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Instruction offered by members of the Department of English in the Faculty of Arts.

Department Head - A. McWhir

One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature will normally constitute the prerequisite for 300-level English courses.

The following 300-level courses have no 200-level prerequisites: English 311, 371, 382, 383, 384, 385, 387, 389, 391, 393, 395, 399.

Junior Courses

English 203

Foundations: Literary Analysis

A seminar on a special topic, emphasizing critical reading and writing. This course prepares students for advanced undergraduate studies in English.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: Compulsory for, and limited to, English Majors, Minors, and Honours students. Please consult the Department of English website for the topic of each section of this course.

English 205

Foundations: Shakespeare

Selected works of William Shakespeare, with instruction in critical writing.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 311 or 312.
Notes: Compulsory for, and limited to, English Majors, Minors, and Honours students.

English 231

Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Fiction

Selected novels and short stories. Emphasizes fundamental skills: how to read a text accurately and critically; how to write logically, clearly, and correctly.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

English 233

Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Non-Fiction

Selected works of non-fictional prose. Emphasizes fundamental skills: how to read a text accurately and critically; how to write logically, clearly, and correctly.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

English 235

Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Poetry

Selected poetry. Emphasizes fundamental skills: how to read a text accurately and critically; how to write logically, clearly, and correctly.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

English 237

Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Drama

Selected plays. Emphasizes fundamental skills: how to read a text accurately and critically; how to write logically, clearly, and correctly.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

English 239

Fundamentals of Literary Studies: Special Topics

Emphasizes fundamental skills: how to read a text accurately and critically; how to write logically, clearly, and correctly.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: Instructors will offer a variety of course designs and reading lists to teach these skills: check the description of each section posted on the English Department Website.

English 265

Introductory Creative Writing

Instruction in the rudiments of craft for poetry, scripts, and fiction, emphasizing the centrality of reading and revision to literary composition.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: Does not require any prerequisite. Does not count toward the "Creative Writing concentration" transcript designation. Primarily intended for students planning to take further courses in Creative Writing.

Senior Courses

English 302

Foundations: Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Practices

An examination of the claims and assumptions of a range of contemporary critical practices, such as formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism and gender studies, new historicism, psychoanalytic criticism, and cultural and ideological critique. Includes practice in the application of theory to literary texts.
Course Hours: F(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature, or consent of the Department.
Notes: Compulsory for English Majors, Minors and Honours students.

English 311

Shakespeare

A consideration of the development and variety of work by William Shakespeare.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 205 or 312.
Notes: English 311 does not require any prerequisites.

English 317

Women’s Literary Tradition

A survey of writings by women in English from the medieval period to the present, with emphasis on the evolution of a complex and varied literary tradition.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 318.

English 340

Foundations: Literature in English from the Middle Ages to the Present

A historical survey.
Course Hours: F(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 203 and 205, or consent of the Department.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 240.
Notes: Compulsory for, and limited to, English Majors, Minors and Honours students.

English 351

Poetry: Reading and Analysis

A study of poetic forms in English from a wide range of historical periods, social contexts, and national literatures. Through textual analysis and close reading, this course acquaints students with the characteristic techniques of prosody and basic poetic terminology, giving detailed attention to tropes and figures along with other poetic concepts such as form, tone, diction, implication, and point of view.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 354.
Notes: This course cannot be used by Majors or Honours students to fulfill historical breadth requirements.

English 353

Drama: Reading and Analysis

A study of dramatic literature in English from a wide range of historical periods, social contexts, and national literatures. Through textual analysis and close reading, this course acquaints students with the characteristic techniques of dramaturgy and basic theatric terminology, giving detailed attention to the formal conventions of literature written to be performed on stage.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 356.
Notes: This course cannot be used by Majors or Honours students to fulfill historical breadth requirements.

English 355

Studies in Prose Fiction: Special Topic

A study of prose fiction from a formalist, historical, or thematic perspective.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 358.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT.

English 364

Poetry Writing I

Basic instruction in writing poetry, with particular emphasis on the short lyric poem.
Course Hours: F(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Full junior English or equivalent and consent of the Department.
Notes: One month before the start of classes, prospective students must submit a portfolio of their own work for evaluation before consent of the Department will be given. Details of this procedure are available from the Department of English. (This course is ideal preparation for English 494.)

English 366

Fiction Writing I

Basic instruction in the art of fiction writing, with particular emphasis on the short story.
Course Hours: F(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Full junior English or equivalent and consent of the Department.
Notes: One month before the start of classes, prospective students must submit a portfolio of their own work for evaluation before consent of the Department will be given. Details of this procedure are available from the Department of English. (This course is ideal preparation for English 496).

English 371

Topic in Canadian Literature

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 371 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

English 372

Fundamentals of Canadian Literature

This course provides a broad historical survey of Canadian writing from its origins up to the work of living writers. The course introduces students to some of the major authors in Canada, as well as to significant critical and cultural ideas that have developed about this nation’s literature. Majors and Honours students in English are strongly encouraged (although not required) to take this specific course in fulfillment of the Canadian component for their degree requirements.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 370.

English 381

The History of English

An introduction to important changes and stages in the history of English including its Indo-European and Germanic origins and a consideration of Modern English grammar and orthography from a historical perspective.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Linguistics 203.
Also known as: (Linguistics 381)

English 382

Topic in American Literature

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 382 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

English 383

Topic in Literature and the Environment

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 387.03 or 387.30.
Notes: English 383 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

English 384

Topic in Women’s Literatures

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 384 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT.

English 385

Topic in Aboriginal Literatures

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 385 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

English 387

Topic in Literature and Society

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 387 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

English 388

Topic in Popular Genres

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 388 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT.

English 389

Topic in Gay or Lesbian Literature

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 389 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

English 391

Topic in Postcolonial Literature and Theory

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 391 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT.

English 393

Speculative Fiction I: Science Fiction

An examination of works of science fiction.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 393 does not require any prerequisite.

English 395

Speculative Fiction II: Fantasy

An examination of works of fantasy.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 395 does not require any prerequisite.

English 396

Children’s Literature

A historical and critical study of children's literature.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 398.

English 397

Literature for Younger Children

A historical and critical study of literature for younger children.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.

English 399

Detective Fiction

An examination of detective fiction.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Notes: English 399 does not require any prerequisite.

English 401

Old English Language and Prose Literature

A study of the language of the Anglo-Saxons through reading of prose texts.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.

English 403

Old English Poetry

Reading and analysis of Old English poetry in the original language.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 401.

English 405

Middle English Literature: The Canterbury Tales

A survey of the Middle English language and the social, cultural and historical contexts of later medieval literature through Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 404.

English 406

Middle English Literature: Other Genres

A continued study of Middle English literature, including non-Chaucerian poetry, prose, drama, and such works as Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Book of Margery Kempe.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 405.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 404.

English 407

Middle English Literature: Other Works of Chaucer

A continued study of the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer, including such works as Troilus and Criseyde and the Legend of Good Women.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 405.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 404.

English 409

Early Tudor Literature

A survey of literature from 1485 to 1558, including work by such writers as Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Thomas More, and Thomas Wyatt.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 408.

English 410

Elizabethan Poetry and Prose

A survey of non-dramatic literature from 1558 to 1603, including work by such writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 408.

English 411

Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose

A survey of non-dramatic literature of the seventeenth century, including Milton.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 414.

English 412

Elizabethan Drama

A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 414.

English 413

Seventeenth-Century Drama

A survey of drama from 1603 to 1660, including William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 414.

English 431

Literature of the Restoration

A survey of literature from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 until 1700. Students will read poetry, prose, and drama by Aphra Behn, John Dryden, and such writers as Mary Astell, William Congreve, John Locke, and the Earl of Rochester.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 430.

English 433

Literature of the Early Eighteenth-Century

A survey of literature from 1700 to 1740. Students will read poetry, prose, and drama by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and such writers as Daniel Defoe, John Gay, and Eliza Haywood.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 430.

English 435

Literature of the Later Eighteenth Century

A survey of literature from 1740 to 1789. Students will read poetry, prose, and drama by Frances Burney, Samuel Johnson, and such writers as Thomas Gray, R. B. Sheridan, and Laurence Sterne.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 430.

English 441

Literature of the Romantic Period: The Age of Revolution

A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by the first generation of Romantic-period writers, including such writers as Joanna Baillie, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 440.

English 443

Literature of the Romantic Period: The Age of Reform

A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by the second generation of Romantic-period writers, including such writers as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 440.

English 445

Literature of the Early Victorian Period

A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by such writers as Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 444.

English 447

Literature of the Mid-Victorian Period

A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by such writers as Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), John Stuart Mill, Christina Rossetti, and John Ruskin.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 444.

English 449

Literature of the Late Victorian Period

A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by such writers as Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, and Vernon Lee (Violet Paget).
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 444.

English 451

British Literature from 1900 to 1950

A survey of British literature from the first half of the twentieth century.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 450.

English 453

British Literature since 1950

A survey of British literature from the last half of the twentieth century to the present.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 450.

English 461

Early American Literature and the American Renaissance

A survey of American literature from its origins to the Civil War. This course will examine both canonical and newly relevant works of literature and place them in a cultural and critical context.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 446.

English 463

American Literature from the Late 1800s to the Mid-1900s

A survey of American literature from the Civil War to World War II, encompassing realism, naturalism, and modernism. This course will examine both canonical and newly relevant works of literature and place them in a cultural and critical context.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 446.

English 465

American Literature since the Mid-1900s

A survey of American literature since World War II. This course will examine both canonical and newly relevant works of literature and place them in a cultural and critical context.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 462.

English 471

Canadian Literature from its Origins to 1950

A survey of Canadian literature from its beginnings to the middle of the twentieth century.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 470.

English 473

Canadian Literature since 1950

A survey of Canadian literature from 1950 to the present.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 470.

English 481

Literary Theory from its Origins to 1800

A survey of the major theories of and approaches to literature from classical times to 1800.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 480.

English 483

Literary Theory since 1800

A survey of the major theories of and approaches to literature from 1800 to the present.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 480.

English 490

Postcolonial and Diasporic Literatures

A survey of literatures and theories from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean regions.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.
Antirequisite(s): Not open to students with credit in English 492.

English 491

Postcolonial and Diasporic Literatures: Selected Region

A survey of literatures and theories from any one of the following regions: Pacific, Atlantic, or Indian Ocean.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.

English 493

International Indigenous Literatures

A survey of writing by indigenous peoples from selected regions around the world.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): English 302 and either 240 or 340.

English 494

Poetry Writing II

A close examination and discussion of the student's own work, with emphasis on technique.
Course Hours: F(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Full junior English or equivalent and consent of the Department.
Notes: One month before the start of classes, prospective students must submit a portfolio of their own work for evaluation before consent of the Department will be given. Details of this procedure are available from the Department of English.

English 496

Fiction Writing II

English 501

Studies in Drama