2017-2018 Undergraduate Calendar

Robert Alexander, James Allard, Lynn Arner, Gregory Betts, Gale Coskan-Johnson, Adam Dickinson, Neta Gordon, Ann Howey, Leah Knight, Susan Spearey, Carole Lynn Stewart

Assistant Professors

Natalee Caple, Ronald Cummings, Andrew Pendakis

Academic Adviser

Alisa Cunnington

General Information

Administrative Assistant

Janet Sackfie

905-688-5550, extension 3469

573A Glenridge 157

brocku.ca/english

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. 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 BA Honours in Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies, a three-year program leading to the BA Pass degree in English Language and Literature or Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies, a combined honours degree in English and Creative Writing and another subject, and combined honours and pass degrees in English Language and Literature and another subject or Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies and another subject. 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. 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.

Program Notes

1.	The following Dramatic Arts courses are available for English credit: DART 1F91, 2P96, 2P97, 2Q91, 2Q92, 3P91, 3Q91 and 3Q92.
2.	Students may take a maximum of one credit from ENGL 2P80, 2P81, 2P82, 2P83 to satisfy List A requirements.
3.	Students may take a maximum of three DART credits for English credit towards an Honours degree, and a maximum of two DART credits towards a Pass degree.
4.	The Department recommends that students take one credit in dramatic literature from ENGL 2P80, 2P81, 2P82, 2P83, 2P84, DART 1F91, 2P96, 2P97, 2Q91, 2Q92, 3P92, 3Q91, 3Q92.
5.	The Department advises students in English programs to have their programs reviewed each year by the Faculty of Humanities Undergraduate Adviser. Students planning to enter fourth year are required to have their programs approved by the Faculty of Humanities Undergraduate Adviser.
6.	Honours students are restricted to two credits numbered 4(alpha)00 and above; Combined Honours students are restricted to the number of credits numbered 4(alpha)00 and above as specified in the year-by-year program plan.
7.	Where List course requirements include one ENGL credit from List D or one ENGL credit from List E, the requirement may be met with one-half credit from List D and one-half credit from List E.
8.	In 20 credit degree programs a maximum of eight credits may be numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99; at least three credits must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above; at least three credits must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above; and the remaining credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. In 15 credit degree programs a maximum of eight credits may be numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99; at least three credits must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above; and the remaining credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. In some circumstances, in order to meet university degree and program requirements, more than 15 or 20 credits may be taken.

List Courses

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, 3P61, 4P30, 4P36, 4P37, 4P61, 4V30-4V39

List C: Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: ENGL 2F62, 2P11, 2P52, 2P53, 2P65, 2P66, 2P68, 2P69, 3P38, 3P39, 3P43, 3P45, 3P66, 3V91, 4P41, 4P45, 4P64, 4P72, 4V40-4V49

List D: Studies in Genre: ENCW 2P72, 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72, 3P73, 4P06, 4P07, 4P08, ENGL 2P10, 2P11, 2P13, 2P15, 2P17, 2P19, 2P45, 2P56, 2P82, 2P83, 2P84, 2P93, 2Q99, 3P03, 3P40, 3P41, 3P42, 3P43, 3P45, 3P61, 3P66, 3P90, 3V93, 4P64, 4P65, WRDS 2P20, 3P18

List E: Studies in Theory and Criticism: ENGL 2F62, 2P70, 3P94, 3Q91, 3Q92, 3Q93, 3Q95, 3Q96, 3V91, 4P71, 4P91, WRDS 2P28, 3P28, 4P10, 4P15, 4P20

Honours Program

English Language and Literature

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:

	one and one-half ENGL credits from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List B (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List C (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List D (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)

Year 1

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95 and 1F97
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit
	one elective credit

Years 2 and 3

	Seven ENGL credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	three elective credits

Year 4

	One ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	two ENGL credits numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 6)
	two elective credits

English and Creative Writing

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 WRDS are required for this Honours degree

List course requirements are:

	one and one-half ENGL credits from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List B (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List C (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List D (see List Courses)
	one credit from ENGL 2P13, 2P15, 2P45, 2P56, 2P70, 3P41, 3P45, 3P94, WRDS 2P20, 2P28, 3P18, 3P28, 3P90, 4P20

Year 1

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, and 1F97
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit
	one elective credit

Year 2

	ENCW 2P72
	one of ENCW 3P06, 3P07, 3P08
	two and one-half credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 from ENGL or WRDS (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	one and one-half elective credits

Year 3

	One credit from ENCW 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72 and 3P73
	two and one-half ENGL credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	one and one-half elective credits

Year 4

	One ENCW credit numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99
	one ENGL credit numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 6)
	one credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 from ENGL or WRDS (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	two elective credits

English and Contemporary Culture

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:

	one and one-half ENGL credits from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List B (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List C (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List D (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)

Year 1

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, and 1F97
	COMM 1F90
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit

Years 2 and 3

	Six ENGL credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	two additional credits from COMM, PCUL, FILM
	two elective credits

Year 4

	Two ENGL credits numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 6)
	one additional credit from COMM, PCUL, FILM
	two elective credits

Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

Combines the study of writing, rhetoric and discourse with the study of English literature.

Five WRDS credits and six ENCW, ENGL, WRDS credits are required for this Honours degree

Year 1

	ENGL 1F95
	WRDS 1F90
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences credit
	one elective credit

Year 2

	WRDS 2P28
	one and one-half credits from ENCW 2P72, ENGL 2P10, 2P11, 2P13, 2P15, 2P45, 2P56, 2P70, 2P93
	one credit from WRDS 2P12, 2P14, 2P16, 2P18, 2P20, 2P63
	two elective credits

Year 3

	WRDS 3P28
	one and one-half credits from ENCW 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72, 3P73, ENGL 3P03, 3P41, 3P43, 3P44, 3P45, 3P94, 3Q91, 3Q92, 3Q93, 3Q95, 3Q96
	one credit from WRDS 3P15, 3P16, 3P18, 3P63, 3P90, 3P98, 3P99
	two elective credits

Year 4

	One credit from WRDS 4F99, 4P00, 4P01, 4P10, 4P15, 4P20, 4P98, 4P99
	one ENCW, ENGL, WRDS credit
	one ENCW, ENGL, WRDS credit numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99
	two elective credits

Concurrent ENGL BA/BEd

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

BA with Major Program

English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

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 WRDS credits are required for this BA with Major degree

List course requirements are:

	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D (see List Courses)
	one-half ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)

Year 1

Year 1 is now closed

Years 2 and 3

	Four ENGL credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	three and one-half WRDS credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see program note 8)
	two and one-half elective credits

Year 4

	One ENGL credit numbered 3(alpha)90 to (alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	one WRDS credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 4(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	three elective credits

Pass Program

English Language and Literature

Seven ENGL credits are required for an ENGL Pass degree

List course requirements are:

	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D (see List Courses)
	one-half ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)

Year 1

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, and 1F97
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit

one elective credit

Years 2 and 3

	Six ENGL credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List Course requirements; see program note 8)
	four elective credits

Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

Combines the study of writing, rhetoric and discourse with the study of English literature.

Three WRDS credits and four ENCW, ENGL, WRDS credits are required for this Pass degree

Year 1

	ENGL 1F95
	WRDS 1F90
	one Sciences context elective credit
	one Social Sciences elective credit
	one elective credit

Year 2

	WRDS 2P28
	one credit from ENCW 2P72, ENGL 2P10, 2P11, 2P13, 2P15, 2P45, 2P56, 2P70, 2P93 (see program note 8)
	one credit from WRDS 2P12, 2P14, 2P16, 2P18, 2P20, 2P63
	two and one-half elective credits

Year 3

	WRDS 3P28
	two credits from ENCW 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72, 3P73, ENGL 3P03, 3P41, 3P43, 3P44, 3P45, 3P94, 3Q91, 3Q92, 3Q93, 3Q95, 3Q96, WRDS 3P15, 3P16, 3P18, 3P63, 3P90, 3P98, 3P99
	two and one-half elective credits

Combined Major Program

English Language and Literature

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

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	five ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List course requirements; see program note 8)
	one ENGL credit numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99 (see List course requirements; see program notes 6 and 8)

List course requirements are:

	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D or one ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses; see program note 7)

Pass

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	four ENGL credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see program note 8)

List course requirements are:

	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D or one ENGL credit from List E (see List courses; see program note 7)

English Language and Applied Linguistics

Consult the Applied Linguistics entry for a listing of program requirements.

English and Creative Writing (Honours only)

Students may take a combined major in English and Creative Writing 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

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	ENCW 2P72
	four ENGL or WRDS credits numbered 1(alpha)90 to 3(alpha)99 (see List course requirements; see program note 8)
	one of ENCW 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72, 3P73
	one-half ENCW credit numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99
	one-half ENGL or WRDS credit numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99

List course requirements are:

	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses
	one ENGL credit from List D or one ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses; see program note 7)

Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

Students may take a combined major in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Studies 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

	ENGL 1F95
	WRDS 1F90, 2P28 and 3P28
	one credit from ENCW 2P72, ENGL 2P10, 2P11, 2P13, 2P15, 2P45, 2P56, 2P70, 2P93 (see program note 8)
	one credit from ENCW 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72, 3P73, ENGL 3P03, 3P41, 3P43, 3P44, 3P45, 3P94, 3Q91, 3Q92, 3Q93, 3Q95, 3Q96, WRDS 3P15, 3P16, 3P18, 3P63, 3P90, 3P98, 3P99
	one credit from WRDS 2P12, 2P14, 2P16, 2P18 2P20, 2P63
	one of WRDS 4P00, 4P01, 4P10, 4P15, 4P20, 4P98, 4P99
	one-half ENCW, ENGL, WRDS credit numbered 4(alpha)00 to 4(alpha)99

Pass

	ENGL 1F95
	WRDS 1F90, 2P28 and 3P28
	one of ENCW 3P06, 3P07, 3P08, 3P72, 3P73, ENGL 3P03, 3P41, 3P43, 3P44, 3P45, 3P94, 3Q91, 3Q92, 3Q93, 3Q95, 3Q96, WRDS 3P15, 3P16, 3P18, 3P63, 3P90, 3P98, 3P99
	one credit from WRDS 2P12, 2P14, 2P16, 2P18, 2P20, 2P63
	one of ENCW 2P72, ENGL 2P10, 2P11, 2P13, 2P15, 2P45, 2P56, 2P70, 2P93 (see program note 8)

Certificate in Rhetoric and Professional Writing

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:

	Three WRDS credits
	two credits from COMM 1F90, 2P90, 2P91, LING 3P94, 3P95

Minor Program

Minor in English Language and Literature

Students in other disciplines may obtain a Minor in English Language and Literature by successfully completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent overall average:

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	three ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above

Minor in Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

The Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies Minor program combines the study of writing, rhetoric and discourse with the study of English literature.

Students in 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:

	WRDS 1F90
	one ENCW, ENGL, WRDS credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 3(alpha)99
	two WRDS credits numbered 2(alpha))00 to 3(alpha)99

Course Descriptions

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

Prerequisites and Restrictions

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

CREATIVE WRITING COURSES

#ENCW 1P06

History and Future of Storytelling

(also offered as IASC 1P06 and WRDS 1P06)

History of storytelling from the earliest oral traditions to contemporary forms of digital expression. Storytelling's cultural roots in fairy tales, legends and myths through to film, video games and interactive fiction. Elements of narrative, structure, character, conflict and dramatic arc. Concepts and practices in rhetoric, storyboarding, and presentation.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to GAMD majors until date specified in Registration guide.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 1P06.

*ENCW 2P72

The Creative Writer

(also offered as ENGL 2P72 and WRDS 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 (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WRDS (single or combined) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (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 WRIT 2P72.

ENCW 3P06

Creative Writing: Short Fiction

The craft of short fiction writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ENCW (single or combined) majors or permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (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 WRDS (ENGL) 3P06.

ENCW 3P07

Creative Writing: Poetry

The craft of poetry writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ENCW (single or combined) majors or permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to1(alpha)99, WRDS (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 WRDS (ENGL) 3P07.

ENCW 3P08

Creative Non-Fiction Writing

The craft of creative non-fiction writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ENCW (single or combined) majors or permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.

Note: non-English and Creative Writing students may register; see Department for details regarding writing portfolio.

*ENCW 3P72

The Creative Writer and the Community

(also offered as ENGL 3P72 and WRDS 3P72)

Consideration of the special place that creative writers occupy in their various communities, literary, local and global.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P72.

*ENCW 3P73

Creative Writing for Digital Media

(also offered as ENGL 3P73, IASC 3P73 and WRDS 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 (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WRDS (single or combined), IASC (single or combined) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P73.

*ENCW 3P92

Scriptwriting

(also offered as DART 3P92)

Theory and practice of writing with action, character and dialogue.

Seminar, workshop, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: students must have a minimum of 10.0 overall credits and permission of the Department of Dramatic Arts.

Prerequisite(s): DART 2P92 or permission of the Department of Dramatic Arts.

Note: materials fee required. Field trip fee may be required.

ENCW 4P06

Advanced Creative Writing: Short Fiction

Advanced craft of short fiction writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ENCW (single or combined) 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.

ENCW 4P07

Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

Advanced craft of poetry writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ENCW (single or combined) 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.

ENCW 4P08

Advanced Creative Non-Fiction Writing

Advanced craft of creative non-fiction writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ENCW (single or combined) 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.

ENGLISH COURSES

ENGL 1F91

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.

ENGL 1F95

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. May be offered online.

ENGL 1F97

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.

ENGL 2F62

Contact in Canadian Literature

Contact between Indigenous peoples and Settler populations in Canadian literature.

Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Note: offered online.

ENGL 2P10

Young People's Literature to 1914

Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels adapted for or directed toward children and young people from the folk-tale heritage to 1914.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P11

Young People's Literature after 1914

Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels written for children and young people during the 20th century.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P13

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.

*ENGL 2P15

Speculative Fiction

(also offered as IASC 2P15)

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.

ENGL 2P17

The Evolution of the Western

Adaptations of the genre of the Western in literature, film, television, radio, and comics to reflect contemporary politics, forms, and social ideals. Representations of nation, race and gender, and the ways in which this popular form can be used to explore ongoing and new cultural ideas and political issues.

Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

Note: offered online.

Students will not receive earned credit for ENGL 2P17 if ENGL 2P13 has been successfully completed.

ENGL 2P19

Chaucer

Chaucer's poetry, especially The Canterbury Tales, in relation to late medieval English cultural and social history.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

#ENGL 2P20

Identity, Identification and Public Address

(also offered as WRDS 2P20)

Relation between individual and community identity as expressed in public address, history or writing and speaking in the public sphere, and the aesthetic and political constraint 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 ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (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 WRIT 2P20.

ENGL 2P21

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.

ENGL 2P24

Early 17th-Century Literature

Early modern drama, poetry and prose, 1603 to the English Revolution, including such writers as Webster, Donne, Jonson and Lanyer.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P26

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.

#ENGL 2P28

Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations

(also offered as IASC 2P28 and WRDS 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 1F01 (1F00), COMM 1F90, WRDS (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 WRIT 2P28.

ENGL 2P32

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.

ENGL 2P33

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.

ENGL 2P45

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.

*ENGL 2P52

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.

*ENGL 2P53

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.

ENGL 2P56

The Short Story

Theory and analysis of the short story from Poe and Hawthorne to contemporary writers.

Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P60

American Literature: 1800-1865

Literature of the post-Revolutionary era to the Civil War. Topics include American Romanticism, gender, the literatures of captivity and antislavery, and antebellum meanings of cultural freedom and national selfhood.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P64

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.

ENGL 2P65

Twentieth-Century 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.

ENGL 2P66

Cultural Conflict in 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.

ENGL 2P67

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.

ENGL 2P68

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.

ENGL 2P69

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.

*ENGL 2P70

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 1F01 (1F00) or permission of the instructor.

#ENGL 2P72

The Creative Writer

(also offered as ENCW 2P72 and WRDS 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 (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and WRDS (single or combined) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (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 WRIT 2P72.

ENGL 2P80

Shakespeare 1590-1603

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 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 LART 2P80.

ENGL 2P81

Shakespeare 1603-1614

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 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 LART 2P81.

ENGL 2P82

Shakespeare's Comedies

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 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 LART 2P82.

ENGL 2P83

Shakespeare's Tragedies

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 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 LART 2P83.

ENGL 2P84

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.

#ENGL 2P93

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 ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BCMN, COMM, FILM (single or combined), MCMN and PCUL majors.

Prerequisite(s): one of 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.

#ENGL 2P95

Reading the Middle Ages: The Heroic and the Chivalric

(also offered as MARS 2P95)

Heroic and chivalric worlds of Europe and how they shaped medieval society. Selections from Beowulf, Anglo-Saxon heroic literature, Eddic poetry, Old Norse sagas, the lais of Marie de France, Courtly Love and Arthurian-related narrative.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

#ENGL 2Q99

Women, Gender and Literature

(also offered as INTC 2Q99 and WGST 2Q99)

Feminist perspectives on representations of women, gender and writing, 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.

*ENGL 2V20-2V29

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.

ENGL 2V70-2V79

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.

#ENGL 3P03

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 ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), BCMN, COMM, FILM, MCMN and PCUL majors.

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2P93 (2F92).

#ENGL 3P18

True Stories: The Art and Craft of Literary Journalism

(also offered as WRDS 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 WRDS (WRIT) credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P18.

ENGL 3P20

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.

ENGL 3P22

The Literature of Milton's Time

Poetry and prose from the Civil War to the early Restoration period emphasizing Milton.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P26

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.

#ENGL 3P28

Rhetorical Analysis

(also offered as IASC 3P28 and WRDS 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 WRDS (WRIT) credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P28.

ENGL 3P32

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.

ENGL 3P33

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.

ENGL 3P38

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.

*ENGL 3P39

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.

ENGL 3P40

The 18th-Century Novel

The rise of the novel and its development 1700 to 1830 by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, Fielding, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Burney and Austen.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P41

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.

ENGL 3P42

The 19th-Century Novel

Emergence of the novel as the pre-eminent literary form emphasizing engagement with social issues of the period and on realism as a means of representing human experience. May include such writers as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy and James.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P43

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.

ENGL 3P44

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.

ENGL 3P45

Modern Poetry and Poetics

Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries emphasizing the relationship between form and ideas in poems that investigate the central aesthetic, intellectual and political concerns of the modern period.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P61

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.

ENGL 3P66

Adapting Canadian Literature

Canadian literature in response to changing 21st-century media environments and other cultural challenges.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

#ENGL 3P72

The Creative Writer and the Community

(also offered as ENCW 3P72 and WRDS 3P72)

Consideration of the special place that creative writers occupy in their various communities, literary, local and global.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P72.

#ENGL 3P73

Creative Writing for Digital Media

(also offered as ENCW 3P73, IASC 3P73 and WRDS 3P73)

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P73.

*ENGL 3P90

Life Writing

(also offered as WRDS 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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P90.

ENGL 3P94

Literary Criticism

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in LART 3P94.

ENGL 3P95

Medieval English Literature

Survey of English literature from the Middle Ages. May include such writers as Marie de France, John Gower, Thomas Malory and Margery Kempe, and anonymous tales of Arthurian adventures.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3Q91

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.

ENGL 3Q92

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.

ENGL 3Q93

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.

ENGL 3Q95

Feminist and Gender Theory

Key issues and debates in versions of feminist theory important to the discipline of English literary studies. Topics may include gender and knowledge production, gender and colonialist discourses, struggles among competing academic feminisms, and the corporatization of academe.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3Q96

Queer Theory

Key issues and debates in versions of queer theory important to the discipline of English literary studies. Readings may include Sedgwick, Edelman, Love, Wiegman and Muňoz.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3V00-3V10

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.

#ENGL 3V20-3V29

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.

ENGL 3V60-3V69

Special Topics in Canadian Literature

ENGL 3V70-3V79

Theoretical Issues in the Study of Literature

ENGL 3V90-3V99

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.

ENGL 3V91

2017-2018: Social Justice and Cultural Production

Exploration, through artistic and theoretical texts, of the production and reception of literature, drama and other media that engage issues and advance projects of social justice and equity, and how the arts and media are linked to struggles for social justice at local, national and global levels.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4F99

Senior Research Tutorial or Thesis

Either tutorial combined with individual research or a thesis on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.

Restriction: open to students with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Chair.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

*ENGL 4P00

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 (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WRDS (single or combined), HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

*ENGL 4P06

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 (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WRDS (single or combined) and MARS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and Chair.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (MARS) 4V06.

#ENGL 4P10

Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice

(also offered as COMM 4P10 and WRDS 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 (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WRDS (single or combined), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN and SPLS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P10.

#ENGL 4P15

Words on Words: Narratives of Language

(also offered as WRDS 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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P15.

#ENGL 4P20

Studies in Cultural Rhetoric

(also offered as WRDS 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 (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WRDS (single or combined), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), HEAR and SPLS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P20.

ENGL 4P30

Jane Austen

The work of Austen from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and WRDS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4P36

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V36.

ENGL 4P37

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.

Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)BEd/(Intermediate/Senior) and WRDS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

Note: offered online.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V37.

ENGL 4P41

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V41.

ENGL 4P45

James Joyce's Ulysses

Close reading and discussion of Joyce's 1922 novel. Various theoretical perspectives and reading approaches.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V45.

ENGL 4P61

Advanced Studies in American Literature

Individual author(s), movements or particular theoretical, social or cultural issues raised in American literature.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4P64

Contemporary Canadian Literature

Work by Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Thomas King, Yann Martel and Dionne Brand.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4P71

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.

ENGL 4P72

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V72.

ENGL 4P91

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.

ENGL 4P98

Senior Tutorial or Research Paper

Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.

Restriction: open to students with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Chair.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4P99

Senior Tutorial or Research Paper

Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.

Restriction: open to students with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Chair.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4V00-4V09

Topics in English Literature Before 1800

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

ENGL 4V30-4V39

Topics in 19th-Century Literature

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

ENGL 4V40-4V49

Topics in Contemporary Literature

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

ENGL 4V60-4V69

Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V62

2017-2018: Canadian Conceptual Writing

Recent experiments in Canadian conceptual writing and the philosophical traditions that inform them. Authors may include Lisa Robertson, Jordan Abel, Christian Bök and Derek Beaulieu.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW, (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd) (Intermediate Senior) and WRDS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V70-4V79

Text and Context

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

*ENGL 4V70

2017-2018: Reading a Renaissance Woman

(also offered as MARS 4V70)

The place of books and reading in the life and culture of Anne Clifford. Readings from personal writings and books in her library including extracts (in English) from Ovid's Metamorphoses, Cervante's Don Quixote, Castiglione's Courtier, Montaigne's Essays, Chaucer, Spenser, Jonson and Donne.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (MARS) 3V92.

ENGL 4V90-4V99

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.

WRITING, RHETORIC AND DISCOURSE STUDIES COURSES

WRDS 1F90

Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies: An Introduction

Histories and theories of rhetoric and writing, including such thinkers as the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Richards, Burke, hooks, Foucault, and Butler. Print-based, digital, and multi-modal writing practices in scholarly, professional and community-based scenes of writing.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

#WRDS 1P06

History and Future of Storytelling

(also offered as ENCW 1P06 and IASC 1P06)

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to GAMD majors until date specified in Registration guide.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 1P06.

WRDS 2P12

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 WRDS (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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P12.

*WRDS 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(s): one credit from WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 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 and credit obtained in WRIT 2P14.

*WRDS 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(s): one credit from WRDS (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 and credit obtained in WRIT 2P16.

*WRDS 2P18

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 WRDS (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors, RWRT and WRDS minors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRDS (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.

Completion of this course will replace assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P18.

*WRDS 2P20

Identity, Identification and Public Address

(also offered as ENGL 2P20)

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 WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 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 WRIT 2P20.

*WRDS 2P28

Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations

(also offered as ENGL 2P28 and IASC 2P28)

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F01 (1F00) or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P28.

#WRDS 2P63

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 WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P63.

#WRDS 2P72

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.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P72.

*WRDS 3P15

Writing for New Media

(also offered as IASC 3P15)

Theory and practice of writing for new online media. May include web sites, blogs, Twitter and other social media.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRDS (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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P15.

WRDS 3P16

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 WRDS (WRIT) 2P14, 2P16, COMM 2P65 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P16.

*WRDS 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(s): one and one-half WRDS (WRIT), COMM, ENGL or PCUL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P18.

*WRDS 3P28

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 WRDS (WRIT) credit, two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P28.

#WRDS 3P63

Digital Design and Communication

(also offered as COMM 3P63 and PCUL 3P63)

Introduction to digital design focusing on visual communication by using Adobe software and the Macintosh computer.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to WRDS (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors, RWRT and WRDS minors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.

Completion of this course will replace assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P63.

#WRDS 3P72

The Creative Writer and the Community

(also offered as ENCW 3P72 and ENGL 3P72)

Consideration of the special place that creative writers occupy in their various communities, literary, local and global.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P72.

#WRDS 3P73

Creative Writing for Digital Media

(also offered as ENCW 3P73, ENGL 3P73 and IASC 3P73)

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P73.

#WRDS 3P90

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P90.

#WRDS 3P98

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 WRDS (WRIT), COMM, ENGL, PCUL, STAC or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P98.

#WRDS 3P99

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 3P99.

WRDS 3V90-3V99

Topics in Writing and Culture

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3V90-3V99.

WRDS 4F99

Independent Studies in Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse

Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.

Restriction: open to students with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Chair.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4F99.

WRDS 4P01

e-portfolio for Rhetoric, Writing and Discourse Studies

Evidence-based reflection on key pieces of written and/or multi-modal work to showcase rhetorical and critical thinking skills acquired in preparation for scholarly, professional, and/or community-based contexts.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to WRDS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the instructor and the Chair.

*WRDS 4P10

Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice

(also offered as COMM 4P10 and ENGL 4P10)

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P10.

*WRDS 4P15

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P15.

*WRDS 4P20

Studies in Cultural Rhetoric

(also offered as ENGL 4P20)

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), WRDS (single or combined), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), HEAR, SPLS (single or combined) majors, with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P20.

WRDS 4P98

Independent Studies in Writing

Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.

Restriction: open to students with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Chair.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P98.

WRDS 4P99

Independent Studies in Writing

Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.

Restriction: open to students with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Chair.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P99.

WRDS 4V90-4V99

Writing Area Studies

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4V90-4V99.

Last updated: March 20, 2018 @ 10:14AM