Fall 2025 English BC3130 section 001

THE AMERICAN COWBOY AND THE ICONOGRAPHY

AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WES

Call Number 00505
Day & Time
Location
W 2:10pm-4:00pm
101A Barnard Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Margaret R Ellsberg
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

This upper-level research-oriented seminar will study the all-American icon of the cowboy, with its signature embrace of masculinity, stoicism, elegiac music, and love of nature. We will read Cormac McCarthy’s The Border Trilogy and other works that emerge from this icon, watch a curated series of cowboy movies, and write critical essays.

Web Site Vergil
Department English @Barnard
Enrollment 0 students (13 max) as of 2:06PM Friday, April 4, 2025
Subject English
Number BC3130
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20253ENGL3130X001