Dear Graduate Students,
Preregistration for Spring 2021 English graduate courses will take place
next week, *Monday, October 26 through Friday, October 30*.
Matriculated graduate and accelerated students in good academic standing
(i.e., minimum 3.0 GPA and no INCs) should take advantage of this
opportunity to sign up early for classes. (Non-matriculated/non-degree
students are not eligible for preregistration.)
Please read carefully the attached (and pasted below) preregistration
instructions and FAQs, including a breakdown of program requirements, as
well as the attached Spring 2021 course descriptions.
As always, please email us if you have any questions or need advising
before preregistration. Hope you're all taking care and staying safe and
healthy.
Best,
Caroline & Hillary, your Directors of Graduate Studies
--
Caroline Kyungah Hong
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies (English MA)
Queens College, CUNY
*she/her/hers*
* Please note that I am off email on weekends and will respond to your
email during business hours, Monday–Friday 8am–5pm. At this time, there may
be a delay in response time.
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Preregistration for English MA Courses 2021 SPRING
Preregistration for Spring 2021 English MA courses will take place *Monday,
October 26 through Friday, October 30, 2020*. Matriculated graduate and
accelerated students in good academic standing (i.e., minimum average 3.0
GPA and no outstanding INCs) are strongly encouraged to take advantage of
this opportunity to sign up early for classes.
Below are preregistration instructions and FAQs, including a breakdown of
program requirements for MA, MS Ed, and MAT students. Spring 2021 course
offerings and descriptions are attached separately. If you have any
questions or need advising, please email the current Directors of Graduate
Studies in English—Prof. Caroline Hong (caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu) and
Prof. Hillary Miller (hillary.miller(a)qc.cuny.edu)
*Instructions for Preregistration via Email*
During the preregistration period of October 26–30 only, please email Prof.
Caroline Hong (caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu) or Prof. Hillary Miller (
hillary.miller(a)qc.cuny.edu) with the following info:
1. Your full name
2. Your program (MA, MS Ed, MAT, or accelerated)
3. Your 8-digit CUNY ID#
4. The courses you’d like to register for, with their 4- or 5-digit
class codes (e.g., ENGL 636, code 44865)
Students can preregister for up to *3* classes. Email preregistration
requests will be processed within 24 hours and in the order they are
received. You will receive a confirmation email once you’ve been
registered, asking you to log onto CUNYfirst and double-check your schedule.
*Preregistration FAQs*
*Who is eligible to preregister for Spring 2021 classes?*
All matriculated MA, MS Ed, and MAT students, as well as accelerated
students, who have an active CUNYfirst account and are in good academic
standing are eligible to preregister for courses. If your GPA has fallen
below 3.0 or if you’re carrying incompletes on your record from a previous
semester, you will need to seek advising with one of the Directors of
Graduate Studies in English, Prof. Caroline Hong or Prof. Hillary Miller,
before being permitted to preregister.
If you have any holds on your CUNYfirst account for any reason, however
unwarranted, CUNYfirst will not allow you to be preregistered for classes.
Please check your account before the start of the preregistration period
and make sure that all holds have been resolved.
Non-matriculated/non-degree students are *not* eligible to preregister and
must wait to register themselves during their registration appointment
period on CUNYfirst.
*Can I take a course with the same number twice for credit?*
Courses titled “Studies in…” may be repeated for credit as long as the
specific course topics and course materials are substantially different
(see course titles at http://english.qc.cuny.edu/graduate-programs/) For
example, ENGL 720, 726, 736, and 742 may all be repeated for credit.
ENGL 781 (Special Seminars) may also be repeated for credit, as long as the
specific course topics and course materials are substantially different.
ENGL 636, 638, 701, 702, and 703 *cannot* be repeated for credit.
*What are my English course requirements?*
For MA students:
§ ENGL 701
§ ENGL 636
§ 7 open electives (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700
level, *excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL
751–763, which are reserved for MFA students*)
§ ENGL 791 (thesis essay)
For MS Ed students (admitted Fall 2012 or after):
§ ENGL 702 or 703
§ 2 pre-1900 electives
§ 1 open elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700
level, *excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL
751–763, which are reserved for MFA students*)
§ ENGL 781
For MAT students:
§ 1 pre-1900 elective
§ 1 open elective (any English graduate class offered at the 600 or 700
level, *excluding the creative writing workshops and craft classes, ENGL
751–763, which are reserved for MFA students*)
§ ENGL 781
*For MS Ed and MAT students, what courses fulfill the pre-1900 requirement?*
In Spring 2021, the following courses fulfill the pre-1900 requirement:
ENGL 720 with Prof. Robin Hizme (code 44871), ENGL 726 with Prof. Siân
Silyn Roberts (code 45208), and ENGL 742 with Prof. Miles Grier (code
50979).
*Can I preregister for ENGL 791, the thesis course, or ENGL 795, the
independent study course?*
English 791 and English 795 require additional advising and paperwork, so
these are not courses for which you can preregister. Please communicate
with the Directors of Graduate Studies in English, Prof. Caroline Hong (
caroline.hong(a)qc.cuny.edu) and Prof. Hillary Miller (
hillary.miller(a)qc.cuny.edu) if you’re planning to take one of these
courses in Spring 2021.
Dear Graduate Students,
Hope this email finds you safe and healthy and taking care as best you can.
FYI, *preregistration* for Spring 2021 will be taking place via email next
week, *October 26-30*. We're still finalizing the schedule, but as soon as
it's ready, we'll be emailing out the spring English MA course descriptions
and instructions on how to register early for the classes you want. Please
look out for that announcement before the end of the week.
In the meantime, please review your requirements (see the *advising
worksheet* attached here) and reach out to me and Hillary if you have any
questions or need advising.
Please also see below for an announcement from Prof. Briallen Hopper about
this Wednesday's event in the Writing for the Public Speaker Series, open
to CUNY/QC students.
Best,
Caroline & Hillary, your Directors of Graduate Studies
--
Caroline Kyungah Hong
Associate Professor of English
Director of Graduate Studies (English MA)
Queens College, CUNY
*she/her/hers*
* Please note that I am off email on weekends and will respond to your
email during business hours, Monday–Friday 8am–5pm. At this time, there may
be a delay in response time.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
Anecdotal evidence suggests that academics, especially those early in their
career, are more attuned than ever to the importance of reaching beyond the
ivory tower and engaging with a wider public.
This semester, the Writing Center is hosting a two-part speaker series
featuring trained academics who write for a wider public. These events will
follow an interview format and will open up to questions from the audience.
The first event, featuring Scott Poulson-Bryant, will take place on *October
21 from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM*. To attend this Zoom session, you must
first register
here
<https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrd-moqjsvE9MzXTndnzYba60nq11VLS…>
.
Scott Poulson-Bryant is Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African
Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. He is a cultural
historian and critic with areas of specialization in African American
popular culture and Performance Studies. His teaching and research focuses
on Hollywood film, black popular music, 20th and 21st century U.S. drama,
genre fiction, gender and sexuality studies, and creative nonfiction
writing. His research has appeared in *The Journal of Popular Music
Studies, American Studies, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the
Black International, *and* Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly*, and
he is currently finishing his monograph *Everybody is a Star: Cultural
Citizenships and the Glamour of Blackness in 1970s US Popular Culture.*
He has also published articles in *The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and
The Village Voice*, and other publications, and he was one of the founding
editors of *VIBE Magazine*. His public-facing books include *HUNG: A
Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America *(Doubleday) and *The
VIPs: A Novel *(Broadway/Random House).
The interview will conducted by Briallen Hopper, who
teaches a new Professional Development course at the GC, “Public Writing
for Academics.” Briallen is Assistant professor of English at Queens
College, CUNY. She is the author of *Hard to Love *(Bloomsbury, 2019),
a collection of essays about love and friendship. Her essays, reviews,
op eds, profiles, listicles, and sermons have appeared in *Avidly*,
*Beliefnet*, *Black Business Now*, *The Chronicle of Higher
Education*, *Columbia
Journal*, *The Conversation*, *Crosscurrents*, *Document Journal*,
*HuffPost*, *KtB*, *Los Angeles Review of Books*, *The* *New Inquiry*, *The*
*New Republic*, *Newsweek*, *New York Magazine/The Cut*, *Not Coming to a
Theater Near You*, *Religion & Politics*, *Sacred Matters*, *The* *Seattle
Star*, *The* *Stranger*, *Take Part*, and *Talking Points Memo*. She is the
editor of the online literary magazine *KtB *and an associate editor at the
UK-based independent press And Other Stories.
