Undergraduate Program Description
First year courses
Literature courses
English 1115: Foundations of Literary Study
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.English/MDST 1116: Native & Newcomer Literatures in Canada: Contact Zones
An introduction to First Nations and settler literature in Canada, focusing on the ways in which the writing of these groups helps to define, negotiate, and critique the relationships between all Canadian treaty people. Texts from a variety of genres, such as fiction, travel and exploration narrative, life writing, poetry, songs, drama and film, will be studied in their historical, political, and cultural contexts.English/MDST 1117: Introduction to Popular Culture
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.English/MDST 1118: Introduction to Film Studies
An introduction to the practices of reading, analyzing, and writing critically about film. Elements including mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound will be examined. Film form and style in a variety of genres, such as the documentary, experimental film, narrative cinema, and animation, will be covered. Attention will be paid to the role of cinema, and cinema studies, as cultural institutions.Writing courses
English 1014: Introduction to Creative Writing
English 1015: Introduction to Academic Writing
English 1016: Introduction to Professional Writing
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.Second Year Courses
ENGL 2013 FA Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL/WOME 2035 FA & FAO Horror films and Feminism
ENGL 2250FA & ENGL 2250FAO: History of English Literature I
ENGL 2510FA/FAO: Global Literatures in Canada
ENGL/INDI 2717FA: Indigenous Literatures of Canada
ENGL/WOME 2810WDE: Gender, Sexuality & the Body
ENGL 2817 FAO Creative Writing: Creative nonfiction
ENGL 2913FA & ENGL 2913FAO: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
ENGL 2817 FAO: Writing across genres: Non-fiction prose
ENGL 2917 FAO: Children's Literature
ENGL/MDST 2950 FDE: Science Fiction
WINTER 2024:
ENGL 2012 WAO: Creative Writing: Prose Fiction
ENGL 2115 WDE: Shakespeare
ENGL 2251 WA & ENGL 2251 WAO: History of English Literature II
ENGL/INDI 2510 WAO: Global Literatures in English
ENGL/WOME 2810 WDE: Gender, Sexuality & the Body in Literature
ENGL 2817 WA: Creative Writing: Creative nonfiction
ENGL 2916 FA: Popular Fiction
ENGL 2917 WA: Children's Literature
Third year courses
Fourth year courses
ENGL 4010 FA – Honours Seminar: The Movie Musical
ENGL 4010 FB – Honours Seminar: Children's Literature and Social Mobility
ENGL 4010 WDE – Honours Seminar: Terror and Technology
ENGL 4012 FA – Honours Seminar in Indigenous Literatures: Indigenous Futurisms
ENGL 4013 FDE – Honours Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Literature – English and Scottish Popular Ballads and their Afterlife
ENGL 4015 WAO – Honours Seminar in Global and Minority Literatures: African-American Women Writers
ENGL 4016 – Honours Seminar in Gender and Sexuality: Femininity and Power in Popular Culture
ENGL/WOME 4113 WA / WAO – Women and Legal Narratives
ENGL 4914 WA – Honours Seminar in Critical Theory: Globalization