New Undergraduate Courses 2010-2011
Some of these courses will be offered in Fall/Winter 2010-2011
English 311 H(3-0)
Shakespeare
A consideration of the development and variety of work by William Shakespeare.
Note: English 311 [ENGL311] does not require any prerequisite.
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 205 [ENGL 205].
English 317 H(3-0)
Women’s Literary Tradition
A survey of writings by women in English from the medieval period to the present, with emphasis on the evolution of a complex and varied literary tradition.
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 318 [ENGL 318].
English 351 H(3-0)
Poetry: Reading and Analysis
A study of poetic forms in English from a wide range of historical periods, social contexts, and national literatures. Through textual analysis and close reading, this course acquaints students with the characteristic techniques of prosody and basic poetic terminology, giving detailed attention to tropes and figures along with other poetic concepts such as form, tone, diction, implication, and point of view.
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Note: This course cannot be used by Majors or Honours students to fulfill historical breadth requirements.
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 354 [ENGL354].
English 353 H(3-0)
Drama: Reading and Analysis
A study of dramatic literature in English from a wide range of historical periods, social contexts, and national literatures. Through textual analysis and close reading, this course acquaints students with the characteristic techniques of dramaturgy and basic terminology, giving detailed attention to the formal conventions of literature written to be performed on stage.
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Note: This course cannot be used by Majors or Honours students to fulfill historical breadth requirements.
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 356 [ENGL356].
English 355 H(3-0)
Studies in Prose Fiction: Special Topic
A study of prose fiction from a formalist, historical, or thematic perspective.
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
English 372 H(3-0)
Fundamentals of Canadian Literature
This course provides a broad historical survey of Canadian writing from its origins up to the work of living writers. The course introduces students to some of the major authors in Canada, as well as to significant critical and cultural ideas that have developed about this nation’s literature. Majors and Honours students in English are strongly encouraged (although not required) to take this specific course in fulfillment of the Canadian component for their degree requirements.
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 370 [ENGL370].
English 382 H(3-0)
Topic in American Literature
Note: English 382 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
English 384 H(3-0)
Topic in Women’s Literatures
Note: English 384 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
English 388 H(3-0)
Topic in Popular Genres
Note: English 388 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
English 391 H(3-0)
Topic in Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Note: English 391 does not require any prerequisite.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
English 396 H(3-0)
Children’s Literature
A historical and critical study of children's literature.
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent of English and/or Comparative Literature.
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 398 [ENGL398].
English 405 H(3-0)
Middle English Literature: The Canterbury Tales
A survey of the Middle English language and the social, cultural and historical contexts of later medieval literature through Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 404 [ENGL404].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 406 H(3-0)
Middle English Literature: Other Genres
Further studies in Middle English literature, including non-Chaucerian poetry, prose, drama, and such works as Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Book of Margery Kempe.
Prerequisite: English 405 [ENGL405].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 404 [ENGL404].
English 407 H(3-0)
Middle English Literature: Other Works of Chaucer
Further studies of the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer, including such works as Troilus and Criseyde and the Legend of Good Women.
Prerequisite: English 405 [ENGL405].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 404 [ENGL404].
English 409 H(3-0)
Early Tudor Literature
A survey of literature from 1485 to 1558, including work by such writers as Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey), Thomas More, and Thomas Wyatt.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 408 [ENGL408].
English 410 H(3-0)
Elizabethan Poetry and Prose
A survey of non-dramatic literature from 1558 to 1603, including work by such writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 408 [ENGL408].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 411 H(3-0)
Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose
A survey of non-dramatic literature of the seventeenth century, including Milton.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 414 [ENGL414].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 412 H(3-0)
Elizabethan Drama
A survey of drama from 1558 to 1603, including works by William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 414 [ENGL414].
English 413 H(3-0)
Seventeenth-Century Drama
A survey of drama from 1603 to 1660, including William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 414 [ENGL414].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 431 H(3-0)
Literature of the Restoration
A survey of literature from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 until 1700. Students will read poetry, prose, and drama by Aphra Behn, John Dryden, and such writers as Mary Astell, William Congreve, John Locke, and the Earl of Rochester.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 430 [ENGL430].
English 433 H(3-0)
Literature of the Early Eighteenth Century
A survey of literature from 1700 to 1740. Students will read poetry, prose, and drama by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and such writers as Daniel Defoe, John Gay, and Eliza Haywood.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 430 [ENGL430].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 435 H (3-0)
Literature of the Later Eighteenth Century
A survey of literature from 1740 to 1789. Students will read poetry, prose, and drama by Frances Burney, Samuel Johnson, and such writers as Thomas Gray, R. B. Sheridan, and Laurence Sterne.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 430 [ENGL430].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 441 H(3-0)
Literature of the Romantic Period: The Age of Revolution
A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by the first generation of Romantic-period writers, including such writers as Joanna Baillie, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 440 [ENGL440].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 443 H(3-0)
Literature of the Romantic Period: The Age of Reform
A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by the second generation of Romantic-period writers, including such writers as Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 440 [ENGL440].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 445 H(3-0)
Literature of the Early Victorian Period
A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by such writers as Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, Alfred Tennyson, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 444 [ENGL444].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 447 H(3-0)
Literature of the Mid-Victorian Period
A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by such writers as Matthew Arnold, Charles Dickens, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), John Stuart Mill, Christina Rossetti, and John Ruskin.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 444 [ENGL444].
English 449 H(3-0)
Literature of the Late Victorian Period
A survey of poetry, prose, and drama by such writers as Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, George Bernard Shaw, and Vernon Lee (Violet Paget).
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 444 [ENGL444].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 451 H(3-0)
British Literature from 1900 to 1950
A survey of British literature from the first half of the twentieth century.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 450 [ENGL450].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 453 H(3-0)
British Literature since 1950
A survey of British literature from the last half of the twentieth century to the present.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 450 [ENGL450].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 461 H(3-0)
Early American Literature and the American Renaissance
A survey of American literature from its origins to the Civil War. This course will examine both canonical and newly relevant works of literature and place them in a cultural and critical context.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 446 [ENGL446].
English 463 H(3-0)
American Literature from the Late 1800s to the Mid-1900s
A survey of American literature from the Civil War to World War II, encompassing realism, naturalism, and modernism. This course will examine both canonical and newly relevant works of literature and place them in a cultural and critical context.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 446 [ENGL446].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 465 H(3-0)
American Literature since the Mid-1900s
A survey of American literature since World War II. This course will examine both canonical and newly relevant works of literature and place them in a cultural and critical context.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 462 [ENGL462].
English 471 H(3-0)
Canadian Literature from its Origins to 1950
A survey of Canadian literature from its beginnings to the middle of the twentieth century.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 470 [ENGL470].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 473 H(3-0)
Canadian Literature since 1950
A survey of Canadian literature from 1950 to the present.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 470 [ENGL470].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 481 H(3-0)
Literary Theory from its Origins to 1800
A survey of the major theories of and approaches to literature from classical times to 1800.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 480 [ENGL480].
Offered in Fall 2010
English 483 H(3-0)
Literary Theory since 1800
A survey of the major theories of and approaches to literature from 1800 to the present.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 480 [ENGL480].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 490 H(3-0)
Postcolonial and Diasporic Literatures
A survey of literatures and theories from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean regions.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 492 [ENGL492].
Offered in Winter 2011
English 491 H(3-0)
Postcolonial and Diasporic Literatures: Selected Region
A survey of literatures and theories from any one of the following regions: Pacific, Atlantic, or Indian Ocean.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
English 493 H(3-0)
International Indigenous Literatures
A survey of writing by indigenous peoples from selected regions around the world.
Prerequisites: English 302 [ENGL302] and either 240 [ENGL240] or 340 [ENGL340].
English 521 H(3-0)
Advanced Textual Studies
Prerequisites: One full-course equivalent in English at the 400-Level and consent of the Department.
Note: Not open to students with credit in English 510 [ENGL510].
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
English 515 H(3-0)
Postcolonial Studies
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent in English at the 400 level, or consent of the Department.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT