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Summer/Fall 2021 Special Enrollment Procedures

Overview

The following is a list of summer and fall 2021 Barnard English courses that have special enrollment procedures. (A list of summer and fall 2021 Barnard Film Studies courses that have special enrollment procedures can be found on the Film Studies website.)  The need for special enrollment as well as how to do so is also stated in each course's course description in the Online Catalogue.

Any questions about English course enrollment that are not answered by this page may be directed to english@barnard.edu.

Courses with Enrollment Caps and/or Enrollment Restrictions

SEMESTER COURSE ENROLLMENT CAP ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS
Summer A ENGL BC3103 The Art of the Essay 12 students Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
Summer A ENTH BC3145 Early American Drama and Performance 18 students  
Summer A ENGL BC3176 The Romance Era 25 students  
Summer A ENGL BC3196 Renaissance Drama 25 students  
Summer A ENGL BC3196 Home to Harlem: Literature of the Harlem Renaissance 15 students  
Summer A ENGL BC3291.01 Fictions of Law and Custom: Whiteness in American Literature 25 students  
Summer A ENGL BC3913 Senior Seminar: Bad Romance 10 students Open to Barnard senior and rising senior English majors.
Summer B ENGL BC3207 The "Global" Novel 25 students  
Summer B ENGL BC3291.02 Fictions of Law and Custom: Whiteness in American Literature 25 students  
Fall ENGL BC3103 The Art of the Essay (all sections) 12 students Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class.
Fall ENGL BC3141 Major English Texts I 25 students  
Fall ENGL BC3146 Walk This Way 40 students  
Fall ENGL BC3159 The English Colloquium (all sections) 12 students Open only to junior and senior Barnard English majors. New junior Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major should contact the English department for permission.
Fall ENGL BC3163 Shakespeare I 60 students  
Fall ENGL BC3183 American Literature since 1945 55 students  
Fall ENGL BC3185 Modern British and American Poetry 40 students  
Fall ENGL BC3192 Exile and Estrangement in Global Literature 15 students  
Fall ENGL BC3193 Critical Writing (all sections) 10 students Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors.
Fall ENGL BC3195 Modernism 55 students  
Fall ENGL BC3204 World Literature Revisited I 25 students  
Fall ENGL BC3214 Latinx and the ICE/Prison Industrial Complex—Access and Strategies for News Coverage 22 students  
Fall ENGL BC3215 Victorian Science and Science Fiction 35 students  
Fall ENGL BC3218 The “Ethnic” in the Literary Marketplace 30 students  
Fall ENGL BC3250 Introduction to US Latinx Literature 30 students  
Fall AFEN BC3253 Before "Black Lives Matter" 99 students  
Fall ENRE BC3810 Literary Approaches to the Bible 14 students  
Fall ENGL BC3997, section 1 Senior Seminar: Exploring the Eighteenth Century 10 students Open only to senior Barnard English majors.
Fall ENGL BC3997, section 2 Senior Seminar: Late Victorian and Modern Drama 10 students Open only to senior Barnard English majors.
Fall ENGL BC3997, section 3 "a d—d mob of scribbling women": Nineteenth-century American Women Writers 10 students Open only to senior Barnard English majors.
Fall ENGL BC3997, section 4 Senior Seminar: The Novel and Economic Justice 10 students Open only to senior Barnard English majors.

 

Courses that Require Instructor Permission

SEMESTER COURSE NOTES
Fall ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance.
Fall ENGL BC3152 Contemporary Media Theory Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance.

 

Courses that Require a Writing Sample as an Application to Apply

A writing sample is required as an application to apply to all Barnard creative writing courses. As space is limited in creative writing courses, not all students who apply are guaranteed admittance.

Students are unable to self-register for Barnard creative writing courses. Interested students who have submitted writing samples may put the course on their online schedule, which will automatically place them on the wait list. If they are accepted, the professor will take them off the wait list, but until that time no one is officially registered for the class.

Directions on what to include in your writing sample and how to apply to creative writing courses are listed on the Applying to Creative Writing Courses page.

The summer 2021 submission deadline for all creative writing courses is 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, April 25, 2021. Please follow the directions here to apply.

The fall 2021 submission deadline specifically for ENGL BC3223 New York in Ten Objects is 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, August 1, 2021.  This course has a unique application link: https://forms.gle/GVPYWdCxQjrsv1Ex6

The fall 2021 submission deadline for all creative writing courses, except ENGL BC3223 New York in Ten Objects, is 11:59 pm ET on Monday, August 23, 2021. Please follow the directions here to apply.

Admission lists will be posted on the Admission Lists page as the department receives them from instructors. If an admission list is not posted for a class before its first meeting, attend it.

Please note: if you are accepted into a creative writing course, attendance at the first meeting of the course is mandatory. If you do not show up for the first class, your spot may be given to someone else.

If you have any further questions about writing samples or how to apply to creative writing courses, email Nia Judelson.

 

SEMESTER COURSE NOTES
Summer A ENGL BC3110 Introduction to Poetry Writing  
Fall ENGL BC3105.01 Fiction and Personal Narrative  
Fall ENGL BC3105.02 Fiction and Personal Narrative Priority enrollment in this section goes to Barnard first-year students.
Fall ENGL BC3107 Introduction to Fiction Writing  
Fall ENGL BC3110 Introduction to Poetry Writing  
Fall ENGL BC3113 Playwriting I  
Fall ENGL BC3115 Story Writing I  
Fall ENGL BC3117 Fiction Writing  
Fall ENGL BC3118 Advanced Poetry Writing I  
Fall ENGL BC3134 Creative Non-Fiction  
Fall ENGL BC3208 What's Your Story Anyway?—Trauma Resistance through Creative Writing  
Fall ENGL BC3223 New York in Ten Objects This course has a unique application process: https://forms.gle/GVPYWdCxQjrsv1Ex6

 

Courses Requiring Their Own Application Process

SEMESTER COURSE NOTES
Fall ENGL BC3101 The Writer's Process: A Seminar in the Teaching of Writing (both sections) Open only to Barnard students. Application required.
Fall ENGL BC3102 Academic Writing Intensive Open only to Barnard students. To be considered for the course, please send a recent writing sample to wschorha@barnard.edu, ideally from your First-Year Writing or First-Year Seminar course, or any other writing-intensive humanities or social sciences course at Barnard (no lab reports please).
Fall ENGL BC3123 Rhetorical Choices: the Theory and Practice of Public Speaking Open only to Barnard students. Application required.

 

Summer Senior Seminar Enrollment Overview

An FAQ about the summer senior seminar enrollment process is below. Please read through all the questions carefully. If you have a question about the process that's not answered by the FAQ, please email Sarah Pasadino.

Note that in 2020, our English majors have founded a new undergraduate-run academic journal for English senior theses, Meliora.

Summer Senior Seminar Enrollment FAQ

ENGL BC3913 Senior Seminar: Bad Romance. 4 points.
Enrollment limited to Barnard senior and rising senior English majors.
Romance: the quest for the one true love. This seminar will read romances that go wrong, that end catastrophically, that damage lovers or leave victims along the way. Reading bad romances will illuminate the consuming fantasy of the romance genre, as well as a range of emotions – rage and revenge, narcissism and self-protection, obsession and oblivion – that surface in their wake. We will also look at shifting interpretations of these powerful emotions, from Plato, to the Galenic theory of the humors, to the sociology of court-culture, to Freudian and finally contemporary neurobiological explanations of feelings. Students are welcome to propose texts of their own interests to open this course to the widest range of interests. Weekly individual tutorials with Professor Hamilton on weekends are offered but optional.

Readings:  
Euripides, Medea and Sophocles, Antigone
Malory, Sir Tristram de Lyonesse and Shakespeare, Othello
Mme de Lafayette, The Princesse de Cleves
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Miranda July, The First Bad Man and Curtis Sittenfield, Prep
Finally we will view Lina Wertmuller, Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August, Wong Kar Wai, In the Mood for Love, and Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine. 
—Ross Hamilton, MW 1-4:10 pm ET (Summer A)

10 students.

You can sign up as soon as registration opens for you.

This summer, the English department will allow both seniors and rising seniors (current juniors) to register for this senior seminar.  If you are an English major, of any or no concentration, whose expected graduation year in myBarnard is any of the following dates, you are eligible for this senior seminar:

  • May 2021
  • June 2021
  • October 2021
  • February 2022
  • May 2022

If you do not meet these requirements, the computer system will not allow you to sign-up for these courses. It is therefore extremely important that you check that your major, concentration, and graduation year are correct on myBarnard BEFORE registration opens.

If this information is incorrect, please contact both Sarah Pasadino and the Registrar ASAP to correct it. Please note that if you wait until after registration opens to correct this information, you will not be able to register for senior seminars until this information is corrected in the registration system.

If you do not fulfill these requirements but have extenuating circumstances that require you to take a senior seminar, please see question 6.

First, check to see if your major and expected graduation date is correct on myBarnard for the seminar you are trying to register for. If they are and you still cannot register, please email Sarah Pasadino with a description (and, if possible, a screenshot) of your issue.

Before registration opens up, please email Sarah Pasadino a short explanation of your circumstances and cc your major adviser.