English Language and Literature Courses

ENGL 1F91
English Literature: Tradition and Innovation
Works from the mediaeval to the contemporary period, including such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wordsworth, the Brownings, Woolf and Rushdie. Genres include tragedy, romance, epic, and the novel.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.

ENGL 1F95
Literature in English: Forms, Themes and Approaches
Fiction, poetry, drama and film drawn from the 19th century to the present. The conventions of genre and the ways writers shape their work to produce meaning. Treatment in literature of such themes as the nature of evil; history, gender and civil strife; constructions of love.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.

ENGL 1F97
Literature of Trauma and Recovery
Responses to human suffering, both personal and societal, and the power of words to express and effect change in the face of powerful adversity. Narratives of and responses to illness, violence, death and mourning, war and pestilence, and genocide. Includes works drawn from fiction, poetry and drama.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: particular attention will be paid to perceptive reading and clear, effective writing.

ENGL 2F92
Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 2F92 and PCUL 2F92)
Textual and contextual analysis of popular literary genres such as the detective novel, gothic fiction, science fiction and the romance novel; adaptation of popular novels to a variety of other media forms.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92 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 2P19
Chaucer: The Poetry
From The Book of the Duchess to The Canterbury Tales.
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 and credit obtained in ENGL 3P10.

ENGL 2P21
Sixteenth 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 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.

ENGL 2P25
The Age of Sensibility
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose 1740-1798, including such writers as Johnson, Cowper, Sterne, Burney and Radcliffe.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P27
Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations
(also offered as WRIT 2P27)
Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. Includes the relation of language use to cultural practices, ethics, identity and power. Analysis of various genres of texts and persuasive writing in popular culture and mass media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (WRIT) 3P27.

ENGL 2P30
Early Romantic Writing
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose by such writers as Blake, the Wordsworths, Coleridge and Austen.
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 Writing
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose by such writers as Byron, the Shelleys, Keats and Hemans.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P45
Poetry and Poetics
Construction of a working technical vocabulary for analyzing and discussing poetry, including a variety of poetic styles, authors and periods, as well as a number of critical statements on poetics.
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
(also offered as INTL 2P51)
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
(also offered as INTL 2P52)
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
(also offered as INTL 2P53)
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, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P56
The Short Story
Theory and analysis of the short story from Poe and Hawthorne to contemporary writers.
Lectures, seminars, 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2F55.

ENGL 2P57
Representing the World in Modern Fiction
(also offered as IASC 2P57)
Major modes in the representation of human experience in modern fiction: romance, realism, modernism and postmodernism. Novels and short stories.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 2F55.

ENGL 2P61
American Literature to 1865
Literature and literary culture from early European to the Civil War, including Puritan and Revolutionary era writers as well as such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville 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 1865
Literature and literary culture from Mark Twain and Henry James and the beginnings of modernism to the present time emphasizing formal experimentation as well as 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 2P64
Canadian Literature to 1920
Literature and its cultural context from the settlement period to the end of WWI, including such writers as Moodie, Roberts, D.C. Scott and Leacock.
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 credit obtained in ENGL 2P91.

ENGL 2P65
Canadian Literature from 1920 to the Present
Literature and its cultural context from the Canadian modernist period to the present time, including such writers as F.R. Scott, Klein, Atwood and Munro.
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 prior credit obtained in ENGL 2P92.

ENGL 2P70
Introduction to Literary Theory
(also offered as IASC 2P70)
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, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P96
Valuing Modern Fiction
(also offered as PCUL 2P96)
Contesting concepts of literary value; the grounds and methods of evaluation; differing interpretive communities; social locations and uses of fiction. Novels and short stories.
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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2F55.

ENGL 2Q90
English and Empire
Cultural, political, economic, and linguistic forces shaping the global expansion of English. Focus on at least one of English in Asia, Africa or the Americas.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2Q91
Studies in the History of English
The cultural and linguistic contexts of English in selected periods, traditions, regions, and writers or groups of writers.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2Q92
Shakespeare 1590-1603
(also offered as GBLS 2Q92)
Representative plays from the first half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of fin-de-siècle Elizabethan England.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q93
Shakespeare 1603-1614
(also offered as GBLS 2Q93)
Representative plays from the second half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of the opening decade of James I's culturally divisive reign.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q94
Shakespeare's Comedies
(also offered as GBLS 2Q94)
Representative comedies and tragicomedies emphasizing the variety of Shakespeare's comic modes, from the grotesque to the miraculous, and on theoretical approaches to the comic.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q95
Shakespeare's Tragedies
(also offered as GBLS 2Q95)
Shakespeare's development of tragedy as a genre in the context of early modern aesthetic and cultural concerns. Attention to recent theoretical approaches.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, GBLS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2F97.

ENGL 2Q98
Non-Shakespearean Drama in England, 1576-1642
Variety of dramatic genres written for the playhouses of early modern London, including plays by Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Middleton, Massinger and Ford.
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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2V91.

ENGL 2Q99
Women in World Literature
(also offered as WISE 2Q99)
Feminist perspectives on representations of women and their writings including both English and translated texts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WISE 2P92.

ENGL 2V20
2006-2007: Women Rewriting Traditional Tales
(also offered as WISE 2V20)
Works by women who rewrite fairy tales and legends for various audiences; consideration of the influence of feminism on this growing genre focussing on texts from 20th-century fantasy novels and short stories.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 3V96.

ENGL 2V20-2V29
Studies in Writing by Women
(also offered as WISE 2V20-2V29)
Selected topics in women's writing.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2V90-2V99
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of English literature.
Prerequisite: one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P06
Creative Writing: Short Fiction
(also offered as WRIT 3P06)
The craft of short fiction writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.

ENGL 3P07
Creative Writing: Poetry
(also offered as WRIT 3P07)
The craft of poetry writing.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite: one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99.
Note: students must apply in writing, with portfolio, at least four weeks before the beginning of classes. Details from the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT (ENGL) 3F05 and ENGL (WRIT) 3P05.

ENGL 3P18
True Stories: The Art and Craft of Literary Journalism
(also offered as WRIT 3P18)
History and theory of narrative non-fiction from Daniel Defoe to Susan Orlean; techniques of narrative craft in the telling of factual stories.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: one and one-half ENGL, COMM or WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.

ENGL 3P20
Spenser and the Age of Elizabeth
Elizabethan literature of the 1590s emphasizing Spenser.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P22.

ENGL 3P22
The Literature of Milton's Time
Poetry and prose from the Civil War to the early Restoration period emphasizing Milton.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P25
Restoration and Augustan Literature
Poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction prose 1660-1740 by such writers as Dryden, Behn, Pope, Swift and Montagu.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 2P40.

ENGL 3P28
Rhetorical Analysis
(also offered as WRIT 3P28)
Analysis of literary and non-literary texts using categories, insights and practices of classical and contemporary rhetorical studies. Texts include poetry, fiction, drama, journalism, scientific and political writing, and advertising. Attention to the rhetoric of public spaces, issues of social justice, and the building and maintenance of human communities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: two ENGL or one WRIT credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

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

ENGL 3P38
Twentieth-Century Literature: The Modern Period
Modernist writing in English, from its experimental beginnings through its engagement with radical social thought in the 1960s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 3P33, 3P34 and 3P35.

ENGL 3P39
Contemporary Literature in English
(also offered as IASC 3P39)
The postmodern period emphasizing the forms, approaches and cultural responses that have characterized writing in English in the later 20th century.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: one of two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99, IASC 2P57 and 2P70 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P40
The 18th Century Novel
The rise of the novel and its development 1700 to 1830 by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Haywood, Fielding, Goldsmith, Edgeworth, Burney and Austen.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 3F40.

ENGL 3P41
Gothic Writing
The gothic in novels, poetry, drama and non-fiction prose from its beginnings to the turn of the 20th century by such writers as Burke, Radcliffe, Lewis, the Shelleys, the Brontës and Stoker.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 3F40.

ENGL 3P42
The 19th-Century Novel
Emergence of the novel as the pre-eminent literary form emphasizing engagement with social issues of the period and on realism as a means of representing human experience. May include such writers as Dickens, Gaskell, Eliot, Thackeray, Hardy and James.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 3F40.

ENGL 3P43
Gothic Traditions since 1900
The gothic in fiction, non-fiction prose, and popular culture from the turn of the 20th century to the present by such figures as Stoker, Peake, Hitchcock, King, Carter, Rice and Craven.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P45
Modern Poetry and Poetics
Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries emphasizing the relationship between form and ideas in poems that investigate the central aesthetic, intellectual and political concerns of the modern period.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 3F42.

ENGL 3P46
Poetry of Edge and Margin
Radical poetry in the 20th and 21st centuries emphasizing experiment and dissent. Poetic communities; ways in which poetry is produced and distributed in different settings and forms.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 3F42.

ENGL 3P63
Literature of the American South
Literary traditions of the states below the Mason-Dixon line, reflective of their distinctive social and political ideologies and discourses. May include such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Chestnut, Harriet Jacobs, Kate Chopin, Joel Chandler Harris, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor, Maya Angelou, and Bobbie Ann Mason.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 3P90
Auto/Biography
Biographical and autobiographical writings: types, reception, theoretical aspects.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P91
Introduction to Anglo-Saxon
Basics of the language; selections from some of the earliest English prose and verse.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL 3F92.

ENGL 3P92
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Contexts and conventions of the earliest English poetry. Includes such poems as Maldon, Wanderer, Seafarer, Judith, Wife's Lament, Dream of the Rood and excerpts from Beowulf.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Prerequisite: ENGL 3P91.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 3F92.

ENGL 3P94
Literary Criticism
(also offered as GBLS 3P94)
Literary criticism from Aristotle to Brooks and Leavis emphasizing enduring literary critical problems.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: 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 and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 3F93.

ENGL 3P95
Romance and Visionary Literature of the late Middle Ages
Such texts as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl from Langland's Piers the Plowman, Sir Thomas Malory's account of the rise and fall of the Round Table.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3P96
Literature I
The Old Norse language; introduction to the prose, poetry, and culture of the Viking age.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: two credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, or permission of the instructor.
Note: the prerequisite courses should be from the Faculty of Humanities.

ENGL 3P97
Literature II
Old Norse prose and poetry of the Viking age, including prose sagas, heroic poetry, and skaldic verse.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: ENGL 3P96.

ENGL 3V00-3V10
Topics in Children's Literature
Advanced Studies in writing for children and young people.
Prerequisites: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or above or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3V20-3V29
Advanced Studies in Writing by Women
(also offered as WISE 3V20-3V29)
Selected topics in women's writing at an advanced theoretical and methodological level.
Prerequisite: two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, WISE 1F90 and one-half-credit from ENGL 2V20-2V29 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 3V60-3V69
Special Topics in Canadian Literature

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.

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

ENGL 4P00
Literature of the English Revolution
(also offered as HIST 4P00)
Literary, critical, historical and theoretical perspectives on texts from the 1640s to the Restoration, including Areopagitia, Baislike, female prophesy and Agreement of the People.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum major average of 60 percent or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4P10
Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice
(also offered as COMM 4P10 and WRIT 4P10)
Analysis of the relation between stylistic features and discursive contexts; encoding and enacting of social worlds and relations in text (both literary and non-literary); introduction to the field of discourse studies in general, critical discourse analysis in particular.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) COMM (single or combined), LIAU, LING (single or combined), LISL (single or combined) and LITE majors with approval to Year 4, and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Note: Students minoring in Writing may register. Contact the English Department.

ENGL 4P15
Words on Words: Narratives of Language
(also offered as WRIT 4P15)
Critical history of the study of language from Socrates to Saussure and after. Theories of the nature and origin of language; the relations among reality, language, and thought, including the relationship between linguistic theories and literary representation in several historical periods.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), COMM (single or combined), LIAU, LING (single or combined), LISL (single or combined) and LITE majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Note: Students minoring in Writing may register. Contact the English Department.

ENGL 4P30
Jane Austen
The work of Austen from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V30.

ENGL 4P64
Contemporary Canadian Fiction: The Short Story
Short fiction by such writers as Munro, Gallant, Atwood and MacLeod.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V64.

ENGL 4P65
Space and Place in Modern and Contemporary Canadian Poetry
Treatment of place in Canadian poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries including representation of urban, rural and wilderness environments. Focus on theories of place and space, the idea of home and the notion of lyric philosophy of contemporary Canadian nature poetry.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V65.

ENGL 4P70
Contemporary Literary Theory: Structuralist and Poststructuralist Thought
Advanced introduction to theoretical concerns. Structuralist theoreticians, such as Marx, de Saussure, Freud, Levi-Strauss and Barthes. Poststructuralist theoreticians, such as Derrida, Foucault and Lacan.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4F70.

ENGL 4P71
Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
Advanced introduction to such areas as cultural studies, postcolonial theory, subjectivity and identity, postmodernism and feminism.
Seminar, 3 hours per week
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4F70.

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: permission of the Chair.
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: permission of the Chair.
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 ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V03
2006-2007: Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe's drama and poetry, in the context of Elizabethan theatre and culture.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V04
Early Modern Textual Collection
Book history, focusing on the varieties of textual collection important to the early modern period: printed anthologies commonplace books, encyclopedic works, library catalogues and editions of an author's collected works. Expressive nature and rhetorical effects of various forms of textual collection. Authors studied may include Sidney, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Lanyer, Jonson and Herbert.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V30-4V39
Topics in 19th Century Literature
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V32
2006-2007: Experimenting with America: Writing and Reformism, 1830-1930
Writing produced by reformers and communal experimenters and literature's response to the ideas of reform and alternative community. Topics include abolitionism, woman suffragism, Shakerism and literature by writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum major average of 60 percent or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V40-4V49
Topics in Contemporary Literature
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V46
2006-2007: Virginia Woolf
Selected writings: essays, diaries, major novels.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V60-4V69
Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V68
2006-2007: Avante-Garde Canadian Literature
Radical poetry and prose of the 20th century.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V70-4V79
Text and Context
Topics in literature and intellectual history.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V72
2006-2007: King Arthur in Literature for Young People
Ways in which the Arthurian legend has been adapted for use in literature for young people focussing on texts from the 20th century in a range of genres.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V90-4V99
English Area Studies
Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to Year 4, and to EWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.