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English
English 010E, Literature and Composition | |
| Description: | Antirequisite(s): OAC1 or Grade 12 U. | Prerequisite(s): Grade 11 U English (or equivalent). | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia) | back to top |
English 020E, General Literature and Composition | |
| Description: An introduction to selected major works of literature in English, by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Joyce, and Atwood indicating by lecture and discussion the historical range and variety of that literature (poetry, drama, fiction). Emphasis will be on the development of basic skills in reading and writing. | Antirequisite(s): English 022E. | Prerequisite(s): OAC1 English or Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD or Grade 13, this permission will be granted as a matter of course. | 2 lecture hours, 1 seminar/tutorial hour, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 024E, Forms of Fiction | |
| Description: An introduction to the study of a selection of fiction ranging from the Greek epic to the modern novel, including both short and longer forms; and a variety of fictional modes and narrative techniques. Major authors studied include Homer, Swift, Austen, Dickens, Dostoevsky and Virginia Woolf. | Prerequisite(s): OAC1 English or Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD or Grade 13, this permission will be granted as a matter of course. | 2 lecture hours, 1 seminar/tutorial hour, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 025E, Introduction to Literature: Reading, Interpretation, Argument | |
| Description: This course will examine, both formally and historically, the major generic groupings of literature: poetry, fiction, and drama. Its focus will be on the different kinds of reading that these demand. It will develop students' analytical skills through intensive and extensive reading and through writing that employs logical argument and an understanding of basic critical concepts. | Prerequisite(s): OAC1 English or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 026E, Forms of Narrative: from Epic to Film | |
| Description: An introduction to the study of narrative from the classical epic to contemporary film. Narrative forms such as myth, fable, parable, epic, romance, novel, satire, case-history, short story, and film will be examined in order to understand the distinguishing features of each form, but also the historical development of narrative art. | Prerequisite(s): OAC1 English or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 027E, Literature and Rhetoric | |
| Description: Intensive study of selected works of fiction, poetry, drama, and expository prose. Considerable emphasis will be placed on basic and advanced writing skills, including basic composition techniques, exposition, argument, rhetorical devices, and aphorisms. | 4 lecture/tutorial hours, 1.0 course. | Note: Students taking this course who wish to pursue an area of concentration or honors program in English should consult the Dean of Arts and Social Science at Huron College. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 117, Reading Popular Culture. | |
| Description: "If Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing for television." This course addresses the many forms of popular culture, including television, music, popular fiction and film, urban myths, and celebrities. The aim of this course is to encourage students to develop a critical understanding of all aspects of popular culture. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, King's) | back to top |
English 127F/G, Literature and Film | |
| Description: Selected works of literature and film representing a variety of genres and historical-cultural periods are studied to consider how film- makers have adapted literary works into cinema. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 125E. | 2 lecture hours, 1 3-hour screening, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 128F/G, Topics in Literature and Film | |
| Description: Literary and cinematic works studied from a variety of points of view and in a variety of contexts: e.g. narrative, popular culture, genre, period, intertextuality, author/auteur. | Antirequisite(s): the former English 125E. | 2 lecture hours, 1 3-hour screening, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 133E, Children's Literature | |
| Description: Readings from significant books written for children, selected primarily for literary quality. Some attention will be given to the historic evolution of "Children's Literature" as a separate class, but the principal aim of the course will be to consider the nature and development of the two major genres: nonsense verse and romance. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 135E, The Literature of the Bible | |
| Description: A study of extensive readings in the prose and poetry of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, with supplementary readings in later literature. Attention will be given to genres, styles, structural and symbolic patterns, and the use of Biblical materials in later literature. | Antirequisite(s): English 205F/G. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 138E, Canadian Literature and Culture | |
| Description: An introduction to as many images of our civilization as possible: poetry, prose, fiction, social documentaries, plays, autobiographies. Texts are chosen from works in both English and French (in translation). This material is informally related to our painting, music and films through the use of slides and tapes. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King's) | back to top |
English 171F/G, Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction | |
| Description: From Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" to Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner", a consideration of the history and development of science fiction. Will include science fiction themes such as the Other, new technologies, chaos theory, cybernetics, paradoxes of space/time travel, first contact, and alien worlds. | Antirequisite(s): Former English 134E | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (King's) | back to top |
English 172F/G, Speculative Fiction: Fantasy | |
| Description: A study of the purposes and historical origins of fantasy, and modern developments in fantasy: alternate worlds, horror or ghost stories, sword & sorcery, heroic fantasy. May include writers such as Tolkien, Simmons, Peake, Herbert, Beagle. | Antirequisite(s): Former English 134E | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (King's) | back to top |
English 173F/G, Speculative Fiction: Utopias & Dystopias | |
| Description: An examination of major utopian and dystopian texts. Will concern ways in which humanity has tried to imagine a perfect world, fixt the current world, or construct an exaggerated version of the world in order to demonstrate its flaws and weaknesses. | Antirequisite(s): Former English 134E | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (King's) | back to top |
English 190E, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 191F/G, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 192F/G, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 193, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 194a/b, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 195a/b, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 200, Reading Criticism Reading Literature | |
| Description: Mandatory for students in Honors English. The course includes representative readings in literary theory; an introduction to selected strategies of literary interpretation; an introduction to the formal analysis of narrative, drama, and poetry; consideration of the ways which literary interpretation is engaged with questions, theories, and intellectual currents from other disciplines. | Antirequisite(s): English 201F/G, English 204F/G, English 491E | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King's) | back to top |
English 201F/G, History of Theory and Criticism | |
| Description: An introduction to important issues in the history of literary criticism and theory from Plato to the twentieth century. | Antirequisite(s): English 200 2, English 215a/b, English 491E, or the former English 201a/b. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission
of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 202E, British Literature from 1890 to 1945 (Survey) | |
| Description: Poets such as Hardy, Edward Thomas, Owen, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Dylan Thomas; and novelists such as Galsworthy, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Greene and Bowen are read in relation to the major movements and events of the period: Decadence, Symbolism, Imagism, World War I, the Depression, Fascism and World War II. | Antirequisite(s): English 254E and English 206F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 203F/G, Studies in Narrative Theory | |
| Description: An introduction to important issues and concepts in the theory and analysis of narrative from different periods. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission
of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 204F/G, Studies in Poetics | |
| Description: An introduction to important issues and concepts in the theory and analysis of poetry from different periods. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission
of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 205F/G, Literature of the Bible | |
| Description: The course is based on Genesis, Exodus, Samuel and Kings. Other parts of the Bible are examined as interpretive responses to these books. | Antirequisite(s): English 135E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 206F/G, British Literature, 1890-1945: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to poetry and prose of authors representative of modernism, the literature of the World Wars and inter-war years. | Antirequisite(s): English 254E and English 202E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 207E, British Literature Since 1945 (Survey) | |
| Description: Works by post-war and contemporary writers such as Larkin, Amis, Sillitoe, Burgess, Hughes, Fowles, Byatt, Ackroyd, Swift, Heaney and D'Aguiar are studied in relation to the major movements and traditions of 20c literature, but also to post-war social, cultural, and political changes in the U.K. | Antirequisite(s): English 254E and English 210F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 208F/G, Topics in Poetry | |
| Description: A study of English poetry in a variety of particular contexts: e.g., genre, historical period, culture, or author. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 100E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission
of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, King's) | back to top |
| Description: A survey of the novel, chiefly English and American, but including Continental texts, from Cervantes to the present day. Exploration of the nature of this genre is combined with critical examination of each work. It is wise to read as many of the texts as possible before the course begins. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 210F/G, British Literature Since 1945: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to poets such as Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, and Boland, and novelists such as Fowles, Lessing, Murdoch, and Ackroyd. Discussion will relate the works to social, cultural and political developments in the U.K. from the post-war period to the present. | Antirequisite(s): English 254E and English 207E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 211, History of the English Language | |
| Description: A study of the historical development of English sounds, spelling, grammar and vocabulary from the Old English to the modern period, with some attention to the qualities of the language as a medium of literature and culture. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 222. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in any subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 212, Old English Language and Literature | |
| Description: The language and literature of pre- conquest England. Students begin by studying basic Old English grammar and simple prose to illustrate the nature of the language. After mastering the rudiments of syntax, students are equipped to analyze the poetry of the period, including Beowulf. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 220. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in any subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 213F/G, Topics in British Literature, 1890-1945 | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 254E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 214E, Medieval Language and Literature | |
| Description: An introduction to some of the major themes and forms of Old and Middle English literature, with particular emphasis on Beowulf, Chaucer and his contemporaries, and the Arthurian tradition. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 215a/b, Literary Theory: From Plato to the New Criticism | |
| Description: An historical introduction to the theory and criticism of literature. Texts by figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Augustine, Dante, Sidney, Johnson, Wordsworth, Arnold, T.S. Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Virginia Woolf, Cleanth Brooks and others are considered in relation to such topics as representation, form and structure, history, society, and gender. | Antirequisite(s): English 200 2, English 201F/G and English 491E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 217F/G, Medieval Literature (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to some of the major medieval literary genres with particular attention to the heroic epic and the courtly romance. Texts will be read in the original Middle English. | Antirequisite(s): English 214E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 218F/G, Topics in Medieval Literature | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, literary form or aspect of language from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 214E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent
English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 219F/G, Topics in British Literature, 1945 to the Present | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 254E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 220E, American Literature from the Colonial Period to 1890 (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to works by some major American authors from the Puritan era to the late 19th century and to some of the significant ideas and techniques in their works. The course explores various aspects of pre-twentieth century American myth-making structures and the attitudes presented by American writers towards prevailing national self-definitions. | Antirequisite(s): English 264E and English 221F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 221F/G, American Literature to 1890: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to works by some major American authors from the Puritan era to the late 19th century and to some of the significant ideas and techniques in their works. | Antirequisite(s): English 264E and English 220E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 222E, American Literature, 1890 to the Present (Survey) | |
| Description: Works by significant 20c American authors will be read in relation to the ways that their ideas and techniques express evolving conceptions of American identity. | Antirequisite(s): English 264E and English 223F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 223F/G, American Literature Since 1890: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to works by some major American authors from the late 19th century to the present and to some of the significant ideas and techniques in their works. | Antirequisite(s): English 264E and English 222E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 224E, Renaissance Literature | |
| Description: Poetry and prose from the golden age of English literature: More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell and Milton; examination of their individual achievements will be combined with studies of form and genre in the period, with developing theories about the nature of literature, and with the surrounding historical context. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron, King's, Brescia) | back to top |
English 225F/G, Topics in American Literature to 1890 | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 264E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 226E, Literature of the 16c (Survey) | |
| Description: Poetry, prose and drama from the Tudor period; works by writers from More to Shakespeare, studied in relation to developments in form and genre, to historical and cultural contexts, and as individual achievements. | Antirequisite(s): English 224E and English 227F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in an 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent
English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 227F/G, Literature of the 16c: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: Introduction to the works of such writers as More, Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe and Shakespeare in relation to the social, political and aesthetic contexts of the time. | Antirequisite(s): English 224E and English 226E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in an 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent
English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 228F/G, Topics in 16c Literature | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 224E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 229F/G, Topics in American Literature, 1890 to the Present | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 264E and English 221F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 230E, Canadian Literature in English from the Colonial Period to 1914 (Survey) | |
| Description: The study of Canadian literature in English from its foundations in the writings of early explorers and settlers to the generation that comes of age in World War I. Poetry, prose and fiction will be read in relation to the social, cultural, and political development of the nation. | Antirequisite(s): English 274E and English 231F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 231F/G, Canadian Literature in English, 1760-1914 (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to Canadian literature in English from the colonial period to World War I. | Antirequisite(s): English 274E and English 230E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 232E, Shakespeare and Drama | |
| Description: A study of Shakespearean drama, concentrating on eight plays common to all sections of the course. Each instructor will add a minimum of four Renaissance plays (at least two by Shakespeare) and may add other dramatic or non-dramatic material, depending on individual emphasis. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or the permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 233E, Medieval To Jacobean Drama, 1300-1642 (excluding Shakespeare) | |
| Description: A study of about twenty-five plays by Shakespeare's predecessors and his famous contemporaries -- Jonson, Marlowe, Webster, etc. The dramatic traditions and genres are traced, and the plays are studied in their social and theatrical contexts. The course aims to enhance an understanding of Shakespeare by illuminating his context. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in any subsequent English courses, or the permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 234E, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature | |
| Description: A tumultuous age of trenchant satire, the beginnings of the modern novel, witty comedies of sexual intrigue, an eruption of forms of popular culture, the rise of the woman author, and a growing interest in nature, the imagination, and sensibility. | Antirequisite(s): English 245E, English 246F/G, English 247F/G, English 248E, English 249F/G and English 250F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, King's) | back to top |
English 235E, Canadian Literature in English Since 1914 (Survey) | |
| Description: The study of Canadian literature in English from World War I to the present. Poetry, prose and fiction will be studied in relation to Canadian writers' responses to international modernism, Canadian society during the inter-war and war years, the nationalist movement of the post-war era, and postmodernism. | Antirequisite(s): English 274E and English 239F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 236E, Literature of the 17c (Survey) | |
| Description: Poetry, prose and drama from Donne and Jonson to Milton, studied in relation to developments in form and genre, to historical and cultural contexts, and as individual achievements. | Antirequisite(s): English 224E and English 237F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in an 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent
English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 237F/G, Literature of the 17c: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to the works of such writers as Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, and Milton, in relation to the social, political, and aesthetic contexts of the time. | Antirequisite(s): English 224E, English 236E, English 224E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in an 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 238F/G, Topics in 17c Literature | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 224E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in an 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 239F/G, 20c Canadian Literature in English (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to Canadian literature in English from World War I to the present. | Antirequisite(s): English 274E and English 235E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 240F/G, Topics in Canadian Literature in English, 1760-1914 | |
| Description: This course offers an in-depth study of an author, theme, movement or literary form during the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 274E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 241F/G, Topics in 20c Canadian Literature in English | |
| Description: This course offers an in-depth study of an author, theme, movement or literary form during the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 274E and English 231F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 242E, World Literature Written in English (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to the international scope of literature written in English. Selected works of fiction, drama, and poetry from a variety of post-colonial societies will be studied in relation to the histories of those societies and the development of the forms. | Antirequisite(s): English 243F/G and English 253E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 243F/G, Post-Colonial Writing (Survey) | |
| Description: A selection of significant works from a variety of post-colonial literatures. | Antirequisite(s): English 242E and English 253E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 244E, Nineteenth-Century Literature | |
| Description: The course explores the continuities from the Romantics through the Victorians to the beginnings of the Modern period. Developments in poetry and critical theory from Wordsworth to Wilde, and in the novel from Austen to Hardy, are central concerns. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 245E, English Literature of the Restoration and Early 18c (Survey) | |
| Description: This course will examine representative works of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama from the period, with particular emphasis on satire and the rise of the novel. | Antirequisite(s): English 234E and English 246F/G. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 246F/G, Restoration and Early 18c English Literature: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: Works of representative men and women writers of poetry, prose, and drama. A study of satire, the beginnings of modern prose fiction, and comedies of sexual intrigue. | Antirequisite(s): English 234E and English 245E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 247F/G, Topics in the Literature of the Restoration and Early 18c | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 234E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 248E, English Literature of the 18c (Survey) | |
| Description: Works of representative men and women writers of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, including the precursors of Romanticism. This course will examine such themes as the growing interest in nature, the imagination, and sensibility. | Antirequisite(s): English 234E and English 249F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 249F/G, English Literature: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: Works of representative men and women writers of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama of the period. The course will examine the persistence of traditional as well as the emergence of new literary forms and values. | Antirequisite(s): English 234E and English 248EEnglish 234E, 248E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 250F/G, Topics in 18c Literature | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 234E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | back to top |
English 251F/G, Topics in World Literature Written in English | |
| Description: This course will focus on the writing of a particular author or group of authors from a regional culture, or on a theme, movement, or literary form in post-colonial writing. | Antirequisite(s): English 253E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 253E, Postcolonial Literature | |
| Description: A comparative study of fiction produced in countries that evolved from British rule to independent nationhood. The roles of the indigenous peoples and of women in each culture will be examined. Among the literatures discussed are those of Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa and Trinidad. | Antirequisite(s): English 242E, English 243F/G, and English 251F/G. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia) | back to top |
English 254E, Twentieth-Century British Literature | |
| Description: A study of the developments in fiction and poetry in this century, with particular attention to the emergence of modernism in such writers as Yeats, Eliot and Joyce and with attention to aspects of postmodernist fiction and poetry. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 255E, Women and Literature: Special Topics | |
| Description: The course will focus on the representation of women in the literature of different historical periods, literature by women, the problematic of the female author, and the impact of feminist criticism on English Studies. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King's) | back to top |
English 256F/G, Women and Literature: Special Topics | |
| Description: The course will focus on the representation of women in the literature of different historical periods, literature by women, the problematic of the female author, and the impact of feminist criticism on English studies. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 255E if taken at Brescia College. English 296G if taken at Huron in 1994 95. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, Huron) | back to top |
English 257F/G, Women and Literature: Special Topics | |
| Description: The course will focus on the representation of women in the literature of different historical periods, literature by women, the problematic of the female author and the impact of feminist criticism on English Studies. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 255E if taken at Brescia College. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, Huron) | back to top |
English 258E, Contemporary Poetry in English | |
| Description: Detailed study of some British, American and Canadian poets from 1945 to the present. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 275E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in any subsequent English course, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 259E, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Survey) | |
| Description: The study of selected works by Shakespeare and some of his contemporaries in relation to theatrical, social, and historical contexts. Histories, comedies, and tragedies will be included. | Antirequisite(s): English 232E and English 260F/G. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 260F/G, Shakespeare (Survey) | |
| Description: A close study of at least six plays by Shakespeare representing the three main types: history, comedy, and tragedy. | Antirequisite(s): English 232E and English 259E: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Survey) | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 261F/G, Topics in Shakespeare | |
| Description: A close study of individual plays or groups of plays by Shakespeare in relation to his dramatic career, to the theatre of his time, or to the historical reception of his work. | Antirequisite(s): English 232E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 262F/G, English Drama before Shakespeare (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to a variety of plays from the medieval and Tudor stage, tracing the dramatic traditions and genres and the social and theatrical contexts. | Antirequisite(s): English 233E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 263F/G, Jacobean Drama, excluding Shakespeare (Survey) | |
| Description: An introduction to a variety of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors. Evolving traditions and genres and the social and theatrical contexts will be examined. | Antirequisite(s): English 233E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 264E, American Literature | |
| Description: This course is a study of major works by significant American writers - Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, James, Fitzgerald, Stevens and Faulkner among others. The course deals with American Literature from the Puritan era to the present day. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 265E, American Women Writers: 1800 to Present | |
| Description: This course will examine the diverse range of American women's writing and their contributions to the American tradition from the nineteenth century to the present. Represenative writers will be studied, with emphasis on major figures such as Fuller, Alcott, Harper, Jewett, Gilman, Wharton, Cather, Welty, Angelou, H.D., Rich, and Morrison. | Antirequisite(s): English 255E at King's taught 1996 2000. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in one of: English 020E, 022E, 024E, or the former English 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King's) | back to top |
English 266E, English Literature of the Romantic Period (Survey) | |
| Description: Works of poetry, prose, and fiction by representative men and women writers reflecting innovations in literary form, and the role of the imagination in Romantic views of nature and society. | Antirequisite(s): English 244E and English 267F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 267F/G, Romantic Literature: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: Works of representative men and women writers of poetry, fiction, and prose. An introduction to the spirit of a rebellious age and its manifestations in literary art. | Antirequisite(s): English 244E and English 266E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 268F/G, Topics in Romantic Literature | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 244E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 269F/G, The Family in Literature | |
| Description: This course examines the role of the family in literature with special emphasis on maternity and on the nature and definition of childhood. We will look at wide variety of texts from different historical periods in order to understand the ways in which the family has been constructed as a fictional concept. | Antirequisite(s): English 257F/G if taken in 2001 02 or 2002 03. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia) | back to top |
English 271F/G, Speculative Fiction: Special Topics | |
| Description: May include course in science fiction and film, science fiction and popular culture, Canadian science fiction, short stories, scientific theories and science fiction. Consult Department for current course offerings. | Prerequisite(s): one of English 171F/G, English 172F/G, English 173F/G or a 20E level English | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, King's) | back to top |
English 272E, Biblical and Classical Backgrounds to English Literature | |
| Description: An introduction to Biblical and Classical materials that are essential to an understanding of English literature. Topics include: changes in the concept of the individual and of society; developments ion Platonism and Hellenism in the Christian period; classical concepts of history; the educational and social role of the seven liberal arts.. | Antirequisite(s): Comparative Literature and civilization 020. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in one of English 020E, English 022E, English 024E, English 025E, English 026E and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 273F/G, Speculative Fiction: Special Topics | |
| Description: May include course in science fiction and film, science fiction and popular culture, Canadian science fiction, short stories, scientific theories and science fiction. Consult Department for current course offerings. | Prerequisite(s): one of English 171F/G, English 172F/G, English 173F/G or a 20E level English | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, King's) | back to top |
English 274E, Canadian Literature | |
| Description: A study of the history of English Canadian literature from its beginnings in the literature of the explorers and settlers to its full maturity in contemporary times. The broad scope of the course enables the student to trace the imaginative growth of the nation. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 281E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 276E, English Literature of the Victorian Period (Survey) | |
| Description: A survey of selected poetry, fiction, and prose by men and women writers designed to introduce students to the diversity of an age notable for its experimentation in literary forms and subjects, for its defences of individual liberty, and for its affirmations of women's rights. | Antirequisite(s): English 244E and English 277F/G | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 277F/G, Victorian Literature: Major Authors (Survey) | |
| Description: A reading of works of poetry, fiction, and prose by representative men and women writers. The course examines continuities with the previous age as well as innovations in literary forms and subjects. | Antirequisite(s): English 244E and English 276E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 278F/G, Topics in Victorian Literature | |
| Description: This course will focus on a particular author, theme, movement, or literary form from the period. | Antirequisite(s): English 244E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 282F/G, Contemporary Theory and Criticism | |
| Description: This course builds on the historical foundations of English 201F/G History of Theory and Criticism to concentrate on important issues in contemporary literary theory and criticism. English 201F/G is recommended as preparation for English 282F/G. For students planning to take English 300E, English 201F/G and 282F/G are strongly recommended.
| Antirequisite(s): English 216F/G, 316F/G, 491E or the former English 200. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (King’s) | back to top |
English 283F/G, Introduction to Cultural Studies | |
| Description: An introduction to cultural studies methodology and theory, and the history of cultural studies as a discipline. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, or Film Studies 020E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English or Film Studies courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (King’s) | back to top |
English 284E, Dramatic Forms and Genres | |
| Description: A survey of forms of drama and an introduction to the main principles of dramatic art, with selected aspects of dramatic history and dramatic genres and their development. Includes study of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, O'Neill, Brecht, Beckett and others. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 026, 126E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 286F/G, American Drama | |
| Description: An introduction to the study of twentieth-century American theatre and drama from O'Neill to the present. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 287F/G, Canadian Drama | |
| Description: This course provides an introduction to English- language Canadian drama and theatre history from ship-board theatricals of 1583 to contemporary Canadian theatre (with emphasis on the latter). Topics include political satire, symphonic expressionism, workers' theatre, regionalism, collective creations, docudrama, and feminism. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 289E, Modern Drama | |
| Description: Major directions in modern theatre and drama with special emphasis upon the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Brecht, Beckett and Pinter. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 271E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 296F/G, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult department for current offerings. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 291F/G. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in any subsequent English course, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 297F/G, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 292F/G. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in any subsequent English course, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 299E, Special Topics | |
| Description: Please consult Department for current offerings. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 290E. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, English 022E, English 024E or the former 026, and 60% in any subsequent English course, or permission of the Department. | 3 lecture hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 314E, Topics in Medieval Language and Literature | |
| Description: This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period, but narrower in focus than English 214E. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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English 316F/G, Literary Theory since New Criticism | |
| Description: A survey of major developments in literary theory since the mid-century. Discussion will deal with texts and ideas associated with such movements as structuralism, feminism, neo-Marxism, post-Freudian psychoanalytical theory, new historicism, deconstruction, postmodernism and post-colonialism. | Antirequisite(s): English 200, English 300E, and English 491E | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in a 020 level English course, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the department. | 3 hours, 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 324E, Topics in Renaissance Literature | |
| Description: This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period, but narrower in focus than English 224E. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours. 1.0 course. | (King’s) | back to top |
English 334E, Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature | |
| Description: This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period, but narrower in focus than English 234E. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King’s) | back to top |
English 344E, Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature | |
| Description: This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period, but narrower in focus than English 244E. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King’s) | back to top |
English 354E, Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature | |
| Description: This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period, but narrower in focus than English 254E. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King’s) | back to top |
English 364E, Topics in American Literature | |
| Description: This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature, but narrower in focus than English 264E. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (King’s) | back to top |
English 374E, Topics in Canadian Literature | |
| Description: This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature, but narrower in focus than English 274E. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings. | Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in English 020E, 022E, 024E, and at least 60% in all subsequent English courses, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course.
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English 408E, Directed Readings in Literature | |
| Description: A program of intensive reading in an author, group of authors, period, movement, genre or theme under the direction of a full-time faculty member who is willing to supervise the student. The proposed subject ofstudy will be presented to the faculty member in the term prior to that inwhich the course will begin. | Prerequisite(s): Only fourth year honors students with an average of at least 80% in their third year English courses are eligible. Permission of the department is also required. | 1.0 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
| Description: Individual instruction in the selection of a topic, the preparation of materials, and the writing of a thesis. Students who wish to take this course must apply to the Chair, Department of English. This course is restricted to students in fourth year of an Honors English program. | Antirequisite(s): The former English 490E. | Prerequisite(s): Two of English 201F/G, 203F/G, 204F/G, 282F/G, 283F/G or the former English 200, or permission of the Department. | 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 412F/G, Directed Readings in Literature | |
| Description: A program of intensive reading in an author, group of authors, period, movement, genre or theme under the direction of a full-time faculty member who is willing to supervise the student. The proposed subject of study will be presented to the faculty member in the term prior to that in which the course will begin. | Prerequisite(s): Only fourth year honors students with an average of at least 80% in their third year English courses are eligible. Permission of the department is also required. | 0.5 course. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 451E, Seminar in Twentieth-Century British Literature | |
| Description: | Prerequisite(s): Two of English 201F/G, 203F/G, 204F/G, 282F/G, 283F/G, or the former English 200, or permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Brescia, Huron, King's) | back to top |
English 491E, Literary Criticism: History, Theory, and Practice | |
| Description: A survey of the history of critical theory, and important modern critical schools, and practical training in the uses of critical theory, with reference to historical background. Selected literary texts will be discussed in seminars devoted to practical application of critical theory. | Antirequisite(s): English 201F/G. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | Mandatory for students in fourth year of Honors English Language and Literature who have not successfully completed English-201F.G. | Restricted to students in fourth year. | (Huron) | back to top |
English 498E, Seminar in Creative Writing | |
| Description: | Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department. | 3 hours, 1.0 course. | (Huron, King's) | back to top |
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