Graduate Course Listings
Fall 2005

Graduate Courses
MFA Courses
Master Degree Requirements
Registration Information for Summer and Fall 2005
Advising

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE for Summer and Fall 2005 courses
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

MA students in British and American Literature and Adolescent Education/English will register by phone or on-line at the Registrar's website on the date and at the time assigned to them by the registrar.

* The registrar will inform students of the date and time for their registration via email. Click here for registration schedule.

* Students must activate and use their Hunter email address.

* Your registration date and time is determined by your group number and the first letter of your last name. Prof. Alfar advises you to register the minute you can.

* Remember as you register that you should
     * be sure to take at least three major periods of literature (to help prepare you for the
       Comprehensive Exam) and
     * if you are taking the MA in Adolescent Education, you have requirements to fulfill.

Helpful Websites for Registration
Information on registration
http://registrar.hunter.cuny.edu/subpages/registration.shtml

Find your Hunter email address
https://cfml.hunter.cuny.edu/emaillook/

Entering students should attend the orientation prior to their first semester for advising about their course requirements. Requirements can also be found on the Graduate Studies page.

All students should be aware that they are responsible for knowing their program requirements. If students take courses that are not appropriate to their course requirements, they will inevitably add time to the length of their MA. The graduate advisor will not be able to sign graduation audit forms if requirements have not been fulfilled. For advising on course selection, please feel free to visit the graduate advisor prior to your registration date.

FALL 2005 COURSE OFFERINGS

ENGLISH 607-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
ENGLISH LINGUISTICS
Professor K. Greenberg
Thursdays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 3045
This course will provide a foundation in linguistic concepts and terminology for language-oriented students from diverse disciplines. It will cover a small set of fundamental topics, and we will discuss methods of argumentation and hypothesis-testing within each topic. Together, we will explore various approaches to the study of language, current theories and controversies in linguistics and in related fields, and pedagogical applications of linguistic research. Requirements: two short essays, an oral presentation and a final paper.

ENGLISH 615-01 (3 credits, hours plus conferences)
RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION
Professor Carlson
Wednesdays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 4061
This course will explore the current theoretical views of teaching composition in secondary schools. We will also examine and discuss current views of rhetorical theories. To these ends, students will read and respond to topics that relate to teaching writing to secondary students such as evaluation and assessment, responding to writing, revision and the writing process. In addition, students will complete lesson plans and inquiry field reports to apply the theories to current classroom practices. Students will leave the course with an array of practical tools to support their efforts to teach secondary students in an urban setting. Requirements: Students will create their own “writer's notebook� and explore various ways that writing expresses both human emotion and experience. A “multi-genre paper and other writing exercises will be assigned.

ENGLISH 681.01, 02, 03 (1-3 credits)
READING CREDIT (ADOLESCENCE EDUCATION)
STAFF
Hours to be arranged.
Registration Codes: .01: 3046 .02: 3047 .03: 3048
A specialized program of study designed according to the student's interests and needs. Written permission by a full-time member of the English Department required before registering.

ENGLISH 700-01 (3 credits)
MASTER'S ESSAY
STAFF
Hours to be arranged.
Registration Code: 3049
Directed research on M.A. thesis. Required of all candidates for the Master's Degree in Literature.

ENGLISH 702.51-01 (3 credits; two hours plus conferences)
SPECIAL STUDIES IN ENGLISH, AMERICAN , AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: LITERATURE OF THE GREAT WAR: GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE POETICS OF HISTORY
Professor Kaye
Thursdays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 4062
This course will study creative responses to the catastrophe of the Great War, 1914-1918, by focusing on the changes the war fostered in gender relations, sexual attitudes, psychoanalysis, and imaginative literature. In an exploration of memoir, fiction, poetry, film, and criticism, we will explore the close relation between personal trauma and historical disaster. Readings will begin with Thomas Hardy's elegiac, ironic poems in “Satires of Circumstance� (1914) and “Moments of Vision� (1917), which chart a shift from Victorian to modern poetics. In addition to writings by soldier-combatants such as Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, and Siegfried Sassoon, we will examine the ambivalent responses to widespread slaughter and social dislocation by women artists such as Radyclyffe Hall, Kathe Kollwitz, Vera Brittain, and Rebecca West, whose 1918 novel The Return of the Soldier was the first fictional treatment of “male hysteria� (shell-shock). We will view classic movies such as The Battle of the Somme and works by Abel Gance and Stanley Kubrick. As scholars increasingly have come to view World War I as crucial in shaping modernist literature, the class will explore Anglo-American texts by D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway and Faulkner, all of whom saw the events of World War I as requiring radical innovations in literary form. We will take up the recent fascination with the Great War in writings by Pat Barker, Geoff Dyer, and Julian Barnes. The Great War has generated its own controversies among historians and critics, which we will consider through works by Paul Fussel, Jay Winter, Samuel Hynes, and Elaine Showalter. Requirements: one paper, one class presentation, and a final research paper.

ENGLISH 705-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
CHAUCER: THE CANTERBURY TALES
Professor Hennessy
Tuesdays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 4063
From Keats's “chameleon poet� to Spenser's “well of English pure and undefiled,� Geoffrey Chaucer has intrigued, disturbed, and delighted readers with the verbal alchemy of his great work, The Canterbury Tales. The aim of this course is to explore a number of individual tales within the context of the work as a whole, while engaging with recent developments in Chaucer criticism. We will also pay special attention to the manuscript contexts in which the Canterbury Tales are preserved and some of the ways modern editors have passed them on to us. Chaucer lived in a world of plague, heresy, violence and political intrigue, and his collection of tales can be read as a social document in its own right. Hence, we will attempt to place his works in the context of medieval history and culture, addressing issues such as chivalry and anti-chivalry; the Black Death and its effect on rural and urban political consciousness; the economic language of an emergent marketplace; the Christian encounter with Islam, magic, and scientific thought; discourses on gender, sexuality, and marriage; and anti-clericalism. We will also examine how Chaucer negotiates forms of literary authority: the English vernacular, the French and Italian literary tradition, and the classics. Students will learn to read, translate, and pronounce the original Middle English. Requirements: oral presentations, two short papers, one final research paper.

ENGLISH 715.52-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
GENDER AND POWER IN SHAKESPEARE
Professor Alfar
Mondays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 4326
In the minds of Shakespeare's male characters, a construction of woman as “evil� is dramatized. Juliet's refusal to marry Paris prompts Capulet to curse her as a “green sickness carrion� and “young baggage, disobedient wretch� (3.5.156.160). According to Lear, Goneril is a vulture (2.4.135), a “marble-hearted fiend� (1.4.259), “serpent-like� (2.4.161), and a “disease that's in [his] flesh� (2.4.222). Both Lear's daughters are “unnatural hags� (2.4.278). Macbeth urges his wife to “[b]ring forth men-children only� (1.7.72) because in his view the murderousness she encourages is “inherently� masculine. Characterized as an emissary of death, Lady Macbeth has become the epitome, in critical history, of evil motherhood. Cleopatra's successful manipulation of a long line of colonizers makes her, according to Antony, a “triple turned whore� (4.12.13), while Leontes' sexual and monarchical paranoia makes of Hermione's pregnant body a site of contagion and disease (2.1.36-47) and of Paulina “a mankind witch� (2.3.68). The power these women seize over their lives and in their governments, as we can see, makes them monstrous in the views of male characters. But do the plays proceed from the same assumptions of these male characters or are we asked to see female power differently, as perhaps emanating out of an already existing system of power? Do the plays portray female power as monstrous, or are questions being asked in the plays about the nature of such power to begin with? What is the nature of power, and can it be defined according to gender? These will be the overriding questions throughout our term as we read Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Winter's Tale. We will read many scholarly articles and historical documents along with our plays. Assignments will include presentations, weekly responses, 2 short papers, and a research paper.

ENGLISH 731-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
THE AUGUSTAN AGE
Professor Connor
Tuesdays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 4064
In the early eighteenth century, certain influential writers maintained that English society and culture paralleled that of Rome under the reign of Augustus: hence the term “Augustan Age.� Satire flourished during this period; indeed, a common literary theme was the connection between moral and social issues. We will look at the work of both major and minor Augustans -- including, in prose, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele; in poetry, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Anne Finch, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The course will emphasize an interdisciplinary approach to literature. Requirements: one oral presentation; several short papers; one 10-15 page research paper.

ENGLISH 751-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
AMERICAN PROSE 1914 TO THE PRESENT: THE CITY AS TEXT: NEW YORK CITY WRITERS
Professor Luria
Tuesdays 7:30-9:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 3055
In this course we will consider how and why the city is represented in fiction and how this representation is framed by a variety of authors, including Crane, James, Wharton, Yezierska, Dreiser, Di Donato, Baldwin, Morrison, Garcia, and Auster. We will explore why New York is a magnet and home to writers and central to their narratives and examine the issues urban authors confront, spaces they use, characters they invent, and narratives they unfold in novels, short fiction, poems, and essays. We will also discuss the political, cultural, and social world encountered by this range of writers spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries. Requirements: Take-home midterm, final, oral presentation, research paper, attendance, and class participation.

ENGLISH 752-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
AMERICAN POETS OF THE 19TH CENTURY: WHITMAN AND HIS LEGACY
Professor Schmidgall
Mondays 7:30-9:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 4065
Walt Whitman is the first poet of substantial and international stature produced in America. This course will explore the full range of his poetry over an active period of about 50 years, from 1842 to 1892, as well as consider his poetic legacy in the 20th century. Attention will also be paid to his prose, manuscript versions of his poetry, and excerpts from his private conversations. A particular focus will be Whitman's brilliant performance as a cultural subversive, a provocative agent on four fronts: the social, political, literary, and sexual (it is now generally granted that Whitman was homosexual). Three short papers; one 10-12-page paper; and a final exam. The text for the course will be the St. Martin's edition, ed. Schmidgall. The Blackboard web site will be very active for this course; the syllabus and extensive background and supporting documents will be posted in early June. Enter the site as a registered student or guest and explore it over the summer by going to bb.hunter.cuny.edu.

ENGLISH 776.60-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
SELECTED STUDIES IN MULTICULTURAL/ MINORITY LITERATURE: AFRICAN AMERICAN NARRATIVES
Professor Webb
Wednesdays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code:4381
A study of the poetics and politics of African American literary discourse since the 1970s. Although the last three decades of the twentieth century were undoubtedly the most productive and innovative period in the development of African American literature and literary criticism, it was also a period of extreme social and cultural fragmentation in African American communities. In this course we will examine how African American writers have addressed problems of literary representation when faced with increased commodification of culture and knowledge, the proliferation of new forms of literacy and orality, and the break down of traditional forms of community. Our readings will include fiction by Ishmael Reed, Clarence Major, Toni Cade Bambara, John Edgar Wideman, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, and Colson Whitehead. We will discuss their engagement with modernist and postmodernist notions of identity, culture, and writing. Requirements: An oral presentation, a midterm essay, and a term paper.

ENGLISH 776.66-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
SELECTED STUDIES IN MULTICULTURAL / MINORITY LITERATURE: MODERNISM, IMPERIALISM, AND THE POST-COLONIAL
Professor Mason
Wednesdays 7:30-9:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 3059
This course will investigate the influence of imperialism on twentieth-century fiction. The first part of the course will explore the effects of imperialism on British Modernist writers such as Conrad, Forster, Woolf, and Lawrence to show how language, common beliefs and domestic relations in these works are fraught with impulses that manifest themselves abroad as colonialism. The second part will focus on fiction by writers from the former British colonies in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean that gained their independence since the end of World War II. These will include works by Achebe, Dangarembga, Kincaid, Naipaul, Rushdie and Roy that will be examined in their social, historical, and intellectual perspectives and in light of critical theories, including feminist and post-colonial. Requirements: personal responses (one typed page) on each of the authors included in the syllabus; a 10-15 minute oral report on an assigned critical article; a research paper (12-15 pages) using historical and critical sources to interpret one or more texts; a final exam on texts read in the course.

ENGLISH 781-01 (3 credits)
READING (ARTS & SCIENCES)
Staff
Hours to be arranged
Registration Code: 3060
A course of readings designed according to the student's interests and needs. Written permission by a full-time faculty member of the Department required before registering.

ENGLISH 793-01 (3 credits, two hours plus conferences)
LITERARY CRITICISM
Professor Chinn
Wednesdays 5:30-7:20 p.m.
Registration Code: 3064
Theories of literature -- what separates literary from nonliterary texts, the formal qualities of different genres, how to evaluate literary worth, and so on -- have been around in Western culture since Aristotle. This course, however, will focus on developments in literary criticism that emerged over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries and into the 21st. We will be following a roughly historical trajectory, but we will also be working thematically through different kinds of literary theory that overlap chronologically. Towards the end of the course we will explore how these different strands of literary criticism intersect in the contemporary critical scene. Requirements may include midterm and final essays, an oral presentation, and a research project.

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The Master of Arts Degree Programs in English at Hunter College

TWO DISTINCT SEQUENCES LEAD TO THE MASTER'S DEGREE

I. THE PROGRAM OF STUDY IN THE TRADITIONAL M.A. CURRICULUM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE HAS THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:

30 credits of satisfactory work in English, including English 700 (Literary Research). Courses other than those offered in the Department of English may be accepted with the approval of the graduate advisor but may in no case exceed 6 credits. No more than 9 credits may be taken as a non-matriculant.

Demonstration of a reading knowledge of Latin, French, German, Spanish, or other approved language in a departmental examination.

Passing a four-hour comprehensive examination in British, American and world literature.

Completion of a Master of Arts essay (about 35 pages), preferably an expansion of a term paper.

ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PROGRAM:

A B.A. degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution acceptable to Hunter College.

Evidence of ability to pursue graduate work successfully. Generally, an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 in English and a cumulative GPA of 2.8 is acceptable.

18 credits of advanced undergraduate courses in English literature, exclusive of writing courses and required introductory courses in literature.

The Graduate Record Examination, General Test Only.

A writing sample (8-20 pages, preferably literary criticism with research).

II. THE MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM OF STUDY FOR ADOLESCENCE EDUCATION TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (TEP) HAS THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS, EFFECTIVE FALL 2004:

18 credits in literature given by the English Department, of these 3 credits must be in Shakespeare, 6 credits in American literature, and 3 credits in literature with a multicultural emphasis. 6 credits are elective.

3 credits in English Linguistics (ENGL 607).

3 credits in Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 615).

Passing a four-hour comprehensive examination in British, American and world literature. Graduate course requirements in Education (22-24 credits)

See Education Department for further information.

ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PROGRAM:
A B.A. degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution acceptable to Hunter College.
21 undergraduate credits consisting of 15 credits of advanced courses in British and America literature, 3 credits of world literature, and 3 credits of intermediate or advanced writing.
A GPA of 3.0 in English courses and 2.8 or better in all courses.
One year of college study of a language other than English.

REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED PRIOR TO FALL 2004 IN THE THE MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAM OF STUDY FOR ADOLESCENCE EDUCATION TEACHERS OF ENGLISH (TEP):

15 credits in literature given by the English Department, including 3 credits in Shakespeare, 3-6 credits in American literature, and 3 credits in literature with a multicultural/minority emphasis.

3 credits in the structure of modern English (ENGL 607).

3 credits in rhetoric and composition (ENGL 615).

3 credits in spoken communication (THC 776, Creative Dramatics; THC 777, Theater for Youth; THC 778, Socio-Drama). An undergraduate course In this category may be substituted with the approval of the Graduate Advisor.

A comprehensive examination in British and American literature.

Graduate course requirements in Education (15-24 credits including student teaching practicum} See Education Department for information.

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ADVISING HOURS UNTIL MAY 18, 2005

GRADUATE ADVISOR: PROFESSOR SARAH CHINN
OFFICE: 1203 HUNTER WEST
TELEPHONE: 212-772-5178
OFFICE HOURS :
EMAIL: schinn@hunter.cuny.edu

REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER AND FALL 2005

CONTINUING MATRICULATED STUDENTS

All matriculated students in the M.A. and Adolescence Education programs have priority registration and may register by telephone or on line at the time scheduled by the registrar. Department permission required for English 681, 700, 781 only.

AUGUST REGISTRATION FOR FALL 2005
All non-matruiculated students must see the Graduate Advisor, Professor Sarah Chinn, for all course registration.
DATE: Tuesday, August 16 : 4:00-7:00 Room 1203 Hunter West TRANSCRIPTS ARE REQUIRED FOR ADVISING AND REGISTRATION

NEW MATRICULATED STUDENT ORIENTATION
New matriculated students should attend an orientation session on Thursday, July 21. Literature students 4:00-5:00. Adolescence Education students 5:30-6:30. Room: 1242 Hunter West

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Fall Semester 2005
Please read this page carefully, noting the registration, payment, and cancellation schedule and policy.

Cancellation Policy

Your tuition and fees for the Fall 2005 semester must be received by the above specified due date. If you register on or before July 31, 2005 and do not receive a bill one week prior to the due date, you must pick up your bill in the OASIS, Room 217 North. If you register after July 31, 2005, you must pick up your bill in the OASIS, Room 217 North. All payments are due by the specified due date. You may view your bill by logging on to eSIMS on the web at http://registrar.hunter.cuny.edu.

Failure to pay your tuition and fees by the due date will result in the cancellation of your classes. Students cancelled for non-payment will be able to re-register beginning August 8, 2005 and during late registration.

Acceptable forms of payment are:
* Cash, Personal Check, Money Order
* Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover)
* Approved AMS Tuition Payment Plan (www.tuitionpay.com 1-866-amscuny)
* Confirmed Third-Party Payment Vouchers
* Financial Aid Awards

*Course cancellation is reflected on eSIMS several days after cancellation.

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