The 1000 level series courses offer an introduction to a variety of approaches to the reading of and writing about literature, using texts from a range of genres and periods. At the 2000 level, students may choose from introduction to literary periods courses, Shakespeare course, and Canadian and American literature courses. These courses provide foundation for the 3000 level courses. At the 3000 level students are offered courses in traditional periods of English literature, various national literatures including Canadian and American, Postcolonial literature, dramatic literature, creative writing, film, genre and cultural studies.

Normally taken only in the fourth year when students are best equipped to benefit from them, the "Selected Topics" courses of the 4000 series provide an opportunity for students and faculty to develop their special interests. While various topics are offered from year to year at the 4000 level, students can pursue individual study and research under supervision (4951: Independent Study).

ENGL 1111 (3CR)
LITERATURE, THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

English 1111 provides an introduction to the interrelationship between literature and social issues, focusing on the intersection of the discipline of English with other fields in the Arts and Humanities. The course will acquaint beginning students with many of the major forms of English literature as encountered through discussions related to subjects such as the fine arts, religion, philosophy, history, and other fields in the Arts and Humanities.

ENGL 1121 (3CR)
LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Like its companion course English 1111, English 1121 provides an introduction to the interrelationship between literature and social issues, in this case focusing on topics related to the fields of Science and Technology. The material will introduce beginning students to English Literature and its interaction with scientific and technological subjects in past and present societies.

ENGL 1201 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY ANALYSIS

This course, offered in several sections each year, introduces students to critical approaches to the reading of, and writing about, literature. Each section has its own reading list, set by the individual instructor and including a balanced representation of prose, fiction, poetry and drama, taken from a range of historical periods.

ENGL 1501 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

This course will acquaint students with the materials of the poet's art and survey outstanding achievements in the English tradition of poetry.

ENGL/DRAM 1701 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA

This course introduces students to conventions, forms, and devices of drama as they emerge under, and respond to, specific theatrical and cultural conditions.

ENGL 1801 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO PROSE FICTION

This course will examine the two major prose genres of the novel and the short story; selected examples of representative forms will be chosen to illustrate the range and variety of both genres.

ENGL 2201 (3CR)
LITERARY PERIODS TO 1800

This course presents an intensive survey of English literary history from Anglo-Saxon times to the late eighteenth century. Along with its companion course, English 2301, it is specially designed for students with a strong interest in the discipline of English.

ENGL 2211 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE

This course introduces students to a wide range of Shakespeare's plays.

ENGL 2301 (3CR)
LITERARY PERIODS, 1800-PRESENT

This course presents an intensive survey of English literary history from the Romantic period to the present. Along with English 2201, it is specially designed for students with a strong interest in the discipline of English. Students are strongly advised to take English 2201 before enrolling in this course.

ENGL 2701 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE

This course offers students an introductory survey of American writing from the colonial period to the present.

ENGL 2801 (3CR)
INTRODUCTION TO CANADIAN LITERATURE

This course presents an introductory overview of Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present.

ENGL 3011 (3CR)
SURVEY OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE

A study of selected literary texts produced in England from the fifth century to the fifteenth century. Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Celtic texts will be read in modern translations, Middle-English texts will be read in the original. Major texts and authors such as Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon elegies, Chaucer, Lydgate and Malory will be included along with anonymous texts.

ENGL 3021 (3CR)
MIDDLE-ENGLISH LITERATURE

This course will concentrate on Middle-English literature produced in the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. Prose and poetry genres, including lyrics, romances, dream visions and frame narratives may be studied in conjunction with a specific theme or subject. The texts will be read in the original Middle-English language.

ENGL 3211 (3CR)
ADVANCED STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE

A study of a selected number of Shakespeare's plays at an advanced level, requiring students' engagement with current issues in Shakespearean scholarship and criticism.

ENGL 3231 (3CR)
SIXTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE

This course will examine development of literary forms and genres in the English Renaissance. It will provide an overview to the non-dramatic literary developments in the 16th Century, and will provide samples of the tremendous range of literature being produced in the Tudor period.

ENGL 3241 (3CR)
MAJOR TEXTS IN EARLY ENGLISH LITERATURE

This course will examine a major text, genre or theme from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. Topics will rotate from a selection of long texts and long text-based genres. Examples of such texts are: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Piers Plowman, Morte D'Arthur, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, and Arcadia.

ENGL 3311 (3CR)
ENGLISH DRAMA TO 1642

A study of English dramatic literature and production, excluding Shakespeare, from the Middle Ages to the closing of the theatres in 1642.

ENGL 3351 (3CR)
LITERATURE OF THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

A study of the poetry and prose of the early seventeenth century, focusing on the work of authors such as Donne, Jonson, and Herbert.

ENGL 3361 (3CR)
LITERATURE AND THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION

A study of the poetry and prose which emerged from the political, religious, and social revolutions of the mid-seventeenth century, including the work of Marvell, Milton, and Bunyan.

ENGL 3411 (3CR)
RESTORATION AND AUGUSTAN LITERATURE

This course examines British writing of the Restoration and early Augustan periods (1660-1720). The variety of genres and authors to be studied includes early novels by Behn, Defoe, and Swift, formal verse satire by Rochester and Pope, verse epistles and lyrics by Philips and Finch, and diaries and memoirs by Pepys and Manley.

ENGL 3421 (3CR)
LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

This course examines British writing from the Age of Reason to the Age of Sensibility (1720-1780). The range of genres and authors to be studied includes satires by Pope and Johnson, novels by Haywood, Fielding, Sterne, and Burney, lyric odes by Carter, Collins, and Gray, and the first Gothic novel by Walpole.

ENGL 3431 (3CR)
RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA

This courses examines the major British playwrights and dramatic forms emerging between the time of the Restoration of the Monarchy (1660) and the end of the eighteenth century. Works will be assessed both in light of their contemporary theatrical conditions and as cultural artifacts of their respective ages.

ENGL 3451 (3CR)
LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM

This course examines British writing from 1780 to 1810, a period of profound cultural transformation under the impact of the American, French, and Industrial Revolutions. Romanticism was one response to this context, and the course will explore representative examples from the poetry of Blake, Smith, Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. Other genres to be studied will include the Gothic novel, the Jacobin novel, diaries, and epistolary essays.

ENGL 3461 (3CR)
LITERATURE OF THE REGENCY

This course examines British writing of the early nineteenth century from the Regency through the reign of George IV (1810-1830). The literary genres to be studied will include Romantic poetry, Regency satire, the historical novel, and the novel of manners, written by such authors as Byron, Austen, Keats, the Shelleys, Scott, Hemans, and Landon.

ENGL 3481 (3CR)
EARLY VICTORIAN LITERATURE

This course examines British writing from the 1830s to the 1860s. Genres and authors to be studied include the novels, essays, and poems of such authors as Carlyle, the Brontes, Tennyson, Gaskell, Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Robert Browning.

ENGL 3491 (3CR)
LATE VICTORIAN LITERATURE

This course examines British writing at the zenith of the British Empire (1867-1900). The variety of genres and authors to be studied includes novels by Eliot, Thackeray and Hardy, essays by Arnold, Ruskin, and Pater, and poems by Webster, Field, Arnold, Hopkins, the pre-Raphealites, Christina Rossetti, and Wilde.

ENGL 3511 (3CR)
EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

This course examines British writing from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the Second World War. Although this period saw the formation of literary modernism, many British authors continued to write in more conventional modes. Many writers sought to understand how Western culture and civilization could allow for the destruction caused by total war.

ENGL 3521 (3CR)
LATER TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE

This course examines various British literary works written since the Second World War. While some writers continued to experiment with style and form, other post-war British writers retreated from the experimentalism of the major modernists.

ENGL 3551 (3CR)
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN DRAMA

A study of representative modern plays including works by Pirandello, Brecht, and Beckett chosen to illustrate the major developments in dramatic literature and production in the twentieth century.

ENGL 3561 (3CR)
CONTEMPORARY DRAMA

A study of selected contemporary plays and playwrights.

ENGL 3611 (3CR)
DRAMA, THEATRE, AND SOCIETY

This course examines ways in which drama may both reflect and influence society, using as examples the complex relationship between Restoration comedy and its society, efforts at social engineering in Eighteenth-Century bourgeois tragedy, the role of melodrama in reflecting nineteenth century society and culture, and the "birth" of social drama late in the nineteenth century. In addition, it carries these ideas forward to include study of political theatre of the 1920's and 1930's, as well as works by contemporary social playwrights.

ENGL 3621 (3CR)
READING FILMS

This course focuses on affinities between printed and cinematic narrative forms, introducing students as well to some of the principles of semiotics, and to the place of film theory within the context of cultural studies more generally.

ENGL 3651 (3CR)
LITERATURE BY WOMEN TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

A study of literature by women before the twentieth century. This course employs a variety of critical approaches to define a tradition of writing by women. Works by such writers as Mary Godwin Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning will be examined.

ENGL 3661 (3CR)
LITERATURE BY WOMEN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

A study of literature by women in the twentieth century. The course attempts to identify the major developments in the literature, using contemporary critical approaches. Works by such writers as Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Margaret Atwood will be examined.

ENGL 3711 (3CR)
AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO THE CIVIL WAR

A study of American Literature from its beginnings to 1865. This course focuses on various canonical texts which have become central to American culture and self-understanding; however, the course also makes room for voices of dissent, for those who criticized colonial practices and, after 1776, the newly formed United States of America. Finally, the course will consider various literary responses to what was called the "peculiar institution" that would ultimately divide the nation: slavery.

ENGL 3721 (3CR)
AMERICAN LITERATURE FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT

A study of American Literature from 1865 to the present. This course examines American writing and culture during the period when the United States became a colonial and, later, a world power.

ENGL 3731 (3CR)
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

This course offers a survey of African American writing from the eighteenth century to the present. In addition to "literary" texts, the course will examine selected examples of the African American vernacular tradition.

ENGL 3751 (3CR)
POST-COLONIAL AFRICAN LITERATURE

This course examines African literature in English from 1950, covering the novel, drama, and poetry and relating the literature to both Post-Colonial theory and to the historical developments in African politics and cultures.

ENGL 3761 (3CR)
LITERATURES OF AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

This course traces the development, from their beginnings in the 1800's, of the literatures of Australia and New Zealand, and introduces the more recent literature from the South Pacific and island states.

ENGL 3771 (3CR)
CARIBBEAN LITERATURE

This course offers an introduction to the literature of the Caribbean Islands since 1945.

ENGL 3781 (3CR)
THE LITERATURE OF INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

This course examines the 20th century literature of India and Southeast Asia against the history of the various independence movements and other ideological movements important to the cultures of the area.

ENGL 3801 (3CR)
CANADIAN LITERATURE FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO 1914

A study of representative works of Canadian literature from the beginnings to the First World War. The development of Canadian literature from the exploration and settlement stage to Confederation and the beginnings of modernism will be presented. Works by such authors as Richardson, Moodie, Roberts, and Duncan will be examined.

ENGL 3811 (3CR)
CANADIAN MODERNISM

This course will examine the developments in Modernism found in Canadian literature from 1910 to 1950.

ENGL 3821 (3CR)
THE CANADIAN POSTMODERN

This course will examine the proliferating innovations in the forms and themes of Canadian literature since 1950.

ENGL 3831 (3CR)
ASPECTS OF CANADIAN LITERATURE

A study of a selected aspect of Canadian literature.

ENGL 3850 (6CR)
CREATIVE WRITING

This course will offer workshops in creative writing, concentrating primarily on poetry and short fiction; it may also include some work in other forms such as drama and the personal essay. Admission to the course is based on acceptance of a portfolio of original creative work. Note that portfolios are due by the end of Reading Week in the winter term previous to the course.

ENGL 3871 (3CR)
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY I

This course offers an introduction to various contemporary theories of literature; diverse approaches, such as structuralist, semiotic, post-structuralist and "deconstructive" will be examined.

ENGL 3881 (3CR)
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY THEORY II

This course will draw upon the literary theories introduced in English 3871 while introducing further theoretical approaches such as psychoanalytic, feminist, and Marxist theories.

ENGL 3911 (3CR)
STUDIES IN LITERARY GENRE

This course will address one or more popular genres of literature, paying attention to the emergence and rise of the genre(s) and to the narrative conventions of the genre(s). Generic literatures examined could include, but need not be limited to, autobiography, mystery, romance, speculative fiction, utopia or dystopia, etc.

ENGL 3921 (3CR)
CULTURAL STUDIES

This course offers an introduction to the broad field of contemporary cultural studies, paying particular attention to current theoretical models of 'reading' the texts of popular culture. Diverse forms of texts will be examined.

ENGL 3931 (3CR)
ASPECTS OF POSTMODERNISM

This course will examine various aspects of the postmodern aesthetic by exploring post-modern writing, such as that by Barth, Eco, Carter, Calvino, or Acker, within the context of recent theories of postmodernism; the course will explore implications of postmodernism as both a cultural and an aesthetic phenomenon.

These courses are designed to give opportunity for special study of a chosen topic within a specific area. They may be devoted to a major author, a group of authors, or thematic or stylistic developments. The topic selected by the Department will be announced in the Spring preceding the year in which it is to be offered.

Note: All 4000 level courses may be taken only by permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4221 (3CR)
SELECTED TOPICS IN PRE-1800 LITERATURE

ENGL 4231 (3CR)
SELECTED TOPICS IN POST-1800 LITERATURE

ENGL 4701 (3CR)
SELECTED TOPICS IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

ENGL 4801 (3CR)
SELECTED TOPICS IN CANADIAN LITERATURE

ENGL 4901 (3CR)
SPECIAL TOPICS

A seminar course devoted to topics either too broad in scope to be offered in the area-defined selected topics courses or in a special subject not covered by the courses offered.

ENGL 4921 (3CR)
SELECTED TOPICS IN SEX, GENDER AND LITERATURE

ENGL 4931 (3CR)
SELECTED TOPICS IN TEXT AND TECHNOLOGY

ENGL 4941 (3CR)
SELECTED TOPICS IN LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE, CULTURE AND NATION

ENGL 4951 (3CR)
INDEPENDENT STUDY

Supervised by Members of the Department, this course offers independent research and study in which students pursue a planned programme of their choice approved by the Department and supervised by a member of the department. To be accepted for the Independent Study, students must have achieved an overall English average of B.

ENGL 4990 (6CR)
HONOURS THESIS

Supervised by members of the Department, candidates for an Honours degree must complete an Honours thesis of acceptable scope and quality. The subject of the Honours thesis is to be approved by the Department at the end of the student's junior year. The candidate is to be directly responsible to a supervisor and a department committee.