Chair John Lye Professor Emeritus Michael S. Hornyansky Professors David W. Atkinson, Marilyn J. Rose, Elizabeth Sauer Associate Professors John Lye, Mathew Martin, Barbara K. Seeber, Angus A. Somerville, Susan Spearey Assistant Professors Robert Alexander, James Allard, Neta Gordon, Angela Mills, Steven D. Scott Lecturer Jaclyn Rea Studies in Rhetoric and Professional Writing Program Co-ordinator Jaclyn Rea Undergraduate Officer Mathew Martin Faculty of Humanities Undergraduate Adviser Liz Kaethler |
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Administrative Assistant Janet Sackfie 905-688-5550, extension 3469 Mackenzie Chown A310 The Literature programs in the Department of English Language and Literature focus on an understanding of the traditions, themes and dynamics of imaginative writing in English, within its various historical and cultural contexts. Students choose courses from a broad range of historically-organized courses, courses in literary genres, and courses in the history of language, criticism and theory. The program in Studies in Rhetoric and Professional Writing focusses on the theoretical and practical applications of writing in and for a range of professional contexts. The Department aims in its programs to foster an informed and critical intelligence, a mastery of the best uses of language, and an appreciation for the social and personal centrality of powerful imaginative and expository writing across times and cultures. The Department offers a BA Honours in English Language and Literature, a BA Honours in English and Contemporary Culture, a four-year degree with Major in English and Professional Writing, a three-year program leading to the BA Pass degree, and combined honours and pass degrees in English and another subject. 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 Language and Literature 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 specified Dramatic Literature courses. Students may register in courses numbered 4(alpha)00 and above only upon admittance to Year 4 studies or with the permission of the instructor and the Chair. |
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Students in the Department of English Language and Literature must complete one credit in a language other than English. Where one-half credit courses are used to satisfy the requirement, both half credits must be in the same language. |
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List Courses in English reflect historical periods, as follows: List A: Literature to 1740: ENGL 2P19, 2P21, 2P24, 2Q92, 2Q93, 2Q94, 2Q95, 2Q98, 3P20, 3P22, 3P25, 3P92, 3P95, 4V00-4V09 List B: Literature from 1740 to 1900: ENGL 2P25, 2P30, 2P31, 2P61, 2P91, 3P30, 3P31, 3P40, 3P41, 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, 3P61, 3P63, 3V61, 4V40-4V49, 4V60-4V69 |
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Honours English students must complete an array of historical period courses 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.
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English and Contemporary Culture 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 and Contemporary Culture program in a second teachable discipline. Nine ENGL credits are required for an Honours English and Contemporary Culture degree.
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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. |
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This program combines study in English literature with the theory and practice of 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 Major degree.
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Seven ENGL credits are required for a Pass degree.
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Students may take a combined major in English Language and Literature and a second discipline. For requirements in the other discipline, the student should consult the relevant department/centre. It should be noted that not all departments/centres provide a combined major option. Honours
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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:
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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:
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:
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Note that not all courses are offered in every session. Refer to the applicable term timetable for details. # Indicates a cross listed course * Indicates primary offering of a cross listed course |
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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. |
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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. Literature in English: Forms, Themes and Approaches Fiction, poetry, drama and film drawn from the 19th century to the present. 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. Literature of Trauma and Recovery Responses to 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations (also offered as WRIT 2P27) Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. Includes 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 credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL (WRIT) 3P27. 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. 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. Literature of the British Empire (also offered as INTL 2P51) 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. Postcolonial Literature (also offered as INTL 2P52) 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. Southern African Literatures of Transition (also offered as INTL 2P53) 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. 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. 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. American Literature to 1865 Literature and literary culture from early European to the Civil War, including Puritan and Revolutionary era writers as well as such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville 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. American Literature after 1865 Literature and literary culture from Mark Twain and Henry James and the beginnings of modernism to the present time emphasizing formal experimentation as well as 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. 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. 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. 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. Women Writers to 1830 (also offered as WISE 2P94) Prose, poetry and drama by women from the 14th to the early 19th century including such writers as Margery Kempe, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane Austen. 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. Women Writers 1830 to the Present (also offered as WISE 2P95) Prose, poetry, drama and novels by women from the Victorian period 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. 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. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2F55. English and Empire Cultural, political, economic, and linguistic forces shaping the global expansion of English. Focus on at least one of English in Asia, Africa or the Americas. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, or permission of the instructor. Studies in the History of English The cultural and linguistic contexts of English in selected periods, traditions, regions, and writers or groups of writers. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, or permission of the instructor. Shakespeare 1590-1603 (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. Shakespeare 1603-1614 (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. 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. 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. Non-Shakespearean Drama in England, 1576-1642 Variety of dramatic genres written for the playhouses of early modern London, including plays by Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Middleton, Massinger and Ford. 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 2V91. Women in World Literature (also offered as WISE 2Q99) Feminist perspectives on representations of women and their writings including both English and translated texts. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WISE 2P92. 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. 2005-2006: Twentieth-Century Children's Fantasy Fiction Developments in fantasy fiction for children throughout the 20th century, including such writers as Tolkien, Lewis, Yolen and Rowling. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. 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)90 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. 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)90 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. True Stories: The Art and Craft of Literary Journalism (also offered as WRIT 3P18) History and theory of narrative non-fiction from Daniel Defoe to Susan Orlean; techniques of narrative craft in the telling of factual stories. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one and one-half ENGL, COMM or WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Poetry of Edge and Margin Radical poetry in the 20th and 21st centuries emphasizing experiment and dissent. Poetic communities; ways in which poetry is produced and distributed in different settings and forms. 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. Literature of the American South Literary traditions of the states below the Mason-Dixon line, reflective of their distinctive social and political ideologies and discourses. May include such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Chestnut, Harriet Jacobs, Kate Chopin, Joel Chandler Harris, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Maya Angelou, and Bobbie Ann Mason. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. 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. Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Basics of the language; selections from some of the earliest English prose and verse. 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. Anglo-Saxon Poetry Contexts and conventions of the earliest English poetry. Includes such poems as Maldon, Wanderer, Seafarer, Judith, Wife's Lament, Dream of the Rood and excerpts from Beowulf. Seminar, 3 hours per week Prerequisite: ENGL 3P91. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3F92. 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. Romance and Visionary Literature of the late Middle Ages Such texts as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl from Langland's Piers the Plowman, Sir Thomas Malory's account of the rise and fall of the Round Table. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Old Norse: The Language and the Literature I The Old Norse language; introduction to the prose, poetry, and culture of the Viking age. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: two credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, or permission of the instructor. Note: the prerequisite courses should be from the Faculty of Humanities. Old Norse: The Language and the Literature II Old Norse prose and poetry of the Viking age, including prose sagas, heroic poetry, and skaldic verse. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: ENGL 3P96. Special Topics in Canadian Literature 2005-2006: Responses to WWI in Canadian Literature Poetry and prose written both during and directly following WWI. Authors may include Frank Prewett, Charles Harrison, Nellie McClung, Timothy Findley, Ted Plantos and Jane Urquhart, and up to contemporary literary responses to WWI. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Theoretical Issues in the Study of Literature English Area Studies Studies in a specialized area of literature in English. 2005-2006: Feminist Rewritings of Traditional Tales Rewritings of Traditional genres such as fairy tales and legends. Examination of the ways such rewritings participate in cultural constructions of gender and gender roles, in cultural debates and redefinitions of feminism, and in cultural change. Primarily fantasy novels and short stories. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. 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: permission of the Chair. Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department. Literature of the English Revolution (also offered as HIST 4P00) Literary, critical, historical and theoretical perspectives on texts from the 1640s to the Restoration, including Areopagitia, Baislike, female prophesy and Agreement of the People. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENED and HIST (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum major average of 60 percent or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice (also offered as WRIT 4P10) Analysis of the relation between stylistic features and discursive contexts; encoding and enacting of social worlds and relations in text (both literary and non-literary); introduction to the field of discourse studies in general, critical discourse analysis in particular. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), COMM (single or combined), LIAU, LING (single or combined), LISL (single or combined), LITE and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Note: Students minoring in Writing may register. Contact the English Department. Words on Words: Narratives of Language (also offered as WRIT 4P15) Critical history of the study of language from Socrates to Saussure and after. Theories of the nature and origin of language; the relations among reality, language, and thought, including the relationship between linguistic theories and literary representation in several historical periods. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), COMM (single or combined), LIAU, LING (single or combined), LISL (single or combined), LITE and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Note: Students minoring in Writing may register. Contact the English Department. 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 ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4F70. 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 ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4F70. Honours Seminar in English Studies Major theoretical and critical issues in English studies. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4 or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 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: permission of the Chair. Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department. 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: permission of the Chair. Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department. Topics in English Literature Before 1800 Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Topics in 19th-Century Literature Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2005-2006: Women Writers of the Romantic Period Poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction prose by women writing between 1780 and 1830. Writers may include Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Prince, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Felicia Hemans, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2005-2006: Experimenting with America: Writing and Reformism, 1830-1930 Writing produced by reformers and communal experimenters and literature's response to the ideas of reform and alternative community. Topics include abolitionism, woman suffragism, Shakerism and literature by writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum major average of 60 percent or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2005-2006: James Joyce's Ulysses Close reading and discussion of Joyce's 1922 novel using various theoretical perspectives and reading approaches. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum major average of 60 percent or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Topics in Contemporary Literature Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2005-2006: Montreal in the 1940's: The Birth of Modern Canadian Literature The rise of Canadian modernism in it's cultural contextualization. Issues such as to why modernism first appeared in Montreal, which writers were prominent and why, what relationships existed among these writers, where they published their work, what else was going on socially, politically and artistically for foster modernism. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Text and Context Topics in literature and intellectual history. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. English Area Studies Studies in a specialized area of literature in English. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. |
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WRIT 1P94 Introduction to Academic Writing Writing papers for academic contexts; expression and analysis of scholarly arguments and related use of evidence; analysis of scholarly sub-genres and their functions; how and why styles and conventions differ across disciplines. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT 1P80 and 1P81. WRIT 1P96 Introduction to Professional Writing Contexts and conventions of workplace and public genres of writing; selected rhetorical theories; assignments modelled on business, technical, journalistic and literary texts. 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)p0 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)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 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 EWRT majors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Writing may register prior to the date specified in Registration guide. Contact the English Department. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT 3P09. * WRIT 2P27 Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations (also offered as ENGL 2P27) Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. Includes 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 credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT (ENGL) 3P27. * 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)90 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)90 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 3P16 Organizational Discourses Relations between culture, discourse and the writing produced in organizational settings; rhetorics of business, management, law and science; the role of writing in the production and maintenance of socio-cultural interests and values. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one of WRIT 2P14, 2P16, COMM 2P65 or permission of the instructor. * WRIT 3P18 True Stories: The Art and Craft of Literary Journalism (also offered as ENGL 3P18) History and theory of narrative non-fiction from Daniel Defoe to Susan Orlean; techniques of narrative craft in the telling of factual stories. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one and one-half WRIT, COMM or ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. *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 EWRT 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 Chair. 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 4P10 Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice (also offered as ENGL 4P10) Analysis of the relation between stylistic features and discursive contexts; encoding and enacting of social worlds and relations in text (both literary and non-literary); introduction to the field of discourse studies in general, critical discourse analysis in particular. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), COMM (single or combined), LIAU, LING (single or combined), LISL (single or combined), LITE and ENED majors with approval to Year 4, and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Note: Students minoring in Writing may |
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2005-2006 Undergraduate Calendar
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