Spring / Summer Courses 2023
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Spring term May 1 - June 14, 2023 (6 weeks)
ENGL 1015 SDE: Introduction to Academic Writing Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Synonym: 118407
An introduction to university-level standards of composition, revision, editing, research, and documentation. A review of English grammar (word and sentence level) and rhetorical forms (paragraph level and beyond), and a study of the methods and conventions of academic argumentation and research, with an emphasis on finding and evaluating sources, formulating research questions, developing arguments, and composing various types of analyses including academic essays.
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 1011, 1031, or 1500 may not take English 1015 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 1016 SDE: Introduction to Professional Writing Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Synonym: 118410
An introduction to professional-level standards of composition, revision, editing, research and documentation. A review of English grammar (word and sentence level), rhetorical forms (paragraph level and beyond), and a study of writing in a variety of professional contexts with an emphasis on assessing rhetorical situations and crafting messages to inform and persuade diverse audiences in a variety of forms and formats.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 1115 SDE: Foundations of Literary Study Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Synonym: 118501
An introduction to literary study, focusing on texts from the major genres (drama, poetry, prose) within their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be given to the development of skills in critical analysis, research, writing, and documentation.
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 1100, 1102, 1111 or 1112 may not take English 1115 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL/INDI 2510 SDE: Global Literatures in English Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Synonym: 118517
A study of literature and cultural expression in English from around the world, including Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the South Pacific, with an emphasis on Indigenous texts. English is a global language, spoken by over a billion people who have creatively reshaped it to tell stories that reflect their diverse social, historical, political and cultural contexts. These stories both respond to colonial histories, and promote cultural continuity. Issues of nationalism, colonialism, globalization, indigeneity, migration and race will be studied through a variety of literary, cultural, and theoretical texts.
Cross-List(s): Indigenous Learning 2510
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 2501 may not take English 2510 for credit. English 2510 counts toward fulfillment of the Area 3 requirement.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities; Type E: Indigenous Content
ENGL 3017 SDE: Advanced Creative Writing Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Synonym: 118542
Advanced instruction in the craft of creative writing in one or more forms such as poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction prose.
Notes: Students who have previous credit in 4811, 4813, 4815, or 4817 may not take ENGL 3017 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL/WOME 4016, ENGL 5070, SOCJ 5016 SDE: Honours Seminar in Gender and Sexuality - Globalizing Families and Reproduction in Contemporary Literature
Synonym: 118543 Delivery mode: Zoom – Tues/Thurs 8:30am – 11:30am
In light of recent and ongoing changes to access to reproductive justice in many parts of the world, this course invites students to look at reproduction and family formation in global contexts as important feminist issues. We will focus on sex-selective abortion, child-limiting policies, and transnational/transcultural adoption and surrogacy in literature from a number of different regions, and we will consider how competing discourses of agency and exploitation frame surrogacy and adoption markets in a variety of theoretical, fictional, and non-fictional works.
Primary texts studied may include Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Selector of Souls, Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers, Julayne Lee’s Not My White Saviour: A Memoir in Poems, Joanne Ramos’ The Farm, Leni Zumas’ Red Clocks, Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, Angela Garbes Like a Mother, Buchi Emecheta’s The New Tribe and Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know.
Secondary readings will include feminist theorizing about maternity as well as contemporary analyses of fetal imaging, surrogacy, and adoption policies. Our reading list may include excerpts from John McLeod’s Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption, Marianne Novy’s Imagining Adoption, Laura Harrison’s Brown Bodies, White Babies: The Politics of Cross-Racial Surrogacy, Sharmila Rudrappa’s Discounted Life, and others.
Cross-List(s): Gender and Women's Studies 4016/Social Justice 5016
Notes: Gender and Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 1014 ADE: Introduction to Creative Writing Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Synonym: 118867
An introduction to the craft of creative writing. Genres studied may include drama, poetry, prose fiction, creative nonfiction.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 1015 ADE: Introduction to Academic Writing Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Synonym: 118409
An introduction to university-level standards of composition, revision, editing, research, and documentation. A review of English grammar (word and sentence level) and rhetorical forms (paragraph level and beyond), and a study of the methods and conventions of academic argumentation and research, with an emphasis on finding and evaluating sources, formulating research questions, developing arguments, and composing various types of analyses including academic essays.
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 1100, 1102, 1111 or 1112 may not take English 1115 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL/MDST 1117 ADE: Introduction to Popular Culture Delivery mode: WEB
Synonym: 118513
An introduction to the critical study of popular culture, considering definitions of "the popular" and how popular movements, genres, and subcultures emerge and develop. Popular culture theories and their applications will be covered; a variety of cultural texts will be analyzed.
Cross-List(s): Media, Film, and Communications 1117
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 2902 may not take English 1117 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL/WOME 2810: Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Literature Delivery mode: WEB
Synonym: 118519
An introduction to the role cultural texts play in constructions and understandings of gender, sexuality and the body and their historical and cultural variations. Topics to be covered may include diverse feminisms, masculinity, femininity, biology, queer studies, trans politics, and reproductive politics. These topics will be illuminated through a variety of cultural and theoretical texts.
Cross-List(s): Women’s Studies 2810
Notes: Gender and Women's Studies Group 1 course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 3050ADE: Special Topics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature - Legends of King Arthur
Synonym: 118541 Delivery mode: WEB
The legends of King Arthur and his knights permeate across literary history. From their origins in the medieval period, to their reimagining in the Victorian period, to their popular adaptions today, these adventurous tales have always appealed to readers. This course introduces students to the establishment and development of this longstanding narrative. Our focus is on Arthur’s origins in the history of England, and we will look at some of the best and most evocative examples of the Arthurian legend produced in the Middle Ages. Characters familiar to many readers today – Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Merlin – take various and diverse masks across the Middle Ages; they not only engage in the adventures and affairs for which they are most famous but also reflect on the politics and priorities of the time and even on the human condition more generally. While our focus is on medieval examples of Arthurian literature, we will also consider how the Arthurian legend has been adapted recently. We will look at some of the many contemporary books, graphic novels, television shows, and films that feature the narrative and reflect on how and why this medieval story continues to appeal to audiences today.
Notes: English 3050 counts toward fulfillment of the Area 1 requirement.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities