2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
English and Creative Writing
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302 Marano Campus Center
315-312-2150
www.oswego.edu/english
Directory of Professors
The English and Creative Writing Department offers both major and minor programs, as well as certification and concentration programs for students who choose to become elementary or secondary school teachers. All of the programs offer intensive training in the interpretive skills necessary for careers in business, industry, and public service as well as public school and college teaching. The English and Creative Writing Department has created a curriculum that balances traditional studies in British and American literature with new intellectual developments in literary and cultural studies. Juniors and seniors often have the opportunity to enroll in courses that are cross-listed with the Master of Arts in English program.
English Major
Courses stress the importance of critical reading, writing, and research to provide students with a background suitable for many kinds of careers. These courses are designed: (1) to immerse students in reading and writing; (2) to encourage students to study literary history with accuracy and imagination, helping them to understand how literary canons are established, what they may include and omit, and how they may change; (3) to integrate materials about cultural diversity into the curriculum; (4) to provide students with opportunities for interdisciplinary study; (5) to introduce theoretical questions at an early point in the course of study while integrating these questions throughout the curriculum; (6) to prepare students with conceptual and interpretive skills so they can respond to the demands of a rapidly changing world; and (7) to create the opportunity for students to connect their personal and political experiences with the questions, ideas, and conflicts within literary and interpretive studies. This program is based upon the idea that interpretations have a structure and interpretive competence requires that students learn how to use that structure to understand and test their ideas and the established interpretations of literary works.
Creative Writing Major
The program is one of the largest and best staffed undergraduate writing programs in the country including studies in the genres of poetry, fiction, playwriting, creative nonfiction, journalism, and screenwriting. Based around the workshop model, each genre is offered in tree increasing levels of accomplishment: introductory, intermediate, and advanced. In addition, the advanced level of study can be focused on a particular subgenre. For instance, the advanced fiction course may focus on horror fiction or science fiction, thus enabling students to further tailor their individual studies. Along with the varied genres and levels of study, the program’s professors are all active creative writers in their respective fields. The study of literature is also an important component of the Creative Writing major as 15 to 18 hours of literature courses are required.
The Department of English and Creative Writing cosponsors these programs:
Bachelor of Arts
Minor
Cinema Screen Studies
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CSS 111 - First-Year Film Practicum
A project-based introduction to critical filmmaking. Students are asked to solve a series of practical problems, critically reflect upon their ways of working and forms of thought, consider the wider implications of those ways and forms, and revisit the problems with alternative solutions in mind.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
CSS 288 - Film and Philosophy
An introduction to the historical and conceptual intersections of film and philosophy. The course covers four major areas: films about philosophers, films that pose philosophical problems or propositions, philosophies of film, film as philosophy.
Prerequisite: CSS 286, or PHL 100, or PHL 220, or ENG 204 (a student in CSS, PHL or ENG will only need the intro course to each respective major to get into the course).
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
CSS 333 - Critics and Criticism
A history of film criticism and major film critics and a practical introduction to the art of film criticism and film reviewing.
Prerequisite: ENG 286
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
CSS 337 - Motion Picture Editing
This course provides a comprehensive experience in film and video editing both in theory and in practice. The student navigates and organizes within photo-chemical, digital, and hybrid post-production workflows. Motion picture images are assembled using a traditional film splicer as well as organized virtually in video editing software. Learning objectives include deploying concepts of continuity, montage, and parallel editing into completed short films and videos. The semester concludes with a 10-20 minute final that the student edits on film or video from another student production.
Prerequisite: CSS 235; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
CSS 435 - Motion Picture Directing
Students will study methods, techniques and lessons attributed to the craft of directing and acting for motion pictures. Students will study and gain a conceptual understanding of story and dramatic structure as well as exploration of emotional and psychological relationships between characters and self in visual conditions. Lastly, they will collaborate on multiple productions.
Prerequisite: ENG 286, CSS 235, and CSS 335.
Offered: Fall.
Credit: 3
Creative Writing Arts
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CRW 201 - Introductory Screenwriting
This writing course explores the screenwriting genre through practical application of various writing techniques, exercises, and organizational concepts, and through critical analysis of professional screenplays, film clips, and student work.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 205 - Poetry Writing: Introductory
An introductory course in the reading and writing of poetry. A premise of this course is that reading and writing are reciprocal activities. A goal of this course is to make that reciprocity legible. To that end, students will learn to read poetry (their own, their classmates, and those of published writers) rhetorically, acquiring two vocabularies, two languages almost; that of poetic practice and prosody, and that of critique.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 206 - Fiction Writing: Introductory
A basic introduction to the forms and fundamental concepts of fiction.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 207 - Playwriting: Introductory
This writing course explores the playwriting genre through practical application of various writing techniques, exercises, and organizational concepts, and through critical analysis of theatrical literature and student work.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 208 - Creative Nonfiction Writing: Introductory
This course introduces students to various modes of nonfiction writing, helps them analyze and evaluate literature in the genre, and provides an environment in which they develop writing in nonfiction modes.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 210 - Graphic Storytelling: Introductory
An examination of the elements of graphic storytelling and how to apply them as techniques in the creation of graphic stories and novels. Students will develop storylines and over the semester will work toward creating their own long form graphic stories and novels.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or permission of instructor.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
CRW 250 - Writing into Culture
A study of a non-Western civilization by intensively examining the history, institutions, economy, and society surrounding a popular genre created by that culture. Besides critically examining the cultural issues of that society, students will create an original work using the aesthetic principles of that popular genre.
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CRW 295 - Specialized Studies in Creative Writing: Introduction
An introductory course in specialized creative writing topics (e.g. Intro to Graphic Memoir, Intro to Writing for Television Sit-Coms).
Note: Course may be offered in more than one section with different content, and may be repeated for total of 9 credits if content is not the same.
Prerequisite: Any three (3) credits in English or Creative Writing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CRW 300 - Living Writers Series
This course invites students to explore the writing process–from creation to publication or performance–with publishing writers immersed in their chosen genre. We will also examine the literary, cultural, and political underpinnings necessary to the development of an aesthetic within those genres.
Prerequisite: ENG 101 or 102 or Compentency Waiver, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
CRW 301 - Screenwriting: Intermediate
This intermediate level writing course builds upon the basic concepts of screenwriting and focuses on completing the first half of a full-length screenplay. Films and screenplays with less traditional plot structure and more experimental approaches to storytelling, especially in the use of visuals, will receive more attention.
Prerequisite: CRW 201.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 305 - Poetry Writing: Intermediate
Intermediate workshop and seminar in the writing of poetry.
Prerequisite: CRW 205.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
CRW 306 - Fiction Writing: Intermediate
An intermediate level course in the writing of fiction.
Prerequisite: CRW 206.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 307 - Playwriting: Intermediate
This intermediate level writing course builds on the basic concepts of playwriting and focuses on less traditional plot structure and more experimental approaches to storytelling, especially in the use of dialogue.
Prerequisite: CRW 207.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
CRW 308 - Creative Nonfiction Writing: Intermediate
This course is designed to familiarize students with nonfiction categories not covered in CRW 208 through analyzing samples of good writing and writing essays and articles of varying lengths in these categories.
Prerequisite: CRW 208.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 313 - Digital Storytelling
A basic introduction to creating narrative in and for digital platforms.
Prerequisite: Any three (3) credits in ENG or CRW, or instructor permission
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CRW 330 - Form and Theory of Genres
An intensive study of a single contemporary genre by examining the history, literary strategies, cultural institutions and society surrounding the genre. Besides critically examining the cultural issues in society, students will create an original work using the aesthetic principles of that genre.
Prerequisite: Six hours of CRW or ENG courses; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
CRW 355 - Literary Citizenship
The course provides opportunities for students to pursue ambitious independent and collaborative projects on campus, in our local communities, and online. These projects support literary groups, organizations and businesses that are part of the writing world. Projects include: organizing readings and book-promotional campaigns, interviewing writers, publishing book reviews, designing writing websites, and preparing a writer’s CV or resume.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CRW 395 - Specialized Studies in Creative Writing: Intermediate
An intermediate course in specialized creative writing topics (e.g. Graphic Memoir: Intermediate, Television Sit-Com: Intermediate).
Note: Course may be offered in more than one section with different content, and may be repeated for credit if content is not the same.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and any CRW 200 level course.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3; may be repeated for total of 9 credits -
CRW 396 - Creative Writing Pedagogies for Teaching Assistants
This course allows junior and senior Creative Writing majors to become Teaching Assistants in CRW classes under the supervision of a CRW faculty member. The course focuses on knowledge of CRW teaching pedagogies, presentation and public speaking; critical thinking; time management, and agenda setting and course planning.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission required.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CRW 399 - Independent Study
A total of only six hours in independent study may be credited to the major in Creative Writing.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission
Offered: Spring
Credit: 1 to 6 -
CRW 401 - Screenwriting: Advanced
This advanced level writing course builds upon the intermediate skills and techniques of CRW 301. Students will focus on completing a full-length screenplay, polishing it, readying it for production. Particular attention will be given the business of screenwriting.
Prerequisite: CRW 301.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
CRW 405 - Poetry Writing: Advanced
Seminar and workshop in writing a long work of poetry.
Prerequisite: CRW 305.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 406 - Fiction Writing: Advanced
An advanced course in the writing of fiction, often taking as its focus a specific subgenera.
Prerequisite: CRW 306.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 407 - Playwriting: Advanced
An advanced playwriting course that focuses on using improvisation and on its feet workshop exploration to move work to next level of development.
Prerequisite: CRW 307.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 408 - Creative Nonfiction Writing: Advanced
Practice in the writing of creative nonfiction on the mature and sophisticated level required for publication. The course will also include an introduction to and reading of contemporary literary nonfiction by professional writers, as well as exploration of publication procedures and career possibilities in writing.
Prerequisite: CRW 308.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
CRW 411 - Screenwriting Rewrites
Students will immerse themselves in the craft of re-writing their own original feature length script of 105-120 pages. Classes will be a mix of workshop, lecture, discussion and a preparation for the real world of screenwriting. This course will examine specific ways that students can improve their scripts. Students will re-write their script in a step-by-step process. A completed first draft of a feature length screenplay is required.
Prerequisite: CRW 301; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
English
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ENG 101 - Composition I
A course designed to develop fundamental writing skills, especially for those students with little experience in writing. The course emphasizes sentence, paragraph, and essay structure as well as standard American conventions of grammar, punctuation and spelling.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 102 - Composition II
A composition course designed to instruct the student in rhetorical modes and the basic techniques of expository prose, in critical reading, and in research methods.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 103 - Advanced Listening Comprehension
This course is designed to improve and develop the listening comprehension of students with limited English proficiency as it relates to comprehending lectures and taking notes.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 104 - Advanced Reading
This course is designed to improve and develop the reading ability of students with limited English proficiency as it relates to critically analyzing academic texts.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 105 - Advanced Spoken English
This course is designed to improve and develop the speaking ability of students with limited English proficiency as it relates to interpersonal and small group communication.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 150 - Principles of Literary Representation
This introductory course presents conceptions, methodologies, and materials fundamental to the discipline of literary study by focusing on the nature of representation in literary art.
Offered: Summer
Credit: 3 -
ENG 160 - General Folklore
An examination of the various genres of folklore, folklore theories, history of folklore, scholarship, and collecting methods.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 195 - Specialized Studies
Studies in literature or language to be determined as needs and interests of students and staff indicate.
Note: May be repeated for credit twice.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 204 - Writing About Literature
An introductory course in expository and critical writing about literary works.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 210 - Western Heritage I: Literature
The course introduces students to the works of acknowledged literary masters from the age of Homer to the beginnings of the Renaissance, selected to reflect varied genres, literary movements, and cultural back-grounds.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 211 - Western Heritage II: Literature
The course introduces students to the works of acknowledged literary masters from the Renaissance to the present, selected to reflect varied genres, literary movements, and cultural backgrounds.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 212 - Literary Histories I
Comparative study of historical literary texts, authors, movements, materials, forms, and themes from different times, places, and cultures. Analysis of how literature both supports and critiques the ways that people make and use histories as sources of power. Periods studied range from ancient times up to about 1700.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 213 - Literary Histories II
Comparative study of historical literary texts, authors, movements, materials, forms, and themes from different times, places, and cultures. Analysis of how literature both supports and critiques the ways that people make and use histories as sources of power. Periods studied range from about 1700 to 1900.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 220 - Modern Culture and Media
Relying upon each student’s familiarity with cultural forms (for example, in film, television, popular music and music videos, comic books, cartoons, advertisements, magazines, detective fiction, and romances), this course introduces students to the methods and interpretive strategies of literary studies.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3 -
ENG 235 - American Literature from the Beginning to the Civil War
Survey of the principal American writers from the beginning to Melville.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 236 - American Literature from the Civil War to the Present
Survey of major American writers and periods from Whitman to the present.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 237 - Ethnicity and Cultural Difference in Literature
This course introduces students to the ethnic and minority literature of the United States and the emergent English-language literatures of the non-Western world. Readings in different genres will include examples that illustrate a variety of ethnic and cultural awareness and identity. Emphasis will be on these literatures since World War II.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 238 - Introduction to Latina/o/x Cultural Expressions
This course examines Latina/o/x literary—among other forms of—cultural expressions. It introduces students to scholarly debates and artistic artifacts produced by Latinas/os/xs in the U.S.
Prerequisite: ENG 102.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 265 - Sophomore Seminar: Studies in Genre
An intensive introduction to the study of some of the conventions of literary genre, including genre theory. The course will undertake a comparative analysis of two specific genres, or kinds, of literary production’s for example, lyric and ballad, pastoral and allegory, encomium (formalized poems of praise) and satire. The study will place examples within their historical contexts and within the history of the conventional genre.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 271 - Practical English Grammar
A study of the grammatical structure of contemporary standard American English.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 286 - Introduction to Cinema and Screen Studies
A critical introduction to the analysis, theory and history of moving images, from nineteenth-century investigations of afterimages and stroboscopy to cinema, television and new digital media.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 295 - Specialized Studies
Topic course in English.
Note: Variable credit one to three, may be repeated two times for a total of six credits.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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ENG 302 - Advanced Composition
A course for students whose writing is adequate, but who wish to develop greater effectiveness and individuality in writing expository prose.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 304 - Literary Criticism
Designed to develop skills in critical thinking through interpretation and evaluation, this course will study in several theoretical contexts, drawn mainly from Modernist and Contemporary trends in critical theory.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 and Sophomore Standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 309 - Digital Literary Studies
Introduction to the history and purpose of using digital technologies in literary studies, as well as to common tools and methods used in the field, through active, collaborative contribution to a digital archival project.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 310 - Literature of Medieval England
Readings in translation of literature from Beowulf to Malory, including epic, romance, dream vision, fable, fabliau, and the lyric.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 311 - Sixteenth-Century Prose and Poetry
Preliminary background reading in the major figures of the Continental Renaissance with a survey of English non-dramatic literature from Skelton through Spenser.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 315 - British Romantic Writers
Study of the major figures of the Romantic period in English literature; emphasis on their philosophy and artistry and on the society in which they lived.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 319 - Shakespeare: An Introduction
An introduction to the poetic and dramatic writings of William Shakespeare, with readings in his sonnets, narrative poetry, and the three major genres of his drama.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 320 - Historical Drama & Society
Interpretive analysis of historical plays and performance practices from a range of dramatic traditions, with special attention to the way language, performance, and ritual interact in a unique form of social knowledge-building and meaning-making.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 322 - Nineteenth-Century English Novel
A study of the growth and development of the English novel from Scott through Hardy.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 323 - Twentieth-Century British Fiction
Study of major twentieth century British fiction.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 325 - Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde studied against the back- ground of the later Middle Ages; emphasis on the narrative technique of the poet. Oral interpretation of the Middle English originals.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 326 - English Drama: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy
A survey of diverse play texts from the early 1600s, up to and including the anti-theatrical English civil war period of the 1640s. Examines popular comedies and tragedies as well as closet dramas and court masques.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 327 - English Drama: Satire and Empire
Examines some of the most popular satirical comedies from the Restoration era of the 1660s to the late 1700s. The plays will be read in light of changing theatrical practices, evolving social relations and the advent of British imperialism.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 328 - Milton
Representative verse and prose of Milton studied against the background of the English Renaissance.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 333 - Twentieth-Century American Literature
Important American writers from World War I to the present.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 337 - Topics in American Ethnic Literature
This course introduces students to the major representative writers, themes and aesthetics of one of the major ethnic literatures in the United States, for example, Black-American, Jewish-American, Native American.
Note: This course may be taken more than once if the topic is different.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 340 - Modern American Drama
Study of twentieth century American drama.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 342 - The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
Development of the American novel from beginning to 1900.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 343 - The Twentieth-Century American Novel
Development of the American novel from 1900 to the present.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 347 - Contemporary Native American Literature
An in-depth study of aspect(s) of Native American literatures. The course will explore issues of identity, authenticity, representation, textuality, and discourse as they are played with and played out in Contemporary Native American literatures.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 350 - Modern Drama
Study of American, British and Continental drama since Ibsen.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 351 - American Poetry Since 1945
Study of American poetry since World War II.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 356 - Latina Writings and Theories
This course explores Latina writings from the 19th century forward. It examines a variety of genres, including fiction and theatre, and key theoretical texts from the latter half of the 20th century forward.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 and minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 357 - Black Women Writers
This course will examine major works of black women writers of the African diaspora. Post-colonialism, feminism, and critical race perspectives are a few of the orientations explored through the works of black women writes in Africa and the Americas.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 360 - Literature in a Global Context
This course will introduce students to a variety of literary texts from around the world and situate those texts in their cultural, historical, and literary contexts. Although not strictly post-Colonial in emphasis, the course will focus primarily on non-Western literature.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 361 - Literature of Travel, Migration, Diaspora
Through studying literature produced by travellers, and migratory and diasporic people, this course explores the processes of globalisation, migration, identity change and cultural shifts. This is a semester course with optional travel abroad credits. Instructors may collaborate with faculty/students/university in a country linked to focus of syllabus.
Note: Repeatable for a total of 6 hours.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 and sophomore standing; or instructor permission
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 362 - Genre - History - Theory
This course will introduce students to genre as a historical and social formation, analyzing the relationship between generic emergence and historical shifts in technologies of production and transmission as well as the economic conditions that lead to certain forms of publication and reading.
Prerequisite: ENG 204.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 365 - Junior Seminar: Author
An intensive introduction to the study of authorship organized around questions of authority and institution, cannon, law, signature and property, history and biography. Focused study on a single author, including selected works, biography, correspondence, etc.
Prerequisite: ENG 265; or ENG 304 either previously or concurrently; or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 370 - Women in Literature
A focus on literature by and about women. Applying techniques of literary analysis to works in several genres, students will concentrate on acquiring more sophisticated interpretive skills while at the same time examining literature from a feminist perspective.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 372 - Decolonial Thought and Literature
This course explores the development of Decolonial theory, key moments and theoretical shifts, and specifically focusing on the emergence of this theory in the Americas within both “theory” texts as well as “literature.”
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or ENG 204, and minimum sophomore standing; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 373 - Theories of Language
A survey and analysis of recent theories of language as the ground of literature, including reading, writing, speaking, and understanding. The course will examine the interplay between language and the issues of class, culture, gender, race, and childhood that affect our use of languages.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing OR LIN 100 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 374 - History and Development of the English Language
Historical backgrounds of the English language, growth of vocabulary, and development of linguistics standards and usage.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing OR or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 375 - Theories of Diverse Sexuality
This course examines the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and transexual studies to literature, art, politics and culture as well as many of the intellectual issues that surround controversies about non-normative human sexuality.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 376 - Science Fiction
This course examines the science fiction genre from the historical perspective by concentrating on key writers who established the generic purviews before 1950 and as an exercise in social, cultural, political, technical, and epistemological critique.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 230 or ANT 111 or ANT 112 or ENG 210 or ENG 211
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 380 - Narratives of Identity
This course uses narratives that define individuals and their relationships to a larger world. It utilizes approaches from different disciplines to investigate ways a personality or individual consciousness can be defined.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 381 - Narrative Theory
This course offers a theoretical examination of narrative and the various literary components and critical values associated with narrative. It concentrates on investigating key theoretical and critical statements that have helped define the way narrative is perceived. It also offers an opportunity to examine different examples of narrative by applying theoretical narrative principles to specific texts.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 382 - Modern African Literature
An introduction to the various genres of written African literature since World War II, with attention to the historical, political, social and cultural contexts from which this literature has emerged.
Prerequisite: ENG 237, or nine hours of English courses numbered 299 or lower, or junior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 384 - Young Adult Literature
This course involves the study of current issues in the field of young adult (YA) literature. Emphasis will be on literary interpretation and analysis. It will provide a rationale and strategies for using YA literature to meet learning standards and to further social justice in schools and libraries.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 385 - Children’s Literature
Study of literature for children from beginning to present. Emphasis on literary merits rather than methodology.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
ENG 386 - The Cinema
The history and development of the cinematic art.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 387 - Vision and Textuality
The course is a study of historical, political and theoretical relations of vision and the visual arts to writing, both literary and nonliterary.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3 -
ENG 388 - Film Genre
A history and analysis of film genre. The course will examine the notion of film genre as distinct from other notions of genre, in particular, literary genre. Special attention will be paid to horror, melodrama, film noir, musicals, science fiction, and teen pics.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3 -
ENG 389 - Documentary Traditions
Intensive study of documentary traditions in film, video and new media. The course will examine different approaches to documentary, including ethnographic film, the social documentary and guerrilla media. It will also provide historical and geopolitical frames for examining the politics of documentary.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film
This is a course in the cinematic representations of Native Americans. Significant attention will be paid to the relationship between those representations and the construction of America and American identity.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Equivalent Course: NAS 390
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
ENG 391 - Writing Portfolio
Student will revise one or two pieces of writing previously written for an Oswego English course with two different audiences and purposes in mind, determined by the student. Examples include job applications, graduate school applications, scholarly publications, public humanities activism and intervention, creative/artistic venues and networks, or other media platforms.
Prerequisite: ENG 304 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 393 - Topics in Literary History I
Description: Investigation of a particular topic in historical literary criticism relevant to
the study of literary texts, authors, movements, materials, forms, and themes from one or more
cultures of the world, from ancient times up to about 1700.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or instuctor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3 -
ENG 394 - Topics in Literary History II
Investigation of a particular topic in historical literary criticism relevant to the study of literary texts, authors, movements, materials, forms, and themes from one or more cultures of the world, from about 1700 to 1900.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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