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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) : A survey of English literature before 1750 for students registered in English programs.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H (Fall)
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English programs only
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 200
English (Arts) : A survey of English literature after 1750 for students registered in English programs.
Terms: Winter 2014
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 2013
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A; MacLaren, Eli; Buckley, Ariel; Lewton-Brain, Anna Nora (Fall)
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major Concentration, Literature Option.
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: Fall 2013
Instructors: MacLaren, Eli (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A chronological survey of Canadian literature, Part 2. A continuation of ENGL 228.
Terms: Winter 2014, Summer 2014
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Winter) Gélinas-Faucher, Claudine (Summer)
Winter
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 2013
Instructors: Henderson-Cameron, Laura (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the 18th century to the end of the Second World War.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Trehearne, Brian P (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the end of the Second World War to the present.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A survey of contemporary Canadian prose fiction in English, from modernism to post-modernism and beyond.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a significant author in Canadian literature.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: MacLaren, Eli (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: previous work in Canadian Literature
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a significant theme or movement in Canadian Literature.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Fall)
Winter
Prerequisite: previous work in Canadian Literature
English (Arts) : Advanced study of works of Canadian fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor, based on previous work in Canadian fiction
3 credits from a list of courses on Theory or Criticism:
English (Arts) : Philosophical approaches.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Winter)
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs
English (Arts) : Socio-Historical approaches.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs
English (Arts) : Issues in interpretation: authorship, performance, reception.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Ponech, Trevor (Fall)
Winter
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs
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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.
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: Fall 2013
Instructors: Van Dussen, Michael (Fall)
Winter
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.
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: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.
6 credits, 3 credits each from two of the following areas: Backgrounds of English Literature, Old English, Medieval, Renaissance:
English (Arts) : A study of selected texts that significantly enhance understanding of English literature.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Kilgour, Margaret A (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of selected texts that significantly enhance understanding of English literature.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Fumo, Jamie (Winter)
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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : An introduction to grammar and basic vocabulary in Old English.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Fall)
Winter
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken ENGL 351.
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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : Study of an aspect of Old English Literature which presupposes a grounding in the language.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: ENGL 351 or equivalent, or permission of the instructor
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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of works in Middle English.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Van Dussen, Michael (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Fumo, Jamie (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of works in Middle English.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Van Dussen, Michael (Winter)
Fall
English (Arts)
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Winter)
English (Arts) : A study of major non-dramatic works of the earlier Renaissance in England.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of major non-dramatic works of the later Renaissance in England.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Ross, Shaun (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : An overview of some major authors and issues in English Renaissance Drama.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Neilson, Patrick (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of the major works of Shakespeare.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of the works of Milton.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Ross, Shaun (Fall)
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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of earlier English Renaissance works.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of 17th century works.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of the works of Shakespeare.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Yachnin, Paul Edward (Winter)
Winter
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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of the major writers of the later 18th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of the English novel to c. 1750.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Fall)
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 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of the major writers of the later 18th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of later 18th century novels.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Sabor, Peter (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of 18th century works.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Winter)
English (Arts) : A survey of representative literature of the earlier Romantic period.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Sigg, Anna (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A survey of representative literature of the later Romantic period.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Kopley, Emily (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of 19th century works.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Sparks, Tabitha (Winter)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of representative novelists of the earlier 19th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of representative novelists of the later 19th century.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Halevi-Wise, Yael (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of the major Victorian poets.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of 19th century works.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Halevi-Wise, Yael (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of 19th century works.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Sparks, Tabitha (Winter)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of some of the major prose writers of the 19th Century.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Gibian, Peter (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of literary works of the 19th century.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
3 credits from one of the following areas: Early 20th Century, Modernist, Post-modernist, Contemporary:
English (Arts) : A critical survey of major British and North American poetry, c. 1890 - 1940.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : Study of works of literature of the 20th century.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Hepburn, William Allan (Winter)
Fall
English (Arts) : The Novel from the last years of the 19th century to World War II.
Terms: Summer 2014
Instructors: Pinder, Kaitlyn (Summer)
Fall
English (Arts) : A critical survey of major British and North American poetry, c. 1890 - 1940.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : Study of works of literature of the 20th century.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Hepburn, William Allan (Winter)
Fall
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Kopley, Emily (Fall) Trehearne, Brian P (Winter)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of postcolonial literature.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Banerjee, Sandeep (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A survey of contemporary Canadian prose fiction in English, from modernism to post-modernism and beyond.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of postcolonial literature.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Banerjee, Sandeep (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of 20th century American poetry.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : A survey of Canadian poetry in English from the end of the Second World War to the present.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Lecker, Robert (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of 20th century novels.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Banerjee, Sandeep (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A survey of contemporary Canadian prose fiction in English, from modernism to post-modernism and beyond.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : A critical survey of contemporary British and North American poetry, c. 1930 - 1980.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: ENGL 311
English (Arts) : A study of 20th century works.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of 20th century works.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : Study of works of literature of the 20th century.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Tolliver, Cedric (Winter)
Fall
English (Arts) : Study of a theme or author in contemporary women's fiction.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 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) : Study of literature and democracy. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1. Students may take only one First Year Seminar. Students who register for more than one will be removed from all but one of them.
Maximum enrolment: 25
English (Arts) : An introduction to literary study through a survey of a literary genre, mode, or form.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : Special topics of literary study. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of short stories.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
English (Arts) : A study of literature and science. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : An examination of issues relating to literature and its social contexts, such as implications of gender, race, ethnicity.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Yachnin, Paul Edward (Fall)
English (Arts) : Topics on representations of sexuality with reference to its cultural contexts.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Priority will be given to English Major/Honours students in second year of program
English (Arts) : Advanced seminar on writing prose fiction; admission subject to application, with writing sample.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Restriction: Permission of instructor required.
English (Arts) : Advanced seminar on playwriting.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Irani, Anosh (Fall)
Restriction: Permission of instructor required.
English (Arts) : A topic in literature and film. Topics vary by year.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: McCormick, Casey (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A popular literary author or genre, such as the romance novel, science fiction, the graphic novel, or cyberpunk.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Sparks, Tabitha (Fall)
English (Arts) : A study of African literature.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Popescu, Monica (Fall)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of Irish literature. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
English (Arts) : Study of a specific literary form. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : Study of a specific literary form.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Bray, Dorothy A (Winter)
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: Winter 2014
Instructors: Henzi, Sarah (Winter)
English (Arts) : Comparative study of English and European literature. Topic varies by year.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Fumo, Jamie (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts)
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Fall)
English (Arts)
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Prerequisite: Previous work in literary criticism or permission of the instructor
English (Arts) : Advanced seminar on writing poetry.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Fall
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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 2013
Instructors: Folkerth, Theodore W (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of the works of Milton.
Terms: Fall 2013
Instructors: Ross, Shaun (Fall)
Fall
English (Arts) : A study of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Winter
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a significant author in Canadian literature.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: MacLaren, Eli (Winter)
Winter
Prerequisite: previous work in Canadian Literature
English (Arts) : A study of the works of Shakespeare.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Yachnin, Paul Edward (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : A study of the works of a mahor English poet.
Terms: Winter 2014
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H (Winter)
Winter
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Terms: Fall 2013, Winter 2014
Instructors: Kopley, Emily (Fall) Trehearne, Brian P (Winter)
Fall