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English and Philosophy Core Elective Table II
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 must complete four (4) English courses from Table II.
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 548 Parenting, Media and Culture
- ENG 550 Drama
- 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
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.
Non-advanced courses:
- 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 202 Philosophy of Technology
- PHL 210 Introduction to Indian Philosophy
- PHL 212 Introductory Logic
- PHL 306 Freedom, Equality, Limits of Authority
- PHL 307 Business Ethics
- 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 449 Philosophy of Punishment
- PHL 500 Philosophy of the Natural Environment
- PHL 501 Oppression and the Critique of Power
- PHL 504 Philosophy of Art
- PHL 505* Hegel and Marx
- 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 565 Topics in Indigenous Philosophy
- 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
NOTE: *Course can be used as an advanced course for students admitted Fall 2022 and before.
Advanced courses:
- PHL 502 Aristotle
- PHL 506 Early Modern Rationalism
- PHL 508 The Empiricists
- PHL 511 Kant
- PHL 512 Philosophy of the Emotions
- PHL 513 Phenomenology
- PHL 514 Mind and Agency
- PHL 515 Seminar in Metaphysics and Epistemology
- PHL 517 Special Topics Seminar
- PHL 600 Classic Readings in Analytic Philosophy
- PHL 601 Classic Readings in Continental Philosophy
- PHL 603 Fundamentals of Ethics
- PHL 607 Contemporary Continental Philosophy
- PHL 630 Metaethics
- PHL 642 Psychoanalysis
- PHL 650 Beyond Classical Logic
- PHL 675 Hannah Arendt
- PHL 680 Critical Theory
- PHL 690 Contemporary French Philosophy
- PHL 700 Meta-Philosophy
- PHL 707 Plato
- PHL 711 Language, Meaning and Truth
- PHL 714 Philosophy of Biology
- PHL 718 Seminar in Ethics
- PHL 732 Seminar in Political Philosophy
- PHL 752 German Idealism
- PHL 757 Major Figures in Western Philosophy
- PHL 758 Major Figures in Eastern Philosophy
- PHL 770 Law and Rights
- PHL 780 Continental Philosophy of Religion
- PHL 790 Decolonial Theory
- PHL 802 Project in Applied Philosophy
- PHL 803 Philosophy Engaging Communities
- PHL 900 Senior Philosophy Seminar
- PHL 910 Senior Philosophy Seminar
- PHL 923 Philosophy of Religion II
- PHL 950 Directed Research Course