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English Language and Literature

Chair
John Lye

Undergraduate Officer
Marilyn J. Rose

Professor Emeritus
Michael S. Hornyansky

Professors
David W. Atkinson, R. Douglas MacDonald (on leave), Kenneth M. McKay (on leave), Marilyn J. Rose, Elizabeth Sauer

Associate Professors
Brian Crick, John Lye, Angus A. Somerville, Susan Spearey

Assistant Professors
Robert Alexander, Neta Gordon, Mathew Martin, Steven D. Scott, Barbara K. Seeber

Writing Program Co-ordinator
Robert Alexander

General Information

Administrative Assistant
Marg Bernat

905-688-5550, extension 3469
Mackenzie Chown A310
http://www.brocku.ca/english/

The Department of English Language and Literature administers degrees in English Literature and in English and Professional Writing. The Department of English Language and Literature aims to foster an informed and critical intelligence. To achieve this end our programs require choices from a broad range of historical period courses, as well as from various genre courses and courses in the history of the language, criticism, and critical theory.

The Department offers two four-year programs leading to a BA Honours in English Language and Literature, a four-year degree with Major in English and Professional Writing, and a three-year program leading to the BA Pass degree. In addition, the department offers courses on academic and professional writing which are available as electives to all Brock students who wish to improve their writing and demonstrate writing competence at the university level. The department also offers a Minor in English Language and Literature and a Minor in Writing, as well as a Certificate in Professional Writing.

Seminars (discussion groups) are the rule in all English courses, encouraging students to become active participants in the study of literary texts. Through close attention to essay assignments, students learn to write in convincing and disciplined ways.

The Department of English Language and Literature offers credit for specific Drama courses.

Prerequisites for English students are as follows. Students must have successfully completed one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 before registering in ENGL courses numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99, or have received permission from the instructor. They must have completed two credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 before registering in courses numbered 3(alpha)00-3(alpha)89, or have received permission from the instructor. Students may register in ENGL courses numbered 3(alpha)90 or above after completing two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)90 or above, or receiving the permission of the instructor.

English courses are available to students in other disciplines who do not have the prerequisites listed above, by permission of the instructor in each case.

Language Requirement for Humanities Majors

Students in the Department of English Language and Literature must complete one credit in a language other than English or, in special cases, ENGL 3P91 and 3P92. Where one-half credit courses are used to satisfy the requirement, both half-credits must be in the same language.

Program Notes
  1. The Department recommends that all Honours students take at least one credit from ENGL 3P93, 4P70, 4P71.
  2. The following Dramatic Arts courses are available for English credit: DART 1F93, 2F95, 2F97, 2F98, 3F93 and 3F97.
  3. Students may take a maximum of three DART credits for English credit towards an Honours degree, and a maximum of two DART credits towards a Pass degree or the four-year degree with major.
  4. The Department recommends that students take one credit in dramatic literature from ENGL 2Q92, 2Q93, 2Q94, 2Q95, 2Q96, 2Q97 or DART 3F97.
  5. The Department advises students in English programs to have their programs reviewed each year by the Undergraduate Officer of the Department of English Language and Literature. Students planning to enter fourth year are required to have their programs approved by the Undergraduate Program Adviser during their third year of studies.
  6. Two ENGL credits must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above
  7. In all 20-credit degree programs, at least 12 credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, six of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above and of these, three must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above. In all 15-credit degree programs, at least seven credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, three of which must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above.

List Courses

List Courses in English reflect historical periods, as follows:

List A: Literature before 1800: ENGL 2P19, 2P21, 2P24, 2P25, 2V91, 3P20, 3P22, 3P25, 3P40, 3P95, 4V00-4V09, one credit from 2Q92, 2Q93, 2Q94, 2Q95, 2Q96, 2Q97

List B: Literature of the 19th Century: ENGL 2P30, 2P31, 2P61, 2P91, 3P30, 3P31, 3P42, 4V30-4V39

List C: Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: ENGL 2P51, 2P52, 2P53, 2P56, 2P57, 2P62, 2P92, 2P96, 3P38, 3P39, 3P45, 3P46, 4V40-4V49, 4V60-4V69

Honours Program

Honours English students must complete an array of historical period courses and a course in the history of the English language, and are strongly advised to take courses in literary criticism or theory. Students planning to proceed to training for intermediate or secondary school teaching are advised to include in their Honours English program three credits in a second teachable discipline.

Eleven English credits are required for an Honours degree.
·   One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
·   ENGL 3F91
·   two ENGL credits from List A (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL List B credit from ENGL 2P30, 2P31, 3P30, 3P31, 3P42, 4V30-4V39
·   one additional ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
·   two ENGL credits from List C (see List Courses)
·   three additional ENGL credits, (see program notes 6 and 7)
·   one language credit other than English (see language requirement)
·   one Science context credit
·   one Social Science context credit
·   six elective credits (see program note 7)

Concurrent ENGL BA/BEd

The Department of English Language and Literature and the Faculty of Education co-operate in offering two Concurrent BA (Honours)/BEd programs. The English BA (Honours)/BEd program combines the BA Honours program or BA Integrated Studies Honours program with the teacher education programs for students interested in teaching at the Intermediate/Senior level (grades 7-12) and at the Junior/Intermediate level (grades 4-10.) Refer to the Education - Concurrent BA (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) or Education - Concurrent BA Integrated Studies (Honours)/BEd (Junior/Intermediate) program listings for further information.

BA with a Major in English and Professional Writing

This program combines study in English literature with training in professional writing, and is designed for students planning to seek work in areas that require demonstrated proficiency in writing for the workplace.

Seven ENGL and four WRIT credits are required for a BA with a Major degree.
·   One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
·   WRIT 1P96
·   one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
·   three additional ENGL credits (see program notes 6 and 7)
·   one-half WRIT credit
·   three additional WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above
·   one language credit other than English (see language requirement)
·   one Science context credit
·   one Social Science context credit
·   six elective credits (see program note 7)

Pass Program

Seven ENGL credits are required for a Pass degree.
·   One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
·   one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
·   one additional ENGL credit from List A, List B or List C (see List Courses)
·   two additional ENGL credits (see program note 7)
·   one language credit other than English (see language requirement)
·   one Science context credit
·   one Social Science context credit
·   five elective credits (see program note 7)

English Plus

English Plus is an alternative four-year Honours program designed for those who wish to combine the study of English with studies in contemporary media and culture. Students planning to proceed to training for intermediate or secondary school teaching are advised to include three credits in their English Plus program in a second teachable discipline.

Nine ENGL credits are required for an Honours English Plus degree.
·   One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
·   ENGL 3F91
·   COMM 1F90
·   two ENGL credits from List A (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL List B credit from ENGL 2P30, 2P31, 3P30, 3P31, 4V30-4V39
·   one additional ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
·   two ENGL credits from List C (see List Courses)
·   one additional ENGL credit (see program note 7)
·   three additional credits from COMM, PCUL, FILM
·   one language credit other than English (see language requirement)
·   one Science context credit
·   one Social Science context credit
·   four elective credits (see program note 7)

Combined Major Programs

Honours
·   One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
·   ENGL 3F91
·   one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
·   two additional ENGL credits (see program note 7)
·   seven credits from the co-major discipline
·   one language credit other than English (see language requirement)
·   one Science context credit
·   one Social Science context credit
·   three elective credits (see program note 7)
Pass
·   One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
·   one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
·   one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
·   one additional ENGL credit (see program note 7)
·   five credits from the co-major discipline
·   one language credit other than English (see language requirement)
·   one Science context credit
·   one Social Science context credit
·   two elective credits (see program note 7)

Certificate in Professional Writing

The Department of English Language and Literature offers a Certificate in Professional Writing for those wishing to acquire a broad, practical experience and understanding of the management, organization and presentation of information and text. Certificate programs are limited to persons not currently enrolled in a degree program at Brock.

The certificate is awarded upon the successful completion of the following courses with a minimum 70 percent overall average.
·   Three credits from WRIT 1P80, 1P96, 2P14, 2P16, 2P18, 3P06, 3P07, 3P10, 3P12, 3P27, 3P28, 3P63, 4F99, 4P98, 4P99
·   two credits from COMM 1F90, 2P90, 2P91, LING 3P94, 3P95

Minor Programs

Minor in English Language and Literature

Students in other disciplines may obtain a Minor in English Language and Literature by successfully completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent overall average:
·   One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
·   three ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above

Minor in Professional Writing

Students in other disciplines may obtain a minor in Professional Writing by successfully completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent overall average:
·   One of WRIT 1P80 and 1P96, ENGL 1F91, ENGL 1F95, ENGL 1F97
·   three additional WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above

Course Descriptions

Note that not all courses are offered in every session. Refer to the applicable term timetable for details.

Prerequisites and Restrictions

Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.

English

ENGL 1F91
English Literature: Tradition and Innovation
Works from the mediaeval to the contemporary period, including such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wordsworth, the Brownings, Woolf and Rushdie. Genres include tragedy, romance, epic, and the novel. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.

ENGL 1F95
Literature in English: Forms, Themes and Approaches
Fiction, poetry, drama and film drawn from the 19th and 21st centuries. The conventions of genre and the ways writers shape their work to produce meaning. Treatment in literature of such themes as the nature of evil; history, gender and civil strife; constructions of love.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.

ENGL 1F97
Literature of Trauma and Recovery
Human suffering, both personal and societal, and the power of words to express and effect change in the face of powerful adversity. Narratives of and responses to illness, violence, death and mourning, war and pestilence, and genocide. Includes works drawn from fiction, poetry and drama.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.

ENGL 2F92
Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 2F92 and PCUL 2F92)
Archetypal and mythic dimensions of popular literary genres such as the detective novel, Gothic fiction, science fiction, the romance novel; comparison and contrast with other media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P10
Young People's Literature to 1914
Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels adapted for or directed toward children and young people from the folk-tale heritage to 1914.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P11
Young People's Literature after 1914
Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels written for children and young people during the 20th-century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P19
Chaucer: The Poetry
From The Book of the Duchess to The Canterbury Tales.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P10.

ENGL 2P21
Sixteenth-Century Literature
Prose and poetry from 1500 to 1590, including popular and courtly traditions.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P24
Early 17th-Century Literature
Early modern drama, poetry and prose, 1603 to the English Revolution, including such writers as Webster, Donne, Jonson and Lanyer.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P21.

ENGL 2P25
The Age of Sensibility
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose 1740-1798, including such writers as Johnson, Cowper, Sterne, Burney and Radcliffe.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2P41.

ENGL 2P30
Early Romantic Writing
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose by such writers as Blake, the Wordsworths, Coleridge and Austen.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P31
Later Romantic Writing
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose by such writers as Byron, the Shelleys, Keats and Hemans.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P51
Literature of the British Empire
Literature, both popular and canonical, which reflects the ongoing relationship between British imperialism, literary forms and cultural politics, from the 17th century to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P52
Postcolonial Literature
Literatures of resistance and emergence written in English in former British territories, such as those in Africa and the West Indies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P53
Southern African Literatures of Transition
Literary explorations of and interventions in the political and socio-cultural transitions from white regimes to majority-rule politics Emphasis on histories of trauma, displacement and dispossession.
Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P56
The Short Story
Theory and analysis of the short story from Poe and Hawthorne to contemporary writers.
Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2F55.

ENGL 2P57
Representing the World in Modern Fiction
Major modes in the representation of human experience in modern fiction: romance, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Novels and short stories.
Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2F55.

ENGL 2P61
American Literature to 1900
Literature and literary culture from early European contact through Henry James and Edith Wharton emphasizing such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe and Dickinson.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P62
American Literature after 1900
Literature and literary culture from Henry James and the beginnings of modernism to the present time emphasizing the broadening of the canon.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P70
Introduction to Literary Theory
Approaches to meaning and interpretation in the contemporary study of literature.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P91
Canadian Literature to 1920
Poetry, fiction and prose from Moodie and Haliburton to Lampman, Leacock and Pratt.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P92
Canadian Literature from 1920 to the Present
Poetry, fiction and prose from Grove and Callaghan to Ondaatje, Atwood and Findley.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P94
Women Writers to 1900
(also offered as WISE 2P94)
Prose, poetry and drama by women from the 17th to the 19th-century including such writers as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips, Lucy Hutchinson, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P95
Modern Women Writers
(also offered as WISE 2P95)
Prose, poetry and drama by women from the mid-19th century to the present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P96
Valuing Modern Fiction
Contesting concepts of literary value; the grounds and methods of evaluation; differing interpretive communities; social locations and uses of fiction. Novels and short stories.
Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2Q92
Elizabethan Shakespeare
(also offered as GBLS 2Q92)
Representative plays from the first half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of fin-de-siècle Elizabethan England.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q93
Jacobean Shakespeare
(also offered as GBLS 2Q93)
Representative plays from the second half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of the opening decade of James I's culturally divisive reign.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q94
Shakespeare's Comedies
(also offered as GBLS 2Q94)
Representative comedies and tragicomedies emphasizing the variety of Shakespeare's comic modes, from the grotesque to the miraculous, and on theoretical approaches to the comic.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q95
Shakespeare's Tragedies
(also offered as GBLS 2Q95)Shakespeare's development of tragedy as a genre in the context of early modern aesthetic and cultural concerns. Attention to recent theoretical approaches.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q96
Shakespeare's Problem Plays
(also offered as GBLS 2Q96)
Shakespeare's most theoretically and culturally challenging plays. Attention to such issues as generic hybridity and breakdown, parody and metatheater.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q97
Shakespeare: the Non-Dramatic Verse
(also offered as GBLS 2Q97)
Study of the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis," "Rape of Lucrece," and other poems alongside representative selections of other late Elizabethan and early Jacobean poetry.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2V90-2V99
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of English literature.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3F91
History of the Language
The development of the English language from its origins to the present state of English in North America. The nature and cause of major internal changes in the language will be examined. The influence of external cultural and linguistic forces in the shaping of modern English. Selected literary models will be used to illustrate the stylistic development of English.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P06
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
(also offered as WRIT 3P06)
The craft of short fiction writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.

ENGL 3P07
Creative Writing: Poetry
(also offered as WRIT 3P07)
The craft of poetry writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.

ENGL 3P20
Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth
Elizabethan literature of the 1590s emphasizing Spenser.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2P22.

ENGL 3P22
The Literature of Milton's Time
Poetry and prose from the Civil War to the early Restoration period emphasizing Milton.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P25
Restoration and Augustan Literature
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose 1660-1740 by such writers as Dryden, Behn, Pope, Swift and Montagu.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2P40.

ENGL 3P27
Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations
(also offered as WRIT 3P27)
Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. Attention to issues of the relation of language use to cultural practices, ethics, identity and power. Analysis of various genres of texts and persuasive writing in popular culture and mass media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one WRIT or two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P28
Rhetorical Analysis
(also offered as WRIT 3P28)
Analysis of literary and non-literary texts using categories, insights and practices of classical and contemporary rhetorical studies. Texts include poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, scientific and political writing, and advertising. Attention to the rhetoric of public spaces, issues of social justice, and the building and maintenance of human communities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one WRIT or two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P30
Early Victorian Literature
Poetry, fiction and prose to the 1860s, including Tennyson, the Brontës, Arnold, Dickens and the Brownings.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P31
Later Victorian Literature
Poetry, fiction and prose from the pre-Raphaelites to the end of the century, including the Rossettis, Meredith, Swinburne, Pater, Hardy and Wilde.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P38
Twentieth-Century Literature: The Modern Period
Modernist writing in English, from its experimental beginnings through its engagement with radical social thought in the 1960s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P33, 3P34 and 3P35.

ENGL 3P39
Contemporary Literature in English
The postmodern period emphasizing the forms, approaches and cultural responses that have characterized writing in English in the later 20th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P36.

ENGL 3P40
The 18th-Century Novel
The rise of the novel and its development 1700 to 1830 by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, Fielding, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Burney and Austen.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3F40.

ENGL 3P41
The Gothic Novel
The gothic novel from its beginnings to the 19th century by such writers as Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Maturin, Shelley and Brontë.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3F40.

ENGL 3P42
The 19th-Century Novel
Emergence of the novel as the pre-eminent literary form emphasizing engagement with social issues of the period and on realism as a means of representing human experience. May include such writers as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy and James.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3F40.

ENGL 3P45
Modern Poetry and Poetics
Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries emphasizing the relationship between form and ideas in poems that investigate the central aesthetic, intellectual and political concerns of the modern period.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 3F42.

ENGL 3P46
Poetry in the Contemporary World
Poetry from the 20th century to the present emphasizing the varieties and functions of poetry in the period. Issues related to the production and distribution of poetry in print form, electronic fora, and public performance in our time.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 3F42.

ENGL 3P90
Auto/Biography
Biographical and autobiographical writings: types, reception, theoretical aspects.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P91
The Anglo-Saxon Language
Study of the language designed to provide a reading knowledge of Anglo-Saxon. Includes some accessible Anglo-Saxon texts.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3F92.

ENGL 3P92
Anglo-Saxon Literature
Forms, conventions and cultural context of Anglo-Saxon literature. Includes such texts as The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dream of the Rood and excerpts from Beowulf.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisite: ENGL 3P91.

ENGL 3P94
Literary Criticism
(also offered as GBLS 3P94)
Literary criticism from Aristotle to Brooks and Leavis emphasizing enduring literary critical problems.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (GBLS) 3F93.

ENGL 3P95
Literature of the 14th and 15th Centuries
The northern alliterative revival: Langland and Malory.
Seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2P19, 3P10 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4P10.

ENGL 3V60-3V69
Special Topics in Canadian Literature

ENGL 3V60
2003-2004: Writing Aboriginality in Canada
Aboriginal peoples and culture, as imagined and written into canonical English texts, and as they have written their own narratives and themselves.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3V70-3V79
Theoretical Issues in the Study of Literature

ENGL 3V90-3V99
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.

ENGL 4F99
Senior Research Tutorial or Thesis
Either tutorial combined with individual research or a thesis on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average, a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4P70
Contemporary Literary Theory: Structuralist and Poststructuralist Thought
Advanced introduction to theoretical concerns. Structuralist theoreticians, such as Marx, de Saussure, Freud, Levi-Strauss and Barthes. Poststructuralist theoreticians, such as Derrida, Foucault and Lacan.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4F70.

ENGL 4P71
Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
Advanced introduction to such areas as cultural studies, postcolonial theory, subjectivity and identity, postmodernism and feminism.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: ENGL 4P70.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4F70.

ENGL 4P98
Senior Tutorial or Research Paper
Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4P99
Senior Tutorial or Research Paper
Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4V00-4V09
Topics in English Literature Before 1800
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V01
2003-2004: Early Modern Theatres of Cruelty
Violence, pain and abjection on the early modern stage emphasizing issues of gender, race and state violence. Playwrights such as Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster and Ford. Twentieth-century theorists, such as Artaud, Kristeva, Foucault, Scarry and Zizek.

ENGL 4V30-4V39
Topics in 19th-Century Literature
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V40-4V49
Topics in Contemporary Literature
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V60-4V69
Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V64
2003-2004: Contemporary Canadian Fiction: the Short Story
Short fiction by such writers as Munro, Gallant, Atwood, and MacLeod, in the context of contemporary theory related to the short story.

ENGL 4V65
2003-2004: Space, Place and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Poetry
Renditions of space in the work of contemporary Canadian poets, such as Atwood, Ondaatje, Page, Heighton, Kroetsch and Scobie, with attention to theories of place and space, and to related issues of identity and agency.

ENGL 4V70-4V79
Text and Context
Topics in literature and intellectual history.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V90-4V99
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.
Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 1P80
Introduction to Writing
Exploration of the connections among careful reading, writing and thinking: introduction to the analytical, grammatical and editorial tools needed for clear and forceful expression in well-articulated essays, from the narrative to the expository.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

WRIT 1P81
Academic Writing
Writing undergraduate papers, expression and organization of arguments, presentation of evidence, how and why styles and conventions differ across disciplines.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: WRIT 1P80 or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 1P96
Professional Writing: An Introduction
Introduction to various forms of writing, both literary and non-literary, through an investigation of a wide range of texts. Selected rhetorical theories. Examples of journalistic, literary, scientific and professional writing will serve as models for student writing assignments.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

WRIT 2P14
Technical Writing
(also offered as COMM 2P14)
Processes of technical writing and editing. Document design for scientific, corporate and industrial communication. Practical experience in the production of technical documents.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT 2P15.

WRIT 2P16
Communication for Organizations
(also offered as COMM 2P16)
Theory, strategies and practice of writing for both business and public organizations.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor

WRIT 2P18
Reporting and News Writing for Mass Media
(also offered as COMM 2P18)
News gathering, writing, and editing for print and electronic media; journalistic style and conventions; interviewing and other information-gathering techniques; editing basics.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ENPW majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Writing may register prior to the date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT 3P09.

WRIT 3P06
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
(also offered as ENGL 3P06)
The craft of short fiction writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.

WRIT 3P07
Creative Writing: Poetry
(also offered as ENGL 3P07)
The craft of poetry writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha) 99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.

WRIT 3P10
Teaching Writing: Theory and Practice
Major pedagogies of contemporary writing instruction: composition theory; technology related to teaching writing; collaborative strategies; course design; responding to student writing; practical experience.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99; one WRIT credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 3P12
Information Literacy
Concepts and theories in communication and information retrieval with reference to a variety of media and information sources, including the Internet. The role of scholars and journalists in producing information. Strategies for acquiring, evaluating and communicating information.
Lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one WRIT or two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 3P27
Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations
(also offered as ENGL 3P27)
Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. Attention to issues of the relation of language use to cultural practices, ethics, identity and power. Analysis of various genres of texts and persuasive writing in popular culture and mass media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one WRIT or two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 3P28
Rhetorical Analysis
(also offered as ENGL 3P28)
Analysis of literary and non-literary texts using categories, insights, and practices of classical and contemporary rhetorical studies. Texts include poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, scientific and political writing, and advertising. Attention to the rhetoric of public spaces, issues of social justice, and the building and maintenance of human communities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one WRIT or two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 3P63
Desktop Publishing and Design
(also offered as COMM 3P63)
Practicum in desktop publishing, layout and design.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ENPW and COMM (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: COMM 2F50, one WRIT credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 4F99
Independent Studies in Writing
Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Note: the student will produce a substantial body of work on a writing and communications issue. Students must have a minimum 75 percent average in two WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. The Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

WRIT 4P98
Independent Studies in Writing
Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Note: the student will produce a substantial body of work on a writing and communications issue. Students must have a minimum 75 percent average in two WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. The Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

WRIT 4P99
Independent Studies in Writing
Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Note: the student will produce a substantial body of work on a writing and communications issue. Sudents must have a minimum 75 percent average in two WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. The Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.