Courses

Critical reading and discussion of major works written in French by women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Authors studied may include Marie de France, Labé, Lafayette, Sévigné, de Staël, Sand, Colette, Duras, Cixous, Wittig, Djebar, Chédid, Roy, Condé, Sow Fall. May be repeated once for credit provided the topic is different.

In this course students draw on the wood or linoleum block, in which all of the background areas are cut away.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

May be repeated for a maximum of six credits with permission of the department. Special Projects courses are designed for students who want more intensive work in any studio discipline, or to strengthen or advance their basic skills in woodcut.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

The social and historical development of work in the modern world, including the link between the workplace and structural and social developments in areas such as the economy, the labor movement, class. and gender.

A survey of the political, social, and cultural history of world civilizations from 1715 to the present.

A survey of the political, social, and cultural history of world civilizations to 1715.

This course focuses on early Norse culture, migration, and settlement across the North Atlantic ca. 750–1050 A.D. Issues related to Viking raids, shipbuilding, social organization and integration, agriculture, and religion are explored through archaeological evidence and historical references. How we know what we think we know about the Norse is critically examined so as to provide a more nuanced view beyond the received wisdom and popular interpretations of the Vikings in the media.

EURO 120 fulfills the Pathways College Writing 2 requirement. EURO 120 builds on the basic college writing skills of English 110 by helping students to practice the craft, rhetoric, and process of critical thinking and writing effectively in the discipline of European Literature and Culture. In each permutation of this variable topics course students read, discuss, and write about authentic French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, and/or Russian literary and cultural materials.

A writing course focused on the study of Anglophone literature and how to engage in scholarly conversations about literature by using close reading of primary and secondary sources, conducting original research, and developing analytical arguments about literary texts in different genres.

ENGL 130 fulfills the College Writing 2 requirement and builds on the work of English 110 (College Writing 1), in order to teach the conventions of writing in the discipline of English.The course focuses on the study of Anglophone literature and how to engage in scholarly conversations about literature by using close reading of primary and secondary sources, conducting original research, and developing analytical arguments about literary texts in different genres.