ENGL BC3164 Shakespeare II

Hi First-Years!

The English Department wanted to share information about a First-Year English course available to students this semester: ENGL BC3164 (Shakespeare II.) Feel free to find more information about the course here as well as down below from the course description.

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Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 60 students. Critical and historical introduction to selected comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances by Shakespeare. Please note that you do not need to take ENGL BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; you may take them in any order.

Everyone loves PE in January!

Hello First-Years!

There are many PE spots available in classes. Students who need to fulfill the PE requirement must join an open class and attend in order to retain their place. 

Attendance credit will be counted on the first day. Check back during each of your registration times as spots will open up as students drop/add.  

Please contact Department Chair Lisa Northrop (lnorthro@barnard.edu) with any questions.

English BC1246 Intimate Companions: Reading And Writing

Hi First-Years!

The English Department wanted to share information about a First-Year English course available to students this semester: ENGL BC1246 (Intimate Companions: Reading and Writing.) Feel free to find more information about the course here as well as down below from the course description and a flyer attached!

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This First-Year course will engage with literary expressions of the universally interesting topic of relationships. Tony Tanner in his Adultery in the Novel characterizes marriage as “the structure which supports all structure.” Contemporary critics have seen marriage as essential to maintaining the “family values” of the bourgeoisie; feminists and Marxists have challenged the economic assumptions of patriarchally-defined marriage. Folklorists have treated marriage as the endpoint of the search for a safe domestic space. We will touch on this subject, but will also turn to writing about other indispensable relationships that, increasingly, fill our lives. Animals and botanicals—and our relationship with nature—have become so obviously  Important in the past ten years that they deserve to underpin our core values, too.

Starting with classic fairy tales and moving on to short fictions, contemporary American poetry, an affectionate study of the psyches of trees, and brief essays on animals we live with, this course will deliver an exportable cluster of ideas that may change our lives.

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First-Year Class Dean 2025-2026 Walk-In Hours! -- Resuming starting Friday, January 23rd, 2026!

NOTE: Regular walk-ins will resume starting Friday, January 23rd, 2026

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• We will see students on a first-come, first-served basis. 
• If we run out of time and can't see you, we apologize for the inconvenience and encourage you to schedule an appointment, to try walk-ins on a different day, or for time-sensitive matters, to call the office at 212-854-2024 during business hours.

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• Enter waiting room via this Friday Afternoon Walk-In Hours Zoom Link or visit 105 Milbank.
  
• We will see students on a first-come, first-served basis. 
• If we run out of time and can't see you, we apologize for the inconvenience and encourage you to schedule an appointment, to try walk-ins on a different day, or for time-sensitive matters, to call the office at 212-854-2024 during business hours.