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Department of English
SUNY Geneseo spring 2010
*** Preregistration on Knightweb for Fall 2010 Courses March 30 April 16 ***
In addition to regular academic advisement appointments this spring, the English Department will hold a faculty-student
mixer with pre-registration help for the fall semester.
Please join us in the Harding Lounge (Welles 111) at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 24, for lunch, talk, and answers to
your questions about English courses. Students may speak directly to faculty about their interests and scheduled courses.
Food and refreshments (thanks to the English Club) are free; the talk depends on you. Hope you can make it!
First-year students (including first-year transfer students) as When you arrive for your appointment, bring along your
well as students working themselves out of academic difficulty registration materials as well as a plan for courses youd
are required to see their academic advisors; otherwise you will like to take in the fall. While academic advisors will happily
be unable to pre-register for classes. Since faculty must meet suggest courses to fit your needs, your own interests
with you to review your schedule, please do not make last- should drive your schedule. Please recognize as well that
minute contact on the date you are scheduled to pre-register. you wont have time during a fifteen-minute appointment
to work out class times or day preference. Also, you
Academic advising isnt just for first-year students, however. Allshould make sure that you dont have time conflicts or
students can benefit from sitting down for fifteen minutes with more than two finals on a single day. (The finals calendar
a faculty member to make sure you are fulfilling your is posted at the Deans website.)
requirements as well as making progress toward your degree.
Faculty advisors might not have all the answers, but we know Make an appointment by stopping by your advisors office,
where to go toON LINEanswers.
find those MASTER SCHEDULE: The sending MasteranSchedule
email, or calling
will your at The department
advisor.
be up
secretary does not make appointments for individual
masterschedule.geneseo.edu on March 8. Check
faculty for updates.
members.
* Note: students may take ENGL 343 (like 142, 237, 337 and 339) a second time
under a new subtitle
Concentrators: PERMISSION FOR 300-level WRITING
Please note that you often have more flexibility in
your course selection than some editions of the Students should remember that these classes are
catalogue indicate. Current options include: highly selective. In order to get permission for
Three hours from among ENGL 200, 201, ENGL 301/303, 302/304, 305/307 you need to
306, or 361 have completed ENGL 201.
Three hours from among ENGL 212, 222,
232, 310, 311, 312, 350, 353. Writing samples for Creative Nonfiction I and II,
Three hours from among ENGL 213, 218, Poetry Writing I and II and Fiction I and II are
233, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 324. due by 4 p.m. on Friday March 26. Interested
Three hours from among ENGL 235, 237, students should submit five to ten pages of their
239, 330, 331, 332, 333, 338, 339. best work in the genre for which they are
Three hours from among ENGL 237, 241, applying. (Fiction workshops focus on realistic
242, 267/M, 318, 343, 345, 360. literary fiction.) Cover sheets are available
outside the English department office. These
Please note that ENGL 358 can count in need to be filled out and attached to the writing
various categories depending on the offering. sample.
Please check with your faculty advisor or with
English Advisement Newsletters for The class lists will be posted by April 1st .
information. Selected students will be able to register through
Knightweb.
Have you ever wondered exactly which courses you still needed to complete your degree at Geneseo?
Have you ever wondered about which general education requirements you still need to complete? Did you
ever think about changing your major and how that might affect your graduation date? The answers to
these questions and many more are available on-line using the program called WebCAPP which is
available through Knightweb.
WebCAPP generates unofficial degree audit reports that provide you with the ability to monitor carefully
your progress in meeting the degree requirements at Geneseo. With WebCAPP, you are able to check
your progress:
a) in General Education;
b) in your major;
c) in your concentration or minor(s).
In addition, a What-If option allows you to check your coursework against the requirements of any
other program SUNY-Geneseo offers. This is especially useful as you consider possible changes of
major/program or if you wish to add a minor or change a concentration.
It is important to recognize that WebCAPP generates only unofficial degree audit reports. If you have
questions about WebCAPP records, consult your advisor. The formal pre-graduation check continues to
be the official record of degree progress.
Some students are contacted each semester for pre-graduation checks. When invited, you
schedule an appointment with Ed Gillin in Welles 232B to go over your pre-grad forms. Please
note that you dont initiate this process, which is triggered by the Records Office based on the
number of credit hours earned toward graduation; Professor Gillin will contact you when he
receives your documents from that office. Before or after this one-time, official process,
you may continue to consult your regular advisor for information about your status in meeting
graduation requirements during any point in your academic career.
Beginning this semester, the Administration is placing a registration hold on students who
have not completed their pre-grad check.
Law School advisement:
If you are interested in going to law school, please see Dr Drake in Welles 217A. Dr Drake is
the College Pre-Law Advisor. He can tell you about pre-law at Geneseo, which is an
advisement system rather than a specific set of courses (pre-law is not the same thing as the
Legal Studies Minor). He can also help you navigate the application process, including
preparing for the LSAT, looking for the right law school, and putting together personal
statements and recommendation letters.
Unlike medical schools, law schools do not require specific courses on your transcript. You'll
want to have the best GPA you can have, of course, but the courses you choose should
emphasize skills that you will need for studying law and practicing as a lawyer: writing,
reading (critically and in huge quantities), critical analysis and logic, and public
speaking (including debate). English, by the way, is an excellent preparation for law school
because you develop many of these skills--reading closely, using evidence, creating arguments
in essay form, documenting sources, and speaking in various kinds of formal and informal
situations.
Email: drake@geneseo.edu
There are still some spots available for this Study Abroad opportunity: "The Artist in the Third
Reich" which will take place on location this summer in Prague, Berlin and Amsterdam (July 9th
to July 31st).
The trip involves one exciting and illuminating week in each city, taking in myriad sites related
to the Holocaust and World War II. We will consider the difficult choices people like you and I,
whether Jewish or not, had to make in their lives and careers when Hitler came to power. Do
you make a film for the Nazis because it will further your career even if glorifies them? Do you
continue to act on the German stage, when the plays are censored and your Jewish colleagues
are taken away? Do you escape Germany when the opportunity arises, even if it means your
career will suffer? Do you play in Hitler's Jewish orchestra because it's a way to survive, even
though you're being used for propaganda purposes? What did the arts have to do with Hitler's
master plan? How can something as beautiful as the arts be used as an instrument of torture?
These questions and many more like them will be addressed in the course.
This course may be applied to majors in the Arts, History, English, International Relations, and
Political Science for credit, as well as counting as an elective. You do not have to have
previous experience in the arts, and there will be latitude when it comes to your particular
research topic (why, for example, did more doctors join the Nazi Party than any other
profession?).
This course is only offered in even years, so the next chance to take it will not be until 2012.
Don't miss out on this one-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
12511 ENGL 142 01 Literary Forms: English 142: YouTube U: Reading Your World
YouTube has both expanded and problematized our reading of the news, our political activities, our access to entertainment, our
procrastination habits. In this course we will examine news, politics, and social activism on YouTube. You will set up web pages as
your own texts, using both existing vids from YouTube and those you produce. No prior techie expertise required, but you need to be
interested and willing to learn and you MUST have a laptop.
12512 ENGL 142 02 Literary Forms: The Short Story in the Caribbean
"The Short Story in the Caribbean" explores both commonalities and differences identified in short narratives by anglophone,
francophone, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean writers, features which underscore the Pan-Caribbean scope of the writers' defining
experiences. Our reading of these stories will attempt to differentiate the degrees of separation from the norms of the "mothercountry"
that these authors have actually achieved. In order to avoid encapsulating all stories within the master narratives of imperialism and
nationalism, we will remain attentive to the historical specificity of each Caribbean nation represented on our syllabus.
16432 ENGL 237 03 Voices and Perspectives: Visibility and Invisibility in American Lit
This course will examine images, metaphors, and strategies of visibility and invisibility in literature written by African-American,
Asian-American, and Anglo-American writers (and a couple of films). Our culture deeply influences how -- and whom -- we see, as
well as how we feel about being seen by anyone defined as "other" by virtue of, say, their race, gender, sexuality, or unconventional
beliefs/practices (such as drug use). All of these texts are obsessed with seeing and being seen, and the characters within the novels
(and perhaps the authors themselves) sometimes demand attention and other times wish to pass unnoticed.
16563 ENGL 239 03 American Visions: Hip Hop Culture and Contemporary Am. Lit
In this course, we will read contemporary literature by some of the hip hop generations most celebrated writers and discuss the ways
that hip hop culture is presented within these texts. Our focus is identity. How does the hip hop generation define itself, its aesthetic,
and its most urgent purpose? How do forces and voices outside the self influence these definitions? How have the definitions
changed/remained constant throughout the years? We will examine the multiple faces (some blatantly oppositional and contradictory)
found within hip hop culture and the ways they are manifested in contemporary literatures form, content, and characters.
13438 ENGL 390 01 Studies in Literature: Broadway, New York, and the Evolution of American Theater and Drama
The course will function on an American Studies seminar model. The course will explore various topics and sub themes emanating
from the evolution of modern New York City and professional theater from the mid-19th century to the present. Topics likely to
include: Geographical and cultural history of New York (immigration and African-American and Latino/a migration); 19th Century
American Popular culture and theater (vaudeville, burlesque, ministrelsy); Late 19th- early 20th Century European roots of American
Theater (operetta, English "imports" and touring companies; The era of Tin Pan Alley: the evolution of the show song, and early
American musicals; The Americanization of the American Musical (1920 - 1970s); the Rise of the American Playwright. Diversity
Issues (gender, race, and sexuality) and the professional American theater; among others. Class sessions will be heavily dependent on
student presentations (individually and in groups) with focused written responses. Class requirements will de-emphasize quizzes and
exams and emphasize written commentary and oral presentation/discussion. Students can expect to do a minimum of four or five
writing assignments (including one "conference length" research paper) one or two lead presentations/essay and two or more
respondent or small research presentations.