English Courses II
ENG 070 ENGLISH GRAMMAR
A survey of the elements of standard English grammar, including parts of speech, parts of the sentence, types of sentences, punctuation and common grammatical errors, with particular emphasis on application of correct grammar to composition. Required of all English education students unless they pass a qualifying examination. Three credit-hour equivalent. (Offered Fall, Spring) 0 credits
ENG 090 COLLEGE PREPARATORY READING
A course designed to improve fundamental reading skills, including reading comprehension, vocabulary and spelling. Required of all whose SAT Reading Test score is below "450". Must be taken prior to ENG 100, 101 and 110. Course may be repeated. Three credit-hour equivalent. (Offered Fall, Spring) 0 credits
ENG 100 INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE COMPOSITION
A course designed to attack basic problems in formal writing and to introduce formal paragraphing and essay writing. A prerequisite for ENG 110 for students whose SAT Writing Test essay subscore is below an "8". (Course does not satisfy general education requirement. Course may not be taken for a Pass/Fail grade.) (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 101 CRITICAL READING
Through a critical reading of literary and non-literary texts, this course explores the relationship among reading, writing, listening and speaking. Required of all students whose SAT Reading Test score is between "450" and "480". (Does not satisfy general education.) (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 110 COLLEGE COMPOSITION
A program of writing designed to develop competence in the writing of clear expository prose and the research paper. Analysis of selected readings. Instruction in use of internet and library resources, including databases and print sources. (Admission to course subject to approval by English chairman) (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 120 METHODS AND MATERIALS OF THE RESEARCH PAPER
An introductory course in the methods and materials used in the writing of the research paper. A short research paper will be required. The department strongly requires that English majors transferring to Molloy take ENG 120 during their first semester at Molloy. Instruction in use of internet and library resources, including databases and print sources. (Offered Fall, Spring) 1 credit
ENG 161 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY AND DRAMA
Exposure to and exploration of poetry and drama both as literature and as meaningful experience. (Offered Fall) 3 credits
ENG 162 SHORT STORY
The development and techniques of the short story; selected readings in Continental, British and American masters, with in-depth study of three or four. (Offered Fall, Intersession, Spring, Summer) 3 credits
ENG 222 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
(formerly ENG 122)
A systematic study of the structure of language with emphasis on phonology, morphology and syntax. (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 230 SCRIPT WRITING FOR TELEVISION AND RADIO
(also COM 230; formerly ENG 130; formerly Script Writing for Broadcast and Telecast) 3 credits
ENG 231 ADVANCED COMPOSITION
(formerly ENG 131)
The writing and criticism of formal and informal essays, various types of articles and reviews, designed to develop effective expository expression in an individual and personal style. Prerequisite: ENG 110 or equivalent. (Offered Fall 2009) 3 credits
ENG 232 CREATIVE WRITING
(formerly ENG 132)
A course designed to develop creativity in such forms as short story, informal essay and original verse. Prerequisite: Admission to course subject to approval of Chairman. Prerequisite: ENG 110 or equivalent. (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 233 INTRODUCTION TO NEWSWRITING
(also COM 233; formerly ENG 133)
Techniques of writing news, features, editorials; experience in reporting, interviewing, writing. Prerequisite: approval of ENG or COM chairman. The department strongly recommends that students take CSP 116 concurrently with this course. Prerequisite: ENG 110 or equivalent. (Offered Fall 2008) 3 credits
ENG 234 JOURNALISM PRACTICUM
(also COM 234; formerly ENG 134)
A workshop experience in newspaper publication, providing practical experience with campus publications or news bureau, with emphasis upon news reporting and news and headline writing, editing and layout. Formal classes in techniques: one hour per week; apprenticeship with campus publication or news bureau; a minimum of six hours per week. Prerequisite: ENG 233 (Offered Spring 2009 ) 3 credits
ENG 235 FILM AND DRAMA CRITICISM
(also COM 235; formerly ENG 135)
Study of film and drama, with emphasis upon criteria for evaluating the aesthetic merits of each. Intelligent analysis and critical appraisal of individual films and dramas and writing of critical reviews, with special attention to the success with which each achieves artistic integrity. Prerequisite: approval of ENG or COM chairman, and ENG 110 or equivalent. (Offered Fall) 1-3 credits
ENG 236 EFFECTIVE BUSINESS WRITING
(formerly ENG 136)
Techniques of business writing, including the informal memo, the extended memorandum, the business letter and the report. Intended especially for students in business or students pursuing business programs. May not be used to satisfy the core requirement in English. Prerequisite: Admission to course subject to approval of the English Chairman. The department strongly recommends that students take CSP 116 concurrently with this course. Prerequisite: ENG 110 or equivalent. (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 237 PUBLIC RELATIONS WRITING
(also COM 255) 3 credits
ENG 241 GREAT WRITERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I
(formerly ENG 141)
A survey of the scope, forms and variety of English literature through study of its chief figures, with attention to the relationship of literature to the intellectual currents of the time. First semester: Beowulf poet to Milton. (Offered Fall) 3 credits
ENG 242 GREAT WRITERS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II
(formerly ENG 142)
Dryden to the early twentieth century. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 243 MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS I
(formerly ENG 143)
A study of literary trends in America from the colonial period to the rise of realism, with focus on representative writers from each period. (Offered Fall) 3 credits
ENG 244 MAJOR AMERICAN WRITERS II
(formerly ENG 144)
A study of literary trends in America from realism to the contemporary period, with focus on representative writers from each period. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 251 CONTINENTAL LITERATURE I: THE ANCIENT WORLD
(formerly ENG 151)
A study of selected Biblical, Greek and early Roman literary masterpieces, with emphasis on the epic and drama. Comparative analysis and critical appraisal of the works studied. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 252 CONTINENTAL LITERATURE II: THE MIDDLE AGES
(formerly ENG 152)
A study of selected literary masterpieces from late Roman and medieval continental literature. Comparative analysis and critical appraisal of the works studied. (Offered Fall 2009) 3 credits
ENG 253 CONTINENTAL LITERATURE III: THE RENAISSANCE AND NEOCLASSICISM
(formerly ENG 153)
A study of selected continental literature from Cervantes to the French Revolution. Comparative analysis and critical appraisal of the works studied. (Offered Fall 2010) 3 credits
ENG 254 CONTINENTAL LITERATURE IV: THE MODERN AGE
(formerly ENG 154)
A study of selected continental literature from nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with emphasis on Romanticism, Realism and Symbolism. Comparative analysis and critical appraisal of the works studied. (Offered Fall ) 3 credits
ENG 261 LITERATURE OF CLASSICAL ROME
This course is a study of selected Roman literary works in translation, from Cicero to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Focused on four distinct eras of Roman literature, the course examines selections from the Age of Cicero (Cicero and Catullus), the Augustan Age (Virgil, Horace, and Ovid), the Silver Age (Seneca, Petronius, and Martial) and the end of the Roman Empire (Augustine and Boethius). The primary purpose of this course within the Global Learning Program is to recognize and discuss an important portion of Western Civilization and to offer students the opportunity to reflect upon the significant ideas that have become part of our literary tradition and culture. Course includes overseas travel. Approval of the Global Learning Office required. 3 credits
ENG 262 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
(formerly ENG 362)
An intensive study of children's literature, with attention to plot, structure, characterization, language, literary technique and point of view. Genres studies include poetry, fable, myth, fairy tales, fantasy and folktales. (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 263 MYTHOLOGY AND LEGEND
(formerly ENG 163)
An approach, through primary sources - Homer, Hesiod, Virgil, Ovid - to the myths of Greece and Rome. (Offered Upon Request) 3 credits
ENG 301 FEATURE WRITING
(also COM 301; formerly ENG 201; formerly Advanced Newswriting)
Emphasis is on the writing of features, editorials, investigative, interpretive and in-depth reporting. Prerequisite: ENG 233 (Offered Spring 2009) 3 credits
ENG 302 PHOTO JOURNALISM
(also ART 302, COM 302; formerly ENG 202)
Lab Fee-$50.00. 3 credits
ENG 310 CHAUCER
(formerly ENG 210)
Study of the man, his time and his language. Readings include Troilus and Criseyde, Canterbury Tales and other selections. (Offered Fall) 3 credits
ENG 311 SHAKESPEARE
(also COM 311; formerly ENG 211)
Study and discussion of Shakespeare's representative comedies, tragedies and history plays, with attention to his power as a poet and as a dramatic craftsman. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 312 READINGS IN JOYCE
(formerly ENG 212)
A study centering on Ulysses but giving some attention to Portrait and other works. (Offered Fall 2010) 3 credits
ENG 313 MILTON
(formerly ENG 213)
A study of the major poetry of John Milton, including Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. (Offered Spring 2011) 3 credits
ENG 314 DANTE
(formerly ENG 214)
A study of the Divine Comedy in translation, with particular attention to the poem as the journal of a soul's conversion and as the interpretation of the human journey in the light of values new-found. The philosophical and theological premises of the poem are considered, as are the literary judgments enshrined in it. (Offered Fall 2008) 3 credits
ENG 315 FAULKNER
A study of selected major short stories and novels of William Faulkner. (Offered Fall). 3 credits
ENG 321 READINGS IN MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
(formerly ENG 221)
A survey of the poetry and prose of Old and Middle English literature, excluding Chaucer. (Offered Fall 2009) 3 credits
ENG 322 SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH POETRY
(formerly ENG 222)
An introduction to the last years of the English Renaissance through a critical reading of the major poets: Donne, Herbert, Jonson and Marvell. (Offered Fall) 3 credits
ENG 323 RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
(formerly ENG 223)
A study devoted primarily to satire and criticism, concentrating on Dryden, Swift, Pope and Johnson, but including the drama of Congreve and Sheridan, with some attention to the rise of periodical essay. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 324 PROSE AND POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
(formerly ENG 224)
Selected poetry, critical prose, and letters of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. (Offered Fall 2008) 3 credits
ENG 325 VICTORIAN POETRY
(formerly ENG 225)
Study of representative Victorian poets, with emphasis on Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and Hopkins. (Offered Spring 2009) 3 credits
ENG 332 NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
(formerly ENG 232)
Introduction, through lectures, to the origin and development of the English novel in the eighteenth century. Study of a representative work of six major nineteenth-century English novelists. (Offered Fall 2010) 3 credits
ENG 333 TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL
(formerly ENG 233)
Trends in the English novel since 1900. Study, in relative depth, of a representative work of six major novelists from Conrad to the present. (Offered Spring 2011) 3 credits
ENG 334 NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL
(formerly ENG 234)
Development of the novel in nineteenth-century America. Study in relative depth of a representative work of six majors novelists from Cooper to Crane. (Offered Fall 2009) 3 credits
ENG 335 TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL
(formerly ENG 235)
Trends in the American novel since 1900. Study, in relative depth, of a representative work of six major novelists from Dreiser to the present. (Offered Spring 2010) 3 credits
ENG 336 POETRY SINCE WORLD WAR II
(formerly ENG 264)
A study of selected poetry in English written since 1945. (Offered upon request) 3 credits
ENG 337 FICTION SINCE WORLD WAR II
(formerly ENG 265)
A study of selected fiction in English written since 1945. (Offered upon request) 3 credits
ENG 338 IRISH LITERATURE
(formerly ENG 236)
A survey of Irish literature from its origins in Celtic mythology through centuries of religious, economic and social influences to present voices of Ireland in prose, poetry and drama. (Offered upon request) 3 credits
ENG 341 HISTORY OF THE THEATRE
(also COM 341; formerly ENG 241) 3 credits
ENG 343 RENAISSANCE DRAMA
(formerly ENG 243)
A study of selected masterpieces of Renaissance drama, including representative works of such men as Shakespeare, Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger and Ford. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 344 MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
(formerly ENG 244)
Drama in Europe and America from Ibsen to present. (Offered upon Request) 3 credits
ENG 345 BROADWAY AND BEYOND
(also COM 345; formerly Broadway Today; formerly ENG 245)
Direct experience of the New York theatre world with a view to enjoyment and critical evaluation of drama types currently being produced on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stages. Tuition does not include ticket and transportation expenses. (Offered upon request) 3 credits
ENG 349 ENGLISH THEATRE AND LITERARY TOUR
(also COM 349; formerly ENG 249)
Direct experience of the London theatre world with a view to enjoyment and critical evaluation of drama types currently in production on the West End and other London stages. Visits to places and shrines whose historic and/or literary significance enhances enjoyment, understanding and appreciation of the literature of England. (Offered upon request) 3 credits
ENG 350 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(formerly ENG 121)
The development of the English language, its technical formation and the principles of linguistic change through a study of representative literature. (Offered Fall) 3 credits
ENG 351 LITERATURE OF THE BIBLE
(formerly ENG 251)
Selected writings of the Old and New Testament studied as literature; Biblical poetry and prose. Influence of Bible translation on the English language. (Offered Spring ) 3 credits
ENG 352 BIBLE IN LITERATURE
(formerly ENG 252)
Biblical influences on literature and the literary imagination; selected works provide a basis for an investigation into the role the Bible plays in formation and interpretation of literary texts. Various areas, such as Biblical language, themes, images, metaphors and allusions, may be considered. (Offered Fall 2008) 3 credits
ENG 356 FILM ART
(also COM 356) 3 credits
ENG 361 LITERATURE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE
(formerly ENG 261)
Study of selected masterworks in poetry, novel and drama designed to generate awareness of, and concern about, contemporary issues related to the areas of peace and justice. (Offered Fall 2010) 3 credits
ENG 363 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 18TH CENTURY TO 1940
(formerly ENG 263 African-American Literature)
A study of the African-American literacy tradition from the 18th century slave narratives through the cultural rebirth of the Harlem Renaissance. Representative African-American writers in all genres are read and interpreted in a historical context. (Offered Fall) 3 credits
ENG 364 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM 1940 TO THE PRESENT
A study of African-American poetry, short fiction, novels and drama from 1940 to the present. Representative contemporary African-American writers are read and interpreted in a historical context. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 365 LITERATURE AND THE CULTURE OF LIFE
(formerly Literature: A Holistic Approach to Fullness of Life)
Study of poetry, fiction, drama and film to provide insight into the psychological and philosophical principles of literature that explore the meaning and value of life. (Offered upon request) 3 credits
ENG 366 LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS
(formerly Adolescent Literature)
A study in-depth of literature for adolescent readers with particular attention to genre, character and other story elements. (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
ENG 381H (HONORS) MODERN MINDS: REFLECTIONS ON A CHANGING WORLD
The course traces in selected literature major themes and ideas that helped shape modern western civilization. Topics will vary from year to year. Honors students only. (Offered Spring) 3 credits
ENG 382 LITERARY CRITICISM
Theory and practice of literary criticism from Plato to the present. Strongly recommended for English majors planning on graduate study in English. (Offered upon request) 3 credits
ENG 390 TOPICS IN ENGLISH
(formerly ENG 296)
In-depth study of topics not included in detail in the regular curriculum cycle. Title of the course will be announced prior to the term offered. Prerequisite: Approval of the Chairman. This course may be repeated for credit. (Offered Fall, Spring) 1-3 credits
ENG 460 LOCAL JOURNALISM INTERNSHIP
(also COM 460; formerly ENG 203)
An opportunity to acquire professional journalistic experience in off-campus facilities: local newspapers, magazines, television studios, business firms or government agencies. One-semester or two-semester internship requiring eight hours of professionally supervised field experience per week and a one-hour seminar per week with the campus director of the internship. Prerequisites: ENG 233, 234, 301; prerequisites may vary according to specific internship. (Offered upon request) 3-6 credits
ENG 461-464 SEMESTER/SUMMER JOURNALISM INTERNSHIPS
(also COM 461-465, POL 456, 457; formerly ENG 204-207)
An opportunity for full-semester involvement in Washington, D.C., under the aegis of the Washington Center for Learning Alternatives (see POL 456), in the Albany offices of assemblymen (see POL 457) or as special assistant to a senator (see POL 469). Assignments accenting writing and research. Prerequisites: ENG 233, 234, 301, POL 103 (Offered upon request) 6-15 credits
ENG 466 INTERNSHIP WITH THE LEGISLATIVE GAZETTE
(also COM 466, POL 466; formerly ENG 208)
An opportunity for professional experience on the staff of The Legislative Gazette, a weekly newspaper covering action in the state capital. Interns, who are granted visiting student status at SUNY New Paltz, participate in weekly seminars in journalism and in political science, and cover assigned beats in the state legislature. Prerequisites: ENG 233, 234, 301, POL 103 (Offered upon request) 6-9 credits
ENG 467 SUMMER INTERNSHIP WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
(also POL 467, COM 467; formerly ENG 208)
An opportunity for professional experience in the office of The Congressional Quarterly's Weekly Report covering action in the national capital, for two or three months during the summer. Emphasis on research and writing of reports, profiles and news briefs. Prerequisites: ENG 233, 234, 301, POL 101. (Offered upon request) 6-15 credits
ENG 468 INTERNSHIP IN TEACHING REMEDIAL ENGLISH
(formerly ENG 268)
A program of instruction in the methods of teaching remedial English and actual supervised tutorial work with students on campus. Admission to the course is subject to approval of Departmental Chairman and the course instructor. (Offered Summer) 3 credits
ENG 470 INDEPENDENT STUDY
(formerly ENG 291)
Open to students of superior competence who manifest potential for and interest in scholarly research and/or creative expression. Students may concentrate on a particular author, genre, period or other approved study under the guidance of a member of the English faculty. (Offered upon request ) 1-3 credits
ENG 491 ENGLISH SEMINAR
(formerly ENG 281)
Methods and techniques of literary research. Investigation, report and discussion based on individual student's major research projects within area selected for study in the seminar. Required of all majors in senior year. A student registering for the seminar must submit a sample research paper with secondary sources incorporated in the text and the works cited page. The paper is due by April 15th for the fall semester or November 15th for the spring semester. The English faculty will determine whether the student needs additional preparation before beginning the seminar. (Offered Fall, Spring) 3 credits
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