Fall 2020 Special Enrollment Procedures
Overview
The following is a list of fall 2020 Barnard English courses that have special enrollment procedures. (A list of fall 2020 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 the prerequisites section of 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
| COURSE | ENROLLMENT CAP | ENROLLMENT RESTRICTIONS |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL BC3098 The English Conference: The Poetry of Breaking News | 60 students | |
| ENGL BC3103 The Art of the Essay | 12 students | Enrolled and interested students MUST attend the first day of class. |
| ENGL UN3034 Early Chaucer [*Note: this is a cross-listed Columbia course taught by Christopher Baswell] | 54 students | |
| ENTH BC3139 Modern American Drama and Performance | 16 students | |
| ENGL BC3159 The English Colloquium | 10 students | Open only to Barnard English majors. New Barnard transfer students who are not yet able to declare an English major should contact the English department for permission. |
| ENGL BC3163 Shakespeare I | 60 students | |
| ENGL BC3183 American Literature since 1945 | 55 students | |
| ENGL BC3193 Critical Writing | 10 students | Open only to Barnard students, priority to English majors. |
| ENGL BC3195 Modernism | 55 students | |
| ENGL BC3204 World Literature Revisited I | 25 students | |
| ENGL BC3214 Latinx and the ICE/Prison Industrial Complex—Access and Strategies for News Coverage | 20 students | |
| ENGL BC3215 Victorian Science and Science Fiction | 30 students | |
| ENGL BC3250 Introduction to US Latinx Literature | 30 students | |
| ENGL BC3904 Senior Seminar: Charles Dickens | 10 students | Open only to Barnard senior English majors. |
| ENGL BC3920 Senior Seminar: Migration, Immigration, and the Borders of American Literature | 10 students | Open only to Barnard senior English majors. |
| ENGL BC3927 Senior Seminar: "a d—d mob of scribbling women": Nineteenth-century American Women Writers | 10 students | Open only to Barnard senior English majors. |
| ENGL BC3936 Senior Seminar: The Novel and Economic Justice | 10 students | Open only to Barnard senior English majors. |
Courses that Require Instructor Permission
| COURSE | INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION NOTES |
|---|---|
| ENGL BC3121 Public Speaking | Limited enrollment. Attend the first day of class to receive instructor permission. Permission will NOT be granted in advance. |
| ENGL BC3252 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 fall 2020 submission deadline for all creative writing courses is 11:59 pm, August 17, 2020.
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.
If you have any further questions about writing samples or how to apply to creative writing courses, email Nia Judelson.
| COURSE |
|---|
| ENGL BC3105.01 Fiction and Personal Narrative |
| ENGL BC3105.02 Fiction and Personal Narrative (priority to Barnard first-year students) |
| ENGL BC3107 Introduction to Fiction Writing |
| ENGL BC3110 Introduction to Poetry Writing |
| ENGL BC3113 Playwriting I |
| ENGL BC3115 Story Writing I |
| ENGL BC3117 Fiction Writing |
| ENGL BC3118 Advanced Poetry Writing I |
| ENGL BC3134 Creative Non-Fiction: Tell It Like It Is |
| ENGL BC3208 What's Your Story Anyway?—Trauma Resistance through Creative Writing |
Courses Requiring Their Own Application Process
| COURSE | COURSE NOTES |
|---|---|
| ENGL BC3101 The Writer's Process: A Seminar in the Teaching of Writing | Open only to Barnard students. Application required. |
| 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). |
| ENGL BC3123 Rhetorical Choices: the Theory and Practice of Public Speaking | Open only to Barnard students. Application required. |
| ENGL BC3223 New York in Ten Objects | Application required. Enrollment limited to 14 students. |
Senior Seminar Enrollment Overview
An FAQ about the 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.
Senior Seminar Enrollment FAQ
ENGL BC3904 Senior Seminar: Charles Dickens. 4 points.
Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
Charles Dickens: the life, the works, the legend, in as much detail as we can manage in one semester. Reading will be selected by the class, and may include Pickwick Papers, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and selections from his friend John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens. Special emphasis will be given to the question of what "Dickensian" means, in the context of Dickens's literary style, his genius for characterization, his love of conviviality, and Victorian extremes of wealth and poverty. Students will be expected to share in creating the syllabus, presenting new material, and leading class discussion.
—William Sharpe, W 10:10-12
ENGL BC3920 Senior Seminar: Migration, Immigration, and the Borders of American Literature. 4 points.
Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
This course will explore representations of voluntary and forced migration as a path toward understanding the formation of literary traditions and histories in the US and the Americas. How do we think about immigrant literature if the immigrant was here before the literature? Where does American literature begin and end if a mobile subject carries her words across borders and genres? In addition to reading fictional and non-fictional narratives of cultural literacy and migration by writers like Frederick Douglass, Julia Alvarez, and Valeria Luiselli, we’ll examine the ways in which contemporary discourses of relocation generate surprising returns to what we might recognize as the proto-exceptionalist and/or post-apocalyptic foundations of American literature and culture.
—Kristin Carter, T 11-12:50
ENGL BC3927 Senior Seminar: "a d—d mob of scribbling women": Nineteenth-century American Women Writers. 4 points.
Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne complained that American publishing was "wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women," and that he could not hope to compete with women writers for popularity or sales. Yet Hawthorne's texts were canonized as American classics, while texts by nineteenth-century women writers were largely ignored by the academy until late in the twentieth century. This course considers a variety of texts by nineteenth-century American women, including novels, short fiction, poetry, and journalism. We'll consider women's writing and women's reading through a variety of lenses, including domesticity and women's sphere, political action and suffrage, slavery and abolition, the economics of writing and publishing, sentimentality and anger, and canon formation and literary merit. Authors include Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Susan Warner, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nellie Bly, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.
—Lisa Gordis, W 2:10-4
ENGL BC3917 Senior Seminar: The Novel and Economic Justice. 4 points.
Enrollment limited to Barnard senior English majors.
The industrial revolution inspired novelists to explore the ways in which money, or the lack of it, forms or deforms our characters. It also inspired the writings of Karl Marx, the great theorist of economic justice. In this seminar we will read five of the greatest nineteenth-century novels – Godwin’s Caleb Williams, Austen’s Persuasion, Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Eliot’s Middlemarch and Hardy’s Jude the Obscure – alongside Marx’s most influential writings. We will pay special attention to Marxist notions of materialism; alienation and human flourishing; capital and labour; classes; and ideology. Special emphasis will also be given to the Marxist approach in the study of culture, the role of intellectuals (such as ourselves) and the relationship between capitalism and culture – through theorists like Gramsci, the Frankfurt School, and Raymond Williams.
—Ross Hamilton, R 12:10-2
They are all capped at 10 students.
You can sign up as soon as registration opens for you.
You must meet the following requirements on myBarnard:
- Your major is listed as English (you may have any concentration).
- Your expected graduation date is listed as February 2021 or May 2021.
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 why you need to take your senior seminar early and cc your major adviser.
There is no Film/English senior seminar in fall 2020.
Please sign up for one of the other senior seminars to ensure that you definitely have a senior seminar to take. Then join the electronic waiting list for your preferred section.
Please join the electronic wait list for the seminar(s) that works for your schedule. Then email Sarah Pasadino a short explanation of your scheduling conflict and cc your major adviser. Sarah will work with you and your adviser to resolve the problem.
Please join the electronic wait list for the seminar(s) that works for your schedule. Then email Sarah Pasadino to let her know about your issue and cc your major adviser. Sarah will work with you and your adviser to place you in a senior seminar.