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ENG 0132 is for non-native speakers of English who have not passed the CUNY/ACT Writing Skills Test (ACT). It is designed to develop fluency and effectiveness in writing at the short-essay level, to promote significant acquisition of vocabulary and idiom, and to provide further instruction and practice in grammar. The course also focuses on critical reading, emphasizing fiction and nonfiction prose works, including historical, social, and psychological content areas. Response to these readings forms the basis of essays, especially those utilizing comparison and contrast, analysis and evaluation, exposition, and some argumentation. Speaking activities will focus on correctness, accuracy, and self monitoring in public presentations. The course is designed to extend and enhance students' writing ability to help them pass the ACT and to prepare them for the department's Writing I course, ENG 2100.
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A select group of high school students studies a major dramatic text that will be produced in New York City during the summertime. Working with a team of Scholar-teachers, students discover how close textual analysis guides and informs theatrical performance. As a part of each day's activity, students work intensively on key portions of a script, engaging in appropriate acting exercises designed to lead to end-of term scene performances. Supplementary theatre excursions focused analytical writing under ideal conditions, with intensive instructional feedback and support.
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This is an intensive course introducing students to writing as a means of discovery. In Writing I students practice and share their written articulation of ideas as a community of writers. Students read a variety of intellectually challenging and thematically coherent texts in a range of genres. Throughout, the emphasis is on writing and communication skills as processes involving multiple steps, including drafting, discussion, revision, and re-thinking. The work of the class is conducted in classroom, small-group, and one-on-one sessions. This course is required for all undergraduate degrees granted by Baruch College.
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Writing II is an intensification of Writing I. This course encourages students to read, reflect on, write about, and synthesize ideas from a range of genres and literary forms. Students examine and learn how to employ different styles, various appropriate uses of evidence and counter-evidence, multiple methods of interpretations, close readings of texts, and, finally, literary-cultural contextualizations. As the course proceeds, students further develop competency in the use and evaluation of multiple external sources as they shape and express their own ideas?and cast them into well organized, thoughtful, and persuasive argumentative essays. This course is required for all undergraduate degrees granted by Baruch College.
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A study of selected literary works in which economic themes figure prominently. Readings are historically, nationally, and generically diversified, with examples from such authors as Daniel Defoe, Anton Chekhov, Thomas Mann, Ezra Pound, Arthur Miller and Kurt Vonneguts Jr.
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This course examines the relation of politics to literature, focusing in different semesters on questions such as "What can literature teach us about politics?"; "What literatures emerge from politics?"; and "What is the impact of politics on literature?" Fiction, poetry, and drama on themes such as political commitment, domination and totalitarianism, tradition, leadership, democracy, racism, colonialism, and revolution are read, along with critical writings.
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This course surveys the history of literature written for children. Discussion is primarily based on critical analysis of myths and traditional stories, modern fairy tales, classics, ethnic stories, poetry, modern realism, and new literary trends. The availability and suitability of reading for age groups from childhood through adolescence are also considered.
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This is a course in reading and analyzing the news. By examining how news is reported and shaped, students improve their writing skills, heighten their awareness of effective communication, and gain insight into the impact of the news media in America.
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This course presents a global approach to literature by introducing a variety of narrative, lyric, and dramatic forms representative of different cultures and historical periods, from ancient times through the sixteenth century. Specific choices depend upon the preference of the instructor, but every class studies examples of epic poetry, sacred texts, medieval narrative, and classical and Renaissance drama. Discussions involve both close reading of selected texts and comparison of the values the texts promote. Students engage in a variety of communication-intensive activities designed to enhance their appreciation of literature and their awareness of the way it shapes and reflects a multicultural world.
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This course presents a global approach to literature by introducing a variety of narrative, lyric, and dramatic forms representative of different cultures and historical periods, from ancient times through the 16th century. Specific choices depend upon the preference of the instructor, but every class studies examples of epic poetry, sacred texts, medieval narrative, and classical and Renaissance drama. Discussions involve both close reading of selected texts and comparison of the values the texts promote. Students engage in a variety of communication-intensive activities designed to enhance their appreciation of literature and their awareness of the way it shapes and reflects a multicultural world.
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This course presents a global approach to literature by introducing a variety of narrative, lyric, and dramatic forms representative of different cultures and historical periods, from the seventeenth century to the present. Specific choices depend upon the preference of the instructor, but every class studies examples of fantasy and satire, Romantic poetry, modern plays, and a broad range of narratives. Discussions involve both close reading of selected texts and comparison of the values the texts promote. Students engage in a variety of communication-intensive activities designed to enhance their appreciation of literature and their awareness of the way it shapes and reflects a multicultural world.
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The course surveys the development of literature written in English, from its beginnings through the seventeenth century. Major works to be studied include Beowulf, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Shakespearean drama, and Milton's Paradise Lost.
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This course surveys the development of English literature from the eighteenth century to the present. To be studied are such major authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, and other Romantics; the Brontes, Browning, Dickens, and other Victorians; Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, and other Moderns.
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This course explores the development of American literature, both prose and poetry, from its beginnings in Native American oral forms through the Civil War. Included is the literature of discovery and exploration, of abolition, and of American transcendentalism. To be studied are such writers as Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.
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This course explores the development of American literature, including prose, poetry, and drama, from the Civil War to the present. To be studied are such writers as Mark Twain, Henry James, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Robert Frost, Willa Cather, Eugene O'Neill, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, and Alice Walker.
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This course examines major themes in the contemporary literature of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It focuses on poems, short stories, novels, and plays by Nobel laureates like Naguib Mahfouz, Octavio Paz, Wole Soyinka, and Rabindranath Tagore, as well as other established writers from China, Korea, India, the Philippines, the Arab world, east and west Africa, Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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This course studies important works from prominent racial and ethnic minorities of the United States, with emphasis on the contributions of these minorities to American culture.
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This course charts the development of African American literature from the 18th century to the present in the context of the complex dynamic of resistance and collaboration that helped to shape the culture, politics, creative imagination, and self-identities of African Americans. Beginning with slave narratives, the course proceeds to an analysis of representative texts from the large body of early poetry and fiction (including Wheatley, Horton, Dunbar, Wilson); from the Harlem Renaissance canon (Hughes, McKay, Cullen, Larsen, Fauset, Hurston); and from realistic, naturalistic, and modernist works by such writers as Wright, Baldwin, Marshall, and Morrison.
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This course examines literary works written in English in regions other than Great Britain and the United States, namely Africa, Australia, South Asia, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. The focus is on different genres produced in the post-colonial period, including works by such writers as Athol Fugard, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, James Ngugi, Derek Walcott, and Patrick White.
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This course charts the development of Caribbean literature in English from the 19th century to the present and emphasizes its formal and thematic aspects. Special attention is given to the influence of Caribbean geography and Caribbean history on its literature. Themes include anti-imperialism and nationalism, globalization, migration and exile, the treatment of race, the treatment of women, and carnivalesque subversions.
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This course surveys the history of literature written for children. Discussion is primarily based on critical analysis of myths and traditional stories, modern fairy tales, classics, ethnic stories, poetry, modern realism, and new literary trends. The availability and suitability of reading for age groups from childhood through adolescence are also considered.
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Young adult literature addresses readers between the ages 12 and 20 who seek intellectual stimulation, pleasure and self-discovery. In this course, students will read historical and realistic fiction, fantasies, poetry, and biographies and autobiographies dealing with themes personal identity and achieving social responsibility. Issues of censorships-its history, practice and impact on young adult reading choices- will be explored.
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This course is designed to teach students the fundamentals of journalism-reporting, researching, and writing news and feature articles, with a focus on fairness, accuracy, balance, and thoroughness. Students will cover stories on a range of topics, most of which will be culled from their own communities. On-line reporting, interviewing techniques, and writing style will be developed during the semester.
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This course is intended for students who wish to learn how to write for general magazines as well as for specialized journals. Stress is placed on an analysis of magazines and markets, techniques for writing effective query letters, methods of research, and the process of writing and editing a freelance article.
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