Brock University Undergraduate Calendar

English Courses

ENGL 1F91

Survey of Major English Writers

Major authors in English literature from the 14th- to the 20th-century. Authors may include such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Austen, Dickens, Eliot. Special attention will be given to students' writing.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 1F95

Literature in English: Forms and Approaches

Selected works of fiction, poetry and drama, drawn largely from the 19th- and 20th-centuries, with attention to the conventions of genre and emphasis on perceptive reading and effective writing.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 1F99

Language and Thought

Critical analysis of selected writings in literature, natural science and social science. Special attention will be given to students' writing.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 1P97 or 1P98.

ENGL 2F55

Modern Fiction

Forms and techniques of fiction in English by selected writers of the 20th-century.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2F92

Popular Narrative

(also offered as COMM 2F92 and PCUL 2F92)

Archetypal and mythic dimensions of popular literary genres such as the detective novel, Gothic fiction, science fiction, the romance novel; comparison and contrast with other media.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2F97

Shakespeare

(also offered as GBLS 2F97)

Plays and Sonnets; representative plays from all genres: histories, comedies, tragedies and romance; a selection of Sonnets.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

Note: students may take DRAM 3F97 in place of ENGL 2F97.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in DRAM 3F97.

ENGL 2M90

2001-2002: English Drama to the Closing of The Theatres in 1642

Selected plays from medieval miracle cycles to such playrights as Marlowe, Tourneur and Ford.

ENGL 2M90-2M99

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of English literature.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P10

Young People's Literature to 1914

Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels adapted for or directed toward children and young people from the folk-tale heritage to 1914.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P11

Young People's Literature after 1914

Critical study of fairytales, folk tales, poetry and novels written for children and young people during the 20th-century.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P21

Sixteen-Century Literature

Prose and poetry from 1500 to 1590, including popular and courtly traditions.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P22

Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth

Elizabethan literature of the 1590s, with particular emphasis on Spenser.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P24

Early 17th-Century Literature

Early modern drama, poetry and prose, 1603 to the English Revolution, including such writers as Webster, Donne, Jonson and Lanyer.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P21.

ENGL 2P25

The Age of Sensibility

Prose, poetry and drama 1740-1798, including such writers as Johnson, Cowper and Sterne.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2P41.

ENGL 2P30

Early Romantic Literature

Poetry of Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge; selected literary criticism and other prose.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P31

Later Romantic Literature

Poetry of Byron, Shelley and Keats; selected letters and other prose.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P51

Literature of the British Empire

Literature, both popular and canonical, which reflects the ongoing relationship between British imperialism, literary forms and cultural politics, from the 17th-century to the present.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P52

Postcolonial Literature

Literatures of resistance and emergence written in English in former British territories, such as those in Africa and the West Indies.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P53

Southern African Literatures of Transition

Literary explorations of and interventions in the political and socio-cultural transitions from white regimes to majority-rule politics. Emphasis on histories of trauma, displacement and dispossession.

Lectures, seminars, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P61

American Literature to 1900

Literature and literary culture from early European contact through Henry James and Edith Wharton. Emphasis on such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe and Dickinson.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P62

American Literature after 1900

Literature and literary culture from Henry James and the beginnings of modernism to the present time. Emphasis on the broadening of the canon.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P70

Introduction to Literary Theory

Approaches to meaning and interpretation in the contemporary study of literature.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P91

Canadian Literature to 1920

Poetry, fiction and prose from Moodie and Haliburton to Lampman, Leacock and Pratt.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P92

Canadian Literature from 1920 to the Present

Poetry, fiction and prose from Grove and Callaghan to Ondaatje, Atwood and Findley.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P94

Women Writers to 1900

(also offered as WISE 2P94)

Prose, poetry and drama by women from the 17th- to the 19th-century including such writers as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips, Lucy Hutchinson, Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P95

Modern Women Writers

(also offered as WISE 2P95)

Prose, poetry and drama by women from the mid-19th-century to the present.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2V90-2V99

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.

Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3F05

Creative Writing

(also offered as WRIT 3F05)

The craft of creative writing, for selected students in any discipline.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite: one credit from WRIT (ENGL) 1P80 and 1P81, ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F99.

Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least two weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the department.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P05 or WRIT 3P05.

ENGL 3F40

The Novel

Major English novelists and the development of the form from its beginnings.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3F42

Poetry and Poetics

(also offered as GBLS 3F42)

Language, form and technique in poetry with a focus on the modern and contemporary periods.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 credit and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3F91

History of the Language

The development of the English language from its origins to the present state of English in North America. The nature and cause of major internal changes in the language will be examined, together. The influence of external cultural and linguistic forces in the shaping of modern English. Selected literary models will be used to illustrate the stylistic development of English.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3F92

Old English

Literature and language; a close reading of prose and several major poems in Old English, including passages from The Parker Chronicle, Wanderer, Seafarer, Deor, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3F93

Literary Criticism

(also offered as GBLS 3F93)

History, principles and practice of literary criticism. Emphasis on the Classical tradition (Plato, Aristotle, the Renaissance, Neoclassicism); Romantic and late 19th-century developments; 20th-century revitalization.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P10

Chaucer: The Poetry

From The Book of the Duchess to The Canterbury Tales.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P22

The Literature of Milton's Time

Poetry and prose from the Civil War to the early Restoration period, with particular emphasis on Milton.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P25

Restoration and Augustan Literature

Prose, poetry and drama 1660-1740, including Dryden, Pope and Swift.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 2P40.

ENGL 3P30

Early Victorian Literature

Poetry, fiction and prose to the 1860s, including Tennyson, the Brontës, Arnold, Dickens and the Brownings.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P31

Later Victorian Literature

Poetry, fiction and prose from the pre-Raphaelites to the end of the century, including the Rossettis, Meredith, Swinburne, Pater, Hardy and Wilde.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P39

Contemporary Literature in English

The postmodern period, with emphasis on the forms, approaches and cultural responses which have characterized writing in English in the later 20th-century.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P36.

ENGL 3P90

Life Writing

Biographical and autobiographical writings: types, reception, theoretical aspects.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P95

Literature of the 14th- and 15th-Centuries

The northern alliterative revival: Langland and Malory.

Seminar, 4 hours per week.

Prerequisite: ENGL 3P10.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 4P10.

ENGL 3V70

2001-2002: Contemporary Writing and History

How authors, poets and playwrights seek to understand, to take responsibility for and write about the past and how they negotiate the mythic, legendary, historical, textual, political and geographic worlds that they have inherited. Novels, poems, plays and theoretical texts.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in ENGL 3P36.

ENGL 3V70-3V79

Theoretical Issues in the Study of Literature

ENGL 3V90-3V99

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisites: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 and two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3V93

2001-2002: Romancing the Past: Canadian Literature/Canadian History

Multidisciplinary exploration of Canadian literature that explicitly incorporates and builds upon significant events from Canada's past. Novels, poems, historical documents and theoretical texts.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite: two year 2 ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4F70

Contemporary Literary Theory

The major schools and the essential issues of contemporary literary theory.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4F99

Senior Research Tutorial or Thesis

Either tutorial combined with individual research or a thesis on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the department.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4P98

Senior Tutorial or Research Paper

Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the department.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4P99

Senior Tutorial or Research Paper

Either tutorial combined with individual research or a research paper on a specialized topic or major author, of mutual interest to the student and the instructor.

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the department.

Note: the Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

ENGL 4V00-4V09

Topics in English Literature Before 1800

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V30

2001-2002: Jane Austen

The work of Austen from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V30-4V39

Topics in 19th-Century Literature

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V40-4V49

Topics in Contemporary Literature

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V60-4V69

Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V62

2001-2002: Elsewhere in Contemporary Canadian Fiction

Rendition of non-Canadian space in recent Canadian fiction by such authors as Atwood, Ondaatje, Urquhart, Van Herk and Mistry, and its relation to theories of space and locality and to questions of ideology, identity and agency.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V63

2001-2002: Re/Covering the Past in Contemporary Canadian Poetry

Historical revision in poetic sequences by such poets as Ondaatje, Clarke, Bolster, and Crozier, with attention to narrative theory and discursive strategies.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V70-4V79

Text and Context

Topics in literature and intellectual history.

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V90-4V99

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.

Restriction: open to English Plus and ENGL (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.