Course Descriptions
Not all courses described in the Course and Program Catalogue are offered each year. For a timetable of courses offered in 2013-2014, please consult the online registration information.
As of 2005-2006, certain course abbreviations have changed. Students with credit for a course under its
former label may not take the relabeled course for credit.
The following conventions are used for course numbering:
- 010-099 represent non-degree level courses
- 100-699 represent undergraduate degree level courses
- 700-999 represent graduate degree level courses
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ENG 110.6 — 1&2(3L)Literature and Composition
An introduction to the main kinds of literature. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 111.3 — 1/2(3L)Literature and Composition Reading Poetry
An introduction to the major forms of poetry in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 112.3 — 1/2(3L)Literature and Composition Reading Drama
An introduction to major forms of dramatic activity in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 113.3 — 1/2(3L)Literature and Composition Reading Narrative
An introduction to the major forms of narrative literature in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 114.3 — 1/2(3L)Literature and Composition Reading Culture
An introduction to historical and contemporary cultural forms in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-Level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 202.6 — 1&2(3L)Reading Canon Texts and Contexts
A survey of English literature with primary emphasis on the historical development of the British canon (including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Austen, for example), with some attention to the critical issues raised by the concept of "canon" itself, to non-canonical writers, and to other literatures in English.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 200 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 203.6 — 1&2(3L)Reading English Critical Approaches
An introduction to the major critical perspectives on reading literature, with particular emphasis on the 20th century. The course will typically explore a number of critical approaches to reading and test them on a selection of literary works.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 282 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 204.6 — 1&2(3L)History and Future of the Book
An introductory history of the concept and technology of the book. The course focuses on the development of the book as a vehicle of communication and on its ideological and political impact, with some attention to the emergence and consequences of digital platforms such as e-mail, the web, and electronic books.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
ENG 206.3 — 1/2(3L)An Introduction to Cultural Studies
Cultural studies is the exploration of "culture," what Raymond Williams calls nothing less than "one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language." Cultural studies analyzes the artistic, social, political, and historical texts and objects that help construct our contemporary lives, and it assumes that such objects go well beyond "mere entertainment" and affect deeply how we perceive class, race, gender, and other markers of identity. As an introduction to the theory and practice of cultural studies, this course will familiarize students with some of the most important thinkers and methodologies in the field and will allow students to use some of the tools of critical analysis to analyze different forms of cultural production, including literature, popular culture, and print and electronic media.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English.
ENG 207.3 — 1/2(3L)Decolonizing Literatures and Their Cultural and Expressive Contexts
An introduction to one of the decolonizing world's Anglophone literatures and its cultural and expressive contexts and to the theory of literary decolonization. Among the literatures on which the course could be focussed are those of the Indian subcontinent, sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Australia and New Zealand.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
ENG 209.3 — 1/2(3L)Transnational Literatures
An introduction to literatures written between histories, geographies, and cultural practices and produced at the borders of nations and languages/lects, when authors move from one national and/or linguistic context to another, or when peoples are dispersed from their original homelands and settle in diasporic socio-cultural formations.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
ENG 215.3 — 1/2(3L)Life Writing
A study of the forms that Life Writing has taken from the Middle Ages to the present, with attention to such issues as constructions of the self, themes, language, and audience.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 370 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 217.3 — 1/2(3L)Mythologies of Northern Europe
A study of the mythology of medieval northern Europe, including a survey of the sources, an examination of several chief deities and myths associated with them, and a consideration of some old northern European literary evidence.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 317 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 221.6 — 1&2(3L)Shakespeare
A general course in Shakespeare's plays.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 321 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 226.3 — 1/2(3L)Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
Examines literary genres that explore alternative worlds, experiment with the bounds of the real, and challenge the norms of reading. The course moves from precursors in legend, folktale, and romance, to Victorian fantasy, science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, and late 20-Century feminist revisionary narratives.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level English.
ENG 232.3 — 1/2(3L)Gothic Narrative
This course will trace the Gothic mode, in its various forms, from its origins in Britain in the 1760s through its assimilation into mainstream literature in the nineteenth century and beyond.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 332 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 233.3 — 1/2(3L)Page and Stage
Will examine English drama in performance and will be offered in conjunction with the offerings of one of Saskatoon's theatre companies. It will focus on dramaturgy, staging, and interpretation through performance and will involve live performances, film adaptations, lecture and class discussion, seminar reports, and guest lectures from theatre professionals and drama scholars.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101; or permission of department.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 333 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 242.3 — 1/2(3L)Indigenous Storytelling of the Prairies
A study of the aboriginal storytelling traditions in the prairie region, including oral traditions and written literature.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 342 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 246.3 — 1/2(3L)Short Fiction
Examines the development of short fiction from its origins in myth, fable, and folktale to its flourishing in the 19th and 20th Centuries. While some attention will be paid to works in translation, the emphasis will be on writing in English.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 346 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 253.6 — 1&2(3L)Canadian Literature in English
A survey of English-Canadian literature (principally poetry and fiction), with emphasis on the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 351 or 352 or 353 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 260.3 — 1/2(3L)Crime and Detective Fiction
Through the study of novels, short stories, critical essays, and historical documents, this course explores the roots of the modern detective story, its “golden age” consolidation in the 1920s and 30s, and its recent variations.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level English.
ENG 277.3 — 1/2(3L)Literary Uses of Mythology
An introduction to the theory of myth and selected examples of the classical and other myths most frequently adapted and reinterpreted in literature in English. Emphasizes the ways in which different writers can find quite different kinds of significance in the same myth.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
ENG 278.3 — 1&2(3L)English Satire
A study of selected satire in English.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 378 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 281.6 — 1&2(3L)Feminist Critical Theory and Literature by Women
Several contemporary feminist critical approaches will be used to analyze writings by women from various parts of the English-speaking world.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
ENG 284.3 — 1/2(3L)Beowulf and Tales of Northern Heroes
A study of Beowulf in Modern English Translation, including extensive consideration of its cultural and literary backgrounds, and readings in related or pertinent heroic narratives, primarily of North Germanic origin.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 384 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 286.3 — 1/2(3L)Courtly Love and Medieval Romance
An examination of romantic love, chivalry, and the family during the Middle Ages. The course will focus on a number of medieval romances, but will also cover many areas of women's cultural expression, including musical composition and mystical visions, and the tensions between the various forms of medieval women's experience and models of clerical authority.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 386 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 288.3 — 1/2(2L-2P)Introduction to Film
A brief introduction to film aesthetics and history.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units 100-level ENG and INTS 101.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 388 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 290.6 — 1&2(3L)Introduction to English Linguistics and History of English Language
An introduction to English linguistics with special attention to the history of the English language, its Germanic origins, and its development as a world language.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or 3 credit units of 100-level ENG and INTS; or LING 111; or a senior course in a language.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 390 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 298.3 — 1/2(3L)Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.
ENG 299.6 — 1&2(3L)Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.
ENG 300.3 — 3LNew Directions in English Research
Explores cutting-edge research taught by a senior PhD candidate, overseen by a faculty mentor. Students will engage not only with ground-breaking topics, issues, and sources, but also with the process by which scholars of English literature choose topics and develop research, writing and teaching strategies.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 301.3 — 1/2(3L)Anglo Saxon Language and Culture
Discussion of the importance of Old English language and literature for the Anglo-Saxon culture of early medieval England. Investigation of this language as foundation for the development of English. Introductory study of texts such as Beowulf and writers such as King Alfred.
Formerly: ENG 208
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 208 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 305.3 — 1/2(3L)Canadian Fiction from Beginnings to 1960
A study of the development of Canadian fiction in English, including some non-fictional prose, from the end of the 18th century to 1960.
Prerequisite(s) or Co-requisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 352 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 307.3 — 1(3L)Digital Literature and New Media
An introduction to digital narrative, poetry, and media theory. This course investigates the ways in which text, language, and writing have been used in creative and experimental digital media, including artworks and installations, e-literature and e-poetry, video games, websites, and so on. Students will read a variety of digital works alongside critical readings in new media theory and practice.
Prerequisite(s): 42 credit units at the university.
ENG 308.3 — 1(6S)Creative Nonfiction I
An introductory seminar/workshop in the basic techniques and methods of writing creative nonfiction. By examining the works of established writers, studying craft and history, engaging in workshop discussions, and producing a portfolio, students will be prepared to move forward to the advanced study of creative nonfiction.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English and permission of the instructor.
ENG 309.3 — 2(6S)Creative Nonfiction II
An advanced course for those with prior experience in the craft of writing creative nonfiction. Students will read and practice writing vigorous and compelling work. Mentorship is central; the instructor will aid students in compiling individual reading lists as they write and workshop intensive projects of their own devising.
Prerequisite(s): successful completion of 6 credit units of 100-level English; a portfolio of 1500-2000 words and permission of the instructor.
ENG 310.3 — 1/2(3L)Old English Literature
A study of several poems and some prose passages in Old English, including elegies, battle narratives, and a more extensive consideration of Beowulf than in English 201, including its backgrounds and analogues.
Formerly: ENG 208
Prerequisite(s): ENG 301.3.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 208 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 311.3 — 1/2(3L)Chaucer
An introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with principal attention to 'The Canterbury Tales'.
Formerly: ENG 212
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 212 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 313.3 — 1/2(3L)English Literature 1100 to 1500
An introduction to later medieval literature in English, including romances such as 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', allegories such as 'Piers Plowman', religious prose such as 'Ancrene Wisse', and shorter poems such as the Harley Lyrics.
Formerly: ENG 212
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 212 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 314.3 — 1/2(3L)Early British Drama
An introduction to the varieties of drama produced in the British Isles up to the inception of permanent theatres in late 16th-century London.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 316.3 — 1/2(3L)Literature at the End of the Middle Ages
An introduction to the study of late-medieval literature and social change, with attention to topics such as Caxton and the coming of print, the Book of Margery Kempe and women's writing, Lollard writings and the Reformation, or national identity and Older Scots poetry.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 318.3 — 1/2(3L)Renaissance and Reformation
Renaissance literature flourished in the Tudor court and the Thomas More circle until the Reformation made books a battlefield for public opinion. After the Elizabethan Settlement, English writers laid the foundations for the age of Shakespeare. This course surveys poetry and prose in its historical contexts from 1485 to 1578.
Formerly: ENG 320.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English, History or Classics.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 320 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 319.3 — 1/2(3L)The Elizabethan Age
The Elizabethan younger generation, including Sidney and Spenser, experimented with courtly and popular traditions to create Renaissance literature that defined England in relation to its neighbors and the New World. This course surveys poetry and prose in its historical contexts from 1579 to 1603.
Formerly: ENG 320.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 320 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 322.3 — 1/2(3L)17th Century Literature to 1640
Covering prose and especially poetry up to the beginning of the English civil war, this course examines both sacred and secular literature. It explores shifting trends in authorship (coterie and professional poets, and the emergence of female authors in print) and new genres of prose writing, most notably the essay.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 325 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 323.3 — 1/2(3L)17th Century Literature after 1640
Covering prose and especially poetry written during and immediately following the English civil war, this course examines both sacred and secular literature, exploring literary responses to political, social and religious upheaval. The highlight of the course is a careful study of Milton's Paradise Lost.
Prerequisite(s) or Co-requisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 325 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 324.3 — 1/2(3L)Early Modern Drama
A study of English drama, 1580-1640, including such playwrights as Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, and Ford. The course will investigate the philosophies, techniques, power, and popularity associated with Tudor, Stuart, and Caroline plays.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 327.3 — 1/2(3L)English Drama 1660 to 1737
A study of the drama of the Restoration and the 18th Century, emphasizing the comedy of manners, but also dealing with dramatic genres particular to the period.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 330.3 — 1/2(3L)British and Irish Literature 1900 to 1950
A study of poetry, drama, and prose in relation to the histroical and political contexts of Britain and Ireland in the first half of the 20th century. Authors may include Sitwell, Sassoon, Yeats, Auden, Shaw, Synge, Joyce, Forster, Lawrence, Woolf, Sayers, Waugh, Orwell.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 331.3 — 1/2(3L)Literature of the Romantic Period
A study of British literature from 1780 to 1830, examining the nature of Romanticism and the usefulness of the term "Romantic," and emphasizing the works of such writers as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 334.3 — 1/2(3L)Prose and Poetry of Victorian Period
A study of the period 1830-1890, with emphasis on such prose writers as Carlyle, J. S. Mill, Newman, Huxley, Arnold and Pater, and such poets as Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Hopkins.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 335.3 — 1/2(3L)The Emergence of Aboriginal Literature in Canada
Examines the emergence of written literature among Aboriginal people in Canada from first contact to the 1970s. Attention will be paid to how and why Aboriginal people took up literacy and literature and to the distinctive forms of writing that emerged.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 336.3 — 1/2(3L)Restoration and 18th Century Literature to 1740
A study of English literature from 1660 to 1740, with emphasis upon major writers such as Gay, Dryden, Behn, Swift, Haywood, Wortley Montagu, and Pope.
Prerequisite(s) or Co-requisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 328 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 337.3 — 1/2(3L)18th Century Literature after 1740
A study of English literature after 1740, with emphasis upon major writers such as Gray, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Sterne, Burney, and Burke.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 328 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 338.3 — 1/2(3L)Contemporary North American Aboriginal Literatures
A suvey of Aboriginal literature from 1968 to the present, examining the explosion of Aboriginal writing in the United States and in Canada during that period. Drawing on a range of genres, we will investigate the causes of this literary "renaissance" and the literary forms that have emerged from it.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 341.3 — 1/2(3L)The British Novel 1850 to 1900
A study of the development of the British novel, beginning with the mature work of Charles Dickens and George Eliot, and culminating in the late century work of authors such as Meredith, Hardy, Stevenson, and Wilde.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 374 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 343.3 — 1/2(3L)American Literature to 1865
A survey of American literature from the 17th century to the end of the Civil War, with particular emphasis on 19th-century writers.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 354.6 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 344.3 — 1(3L)American Literature 1865 to 1914
A survey of American literature and literary movements from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of WWI.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 355.6 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 345.3 — 1/2(3L)American Literature 1914 to 1960
A survey of American literature and literary movements from WWI to the rise of the civil rights movement, including, at the discretion of the instructor, a consideration of the contribution of the American cinema to literary traditon.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 356.6 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 347.3 — 1/2(3L)American Literature Since 1960
A survey of American literature and literary movements from the Vietnam era to the present, including, at the discretion of the instructor, a consideration of the contribution of the American cinema to literary tradition.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 355.6 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 348.3 — 1/2(3L)Modern Drama 1870 to 1950
A study of modern dramatic works and movements from 1870 to 1950, primarily British and American. Among the dramatists whose work may be examined are Wilde, Ibsen, Shaw, Synge, O'Neill, and Glaspell.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 380 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 349.3 — 1/2(3L)Contemporary Drama 1950 to Present
A study of dramatic works and movements since 1950, primarily British and American. Among the playwrights whose work may be examined are Beckett, Pinter, Williams, Stoppard, and Churchill.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 351.3 — 1/2(3L)Canadian Poetry in English
A study of major figures, movements, and/or issues in Canadian poetry.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 353 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 358.3 — 1/2(3L)Canadian Drama in English
The development of Canadian drama in English, with emphasis on the period since 1960.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 359.3 — 1/2(3L)Western Canadian Literature
A study of literature in English, especially fiction, poetry, and drama, produced on the Canadian prairies.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 360.3 — 1/2(3L)British and Irish Literature Since 1950
A study of poetry, drama, and prose in relation to the shifting political and cultural landscapes of Britain and Ireland since 1950. Authors may include Larkin, Smith, Heaney, Beckett, Friel, Kureishi, Selvon, Kelman, Carter.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 361.3 — 1/2(3L)Literary Cultures in Contemporary Britain
A mixed genre course providing students with a sense of the increasingly complex cultures of contemporary Britain through the examination of three or more examples of literary cultures of the last two decades.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 362.3 — 1/2(3L)The British Novel 1800 to 1850
A study of the development of the British novel, beginning with Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, and ending with the early work of Dickens, Gaskell, and the Brontes.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 374 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 363.3 — 1/2(3L)Fiction 1900 to 1950
A study of major works and theories of fiction from across national boundaires, with an emphasis on formal and stylistic modes such as realism, naturalism, impressionism, and symbolism. Writers may include Conrad, James, Woolf, Richardson, Hemingway, Dreiser, Faulkner, Ellison, Callaghan.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 364.3 — 1/2(3L)Fiction Since 1950
A study of major works of fiction from across national boundaries, with an emphasis on varieties of postmodernism, such as fabulism, metafiction, magical realism, and the non-fiction novel. Authors may include Amis, Naipaul, Rushdie, Winterson, McEwan, Barth, Pynchon, Atwood, Ondaatje.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 365.6 — 1&2(2L)Creative Writing
Intended for students who are seriously interested in the practice of imaginative writing (fiction, poetry, etc.). Course work will include an assignment of writing each week. Enrolment will be limited.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English.
ENG 366.3 — 1/2(3L)Advanced Creative Writing Fiction
Intended for students who have acquired some practice and skill in the writing of prose.
Permission of the instructor required.
Note: Evidence of practice and skill in the writing of creative prose as determined by the instructor.
ENG 368.3 — 1/2(3L)Poetry 1890 to 1950
A study of modern poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on the tension between established forms and modes and the range of efforts to reinvent poetry for the twentieth century. Poets may include Yeats, Frost, H.D., Stevens, Williams, Moore, Eliot, Cummings, Hughes, Auden, Thomas.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 369.3 — 1/2(3L)Poetry Since 1950
A study of post-WWII poetry and poetics, examining both the enduring influence of modernism and a range of the many anti- and post-modernist forms, styles, and topical concerns. Poets may include Larkin, Ten Hughes, Muldoon, Ginsberg, Plath, Lowell, Ashbery, Olds, and Walcott.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 373.3 — 1/2(3L)English Fiction to 1800
A study of various types of prose fiction from early romances, travel tales, rogue biographies, and so on, to Defoe and the rise and development of the novel in England. Particular emphasis will be given to the major novels and novelists of the 18th century.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 379.3 — 1/2(3L)Modernist Writing and Contexts
A study of literary and artistic experimentation in the first half of the 20th-century, and of theories and definitions of modernism and modernity, with an emphasis on political, intellectual, and geographical contexts. Authors may include Pound, Lewis, Joyce, Mansfield, Rhys, Eliot, Riding, Barnes.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 382.3 — 1/2(3L)Canadian Fiction from 1960 to the Present
A study of contemporary Canadian fiction in English, and some non-fictional prose, from 1960 to the present.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 352 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 383.3 — 1/2(3L)Literature and Colonialism
An introduction to reading and research in literature and its colonialist contexts.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 283 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 389.3 — 1/2(3L)Structures of English
A survey of theoretical approaches to English grammar and rhetoric, with an emphasis on English in literary contexts.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English, or LING 111, or a senior course in a language.
ENG 393.3 — 1(3L)Medieval Devotional Literature
A study of the medieval self in the devotional writing of the later Middle Ages. Discussion of theological sources, devotional art, popular piety, and the reading practices of lay and female readers will provide context for examining English mystics, such as Julian of Norwich and Richard Rolle.
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English.
ENG 398.3 — 1/2(3S)Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.
ENG 399.6 — 1&2(3S)Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.
ENG 402.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 404.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 16th Century Literature in English
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 406.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 17th Century Literature in English
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 410.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 18th Century British Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 414.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 19th Century British Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 416.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 19th Century American Literature
Prerequisite(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 418.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 19th Century Canadian Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 420.3 — 1/2(3S)Medieval Genres
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Course only open to students in an Honours program.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 444.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in Commonwealth and Post Colonial Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 446.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in Genres and Contexts of Modern Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 462.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 20th Century British Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 464.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 20th Century American Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 466.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 20th Century Canadian Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 468.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in 20th Century Irish Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 484.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in Womens Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 486.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in Critical Approaches to Literature
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 488.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in Genres and Contexts of Literature
Prerequisite(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 494.3 — 1/2(3S)Topics in Language and Linguistics
Prerequisite(s):Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 496.3 — 1&2(1L-3P)Career Internship
Practicum in publishing, journalism and business writing.
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
ENG 497.0Honours Colloquium
Oral presentation of scholarly paper at a conference of Honours students. The paper is normally based on a paper already prepared, or in preparation, for a 300 or 400-level course.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honours program in English.
ENG 498.3 — 1/2(3S)Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level English.
ENG 499.6 — 1&2(3S)Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level English.
ENG 801.3 — 1/2(2S)Introduction to Textual Scholarship
An introduction to textual authority, including the study of bibliographic description, editorial technique, textual transmission, database searches, and the history of modes of publication.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 802.6 — 1&2(2S)Studies in Literary and Cultural History
Studies of specific literary periods, literary movements, issues of influence, reputation or reception. Theories of literary history may also be studied.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 803.3 — 1/2(2S)Topics in Literary and Cultural History
Particular topics in the study of periods, movements, issues of influence, reputation or reception. Theories of literary history may also be studied.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 805.3 — 1/2(2S)Topics in Individual Authors
Particular topics in the work of an author writing in English, or on particular works in the author's oeuvre.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 810.6 — 1&2(2S)Studies in National and Regional Literatures
Studies in national and regional literatures (Canadian, American, English, Irish, etc.) and other constructions of nationality (postcolonial, aboriginal, ethnic, etc.).
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 811.3 — 1/2(2S)Topics in National and Regional Literatures
Particular topics in national and regional literatures and constructions of nationality.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 817.3 — 1/2(2S)Topics in Literary and Cultural Theory
Particular topics and issues in selected theories, or on particular theorists.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 818.6 — 1&2(2S)Studies in Methods and Texts
Studies in the application of selected methods in the practical criticism of selected texts.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 819.3 — 1/2(2S)Topics in Methods and Texts
Particular topics and issues in the application of selected methods to selected texts.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 842.6 — 1&2(2S)Studies in Genres and Contexts
Studies in traditional or emerging genres of writing, and in their intertextual, disciplinary, and extraliterary contexts.
ENG 843.3 — 1/2(2S)Topics in Genres and Contexts
Particular topics and issues in traditional or emerging genres of writing, and in their intertextual, disciplinary and extraliterary contexts.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.
ENG 898.3 — 1/2(2S)Special Topics
Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.
ENG 899.6 — 1&2(2S)Special Topics
Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.
ENG 990 — 1&2(9P)Professional Development Seminar
All graduate students are required to attend the series of workshops entitled "Conversations on Graduate Studies in English" in their first year of graduate work. All Ph.D. students are required to give a seminar presentation in anticipation of their dissertation defence. All graduate students must attend the Ph.D. seminar presentations plus department colloquia.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. or Ph.D. program in English.
ENG 992.0Project
Students taking the project-based M.A. must register in ENG 992.6, which requires appropriate work leading to the completion of the 25-30 page research project.
Prerequisite(s):Admission into the M.A. project-based program.
ENG 994Research
Students writing a Master's thesis must register for this course.
ENG 996Research
Students writing a Ph.D. thesis must register for this course.
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