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- ENG 101 - Laughter and Tears: Comedy and TragedyCourse DescriptionLaughter and tears are not always straightforward. A tale of pride going before a fall can be reassuring to us as well as sad, and a Hollywood romantic comedy can encode a scathing social critique. Offering insight into our ongoing fascination with the extremes of human emotion, this course traces how the twin poles of the comic and tragic have developed through literary history, and how they vary across diverse cultural traditions.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:LLCustom Requisites:Not available to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 104 - The Short StoryCourse DescriptionAs a relatively new genre that burst on the literary scene with the emergence of magazine culture, the short story is a truly modern form. Its excitement has to do with the concision of its form and the startling turns its narratives can offer. This course explores the history and conventions of the genre, examining stories from a variety of cultural contexts representing a range of styles, themes, and social issues.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:LLCustom Requisites:Not available to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 110 - Literatures Across BordersCourse DescriptionLiterature shapes and is shaped by the world we live in. It straddles the borders between nations, personal and collective histories, and narrative forms. In this course, students engage with diverse literary forms, themes, locations, and historical contexts; and develop skills for critical analysis and the creation of sustained, organized, and well-reasoned arguments.Weekly Contact:Lecture 2 hrs. Tutorial 1 hr.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Antirequisites:ENG 108
- ENG 112 - Zap, Pow, Bang: Pop LitCourse DescriptionHorror stories, pop songs, love poetry, comics-this course introduces students to various types of writing that were popular at different times and in different cultures. Students will learn central concepts and terminology in the study of popular writing and culture, and they will analyze the impact that cultural and political issues have had not only on what works became popular but also on the very notion of "the popular" itself.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:LLAntirequisites:ENG 703Custom Requisites:Not available to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 142 - Black Arts, Black PowerCourse DescriptionBlack textual and cultural productions reveal the material conditions of Black experience. Students are introduced to Black Studies by exploring cultural production throughout the Black diaspora in its historical and social contexts, including the Middle Passage, slavery, emancipation, segregation, civil rights activism, immigration, and post-colonial revolution. Students analyze literary texts and intellectual traditions in the Black experience of North America. Specific attention is paid to the Black Canadian context.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 200 - Writing as a Cultural ActCourse DescriptionWe live our lives through networks of texts, both printed and digital. This course takes a rhetorical perspective to explore how written texts provide more than just information: they perform important cultural actions in contemporary civic life. Students examine the relationship of writing to knowledge, belief, and social organization in contexts such as popular and social media, politics and activism, literature and art, and professional, technical, and academic cultures.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 201 - Myth and LiteratureCourse DescriptionFrom classical poetry to video games, stories follow recognizable patterns that tell us much about our values, fears, and desires. Offering a fertile source for plots and themes, myth systems present a set of limits to be investigated, challenged, and rewritten. This course examines how plays, poems, novels, and/or other texts engage with myth. Topics may include such diverse ideas as masculinity, initiation, fellowship, betrayal, rebirth, exile and homecoming.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:LLCustom Requisites:Not available to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 203 - The Literature of Indigenous PeoplesCourse DescriptionHow has colonialism impacted Indigenous cultures, and how have Indigenous people used texts to pose challenges to colonialism and to preserve and retell traditional stories? Reading contemporary literature by Aboriginal Australian, Maori, First Nations and other Indigenous writers, students address these and other important socio-political questions, examine wider literary and theoretical issues, and consider questions regarding cultural identity raised in the writings of Indigenous peoples.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:LLCustom Requisites:Not available to students in ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major programs
- ENG 208 - Introduction to Non-FictionCourse DescriptionStories come to us in many forms including life writing, travel writing, documentaries, historical testimony, political speeches, journalistic texts and scientific and legal discourse. In this course, students read and write about non-fiction in a variety of forms across diverse historical periods and media.Weekly Contact:Lecture 2 hrs. Tutorial 1 hr.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 212 - Cultures in CrisisCourse DescriptionUsing novels, short stories, films and other media, this course focuses on significant challenges faced by, and changes initiated in, a wide range of cultures. From the perspectives of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, ability, mobility, and ongoing negotiations of identity within multicultural and im/migrant communities, course materials illuminate the complex nature of modern experience and draw attention to the important questions and concerns cultures have faced and continue to face.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:LLCustom Requisites:Not available to students in ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major programs
- ENG 222 - Fairy Tales and FantasiesCourse DescriptionStarting with the powerful images of folk tale, fairy tale, and legend, and following them through fantasies and animal tales, this course explores their evolution from oral stories for adults to literary versions for children. It will also examine the intellectual and historical influences of the periods. The material to be studied includes modern versions of the tales in print and visual media.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 223 - Literatures of Exile and MigrationCourse DescriptionRecent years have seen the largest movement of people from their homeland since WWII. We live in an era of increased mobility with national borders alternately porous and reinforced as nations welcome new refugees and immigrants or strive to keep them out. In this course, students read both fiction and nonfiction narratives about the experiences of exile and migration, and the possibilities and anxieties brought by the global movement of populations.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 204
- ENG 224 - Children's LiteratureCourse DescriptionThis course examines children's literature as a cultural category that shapes and is shaped by changing notions of "the child" and childhood. Students explore the ways in which texts directed at children's instruction and entertainment relate to their time, place, and generic form. Topics may include fiction; picture books; comics; film; and poetry.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 230 - Creativity, Writing, and Everyday LifeCourse DescriptionCreativity as a distinct practice of expression and investigation is a key function of art and learning. Students analyze the role of creativity in the making and criticism of literary objects, including poetry, short stories, novels, and more. Accounting for historical models of literary invention and other associated terms (such as genius and taste), students examine the role of creativity and its value in writing, scholarship, and the everyday circumstances of our lives.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 240 - Contours of CreativityCourse DescriptionCreativity is a process requiring everyday cultivation and practice. How, for example, do we tap the imagination or overcome writer’s block? This course involves a combination of theory and practice, intertwining critical analysis and creative expression. It involves creative practitioners and research creators who share insights into how diverse themes—such as food, sports, and fashion; illness, healing, and cultural identity—can be shaped as potent sources of creativity.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 302 - Practicum: Writing for MagazinesCourse DescriptionFrom grants, scripts and interviews to story pitches, reviews, profiles and publicity copy, professional writers in the Arts shape the sounds and sights of contemporary culture. In this experiential course, students gain first-hand experience of writing from different sectors within the Arts.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English, BA English, BA English and History Double Major and BA English and Philosophy Double Major students.
- ENG 304 - Practicum: Making Digital WorkCourse DescriptionStudents explore the potentialities of using digital tools and technologies for literary creation and literary studies through the study and discussion of scholarship concerning intersections of the digital and literary by designing and developing a digital project. Projects can take the form of digital editions, exhibits, or archives, multimedia and hypermedia writing and scholarship, interactive fiction and essays, and story-rich or serious games. Prior digital skills are not required.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English Option, BA English, English-History and English-Philosophy double major students.
- ENG 306 - Practicum: Writing PoetryCourse DescriptionThis experiential course offers students the opportunity both to study models of good poetry writing and to explore their own creative abilities. Class discussions and workshop groups are designed to enhance students' writing capacities as they participate in the creative process. Areas of discussion involve the craft of poetry, including style, prosody, poetics, revision, and self- and peer-editing.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 307 - Practicum: Writing FictionCourse DescriptionThis experiential course offers students the opportunity both to study models of good fiction writing and to explore their own creative abilities. Class discussions and workshop groups are designed to enhance students' writing capacities as they participate in the creative process. Areas of discussion involve the craft of fiction, including style, prosody, poetics, revision, and self-editing and peer-editing.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 308 - Practicum: Grammar Principles for EditorsCourse DescriptionStudents develop a strong understanding of grammar, punctuation, and the mechanics of writing with the goal of preparing for further studies or careers in copyediting and improving their writing. Students practice parsing sentences, learn language rules, analyze grammatical structure and identify common writing errors through in-class assignments, quizzes, and copyediting exercises. Students also gain background knowledge in the field of copyediting.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 340 - Practicum: Making Little MagazinesCourse DescriptionLittle magazines are non-commercial publications that foster cutting-edge content, give voice to sidelined aesthetic or social movements, and build communities among creators and readers. Students explore little magazines and zines in digital and print form to consider the role they play in the production of literary culture and community in the 21st century. Simultaneously, students discover the publishing process from editorial to design to distribution.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 390 - Practicum: Open TopicsCourse DescriptionTopics for this experiential course vary from year to year, in order to allow instructors and students to take advantage of new opportunities for applying literary knowledge. For information about the experiential and/or service learning topic each year, students should check the Department of English website or contact the Program Administrator.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 400 - Literary and Cultural TheoryCourse DescriptionCritical theory has become indispensable to the discipline of English studies today. This course is designed to familiarize the student of English literature with a wide range of theoretical debates in the discipline, challenging established notions of literature, text, and culture. The course provides students with a theoretical vocabulary with which to understand and analyse social and cultural phenomena, with particular attention to the politics of the production of knowledge and culture.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 402 - ComicsCourse DescriptionThe Comics medium is notable both for the way it employs a sophisticated "visual vocabulary," and for how the interplay between text and image allows for the presentation of time and space in unique ways. Students explore how comics challenge the conventions of narrative and artistic medium, and how the term "graphic novel" itself has sparked a contentious debate about their positioning relative to the distinction between "high" and "low" culture.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 406 - Visionary PoeticsCourse DescriptionStudents reinforce their practical and theoretical knowledge of world traditions in poetry, philosophy, and philology in relation to the creative process. Class discussion and workshop groups will ask what it means to praise and rejoice, lament and grieve, muse and dream. Student writing is enhanced by encountering strategies of unreason to sidestep logic and by developing language skills and inspiration to create poetry whose meanings appeal to non-rational readings.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 306Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English, BA English, BA English and History Double Major and BA English and Philosophy Double Major students
- ENG 407 - Writing Short StoriesCourse DescriptionThis experiential course reinforces the art and craft of short fiction writing. Students encounter diverse models of short fiction and texts on writing craft to enhance their knowledge of characterization, plot, and setting. Students write realist fiction of varying lengths, revise literary drafts, and participate in workshops to give and receive critique as they work towards preparing a culminating fiction portfolio.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 307Custom Requisites:Available only to ACS English, BA English, BA English and History double major, and English and Philosophy double major students
- ENG 409 - Literatures of the CityCourse DescriptionHow does the city change the ways that writers write and readers read? Focusing on the city as both physical and imaginary space, students examine the dynamic ways in which authors have given shape to the experience of city life in different historical periods and across various genres. Topics may include: architecture and space; city and nation; the individual and the community; anonymity and the crowd; cosmopolitanism; and intersections of race, gender, class, and power.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 413 - Literature, Empire, and ColonizationCourse DescriptionStudents study the ways in which Empire, in both its historical and ongoing manifestations, uses literary and cultural texts to shape relationships between colonized and formerly colonized peoples and Western powers. Students also explore how literary and cultural texts have been used to engage in anti-imperialist, postcolonial, and decolonizing strategies that resist and subvert colonizing practices.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 416 - American LiteraturesCourse DescriptionStudents study some of the most prominent efforts of writers to give voice and shape to the promises and perils of American experience. Situating the literature in local, national and global contexts, students critically examine the forces that have shaped past and present understandings of "America" in diverse forms and genres.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 417 - Special Topics in American LiteraturesCourse DescriptionIn this course, students engage in intensive study of a particular topic in American literature organized around a major author or work (e.g. Toni Morrison, Moby Dick), an idea (e.g. realism, cultural memory, feminism), a genre (e.g. crime fiction, the slave narrative), a historical period (e.g. the Civil War, the Beat Generation), a region (e.g. Southern literature, New York City), or a literary movement (e.g. Transcendentalism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Mountain School).Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 421 - 16C Literature and CultureCourse DescriptionThis course examines literary and cultural texts from the 16th century that capture the vibrancy of Europe as it transforms from a feudal to a modern society. Students explore works by figures such as Marlowe, Machiavelli, and Michelangelo. Topics may include the "Renaissance man," discourses of Orientalism and imperialism, evolving notions of the individual, the monarch and the state, and changing conceptions of gender and sexuality as they affect the period's literature, theatre, and art.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 422 - 17C Literature and CultureCourse DescriptionThis course examines British literature and culture of the 17th century, when England becomes the centre of the European Renaissance. Students investigate a range of genres - including poetry, prose, and drama - produced by writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, Ford, and Behn. Topics may include English culture and imperialism, the significance of English Renaissance literature in the Commonwealth, the socio-political impact of canonized texts, and the study of stage and other art forms of the period.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 430 - The History of ReadingCourse DescriptionThis course explores reading from a historical perspective, examining changing practices of and ideas about reading from the emergence of writing on clay tablets to the rise of digital media. Topics of study may include the relationship of reading to media, science and technology, public libraries and education initiatives, the publishing industry, disability and neurodiversity, identities and communities, and literary forms and genres.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 503 - Science FictionCourse DescriptionThe mythology of our civilization is the story of things to come. The prophetic visions of writers such as Asimov, Brunner, Clarke, Gibson, Heinlein, Herbert, Hogan, LeGuin, Lem and Niven offer endless playgrounds for the imagination. Their second gift is a widening vista or real alternatives: our future may be what they let us choose to make it. If you want to play an informed part in that choice, this course will provide the menu.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:ULCustom Requisites:Not available for credit to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 505 - Creative WritingCourse DescriptionThis upper-level course offers students the opportunity both to study models of good writing and to develop their own creative abilities. Class discussions and workshop groups are designed to enhance the student's understanding of the creative process, to stimulate the imagination, and to develop individual abilities. Areas of discussion include style, prosody, conflict, character, dialogue, and revision.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:ULCustom Requisites:Not available for credit to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 510 - Gothic HorrorCourse DescriptionInvented over 200 years ago, the gothic has become one of the most popular genres in literature and film. This course will explore the gothic presence in popular culture during this time. Students will analyze ways in which the genre challenges not only other cultural conventions, but also claims in the realms of art, science, and medicine. Topics to be addressed include the relation of the gothic to gender, sexuality, class, orientalism, imperialism, and criminality.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:ULAntirequisites:ENG 580Custom Requisites:Not available for credit to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 511 - The Art of Writing LifeCourse DescriptionThis course examines a variety of life-writing genres including the diary, letter, autobiography, memoir, and biography. By sampling a range of texts (both print and electronic) throughout history, students will explore diverse ways in which writers express their private and public stories about life and self. Students will gain an understanding of life-writing theory which can be used to rethink the relationships between gender and genre; fact and fiction; and art and artlessness.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:ULAntirequisites:ENG 570Custom Requisites:Not available for credit to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 515 - Madness in FictionCourse DescriptionIn this course, students examine representations of madness through the lens of fiction, considering, for example, works that depict the frustrations and constraints of institutionalization and the complex patient-therapist relationship, as well as genres such as memoir, young adult literature, and science fiction. Through weekly discussion and written assignments, students have the opportunity to bring their own perspectives to the material while also developing their analytic, critical thinking, and writing skills.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:UL
- ENG 517 - Techniques and Topics in Creative WritingCourse DescriptionIn this introductory course, students learn the foundational craft elements and major issues of one or more genres of creative writing. They write in-class and take-home exercises, read, discuss, and anatomize published writing, and participate in peer-to-peer workshops in order to refine their art of self-expression and communication. Students also immerse themselves in topics animating contemporary writing, such as originality, citation, intertextuality, and writing in the digital age.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 520 - The Language of PersuasionCourse DescriptionWhat makes a political speech "good"? Why are some advertisements more effective than others? This course focuses on the crucial role of rhetoric in cultural communication: the means through which language is mobilized to persuasive ends. Students learn a critical vocabulary drawn from a variety of perspectives and explore persuasion in contemporary discourse, including print and online media, television, film, public events, and art, in order to understand how language achieves its most powerful effects.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 522 - Crime FictionCourse DescriptionThe rise and continuing popularity of fiction focusing on the commission, solving, and redressing of crimes can be seen as a response to significant social and scientific changes occurring since the nineteenth century and continuing into the present. In this course, students examine the history, development, and uses of stories of crime, mystery, and detection in various media. Offerings may provide a broad survey of the genre or focus on one or more significant sub-genres.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:UL
- ENG 527 - Digital Media and StoryCourse DescriptionThe digital media that we interact with everyday are forms of literary objects. Our society tells stories on digital platforms and through digital fabrications. In this course, students learn how to think and write critically at the intersections of Digital Humanities, literary studies, and cultural criticism about digital narrative and literary works. Through the study of digital media, literature, and culture, students study pressing topics in diverse forms of storytelling.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:UL
- ENG 529 - Controversies in Public DiscourseCourse DescriptionHow do controversies arise in public discourse? Who participates in them, what arguments do they use, and what are their effects? Students study a specific controversy on topics such as medicine, the environment, social policy, or race to define its rhetorical situation, identify key stakeholders, and evaluate arguments in diverse genres or media. Students practice strategies of advocacy, and learn how communication practices and ethics in public discourse shape civic knowledge, human belief, and action.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 530 - Literary Non-FictionCourse DescriptionThis course examines forms of literary non-fiction such as essays, travel writing, journalism, and biography. Students explore how such works - in their artfulness, seriousness of ideas, and promise of authenticity - represent, persuasively and often polemically, the complexities of modern human experience.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 531 - 18C Literature and CultureCourse DescriptionEighteenth-century literature and culture introduces many traditions that we describe as quintessentially of our own time. Students explore the eighteenth century as the beginning of "modernity." Topics may include globalization; feminism; middle class culture and the novel; the Gothic and sensibility; notions of sex, gender, ethnicity, and nationality; and philosophies of the individual.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 532
- ENG 540 - The NovelCourse DescriptionWhat does it mean for a novel to tell its story in the form of a picaresque, an epistolary exchange, or as speculative or experimental fiction? This course offers an in-depth exploration of the novel in its many genres, drawing examples from different historical periods, cultural traditions, and literary movements. In addition to studying theoretical approaches to the novel, students examine how writers have developed and responded to its generic conventions.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 548 - Parenting, Media, and CultureCourse DescriptionThis course focuses on representations of parenting from diverse historical, geographical, and intersectional positions. By examining content from literature, magazines, film, TV, and social media, students explore how maternal and paternal experiences, roles, and identities (i.e., heteronormative, queer, trans, and racialized) are rendered in relation to traditional ideologies of “good” and “bad” caregiving, and to contemporary preoccupations with topics like the “mommy wars,” the “new masculinity,” “helicopter” parenting, and celebrity role models.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 550 - DramaCourse DescriptionThe word "drama" derives from the Greek term for "to do" or "achieve": this course considers texts designed to come alive on stage. The diversity of dramatic forms is explored through in-depth study of texts from different historical periods and cultures. Students examine questions related to the script, its performance, and its reception, as well as the ways in which the material and social conditions have influenced the development of the genre.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 560 - Poetry and PoeticsCourse DescriptionAncient bards, sonneteers, rappers; nursery rhymes, love lyrics, inauguration odes: poetry has always been part of lived experience. This course considers the poetics, politics, and social practices that produce new forms of creative responses in poetry. Examining a range of poetic strategies and genres selected from different historical periods, cultural locations, and literary movements, students investigate how artistic tensions, traditions, and formal challenges are posed by writers who continually attempt to enhance the art's potential.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 570 - Auto/BiographyCourse DescriptionThis course examines autobiographical writings (including the diary,memoir, and letter) and biography (including literary and popular forms), and the connections between them. The study of life-writing sources may also include print and electronic sources, as well as film, photography, visual art, and performance art. Critical and theoretical readings are introduced to analyze issues including genre, aesthetics, identity, veracity, and commerce.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 511
- ENG 577 - Getting the Word Out: PublishingCourse DescriptionStudents are introduced to topics related to the writing life after the writing ends. How do you prepare a manuscript? What is the publishing process? How do writers connect to audiences? Geared towards aspiring writers and publishing professionals, students encounter a range of texts on the publishing and creative industry, to develop best practices in and knowledge of literary markets, manuscript preparation, grant application, literary professionalization, and community formation.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 580 - The GothicCourse DescriptionEver since it rose from 18th-century popular consciousness like a mummy from the crypt, the gothic has spread its frightening spawn across populations and cultures around the world. This course will explore and theorize various manifestations of the gothic and its sociopolitical functions over a broad span of time. Texts may include graveyard poetry, horror film, southern gothic, and goth culture. Issues to be addressed may include xenophobia, sexual diversity, ethnic migrations and animality.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 510
- ENG 590 - Studies in Word and ImageCourse DescriptionFrom illuminated manuscripts to graphic novels, words have always been accompanied by images that combine aesthetic design with intellectual expressiveness. This course examines the ways in which visual/verbal relations have changed in different times and places, and interrogates the complex inter-relationships of technology, style, form, and culture. Topics vary but may include illumination, emblems, chapbooks, illustrated magazines and periodicals, illustrated books, picture books, graphic novels, comics, and hypertext.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 602 - Women's WritingCourse DescriptionWhat does it mean to "write as a woman"? Is there such a thing as "women's writing" and if so, what are its characteristics? This course explores the ways in which women have contributed to literary traditions both by working within and by challenging mainstream movements. In examining women's use of literary forms as aesthetic, personal and political sites, we will consider how issues of identity and historical context inflect and inform their writing strategies.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:ULAntirequisites:ENG 621Custom Requisites:Not available to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 610 - The Language of Love, Sex and GenderCourse DescriptionLove, sex, and gender are fluid and complex. Looking at stories, novels, films, and other types of texts, students will analyse the impact of literature, popular culture, and aesthetics on the formation of new notions of gender, sexuality, and desire. Emphasis will be placed on a consideration of the cultural and sociopolitical influences that contributed to these changes and on the possibility of affections, sexualities, and genders that may not yet have names.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:ULAntirequisites:ENG 941Custom Requisites:Not available to ACS English Option, BA English, English-Philosophy and English-History double major program students.
- ENG 611 - Film and LiteratureCourse DescriptionStudents explore the longstanding and ongoing interaction between global cinema and literatures by studying a variety of literary and cultural texts in relation to cinema. Global cinematic movements and genres such as Silent cinema, Classical Hollywood cinema, German Expressionism, Surrealism, Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, American/Spaghetti Western, Feminist Film, Postmodern, Postcolonial, Bollywood cinema will be analyzed alongside literary and theoretical texts to understand the dialogue between Film and Literature in an increasingly globalized world.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 620 - Literatures of the CaribbeanCourse DescriptionÉdouard Glissant referred to the Caribbean Independence movement (1960s -1980s) as “notre passé de tempête”—“our tempest years.” Social and political storms have marked the history of the Caribbean since first encounters with Western colonizers. Other upheavals (race and injustice, forced and economic migrations) significantly shaped Caribbean societies and diasporas. In this course, students enhance critical thinking by considering how various art forms have responded to these upheavals, and to Caribbean resistance and reclamation.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:UL
- ENG 621 - Women's Texts, Global ContextsCourse DescriptionThis course introduces students to literary and cultural works by women writers across the globe. Students will read and discuss narratives by writers from a range of backgrounds, paying particular attention to the ways in which "women" and "gender" as political and cultural categories are constructed through the vectors of race, culture, politics, and sexuality.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 602
- ENG 623 - Film/Literature: Middle East,North AfricaCourse DescriptionStudents explore the work of writers and filmmakers from the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region. Texts may come from authors living in both the diaspora and those still within the region. Students develop an understanding of MENA literatures and cultures through critical analyses and discussions of literary texts and films. Some texts are in English translation, and some films are English subtitled. Prior knowledge about the region is not required.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 624 - 20C Literature and CultureCourse DescriptionTwentieth-century literature and culture is characterized by extraordinary innovation, vibrancy, and diversity. In this momentous period, many lived by the maxim "make it new," while others reconnected with tradition in the face of unprecedented changes in technology, politics, and popular culture. Students explore central ideas and historical pressures underlying twentieth-century cultural production by studying responses of modernist and postmodernist artists, writers, and filmmakers to the chaotic upheavals and opportunities that defined their world.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 626
- ENG 632 - 19C Literature and CultureCourse DescriptionFrom Romanticism to the emergence of modernism, nineteenth-century British literature and culture are characterized by revolutionary new ways of understanding the individual and society. Students examine how diverse literary and visual texts shaped and responded to changing social conditions, ideologies, and media. Topics may include science and the supernatural; the neo-gothic; childhood; nature and ecology; gender, race, and class; consumer culture; decadence and aestheticism; emerging technology; and imperialism.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 633
- ENG 634 - Romantic ExplorationsCourse DescriptionStudents study the period 1780-1830 in depth, through a variety of visual, literary and material artifacts. Specific themes and topics relevant to this time of rapid social and cultural change may include: narratives of travel and exploration; the imagination and the sublime; nature, climate and ecology; the city; childhood; gender and sexuality; revolutionary politics;slavery, race and empire.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 635 - ModernismCourse DescriptionStudents examine the literatures, movements, and cultures of transatlantic Modernism (1885-1945). Canonical fiction, poetry, and autobiography is studied alongside the political manifestos, magazines, advertisements, and newspapers of the period. Digital recovery projects supplement print materials to provide a comprehensive introduction to high-art and mass-mediated texts of the era.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 640 - Literatures of Asia and its DiasporasCourse DescriptionIn this course, students are introduced to literature written by and about people across time periods and geographic spaces. Students explore forms and conventions of Asian literary works and consider questions pertaining to Asian cultures and the formation of Asian subjectivities. The course may be organized thematically or by specific geographical location.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 630
- ENG 647 - Afrofuturism: Black 2 the FutureCourse DescriptionWhat do Janelle Monae's android, the technology of Wakanda, and fiction about a woman who time travels to the plantation that enslaved her ancestors have in common? They express Afrofuturism, a Black aesthetic that employs science and speculative fiction tropes. In fiction, film, music, and art, students explore how Afrofuturism enables resistance to marginalization of Black experiences in the past, present, and future, and engages with the sociohistorical and political forces that shape Black communities.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Liberal Studies:UL
- ENG 650 - Indigenous World ViewsCourse DescriptionThrough experiential, land-based, and interactive learning, students develop an understanding of Indigenous philosophy, world view, and Ways of Knowing. Students actively engage with epistemological concepts through participation and embodied learning. Elders and guest speakers from Toronto’s Indigenous community will share their stories and experiences, thereby providing a depth of understanding that allows students to make a personal connection between Indigenous lived experience and concepts discussed in class.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 653 - Black Literatures and CulturesCourse DescriptionStudents explore a wide range of literatures produced by authors and critics throughout the Black diaspora that examine how Blackness is articulated, claimed, challenged, and produced. From Negro spirituals, to hip hop; from slave narratives to Afro-futurism; from early community newspapers to contemporary podcasts -- students enhance their critical skills by exploring the roots and routes of Black literary expressions. This course may be organized thematically or by specific geographical location.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 662 - Shiny Writing: The Editing ProcessCourse DescriptionStyle, focus, purpose, and expression: these are some of the terms associated with published texts in a variety of literary and cultural situations. Students are introduced to literary editing -- from substantive editing to proofreading -- in a variety of formats, with emphasis on the transition of writing from invention to publication. Skills in reading, revision, and analysis are enhanced through application to the publication process in print and digital media.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 680 - The Art of Oral StorytellingCourse DescriptionThrough the process of crafting stories, students experiment with various styles and techniques such as use of humour, disruption of time and space, digression, and multiple points of view. Students develop characters, structure narrative, and learn to connect with their audience. Students hone oral, visual, and written communication skills through story performance, peer critique, and creative collaboration. Storytelling applications in business, marketing, branding, and public relations are explored.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 110
- ENG 701 - Canadian LiteraturesCourse DescriptionHow does a national literature reflect on its people? Works studied in this course may include various genres from colonial to contemporary times. Students examine critically Canada's national identity, as well as issues of language, gender, class, and ethnicity in the articulation of a national culture. This course considers how writers capture and captivate Canada (or not) in the imagination, and may examine literature in relation to film, music, and criticism.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 703 - Popular LiteraturesCourse DescriptionStudents will learn to recognize and identify different conventions defining genres of popular literature such as romance and sensation; gothic and horror; and melodrama. The course will explore the relationship between texts and audiences, and how readers assign meaning to and make use of what they read. Students will study the origins of today's popular genres in books and other media and the sociocultural values embodied in such works.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 112
- ENG 705 - Studies in Visual CulturesCourse DescriptionBy exploring the ways images in photography, painting and film, as well as in literary and non-literary writing, are scripted and can be read as text, this course seeks to show how visuality organizes and shapes Western culture. Topics can include how such things as the invention of perspective and the visual technologies of photography and film have influenced philosophy and literature, and how the culture industries have used the visual as a tool to influence and entertain.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 706 - Shakespeare and PerformanceCourse DescriptionShakespearean drama was an important medium for entertainment and for reflecting contemporary socio-political realities on stage. A mark of Shakespeare's continued relevance and popularity is the constant remaking of his plays in a variety of media. This course analyses the textual, thematic, historical, and theoretical readings of Shakespearean drama. Students explore a variety of adaptations, including folk performance, early-modern theatre, television, and film.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 707 - Shakespeare and His WorldCourse DescriptionStudents critically examine Shakespeare's work in the context of the Renaissance world. A diversity of texts, such as comedy, tragedy, romance, problem play, and love poetry are analyzed in relation to literary and historical sources, theatrical history, dramaturgical forms, and the social, religious and political context of the Renaissance.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 710 - Special Topics in Canadian LiteraturesCourse DescriptionWhat kind of topics fascinate Canadian writers? Students explore special topics in Canadian Literatures. Topics vary from year to year but may be organized thematically, regionally, stylistically, historically or around the work of a specific author. For information about the topic each year, students should check the Department of English website or contact the Program Administrator.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 730 - Cultures of the BookCourse DescriptionFrom cuneiform tablets and birch bark scrolls to medieval codices and from paperbacks and books on tape to e-readers, text technologies have played important roles in many cultures. This course explores the history of the book and adjacent text technologies, and it looks at how these technologies have shaped and been shaped by authorship, reading, publishing, and politics at different times and in different places. Subjects include the production, composition, circulation, interpretation, reception, management, and destruction of material texts.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 810 - Approaches to English ResearchCourse DescriptionLiterary critics produce original scholarship by working with primary and secondary materials, which may include archival, bibliographic, digital, and ethnographic resources. Students develop their own scholarly practices by engaging with archives and completing a series of applied and research-oriented assignments that enable them to situate a literary work in its moment of production and reception.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 208
- ENG 820 - Open Topics in Literature and CultureCourse DescriptionTopics for this lecture course vary from year to year, in order to allow instructors and students to take advantage of new opportunities for applying literary knowledge. For information about the topics offered each year, students should check the Department of English website or contact the Program Administrator.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 904 - Independent Research PaperCourse DescriptionStudents are provided individualized supervision in the selection of a topic, the planning and implementation of a research plan, and the writing of a research paper. Students must have a minimum 80 percent cumulative average in their best six ENG courses and department consent of the program prior to enrolling in this course.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 907 - Independent Research ProjectCourse DescriptionStudents are provided with individualized supervision in the selection, planning, and implementation of an experiential project. Students showcase their literary, cultural, and research skills, and may liaise with local and national archives, institutions, businesses, and media in the development of their individual projects. Students must have a minimum 80 percent cumulative average in their best six ENG courses and department consent of the program prior to enrolling in this course.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 910 - English Capstone SeminarCourse DescriptionThis required capstone seminar offers in-depth study of a specialized topic in a discussion-based setting. Students are guided in the development of advanced research, presentation, and writing skills and are required to write a major research paper. Course content varies according to the instructor's expertise. Students must have successfully completed ENG 400 in order to receive departmental consent to take this course.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 911 - Creative Writing CapstoneCourse DescriptionThis capstone seminar offers an in-depth study of a specialized creative writing and/or culture industry topic in a discussion-based setting. Students learn advanced writing techniques, develop their writing voices, critically engage with literature, collaborate in workshops, and prepare a final portfolio of creative and research-based work. Course content varies according to the instructor's expertise. Students must have successfully completed ENG 400 in order to receive department consent to take this course. See teaching department for consent criteria.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 921 - Narrative in a Digital AgeCourse DescriptionThis course explores how contemporary writers and artists have attempted to come to terms with the so-called post-print era - a historical moment characterized by the strategies of fragmentation and recombination that digital hyperspaces make possible. By analysing digital texts and the work of cultural theorists on the nature and impact of this new medium, students will address the implications of the rise of computing and the internet for the future of literary and other cultural practices.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00
- ENG 941 - Gender and Sex in Literature and CultureCourse DescriptionWe are surrounded by representations that both enable and prescribe how we interpret gender and sex. Students explore how popular culture, inter-personal communication, literature, film, and other media construct gender, sexuality, and desire. Students consider concepts such as non-binary and transgender identities, masculinities/femininities, and poly-sexuality through the cultural, social, and political influences that contribute to how we imagine ourselves as gendered beings.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110Antirequisites:ENG 610
- ENG 942 - Decolonizing LiteratureCourse DescriptionStudents engage in in-depth analysis of theories, debates, and practices surrounding the emergence and ongoing relevance of postcolonial, or decolonizing, literatures. Students explore how such literature challenges oppressive imperial and colonial social and political structures in the West. Students also make connections between postcolonial concepts and anti-oppression vocabularies and practices, and connect cultural texts to ongoing struggles for equity, political, and social justice.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00Prerequisites:ENG 108 or ENG 110
- ENG 960 - InternshipCourse DescriptionAn internship credit allows students to explore careers and combine disciplinary knowledge with professional/practical experience applied in an employment context. With prior approval (which must be obtained one semester in advance), this course may be used in connection with student obtained internships, employment at public or private agencies, or other appropriate businesses and organizations within the Arts or related sectors. The course includes a required writing component and is graded on a pass/fail basis. See teaching department for consent criteria.Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.GPA Weight:1.00Billing Units:1Count:1.00