Minor in English
The English Minor provides students with a course of study that focuses on how to read and write critically – that is, analyze, historicize, and politicize literary and cultural texts. Understanding the complexities of texts and their influence in a variety of forms, media, time periods and cultural contexts adds depth and breadth to students' program of study and enhances their career possibilities.
Administered by: Department of English
Exclusions: This minor is not available to students in the following programs:
Revised curriculum begins Fall 2021 for students admitted Fall 2021 and after. Students
admitted Fall 2020 and before may follow the revised curriculum or the curriculum as published in the 2020-2021 Undergraduate Calendar.
Required course (1):
| ENG 110 | Literatures Across Borders |
Plus five (5) courses from the following:
| ENG 101 | Laughter and Tears: Comedy and Tragedy |
| ENG 104 | The Short Story |
| ENG 112 | Zap, Pow, Bang: Pop Lit |
| ENG 200 | Writing as a Cultural Act |
| ENG 201 | Myth and Literature |
| ENG 203 | The Literature of Indigenous Peoples |
| ENG 208 | Introduction to Non-Fiction |
| ENG 212 | Cultures in Crisis |
| ENG 222 | Fairy Tales and Fantasies |
| ENG 223 | Literatures of Exile and Migration |
| ENG 224 | Children's Literature |
| ENG 230 | Creativity, Writing and Everyday Life |
| ENG 402 | Comics |
| ENG 409 | Urban Literatures |
| ENG 413 | Literature and Colonization |
| ENG 416 | American Literatures |
| ENG 417 | Special Topics in American Literatures |
| ENG 421 | 16C Literature and Culture |
| ENG 422 | 17C Literature and Culture |
| ENG 503 | Science Fiction |
| ENG 505 | Creative Writing |
| ENG 510 | Gothic Horror |
| ENG 511 | The Art of Writing Life |
| ENG 517 | Techniques and Topics in Creative Writing |
| ENG 520 | The Language of Persuasion |
| ENG 529 | Controversies in Public Discourse |
| ENG 530 | Literary Non-Fiction |
| ENG 531 | 18C Literature and Culture |
| ENG 540 | The Novel |
| ENG 548 | Parenting, Media, and Culture |
| ENG 550 | Drama |
| ENG 560 | Poetry and Poetics |
| ENG 570 | Auto/Biography |
| ENG 580 | The Gothic |
| ENG 590 | Studies in Word and Image |
| ENG 602 | Women's Writing |
| ENG 610 | The Language of Love, Sex, and Gender |
| ENG 611 | Film and Literature |
| ENG 620 | Literatures of the Caribbean |
| ENG 621 | Women's Texts, Global Contexts |
| ENG 623 | Film/Literature: Middle East, North Africa |
| ENG 624 | 20C Literature and Culture |
| ENG 632 | 19C Literature and Culture |
| ENG 634 | Romantic Explorations |
| ENG 635 | Modernism |
| ENG 640 | Literatures of Asia and its Diasporas |
| ENG 650 | Indigenous World View |
| ENG 701 | Canadian Literatures |
| ENG 703 | Popular Literatures |
| ENG 705 | Studies in Visual Cultures |
| ENG 706 | Shakespeare and Performance |
| ENG 707 | Shakespeare and His World |
| ENG 710 | Special Topics in Canadian Literatures |
| ENG 730 | The Social Life of Books |
| ENG 921 | Narrative in a Digital Age |
| ENG 941 | Gender and Sex in Literature and Culture |
| ENG 942 | Decolonizing Literature |
Please see (PDF file) Senate Policy 2, Section 7.4 for further information about Minors.
