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A blue graduation cap.The English Department contributes several courses to SUNY Fredonia's general education program, Fredonia Foundations. Go to YourConnection to search for all university courses by Fredonia Foundations theme and category.


Fall 2024 Fredonia Foundations Course Offerings

None of these classes count towards majors within the department except where indicated.

US History & Civic Engagement/Critical Reasoning & Analysis

Prof. Stephine Hunt

Section 01
MW
5:00-6:20

 

This version of the course, “Becoming Americans: Migration, Exile, and (Home)Land,” is designed to give students opportunities to meet the campus-wide Baccalaureate Goals: to be Skilled, Creative, Connected and Responsible. Assignments and readings of historical and recent American literature, across multiple genres, will build on and expand students’ critical reading, writing and research skills, encourage their creativity in crafting assignments, connect them to the experiences of ethnically diverse American writers, and challenge them to take responsibility and develop an ethics of being toward others. We will take a close look at how some of the common stories of America evoke and shape the land and people who call this place home to develop an understanding of the process of “becoming Americans.”

 

The Arts/Creativity & Innovation

Dr. Ici VanwesenbeeckSection 01 MWF 9:00-9:50In this course, we will explore the interrelation between word and image in ekphrastic poetry, calligraphy, cartoons, and graphic novels. Our broad thematic approach will be romance.

The Arts/Creativity & Innovation 

Prof. Alison Pipitone

Section 01 Internet-Based Course

Section HR Internet-Based Course

This is an online/asynchronous course, open to students with or without songwriting experience. Students will complete assignments on lyrics; music; production; close listening- and more! We will also explore the concept of Resilience in songs, using three eras in history as a starting point.

Humanities/Critical Thinking & Analysis

Prof. Daniel LaurieSection 01 
TR 12:30-1:50
This section of Reading Humanity focuses on group dynamics and the sense of belonging. The key questions we will consider are: What does it mean to belong? What does it mean to be an outsider? And what’s at stake in conformity?
Prof. Daniel Laurie

Section 02 
Internet Based Course

Section 03
TR
2:00-3:20

This section of Reading Humanity focuses on the theme "Representing Animals," and the course explores depictions of animals in literary works, philosophical discussions, and examples from art history. 

 

World Hist & Global Awareness/Global Perspectives

Dr. Jeanette McVickerSection 01
TR
12:30-1:50
The course will explore narratives of geographic, species, linguistic, temporal, spatial and planetary border crossings. We’ll consider formations of the human, inhuman and non-human and how this informs the idea of land/territory/nation/empire. We’ll further consider the ways that gender, race and class contribute to ideas regarding borders as in-between spaces and contact zones. 
Dr. Birger 
Vanwesenbeeck
Section 02 
Internet Based Course
Can the Holocaust be represented? To capture the scope and magnitude of the Nazi atrocities has often been said to lie beyond the limits of the literary or artistic imagination even as artists have also recognized the need to do so. This course will offer an overview of various writings--philosophical, literary, and historical--as well as documentaries and how they have sought to bear witness to  the Holocaust. 

Humanities/Creativity and Innovation

Dr. Ann 
Siegle Drege

 

Section 01 
T 3:30-6:30 
R 3:30-4:20

 

As one would guess, students in this course study plays and films, and in this case, through the lens of change and our response to change.  We'll explore the impact of choices made in the visual representation.   This class counts as an elective in the English major.


 

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice/Creativity & Innovation

Dr. Saundra Liggins

Section 01 
Internet Based Course

Section HR
Internet Based Course

ENGL 274 Social Justice & the Written Word is a study of the ways in which writers and others use the written word as a form of social critique and to effect social change. This section will examine the speeches, fiction, and non-fiction of the American Civil Rights Movement to explore the ways in which literary texts can reflect and be an instrument of social justice. Additionally, participants in this class will write about social justice issues relevant to their own interests and experiences.

 

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Social Justice/Critical Reasoning & Analysis

Dr. Bruce Simon

Section 01 
TR 
9:30-10:50

Section 02 
11:00-12:20

 

What has it meant, what does it mean, what could it mean, what should it mean to be an American? This semester, while conducting our interdisciplinary "exploration of the historical construction of American gender, ethnicity/race, and class; their present status; and their literary and cultural representations," we will focus on the power and future of the stories we tell ourselves and each other about “America," thereby cultivating our curiosity about contemporary American identities and developing our skills for identifying, analyzing, assessing, responding to, and remixing a broad range of narrative constructions of U.S. national identity.

The Arts/Creativity & Innovation

Prof. Jason Bussman

 

Section 01 
MWF 10:00-10:50

Section 02 
MWF 11:00-11:50

First in the sequence and the prerequisite for all higher-level creative writing courses. Conducted in an informal workshop setting, the course provides practical experience in the writing and exploration of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction. Basic forms, techniques, genres, and craft elements are considered through the study of contemporary examples, writing activities, and writing assignments.

Prof. Rebecca Cuthbert

 

Section 03  
MWF 9:00-9:50

Section 04 
MWF
11:00-11:50


Section 05
MWF
1:00-1:50

First in the sequence and the prerequisite for all higher-level creative writing courses. Conducted in an informal workshop setting, the course provides practical experience in the writing and exploration of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction. Basic forms, techniques, genres, and craft elements are considered through the study of contemporary examples, writing activities, and writing assignments.
Prof. Michael Sheehan

Section 08 
TR
9:30-10:50

 

This multi-genre course will introduce core concepts in creative writing, with readings of published works and peer works, as well as regular writing exercises. 

 

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