Fall 2025 English BC3130 section 002

THE AMERICAN COWBOY AND THE ICONOGRAPHY

AMER COWBOY/ICONOG OF WES

Call Number 01002
Day, Time & Location View Class Schedule & Location in Vergil
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Margaret R Ellsberg
Type LECTURE
Course Description

This entertaining and edifying lecture-not-unmixed-with conversation course will
consider the icon of the American cowboy, with its signature embrace of
masculinity, stoicism, elegiac music, and identification with nature. We will read
Cormac McCarthy’s dazzling 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 26 students (39 max) as of 12:05PM Monday, May 18, 2026
Subject English
Number BC3130
Section 002
Division Barnard College
Section key 20253ENGL3130X002