2011-2012 Undergraduate Calendar

Robert Alexander, James Allard, Gregory Betts, Tim Conley, Adam Dickinson, Neta Gordon, Ann Howey, John Lye, Mathew Martin, Barbara K. Seeber, Angus A. Somerville, Susan Spearey, Sherryl Vint

Assistant Professors

Lynn Arner, Gale-Coskan-Johnson, Leah Knight, Carole Stewart

Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies Co-ordinator

Robert Alexander

Undergraduate Officer

Gregory Betts

Academic Adviser

Alisa Cunnington

General Information

Administrative Assistant

Janet Sackfie

905-688-5550, extension 3469

573 Glenridge 157

brocku.ca/english

The Literature programs in the Department of English Language and Literature focus on an understanding of the traditions, themes and dynamics of imaginative writing in English, within its various historical and cultural contexts. Students choose courses from a broad range of historically-organized courses, courses in literary genres, and courses in the history of language, criticism and theory. The Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies program focuses on the theoretical, creative and practical applications of writing in and for a range of contexts. The Department aims in its programs to foster an informed and critical intelligence, a mastery of the best uses of language, and an appreciation for the social and personal centrality of powerful imaginative and expository writing across times and cultures.

The Department offers a BA Honours in English Language and Literature, a BA Honours in English and Contemporary Culture, a four-year degree with Major in English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies, a three-year program leading to the BA Pass degree, and combined honours and pass degrees in English and another subject. In addition, the Department offers courses on academic, creative and professional writing which are available as electives to all Brock students who wish to explore theories of language production and develop their creative and professional writing skills. The Department also offers a Minor in English Language and Literature and a Minor in Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies as well as a Certificate in Rhetoric and Professional Writing.

Seminars (discussion groups) are the rule in all English Language and Literature courses, encouraging students to become active participants in the study of literary texts. Through close attention to essay assignments, students learn to write in convincing and disciplined ways.

The Department of English Language and Literature offers credit for specified Dramatic Literature courses.

Students may register in courses numbered 4(alpha)00 and above only upon admittance to Year 4 studies or with the permission of the instructor and the Chair.

Program Notes

1.	The following Dramatic Arts courses are available for English credit: DART 1F93, 2F94, 2P96, 2P97, 3F94, 3P90 and 3P91.
2.	Students may take a maximum of one credit from ENGL 2P80, 2P81, 2P82, 2P83 to satisfy List A requirements.
3.	Students may take a maximum of three DART credits for English credit towards an Honours degree, and a maximum of two DART credits towards a Pass degree or the four-year degree with Major.
4.	The Department recommends that students take one credit in dramatic literature from ENGL 2P80, 2P81, 2P82, 2P83, 2P84, DART 1F93, 2F94, 2P96, 2P97, 3F94, 3P90, 3P91.
5.	The Department advises students in English programs to have their programs reviewed each year by the Faculty of Humanities Undergraduate Adviser. Students planning to enter fourth year are required to have their programs approved by the Faculty of Humanities Undergraduate Adviser.
6.	Honours English majors must take two credits numbered 4(alpha)00 and above; Combined Honours English majors must take one ENGL credit numbered 4(alpha)00 and above. Students are restricted to two credits numbered 4P00 to 4P90, 4V00 to 4V99.
7.	In 20 credit degree programs a maximum of eight credits may be numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99; at least three credits must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above; at least three credits must be numbered 3(alpha)90 or above; and the remaining credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. In 15 credit degree programs a maximum of eight credits may be numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99; at least three credits must be numbered 2(alpha)90 or above; and the remaining credits must be numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. In some circumstances, in order to meet university degree and program requirements, more than 15 or 20 credits may be taken.

List Courses

List Courses in English reflect historical periods, studies in genre, and studies in theory and criticism as follows:

List A: Literature to 1740: ENGL 2P19, 2P21, 2P24, 2P80, 2P81, 2P82, 2P83, 2P84, 3P20, 3P22, 3P91, 3P92, 3P95, 3P96, 3P97, 3V92, 4P00, 4V00-4V09

List B: Literature from 1740 to 1900: ENGL 2P10, 2P25, 2P30, 2P31, 2P60, 2P64, 2P67, 3P25, 3P30, 3P31, 3P40, 3P41, 3P42, 4P30, 4V30-4V39

List C: Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries: ENGL 2P11, 2P52, 2P53, 2P57, 2P59, 2P65, 2P66, 2P68, 2P69, 3P38, 3P39, 3P43, 3P45, 3P66, 4P46, 4P64, 4P65, 4V40-4V49, 4V74

List D: Studies in Genre: ENGL 2F92, 2P10, 2P11, 2P13, 2P15, 2P19, 2P45, 2P56, 2P82, 2P83, 3P40, 3P42, 3P45, 3P90, 3V93, 4P64, WRIT 2P20, 3P06, 3P07, 3P18

List E: Studies in Theory and Criticism: ENGL 2P70, 3P67, 3P94, 4P70, 4P71, 4P91, WRIT 2P28, 3P28, 4P10, 4P15, 4P20, 4V90

English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies Subfields

The WRIT courses numbered 2(alpha)00 or above fall into three subfields and the department advises English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies majors to select courses from within one of the subfields.

Creative Writing

WRIT 3P06, 3P07, 3P18, 3P98, 3V90-3V99

Discourse and Rhetoric

	WRIT 2P20, 2P28
	WRIT 3P16, 3P28
	WRIT 4P10, 4P15, 4P20

Journalism and Professional Writing

	WRIT 2P14, 2P16, 2P18
	WRIT 3P16, 3P18, 3P63

Honours Program

English Language and Literature

Honours English students must complete an array of historical period courses and are strongly advised to take courses in literary criticism or theory. Students planning to proceed to training for intermediate or secondary school teaching are advised to include in their Honours English program three credits in a second teachable discipline.

Eleven English credits are required for an Honours degree.

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List A (see List Courses) (see program note 2)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List B (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List C (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List D (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)
	three additional ENGL credits (see program notes 6 and 7)
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit
	six elective credits (see program note 7)

English and Contemporary Culture

English and Contemporary Culture is an alternative four-year Honours program designed for those who wish to combine the study of English with studies in contemporary media and culture. Students planning to proceed to training for intermediate or secondary school teaching are advised to include three credits in their English and Contemporary Culture program in a second teachable discipline.

	Nine ENGL credits are required for an Honours English and Contemporary Culture degree.
	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	COMM 1F90
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one and one-half credits from List B (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List C (see List Courses)
	one and one-half ENGL credits from List D (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)
	one additional ENGL credit (see program note 7)
	three additional credits from COMM, PCUL, FILM
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit
	four elective credits (see program note 8)

Concurrent ENGL BA/BEd

The Department of English Language and Literature and the Faculty of Education co-operate in offering two Concurrent BA (Honours)/BEd programs. The English BA (Honours)/BEd program combines the BA Honours program or BA Integrated Studies Honours program with the teacher education programs for students interested in teaching at the Intermediate/Senior level (grades 7-12) and at the Junior/Intermediate level (grades 4-10.) Refer to the Education - Concurrent BA (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) or Education - Concurrent BA Integrated Studies (Honours)/BEd (Junior/Intermediate) program listings for further information.

BA with Major Program

English and Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse Studies

This program combines study in English literature with the theory and practice of writing, and is designed for students wishing to enhance their English degree with a knowledge of rhetoric, discourse, and the genres of creative and professional writing.

Six ENGL and five WRIT credits are required for a BA with Major degree.

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	WRIT 1P96
	two WRIT credits
	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D (see List Courses)
	one-half ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)
	one-half additional ENGL credit (see program note 7)
	one-half WRIT credit numbered 1(alpha)90 or above
	two additional WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit
	six elective credits (see program note 8)

Pass Program

Seven ENGL credits are required for a Pass degree.

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D (see List Courses)
	one-half ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)
	one and one-half additional ENGL credits (see program note 7)
	one Sciences context credit
	one Social Sciences context credit
	one Humanities elective credit
	five elective credits (see program note 7)

Combined Major Program

Students may take a combined major in English Language and Literature and a second discipline. For requirements in the other discipline, the student should consult the relevant department/centre. It should be noted that not all departments/centres provide a combined major option.

Honours

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D or one ENGL credit from List E (see List Courses)
	two additional ENGL credits (see program notes 6 and 7)
	one Humanities elective credit

Pass

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	one ENGL credit from List A (see List Courses; see program note 2)
	one ENGL credit from List B (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List C (see List Courses)
	one ENGL credit from List D or one ENGL credit from List E (see List courses; see program note 7)
	one Humanities elective credit

English Language and Applied Linguistics

Consult the Applied Linguistics entry for a listing of program requirements.

Certificate in Rhetoric and Professional Writing

The Department of English Language and Literature offers a Certificate in Rhetoric and Professional Writing for those wishing to acquire a broad, practical experience and understanding of the management, organization and presentation of information and text. Certificate programs are limited to persons not currently enrolled in a degree program at Brock.

The certificate is awarded upon the successful completion of the following courses with a minimum 70 percent overall average:

	Three WRIT credits
	two credits from COMM 1F90, 2P90, 2P91, LING 3P94, 3P95

Minor Program

Minor in English Language and Literature

Students in other disciplines may obtain a Minor in English Language and Literature by successfully completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent overall average:

	One of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97
	three ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above

Minor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Studies

Students in English Language and Literature and other disciplines may obtain a Minor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse Studies by successfully completing the following courses with a minimum 60 percent overall average:

	WRIT 1P96
	three and one-half WRIT credits

Course Descriptions

Note that not all courses are offered in every session. Refer to the applicable term timetable for details.

# Indicates a cross listed course

* Indicates primary offering of a cross listed course

Prerequisites and Restrictions

Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.

ENGLISH COURSES

ENGL 1F91

English Literature: Tradition and Innovation

Works from the medieval 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, 5 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P13

Genre Studies

History and characteristics of a particular literary genre such as satire, detective fiction, graphic novels selected by the instructor.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

Note: see Department webpage for details.

ENGL 2P15

Speculative Fiction

Critical study of some of the histories, contexts, genres, and traditions of science fiction and the literature of the fantastic.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) 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(s): one Humanities context credit (minimum 60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P21

Sixteenth-Century Literature

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

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 2P24 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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)00 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P28

Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations

(also offered as IASC 2P28 and WRIT 2P28)

Classical foundations, historical developments and contemporary theory. 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(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00, COMM 1F90, WRIT 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 (WRIT) 2P27.

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

*ENGL 2P52

Postcolonial Literature

(also offered as INTC 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(s): 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 INTL 2P52.

*ENGL 2P53

Southern African Literatures of Transition

(also offered as INTC 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(s): 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 INTL 2P53.

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(s): one Humanities context credit (60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

*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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor.

*ENGL 2P59

Valuing Contemporary Fiction

(also offered as PCUL 2P59)

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(s): one Humanities context credit (60 percent) or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (PCUL) 2P96.

ENGL 2P60

American Literature: 1800-1865

Literature of the post-Revolutionary era to the Civil war, foregrounding the foundation of a distinctly American literary tradition and the achievements of the American Renaissance.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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 2P61.

ENGL 2P64

Early Canadian Literature

Canadian explorations of cultural conflict and the emergence of the nation from First Contact to Exploration to Settlement.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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

ENGL 2P65

Modern Canadian Literature

Canadian literary response to the radical social and cultural shift of modernism. Topics include war, gender, industrialization and urbanization.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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

ENGL 2P66

Contemporary Canadian Literature

Writing from the post-centennial explosion and maturation of Canadian literature, including current cutting-edge work. Topics may include postmodernism, multiculturalism, ecocriticism and small press experimentation.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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

ENGL 2P67

American Prose: 1865-1910

Prose of the Reconstruction period, the Gilded Age and the Progressive era, emphasizing the growth of the minority literatures and the rise of realism and regional writing.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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 2P61.

ENGL 2P68

American Literature: 1910-1945

Literature of the early 20th century, emphasizing the various literary and cultural responses to industrialization and world wars, and the rise of modernism.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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 2P62.

ENGL 2P69

Contemporary American Prose from 1945

Topics may include the Cold War, the rise of social movements such as Black Power and Second-Wave Feminism, Vietnam, postmodernism, America and globalization, and expanding the canon of American literatures.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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 2P62.

*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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, IASC 1F00 or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 2P75

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(s): 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 2Q90.

*ENGL 2P80

Shakespeare 1590-1603

(also offered as LART 2P80)

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-si�cle Elizabethan England.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q92 and GBLS 2P80.

*ENGL 2P81

Shakespeare 1603-1614

(also offered as LART 2P81)

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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q93 and GBLS 2P81.

*ENGL 2P82

Shakespeare's Comedies

(also offered as LART 2P82)

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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q94 and GBLS 2P82.

*ENGL 2P83

Shakespeare's Tragedies

(also offered as LART 2P83)

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(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, LART (GBLS) 1F90, 1F91 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL (GBLS) 2Q95 and GBLS 2P83.

ENGL 2P84

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(s): one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 2Q98 and 2V91.

ENGL 2Q99

Women and Literature

(also offered as INTC 2Q99 and WISE 2Q99)

Feminist perspectives on representations of women and their writings, focusing on Western and/or World literature.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, INTC (INTL) 1F90, WISE 1F90.

ENGL 2V20-2V29

Studies in Writing by Women

(also offered as WISE 2V20-2V29)

Selected topics in women's writing.

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

ENGL 2V70-2V79

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of English literature.

Prerequisite(s): 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 2V90-2V99.

ENGL 3P06

Creative Writing: Short Fiction

(also offered as WRIT 3P06)

The craft of short fiction writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to students with portfolio and permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.

Note: see Department for details regarding writing portfolio.

ENGL 3P07

Creative Writing: Poetry

(also offered as WRIT 3P07)

The craft of poetry writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to students with portfolio and permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.

Note: see Department for details regarding writing portfolio.

#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(s): one and one-half ENGL, COMM, PCUL 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.

Prerequisite(s): 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 emphasizing Milton.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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.

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

ENGL 3P28

Rhetorical Analysis

(also offered as IASC 3P28 and 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(s): two ENGL credits, 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.

Prerequisite(s): 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.

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

ENGL 3P38

Modernism

Modernist writing in English, from its experimental beginnings through its engagement with radical social thought in the 1960s.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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

*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.

Prerequisite(s): 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Prerequisite(s): 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.

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

ENGL 3P61

Literary Movements in America

Movement or tradition in American literature organized around a school of representation or a cultural tradition such as Hispanic, Asian, African American or Native Literatures.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

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.

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

ENGL 3P66

Filming Canadian Literature

Interplay between a wide range of Canadian literary texts and their film versions; includes adaptation and narrative theory.

Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.

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

ENGL 3P67

Feminist Cultural Theory

(also offered as WISE 3P67)

Relation between culture and the lives of diverse women. Intersections between a wide array of cultural forms, artifacts and practices and the ways in which gender is experienced and lived. Issues include the production of subjectivity, knowledge and power, the production of identities, institutional constructions of gender, resistance and agency.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.

Prerequisite(s): one of ENGL 1F91, 1F95, 1F97, WISE 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

*ENGL 3P90

Life Writing

(also offered as WRIT 3P90)

Cultural productions of the self; theories of and approaches to the study of life writing; texts may include memoirs, diaries, autobiographies and biographies.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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.

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

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(s): ENGL 3P91.

*ENGL 3P94

Literary Criticism

(also offered as LART 3P94)

Literary criticism from Aristotle to Brooks and Leavis emphasizing enduring literary critical problems.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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 GBLS 3P94.

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.

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

ENGL 3P96

Old Norse: Language and Literature I

The Old Norse language; introduction to the prose, poetry, and culture of the Viking age.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): 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

Old Norse: Language and 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(s): ENGL 3P96.

ENGL 3V00-3V10

Topics in Children's Literature

Advanced Studies in writing for children and young people.

Prerequisite(s): 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(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above, WISE 1F90 and one-half-credit from ENGL 2V20 to 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 3V92

2011-2012: Reading a Renaissance Woman

(also offered as MARS 3V92)

The place of books and reading in the life and culture of Anne Clifford. Readings from personal writings and books in her library including extracts (in English) from Ovid�s Metamorphoses, Cervante�s Don Quixote, Castiglione�s Courtier, Montaigne�s Essays, Chaucer, Spenser, Jonson and Donne.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and MARS majors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or above, two MARS credits or permission of the instructor or Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

ENGL 3V93

2011-2012: Feminism and Speculative Fiction

Feminist engagements with the traditions of science fiction and the literature of the fantastic. Authors may include Butler, LeGuin, McKillip, Harroway and Bradley.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or above 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: 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)

Writings from the 1640s to the Restoration, including Areopagitia, Eikon Baislike, female prophesy and Agreement of the People, from literary, critical, historical and theoretical perspectives.

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 RWRT 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, emphasizing critical discourse analysis.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, HEAR, MCMN, SPLS (single or combined) majors and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT 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 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.

ENGL 4P20

Studies in Cultural Rhetoric

(also offered as WRIT 4P20)

How writing shapes and is shaped by the cultural, political, and economic spheres; the intersections between the fields of rhetoric and cultural studies and their contributions to writing production and analysis.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours) BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), HEAR, SPLS (single or combined) majors, CWRT and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

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 (honours) and to RWRT 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 4P46

Virginia Woolf

Selected writings:essays, diaries, major novels.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V46.

ENGL 4P64

Contemporary Canadian Fiction: The Short Story

Short fiction by such writers as Munro, Gallant, Atwood and MacLeod.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

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.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in ENGL 4V65.

ENGL 4P68

Avante-Gard in Canadian Literature

Radical poetry and prose of the 20th century.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ECUL, (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours), and to RWRT 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 4P70

Structuralist and Poststructuralist Theory

Development of structuralist and poststructuralist thought from the late19th century. Includes structuralist theoreticians such as Marx, de Saussure, Freud, Levi-Strauss and Barthes and poststructuralist theoreticians such as Derrida, Foucault and Lacan.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4P71

Contemporary Theoretical Approaches

Current and emerging theoretical approaches to the study of literature. Includes movements such as new historicism, postcolonial theory, psychoanalytic criticism, queer and gender theory, trauma theory, ecocriticism and posthumanism.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4P91

Animal Studies and Literature

Literary and cultural representations of animals from the early modern period to the 21st century in the context of Human-Animal Studies.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

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

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

ENGL 4V01

2011-2012: Editing Early Modern Texts

Theory and practice of editing early modern English texts.

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 to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 per cent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

ENGL 4V05

2011-2012: The First Centruy in Print: 1473-1573

Examination of early modern cultures of reading and writing outside conventionally literary genres of the first century of print in England. Context includes print as technology and industry, humanism, religious controversy and linguistic nationalism.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V30-4V39

Topics in 19th-Century Literature

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

ENGL 4V37

2011-2012: London: Monster City

Growth of London from a Medieval town into a major metropolitan area as reflected in poetry, novels and first-person accounts. Authors include Samuel Pepys, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf.

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 to RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 credits and a minimum of 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

Note: offered online.

ENGL 4V40-4V49

Topics in Contemporary Literature

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

ENGL 4V41

2011-2012: Advanced Studies in Post-Colonial

Advanced studies in literature and theories of resistance and emergence focusing on literary responses to post-conflict conditions.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V45

2011-2012: James Joyce's Ulysses

Close reading and discussion of Joyce�s 1922 novel. Various theoretical perspectives and reading approaches.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined) and ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT 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 4V60-4V69

Topics in Contemporary Canadian Writing

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V70-4V79

Text and Context

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V72

2011-2012: King Arthur in Literature for Young People

Ways in which the Arthurian legend has been adapted for use in literature for young people focusing on texts from the 20th century in a range of genres.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

ENGL 4V74

Contemporary Phototextuality

(also offered as IASC 4V74, LART 4V74 and STAC 4V74)

Contemporary artists' narratives and literature with photographs: interactions of image and text, and moving image. Theoretical, creative and applied aspects, and text and visual analysis. Interdisciplinary focus on Canadian authors and artists. May include Sophie Calle, Andr�e Christensen, Milutin Gubash, Never Lopez and Catherine Owen.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: students must have a minimum 14.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor.

ENGL 4V90-4V99

English Area Studies

Studies in a specialized area of literature in English.

ENGL 4V90

2011-2012: Writing the Environment

(also offered as WRIT 4V90)

Theoretical and literary texts concerning the relation between literature and the environment.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

WRITING COURSES

WRIT 1P93

Academic Writing for the Social Sciences

Rhetorical analyses of research genres, subgenres and their functions; Social Sciences documentation conventions; how and why research practices and related styles might differ across disciplinary fields.

Note: this course is offered online.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 1P94.

WRIT 1P96

Introduction to Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Discourse

Contexts and conventions of workplace and public genres of writing; selected rhetorical theories; assignments modelled on creative, academic, and professional texts.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to RWRT majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.

WRIT 2P14

Technical Writing

(also offered as COMM 2P14)

Processes of technical writing and editing. Document design for scientific, corporate and industrial communication. Practical experience in the production of technical documents.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 2P16

Communication for Organizations

(also offered as COMM 2P16)

Theory, strategies and practice of writing for both business and public organizations.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 2P18

Reporting and News Writing for Mass Media

(also offered as COMM 2P18 and PCUL 2P18)

News gathering, writing, and editing for print and electronic media; journalistic style and conventions; interviewing and other information-gathering techniques; editing basics.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to RWRT, BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors and RWRT minors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 2P20

Identity, Identification and Public Writing

Relationship between individual and community identity as expressed in public writing; history of writing and speaking in the public sphere; the aesthetic and political constraints on writing as activism, as advocacy and as a participatory practice in local, national, and/or transnational publics.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 2P28

Persuasive Discourse: Theoretical Foundations

(also offered as ENGL 2P28 and IASC 2P28)

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 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 WRIT (ENGL) 2P27.

WRIT 2P63

Communication Design

(also offered as COMM 2P63 and PCUL 2P63)

Communication through imagery and typography, including grid usage, composition, visual hierarchy, content development and scale.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92.

WRIT 3P06

Creative Writing: Short Fiction

(also offered as ENGL 3P06)

The craft of short fiction writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to students with portfolio and permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.

Note: see Department for details regarding writing portfolio.

WRIT 3P07

Creative Writing: Poetry

(also offered as ENGL 3P07)

The craft of poetry writing.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to students with portfolio and permission of the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): one credit from WRIT 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.

Note: see Department for details regarding writing portfolios.

WRIT 3P16

Organizational Discourses

Relations between culture, discourse and the writing produced in organizational settings; rhetorics of business, management, law, science and media; the role of writing in the production and maintenance of socio-cultural interests and values.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of WRIT 2P14, 2P16, COMM 2P65 or permission of the instructor.

*WRIT 3P18

True Stories: The Art and Craft of Literary Journalism

(also offered as ENGL 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(s): one and one-half WRIT, COMM, ENGL or PCUL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.

WRIT 3P28

Rhetorical Analysis

(also offered as ENGL 3P28 and IASC 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(s): one WRIT credit, two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 3P63

Desktop Publishing and Design

(also offered as COMM 3P63 and PCUL 3P63)

Practicum in desktop publishing, layout and design.

Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to RWRT, BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors and RWRT minors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.

#WRIT 3P90

Life Writing

(also offered as ENGL 3P90)

Cultural productions of the self; theories of and approaches to the study of life writing; texts may include memoirs, diaries, autobiographies and biographies.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

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

WRIT 3P98

Reporting Arts and Culture

(also offered as STAC 3P98)

Contexts, genres, conventions and practices of arts journalism in Canada; critical reading of selected texts in arts journalism; practical experience researching and writing arts news, reviews, features, and publicity for print and electronic media.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two credits numbered 2(alpha)00or above from WRIT, COMM, ENGL, PCUL, STAC or permission of the instructor.

WRIT 3P99

Interpretive and Critical Writing in the Arts

(also offered as STAC 3P99 and VISA 3P99)

Principles and methodologies for the written presentation and representation of works of art, artists' practice and events within general and specific disciplinary contexts, discourses and frameworks. Examples from across the arts; practice-based projects from real world events and performances. Orientation to specialized publics in print and other media.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: students must have a minimum 10.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor.

Note: event attendance is required; events fees required.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT (STAC/VISA) 3V99.

WRIT 3V90-3V99

Topics in Writing and Culture

WRIT 4F99

Independent Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse

Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.

Restriction: permission of the Chair.

Note: the student will produce a substantial body of work on a writing and communications issue. Students must have a minimum 75 percent average in two WRIT credits numbered 2(alpha)00 or above. The Chair must approve proposals for projects and circulate approved projects to the Department.

WRIT 4P10

Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice

(also offered as COMM 4P10 and ENGL 4P10)

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

WRIT 4P15

Words on Words: Narratives of Language

(also offered as ENGL 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.

WRIT 4P20

Studies in Cultural Rhetoric

(also offered as ENGL 4P20)

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to ECUL, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), ALTS, APLI (single or combined), HEAR, SPLS (single or combined) majors, CWRT and RWRT minors with approval to year 4 (honours) and RWRT majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 60 percent major average or permission of the instructor and the Chair.

WRIT 4P98

Independent Studies in Writing

Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.

Restriction: permission of the Chair.

WRIT 4P99

Independent Studies in Writing

Research project related to writing chosen by the student in consultation with a faculty member.

Restriction: permission of the Chair.

WRIT 4V90-4V99

Writing Area Studies

Topics selected on the basis of faculty expertise.

WRIT 4V90

2011-2012: Writing the Environment

(also offered as ENGL 4V90)

Theoretical and literary texts concerning the relation between literature and the environment.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

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