VIII. Graduate Programs

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Literary Studies/Theatre Studies in English

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LTS*7770 Language Requirement U [0.00]
A written demonstration of a student's reading knowledge of one language other than English, as approved by the Joint PhD Program Committee.

LTS*7800 General Area Seminar U [0.50]
A directed-reading course to provide concentrated training in an area of research other than the student's expected area of research concentration. This seminar emphasizes thorough general knowledge of a chosen area's scope, theoretical frameworks, and research methodologies. The course is normally taken during the first year of a student's program.

LTS*7820 Intensive Area Seminar U [1.00]
A reading course intended to provide concentrated training in the student's expected area of research concentration. This seminar involves individualized, directed study of the immediate literary, cultural, and theoretical contexts of the student's approved dissertation subject. The course is normally taken in the second year of a student's PhD program.

LTS*7900 Directed Studies U [0.50]
The study of a special topic under the guidance of a member of the graduate faculty.

LTS*7990 Doctoral Dissertation U [2.00]
Submission and defense of an acceptable thesis, written by the PhD candidate, on the research carried out by the candidate on an approved topic. The thesis is expected to be a significant contribution to knowledge in its field and the candidate must indicate in what ways it is a contribution.

DRMA*6020		Canadian Drama in English
DRMA*6040		Quebec and Franco-Canadian Drama
DRMA*6050		Special Studies in Canadian Drama
DRMA*6060		Aspects of Canadian Theatre History
DRMA*6080		Special Studies in Canadian Theatre
DRMA*6090		Aspects of Theatre in Early-Modern England
DRMA*6100		English Drama to 1642
DRMA*6120		Aspects of 20th-Century Theatre
DRMA*6130		Aspects of 19th-Century Drama
DRMA*6140		Aspects of 20th-Century Drama
DRMA*6150		Special Studies in Theatre History
DRMA*6180		Aspects of 19th Century Theatre
DRMA*6190		Special Studies in Drama
DRMA*6220		Aspects of the Theory of Drama, Theatre, and Performance
DRMA*6801		Reading Course I
DRMA*6802		Reading Course II
ENGL*6002		Topics in the History of Criticism
ENGL*6003		Problems of Literary Analysis
ENGL*6201		Topics in Canadian Literature
ENGL*6209		Topics in Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature
ENGL*6412		Topics in Medieval/Renaissance Literature
ENGL*6421		Topics in 18th-Century and Romantic Literature
ENGL*6431		Topics in 19th-Century Literature
ENGL*6441		Topics in Modern British Literature
ENGL*6451		Topics in American Literature
ENGL*6611		Topics in Women's Writing
ENGL*6621		Topics in Children's Literature
ENGL*6641		Topics in Scottish Literature
ENGL*6691		Interdisciplinary Studies
ENGL*6811		Special Topics in English
ENGL*6801		Reading Course I
ENGL*6802		Reading Course II

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* N.B. all courses, except for the Intensive Area Seminar and the Dissertation, are weighted 0.5.

WLU*600E		Research Methods, Theory, and Professional Issues
WLU*601E		Fiction by Contemporary British Women
WLU*602E		Gender and Genre in Renaissance Drama
WLU*603E		American Women Writers
WLU*604E		The Gender of Modernism
WLU*605E		Representations of Gender in Victorian Literature
WLU*606E		Theatrical Images of Gender
WLU*607E		Ideologies of Genre in 19th-Century Literature
WLU*608E		Women Writers of the 17th Century
WLU*610E		Feminist Theory and Women's Writing
WLU*621E		The Nature Lyric: Genre and Gender
WLU*622E		British Feminist Drama in the 20th Century
WLU*623E		Film Genre and Feminist Theory
WLU*624E		Medieval Dream Vision Narrative
WLU*625E		Medieval Romance
WLU*626E		Postcoloniality: Theory and Practice
WLU*628E		The Dramatic Experience
WLU*629E		Canadian Documents and Canadian Poems
WLU*630E		Modernism to Postmodernism
WLU*632E		Renaissance Domestic Tragedy
WLU*634E		Dramatic Comedy of the 17th Century
WLU*635E		The Gothic
WLU*636E		Canadian Literary Pluralities
WLU*640E		Reading Theory
WLU*641E		Voices of the Diaspora
WLU*642E		Oral Performance and Oral Theory
WLU*690E		Directed Studies
WLU*691E		Special Topics in Gender
WLU*692E		Special Topics in Genre

Note

* N.B. All courses, except for the Intensive Area Seminar and the Dissertation, are weighted 0.5.