Current Courses

An introduction to literatures in English including, but not restricted to, the British literary canon. It teaches students to read and write effectively, and to locate texts in history and culture. The course includes a chronological introduction sensitive to the structures and intersections of literary periods. NOTe: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

An introduction to literatures in English including, but not restricted to, the British literary canon. It teaches students to read and write effectively, and to locate texts in history and culture. The course includes a chronological introduction sensitive to the structures and intersections of literary periods. NOTe: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

An introduction to literatures in English including, but not restricted to, the British literary canon. It teaches students to read and write effectively, and to locate texts in history and culture. The course includes a chronological introduction sensitive to the structures and intersections of literary periods. NOTe: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

This course introduces students to the conventions of literary study. It offers reading strategies and techniques that permit the student to make sense of difficult or alien readings. At the same time, the ability to communicate understanding of literary texts through the conventions of scholarly essay writing is emphasized. Students will not only become effective readers and communicators in this course-they will come to appreciate some of the most important literary texts that the English language has produced. Note: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

Students will learn, use, and critique digital productivity tools, multimedia and website development tools, and Web 2.0 tools, while they apply literary methodologies to broader issues and debates like cyber safety, digital privacy laws and ethics, the economic and social engineering implications of user-data, as well as modes of digital communication and collaboration. Familiarity with critical theories and historical trends will help students understand how social and political movements develop the form, genre, and style of digital platforms.

This introduction to the discipline and practice of English teaches the student to prepare a research paper, practice close reading, and develop a grammatically correct, clear writing style. Students will learn to use literary databases and library resources; they will undertake a research project that helps provide a solid grounding in the methods and conventions of the discipline of English Literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1016.

This introduction to the discipline and practice of English teaches the student to prepare a research paper, practice close reading, and develop a grammatically correct, clear writing style. Students will learn to use literary databases and library resources; they will undertake a research project that helps provide a solid grounding in the methods and conventions of the discipline of English Literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1016.

A course for students interested in writing poetry, prose, and/or scripts. Along with writing assignments and workshopping (critiquing each others' work), students give presentations or blog on topics that will help them develop writing skills. This course is also open to first-year students. Prerequisite: 5-10 page sample of work submitted to the instructor at least a week before registration, or ENGL 2123.

A survey of the short story genre from its beginnings in the 19th century to its predominance as the traditional narrative literary form of the 20th century. (Post-1800.)

An introduction to the development of this genre from Shelley's Frankenstein through the Golden Age of the 1950s. Attention is paid to the related genres which contributed to the development of this genre. (Post-1800.)

This course will introduce students to the literary sources of classical Greek and Roman mythology. It will also explore some of the post-classical reflexes of central myths. The course may include such texts as Hesiod's Theogony, Euripides' Bacchae, Sophocles' Theban plays, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Apuleius' Golden Ass. (Pre-1800)

An exploration of literature from the early Middle Ages to the later Renaissance that reflects Catholic teachings, traditions, and attitudes. Readings may include The Dream of the Rood, medieval poetry, mystery and morality plays, mystical and devotional writings, and authors such as Augustine, Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, More, Southwell, and Cranshaw. (Pre-­1800.)

A study of novels, short fiction, drama, and film as narrative. Students are introduced to, among other things, the major narrative techniques and innovations in the history of cinema. (Post-1800.)

This course surveys the portrayal of English Culture from Roman times to the present, but instead of a standard linear, clock-tick movement, we cover these epochs in asynchronous time.

This course traces the English language from its Indo-European and Germanic origins to its current world language status. Students will explore contacts with other languages, and the social forces behind those contacts. We will also address the question of whether English constitutes one language or many. (Language) (Pre-1800)

This is an advanced course for students who discovered an affinity for poetry in the introductory course(s). This course provides the opportunity for students to generate and rewrite poems. Prerequisite: ENGL 2113 or 2123.

An introduction to the development, influence and major trends of art cinema in the 20th century. Prerequisite: ENGL 2013 and ENGL 2723. (Post-1800.)

A survey of several of the major themes and forms of the modern movement. Topics covered include: the advent of free verse as the dominant form in modern poetry, the role of myth and history in the central works of the great moderns, and the First World War and its aftermath. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; American)

A study of the prose and poetry of Jonson, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, and the minor writers of the age. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800).

A study of the writings of William Blake, Percy and Mary Shelley, and their contemporaries. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

An exploration of the emergence of theatre in Canada by examining pre- and post-Confed- eration plays. This course traces Canadian theatre, from its early appearance at Annapolis Royal in 1606 to the contemporary period, with a thematic emphasis on its colonial and postcolonial roots and their representations on stage and in text. Playwrights considered may include Lescarbot, Ryga, French, Thompson, and Clements. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; Canadian.)

An introduction to the conventions of the epic and to classical mythology. Texts may include Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Vergil's Aeneid. All texts are in translation. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

An exploration of contemporary theories of gender and sexuality, focusing on the manner in which gender, sexuality, and their attendant identity politics are re-visioned in terms of their constructedness, over against normalizing conceptions of sexual identity. Readings are taken from a diversity of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, feminism, philosophy, and literary theory. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

In this course we study one of medieval England's bestsellers, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in detail. The Tales respond to the social tumult and linguistic shifts of Chaucer's day with a colourful cast of characters who pushed English literature into the limelight of the European literary milieu. The Tales offers a truly panoramic view of medieval English society that raises issues of class, gender politics, race, political satire, sex, and social unrest. Over the semester your knowledge of medieval literature, The Canterbury Tales, and your skills in reading Middle English will develop. Open to all students beyond first year.

Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves is considered and re-considered, over two terms with two instructors, in parallax from book culture and digital culture. The first term investigates the modernist and postmodernist precursors to this metafictional work and explores the concept of meta-annotation in the appropriation of literary critics and their work into the body of a novel twice-annotated by its own characters. The second term explores the expanding universe of digitally born literature using a (re)-reading of House of Leaves as its starting point.

This course looks at the many ways that women in the eighteenth-century used the emerging form of the novel to record their experiences and resist dominant narratives regarding expected patterns of female life.

An introduction to literatures in English including, but not restricted to, the British literary canon. It teaches students to read and write effectively, and to locate texts in history and culture. The course includes a chronological introduction sensitive to the structures and intersections of literary periods. NOTe: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

An introduction to literatures in English including, but not restricted to, the British literary canon. It teaches students to read and write effectively, and to locate texts in history and culture. The course includes a chronological introduction sensitive to the structures and intersections of literary periods. NOTe: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

An introduction to literatures in English including, but not restricted to, the British literary canon. It teaches students to read and write effectively, and to locate texts in history and culture. The course includes a chronological introduction sensitive to the structures and intersections of literary periods. NOTe: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

This course introduces students to the conventions of literary study. It offers reading strategies and techniques that permit the student to make sense of difficult or alien readings. At the same time, the ability to communicate understanding of literary texts through the conventions of scholarly essay writing is emphasized. Students will not only become effective readers and communicators in this course-they will come to appreciate some of the most important literary texts that the English language has produced. Note: students will not receive credit for both ENGL 1023 and ENGL 1016.

Students will learn, use, and critique digital productivity tools, multimedia and website development tools, and Web 2.0 tools, while they apply literary methodologies to broader issues and debates like cyber safety, digital privacy laws and ethics, the economic and social engineering implications of user-data, as well as modes of digital communication and collaboration. Familiarity with critical theories and historical trends will help students understand how social and political movements develop the form, genre, and style of digital platforms.

This introduction to the discipline and practice of English teaches the student to prepare a research paper, practice close reading, and develop a grammatically correct, clear writing style. Students will learn to use literary databases and library resources; they will undertake a research project that helps provide a solid grounding in the methods and conventions of the discipline of English Literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 1016.

A course for students interested in writing poetry, prose, and/or scripts. Along with writing assignments and workshopping (critiquing each others' work), students give presentations or blog on topics that will help them understand current issues relevant to writers. This course is also open to first-year students. Prerequisite: 5-10 page sample of work submitted to the instructor at least a week before registration, or ENGL 2113.

It may be impossible to represent the scale, timespan, and complexity of climate change. And yet, as a direct corollary, scientists and storytellers have made myriad attempts: avant-garde poetry, apocalyptic film, realist novels, abstract sculpture, and heat maps, among other forms. This course explores how these media experiments have tried and failed to represent the reality of environmental collapse, and considers the consequences for our understanding of language, truth, and the planet's very existence. (Post-1800.)

Students will engage with texts by Indigenous writers such as Thomas King, Richard Wagamese and Rita Joe, by writing both creative and analytical responses, which will be read and discussed in class. (Post-1800; Canadian/American) NB: Students who have received credit for ENGL 1903 may not also take ENGL 2403 for credit.

An exploration from Greek theatre to contemporary works of the theatrical conventions, significant trends, playwrights and performers that inform and construct the social practice of theatre. Emphasis is placed both on close textual study of the works and the realities of staging productions.

This course will introduce students to the literary sources of classical Greek and Roman mythology. It will also explore some of the post-classical reflexes of central myths. The course may include such texts as Hesiod's Theogony, Euripides' Bacchae, Sophocles' Theban plays, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Apuleius' Golden Ass. (Pre-1800)

An exploration of central themes in science fiction from the New Wave of the 1960s to the present. Issues such as gender, the environment, technology, the alien, and others are the focus. (Post-1800.)

An investigation of women's writing in English before 1800, through poetry, (auto)biography, spiritual memoir, fiction, drama, and theory written by women.

The primary concern of this course is to familiarize students with the social, political, cultural, and philosophical presuppositions of theoretical inquiry into literary texts. We shall begin by focusing on introductory commentaries and shall proceed from there to examine certain primary theoretical texts in their specific relation to literary examples. (Post-1800; Language.)

This is an advanced course for students who discovered an affinity for writing scripts for stage, screen, or both. It will provide the opportunity for students to generate and rewrite scripts. Prerequisite: ENGL 2103 or 2123.

A study of the cinema of some of the major auteurs of the 20th century. Among the artists considered are Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Mike Leigh, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, and David Cronenberg. Prerequisite: ENGL 2013 and ENGL 2723. (Post-1800.)

This course explores intersections between the terms race and media: representations of race in the media throughout history; theories about how racial categories and identities emerge from performativity, occularcentrism, as well as complex forms of mediation and interpellation; the ethics of colourblind racial logics and white spectatorship; as well as the range of sonic, textual, and visual tools for countering forms of white supremacy. (Post-1800)

A survey of the impact of the electronic age on the novel and short fiction, the birth of metafiction and the anti-novel, the feminist movement, the advent of the post-colonial, and the post-modern response. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

A study of the prose and poetry of Jonson, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, and the minor writers of the age. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800).

An analysis of recent Canadian plays with an emphasis on their cultural contexts, structural forms, and performance receptions. Students examine post-Centennial Canadian theatre with an emphasis on emergent writing styles and dramaturgical structures and their relationship to their cultural context. Playwrights and text creators considered may include Nowlan and Learning, Theatre Passe Murielle, Watson, Clark, Young, Hollingsworth, and Tannehill. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800; Canadian)

A study of native Irish culture and the culture of the Irish diaspora. Students view films of high realist auteurs as well as adaptations of novels, short stories, and plays to the big screen. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Post-1800.)

An exploration of several key non-classical epics arising out of post-Roman Europe. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

A study of the formation of English literary culture in the latter half of the eighteenth century. The pre-requisite is ENGL 2013 Research Methods in English, consistent with all advanced courses in ENGL. (Pre-1800.)

The Senior Project gives a student the opportunity to work on an extended project, as author, translator or chief editor. Beginning with a proposal including a description of the project and a survey of similar works, students will create or compile an extended text. It is recommended that students take ENGL 4153 in their final year of study. The prerequisites are one of the following courses: ENGL 3103, 3113, 3123, or 3133 and permission of the instructor.

Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves is considered and re-considered, over two terms with two instructors, in parallax from book culture and digital culture. The first term investigates the modernist and postmodernist precursors to this metafictional work and explores the concept of meta-annotation in the appropriation of literary critics and their work into the body of a novel twice-annotated by its own characters. The second term explores the expanding universe of digitally born literature using a (re)-reading of House of Leaves as its starting point.

This course looks at the many ways that women in the eighteenth-century used the emerging form of the novel to record their experiences and resist dominant narratives regarding expected patterns of female life.