A contemporary survey of queer-identified texts including poetry, short stories, memoir, creative non-fiction, and excerpts from novels and graphic novels. Works by writers such as Audre Lorde, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Cherie Moraga, Alyson Bechdel, and William S. Burroughs. Texts will be studied through lens of intersectionality to explore how sexual identities interconnect with and shape other categories of identity, including gender, race, ethnicity, class, culture, and nation. This course will require critical essays, including a researched paper.

This course provides an opportunity to study important literary themes, genres, periods, or authors not found or only touched on in other courses. This format allows for an intensive examination of these topics, which may vary from semester to semester. Representative subjects include the Gothic imagination, the Harlem Renaissance, the writer and the city, mythic patterns, and psychoanalysis and literature. Students may enroll in ENG 3950 more than once if the topic is different.

English Elective

English Credit

Elective Credit Liberal Arts

An introduction to the field of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender and queer studies. Readings will be drawn from a variety of literary and critical works that explore sexual identity categories and their meaning in culture For English majors and minors, this is designated as a literature, women, minority and world literature, and genre course.

This course will explore specific critical and thematic approaches to selected works of literature. Topic varies with each offering. Course description may be obtained from Program Coordinator before registration.

This course introduces students to a culturally diverse body of literature that illustrates the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) experience as a field of literary study. Students will analyze interdisciplinary works such as fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, drama and film by established and emerging LGBTQ writers. This course will demonstrate their understanding of the development of LGBTQ literature by completing several short essays which may incorporate research using print and on-line sources. By the semester's end, students will be able to examine and compare different works with special attention to the dynamics of history, culture, and the production of literary texts in the LGBTQ community.

Elective Undergraduate: Liberal Arts

Literature Elective Credit

Elective Credit

This course will explore the artistic and political impact of literature by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) writers. The course examines the experiences of LGBTQ individuals and communities as reflected by and represented through a variety of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Writers include E.M. Forster, May Sarton, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzalda, Janet Mock, and others.CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-Individual & Society

200-LEVEL ELECTIVE

English Elective

English Elective Credit

English Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

English Elective

English Liberal Arts Elective