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The Literature option provides a grounding in the basic texts and methods of the discipline as well as wide acquaintance with substantial areas of the field.
For the most up-to-date information on Department requirements and detailed course descriptions, please see the English Department Handbook at .
These courses should be taken in the first two terms of the program.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Sparks, Tabitha (Winter)
English (Arts) : Discussion and application of basic critical tools for analysis of literature. Study of such features of poetry and prose fiction as prosody, diction, voice, tone, imagery, figurative language, point of view, narrative form, and character.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Trehearne, Brian P; Morgan, Monique; Deshaye, Joel; Havens, Hilary; Phipps, Gregory (Fall)
27 credits selected as described below.
Note on Topics Courses: The Department of English offers courses which change topic from academic year to academic year. Depending on the topic in a specific year, these courses may count toward different program requirements. At the time they register for a topics course, students should confirm with their program adviser the program requirement it fulfils for that academic year.
3 credits from a list of Canadian Literature courses:
English (Arts) : A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 1.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 2. A continuation of ENGL 228.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Fall)
English (Arts) : A survey of Canadian prose fiction in English, from 19th century historical romance and realist fiction to the emergence of the modernist novel in the decades following the Second World War.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Trehearne, Brian P (Fall)
English (Arts) : A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the 18th century to the end of the Second World War.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the end of the Second World War to the present.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Winter)
English (Arts) : A survey of contemporary Canadian prose fiction in English, from modernism to post-modernism and beyond.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Webb, Peter (Fall)
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a significant author in Canadian literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a significant theme or movement in Canadian Literature.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Winter)
English (Arts) : Advanced study of works of Canadian fiction.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Webb, Peter (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Webb, Peter (Winter)
3 credits from a list of courses on Theory or Criticism:
English (Arts) : Philosophical approaches.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Fall)
English (Arts) : Socio-Historical approaches.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Issues in interpretation: authorship, performance, reception.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A course focusing on textuality (as opposed to, say, intentionality and interpretation) and on how specific effects are made - how texts work and produce meaning, including rhetoric and form.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Writing, printing, distribution, marketing, and placement within canon-making institutions; the influence of material forms of production and transmission on the creation and reception of literature, film, and theatre.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Mole, Thomas (Winter)
English (Arts) : Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
6 credits, 3 credits each from two of the following areas: Backgrounds of English Literature, Old English, Medieval, Renaissance:
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of selected texts that significantly enhance understanding of English literature.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H (Winter)
English (Arts) : A study of selected texts that significantly enhance understanding of English literature.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Van Dussen, Michael (Winter)
English (Arts) : A study of representative texts from Beowulf to the late Renaissance period in relation to their background in folk tradition. A focus on the origin and development of folklore motifs.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An introduction to grammar and basic vocabulary in Old English.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Fall)
English (Arts) : A study of representative texts from Beowulf to the late Renaissance period in relation to their background in folk tradition. A focus on the origin and development of folklore motifs.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of an aspect of Old English Literature which presupposes a grounding in the language.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of a particular theme or genre of significance to the development of medieval literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of representative texts from Beowulf to the late Renaissance period in relation to their background in folk tradition. A focus on the origin and development of folklore motifs.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Van Dussen, Michael (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Fall)
English (Arts) : A study of a selection of plays, in their intellectual and theatrical context, with an emphasis on the interplay of text and performance.
Terms: Summer 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of major non-dramatic works of the earlier Renaissance in England.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H (Winter)
English (Arts) : A study of major non-dramatic works of the later Renaissance in England.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of the major works of Shakespeare.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Yachnin, Paul Edward (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Kilgour, Margaret A (Fall)
English (Arts) : A study of representative texts from Beowulf to the late Renaissance period in relation to their background in folk tradition. A focus on the origin and development of folklore motifs.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Kilgour, Margaret A (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H (Fall)
6 credits, 3 credits each from two of the following areas: Restoration, 18th Century, Romantic, Victorian, 19th-Century American:
English (Arts) : A study of the major writers of the late 17th and earlier 18th centuries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of the major writers of the later 18th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of the English novel to c. 1750.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Fall)
English (Arts) : A study of the major writers of the late 17th and earlier 18th centuries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of the major writers of the later 18th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Sabor, Peter (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of aspects of the Gothic in a variety of periods and media.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Winter)
English (Arts) : A survey of representative literature of the earlier Romantic period.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Mole, Thomas (Fall)
English (Arts) : A survey of representative literature of the later Romantic period.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Morgan, Monique; Algee-Hewitt, Mark (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Sparks, Tabitha (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of representative novelists of the earlier 19th century.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Sparks, Tabitha (Fall)
English (Arts) : A study of representative novelists of the later 19th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of the major Victorian poets.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Phipps, Gregory (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Sparks, Tabitha (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of some of the major prose writers of the 19th Century.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Gibian, Peter (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Gibian, Peter (Winter)
3 credits from one of the following areas: Early 20th Century, Modernist, Post-modern, Contemporary:
English (Arts) : A critical survey of major British and North American poetry, c. 1890 - 1940.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: MacPhail, Kelly Carlyle (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Oliver, Elisabeth Marie (Fall)
English (Arts) : The Novel from the last years of the 19th century to World War II.
Terms: Summer 2011
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A critical survey of major British and North American poetry, c. 1890 - 1940.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: MacPhail, Kelly Carlyle (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Oliver, Elisabeth Marie (Fall)
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Trehearne, Brian P (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Oliver, Elisabeth Marie (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Popescu, Monica (Fall)
English (Arts) : A survey of contemporary Canadian prose fiction in English, from modernism to post-modernism and beyond.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Webb, Peter (Fall)
English (Arts) : Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Popescu, Monica (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the end of the Second World War to the present.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Hepburn, William Allan (Winter)
English (Arts) : A survey of contemporary Canadian prose fiction in English, from modernism to post-modernism and beyond.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Webb, Peter (Fall)
English (Arts) : A critical survey of contemporary British and North American poetry, c. 1930 - 1980.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Popescu, Monica (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Webb, Peter (Winter)
English (Arts) : Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
6 additional credits from ENGL offerings in Literature which includes all the courses specifically listed in the Literature categories above and the courses listed below. Any ENGL course not on these Literature lists, such as courses in Cultural Studies, may not count toward the Major Concentration in English - Literature.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : This course will examine the literary dimensions of the Bible including structure, style, and meaning as well as its status as Sacred Book. The influence of the Bible-as-metatext on the secular literature of the West will be the focus of the discussion.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : An introduction to literary study through a survey of a literary genre, mode, or form.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Halevi-Wise, Yael (Winter)
English (Arts) : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Morgan, Monique (Fall)
English (Arts) : An examination of issues relating to literature and its social contexts, such as implications of gender, race, ethnicity.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Examination of interdisciplinary connections between literary criticism and another discipline, such as anthropology, linguistics, history, philosophy or psychology, which has had significant impact on literary study.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Topics on representations of sexuality with reference to its cultural contexts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Advanced seminar on writing prose fiction; admission subject to application, with writing sample.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Luhning, Holly (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : .
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : A popular literary author or genre, such as the romance novel, science fiction, the graphic novel, or cyberpunk.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Winter)
English (Arts) : Study of a specific literary form.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Winter)
English (Arts) : An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Kilgour, Margaret A (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Heise, William (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Morgan, Monique (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Halevi-Wise, Yael (Fall)
English (Arts) : .
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Popescu, Monica (Winter)
3 credits on a Major Author must be included in the 27 complementary course credits.
English (Arts) : A study of the major works of Shakespeare.
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Yachnin, Paul Edward (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Kilgour, Margaret A (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Winter)
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a significant author in Canadian literature.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2010-2011 academic year.
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Terms: Winter 2011
Instructors: Trehearne, Brian P (Winter)
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2010
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Fall)