XII. Course Descriptions
English
School of English and Theatre Studies
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ENGL*1080 and ENGL*2080 provide a strong foundation for English studies at the University level and are required courses for students intending to
major or minor in English. These linked courses expose students not only to a broad range of texts from different countries
and historical periods but also to some of the exciting developments in the discipline.
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Honours major students are required to take the seminar courses ENGL*2120, ENGL*2130, ENGL*3940, ENGL*3960, preferably in their 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th semesters. ENGL*1080 is a pre-requisite to ENGL*2120 and ENGL*2130; ENGL*2080 is a pre-requisite to ENGL*3940 and ENGL*3960.
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Honours major students are required to take one 4000-level seminars, preferably in their 7th and 8th semesters. The prerequisites
for the 4000-level seminars are ENGL*2080 plus one of ENGL*2120, ENGL*2130 plus one of ENGL*3940, ENGL*3960.
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Honours minor students are required to take the seminar course ENGL*2120 and one of ENGL*2130, ENGL*3940, ENGL*3960, preferably in their 3rd to 6th semester.
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Many English lecture courses are offered on alternate years only and many English seminars have variable content. For more
information, students should consult the School's home page at http://www.arts.uoguelph.ca/sets/.
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Many English lecture courses are reading-intensive while seminar courses are writing and presentation-intensive. Honours major
students are advised to take two lectures and one seminar per semester beginning in their 3rd semester.
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WRITING- AND PRESENTATION-INTENSIVE: Seminars emphasize written and oral work to help students develop the critical reading
and writing skills essential to their learning throughout the curriculum.
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READING-INTENSIVE: Lectures emphasize breadth of reading, contexts, and comparisons, to help students develop the knowledge
base essential to their understanding of the field. In order to allow essay-writing to be concentrated in seminars, assignments
in lecture courses will not predominantly take the traditional essay form but a range of other formats.
ENGL*1030 Effective Writing S,F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course is designed primarily for those not pursuing a specialization in English and focuses on the development of the
skills for effective writing. Topics will include sentence and paragraph structure, essay organization, and the implementation
of convincing written arguments. Students will apply these skills to the completion of several written assignments, culminating
in a short work of non-fiction prose.
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Offering(s): |
Also offered through Distance Education format. |
Restriction(s): |
Not available to students registered in ENGL majors or minors |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*1080 Literatures in English I: Reading the Past F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course is focused on the disciplinary skill of close reading and is intended for students planning to specialize in the
study of English Literature. Through a series of case studies, the course introduces students to a range of historical and
national writings in prose, poetry, and drama, and to some of the key terms and concepts in contemporary literary studies.
Lectures and discussions address selected works from the Middle Ages onwards, the periods in which these works were produced,
and some of the ways in which these texts have been or could be interpreted. ENGL*1080 and its companion course, ENGL*2080, are required for a major or minor in English. Students are encouraged to enrol in ENGL*2080 in the semester after they have completed ENGL*1080. Reading - and writing-intensive course.
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Restriction(s): |
This is a priority access course. Enrolment in the fall semester may be restricted to students registered in the English major,
minor, area of concentration, Creative Writing minor, or in semesters one or two of the BA or BAS program.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*1200 Reading the Contemporary World F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course, which is designed primarily for those not planning a specialization in English, introduces students to literary
texts and persuasive forms of writing, bringing to the fore some of the links between language and contemporary social and
political issues. Course materials will represent diversity in terms of national origins, gender, race, and class. The course
emphasizes the use of figurative language as well as the development of students' critical reading and writing skills. Students
planning to major or minor or pursue an area of concentration in English must take ENGL*1080 and ENGL*2080, but may also take ENGL*1200 and count it as an elective lecture.
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Offering(s): |
Also offered through Distance Education format. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*1410 Major Writers U (3-0) [0.50] |
This course, which is designed primarily for those not planning a specialization in English, offers an introduction to the
study of literature through a chronological consideration of works by selected major authors from the Middle Ages to the present
century, in relation to their social, intellectual and literary backgrounds. The course emphasizes the use of figurative language
as well as the development of students' critical reading and writing skills. Students planning to major or minor or pursue
an area of concentration in English must take ENGL*1080 and ENGL*2080, but may also take ENGL*1410.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*1500 Medicine and Literature W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course explores the representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Students will examine
how literary texts represent, interpret, and critique the cultures of biomedical science, the clinic, and the hospital. Areas
of interest include disease, illness, health, disability, and psychological and physiological trauma.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2040 Latina/o Literature and Cultural Production: Intro F (3-0) [0.50] |
This survey course introduces students to the terms, methodologies, and debates that form the interdisciplinary critical practice
of Latina/o Studies. The course takes a pan-Latina/o approach to the study of English-language and cultural production by
various Latina/os primarily in the U.S. Because different Latina/o groups have been concentrated in particular U.S. regions
and cities, the approach allows students to study how Latina/o literature and art have shaped the politics and culture of
different regions and cities. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2090 Studies in Shakespeare W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course focuses on Shakespeare as both a writer and an enduring cultural presence. It may, at the instructor’s choice,
focus on works by Shakespeare as well as works by others in response to Shakespeare, in Shakespeare’s original historical
context or in more contemporary contexts. The course may address, among others, genre, performance, adaptation, the politics
of Shakespearean interpretation, including issues such as gender, subjectivity, empire, and nation. Reading-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Restriction(s): |
ENGL*3020, ENGL*3120 |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2120 Seminar: Critical Practices F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course guides students through a range of critical approaches and explores their implications for readings of a limited
number of literary texts. The seminar's main areas of concentration are: (1) close reading, centering on the way a particular
poem, work of fiction, or play works in its details and overall structure; (2) critical approaches and methodologies; (3)
critical writing and discussion. (Choices of approaches and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing-
and presentation-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*1080 |
Restriction(s): |
Registration in the English major, minor or area of concentration. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2130 Seminar: Literature and Social Change F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course explores the social and cultural work that literary texts perform. Seminars will illuminate such categories as
gender, sexuality, nation, race, ethnicity, and class; particular ways in which they are written into a limited number of
literary works; and some of the critical debates surrounding our interpretations of those processes. (Choices of approaches
and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*1080 |
Restriction(s): |
Registration in the English major, minor or area of concentration. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2190 Representation and Sexuality W (3-0) [0.50] |
This variable-content course offers a historically grounded introduction to the critical study of sexuality and representation
in literature and related media. The course may engage with a specific time-period or genre, or it may concentrate directly
on the problem of theorizing sexual difference in relation to other literary and cultural forces.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2200 Postcolonial Literatures F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course introduces significant issues, perspectives, and voices within the study of the postcolonial literatures in English.
The course may include literature from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India and the Pacific. Reading-intensive
course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2260 Law and Literature F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course introduces students to the intersections between law and literature. The course encourages students to read literary
texts by focusing on issues of justice, crime, judgment, and equity. Students will examine how literature can serve as an
alternative cultural arena or site that gives voice to experiences and knowledges that cannot be translated into the laws
language of equivalence and neutrality. By reading literary texts in relation to the law, students will examine how literature
and literary theory can enhance our understanding of the law.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2270 Fairy, Trickster, and Mythical Hero F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course focuses on the everyday emergence of the fantastic, the otherworldly, and the extraordinary in commonly told cultural
narratives such as the fairy tale, trickster tale and myth. The course may focus on tales of specific regions (e.g. Europe,
North America, the South Pacific), and may cross a range of genres (oral tale, pantomime, short story, film, graphic novel)
as well as historical periods. The course may also address continuities and discontinuities in versions of traditional narratives
created by tellers, writers, and other artists.
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Offering(s): |
First offering - Fall 2019 Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2280 Sporting Bodies W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course examines various aspects of sports and play as they are manifested in a range of literary texts and other cultural
forms. Because the emergence of sport as a social practice has been so intertwined with notions of regulation, performance,
and fandom, sporting culture offers a valuable site for looking at questions of identity and social relations more broadly.
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Offering(s): |
First offering - Winter 2020 Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2290 Outlaws W (3-0) [0.50] |
Literary narratives about crime and the criminal have both glamorized the outlaw and idealized the restoration of law and
order. Students will examine how literary narratives frame the figure of the outlaw in order to: contemplate the relationship
between the individual and law, as well as between outlaw communities and the law; shape popular understandings of the law
and the consequences of breaking the law; interrogate the law’s absolute claim to justice; examine the cost of policing to
maintain law and order; and/or critique state power by giving voice to the marginalized.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2310 Vampires, Ghosts, and Mummies: Literature and the Supernatural F (3-0) [0.50] |
While we often dismiss the occult or the supernatural in literature as simple entertainment, this course encourages students
to examine how literary works engage the occult and the supernatural in order to address issues of power, race, gender, imperialism
and modernity from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Offering(s): |
First offering - Fall 2019 Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2330 Print Culture and Cinema F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course moves between writing and cinema, in different periods and with different emphases according to the instructor’s
expertise. Topics may include: adaptation from page to screen and adaptation theory; the relationship between print forms
and early motion picture and between fiction and film; the construction of celebrity and spectatorship in print and movie
cultures; questions of “fidelity,” technology, silence and sound, literary prestige and film publicity. Reading-intensive
course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2550 North American Native Literatures W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course explores selected issues, perspectives, and voices within the study of Native literatures and their contexts in
North America. One purpose of the course is to raise questions about the meaning of the U.S. - Canadian border for Native
writers. Reading-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2640 Culture, Location, Identity: Minoritized Literatures in Canada and Beyond F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course will open up debates around emergent issues, perspectives, and voices in the literatures of minoritized cultures
particularly within the North American context. Questions about the meanings of various borders for understanding Canadian
negotiations of identity, culture, and location will remain a consistent feature of this variable content course. Reading-intensive
course.
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Offering(s): |
Also offered through Distance Education format. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2740 Children's Literature F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course serves as an introduction to the critical study of children's literature and culture. Focusing on selected genres
of, issues in, or theoretical approaches to literature for children, this variable-content course explores shifting (and often
conflicting) conceptions of childhood, in general, and of children as readers and cultural consumers. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Also offered through Distance Education format. |
Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2880 Women in Literature W (3-0) [0.50] |
This variable-content course will involve the study and discussion of poems, stories, novels and plays by or about women.
Reading-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
2.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*2920 Elements of Creative Writing F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This lecture course focuses on teaching character, dialogue, setting and plot. Students will learn how to create a compelling
narrative, as well as recognize the key successful elements in the narratives that surround us, for example advertisements,
blogs, or film, television, etc. Student skills are developed through a combination of lectures, in-class workshops, peer
editing, and short written assignments.
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Prerequisite(s): |
4.00 credits |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3050 Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
Students will gain a deeper understanding of the basic elements of creative writing (character development, effective dialogue,
narrative arc, and setting) through practical experiments, discussions, and group writing exercises. Through the writing workshops,
students will hone their skills as creative writers, critical thinkers, and editors.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*1080, ENGL*2920 |
Restriction(s): |
Registration in the Creative Writing minor. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3060 Intermediate Poetry Writing Workshop F (3-0) [0.50] |
Students will gain a deeper understanding of the basic elements of poetry writing (form, line, metre, imagery, rhyme, rhythm,
syntax, and metaphor). Alongside this attention to form, students will explore the histories of these global poetries and
their relationship to historical developments. Through reading assigned texts and the writing workshops students will hone
their skills as creative writers, critical thinkers, and editors.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*1080, ENGL*2920 |
Restriction(s): |
ENGL*2940, Registration in the Creative Writing minor.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3070 Intermediate Screenwriting Workshop W (3-0) [0.50] |
With emphasis on craft, this workshop addresses some fundamentals of feature screenwriting through various writing, reading
and viewing assignments and exercises, as well as the workshopping of students’ written work. Topics will include: story structure,
theme, character development, story lines, scene construction, synopsis writing and pitching, and options for further training
and development.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*1080, ENGL*2920 |
Restriction(s): |
Registration in the Creative Writing minor. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3080 History of the English Language U (3-0) [0.50] |
This course introduces the key historical developments of the English language and the primary tools for the study of language.
Topics to be discussed may include: the origins of and precursors to the English language; the phonology, lexicon, and grammar
of English; the persistence of language change; the historical factors that affect language change; the origins and implications
of language variety; the formation of prestige dialects; and the current state of the English language in Canada and the world.
Reading-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
1.00 credits in English. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3090 Special Topics in Creative Writing Workshop F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course will provide students with opportunities to write in genres other than fiction, poetry, playwriting and screenwriting.
Each iteration will focus on a particular genre, which might include graphic novels, writing narrative of games, memoir or
travel writing. Please consult the School of English and Theatre Studies’s website for more information on a specific iteration
of the course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*1080, ENGL*2920 |
Restriction(s): |
Registration in the Creative Writing minor. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3220 Representing Britain: 18th- & 19th- Century Literature F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course explores selected topics in the interrelation of literature and politics from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth
century in Britain. Areas of focus may include: the literature of civil war, constitutionalism and revolution; satire and
society; writings emerging from sufferage reform and agitation, the colonization of Ireland, the construction of political
subjectivity, political paranoia, conspiracy and sedition. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3240 Studies in Early Modern Literature and Culture W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course examines various aspects of the literature and culture of early modern England. The course may examine, at the
instructor’s choice, some part of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and may focus on a variety of issues,
including gender and sexuality, poetics and politics, religion and authority, nation and empire, and their relation to literary
production. The genres and writers examined will vary.
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Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*3170, ENGL*3190.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3280 Old English Literature U (3-0) [0.50] |
This course will focus on the language, literature, and culture of Anglo-Saxon England (7th to 11th centuries). In addition
to acquiring the basics of Old English and engaging in translation exercises with passages from Anglo-Saxon texts, students
will read a selection of texts in modern English translation; these may include Beowulf, "The Battle of Maldon", elegies such
as "The Seafarer", riddling poems and religious poems.
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Prerequisite(s): |
1.00 credits in English. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3300 Restoration to Romanticism: Forging the Nation F (3-0) [0.50] |
Drawing upon a range of literary texts from a variety of genres, this course will explore the politics of language and style
in a series of cultural debates that shaped British national character from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries.
Selected topics may include: literary representations of religious establishment and dissent; the division of power; the question
of minority cultures; revolution and reaction; the problem of economic stability. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3320 Romanticism to Victorianism: Culture and Conformity F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course explores the key texts in various genres of British cultural debates of the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth
century. Focal points may include: literary representations of family and society; science and narrative; Britain's "others";
class and conflict; protest and power; the roots of modernism; European influences. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3340 British Imperial Culture F (3-0) [0.50] |
This multi-genre course introduces students to the literature of British imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The course will consider the changing relationship between nation, empire, and colony by examining literary representations
of such topics as: orientalism; travel writing; the construction of race; the representation of trade; the popular literature
of empire; children's literature; the question of the other. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3380 Studies in the History of Literary Production W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course will examine a range of issues arising from the materiality of book production and circulation. Topics may include
serialization; mass production and circulation; patronage; reviewing; circulating libraries; licensing; censorship; children's
literature; periodicals; gift books; letters; and other aspects of publishing and the public sphere. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3420 20th- & 21st-Century Drama W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course offers a selective study of 20th- and/or 21st-century play-scripts written in English. Students are advised to consult the web-descriptions for the particular focus of
the course's offering.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including [0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030) or 0.50 credits in Theatre Studies]
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3460 Literature in London U (2-3) [0.50] |
A study of British literature in its social and historical context. Reading of particular works will be supplemented by visits
to sites of literary interest, the use of special library and museum collections, and attendance at public lectures and performances.
For London Semester students only.
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Prerequisite(s): |
Admission to the London Semester. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3470 Twentieth-Century British Literature I W (3-0) [0.50] |
This multigenre course explores aesthetic and socio-cultural movements (including modernism) in British literature from the
turn of the century to mid-century. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3480 Twentieth-Century British Literature II F (3-0) [0.50] |
This multigenre course explores aesthetic and socio-cultural movements (including postmodernism) in British literature from
mid-century to the present. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3540 Writing the United States W (3-0) [0.50] |
This multigenre course explores the relationship between literary production and political power from the emergence of U.S.
culture through the long nineteenth century. Areas of focus may include national fantasy; the literatures of war, imperial
expansion, captivity, and genocide; narratives of race and immigration; the cult of domesticity; and the rise of mass culture.
Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3550 Modern United States Literatures W (3-0) [0.50] |
This multigenre course explores powerful examples of modern United States literatures, from about the First World War to the
present. The selection is wide, including both traditional and experimental forms; female and male writers from various ethnic
and racial groups; and a range of cultural issues. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
1.00 credits in English. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3560 Medieval Literature W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course will introduce students to a range of medieval texts written in English and other languages and will explore the
contexts of their composition and transmission. The texts to be studied may include histories, lais, lyrics, sagas, saints’
lives, romances, miracle stories, fabliaux, play cycles, and others. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3570 Chaucer in Context F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course will introduce students to significant aspects of Chaucer's writing read in the context of works by Chaucer's
precursors and near contemporaries. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3630 Writing Canada: Forging the Nation W (3-0) [0.50] |
This multigenre course focuses on Canadian literature to World War One, examining cultural contestation in the Canadian settler
colony among the Canadian, U.S., British, and indigenous peoples. Topics may include the rise of nationalist discourse, race
and nation, landscape and the sublime, gothic, sentimental, and historical fiction, children's literature, slavery and resistance
narratives, travel and captivity narratives. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3680 20th- & 21st-Century Canadian Literature and Criticism F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course examines Canadian literature and criticism in English from the beginnings of the twentieth century to the present
in relation to a variety of social, cultural, and historical contexts. Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3690 History of Literary Criticism F (3-0) [0.50] |
This course introduces students to the major critics and texts formative in the development of an English critical tradition.
The study will begin with Plato and Aristotle, and proceed from the Renaissance through to modernist critical theory.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in odd-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3750 Studies in Postcolonial Literatures W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course is a concentrated study in a major sub-area of postcolonial literature. Specific topics will vary each year, but
may involve focus on a particular genre or region such as Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, and the Pacific.
Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3760 The Atlantic World W (3-0) [0.50] |
This is a variable content course aimed at considering the intercultural effects which emerge from transnational, colonial,
imperial, and/or diasporic relations, through literatures in English addressing the Atlantic and contiguous lands. Texts will
be selected from among the rich array of poetry, fiction, memoirs, letters, travel accounts, period histories and ethnographies,
autobiographies and folkloric records that formed the literary culture of this period. Attention may be paid to diverse forms
of oral and written expression, linguistic changes, the Creole continuum, representations of oceanic space, the erasure and
fluidity at work in the metaphorics of the sea, the evolution of national and racial stereotypes, and religious syncretism.
Reading-intensive course.
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Offering(s): |
Offered in even-numbered years. |
Prerequisite(s): |
7.50 credits including 0.50 credits in English (excluding ENGL*1030)
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3870 Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies U (3-0) [0.50] |
These variable-content courses provide opportunities for topics in cross-period studies, inter- and transdisciplinary studies
and cultural studies, among others that are not available in regular offerings. Consult the School for specific offerings
in a given semester. Reading-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
1.00 credits in English. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3880 Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies U (3-0) [0.50] |
These variable-content courses provide opportunities for topics in cross-period studies, inter- and transdisciplinary studies
and cultural studies, among others that are not available in regular offerings. Consult the School for specific offerings
in a given semester. Reading-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
1.00 credits in English. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3940 Seminar: Form, Genre, and Literary Value F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This seminar focuses on textual conventions such as form, style, and genre as they inform the interaction between reader and
text. The impact of these conventions on the processes of literary production, reception, the production of meaning, and the
assessment of literary value will be explored in relation to a limited number of literary works. (Choice of focus and texts
to be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080 |
Restriction(s): |
Registration in the English major, minor or area of concentration. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*3960 Seminar: Literature in History F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course explores the processes by which specific texts or genres emerge from particular historical moments and by which
we attempt to reconstruct those historically specific connections. Seminars will focus on such topics as the archive surrounding
one text, problems of period and canon, or genres and historical change. (Choice of period and texts will be determined by
individual instructors.)Writing- and presentation-intensive course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080 |
Restriction(s): |
Registration in the English major, minor or area of concentration. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4240 Medieval & Early Modern Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] |
This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of British literature from the beginnings to 1660. Students are
advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4040 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4250 18th- & 19th-C Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] |
This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of British literature from 1660 to 1900. Students are advised to
complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4050 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4270 United States Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] |
This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of United States literatures. Students are advised to complete a
3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4070 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4280 Canadian Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] |
This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of Canadian literatures. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level
lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4080 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4310 Special Studies in English U (3-0) [1.00] |
A seminar designed to provide students in semesters 7 and 8 with an opportunity to pursue studies in an area or areas of language
or literature not available in other courses. The course may be taught by a visiting professor or members of the school.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4100, ENGL*4110 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4400 Postcolonial Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] |
This course provides the opportunity for intensive study of a representative selection of literature in English by writers
from Africa, India, the Caribbean, Australia, and the Pacific. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course
in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4200 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4410 Modern & Contemporary Literatures U (3-0) [1.00] |
This course provides the opportunity for a study of significant works in fiction, poetry, and drama that demonstrate new approaches
in form and content characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century writings in English. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling
in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4210 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4420 Women's Writings U (3-0) [1.00] |
This course provides for intensive study of issues relating to the aesthetic strategies, such as those associated with structure,
imagery, and language, devised by women writers to reflect women's experience and perceptions. Students are advised to complete
a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4220 Restricted to students in the English majors, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4500 Non-fiction Prose U (3-0) [1.00] |
This course offers an intensive study of non-fiction prose. Topics to be explored may include the roles and contexts of public
and/or private writing, the role of literary criticism in reading texts sometimes marked as non-literary, the history of non-fictional
prose forms, or the formal or ideological uses of the distinctions between fact and fiction.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4300 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4720 Creative Writing: Prose/Poetry F,W (3-0) [1.00] |
A development and extension of the creative writing/reading skills and techniques introduced in the creative writing workshops.
This course will involve the generation and revision of challenging new work, sophisticated critique of the work of other
students, and focused discussion of the cultural, social, and political issues in which the practice of creative writing is
enmeshed.
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Prerequisite(s): |
1 of ENGL*2920, ENGL*2940, ENGL*3050, ENGL*3060, ENGL*3070, ENGL*3090 |
Restriction(s): |
This is a Priority Access Course. Enrolment may be restricted to particular programs or specializations or semester levels during certain periods. Please see
departmental website for more information.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4810 Directed Reading S,F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
This course is intended particularly as preparation for ENGL*4910. The student will design a course of readings and assignments with the instructor, whose consent must first be obtained.
This option is intended only for students who have performed particularly well within the honours program. Exceptional students
may take ENGL*4810 in preparation for a ENGL*4910 creative writing project, on the approval of the instructor.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
Instructor consent required. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4880 20th- & 21st-Century Poetry U (3-0) [1.00] |
This seminar provides opportunities to study English-language modern and contemporary poetry. Students are advised to complete
a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4680 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4890 Contemporary Literary Theory U (3-0) [1.00] |
This course will study the major branches of contemporary literary theory. Topics covered will include structuralism, reader-oriented
theory, feminist theory, new historicist and materialist critique, postcolonialist critique, and deconstruction.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
ENGL*4690 Restricted to students in the English major, who have completed 14.00 credits with an average of 70% in all course attempts
in English. Restricted to students with fewer than 2.00 credits of 4000-level English courses.
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Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |
ENGL*4910 Honours English Essay S,F,W (3-0) [0.50] |
A major essay (approx. 25 pages) on some subject of special interest to the student is prepared and written under the direction
of a faculty member. Consent of the instructor must be obtained and the subject must be approved by the School prior to the
semester in which the course is to be taken. This option is intended only for students who have performed particularly well
within the honours program. Exceptional students may use ENGL*4910 for creative writing, on the approval of the instructor.
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Prerequisite(s): |
ENGL*2080, (ENGL*2120 or ENGL*2130), (ENGL*3940 or ENGL*3960)
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Restriction(s): |
Instructor consent required. |
Department(s): |
School of English and Theatre Studies |