at least one course in American Literature. It can simultaneously fulfill other requirements (elective, pre-1900, etc.) where appropriate. Taking American Literature is encouraged for, but not required of, English majors graduating in 2013.
New or Revised Barnard English Courses in Fall, 2012:
- ENGL BC 3093x: The English Conference "Feasting and Starving in English Literature"—R. Trubowitz (four lectures: Th 4:10-6 pm on October 11, 18, 25, and November 1st)
- ENGL BC 3137.1x: Wit & Humor in the Renaissance —A. Prescott (MW 11:40-12:55)
- ENGL BC 3137.2x: Coetzee, Ishiguru, Sebald—M. Spiegel (MW 6:10-7:25)
- ENTH BC 3139x: Modern American Drama & Performance—P. Denison (W 11-12:50)
- ENGL BC 3181x: American Literature 1871-1945—J. Kassanoff (T Th 11:40-12:55)
Department's Offerings Open to First-year students:
The following is a current list of offerings and is updated more frequently than the one in the First-Years' guide from the Dean's Office. See on-line Catalog for course descriptions, instructors' names, and class times. See department's restricted enrollment instructions for getting into seminars, smaller lectures, and creative writing.
FALL, 2012:
- ENGL BC 3129: Exploration of Black Writers: Early African-American Literature
- ENGL BC 3141x: Major English Texts I
- ENGL BC 3174x: The Age of Johnson
- ENGL BC 3179x: American Literature to 1800
- ENGL BC 3185x: Modern British & American Poetry
- ENGL BC 3195x: Modernism
SPRING, 2013:
- ENGL BC 3104y: Essay Writing - sections 2 and 1 (with permission)
- ENGL BC 3106y: Fiction and Personal Narrative
- ENGL BC 3108y: Intro to Fiction Writing
- ENGL BC 3110y: Intro to Poetry Writing
- ENGL BC 3114y: Playwriting II
- ENGL BC 3120y: Creative Non-Fiction
- ENGL BC 3143y: Middle Fictions: Long Stories, Short Novels, Novellas — not offered in 2012-13
- ENGL BC 3154y: Chaucer before Canterbury Tales
- ENGL BC 3167y: Milton
- ENGL BC 3168y: Lyric Poetry
- ENGL 3176x: The Romantic Era
- ENGL BC 3178y: Victorian Poetry & Criticism (if there's room)
- ENGL BC 3183y: American Literature since 1945 (if there's room)
- ENGL BC 3187: American Writiers & Their Foreign Counterparts
page last updated 5/8/2012
