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English and Philosophy Core Elective Table II

English and Philosophy Double Major

NOTE: Every course will not be offered every semester. Students may opt for depth by selecting courses within thematic categories, or may opt for breadth by sampling broadly across those categories. Students considering Graduate studies are strongly advised to meet regularly with the Program Director to plan their course of study to ensure sufficient breadth and depth requirements.

English

English: Students admitted Fall 2020 and after must complete a four (4) English courses from Table II.

Students admitted Fall 2019 and before must complete five (5) English courses from Table II.

Media + Cultural Studies

  • ENG 590 Studies in Word and Image
  • ENG 611 Film and Literature
  • ENG 703 Popular Literatures
  • ENG 705 Studies in Visual Cultures
  • ENG 706 Shakespeare and Performance
  • ENG 921 Narrative in a Digital Age
  • ENG 941 Gender and Sex in Literature and Culture

World Views + Experiences

  • ENG 142 Black Arts, Black Power
  • ENG 223 Literatures of Exile and Migration
  • ENG 409 Literatures of the City
  • ENG 413 Literature, Empire, and Colonization
  • ENG 416 American Literatures
  • ENG 417 Special Topics in American Literatures
  • ENG 620 Literatures of the Caribbean
  • ENG 621 Women's Texts, Global Contexts
  • ENG 623 Film/Literature: Middle East, North Africa
  • ENG 640 Literatures of Asia and its Diasporas
  • ENG 650 Indigenous World View
  • ENG 653 Black Literatures and Cultures 
  • ENG 701 Canadian Literatures
  • ENG 710 Special Topics in Canadian Literatures
  • ENG 942 Decolonizing Literature

Literary Histories + Movements

Creative Writing

  • ENG 230  Creativity, Writing and Everyday Life
  • ENG 406  Visionary Poetics
  • ENG 407  Writing Short Stories
  • ENG 517  Techniques and Topics in Creative Writing
  • ENG 577  Getting the Word Out: Publishing
  • ENG 662  Shiny Writing: The Editing Process
  • ENG 680  The Art of Oral Storytelling

Rhetoric, Writing + Culture

  • ENG 200 Writing as a Cultural Act
  • ENG 520 The Language of Persuasion
  • ENG 529 Controversies in Public Discourse
  • ENG 730 The Social Life of Books

Genre Studies

Independent Study

Philosophy

Students considering Graduate studies are strongly advised to meet with the Undergraduate Program Director to plan their course of study.

Courses completed to satisfy another degree requirement cannot also count towards the Core Elective Table II requirement.

Students admitted Fall 2022 and before must complete seven (7) Philosophy courses from Table II.

Students admitted Fall 2023 and after must complete five (5) Philosophy courses from Table II.

For all students, a minimum of three (3) courses must be advanced as grouped below.

  • PHL 101 Plato and the Roots of Western Philosophy
  • PHL 110 Philosophy of Religion I
  • PHL 187 Classical Philosophy
  • PHL 201† Problems in Philosophy
  • PHL 210 Introduction to Indian Philosophy
  • PHL 212 Introductory Logic
  • PHL 220 Introduction to Africana Philosophy
  • PHL 306 Freedom, Equality, Limits of Authority
  • PHL 307 Business Ethics
  • PHL 320 Queer Theory
  • PHL 333 Philosophy of Human Nature
  • PHL 365 Philosophy of Beauty
  • PHL 366 Existentialism and Art and Culture
  • PHL 400 Human Rights and Justice
  • PHL 401 Philosophy and Mass Culture
  • PHL 404 Introduction to Ethics
  • PHL 405 Introduction to Political Philosophy
  • PHL 406 Issues of Life, Death and Poverty
  • PHL 420 Philosophy, Diversity and Recognition
  • PHL 430 Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
  • PHL 449 Philosophy of Punishment
  • PHL 500 Philosophy of the Natural Environment
  • PHL 501 Oppression and the Critique of Power
  • PHL 503 Ancient and Modern Ethics
  • PHL 504 Philosophy of Art
  • PHL 505 Hegel and Marx
  • PHL 507 Ethics and Disability
  • PHL 509 Bioethics
  • PHL 516 Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
  • PHL 520 Social and Political Philosophy
  • PHL 521 Personal Identity East and West
  • PHL 522 Philosophy and Death
  • PHL 535 Introduction to Indigenous Philosophy
  • PHL 547 Jewish Philosophy
  • PHL 544 Feminist Philosophy
  • PHL 550 Knowledge, Truth and Belief
  • PHL 551 Metaphysics
  • PHL 552 Philosophy of Natural Science
  • PHL 561 Philosophy of Social Science
  • PHL 570 Black Political Thought
  • PHL 580 Intermediate Logic
  • PHL 585 Violent Conflict and Reconciliation
  • PHL 605 Existentialism
  • PHL 606 Philosophy of Love and Sex
  • PHL 611 Philosophy of Mind
  • PHL 612 Philosophy of Law
  • PHL 614 Philosophy of Human Rights
  • PHL 639 Medieval Philosophy
  • PHL 648 Philosophy and Literature
  • PHL 661 Marx, Nietzsche and Freud
  • PHL 709 Religion, Science and Philosophy
  • PHL 710 Philosophy and Film
  • PHL 810 Philosophy of Cinema

Advanced courses:

NOTE: *Course can be used to have as an advanced course for students admitted Fall 2022 and before.