Professional Degree courses in Dentistry, Education, Law, Medicine and Theology (MTS, MDiv)
6000-6999
Courses offered by Continuing Studies
9000-9999
Graduate Studies courses
* These courses are equivalent to pre-university introductory courses and may be counted for credit in the student's record, unless these courses were taken in a preliminary year. They may not be counted toward essay or breadth requirements, or used to meet modular admission requirements unless it is explicitly stated in the Senate-approved outline of the module.
Suffixes
no suffix
1.0 course not designated as an essay course
A
0.5 course offered in first term
B
0.5 course offered in second term
A/B
0.5 course offered in first and/or second term
E
1.0 essay course
F
0.5 essay course offered in first term
G
0.5 essay course offered in second term
F/G
0.5 essay course offered in first and/or second term
H
1.0 accelerated course (8 weeks)
J
1.0 accelerated course (6 weeks)
K
0.75 course
L
0.5 graduate course offered in summer term (May - August)
Q/R/S/T
0.25 course offered within a regular session
U
0.25 course offered in other than a regular session
W/X
1.0 accelerated course (full course offered in one term)
Y
0.5 course offered in other than a regular session
Z
0.5 essay course offered in other than a regular session
Glossary
Prerequisite
A course that must be successfully completed prior to registration for credit in the desired course.
Corequisite
A course that must be taken concurrently with (or prior to registration in) the desired course.
Antirequisite
Courses that overlap sufficiently in course content that both cannot be taken for credit.
Essay Courses
Many courses at Western have a significant writing component. To recognize student achievement, a number of such courses have been designated as essay courses and will be identified on the student's record (E essay full course; F/G/Z essay half-course).
Principal Courses
A first year course that is listed by a department offering a module as a requirement for admission to the module. For admission to an Honours Specialization module or Double Major modules in an Honours Bachelor degree, at least 3.0 courses will be considered principal courses.
Combines communication skills through a cross-curricular approach. Students explore complex content from a range of subject areas to gain the foundation required to purposefully read in order to present information and formulate written arguments. Students engage in critical and analytical thinking through readings, and develop listening strategies through class discussions.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Preliminary Year program.
Extra Information: 8 class/lecture hours, 2 tutorial hours.
This course is designed to introduce the student to the study of literature, including poetry, short stories, novels and plays. The course will encourage a critical approach to literature, with special attention to essay writing skills.
Antirequisite(s): Grade 12U.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 11U English (or equivalent).
This course is designed to introduce the student to the study of literature, including poetry, short stories, novels and plays. The course will encourage a critical approach to literature, with special attention to essay writing skills.
Antirequisite(s): Grade 12U.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 11U English (or equivalent).
This course is designed to introduce the student to the study of literature with a focus on poetry and drama, and may include examples from film. The course will encourage a critical approach to literature, with special attention to essay-writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Preliminary Year program.
This course is designed to introduce the student to the study of literature with a focus on short stories and novels. The course will encourage a critical approach to literature, with special attention to essay-writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in a Preliminary Year program.
By studying a broad range of exciting and important literary works from the past and present, this course will increase your understanding and appreciation not just of the richness and power of the works themselves, but also of the role of literature in reflecting and shaping our perceptions of the world and of ourselves.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
By studying a broad range of exciting and important literary works from the past and present, this course will increase your understanding and appreciation not just of the richness and power of the works themselves, but also of the role of literature in reflecting and shaping our perceptions of the world and of ourselves.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
By studying a broad range of exciting and important literary works from the past and present, this course will increase your understanding and appreciation not just of the richness and power of the works themselves, but also of the role of literature in reflecting and shaping our perceptions of the world and of ourselves.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
This course provides an enriched survey of the major genres, historical periods, and critical approaches to English for students with a particular interest in literature and culture. In lecture and small group tutorials, you will study poetry, prose, and drama with special emphasis on developing superior analytical and writing skills.
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): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
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): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
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): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
Storytelling defines who we are and our relation to the community, the nation, and the world. This course explores the rich and diverse traditions of storytelling: such as, oral tales, short stories, classic fiction, and graphic novels. Instruction by lecture and tutorials; emphasis on developing strong analytical and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
Storytelling defines who we are and our relation to the community, the nation, and the world. This course explores the rich and diverse traditions of storytelling: such as, oral tales, short stories, classic fiction, and graphic novels. Instruction by lecture and tutorials; emphasis on developing strong analytical and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
Storytelling defines who we are and our relation to the community, the nation, and the world. This course explores the rich and diverse traditions of storytelling: such as, oral tales, short stories, classic fiction, and graphic novels. Instruction by lecture and tutorials; emphasis on developing strong analytical and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
This course explores a particular theme, mode, or genre of storytelling. Consult the Department of English for details of current course offerings. Instruction is by lecture and tutorials; emphasis on developing strong analytical and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
This course explores a particular theme, mode, or genre of storytelling. Consult the Department of English for details of current course offerings. Instruction is by lecture and tutorials; emphasis on developing strong analytical and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
This course explores a particular theme, mode, or genre of storytelling. Consult the Department of English for details of current course offerings. Instruction is by lecture and tutorials; emphasis on developing strong analytical and writing skills.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
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.
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.
Combining the study of classic literature with works of current cultural importance, such as graphic novels and film, this course explores how our world and our lives are formed and informed by the stories we tell.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department.
Violence threatens and expresses human culture; it encourages social cohesion and disruption; it is an essential and controversial element of human entertainment. While studying literature which engages with violence, students will develop techniques of close reading and critical analysis, as well as fundamental tools of academic inquiry, research and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
The English Literature unit of the King's Foundations in The New Liberal Arts is supplemented by the study of art and music. It investigates influential works of literature from ancient to modern times through an interdisciplinary perspective, with special focus on innovations in literary form and cultural contexts.
Prerequisite(s): Must be registered in the King’s Foundations in The New Liberal Arts, or the former Western Thought and Civilization.
Corequisite(s):History 1901E and Philosophy 1901E.
Extra Information: 3 hours. There may be additional costs associated with field trips. Capstone conference at end of term.
Learn about Western, its story, its architecture, academic calendar, governance, codes of conduct, research; and learn about universities, their origins in the Middle Ages, their development and current campus issues. Read a short story by Western’s own Nobel prizewinner Alice Munro, and think about universities in the world today.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 1010F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Grade 12U English or permission of the Department. For part time students who have been admitted without the OSSD, this permission will be granted as a matter of course.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Taught in a flexible hybrid format.
This course examines the art of oral persuasion. Emphasis is on the construction of arguments using effective rhetorical strategies for delivery in person and via digital platforms. Case studies (artists and activists) will inform practice; this course includes opportunities for experiential learning.
Antirequisite(s):Speech 2001 if taken at Huron University College.
This course examines the art of oral persuasion. Emphasis is on the construction of arguments using effective rhetorical strategies for delivery in person and via digital platforms. Case studies (government, business, non-profit) will inform practice; this course includes opportunities for experiential learning.
Antirequisite(s):Speech 2001 if taken at Huron University College.
This course explores the broad sweep of book history from early manuscript culture to the eBook. Much of this course will be “hands-on,” working with the material artifacts or facsimiles of book culture. Field trips and guest lectures will enhance our understanding of the book’s long and complex history.
"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.
"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.
This course addresses the complex nature of leadership represented in key works of literature and culture, from Malory to Alice Munro, Shakespeare to David Mamet. We will focus on the ethical dilemmas and moral choices faced by leaders to ask what role a leader plays: hero, manager, thinker, strategist, artist, figurehead, authority?
This course examines key cultural works and events that reflect the complexities of group leadership, from Shakespeare to Busby Berkeley, Conrad to Coetzee. We will focus on how various groups and group events - nations, empires, corporations, revolutions, mobs, flash mobs - organize themselves, for better or worse.
Though science and religion may seem poles apart, the admixture of physics and metaphysics has a long history in SF, from its originary text, Frankenstein, to such recent SF bestsellers as Robert J. Sawyer's Calculating God. This course will explore the range of ways SF deals with religious themes.
What makes a great book a great book? This survey course offers students a literary world tour of classic novels primarily in English but also in translation, tracing the history and aesthetics of long-form fiction from its roots in the Early Modern period to the present day.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
NOTE: may not be counted as an elective toward any English module.
This course explores the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia), and their circle in relation to the western literary tradition; genres such as fantasy, science fiction, and detective fiction; and the twentieth-century historical context.
The relationship between women and utopia/dystopia can be traced from Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, and extends to tomorrow. This course will explore the history of feminist utopian/dystopian fiction, including works by Cavendish, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins, and others.
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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 3-hour screening
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.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 3-hour screening.
The phenomenal success of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series may relate to its roots in a variety of genres including the gothic novel, detective fiction, fantasy, and adventure. This course studies all seven books alongside other novels and short stories that illustrate the generic conventions used and adapted by Rowling.
Antirequisite(s):English 2092F/G if taken in any year from 2013-2024.
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.
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.
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.
This course examines literature for and about adolescents to interrogate what it means to be an adolescent and how the adolescent experience is represented in literature. Focusing on texts written from the 1940s on, we use key critical and theoretical debates to understand YA literature’s place within larger scholarly trends.
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.
In this course, students participating in a major Western theatre production explore in theory and practice approaches to text in performance. Only students working as an actor, director, stage manager, assistant stage manager, lighting, set or costume designer may enrol. Permission of the Chair of Undergraduate Studies required to enrol.
Antirequisite(s):English 2041F/G if taken prior to September 2014.
An introduction to contemporary Canadian writing in both established and experimental forms. The focus of the course will be on recurrent themes, images, and writing strategies in Canadian writing from 1970 to the present, and on their relationship to both Canadian literary traditions and international currents of thought.
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.
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.
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, Rowling.
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, Rowling.
An examination of major utopian and dystopian texts. Will concern ways in which humanity has tried to imagine a perfect world, fix the current world, or construct an exaggerated version of the world in order to demonstrate its flaws and weaknesses.
An examination of major utopian and dystopian texts. Will concern ways in which humanity has tried to imagine a perfect world, fix the current world, or construct an exaggerated version of the world in order to demonstrate its flaws and weaknesses.
An introduction to the study of popular mystery and detective fiction through the reading of a selection of texts by writers from a variety of national literatures and historical periods, and using a variety of critical approaches. Major authors studied may include Poe, Doyle, Christie, Hammett, Engel, Grafton, Mosley.
Horror has mass appeal, producing a contemporary culture saturated in images of blood for entertainment's sake. This course looks at horror since World War II, primarily in literature but also in film, video, dance, and photography. It asks: what anxieties does horror register? How do monsters reflect what terrifies us?
Many medieval heroes and villains are alive today: Thor, Loki, Beowulf, Joan of Arc, Richard the Lionheart, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Robin Hood, Arthur, Mordred, Hildegard of Bingen, Sylvester II. This course will investigate these real-life and literary figures, considering their construction in medieval texts, and their reconstruction through the ages.
King Arthur has been a central figure in European literature for a millennium, first as a British warrior, then as the center of the chivalric Round Table. This course explores a wide range of medieval texts, from Latin and French chronicles to English and Norse romances (all read in translation).
Students will discuss theories of madness and creativity through works of culture and criticism that are situated historically and culturally. Through examining accepted cultural, social, and ethical norms of thought and behavior, students will gain a deeper understanding of how madness and creativity are critical to our humanness.
This course, led by the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, will allow students to explore creativity and its role in the production and study of literature in English and the Arts and Humanities more broadly. See the Department Website for the specific focus of this year’s course.
Literary representations of crime both reflect and influence changing notions of criminality, policing and justice. This course will trace developments in crime writing in English from the 18th century to the present. Among the sub-genres
to be considered are criminal biographies, Newgate novels, detective fiction, true-crime novels, and serial-killer narratives.
This course offers students an opportunity to survey links among different literary traditions and innovations across such geographic regions as Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and the Caribbean. Through close reading of literary texts written in English, students will explore how cultures produce different--often competing--ways of making meaning.
The modern period is marked by social, political, and aesthetic tensions. How does theatre remain relevant amidst these pressures, especially as the stage gives way first to the cinema, then to the TV screen, and now to the internet? We will look at texts spanning 1890 to the present day.
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 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
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 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
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 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
How does the shape an artwork takes contribute to its aesthetic and political power? When artworks flex across form and media how do their messages change? What did Marshall McLuhan mean when he said “the medium is the message”? How do genre and form shape social and political discourse? In this course, students explore these questions and more as they investigate texts that assume multiple cultural forms and represent a diversity of perspectives.
Students will examine cultural studies approaches, in national and international Human Rights contexts, to a variety of creative practices including testimony, graphic novels, photography, film and performance. Topics for discussion may include trauma and subjectivity, the representations of atrocity, and the enabling of diversity and empowerment through creativity.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in any 1000-level or above “E” or combination of two 1000-level or above “F/G” courses from any department in the faculties of Arts and Humanities, Information and Media Studies (FIMS), or Music, or from the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, or permission of the Department.
A study of sport as portrayed through works of fiction, non-fiction, short stories and poetry whose central focus is sport. The principal aim of the course is to examine the nature and significance of sport through a survey of sport literature with an emphasis on the novel.
Antirequisite(s): Kinesiology 3378F/G.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in any 1000-level or above “E” or combination of two 1000-level or above “F/G” courses from any department in the faculties of Arts and Humanities, Information and Media Studies (FIMS), or Music, or from the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, or permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in any 1000-level or above “E” or combination of two 1000-level or above “F/G” courses from any department in the faculties of Arts and Humanities, Information and Media Studies (FIMS), or Music, or from the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, or permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in any 1000-level or above “E” or combination of two 1000-level or above “F/G” courses from any department in the faculties of Arts and Humanities, Information and Media Studies (FIMS), or Music, or from the Department of Anthropology, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, or permission of the Department.
This course builds on the historical foundations of English 2200F/G to concentrate on important issues in contemporary literary theory and criticism. English 2200F/G is recommended as preparation for English 2201F/G.
This course builds on the historical foundations of English 2200F/G to concentrate on important issues in contemporary literary theory and criticism. English 2200F/G is recommended as preparation for English 2201F/G.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
An introduction to important issues and concepts in the theory and analysis of poetry from different periods. Student work will include some creative writing elements that engage with and apply the technical and theoretical elements of the course.
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.
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.
A survey of fiction and poetry by noted Catholic authors from around the world, including in translation. This course focuses on literary engagements with the Catholic tradition of art, architecture, theology, and spiritual practices (such as pilgrimage), as well as with broader social issues, such as decolonization and social justice.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or at least 60% in any 1.0 essay course in any other subject, or permission of the Department.
This course examines the relationship between water (its management and mythology) and the development of diverse cultures. This course alternates between historical examples from around the world and a specific focus on the Great Lakes Basin, including a group project for improving the ecology of the Deshkan Ziibi /Thames River.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or at least 60% in any 1.0 essay course in any other subject, or permission of the Department.
An introduction to existentialist literature from its roots in nineteenth century philosophy through its emergence as a major influence on modern and postmodern literature. Selected major philosophical and literary texts from the nineteenth and twentieth century, some in translation, will be covered.
Introduction to the major modes of literary and cultural theory, and the prevailing issues within them pertaining to medium and form, gender and sexuality, race and nation, culture and history.
Course Description: This course offers an intensive examination of the major critical methodologies relevant to the academic study of literature. In weekly two-hour lectures and weekly one-hour tutorials that encourage the critical practice of slow reading, students will examine one or more primary literary texts and consider it through a variety of critical lenses.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or Writing 1020F/G or Writing 2101F/G or permission of the Department.
This course investigates the changing forms of literature produced in the British Isles from the Middle Ages to the present. It addresses key movements and styles through careful analysis of both major authors, such as Shakespeare, Austen, Woolf, or Yeats, and some less well-known yet engaging figures.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 2307E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course investigates the changing forms of literature produced in the British Isles from the Middle Ages to the present. It addresses key movements and styles through careful analysis of both major authors, such as Shakespeare, Austen, Woolf, or Yeats, and some less well-known yet engaging figures.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 2307E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This course explores the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia), and their circle in relation to the western literary tradition; genres such as fantasy, science fiction, and detective fiction; and the twentieth-century historical context.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This course charts the development of the gothic in English culture in the nineteenth century, including texts by Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Bram Stoker, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as artwork by William Blake, Henry Fuseli and others. The course will examine historical, theoretical, and artistic contexts.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course investigates the development of British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. It addresses key movements and styles through analysis of major authors, such as Shakespeare, Austen, and Yeats. Student work includes some creative writing elements that engage with the technical and thematic concerns of the course.
Antirequisite(s):English 2301E and the former English 2307E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course offers a survey of important texts and authors from the Puritan and Revolutionary periods to the present. It addresses not only the major movements and styles of American literature associated with such authors as Poe, Dickinson, Twain, Hemingway, and Morrison, but also the innovative work of less familiar Indigenous and ethnic authors.
This course offers a survey of important texts and authors from the Puritan and Revolutionary periods to the present. It addresses not only the major movements and styles of American literature associated with such authors as Poe, Dickinson, Twain, Hemingway, and Morrison, but also the innovative work of less familiar Indigenous and ethnic authors.
A study of major directions in modern theatre and drama with special emphasis upon the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Brecht, Beckett and Pinter.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
What does literature tell us about the making of a nation and its citizens? Spanning the period from imperial exploration to Confederation to the present day, this course examines Canada’s vibrant literary culture. Students will encounter a diverse range of genres and authors, from accounts of early explorers to current internationally acclaimed and award-winning writers.
What does literature tell us about the making of a nation and its citizens? Spanning the period from imperial exploration to Confederation to the present day, this course examines Canada’s vibrant literary culture. Students will encounter a diverse range of genres and authors, from accounts of early explorers to current internationally acclaimed and award-winning writers.
May include 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.
May include 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.
This course takes students on a journey to master video game writing and interactive fiction. You’ll learn to create compelling characters, craft engaging stories, and build immersive worlds, while learning to collaborate with developers and artists. Gain insights into the game industry and prepare to break into the writing scene.
This course offers students a great opportunity to survey of the links between and among different literary traditions and innovations across such diverse geographic regions as Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and the Caribbean. Through close reading of literary texts written in English, students will explore how cultures produce different--often competing--ways of making meaning.
This course offers students a great opportunity to survey of the links between and among different literary traditions and innovations across such diverse geographic regions as Asia, Africa, Australia, South America, and the Caribbean. Through close reading of literary texts written in English, students will explore how cultures produce different--often competing--ways of making meaning.
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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
A survey of prominent, canonical texts in Western literature chosen to help students acquire a foundation upon which they can pursue further studies in the Humanities. This course addresses key biblical texts, as well mythological and classical works by authors such as Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Boccaccio, etc.
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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Students will read texts written for children in order to map changing perceptions of childhood from the 1700s to 1914 - to understand what effects these works were intended to produce, what controversies they generated, and what ideas they embodied about education, adult-child relations, class, nationality, gender and race.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
The course offers a survey in Book History, beginning with the earliest examples on papyrus and vellum, to the various experiments in print, to the latest digital designs.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department. Students in Global Great Books do not require the prerequisite to take the course.
As a follow-up to English 2731F/G, The Book: In Focus offers a range of case studies in specific topics in the History of the Book, such as authorship, censorship, copyright, forgery, illustration, and readers and reading.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department. Students in Global Great Books do not require the prerequisite to take the course.
Students will read texts written for children in order to map changing perceptions of childhood from the 1950s to the present - to understand what effects these works were intended to produce, what controversies they generated, and what ideas they embodied about education, adult-child relations, class, nationality, gender and race.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Students will read texts written for children in order to map changing perceptions of childhood from the 1950s to the present - to understand what effects these works were intended to produce, what controversies they generated, and what ideas they embodied about education, adult-child relations, class, nationality, gender and race.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course examines writing about nature in English by various authors in Canada and the United States from the colonial period to the present. Course material will emphasize historical context, multiple perspectives, and changing attitudes to nature. Sources will include Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers.
The relationship between women and utopia/dystopia can be traced from Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, and extends to tomorrow. This course will explore the history of feminist utopian/dystopian fiction, including works by Cavendish, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Suzanne Collins, and others.
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.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 3118F/G and the former English 3119F/G.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course explores how Romantic and Victorian novelists, poets, essayists, and dramatists consider issues such as nature and imagination, science and rationalism, gender and sexuality, nation and empire, industry and work, prophecy and vision.
An introduction to critical debates in twentieth-century feminist literary theory. Students will study (1) the diversity of feminist approaches to literature, literary production, the politics of language, questions of genre and subjectivity; and (2) the intersections among feminist literary theories, postcolonialism, Marxism, anti-racist criticism, queer theory, and post-structuralism.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
An introduction to critical debates in twentieth-century feminist literary theory. Students will study (1) the diversity of feminist approaches to literature, literary production, the politics of language, questions of genre and subjectivity; and (2) the intersections among feminist literary theories, postcolonialism, Marxism, anti-racist criticism, queer theory, and post-structuralism.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
An examination of the history, practice, and goals of cultural studies in various national, paranational, and diasporic contexts, with attention to Australia, Britain, Canada, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Trinidad, and the United States, and to cultural studies contributions to critical and postcolonial theory.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course considers the figure of the posthuman as it emerges in the work of contemporary theorists. Beginning with an attempt to define the posthuman, it will then move to answer a series of critical questions regarding what is at stake in posthumanism’s critique of the humanist subject.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course explores key concepts in critical race theory, focusing on: cultural constructions of race and their connection to settler colonialism and imperialism; the links between race, class, gender, and sexuality; processes of racialization; whiteness as an “invisible” category; the hypervisibility of racialized subjects; and anti-racist cultural production.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
This course offers advanced study in the theory and analysis of digital narratives. Students will produce a hypertext version of a literary text and develop a text adventure game. No previous coding experience is necessary.
Antirequisite(s):English 1028F/G taken at King’s University College (2015-2020).
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course offers advanced study in a narrowly defined area of theory and criticism. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course offers advanced study in a narrowly defined area of theory and criticism. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course offers an advanced study in a more narrowly defined area of cultural studies. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
An introduction to historic and contemporary literature and cultural productions (novels, poetry, drama, film, graphic novels, etc.) by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or gender expansive, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual and two-spirit Indigenous storytellers. This course will also familiarize students with relevant feminist, queer, trans-, crip/disability, racialized, and Indigenous theorists.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course examines a wide range of mental illness, mental health, consumer/survivor/ex-patient (C/S/X), and/or Mad literature, film, and other cultural productions. It utilizes a Mad Studies critical framework to examine how literary and creative accounts of mental illness/disability/difference and/or Madness based on lived experience support, critique, and/or engage with psychiatry.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course pairs key psychoanalytic theories with literary “case studies” to trace the various afterlives of Freudian and post-Freudian thought within literary studies. By focusing on various literary devices, we will investigate the surprising correspondence between how the unconscious mind processes experience and how the author produces meaning through texts.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This intensive study of five Shakespeare dramas considers each play through a range of media. The central group project has students experience Shakespeare by designing a digital edition of a chosen scene, performing that scene both live and as video production, and creating blogs to reflect on their acts of making.
A study of the historical development of English phonology, morphology, orthography and syntax from Old English to the modern period. At the same time, we examine the changing roles of English (commercial, literary, and administrative) and the different varieties of the language available to its many speakers.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
A study of the historical development of English phonology, morphology, orthography and syntax from Old English to the modern period. At the same time, we examine the changing roles of English (commercial, literary, and administrative) and the different varieties of the language available to its many speakers.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Studying the language and literature of England a millennium ago, we will move from introducing the language to simple prose texts to the poetry of the Exeter and Vercelli Books, and for most of the second term to the study of Beowulf.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
Studying the language and literature of England a millennium ago, we will move from introducing the language to simple prose texts to the poetry of the Exeter and Vercelli Books, and for most of the second term to the study of Beowulf.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course is a study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s story collection The Canterbury Tales. We will learn how to read Chaucer’s English with the aim of understanding and enjoying the humour, innovations, and insights that have made The Canterbury Tales a much-loved work of literary art for nearly seven centuries.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course is a study of Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century dream-vision poems. Framing our discussion with key concepts in medieval psychology, we will explore the allegories, consolations, histories, and metafictional surprises of Chaucer’s dreams. We will begin with a selection of short lyrics, using accessible, reader-friendly editions for all course texts.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
The authority of crown, family, and church, and even the texts that supported those institutions, was questioned in the late medieval period. While introducing the Middle English language, this course will explore how Geoffrey Chaucer and his contemporaries used literature to critique social and political institutions.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 3116E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course explores representations of love and desire in the culture of Europe from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. While introducing the Middle English language, we will read romances, dream visions, mystical visions, love letters, and plays in their scientific, historical, and religious contexts.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 3116E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course is an introduction to some of the major texts and themes of Middle English literature, with an emphasis on Chaucer and his contemporaries. Examples of medieval drama, romances, texts from the Arthurian tradition, and medieval autobiography and letter-writing may also be included.
Antirequisite(s):English 3114E, the former English 3115E, the former English 3116E, the former English 3118F/G or the former English 3119F/G.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course is an introduction to some of the major texts and themes of Middle English literature, with an emphasis on Chaucer and his contemporaries. Examples of medieval drama, romances, texts from the Arthurian tradition, and medieval autobiography and letter-writing may also be included.
Antirequisite(s):English 3114E, the former English 3115E, the former English 3116E, the former English 3118F/G or the former English 3119F/G.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course allows for further study in medieval literature beyond the introductory level. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course allows for further study in medieval literature beyond the introductory level. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or 1.0 of Medieval Studies 1000-1999 or permission of the Department.
Love and desire are complicated emotions, both today and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. We will examine the profuse complexity of Renaissance love poetry, by men and women, queer and straight, including writers such as Shakespeare, Wroth, Donne, Barnfield, Spenser, Wyatt, Sidney, Marlowe, Herrick, Carew, Suckling, Marvell, and Philips.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This half-course will examine such topics as Milton’s grand style, Satan, epic heroism (is Paradise Lost an epic or anti-epic?), the nature of innocence, what it means to “fall,” and whether there can be a “fortunate fall.” Attention will also be paid to seventeenth-century politics, science and astronomy.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course examines witchcraft, magic, and the emergence of science in a variety of dramatic and/or non-dramatic English Renaissance texts. These may include, but not be limited to, works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Spenser, Milton, Donne, Bacon and Burton, as well as select contemporaneous witchcraft, exorcism, and demonology pamphlets.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
The decades following Shakespeare’s retirement witnessed the production of some extraordinary drama. This half-course will range from dark tragedies, by authors such as Middleton and Ford, to improbable romances by the likes of Heywood and Fletcher. Island princesses, miraculous reunions, lycanthropy, bloody murders, sexual obsession, and redemption lie in wait.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course considers literary and cultural responses to death from the period 1590 to 1670. It explores the philosophical and theological understandings of death in the period, funeral and mourning customs, and then the literary treatment of death in such writers as Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Sir Thomas Browne.
This half-course will explore four major plays through a range of media including early and later print, staged performance, film, and live stream. Study of Shakespeare as text and performance will include students annotating, editing and staging scenes, and creating websites and/or blogs to reflect on their acts of making.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
Poetry and prose from the renaissance/early modern period, covering a range of male and female authors, such as More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne, Jonson, Wroth, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, and Milton; examination of their individual achievements will be combined with studies of form and genre, and the surrounding historical context.
Poetry and prose from the renaissance/early modern period, covering a range of male and female authors, such as More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne, Jonson, Wroth, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, and Milton; examination of their individual achievements will be combined with studies of form and genre, and the surrounding historical context.
Poetry and prose from the renaissance/early modern period, covering a range of male and female authors, such as More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Lanyer, Donne, Jonson, Wroth, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, and Milton; examination of their individual achievements will be combined with studies of form and genre, and the surrounding historical context.
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.
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.
Shakespeare remains one of the most influential of English writers. This course studies twelve plays across a range of genres. Instructors may integrate theatre-oriented exercises and/or other dramatic or non-dramatic material, depending on individual emphasis. When possible, the teaching program will include an autumn theatre trip.
Shakespeare remains one of the most influential of English writers. This course studies twelve plays across a range of genres. Instructors may integrate theatre-oriented exercises and/or other dramatic or non-dramatic material, depending on individual emphasis. When possible, the teaching program will include an autumn theatre trip.
Shakespeare invented few of the plots of his plays; instead he used others’ writing. Later artists (including stage and film directors, playwrights, and novelists) have likewise drawn on Shakespeare's plays as inspiration. This half-course explores this range of “Shakespearean adaptation” through close study of two or three major plays.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
Seventeenth-century England saw enormous changes in the distribution of money. Dramatists responded in diverse ways to the social disruption caused by new patterns of wealth and impoverishment. Plays studied on this half-course present cityscapes populated by predators and swindlers, nostalgic evocations of lordly hospitable practices, and meditations on greed.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
An event-based course where students disseminate their ideas in a public forum. Possible examples may include: an undergraduate conference, a dramatic performance, a communitybased roundtable, an interactive website.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
A hive of playwrights, among them Shakespeare, produced a wealth of new theatrical writing in Renaissance England. This year-long course groups six plays by Shakespeare with six relatedplays by writers such as Marlowe, Kyd, Fletcher, Jonson, and Massinger, all of whom, like Shakespeare, flourished in the professional theatres.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
The opening of the English professional theatres produced many of the greatest authors of British literary history, including Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton. This course explores twelve plays in the context of the period's cultural and political upheavals. Instructors may contextualize the drama by considering Medieval forebears or closet drama.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
The opening of the English professional theatres produced many of the greatest authors of British literary history, including Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton. This course explores twelve plays in the context of the period's cultural and political upheavals. Instructors may contextualize the drama by considering Medieval forebears or closet drama.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
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, with developing theories about the nature of literature, and with the surrounding historical context.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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, with developing theories about the nature of literature, and with the surrounding historical context.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Covering five geographical areas (Europe, Africa, the West Indies, the Near East, and India), this course considers literary and historical accounts of Britain's rise to imperial power. The transatlantic slave trade, abolitionism, colonial governance, orientalism, and Islamaphobia will be assessed through the study of works by European and non-European authors.
Antirequisite(s):English 3349F/G at King's 2014-15, 2017-18, and 2019-20.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
The restoration of the monarchy in 1660 ushered in a new and sometimes frightening era of philosophical, social, and sexual freedom. This course explores Libertinism, a subversive doctrine that challenged cultural and sexual norms, through the poems, plays, and prose of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course examines what it means to be a person in the eighteenth century, and how women and men, Afro-Britons and whites express themselves. We explore the role of soul, mind, and body as aspects of personhood and how different genres (philosophical essay, autobiography, and imaginative fiction) demarcate that state.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
The lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695 granted unprecedented freedom and latitude to publish vitriolic works of personal acrimony, social criticism, and political partisanship. This course examines contemporary debates on the theory and ethics of satire through verse and prose satires of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
This course explores Black writers’ narratives and imaginative writing about the Black experience during the period before and during the British abolition of the slave trade. We will investigate the mechanisms of oppression on enslaved Africans and expressions of their resistance to white power.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. 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 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course will introduce you to a tumultuous age of trenchant satire, witty sexual comedy, and public controversy. Topics covered will include: the emergence of the modern novel, the rise of the woman author, and the relationship between nature, the imagination, and sensibility.
This course will introduce you to a tumultuous age of trenchant satire, witty sexual comedy, and public controversy. Topics covered will include: the emergence of the modern novel, the rise of the woman author, and the relationship between nature, the imagination, and sensibility.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. However, 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. However, 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will explore a narrow topic within Restoration or eighteenth-century literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will explore a narrow topic within Restoration or eighteenth-century literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
During the nineteenth century novels became the privileged medium in which British society viewed itself as a whole made up of interrelated parts. The period also saw unprecedented change in novelistic technique and in the business of publishing novels. This course will study these and other developments in prose fiction.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Revolt, radicalism, counter-revolution, reaction, reformation; hope, crisis, peace, war, invention, imagination, catastrophe, wonder, terror. What shadows did revolution cast upon the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? This course examines a range of texts that reflect Romantic and post-Romantic transformations, upheavals, and reversals in aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, and/or psychological thought and writing.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Nineteenth century philosophers celebrated the individual, but the period also saw the emergence of new forms of social control in politics, the market, and the workplace. This course examines the individual’s relation to society and the world in nineteenth-century English literature. Besides fiction, it may include poetry, drama, and non-fiction.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
In the nineteenth century, women readers and women writers were an important part of the new mass market for English literature, often leading in the emergent campaign for women’s rights. This course will discuss these and other issues in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by women from the 1790s to 1900.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
What does it mean to value art for art’s sake? This course introduces students to the literature and culture of the late-Victorian period, including works by Pater, Wilde, Beardsley, Lee, and others. Assignments include examining rare Aesthetic and Decadent books and magazines in Western Library’s special collections.
Antirequisite(s):English 3369F/G if taken in Fall 2023, the former English 3445E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period, but narrower in focus than English 3368E. 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 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course studies the detective figure in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Possible topics include: the science of deduction; evidence and forensic practices; panopticism and the society of surveillance; the role of the detective in policing boundaries or race, class, and gender. May also include later film and tv adaptations.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
From the dawning awareness of the Anthropocene in late Enlightenment geology to the Eugenicist novels of a century later, the life sciences shaped literature and were in turn shaped by their cultural milieu. This course will discuss the relation between science and English literature in the century of Darwin.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
In this seminar, students will study Frankenstein (1818) in dialogue with other Romantic texts by Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Percy Bysshe Shelley. The course examines dialogues within and between Romantic texts, and it reconfigures influence as dialogue.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
Jane Austen is the most important novelist of the Regency period and arguably one of the most important English novelists of any period. This course will examine Austen’s six novels in light of the contemporary issues that informed them and various critical approaches that illuminate them.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
From revolution to evolution, this course explores how Romantic and Victorian literature shaped the modern world. Through the study of major novelists, poets, essayists, and dramatists, we will consider issues such as nature and imagination, science and rationalism, gender and sexuality, nation and empire, industry and work, prophecy and vision.
From revolution to evolution, this course explores how Romantic and Victorian literature shaped the modern world. Through the study of major novelists, poets, essayists, and dramatists, we will consider issues such as nature and imagination, science and rationalism, gender and sexuality, nation and empire, industry and work, prophecy and vision.
From revolution to evolution, this course explores how Romantic and Victorian literature shaped the modern world. Through the study of major novelists, poets, essayists, and dramatists, we will consider issues such as nature and imagination, science and rationalism, gender and sexuality, nation and empire, industry and work, prophecy and vision.
This course will explore a narrow topic with nineteenth-century literature. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 3445E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will explore a narrow topic with nineteenth-century literature. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 3445E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Fascinated by innovation and revolution, modernism is obsessed with the new, celebrating the speed, alienation, and fragmentation of modernity. Yet it is also steeped in nostalgia, in a world dashed by modernity itself. This course offers a range of texts that explore modernist reimaginings of art, politics, psychology and identity.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Several contemporary poets and fiction writers express a profound dissatisfaction with traditional literary genres, preferring to focus on radical innovations in technique. This course examines a range of texts that offer a more clinical approach to writing, inspired by such structures as dreams, arbitrary constraints, and game theory.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, site of new dramatic forms as well as political rioting, was at the centre of the Irish Literary Revival of the early twentieth century. This course examines the beginnings of the theatre in 1904 and explores the function of drama within the Irish literary tradition.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
Pound cried “Make It New!” The modern and contemporary poet may attempt to define the radically “modern”, but many major poets — Eliot, Yeats, Pound, Heaney, Oswald — use history to define the modern experience. This course explores how history —mythological, literary, real — is “new”, how nostalgia defines the modern poet’s project.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
It is popularly assumed that decadence, as an artistic movement, died in the 1890s. The reports of its death in English literature, however, are greatly exaggerated. This course will examine the afterlives of decadence and its avatars, aestheticism and camp, in modernism, postmodernism, and beyond.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. 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 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course is framed by the question “What does it mean to be modern?” To answer this question, we will explore problems of history, language, and genre in the work of writers like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Samuel Beckett, Jean Rhys, Julian Barnes, and Jeanette Winterson.
This course is framed by the question “What does it mean to be modern?” To answer this question, we will explore problems of history, language, and genre in the work of writers like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Samuel Beckett, Jean Rhys, Julian Barnes, and Jeanette Winterson.
This course is framed by the question “What does it mean to be modern?” To answer this question, we will explore problems of history, language, and genre in the work of writers like T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, Samuel Beckett, Jean Rhys, Julian Barnes, and Jeanette Winterson.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. However, 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this historical period. However, 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will explore a narrow topic within twentieth-century British or Irish literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will explore a narrow topic within twentieth-century British or Irish literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
“What does it mean to be modern?” To answer this, we will explore problems of history, language, and genre in the work of writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, and Samuel Beckett. Student work includes creative writing elements that engage with the course’s technical and thematic concerns.
Pilgrims. Heretics. Witches. Revolutionaries. Luminaries. Activists. This course will examine topics in American literature before the Civil War, which may include the pressures of contact, the turbulence of the revolution, and the growing complexity of a new nation as it settles into patterns of territorial expansion, slavery, and literary output.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course offers advanced studies in American Literature produced before the Civil War. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult the Department for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course explores movements or genres with passionate followings and transgressive or countercultural themes. How did these cult traditions emerge and how can we explain their appeal? Topics may include religious or illicit countercultures, American gothic fiction, Beat literature, hard-boiled detective fiction, and sci fi.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course considers literature that produced, reflected, and reacted to the emergence of the various American civil rights movements. Approaches will vary but likely topics include: the revolution and founding; “Indian Removal” and indigenous rights; slavery, abolition, and Jim Crow; women’s rights and feminism; the sexual revolution and queer identity.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
This course focuses on a period, theme, or collection of authors in African American literature (e.g., Harlem Renaissance, Afrofuturism, Black Modernisms, Black Women Writers, Hip-Hop and Literature). Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult the department for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course focuses on a period, theme, or collection of authors in African American literature (e.g., Harlem Renaissance, Afrofuturism, Black Modernisms, Black Women Writers, Hip-Hop and Literature). Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult the department for current offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 English courses from 1020-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course will explore a narrow topic within later American literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will explore a narrow topic within later American literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
How does the American literary imagination engage contemporary issues? This course approaches recent American fiction and poetry to explore national identity, sexual and racial difference, social and economic injustice, and the significance of media technology. Readings may be accompanied by studies of contemporary visual culture and music.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
What is America, as a theatrical idea? How does the stage reflect the nation, its myths and aspirations? This course explores theatre as a “public art” form in the modern and contemporary United States, reading a variety of dramatists that may include Hansberry, Kushner, Miller, O’Neill, Parks, Williams, and Wilson.
What is America, as a theatrical idea? How does the stage reflect the nation, its myths and aspirations? This course explores theatre as a “public art” form in the modern and contemporary United States, reading a variety of dramatists that may include Hansberry, Kushner, Miller, O’Neill, Parks, Williams, and Wilson.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span than English 2401E, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature, but narrower in focus than English 3664E. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature, but narrower in focus than English 3664E. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
The modern period is marked by social, political, and aesthetic tensions. How does theatre remain relevant amidst these pressures, especially as the stage gives way first to the cinema, then to the TV screen, and now to the internet? We will look at texts spanning 1890 to the present day.
The modern period is marked by social, political, and aesthetic tensions. How does theatre remain relevant amidst these pressures, especially as the stage gives way first to the cinema, then to the TV screen, and now to the internet? We will look at texts spanning 1890 to the present day.
This course will explore the subgenre known as “Southern Ontario Gothic,” a celebrated branch of Canadian literature that simultaneously defines a region and revises British and American literary traditions of the Gothic. By comparing notable Canadian, British, and Southern Gothic texts, we will illustrate the innovative qualities of local writing.
Antirequisite(s): The former English 3777F/G, English 3775E taken in 2021-2022.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
Where is “here” for writers of migrant and diasporic heritages living in Canada? How does writing from “elsewhere” reshape collective understanding? These and other questions will be studied in vibrant and provocative works by such writers as Dionne Brand, Anita Rau Badami, Rawi Hage, Michael Ondaatje, and Kim Thuy.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course explores Canadian literature in relation to "multiculturalism," one of Canada's most celebrated and contested national attributes. Readings may include works published before and/or after the passing of the Official Multiculturalism Act in 1982, as well as critical debates about the term "multiculturalism" itself.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course offers advanced study of writing by authors of the Black Diaspora in Canada. Course offerings may vary by genre, region, or period. Attentive to historical, literary historical, and other contexts, the course celebrates the aesthetics and artistry of Black writing in Canada and the knowledges it produces.
This course offers advanced study of writing by authors of the Black Diaspora in Canada. Course offerings may vary by genre, region, or period. Attentive to historical, literary historical, and other contexts, the course celebrates the aesthetics and artistry of Black writing in Canada and the knowledges it produces.
This course will explore a narrow topic within post-confederation Canadian literature. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
This course will explore a narrow topic within post-confederation Canadian literature. It may concentrate on a shorter historical span, a particular genre, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
This course explores the literary cultures of Southwestern Ontario, examining the ways local writing accesses the public, builds communities, relates people to their environment, and connects local, national, and transnational networks. Students develop critical, creative, and experiential perspectives and employ community engaged learning to develop course concepts beyond the classroom.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
We will explore a range of recent work produced on Toronto’s stages, the contexts in which that work is made, and its reception by reviewers, bloggers, and others. Students will read six to eight plays along with contextual material, and see at least two live performances in Toronto.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999, or 1.0 of Film 1000-1999 plus English 2112F/G, Film 2212F/G, or Theatre Studies 2212F/G, or permission of the department.
Extra Information: 3 hours. Students will be charged a non-refundable field trip fee. See the Department/Program for more information.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature. 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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
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. Representative 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.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
This course engages with the cultures of storytelling and literary production of different Indigenous peoples across the globe. In reading this literature with attention to the distinct cultures, territories, and histories of particular Indigenous nations, this course will also consider what unites Indigenous peoples on an international level.
Students will study Indigenous writings including memoirs, graphic novels, poetry and prose. Students will also read theoretical materials on trauma and healing in decolonial contexts. Topics for discussion may include the land and environment, the missing and murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Idle No More, and language and literary revitalization.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or Indigenous Studies 1020E or permission of the Department.
This course examines representations of LGBTQ figures in African literature, film, and political discourse, all of which have recently focused on LGBTQ identity when addressing ideas of Africa, and new national and transnational networks. We will explore creative responses to the legal and social predicaments faced by African sexual minorities.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to Postcolonial Literature, but narrower in focus than the general survey. It may concentrate on a particular geographical area, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to Postcolonial Literature, but narrower in focus than the general survey. It may concentrate on a particular geographical area, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will introduce students to a diverse range of Indigenous storytelling practices from Turtle Island (North America), which may include oral narratives, literature, and visual and performance arts. Students will consider how these practices both shape and are shaped by specific historical and geographical contexts.
This course will introduce students to a diverse range of Indigenous storytelling practices from Turtle Island (North America), which may include oral narratives, literature, and visual and performance arts. Students will consider how these practices both shape and are shaped by specific historical and geographical contexts.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to Global Literature. It may concentrate on a particular geographical area, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to Global Literature. It may concentrate on a particular geographical area, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to Global Literature. It may concentrate on a particular geographical area, or use some other principle of selection. Consult the Department for offerings.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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 2700E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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 2700E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course considers biblical women as they are reinterpreted in poetry, novels, short stories and art. When biblical stories are compared with creative interpretations of them, ancient stories are illuminated and contemporary concerns addressed, challenging us to ask new questions of biblical texts and of ourselves as well.
This course examines the construction of women as both consumers and as objects of exchange in British literature from the nineteenth century on. We will study a range of literary texts including prose fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry as well as some cultural documents like fashion columns and advertisements.
Antirequisite(s):English 3700E at King's 2015-16, 2017-18, 2018-2019 and 2019-20.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
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.
Students will read a variety of banned, challenged, and controversial books for children and young adults. In focusing on such books, we consider the impetus behind challenging books, what it tells us about a particular historical moment, and what it tells us about literature in general.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
An examination of how the genre and modes of expression of various forms, such as novels, drama, film, graphic texts and digital genres influence interpretation and cultural meaning.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
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.
This course will be broad enough to provide an introduction to this national literature, but narrower in focus than English 3774E. 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 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or permission of the Department.
What does it mean to "perform" being Canadian? How does the stage help us to evolve a definition of this nation? Should it? This course examines Canada's comparatively young dramatic tradition, its present, its future, and our role in its making, with a strong emphasis on in-class, group-based performance work.
What does it mean to "perform" being Canadian? How does the stage help us to evolve a definition of this nation? Should it? This course examines Canada's comparatively young dramatic tradition, its present, its future, and our role in its making, with a strong emphasis on in-class, group-based performance work.
In the twentieth century, art and drama reacted to the cataclysmic events of two world wars and the profound changes in society and culture that followed. This course explores the theory and practice of absurdist theatre, from Dadaism through the work of such authors as Beckett, Ionesco, and Pinter.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
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.
An advanced study of important topics in theory and criticism. Topics may change from year to year. More detailed information may be obtained from the Department prior to registration.
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 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course offers an advanced study in a more narrowly defined area of cultural studies. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor. Consult the Department for offerings.
This course, led by the Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, will allow students in English modules to explore creativity and its role in the production and study of literature in English and the Arts and Humanities more broadly. See the Department Website for the specific focus of this year’s course.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
This course explores the ways in which literature and other cultural forms both represent and construct sexual identities and practices. Specific content will vary from year to year depending on the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1020-1999 or permission of the Department.
A workshop intended to develop skills in creative writing through individually supervised assignments. Students should expect to produce a substantial quantity of work. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or Writing 1020F/G or Writing 2101F/G, or permission of the Department.
A workshop intended to develop skills in creative writing through individually supervised assignments. Students should expect to produce a substantial quantity of work. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or Writing 1020F/G or Writing 2101F/G, or permission of the Department.
A workshop intended to develop skills in creative writing through individually supervised assignments. Students should expect to produce a substantial quantity of work. Enrollment limited.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or Writing 1020F/G or Writing 2101F/G, or permission of the Department.
An opportunity for students to learn about the craft of fiction and poetry, and to develop their individual voices as they express themselves through a variety of genres. Students should expect to produce a substantial quantity of work. Enrolment limited.
Antirequisite(s):English 3998E; the former English 2998E.
Prerequisite(s): At least 60% in 1.0 of English 1000-1999, or