English and History Core Elective Table II
NOTE: Every course will not be offered every semester.
English Courses
Students must complete a minimum of four (4) English courses from Table II.
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.
Media + Cultural Studies
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
- ENG 911 Creative Writing Capstone
Rhetoric, Writing + Culture
Genre Studies
- ENG 222 Fairy Tales and Fantasies
- ENG 224 Children's Literature
- ENG 402 Comics
- ENG 540 The Novel
- ENG 550 Drama
- ENG 548 Parenting, Media and Culture
- ENG 560 Poetry and Poetics
- ENG 570 Auto/Biography
- ENG 580 The Gothic
- ENG 530 Literary Non-Fiction
- ENG 707 Shakespeare and His World
- ENG 820 Open Topics in Literature and Culture
Independent Study
History Courses
HISTORY COURSES: Minimum of five (5) courses:
HST courses (numbered between HST 500-899) may be substituted. In total, a maximum of four (4) liberal studies HST courses may be substituted for HIS courses.
- HIS 500 History and New Media
- HIS 501 Archaeology and Material Culture
- HIS 502 Life Stories: Oral History
- HIS 510 Museology and Public History
- HIS 541 Canada and the First World War
- HIS 556 Colonial Africa
- HIS 559 The World of Ancient Egypt
- HIS 560 History of Ancient Egypt
- HIS 561 The Ottoman Empire
- HIS 590 Modern International Relations
- HIS 594 War to War: World Conflict, 1900-45
- HIS 610 Curating the Past
- HIS 615 Film, Television and 20th C History
- HIS 620 Imperial Russia
- HIS 630 The Soviet Union
- HIS 656 Post-Colonial Africa
- HIS 661 The Middle East from 1908
- HIS 662 The Mughal Empire, 1526-1764
- HIS 677 Society in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1500
- HIS 678 The Renaissance in Europe
- HIS 683 Victorian Britain
- HIS 696 The History of Terrorism
- HIS 710 Museum and Heritage Management
- HIS 742 Canadian Cultural Industries
- HIS 755 Themes in Material Culture
- HIS 760 African Diaspora
- HIS 762 The Making of Modern South Asia, 1757-1947
- HIS 783 20th-Century Britain
- HIS 790 Modern Germany
- HIS 826 Science and World Exploration
- HIS 828 Science, Corporations and the Environment
- HIS 830 The Indian Act: 1876-Present
- HIS 845 Canada in the International Sphere
- HIS 854 African-American History
- HIS 886 The British Empire and the World
- HIS 898 A History of International Organizations
- HIS 900 Experiential Learning I
- HIS 901 Experiential Learning II