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Humanities Courses marked with an asterisk (*) may be used to partially fulfill distribution requirements for Southampton Graduate Campus Students. Undergraduate English Graduate English The Undergraduate Program In addition to its graduate offerings, the English and Humanities program will offer a very full set of courses in the two summer sessions of 2002.  Basic courses such as English 212 and 312, Great Books I and II, will be available, along with upper level courses in literature and philosophy.  The division hopes the expanded list of offerings during the summer will make it easier for students to complete their college requirements outside of the regular two-semester structure. English ENGL 212* Section 1 Writing About Great Books I This course is designed to improve students' writing as they study a number of central works of world culture from the Renaissance to modern times. For Southampton College students, ENGL 212 is the second of a series of integrated courses in literature and composition (the others are ENGL 112 and ENGL 312). Southampton Graduate Campus Prerequisites: ENGL 112, the successful completion of the proficiency examination, and the completion of 30 credits of college work. 3 credits M, T, W, Th 12:25 -2:15P NEILL Session I (May 27 - July 5) ENGL 312 Section 1 Writing About Great Books II This course is designed to familiarize students with world culture up to the Renaissance through writing about major works and ideas from the classical age through the time of Shakespeare. For Southampton Graduate Campus students, ENGL 312 is the last of a series of integrated courses in literature and composition (the others are ENGL 112 and ENGL 212). Southampton Graduate Campus Prerequisites: ENGL 112, 212, the successful completion of the proficiency examination, and the completion of 60 credits of college work. 3 credits T, W, Th 1:30 - 3:55 KRUH Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 341* Section 1 American Popular Culture in the Fifties and Sixties (Major Periods) An exploration of American life and popular culture during the formative decades of the fifties and sixties, including readings from Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, as well as examination of music and film of the period, including songs by Bob Dylan and movies such as Rebel Without A Cause, The Graduate, and Alice's Restaurant. 3 credits T, W, Th 12:00 NOON - 2:15P SHIMKIN Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 343* Section 1 Edar Allan Poe (Major Authors) An intensive study of one of Americaâs favorite and most controversial authors, Edgar Allan Poe, including close reading of his horror, mystery, science fiction, and poetical works. Prerequisites: ENGL 112 and the successful completion of the writing proficiency requirement. 3 credits M, W, Th 9:00 - 11:15A ROBERSON Session I (May 27 - July 5) ENGL 343AÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊSection 1 Shakespeareâs Summer Comedies (Major Authors) This course will focus on selected summer comedies of Shakespeare.ÊClass discussion will deal with the forms, themes, and sources of Shakespeareâs works.Ê In addition, we will look at the possibilities each play offers for performance. 3 credits T, W, ThÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ1:30 ö 3:55P,BR> PETERSON Session II (July 8 ö August 16) ENGL 343BÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊSection 1 Faust and the Devil: Goetheâs Faust (Major Authors) A close look at the legend of Faust's pact with the Devil, and Goethe's exhaustive treatment of that legend in his drama Faust. 3 credits T, W, ThÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ9:25 ö 11:55A KRUH Session II (July 8 ö August 16) ENGL 355 Section 1 Reading and Writing Comedy (Worlds of Writing) Discussions of humor, Henri Bergson once observed, frequently become examples of the phenomenon they attempt to explain. With that in mind, this intensive seminar will pursue the art of writing with wit in any medium. Students will write frequently and study exemplary models. Their work will receive evaluation from the instructor and their fellow students. Prerequisites: ENGL 112, ENGL 212, ENGL 151 and 251, or the permission of the instructor. 3 credits Laboratory fee: $20.00 W, TH, F 12:45 ö 3:10P REEVES Session I (May 27 - July 5) ENGL 355A Section 1 Writing and Marketing the Short Story (Worlds of Writing) Novelist Kaylie Jones leads a workshop devoted to the most practical aspect of fiction writing -- how to produce a marketable piece of work and then place it with a publisher. Prerequisites: ENGL 112, ENGL 212, ENGL 151 and 251, or the permission of the instructor. Laboratory fee: $20.00. 3 credits F 9:30A ö 5:30P (with breaks) JONES Session II (July 8 ö August 16) ENGL 355B Section 1 Building Full, Real Characters in Fiction (Worlds of Writing) The class will be devoted mainly to students' own work--stories or chapters of novels--which will be read aloud and discussed. Character-- how to create complex, real people within the text of plot--will be emphasized. How to go about marketing stories and novels will also be discussed. Prerequisites: ENGL 112, ENGL 212, ENGL 151 and 251, or the permission of the instructor. Laboratory fee: $20.00. 3 credits SA 9:30A - 5:30P (with breaks) RACHLIN Session II (July 9 - August 18) ENGL 381A Section 1 Poetry Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon COLLINS Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 381B Section 1 Novel Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon MUKHERJEE Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 381C Section 1 Short Story Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon BLAISE Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 381D Section 1 Screenplay Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon JONES Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 381E Section 1 Literary Essay Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon Rosenblatt Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 381F Section 1 Playwriting Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon FEIFFER Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 381G Section 1 Memoir Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon MCCOURT Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 400 Section 1 Independent Study Arranged through an individual instructor and by permission of the Division Director and Dean. 3 credits Days and times to be arranged with instructor. REEVES Prerequisites: ENGL 112 and the successful completion of the writing proficiency requirement. Session I (May 27 - July 5) Master of Fine Arts in Writing During its fourth year, Southampton's innovative and acclaimed Master of Fine Arts in Writing program will offer a wide variety of courses for new and continuing graduate students in the summer of 2002. The two summer sessions will feature courses by author, journalist, and commentator Roger Rosenblatt, novelists Nahid Rachlin and Robert Reeves, and other noted writers and scholars. With its distinguished roster of teachers and lecturers and its emphasis on the importance of writing in all fields of modern society, the program has already drawn attention nationally and locally. The Southampton M.F.A. in writing requires 36 credits of academic work, including a thesis in the area of the studentâs special interest. The thesis may consist of a novel, a play, a collection of poems, a work of journalism, biography, or history, or a substantial paper in science, business, or technology. In addition to courses in writing, students will be required to do academic work in subjects related to their writing interest. Teaching fellowships will be available to qualified students after their first year in the program. In order to attract the best students nationally, the college is offering full and partial scholarships to students who demonstrate merit and promise in any form of writing. A low-residency option is available for students looking for an alternative to a full-time residential course of study. Among the distinguished authors who work with the graduate program in writing as teachers and lecturers are Shana Alexander, Spalding Gray, Peter Matthiessen, Molly Haskell, Norman Lear, John Leo, Jules Feiffer, Leon Uris, Dava Sobel, Richard Price, Bruce Jay Friedman, and Paul Goldberger. Admission forms and program booklets are available by contacting Amanda Mills at the Admissions Office, Southampton Graduate Campus, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, NY 11968. Her phone number is (631) 287-8200. The fax number is (631) 287-8130, and she can be reached by e-mail at: admissions@southampton.liu.edu Notice to Graduate Students in the M.F.A. in Writing With the approval of the program director, the dean of the College, and the course instructor, certain 300- and 400-level undergraduate courses may be used to fulfill requirements of the M.F.A. degree. Please contact Robert Pattison, Division Director, Humanities, for details. Phone: (631) 287-8420. Faculty in the Graduate Writing Program Roger Rosenblatt, contributing editor and writer for Time and The New Republic, appears as a regular essayist on PBs' NewsHour. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Coming Apart, a memoir of the turbulent sixties at Harvard when he served as the youngest housemaster in the university's history. He is the winner of numerous awards, including the Emmy, two George Polk Awards, and the George Foster Peabody Award. Rosenblatt is Parsons University Professor of Writing at Long Island University and teaches regularly at the Southampton campus. Robert Reeves is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, both published by Crown, as well as short fiction, essays, and literary criticism. Kirkus Review hailed Doubting Thomas as "a zesty, classy original," and Patricia Holt of the San Francisco Chronicle called Peeping Thomas "the first challenging and intelligent view of the pornography industry; it's funny, disturbing, and brilliant." Reeves, who regularly teaches at Southampton College, has also taught writing at Harvard and Princeton. Nahid Rachlin is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Foreigner, Married to a Stranger, and The Heart's Desire, as well as a collection of short stories, Veils. She teaches at the New School for Social Research and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and numerous other awards. A graduate of New York University with a doctorate in English from Harvard, Alan Weinblatt has devoted his professional life to bringing clarity and elegance to business and technical communications. He has worked as a writer and consultant with some of the nation's top corporations, including Union Carbide, the Diebold Group, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Philip Morris, and Merrill Lynch. He has special interest in computer and related technologies and their influence on American Life. Indira Ganesan was educated at Vassar College and the University of Iowa, and now teaches in the Humanities Division at Southampton Graduate Campus of Long Island University. In 1997 she was awarded a Fellowship at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe. She was a finalist in Granta's Best Young American Novelists contest for her first novel, The Journey. Her second novel, Inheritance, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, as was the first. Her writings have appeared in such periodicals as Antaeus, Glamour, Seventeen, and the Women's Review of Books, and in anthologies, such as, Half & Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial & Bicultural. Graduate Course Offerings ENGL 501 Sections 1 & 2 Introduction to Graduate Writing A seminar that introduces students in the M.F.A. to one another, the faculty, the College, and the program in Writing. Students will write daily one-page works that will be shared among all participants in the program. 1 credit Laboratory fee: $20.00 Offered tutorially. Days and times to be arranged with instructor. REEVES SECTION 1: Session I (May 27 - July 5) SECTION 2: Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 502 Sections 1 & 2 The Writers Lecture Series Students will attend the regular series of lectures sponsored by the Writing program and meet at least once a week under the direction of a faculty advisor to discuss and write about topics raised in the lecture series. The work of this course will be closely integrated with that in ENGL 501, as well as with the offerings in the Summer Writers Conference. 2 credits Offered tutorially. Days and times to be arranged with instructor. REEVES SECTION 1: Session I (May 27 - July 5) SECTION 2: Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 651 Sections 1 & 2 Writing in the Digital World (Forms of Professional Writing) The digital future challenges all writers today, but none more so than those who define and debare issues. English 651 Online: Writing in the Digital World proceeds from the premise that familiarity with the onrushing digital revolution is a key to success in the world. Public policy, government, politics, high technology, publishing, entertainment, education and business all demand excellence not only in crafting traditional genres -- the focused memo, the sort speech, the effective presentation, the lucid policy statement, the engaging issue ad and the articulate op-ed -- but above all, in envisioning and refining the web site -- hte first new genre of the digital era, and the genre that will come to subsume all others. To this end, each student in English 651 Online will write a short speech, rewrite it as a presentation, then reconfigure both into a plan for a web site. Online and class discussions will address related questions: How the Internet revolution is reshaping literary conventions, altering aesthetic norms, creating new genres, changing how we read, affecting spoken language, transforming manuscript production, and revolutionizing research and information archiving? Finally, we'll formulate 10 rules for maintaining equanamity in the face of technological change. Rule 1: Safeguard yellow pads and typewriters! Members of English 651 Online will meet face-to-face in Southampton two or three times during the semester for discussion, with a possible final week of intensive discussion in Southampton. Instead of 13 weekly meetings on campus, the course will be conducted online using simple Internet tools to distribute course materials, exchange e-mail, and post and receive assignments. 3 credits Laboratory fee: $20.00 DAYS TBA WEINBLATT SECTION 1: Session I (May 27 - July 5) SECTION 2: Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 651A Section 1 Reading and Writing Comedy (Forms of Professional Writing) Discussions of humor, Henri Bergson once observed, frequently become examples of the phenomenon they attempt to explain. With that in mind, this intensive seminar will pursue the art of writing with wit in any medium. Students will write frequently and study exemplary models. Their work will receive evaluation from the instructor and their fellow students. 3 credits Laboratory fee: $20.00 W, TH, F 12:45 - 3:10 P REEVES Session I (May 27 - July 5) ENGL 651B Section 1 Writing and Marketing the Short Story (Forms of Professional Writing) Novelist Kaylie Jones leads a workshop devoted to the most practical aspect of fiction writing -- how to produce a marketable piece of work and then place it with a publisher. 3 credits Laboratory fee: $20.00 F 9:30A ö 5:30P (with breaks) JONES Session II (July 8 ö August 16) ENGL 651C Section 1 Building Full, Real Characters in Fiction (Forms of Professional Writing) The class will be devoted mainly to students' own work--stories or chapters of novels--which will be read aloud and discussed. Character-- how to create complex, real people within the text of plot--will be emphasized. How to go about marketing stories and novels will also be discussed. Laboratory fee: $20.00. 3 credits S 9:30A ö 5:30P (with breaks) RACHLIN Session II (July 8 ö August 16) ENGL 671 Section 1 Edgar Allan Poe (Topics in Literature) An intensive study of one of Americaâs favorite and most controversial authors, Edgar Allan Poe, including close reading of his horror, mystery, science fiction, and poetical works. 3 credits M, W, Th 9:00 - 11:15A ROBERSON Session I (May 27 - July 5) ENGL 671A Section 1 Shakespeareâs Summer Comedies (Topics in Literature) This course will focus on selected summer comedies of Shakespeare. Class discussion will deal with the forms, themes, and sources of Shakespeareâs works. In addition, we will look at the possibilities each play offers for performance. 3 credits T, W, Th 1:30 ö 3:55P PETERSON Session II (July 8 ö August 16) ENGL 652A Section 1 Faust and the Devil: Goetheâs Faust (Topics in Literature) A close look at the legend of Faust's pact with the Devil, and Goethe's exhaustive treatment of that legend in his drama Faust. 3 credits T, W, Th 9:25 - 11:55A KRUH Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 671C Section 1 American Popular Culture in the Fifties and Sixties (Topics in Literature) An exploration of American life and popular culture during the formative decades of the fifties and sixties, including readings from Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, as well as examination of music and film of the period, including songs by Bob Dylan and movies such as Rebel Without A Cause, The Graduate, and Alice's Restaurant. 3 credits T, W, Th 12:00 NOON - 2:15P SHIMKIN Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 681 Sections 1 & 2 Independent Study Students who would like to pursue an individual project in reading or writing can do so through the Independent Study. Projects might include anything from studying America's Southern Gothic literature to working on a collection of short stories. RObert Reeves will help students organize the independent study and find the appropriate instructor. Days and times to be arranged with instructor. REEVES Section 1: Session I (May 27 - July 5) Section 2: Session II (July 8 - August 16) ENGL 681A Section 1 Poetry Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon COLLINS Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 681B Section 1 Novel Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon MUKHERJEE Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 681C Section 1 Short Story Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon BLAISE Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 681D Section 1 Screenplay Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon JONES Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 681E Section 1 Literary Essay Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon Rosenblatt Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 681F Section 1 Playwriting Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon FEIFFER Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) ENGL 681G Section 1 Memoir Workshop See the Writers Conference description or call the Summer Programs office for details, 631-287-8175. 2 credits Th, S, M, W, F 10:00A - 12:00 Noon MCCOURT Special Session: July 17 - July 28 (Register for Session 16) SUMMER HOME