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2019-2020 College of Liberal Arts (Admitted Fall 2019/Spring 2020) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 
  

  • ECON 253 - Intermediate Open Topics

    2-4 credits

     

    This course will focus on selected topics such as globalization, health care, finances, macroeconomics, labor markets, the environment, firm behavior, international economics, non-profits, or experimental economics issues, and will use writing as a tool for learning about the topic being explored.

      Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. CLA-Writing Intensive

  

  • ECON 254 - Intermediate Open Topics

    2-4 credits

     

    This course will draw on both theories and empirical research done within the discipline of economics, as well as drawing from at least one other discipline, to explore the factors that shape and are shaped by economic conditions. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary

  

  • ECON 255 - Intermediate Open Topics: US Topics

    2-4 credits

     

     

     

    This course will focus on selected topics that examine economic outcomes in a US setting, with a focus on the role that globalization, income inequality, economic conflict, discrimination, migration and/or the environment, play in shaping economic conditions in the United States. 

      Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary

  

  • ECON 256 - Intermediate Open Topics: International

    2-4 credits

     

    This course will focus on selected topics that examine economic outcomes in a non-US setting, with a focus on the role that globalization, income inequality, economic conflict, discrimination, migration and/or the environment, play in shaping economic conditions. 

      Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary

  

  • ECON 262 - Poverty and Policy

    4 credits
    This course discusses the causes and consequences of poverty in an otherwise affluent society. It examines the historical pattern of the inequality of income in the last half century in the U.S., and identifies the groups who remain poor in spite of economic growth. It discusses how to measure poverty and shows how changes in the structure of the economy-technological change and globalization-have affected the demand for the labor in different categories. Economic policy towards poverty and the recent national changes in welfare policy are examined and assessed. Various state welfare to work plans will be compared. Different political and philosophical approaches to the poor implied by different policy approaches will be discussed. Prerequisite: ECON 101 .
  

  • ECON 281 - Wall Street and the Economy

    8 credits
    The operations and institutions of financial markets; their role in financing new investments, pensions, etc. ; their impact on local, national, and global economies. The economic history and ethical dimensions of Wall Street and its relation to macroeconomic policy. Prerequisite: ECON 101  and ECON 102  and acceptance into the Wall Street Semester. Signature of instructor required for registration. CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • ECON 287 - Applied Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship

    4 credits
    This course compliments ECON 387, with a focus on hands on approaches to social entrepreneurship, as well as on obtaining the skills needed to successfully work for social change. The course will consist of a series of field trips, skills workshops and a group project that involves working with a social change organization on a current challenge they are facing. Permission of instructor required. Signature of instructor for registration. Co-requisite: ECON 387 . Equivalent to: BST 387  and PSCI 387 . Offered every Spring semester. CLA-Civic Engagement, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • ECON 299 - ShortTREC Program at the Intermediate Level

    1-8 credits credits
    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shortTRECs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise.  May be repeated as topic changes.  Offering to be determined. CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • ECON 301 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

    4 credits
    A theoretical analysis of resource allocation in a market economy. Topics include the theory of consumer behavior, production, and costs; decision making under various market conditions; general equilibrium and welfare economics. Student must earn a grade of C or better in this course to satisfy the major requirements. Prerequisite: ECON 101  or equivalent. Recommended: MATH 115  or MATH 150  or MATH 151 . Every semester. CLA-Quantitative
  

  • ECON 302 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis

    4 credits
    A study of the determinants of the level of income, employment, and prices as seen in competing theoretical frameworks. Includes an analysis of inflation and unemployment, their causes, costs, and policy options; the sources of instability in a market economy; debates on policy activism; prospects for the control of aggregate demand. Student must earn a C or better in this course to satisfy the major requirements. Prerequisite: ECON 102  or equivalent. Recommended: MATH 115  or MATH 150  or MATH 151  or 16. Every semester.
  

  • ECON 303 - Economic Methodology And Introductory Econometrics

    4 credits
    This course studies empirical economic research, especially focused on the classical linear regression model and how to proceed with econometric analysis when some assumptions of the classical model do not hold. It examines sampling, statistical theory and hypothesis testing. This course also examines criticisms of and alternatives to common econometric methodologies. Students are expected to take this course in their second or third year. Prerequisite: ECON 101 , ECON 102 , and MATH 117  or MATH 320 . Spring Semester.
  

  • ECON 311 - Public Finance Economics

    4 credits
    A consideration of the role of the public sector in the U.S. economy. Topics include the use of public expenditure analysis to assess specific federal programs; the theories of market failure and public goods; analysis of externalities; public choice economics; the incidence of major types of taxes; prospects for tax reform; and problems of deficit finance. Prerequisite: ECON 301  or equivalent.
  

  • ECON 314 - American Economic Development

    4 credits
    A survey of the economic history of the United States from its establishment as a collection of British colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries to its emergence as the world’s leading industrial nation in the mid-20th century. Explores the nature, causes, and consequences of America’s economic growth and development and the social and political transformations that accompanied its rise to world industrial supremacy. Through the study of American economic development, students acquire a historical perspective on contemporary economic theory, issues, policies, and debates. Prerequisite: ECON 301  and ECON 302 . Offered annually. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Writing in the Major
  

  • ECON 315 - Political Economy of Race, Class, and Gender

    4 credits
    A study of race, class, and gender using the political economic approach to the study of economics. The course will investigate the impact of introducing the categories of race, class, and gender into political economic theory and will also undertake some empirical analyses of the roles of race, class, and gender in producing economic outcomes for minorities and majorities in the U.S. Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher standing and one course in Economics. Signature of instructor required for registration. Same as: WGST 315 . Offered alternate years. CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing in the Major, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ECON 316 - History of Economic Thought

    4 credits
    A consideration of the philosophical basis, historical context, and development of economic thinking. Focuses on pre-20th-century economists-the Mercantilists, the Physiocrats, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, and early neoclassical economists. Some attention given to later economists and schools of thought as continuations and modifications of earlier ideas in economics. Prerequisite: Sophomore or higher standing and one course in economics. Offered alternate years. CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Writing in the Major
  

  • ECON 317 - Contemporary Political Economy

    4 credits
    A consideration of the varying interpretations by present-day economists of the current state of the U.S. economy and of the challenges it faces in the 21st century. Topics include the historical origins and major ideas of such contemporary schools of economic thought as neo-conservatism, post-Keynesian liberalism, and ecological/humanistic economics. Open only to students with sophomore or higher standing. Prerequisite: ECON 101  and ECON 102 . Offered annually. CLA-Writing in the Major, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ECON 318 - Gender and Globalization

    4 credits
    In this class we will examine how scholars have understood and made sense of how gender issues intersect with economic globalization. Two ways in which economic globalization is manifest is through changes in trade in goods and services, and migration. We will focus on these two aspects of economic globalization. As we will discover through the readings and our discussions, scholars from a range of disciplines/theoretical frameworks, (eg economics, history, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, feminist, post-colonial theory), have contributed to our understanding of economic globalization and the way in which gender and globalization intersect. Prerequisite: ECON 101  or WGST 101 . Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered alternate years. CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ECON 320 - Money and Banking

    4 credits
    An introduction to the theory of money and banking. Special consideration is given to the structure and functioning of the commercial banking system and the effectiveness of monetary policy. Prerequisite: ECON 302  or equivalent. Offered annually.
  

  • ECON 321 - Corporate Finance

    4 credits
    A study of selected problems and issues in the field of finance. Topics include the use of financial statements, ratio analysis and the valuation of assets, especially derivatives (e.g., futures and options). Prerequisite: ECON 301 . Same as: BST 321 . Offered annually.
  

  • ECON 323 - International Economics

    4 credits
    This course includes topics central to both international trade and international finance, in other words the flows of goods, services, and money across borders.  The determinants of international trade, patters of specialization and gains from trade in classical and neoclassical (Ricardian, Hecksher-Ochlin, factor-price equalization) models and new trade theories will be covered in order to study the effects of trade and trade policy (tariffs and quotas) on production and consumption patters, factor prices, income distribution, economic growth and development.  In the second half of the course, the focus will shift to theory and practice of international macroeconomics and finance.  In particular, the course will cover issues pertaining to balance of payments determination, and the functioning of feign exchange markets and international capital markets.  A special focus will be devoted to financial crises and contagion in the context of global economic and financial interactions and policy coordination under international monetary system. Prerequisites: ECON 301  and ECON 302  
  

  • ECON 324 - International Trade

    4 credits
    A study of international trade theory, including the classical works (Richardian, Hecksher-Ohlin, specific factors model, factor-price equalization, and growth models) along with a consideration of trade restrictions, i.e., tariffs and quotas. Explores contemporary patterns of trade encompassing such issues as increasing returns, imperfect competition, technology transfer, market structures, industrial policies, and international factor movements. Analyzes these issues from the perspective of a large versus a small economy and from a developed versus a developing economy. Prerequisite: ECON 301  and ECON 302 . Offered alternate years.
  

  • ECON 325 - International Finance

    4 credits
    An exploration of the various theories of international finance. Includes a practical introduction to foreign exchange markets (forward markets, options, and futures)-how they work, how they are used, and how to understand published information about these markets. Explores the relationship between domestic money markets and international money markets in a theoretical context. Discusses the purchasing power parity relationship and the evolution of the contemporary international monetary system. Prerequisite: ECON 324 . Offered alternate years.
  

  • ECON 330 - Topics in Economics and the Environment

    4 credits
    A consideration of specific topics pertaining to the relationship of economic activities and the natural environment. Generally, one major topic will be considered each time the course is offered. Possible topics include: sustainable development; global warming and peak oil; carbon trading, taxation and subsidies as environmental policies; and consumption, well-being, the economy and the environment. May be repeated for credit with different topics. Prerequisite: ECON 101  and one additional Economics course or one Environmental Studies course, or permission of the instructor. Fall 2008 and ,thereafter, annually. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  

  • ECON 337 - Seminar in Labor Economics

    4 credits
    This course studies contemporary issues in labor markets. Students read, analyze and discuss journal articles about selected topics in labor economics. Topics, which will vary depending on current economic conditions, may include: unemployment, discrimination, welfare programs, minimum wage, Social Security, poverty. Prerequisite: ECON 301  and ECON 303 .
  

  • ECON 338 - Industrial Organization and Public Policy Toward Business

    4 credits
    An analysis of the present structure of industry in the United States, the theory of monopoly, oligopoly, and imperfect competition, and antitrust policy, i.e., government policies to preserve competition. Focuses on recent antitrust cases in the latter half of the course. Prerequisite: ECON 101 , ECON 102 , and ECON 301 .
  

  • ECON 340 - Strategic Decision Making

    4 credits
    Analyzes the theory of strategically interdependent decision making, with applications to auctions, bargaining, oligopoly, signaling, and strategic voting. Explores the use of laboratory methods to study economic behavior. Topics include experimental design, laboratory technique, financial incentives, and analysis of data. Emphasizes applications: bargaining, auctions, market price competition, market failures, voting, contributions to public goods, lottery choice decisions, and the design of electronic markets for financial assets. Equivalent Course:BST 340 . CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  

  • ECON 348 - Political Economy of War and Peace

    4 credits
    This course will examine how political, social, and economic factors intersect and shape the causes and consequences of conflicts, as well as exploring the effectiveness of policies aimed at ending conflicts and rebuilding communities in conflict zones.  In addition to studying some of the general literature on the cost of militarization/conflict, the impact of colonialism, and the link between income inequality, resource distribution and conflict, we will examine a number of past and current conflict zones. We will also look into the ways that gender, race and class issues shape the impact of conflict and post-conflict resolution. Instructor Signature Required. Equivelent Course: PSCI 348. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ECON 350 - Selected Topics in Economics

    4 credits
    Topics determined by department. Recent topics have included economics of racism, government regulation of industry, the microeconomics of macroeconomics, and workplace democracy. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Prerequisite: ECON+25 and 26. Offering to be determined. CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ECON 387 - Social Entrepreneurship: Theorizing Global Trends

    4 credits
    Using an interdisciplinary lens this course will explore how size, location, structure, mission and globalization have shaped decision making processes within social change organizations.  The focus will be on nonprofits, cooperatives and firms with a commitment to achieving corporate social responsibility.  A key question we will explore is why social entrepreneurship is increasingly associated with social change organizations. This question will be addressed through an exploration of both theoretical explanations and empirical examples of the economic, social and political challenges facing social change organizations.  Case studies will focus on both US and international contexts. Signature of instructor required for registration. Corequisite course: ECON 287 . Equivalent to: BST 287  and PSCI 287 . Offered every Spring semester. CLA-Breadth/Social Science, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Off Campus
  

  • ECON 400 - Economics Capstone Seminar

    2 credits
    Description pending. CLA-Capstone
  

  • ECON 410 - Specialized Honors I

    0-8 credits
  

  • ECON 411 - Specialized Honors II

    0-8 credits
  

  • EDUC 300 - Independent Study/Work

    3 credits
    An opportunity for independent study/work by upper-class students on a topic selected in conference with a faculty mentor and approved by the program. Instructor Approval Required. Juniors and Seniors. Course Offering : Every semester
  

  • EDUC 301 - Introduction to Teaching All Learners

    4 credits
    This introductory course provides a foundation for the profession of teaching, professional expectations for future practioners and introduces the topics of regular and special education to teacher candidates. This course examines the foundations of education from a historical and philosophical perspective, including introductory knowledge of lesson planning, classroom management, generic teaching models, special education methods and techniques, learning styles, child development, teacher work sample, the Charlotte Danielson Framework, legal issues, a code of ethics, multicultural education, and the role of relfection in teaching. Current issues are discussed such as teacher evaluation and assessment systems, traditional public and charter schools, and the roles of local, state, and federal governments in funding public education. Students conduct twenty hours of unsupervised classroom observations and assess their own abilties in relation to the New Jersey Professional Teaching Standards. Students assess their attitude toward being a caring professional, and develop an educational philosophy. Teacher candidates learn and apply skills that will allow them to write successfully for multiple audiences in the profession (students, parents, colleagues, and administrators). Enrollment limited to Junior or Senior standing. Same as MAT 801. CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • EDUC 302 - The Developing Learner

    4 credits
    This course focuses upon adolescent development from both psychological and cross-cultural perspectives. Major theories of learning and cognition are studied in-depth with an emphasis upon their application to the adolescent learner. Fieldwork required in a suburban setting. Same MAT 801. Enrollment limited to junior and senior standing.
  

  • EDUC 303 - Differentiation of Instruction for Special Populations

    4 credits
    This course provides students with an understanding of the major types of learning disabilities. They study current special education law and learn how to interpret and institute an IEP. In addition, they learn how to modify curriculum to accommodate students’ learning needs as well as to integrate differentiated instruction into the Understadning by Design framework. Fieldwork in an inclusive setting required. Same as MAT 810. Enrollment limited to junior and senior standing.
  

  • EDUC 304 - Instructional Design

    4 credits
    This course provides a theoretical orientation to instructional design and assessment. Students learn to design lessons that address Common Core State Standards, New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, and college and career readiness standards and that are based upon empirically tested models that meet the needs of diverse learners. These models include direct instruction, lecture-discussion, activity based lessons, learning stations, cooperative learning and project/ based learning. They will also study strategies to enhance their students’ academic vocabulary and learn how to incorporate these strategies into their formal lessons. With attention to Common Core State Standards from K-12, candidates will become familiar with the spiraling of content across grades. Fieldwork is required. Same as MAT 808. Enrollment limited to junior and senior standing.
  

  • EDUC 310 - School & Society: American Schooling from its Origins to the Global Era

    4 credits

    This course provides students with an overview of the historical, social, philosophical, and political foundations of education in the United States. It investigates key issues such as literacy, diversity, equity, the education of teachers, professionalism, and school reform from historical and contemporary social-cultural perspectives. Major educational philosophies are studied as they develop and change in various historical eras. The course also examines how globalization and large-scale immigration have affected and continue to affect schooling and youth.

     

  

  • EDUC 311 - The Developing Learner

    4 credits
    This course focuses on in depth study of learning and cognitive theories and the application of psychology to the learning processes. Related topics to be explored include but are not limited to child and adolescent development, culture and diversity, cognition, effective learning environments, motivation, assessment, etc. Connections among a variety of disciplines are stressed, as well as links to the practical use of the various learning and development theories as they apply to real life in and beyond the classroom.
  

  • EDUC 312 - Assessment in Education

    4 credits
    This course provides a comprehensive foundation to understand the many purposes of formal and informal assessment, recognize the link between assessment and instruction, and utilize assessment data to inform educational decision making and instruction to promote the achievement of all learners. It is designed to help teacher candidates understand the importance of valid and reliable classroom assessments to support student learning, recognize the interplay between classroom assessments and larger scale assessments, and gather and make sense of classroom assessment data. Emphasis will be placed on data driven instructional decision-making by learning how to use formative and summative assessments, both traditional and authentic, to measure students’ progress, evaluate the attainment of learning outcomes, ascertain the success of instruction, monitor classroom climate, and evaluate program effectiveness. Fieldwork is required. The Off-Campus requirement will be satisfied when a student completes both EDUC 312 and EDUC 313. 
  

  • EDUC 313 - Instructional Design

    4 credits
    This course provides a theoretical orientation to instructional design and assessment. Students learn to design lessons that address Common Core State Standards, New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, and college and career readiness standards and that are based upon empirically tested models that meet the needs of diverse learners. These models include direct instruction, lecture-discussion, activity based lessons, learning stations, cooperative learning and project/ based learning. They will also study strategies to enhance their students’ academic vocabulary and learn how to incorporate these strategies into their formal lessons. With attention to Common Core State Standards from K-12, candidates will become familiar with the spiraling of content across grades. Fieldwork is required. The Off-Campus requirement will be satisfied when a student completes both EDUC 312 and EDUC 313. 
  

  • EDUC 315 - Education Policy and Legal Issues

    4 credits
    This course provides students with an overview of the historical, social, philosophical, and political foundations of education and special education in the United States and of the contemporary education reform debate. Students will analyze both the politics and the policy of schooling, exploring the debate over the purposes of public education and the use of education as a political issue, examining the individuals, groups, and institutions that compete to control schools, and investigating how and where they seek to advance their different interests and values. Paying particular attention to the intersection of politics and policy, this course will also examine the debates over specific school reforms such as standards and testing, equalization of school finance, school choice, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, as well as the unique challenges facing urban schools. Students will examine case law and political climate that led to the current state of educational opportunities for students of color, those living in poverty, those with disabilities and English Language Learners. CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 101 - Western Literature I

    4 credits
    In this course, students read and analyze selected works in the Western literary tradition from ancient to early medieval periods.  Approaches may vary from a survey of works from Homer to Augustine, to a topical approach such as a study of justice and individual choice represented in the works, to a genre approach such as a study of epic. Equivalent: ENGL 101   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 102 - Western Literature II

    4 credits
    In this course, students read and analyze selected works in the Western literary tradition from the High Middle-Ages to the modern period.  Approaches may vary from a survey of works from Dante to Woolf, to a topical approach such as a study of power represented in the works, to a genre approach such as a study of prose narrative. Same as ENGL 102 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 103 - Gender and Literature

    4 credits
    An introduction to questions of how gender, as it intersects with race, class, and sexuality, shapes literary texts, authorship, readership, and representation. Most often organized thematically, the course may focus on such issues as creativity, subjectivity, politics, work, sexuality, masculinity, or community in works chosen from a variety of periods, genres, and areas. Equivalent: ENGL 103  , WGST 103   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • ENGH 104 - Sexuality and Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual) as well as to theories of sexuality. The course may also consider how sexuality intersects with ethnicity, nation, science, and politics. Equivalent: ENGL 104  and WGST 104   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • ENGH 105 - Literature of Disability

    4 credits
    This course seeks to demonstrate the social functioning of literature through an examination of the way in which disability is deployed in narratives. The syllabus includes texts well-known for their portrayals of disability,  as well as examples from popular culture,  and recent texts that seek to reinvent disability as a literary trope.  The class pays attention to disability theory and the history of the disability rights movement in connection with close reading of the relevant texts. 
  

  • ENGH 106 - African American Literature

    4 credits
    A study of the writers in the African American literary tradition from the beginning of the nineteenth/twentieth century to the present. Through a variety of genres, students examine the work of selected writers in light of their historical time and place, major themes, conclusions about the nature of black experience, and their contributions to this literary tradition and to the American literary canon. We will pay close attention to particular movements in this tradition, such as the Harlem Renaissance, protest literature, the Black Arts movement, and contemporary directions in the literature since 1970s. Equivalent: ENGL 106   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • ENGH 107 - Indigenous Environments: Literature and Film

    4 credits
    This course examines contemporary indigenous literature and film using an environmental lens to explore the ways these texts help us understand past and present issues like displacement, resource extraction, and toxic exposure. Texts include fiction and poetry by authors like Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan, and Simon Ortiz as well as such films as Smoke Signals, The Return of Navajo Boy, and Zapatista. Although the focus will be mainly on Native American contexts, the course will also engage with global texts to consider how environmental injustice is perpetuated by globalization and transnational economic policies. Equivalent: ESS 107   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • ENGH 108 - US Multi-Ethnic Literature

    4 credits
    This course introduces students to literary works by U.S. authors of color (African American, Latino/a, American Indian, Asian American, and Arab American, among others) from the twentieth-and twenty-first centuries. Through encounters with fiction, poetry, drama, and essays, students will think through issues like what it means to be “American,” how “othering” is accomplished and resisted, the links between land and cultural memory, and the connections between art and politics. By examining the social, historical, and political contexts of these works, students reflect on themes like poverty, art, citizenship, family, education, the American dream, identity, religion, and immigration. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • ENGH 115 - Topics in Literary Studies

    4 credits
    This course explores a special topic or area not regularly taught in the curriculum and likely to be of particular interest to non-majors. Topics might include: supernatural fiction and fantasy, detective fiction, popular culture, graphic novel. Equivalent: ENGL 115   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 120 - Introduction to Film Analysis

    4 credits
    How do films invite us to emotionally identify with characters? How has cinema cultivated or challenged gendered and racialized ways of seeing? How does economics of the film industry influence the form and content of movies? Students will have an opportunity to engage with such critical debates within film studies and thereby give students the tools to closely analyze and write about cinema. In addition to working with excerpts, each week students watch and discuss in class a new feature-length film. Primary texts include a range of international films—from early silent shorts to more recent feature-length productions by directors like Alfred Hitchcock and Agnes Varda. Equivalent: FILM 101   Offered in Fall terms. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  

  • ENGH 121 - Introduction to Media Studies

    4 credits
    Introduction to Media Studies provides students with a framework for understanding how media messages are made and distributed, as well as a toolkit for effective and ethical engagement with, and analysis of, media forms. Through interdisciplinary, comparative, and historical lenses, the course looks at the nature of mediated communication, the functions of media, the effects of shifting media forms and technologies, and the institutions that help define media’s place in society. Equivalent Courses: MCOM 101 ​ Offered in Spring terms. CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  

  • ENGH 141 - Language, Communication and Culture

    4 credits
    An introduction to the field of linguistics, examining both formal properties of languages (morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology) and the history, variation, and cultural dimensions of language.   Topics include language and gender, language and ethnicity, language and social structure, as well as the role of language and its various forms of transmission in the construction of individual and cultural identity. Equivalent: LING 101   CLA-Breadth/Social Science, CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 150 - Literary Analysis

    4 credits
    This course immerses students in the art of close reading, exploring topics as varied as intimacy and isolation, war stories, justice, ghosts, and the Holocaust. Students learn to pay close attention not just to what a text communicates, but how: its linguistic textures, imagery, narrative patterns, structure, and genre. English 150 also gives students sustained practice as writers of literary criticism, whose interpretations are based on textual evidence and move fluidly between the voice of the author and the voice of the interpreter. By the end of the course, students should be able to read and write about a literary text with insight and authority. Offered every semester. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 199 - ShortTREC: Introductory Level

    1-8 credits
    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shortTRECs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise.  May be repeated as topic changes. CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • ENGH 201 - Intermediate Selected Topics in Literature

    4 credits
    This course allows students to explore a special topic or area not regularly taught in the curriculum. Equivalent: ENGL 201   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 202 - American Prose

    4 credits
    This course provides a survey of American fiction and prose writing with a focus on form, genre, and history.  Topics may include the American novel, the short story, creative nonfiction, American Gothic, historical fiction, or prose works of a particular period or by a particular author.  Specific content and time frame vary depending on the instructor. 
  

  • ENGH 204 - Environmental Writing and Eco-Criticism

    4 credits
    This course introduces ecocriticism, the study of literature and the environment, alongside American environmental writing. With readings ranging widely from traditional nature writing to multi-ethnic U.S. fiction, the course addresses questions such as: How does environmental writing both reflect and shape values and attitudes about the human relationship with our environment? What kinds of questions does ecocriticism raise and how do different ecocritical strains approach literary, philosophical, and ethical questions in different ways? How is our understanding of the physical environment impacted by discourses of nature, race, gender, class, and location? Eqivalent: ESS 204 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 206 - Nature Writing

    4 credits
    This course examines key texts in the tradition of writing about the natural world. Focusing on creative non-fiction by twentieth/twenty-first century U.S. writers, as well as some fiction and poetry, the course explores such questions as: What is “nature”? What is the role of writing in the human relationship with the environment? How do race, gender, and class impact perspectives on nature?  In this blended literature/creative writing course, students will use close reading strategies along with an examination of historical / biographical context to better understand these texts’ contributions to nature writing and then write their own creative non-fiction. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity US
  

  • ENGH 207 - Literature of the Holocaust

    4 credits
    In this course, we will examine a range of writings—memoir, fiction, and philosophy, poetry and plays—as well as film and graphic novels, that emerge out of and reflect upon the Holocaust. We will explore the Holocaust from the perspectives of those who lived through these events—perpetrators, victims, and bystanders—and through readings of texts by and about those born in its aftermath, whose lives have nevertheless been shaped by it. Throughout, we will try to grasp how various writers and artists have struggled to come to terms with events that many regard as beyond all human comprehension. 
  

  • ENGH 210 - Writing in the Discipline of English

    4 credits
    In this course, students will study the discourse conventions of English and practice the skills necessary for writing and reading in the discipline. The course will include instruction in MLA style, advanced library research, and bibliographic skills, as well as an introduction to reading literary criticism. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Offered: Every Semester CLA-Writing in the Major
  

  • ENGH 220 - Contemporary Transnational Cinema

    4 credits
    The films chosen for this class are contemporary examples of “transnational” cinema, i.e., cinema that finds reception and distribution beyond its country of origin. Growing global interconnectedness has resulted in the expansion of a transnational market and audience for films. By closely analyzing a range of contemporary films from Argentina, Brazil, China, Iran, India, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and the United States, students will explore how these films’ narrative styles reinforce or challenge the form of cinematic storytelling popularized globally by Hollywood cinema. This class will train students to watch and write about films by placing them in cultural and historical context. Equivalent: ENGL 239   CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Diversity International, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 221 - Film History and Theory

    4 credits
    How did film emerge as one of the most powerful means of communication and artistic expression in the modern era?  To what extent have film directors from Fritz Lang to Yasujiro Ozu, cinematic movements from Neorealism to Third Cinema, and film industries from Hollywood to Bollywood, shaped cultures of film production and reception globally?  What is film’s relationship to other media and how do we understand its status in the contemporary, digital era?  This course will engage with such questions as it introduces students to the history of film form.  Each week, we will analyze and learn to historically situate one or two feature-length films.  In conjunction with learning methods of historical analysis, students will also be exposed to philosophical and theoretical perspectives (including formalist, psychoanalytical, feminist, postcolonial, etc.) that have emerged over the years and led to the consolidation of a vocabulary for film studies.  By the end of class, students will have learned the skills and language needed to develop a historically sensitive and theoretically nuanced interpretation of cinematic works. Same as FILM 201 .  CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 230 - Topics in Creative Writing Workshop

    4 credits
    A creative writing workshop in creative non-fiction, poetry, or fiction, that focus on a particular theme, sub-genre, or problem. Topics could include writing that engages with the public sphere; occasional poetry (poetry that is composed for a particular occasion or is meant to be delivered to a particular person); interart poetry that engages with the visual arts, music, or vocal performance; writing that engages with a particular place such as New York City or the Drew campus; writing that combines genres or works intertextually; writing that engages with new media. Equivalent: ENGL 213   CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 231 - Travel Writing

    4 credits
    We are always traveling somewhere and those journeys provide excellent material for travel writing, but writing about travel deepens the experience of the journey, requiring a little research and careful reflection and allowing us to make connections that we could not make whilst still in motion. Some travel writing strives to make the unfamiliar and strange accessible to readers, but it may also render the seemingly familiar strange and new, allowing writer and readers to see things differently.  Students will read a variety of forms of travel writing (from nineteenth-century travel essays to contemporary blogs and travel guides), and they will write about their own travels in a variety of different forms, which may include a class travel blog. CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 232 - Food Writing

    4 credits
    Writing about food invites students to practice the art of description and to understand the relationship between writing and experience, language and desire. From cookbooks, magazines, and websites to restaurant reviews, cultural guides, and television shows, the role of food writing is to inform, but also to foster curiosity and to create a desire in readers to experience what the writer describes. In this way, perfecting the art of food writing also strengthens aspects of the writer’s craft that may be used in other persuasive contexts. Students will explore the role of audience, purpose, and context as they read a variety of forms of food writing and practice food writing in print and digital formats.  
  

  • ENGH 233 - Literary Translation

    4 credits
    In this course, we will study, and practice, the art of translation. If you have fulfilled Drew’s language requirement (a language through the intermediate level), then you are eligible to take this course. Students will explore classic essays that have formed the foundation of translation theory and examine them in practice by comparing multiple translations of a text.  Students will apply these theories as they attempt to translate a short work of fiction or poetry that they will share with the class in a workshop format. Students may work from any language into contemporary English; that the language can also be a dialect, or historical variety, of English.  Prerequisite: Signature of Instructor Required for Registration. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 240 - Introduction to Writing and Communication Studies

    4 credits
    At the heart of both Writing Studies and Communication Studies is the study of language and the complex ways we shape and are shaped by the written and spoken word. From the personal to the professional, written and spoken texts are driven by the message the author/speaker wishes to send, the needs and expectations of the audience being addressed, and the genre and medium selected for that message. This course will study the history, theory, and practical applications of writing and communication from classical rhetoric to social media, and from the arts to professions as diverse as advertising, journalism, public relations, and the law. We will also consider the ways technologies have changed writing and communication. Equivalent: ENGL 111   CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
  

  • ENGH 241 - History and Structure of the English Language

    4 credits
    A study of the development of English from Anglo-Saxon to its present status as a “global” language. The development of English is placed within the framing social, political and economic contexts of its speakers. May also examine the historical development of theories attempting to explain English, its styles, dialects, and literatures.  Equivalent: ENGL 220  and LING 220  
  

  • ENGH 242 - Gender and Communication

    4 credits
    This course explores the relationship between gender and communication, including gendered communication behaviors in single and mixed gender groups in both familiar and professional relationships; the impact of cultural expectations and socialization in the development of gendered communication, and the role of language itself in this process; and the complicating impact of race, nationality, and class on expectations for gendered communication. Students will be introduced to theories of gender and communication and to feminist rhetorics. Equivalent: WGST 242  
  

  • ENGH 243 - Intercultural Communication

    4 credits
    This course explores the relationship between language, culture, and communication, inviting students to understand different verbal and nonverbal communication practices and expectations (including their own), identify barriers to communication, and strengthen their ability to communicate across cultures and cultures. Topics may include the impact of worldview and ethnocentrism; World Englishes and translation; the role of nonverbal cues; and the impact of educational context, culture shock, acculturation, and ethical issues.  Students will also explore research in nonverbal communication such as personal appearance, touch, space, body language, gestures, eye contact, use of time, facial expressions, olfaction, and body adornment/alteration.
  

  • ENGH 244 - Introduction to Journalism

    4 credits
    An introduction to the fundamentals and procedures of operating a newspaper. Emphasizes gathering news and writing clear, vigorous copy. Studies layout, editing, feature and editorial writing, and copy-editing as well as the ethics and responsibilities of journalism. Offered: Fall terms. CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 246 - Business Communications

    4 credits
    This course will teach students to create, review and present a variety of documents for different audiences in a typical business environment. Students will learn to analyze audiences, set objectives and prepare documents – memos, research reports, status reports, internal and external letters, talk points, presentations, marketing communications and project plans and timelines – that they will likely be asked to produce, review or analyze during a business career. Offered: Every Semester CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 248 - History of Rhetoric

    4 credits
    Rhetoric, most typically defined as “the art of persuasion,” has had a variety of descriptions based on the describer and his or her historical context. This class will study the changing definitions of rhetoric from 5th-century B.C. Greece to contemporary American culture and why those changes took place. Students will also be asked to analyze rhetoric’s relation to politics, religion, law and cultural identity from antiquity to the present day. Equivalent: ENGL 221   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 249 - Theory and Practice of Writing Center Tutoring

    4 credits
    Introduces students to composition and tutoring theory and pedagogy. Combines readings in composition studies with a practicum that allows student to directly engage and interrogate the ideas and pedagogies they encounter. A significant portion of the course involves working directly with writers from a variety of disciplines. After successfully completing the class, students will be invited to apply for “writing fellow” and “writing tutor” positions in the Writing Center. Equivalent: ENGL 214   CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 250 - The Medieval Period: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Norman-French and ENLTish texts, this course explores the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertextuality. It traces the development of ENLTish manuscript literature from its oral story-telling beginnings up to the advent of printing. Special attention will be given to the rise of literacy and its impact on narrative and poetry. Authors/texts may include: Beowulf, Arthurian romance, Marie de France, The Tain, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, medieval drama, and of course, Chaucer. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 251 - The Renaissance: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from the Renaissance period in Britain, this course explores the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertextuality.  Major topics include:  the emergence of a new kind of self taking on authority and autonomy, the transition to a culture that legitimizes pleasure, the move from coterie and court audiences to a national audience, shifts in media from manuscript to print, the explosion of new voices in the first modern revolution, the breaking of images. Equivalent: ENGL 251   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 252 - 19th-centuryBritish Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from nineteenth-century British literature, this course teaches students to think historically about literature through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture, and intertextuality.  With attention to work from both the Romantic and Victorian periods, the course considers how writers redefined the role of writers, readers, and texts in a world being rapidly transformed by industrialization, technology, science, labor unrest, women’s enfranchisement, imperialism, and expanding literacy.   Equivalent: ENGL 252   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 253 - 20th British Literature: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from Britain and its former colonies in the twentieth century and beyond, this course examines the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture and intertextuality. Readings may include such authors as Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, Beckett, Auden, Larkin, Pinter, Churchill, Quin, Ballard, Rushdie, Winterson, Carter, Naipaul, Coetzee, Achebe, Ngugi and others. Colonialism, war, cities, gender and sexuality, popular culture, science and technology, globalization, language and consciousness may feature as historical and thematic concerns. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 254 - American Literature Pre-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from the founding of the US to the turn of the twentieth century, this course explores the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture, and text in America. Throughout, it emphasizes the transnational roots of American literature, exploring the multiplicity of contexts from which a national literature emerges. Topics include literary nationalism, Native American protest literature, race, slavery and freedom, the Gothic, transcendentalism, gender and sexuality, the novel, realism, urbanization, and US imperialism. Authors may include Paine, Jefferson, Brown, Wheatley, Irving, Apess, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, James, Chesnutt, Twain, Gilman, and Du Bois. Equivalent: ENGL 254   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 255 - American Literature Post-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative texts from post-1900 American literatures, this course teaches students to think historically about literature in the US through tracing a set of key concepts such as author, reader, theme, form, culture, and intertexuality.  Topics include naturalism, modernism, the Great Depression, the Harlem Renaissance, race, war, the Beat Generation, the Cold War, New Journalism, multiculturalism, civil rights, class, gender, sexuality, postmodernism, technology, ethics, immigration, and the US diaspora.  Authors may include Anderson, Cather, Frost, Eliot, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Wright, Ellison, Hemingway, Hughes, Williams, Lowell, Miller, Morrison, Rich, Plath, DeLillo, and Pynchon.   Equivalent: ENGL 255   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 256 - Anglophone Literature Post-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

    4 credits
    Through an examination of representative post-1900 texts from English-speaking nations of Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia, this course explores the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture, and intertextuality. Topics include the decline of European colonialisms, the rise of post-colonial cultures, Cold War and post-Cold War politics, migration, urbanism, and transnational feminism. Writers may include Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Rabindranath Tagore, Vikram Seth, Michael Ondaatje, Doris Lessing, and Ama Ata Aidoo. Students will also explore how these literatures interact with post-colonial cinemas. CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 257 - Shakespeare

    4 credits
    A study of representative texts from Shakespeare’s three major genres: the comedies, tragedies, and history plays. In addition to close reading of individual plays, the course will try to situate Shakespeare within the cultural, political, and social contexts of Elizabethan and Jacobean London and will consider ways in which the playwright, wildly popular in his day, was intent on speaking both to power and the people. Equivalent: ENGL 276   CLA-Breadth/Humanities
  

  • ENGH 260 - Literary Translation

    4 credits
    In this course, we will study, and practice, the art of translation. If you have fulfilled Drew’s language requirement (a language through the intermediate level), then you are eligible to take this course. Students will explore classic essays that have formed the foundation of translation theory and examine them in practice by comparing multiple translations of a text. Students will apply these theories as they attempt to translate a short work of fiction or poetry that they will share with the class in a workshop format. Students may work from any language into contemporary English; that language can also be a dialect, or historical variety, of English. Signature of instructor required for registration. Equivalent: WLIT 260 . CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Arts, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 298 - Community Language and Literacy [CBL]

    4 credits
    This course introduces students to theories of literacy and language as social practice, examining how literacy is affected by economic change in dynamic interplay with social, cultural, and linguistic difference. These dynamics shape the messages children receive in schools, the ways that families interact with one another, and the rhetoric by which we define things like intelligence, achievement, and individual worth. We will take a special look at how communities are pushed and pulled by many languages at once, recognizing that our sense of “normal” around English monolingualism is a convenient myth.   The course places special interest in non-school literacies, those that are grown and nurtured within communities often outside the radar of mainstream testing and credentialling mechanisms.  After training, and with ongoing reflection, students spend one evening a week as conversation partners and literacy tutors with adult English language learners at the Neighborhood House in Morristown.  CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Off Campus Experience
  

  • ENGH 299 - ShortTREC: Intermediate Level

    1-8 credits
    The course will focus on selected topics offered as shortTRECs through the Center for Global Education.  Topics and location of the course will vary in accordance with student interest and faculty expertise.  May be repeated as topic changes.
  

  • ENGH 300 - Independent Study

    4 credits
    A tutorial course with meetings by arrangement and oral and written assignments. Students who wish to pursue independent study must offer for approval of the instructor a proposal on a topic not covered in the curriculum. Joint proposals by two or more students may be submitted. Limited to juniors and seniors. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 300  
  

  • ENGH 301 - Advanced Topics in Literary Study

    4 credits
    Advanced study of particular literary subjects, topics, problems, or methodologies.  Might also focus on an author or group of authors, a genre, or a critical approach. Topic varies with instructor and semester. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 301  
  

  • ENGH 302 - Gender and American Literature

    4 credits
    This course investigates literary representations of gender and sexuality in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Through encounters with novels, graphic fiction, poetry, and essays, as well as some visual art and films, students will consider provocative issues like the relationship between gender/sex and power, the links between violence and inequality, and the connections between art and politics. Attending to gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality, religion, and environment as categories of analysis, students will reflect on beauty and the body, immigration and citizenship, feminism and women’s movements, home and identity, and creativity and social change. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  

  • ENGH 303 - Gender and Contemporary Anglophone Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century Anglophone fiction that theorizes the relationship between gender and the social and economic processes that have come to be known as ‘globalization.’ How do writers like Tsitsi Dangarembga, Arundhati Roy, Hanif Kureishi, and Mohsin Hamid depict the production of masculinities and femininities in the context of growing economic inequality within and between nations? How are their literary explorations in conversation with the philosophical perspectives offered by Immanuel Wallerstein, Anne McClintock, Joan Acker, Barbara Ehrenreich and others? Finally, what does contemporary Anglophone fiction—primarily literature, but also film— bring to current debates about social inequality as well as to longstanding questions about the relationship between aesthetics and politics? Prerequisite: ENGH 150 , WGST 101   Equivalent: WGST 303   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Diversity International
  

  • ENGH 304 - Sexuality and Gender in 19th-Century Literature and Culture

    4 credits
    Through reading of nineteenth-century novels, poetry, prose, theoretical texts, and visual images, this course will explore the complex and shifting understandings of gender and sexuality in the period.  Among the topics considered will be the construction of heterosexuality and heterosexual marriage; marriage resistance and the ‘new women’; constructions of dominant and deviant masculinities and femininities; homosocial and homosexual love and homosexual panics; prostitution and the disciplining of female sexuality, suffrage and the campaigns for women’s autonomy; as well as the codes, narratives, and images through which these are represented.  The course will also ask how gender and sexuality have been deployed by twentieth/twenty-first century critics as lenses for reading the literature and culture of this period and how those approaches have shifted over time in dialogue with other critical approaches. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 304 , WGST 304   CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Writing Intensive, CLA-Diversity International
  

  • ENGH 305 - Advanced Studies in Ethnic American Literature

    4 credits
    This course offers intensive study in American ethnic literatures at the advanced level: African American, Asian American, Latino/a, American Indian, Jewish, and Caribbean literatures, among others. Instructors may select particular emphases for these areas of study, which can include a focus on chronological or thematic approaches or on the development of a particular genre, such as poetry, novel, short fiction, autobiography, or drama. Central to the study of these literatures is a consideration of the unique aspects of ethnic cultures in the United States that inform various American ethic literary traditions. Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: ENGH 150   Equivalent: ENGL 305   CLA-Diversity US
  

  • ENGH 306 - Writers on Writing

    4 credits
    In addition to novels, poems, plays, and essays, most major literary figures, at some point in their careers, have also reflected on the art of writing. This course focuses on what authors have had to say about their craft. Texts ranging from critical studies to book reviews, interviews, and letters will be read alongside primary texts by those same authors, as we try to learn from the masters, both in theory and in practice. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  

  • ENGH 307 - Essays, Letters, Memoirs, and Meditations: Reading Nonfiction Prose

    4 credits
    In this course, students will explore various forms of the genre of nonfiction prose from letter to essay, travel writing to confessional, and memoir to meditation. The course provides an historical overview of the various forms and their emergence as an area of scholarly interest, and explores the ways nonfiction writers create narrative personae, subtly persuade readers to their perspective, and help to compose the identities of the peoples and cultures about whom they write. Authors may include Montaigne, Addison, Hazlitt, Butler, Steel, Johnson, Lamb, Emerson, Thoreau, Orwell, Mary Kingsley, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Theroux, Adrienne Rich, Joan Didion, Richard Rodriguez, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Bill Bryson. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  

  • ENGH 308 - Gothic

    4 credits
    This course examines the Gothic – a genre which explores the macabre, the supernatural, the uncanny. Through a series of dark tales that flirt with the supernatural, the course tracks the Gothic’s recurrent features and themes, asking how and why it manages to speak the “unspeakable.” Why does the Gothic emerge with particular intensity at times of cultural crisis? How and why might it function as a vehicle for social critique? Throughout the course, contemporary critical approaches to the Gothic provide students with a variety of tools for reading these texts.  Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  

  • ENGH 309 - Food, Justice, and U.S. Literature

    4 credits
    This course examines the intersection of food, justice, and twentieth-century U.S. literature in order to understand how ideas about food’s biological, environmental, and social meanings have shaped and been shaped by traditions of American writing and discourses of race, class, gender, and citizenship. Using a broad range of creative, informational, and critical texts, students explore urgent issues like farmworkers’ rights, food insecurity, animal ethics, advertising, cultural foodways, globalization, and food justice/sovereignty. This is a Community-Based Learning course that combines academic and experiential learning as students investigate local food needs and participate in local efforts promoting food justice. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  or ESS 210   Equivalent: ESS 309 CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Diversity US, CLA-Civic Engagement, CLA-Writing Intensive
  

  • ENGH 311 - Environmental Justice Literature

    4 credits
    This course investigates the ways literary works have responded to environmental injustice in the U.S., focusing especially on the connection between environmental and social oppression. Since environmental injustice has a disproportionate impact on women, low-income populations, and people of color, this course examines the ways multi-ethnic literary texts represent the environment in order to understand how the exploitation of nature is linked to the exploitation of people. Students will explore literary responses to environmental justice issues like globalization, working conditions, food, factory farming, water rights, health equity, toxic waste, and the mining of natural resources.  Prerequisite: ENGH 150   or ESS 210  
  

  • ENGH 312 - The Global City in Modern and Contemporary Fiction

    4 credits
    Speaking of the rapid urbanization of our world over the last forty-fifty years, Mike Davis points out that cities are growing by 60 million people per year. What is urbanization and how might we understand the growing cities of our time? This class will contextualize contemporary urbanization by looking at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts represent urban centers from London to Lagos. Writers may include Jacob Riis, Virginia Woolf, Rohinton Mistry, Frantz Fanon, Mike Davis, and David Harvey. Students will consider how their writing is in conversation with films theorizing modernization and urbanization—from Modern Times to District 9. Prerequisite: ENGH 150  
  

  • ENGH 313 - Human Rights in Literature and Film

    4 credits
    This course allows students to analyze how human rights struggles have used literature and film to bolster their claims for social justice. Simultaneously, it will teach students to assess the possibilities and limitations of literary and film texts that serve as tools for human rights activism. The end goal is to look closely and critically at cultural production - whether literature or film - and through this close analysis to develop a nuanced argument about a given text’s social and political intervention. The class will introduce students to a range of primary texts including twentieth-century and contemporary fiction and documentary films, novels, memoirs, testemonials, etc. as well as secondary texts that historicize the rise of human right as a universalist concept and comment on the character of past and ongoing struggles for social justice. Enrollment priority given to Juniors and Seniors. Pre-requisite: ENGH 150  or ENGH 120   or Instructor Approval. CLA-Breadth/Humanities, CLA-Breadth/Interdisciplinary
 

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