Chair Ann Howey Professors Tim Conley, Martin Danahay, Douglas Kneale, Mathew Martin, Marilyn Rose, Elizabeth Sauer Associate Professors Robert Alexander, James Allard, Lynn Arner, Gregory Betts, Adam Dickinson, Neta Gordon, Ann Howey, Leah Knight, Barbara K. Seeber, Susan Spearey, Carole Stewart Assistant Professors Natalee Caple, Gale Coskan-Johnson, Andrew Pendakis Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies Co-ordinator Gale Coskan-Johnson Undergraduate Officer Martin Danahay Academic Adviser Alisa Cunnington |
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Administrative Assistant Janet Sackfie 905-688-5550, extension 3469 573A Glenridge 157 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 Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies program focuses on the theoretical, creative and practical applications of writing in and for a range of contexts. The Creative Writing program focuses on the craft of key literary genres, as well as the material and social contexts of creative writing. Prospective students to the English and Creative Writing program must submit a portfolio in the Winter term of their first year. See Department for further details on portfolio requirements and due dates. 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 BA Honours in English and Creative Writing, a four-year degree with Major in English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies, 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, creative and professional writing which are available as electives to all Brock students who wish to explore theories of language production and develop their creative and professional writing skills. The Department also offers a Minor in English Language and Literature and a Minor in Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies as well as a Certificate in Rhetoric and 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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List Courses in English and Writing reflect historical periods, studies in genre, and studies in theory and criticism as follows: List A: Literature to 1740: ENGL 2P19, 2P21, 2P24, 2P80, 2P81, 2P82, 2P83, 2P84, 2P95, 3P20, 3P22, 3P95, 4P00, 4P06, 4V00-4V09, 4V70 List B: Literature from 1740 to 1900: ENGL 2P10, 2P26, 2P32, 2P33, 2P60, 2P64, 2P67, 3P26, 3P32, 3P33, 3P40, 3P41, 3P42, 3P44, 4P30, 4V30-4V39 List C: Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: ENGL 2P11, 2P52, 2P53, 2P65, 2P66, 2P68, 2P69, 3P38, 3P39, 3P43, 3P45, 3P66, 4P41, 4P45, 4P64, 4P65, 4P68, 4P72, 4V40-4V49 List D: Studies in Genre: ENCW 2P72, 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72, 3P73, 4P06, 4P07, 4P08, ENGL 2P10, 2P11, 2P13, 2P15, 2P19, 2P45, 2P56, 2P82, 2P83, 2P84, 2P93, 3P03, 2Q99, 3P40, 3P41, 3P42, 3P43, 3P45, 3P61, 3P66, 3P90, 3V93, 4P64, 4P65, WRIT 2P20, 3P18 List E: Studies in Theory and Criticism: ENGL 2P70, 3P94, 3Q91, 3Q92, 3Q93, 3Q94, 4P71, 4P90, 4P91, WRIT 2P28, 3P28, 4P10, 4P15, 4P20 |
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Honours English students must complete an array of courses in historical periods, genres and 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 ENGL credits are required for this Honours degree List course requirements are:
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Combines study in English literature with workshop and lecture courses designed to give students practical experience in creative writing as well as study in the social and theoretical aspects of creative writing. Students planning to proceed to training for intermediate or secondary school teaching are advised to include in their Honours English and Creative Writing program three credits in a second teachable discipline. Prospective students to the English and Creative Writing program must submit a portfolio in the Winter term of their first year. See Department for further details on portfolio requirements and due dates. Three ENCW credits and eight credits from ENGL or WRIT are required for this Honours degree List course requirements are:
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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 this Honours degree List course requirements are:
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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 writing, and is designed for students wishing to enhance their English degree with a knowledge of rhetoric, discourse and the genres of creative and professional writing. Six ENGL and five WRIT credits are required for this BA with Major degree List course requirements are:
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Seven ENGL credits are required for a Pass degree List course requirements are:
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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 Seven ENGL credits are required for a combined Honours degree List course requirements are:
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Pass Five ENGL credits are required for a combined Pass degree List course requirements are:
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The Department of English Language and Literature offers a Certificate in Rhetoric and 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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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:
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Students in English Language and Literature and other disciplines may obtain a Minor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Studies by successfully completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent overall average:
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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. CREATIVE WRITING COURSES The Creative Writer (also offered as ENGL 2P72 and WRIT 2P72) Material practice of creative writing in Canada emphasizing its production, ethics and future. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Creative Writing: Short Fiction The craft of short fiction writing. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENCW major or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99. Note: non-English and Creative Writing students may register; see Department for details regarding writing portfolio. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT(ENGL) 3P06. Creative Writing: Poetry The craft of poetry writing. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENCW majors or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Note: non-English and Creative Writing students may register; see Department for details regarding writing portfolio. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT (ENGL) 3P07. Creative Non-Fiction Writing The craft of creative non-fiction writing. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENCW majors or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99. Note: non-English and Creative Writing students may register; see Department for details regarding writing portfolio. The Creative Writer and the Community (also offered as ENGL 3P72 and WRIT 3P72) Consideration of the special place the creative writer occupies in the various communities, literary, local and global, of which he or she is a member. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor. Creative Writing for Digital Media (also offered as ENGL 3P73 and WRIT 3P73) Exploration of new avenues for creative expression opened by digital technologies. Consideration of how digitalization changes such notions as the nature of creativity, genre, audience, authorship and copyright. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor. Advanced Creative Writing: Short Fiction Advanced craft of short fiction writing. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENCW majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. Note: non-English and Creative Writing students may register; see Department for details regarding writing portfolio. Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry Advanced craft of poetry writing. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENCW majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. Note: non-English and Creative Writing students may register; see Department for details regarding writing portfolio. Advanced Creative Non-Fiction Writing Advanced craft of creative non-fiction writing. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENCW majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. Note: non-English and Creative Writing students may register; see Department for details regarding writing portfolio. Writing the Environment Theoretical, literary texts, and creative writing concerning the relation between literature and the environment. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENCW majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (WRIT) 4P90. ENGLISH COURSES English Literature: Tradition and Innovation Works from the medieval 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. 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor. Genre Studies History and characteristics of a particular literary genre such as satire, detective fiction, graphic novels selected by the instructor. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor. Note: see Department webpage for details. Speculative Fiction Critical study of some of the histories, contexts, genres, and traditions of science fiction and the literature of the fantastic. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor. Literature in the Age of the Tudors Poetry and prose, primarily of the 16th century, in the cultural context of the Tudor dynasty and the print culture. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature and Culture I Examination of British literature and culture from 1660 to the 1790s. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations (also offered as IASC 2P28 and WRIT 2P28) Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. 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(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00, COMM 1F90, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (WRIT) 2P27. British Romanticism I Examination of the literature and culture of the Romantic period in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. British Victorian Literature and Culture I Examination of the literature and culture of the Victorian period in Britain from the 1830s to 1901. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or the permission of the instructor. Poetry and Poetics Construction of a working technical vocabulary for analyzing and discussing poetry, including a variety of poetic styles, authors and periods, as well as a number of critical statements on poetics. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Postcolonial Literature (also offered as INTC 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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Southern African Literatures of Transition (also offered as INTC 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, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): 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(s): one Humanities context credit (60 percent) or permission of the instructor. American Literature: 1800-1865 Literature of the post-Revolutionary era to the Civil war, foregrounding the foundation of a distinctly American literary tradition and the achievements of the American Renaissance. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P61. Early Canadian Literature Canadian explorations of cultural conflict and the emergence of the nation from First Contact to Exploration to Settlement. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Modern Canadian Literature Canadian literary response to the radical social and cultural shift of modernism. Topics include war, gender, industrialization and urbanization. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Contemporary Canadian Literature Writing from the post-centennial explosion and maturation of Canadian literature, including current cutting-edge work. Topics may include postmodernism, multiculturalism, ecocriticism and small press experimentation. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. American Literature:1865-1910 Prose of the Reconstruction period, the Gilded Age and the Progressive era, emphasizing the growth of the minority literatures and the rise of realism and regional writing. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P61. American Literature: 1910-1945 Literature of the early 20th century, emphasizing the various literary and cultural responses to industrialization and world wars, and the rise of modernism. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P62. American Prose from 1945 Topics may include the Cold War, the rise of social movements such as Black Power and Second-Wave Feminism, Vietnam, postmodernism, America and globalization, and expanding the canon of American literatures. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P62. Introduction to Literary Theory (also offered as IASC 2P70) Approaches to meaning and interpretation in the contemporary study of literature. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor. The Creative Writer (also offered as ENCW 2P72 and WRIT 2P72) Material practice of creative writing in Canada emphasizing its production, ethics and future. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Shakespeare 1590-1603 (also offered as LART 2P80) 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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART 1F90, 1F91, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Shakespeare 1603-1614 (also offered as LART 2P81) 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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor. Shakespeare's Comedies (also offered as LART 2P82) 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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor. Shakespeare's Tragedies (also offered as LART 2P83) 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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor. 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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 2Q98 and 2V91. Popular Narrative (also offered as COMM 2P93, FILM 2P93 and PCUL 2P93) Analysis of storytelling across different media such as novels, film, television, the Internet and video games. Lectures, seminar, lab, 5 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BCMN, COMM, FILM (single or combined), MCMN and PCUL majors. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (PCUL/COMM) 2F92. Reading the Middle Ages: The Heroic and the Chivalric (also offered as MARS 2P95) Interdisciplinary examination of literature, music, arts and society of both the northern Germanic hero and the medieval and Renaissance court. Included are Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon heroic literature, Eddic poetry, Old Norse sagas, the Niebelungenlied, the lais of Marie de France, Arthurian-related narratives, troubadours, and religious and secular music. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Women and Literature (also offered as INTC 2Q99 and WGST 2Q99) Feminist perspectives on representations of women and their writings, focusing on Western and/or World literature. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, INTC 1F90, WGST (WISE) 1F90. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 2Q99. Studies in Writing by Women (also offered as WGST 2V20-2V29) Selected topics in women's writing. Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WGST (WISE) 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 2V20-2V29. English Area Studies Studies in a specialized area of English literature. Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2V90-2V99. Advanced Studies in Popular Narrative (also offered as COMM 3P03, FILM 3P03 and PCUL 3P03) Case studies in the adaptation of popular texts across media. Lectures, seminar, lab, 5 hours per week. Restriction: open to ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BCMN, COMM, FILM, MCMN and PCUL majors. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2P93 (2F92). 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(s): one and one-half ENGL, COMM, PCUL or WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth Edmund Spenser's lyric and narrative verse, including sonnets, pastoral, and his epic romance, in the context of Elizabethan literature and culture. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. 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. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature and Culture II Advanced studies in British literature and culture from 1660 to the 1790s. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Rhetorical Analysis (also offered as IASC 3P28 and 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(s): two ENGL credits, one WRIT credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor. British Romanticism II Advanced studies in the literature and culture of the Romantic period in Britain from the 1780s to the 1830s. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. British Victorian Literature and Culture II Advanced studies in the literature and culture of the Victorian period in Britain from the 1830s to 1901. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Modernism Modernist writing in English, from its experimental beginnings through its engagement with radical social thought in the 1960s. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Contemporary Literature in English (also offered as IASC 3P39) 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. Prerequisite(s): one of two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99, IASC 2P57 and 2P70 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. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Gothic Writing The gothic in novels, poetry, drama and non-fiction prose from its beginnings to the turn of the 20th century by such writers as Burke, Radcliffe, Lewis, the Shelleys, the Brontës and Stoker. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. 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. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Gothic Traditions since 1900 The gothic in fiction, non-fiction prose, and popular culture from the turn of the 20th century to the present by such figures as Stoker, Peake, Hitchcock, King, Carter, Rice and Craven. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Writing the Body in 19th-Century Literature Representations in American and British poetry and fiction. Topics include the diseased body, the racialized body, the gendered body and the eroticized body. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous grade and credit obtained in ENGL 3V91. 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. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Literary Movements in the United States Movement or tradition in American literature organized around a school of representation or a cultural tradition such as Hispanic, Asian, African American or Native Literatures. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor. Filming Canadian Literature Interplay between a wide range of Canadian literary texts and their film versions; includes adaptation and narrative theory. Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. The Creative Writer and the Community (also offered as ENCW 3P72 and WRIT 3P72) Consideration of the special place the creative writer occupies in the various communities, literary, local and global, of which he or she is a member. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor. Creative Writing for Digital Media (also offered as ENCW 3P73 and WRIT 3P73) Exploration of new avenues for creative expression opened by digital technologies. Consideration of how digitalization changes such notions as the nature of creativity, genre, audience, authorship and copyright. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor. Life Writing (also offered as WRIT 3P90) Cultural productions of the self; theories of and approaches to the study of life writing; texts may include memoirs, diaries, autobiographies and biographies. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Literary Criticism (also offered as LART 3P94) Literary criticism from Aristotle to Brooks and Leavis emphasizing enduring literary critical problems. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Romance and Visionary Literature of the late Middle Ages Such texts as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and Sir Thomas Malory's account of the rise and fall of the Round Table. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Structuralist and Poststructuralist Literary Theory Development of structuralist and poststructuralist thought from the late 19th century. Includes structuralist theoreticians such as de Saussure, Levi-Strauss and Barthes and poststructuralist theoreticians such as Derrida and Foucault. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4P70. Cultural Materialism and Literary Theory Examination of the evolving traditions of Marxian and dissident thought and the study of literature as cultural production within a political economy. Includes readings of such authors as Gramsci, Benjamin and Jameson. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Psychoanalysis and Literary Theory Key concepts and debates in psychoanalysis and their application to the study of literature. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Feminist Cultural Theory (also offered as WGST 3Q94) Relation between culture and the lives of diverse women. Intersections between a wide array of cultural forms, artifacts and practices and the ways in which gender is experienced and lived. Issues include the production of subjectivity, knowledge and power, the production of identities, institutional constructions of gender, resistance and agency. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits. Prerequisite(s): one of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97, WGST (WISE) 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (WISE) 3P67 and WISE 3Q94. Topics in Children's Literature Advanced Studies in writing for children and young people. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or above or permission of the instructor. Advanced Studies in Writing by Women (also offered as WGST 3V20) Selected topics in women's writing at an advanced theoretical and methodological level. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, WGST (WISE) 1F90 and one-half-credit from ENGL 2V20 to 2V29 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WGST 3V20-3V29. Special Topics in Canadian Literature Theoretical Issues in the Study of Literature English Area Studies Studies in a specialized area of literature in English. 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) Writings from the 1640s to the Restoration, including Areopagitia, Eikon Baislike, female prophesy and Agreement of the People, from literary, critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT 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. Medieval Literature and Social Control (also offered as MARS 4P06) Medieval English literature in relation to the management of different populations in Britain in the late Middle Ages. Topics include the English Rising of 1381, punishment systems, sexuality, literacies and class, the disciplining of bodies to conform to etiquette, the regulation of female speech, and colonization and civility. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and MARS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and Chair. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (MARS) 4V06. Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice (also offered as COMM 4P10 and 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, emphasizing critical discourse analysis. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 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, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Studies in Cultural Rhetoric (also offered as WRIT 4P20) How writing shapes and is shaped by the cultural, political, and economic spheres; the intersections between the fields of rhetoric and cultural studies and their contributions to writing production and analysis. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours) BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), HEAR, SPLS (single or combined) majors, RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Jane Austen The work of Austen from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4V30. Advanced Studies in Post-Colonial Literature Advanced studies in literature and theories of resistance and emergence focusing on literary responses to post-conflict conditions. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4V41. James Joyce's Ulysses Close reading and discussion of Joyce's 1922 novel. Various theoretical perspectives and reading approaches. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4V45. Contemporary Canadian Fiction: The Short Story Short fiction by such writers as Munro, Gallant, Atwood and MacLeod. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4V64. Space and Place in Modern and Contemporary Canadian Poetry Treatment of place in Canadian poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries including representation of urban, rural and wilderness environments. Focus on theories of place and space, the idea of home and the notion of lyric philosophy of contemporary Canadian nature poetry. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4V65. Avant-Garde in Canadian Literature Radical poetry and prose of the 20th century. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4V68. Contemporary Theoretical Approaches Current and emerging theoretical approaches to the study of literature. Includes movements such as new historicism, postcolonial theory, psychoanalytic criticism, queer and gender theory, trauma theory, ecocriticism and posthumanism. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. King Arthur in Literature for Young People Ways in which the Arthurian legend has been adapted for use in literature for young people focusing on texts from the 20th century in a range of genres. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4 (honours) and to RWRT 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 4V72. Animal Studies and Literature Literary and cultural representations of animals from the early modern period to the 21st century in the context of Human-Animal Studies. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average 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 Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2014-2015: Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe's drama and poetry in the context of Elizabethan theatre and culture. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) 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 Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2014-2015: Victorian Afterlives Comparison of influential Victorian texts such as Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula and Alice in Wonderland with later reworkings for print, stage and screen. Examination of contemporary revivals of Victorian style in steampunk fiction and artifacts in their cultural context. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2014-2015: London: Monster City Growth of London from a Medieval town into a major metropolitan area as reflected in poetry, novels and first-person accounts. Authors include Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)BEd/(Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor. Note: offered online. Topics in Contemporary Literature Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT 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 Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT 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 selected on the basis of faculty expertise. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 2014-2015: Empathy in Canadian Short Fiction The generation of affect in selected works of fiction, emphasizing cognitive approaches to the study of literature and distinctive strategies employed by Canadian short story writers in embodying feeling in narrative. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)BEd/(Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor. English Area Studies Studies in a specialized area of literature in English. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. WRITING COURSES Introduction to Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Discourse Contexts and conventions of workplace and public genres of writing; selected rhetorical theories; assignments modelled on creative, academic, and professional texts. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Technical Communication and Documents Concepts and techniques for writing technical documents. Various genre-specific rhetorical strategies that inform written work within and outside the university setting. Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: offered online. 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(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor. 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(s): 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. Reporting and News Writing for Mass Media (also offered as COMM 2P18 and PCUL 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 RWRT, BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors and RWRT minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor. Identity, Identification and Public Address Relation between individual and community identity as expressed in public address, history of writing and speaking in the public sphere, and the aesthetic and political constraints on writing as activism, as advocacy and as a participatory practice in local, national and/or transnational publics. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations (also offered as ENGL 2P28 and IASC 2P28) Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. 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(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT (ENGL) 2P27. Communication Design (also offered as COMM 2P63 and PCUL 2P63) Communication through imagery and typography, including grid usage, composition, visual hierarchy, content development and scale. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92. The Creative Writer (also offered as ENCW 2P72 and ENGL 2P72) Material practice of creative writing in Canada emphasizing its production, ethics and future. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Writing for New Media Theory and practice of writing for new online media. May include web sites, blogs, Twitter and other social media. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Organizational Discourses Relations between culture, discourse and the writing produced in organizational settings; rhetorics of business, management, law, science and media; the role of writing in the production and maintenance of socio-cultural interests and values. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): one of WRIT 2P14, 2P16, COMM 2P65 or permission of the instructor. 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(s): one and one-half WRIT, COMM, ENGL or PCUL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. Rhetorical Analysis (also offered as ENGL 3P28 and IASC 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(s): one WRIT credit, two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor. Desktop Publishing and Design (also offered as COMM 3P63 and PCUL 3P63) Practicum in desktop publishing, layout and design. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to RWRT, BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors and RWRT minors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits. The Creative Writer and the Community (also offered as ENCW 3P72 and ENGL 3P72) Consideration of the special place the creative writer occupies in the various communities, literary, local and global, of which he or she is a member. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor. Creative Writing for Digital Media (also offered as ENCW 3P73 and ENGL 3P73) Exploration of new avenues for creative expression opened by digital technologies. Consideration of how digitalization changes such notions as the nature of creativity, genre, audience, authorship and copyright. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor. Life Writing (also offered as ENGL 3P90) Cultural productions of the self; theories of and approaches to the study of life writing; texts may include memoirs, diaries, autobiographies and biographies. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Reporting Arts and Culture (also offered as STAC 3P98) Contexts, genres, conventions and practices of arts journalism in Canada; critical reading of selected texts in arts journalism; practical experience researching and writing arts news, reviews, features, and publicity for print and electronic media. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite(s): two credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above from WRIT, COMM, ENGL, PCUL, STAC or permission of the instructor. Interpretive and Critical Writing in the Arts (also offered as STAC 3P99 and VISA 3P99) Principles and methodologies for the written presentation and representation of works of art, artists' practice and events within general and specific disciplinary contexts, discourses and frameworks. Examples from across the arts; practice-based projects from real world events and performances. Orientation to specialized publics in print and other media. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: students must have a minimum 10.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor. Note: event attendance is required; events fees required. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT (STAC/VISA) 3V99. Topics in Writing and Culture Independent Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse 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. Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice (also offered as COMM 4P10 and 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, emphasizing critical discourse analysis. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Words on Words: Narratives of Language (also offered as ENGL 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, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. Studies in Cultural Rhetoric (also offered as ENGL 4P20) How writing shapes and is shaped by the cultural, political, and economic spheres; the intersections between the fields of rhetoric and cultural studies and their contributions to writing production and analysis. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), HEAR, SPLS (single or combined) majors, CWRT and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair. 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. 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. Writing Area Studies Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise. |
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2014-2015 Undergraduate Calendar
Last updated: June 26, 2014 @ 01:10PM