Spring / Summer Courses 2024

All Spring/Summer English course material is available online through myCourseLink or contact the assigned Instructor.

Spring term May 1 - June 12, 2024 (6 weeks)

Spring Term 2024

ENGL 1015 SDE: Introduction to Academic Writing                                   

Instructor:  Cindy Soldan                                                    Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

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                               

Instructor:    Evan Sills                                                      Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

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                                          

Instructor:   Megan Arnott                                                 Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

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 2717 SDE: Indigenous Literatures in Canada                                   

Instructor: Rebecca Menhart                                           Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

A study of literature in English by First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors within Canada. Topics to be covered may include the relationship between oral and written traditions; the adaptation of forms of English-language literature so that they are more appropriate to Indigenous cultural contexts; and the use of literary texts to teach aspects of philosophy, history, religion and/or environmental science.
 
Prerequisite(s):  One FCE in English at the first-year level, or Indigenous Learning 1100, or second-year standing, or permission of the Chair of the Department

Cross-List(s): Indigenous Learning 2717

Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 2702/Indigenous Learning 2702 may not take English 2717/Indigenous Learning 2717 for credit. English 2717 counts towards fulfillment of the Area 3 requirement.

Course Classifications:  Type A: Humanities; Type E: Indigenous Content

ENGL 3911: Special Topics: Pandemics, Plagues, and Poxes

Instructor:   Dr. Kathryn Walton                                         Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

For many living in Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most impactful events of the 21st century. It changed, for a time, the way we work, attend school, interact, and shop, and its impacts are still being felt today. At the time, the pandemic felt unprecedented. As this course will show, however, pandemics are a fixture of human history and literature. This course will take students through literary accounts of some of history’s most deadly pandemics. Our texts will range from Boccaccio’s devastating record of the Black Death in medieval Italy, to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, to Katherine Anne Porter’s account of the Spanish Flu in Pale Horse, Pale Rider. We will then move forward to look at a few speculative pandemic narratives including Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Ling Ma’s speculative, satirical pandemic, Severance. We will finish with a few modern Zombie narratives, almost all of which begin with a pandemic, and a few narrative accounts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Throughout the course, students will examine how writers across history have accounted for disease and pandemic within their individual social contexts and consider how issues of culture, identity, and humanity are bound up in narratives of disease and death. Assignments will also allow students to connect their own experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic to the tradition of pandemic writing, in hopes that they will gain a better understanding of the legacy of that impactful event.

Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

 

Summer term July 2 - August 13, 2024 (6 weeks)

 

Summer Term 2024

ENGL 1014 ADE:  Introduction to Creative Writing                                      

Instructor:  Taina Maki-Chahal                                          Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

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           

Synonym: TBA                                                                    Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

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                           

Instructor:  Rebecca Menhart                                          Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

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 2917 ADE: Children's Literature                                  

Instructor:  Dr. Kathryn Walton                                         Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

Children’s literature includes some of the most beloved and influential texts written in English. Focusing on genres such as fairy tales, poetry, picture books, and novels, a variety of topics will be covered, such as constructions of childhood and child development, literature’s role in the cultivation of the imagination, the relationship between image and text, the conflict between didacticism and pleasure, and the nature of innocence and experience.

Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

ENGL 3053ADE: Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality - Medieval Masculinities  

Instructor:  Megan Arnott                                                Delivery mode:  WEB (online)

We will look at medieval masculinities. This means looking at masculinity in different religious traditions, including cloisters, or church hierarchies, looking at texts like saints’ lives and monastic rules. It also means looking at masculinity as represented in martial cultures, including knights or Vikings or soldiers, particularly in romances or sagas. But it also means looking at the way that medieval is coded masculine in modern texts or societies. 

Prerequisite(s):  Two FCEs in English, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or two FCEs in Gender and Women’s Studies, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or permission of the Chair of the Department English

Cross-List(s): Gender and Women’s Studies 3053

Notes: Gender and Women's Studies Group 1 Course

Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities

ENGL 4018ADE/ENGL 5018/SOCJ 5018: Honours Seminar in the Radical Imagination: Play Revolution

Instructor:  Dr. Max Haiven                             Delivery mode:  Zoom; 0830 - 1130 Monday and Thursday 

This course takes up the question of how play and games have become central to racial capitalism and imperialism in our age and contrasts it to a longer history of the role of play and games in revolutionary and radical social movements. To do so, we draw on theoretical readings, case studies, conversations with key thinkers and makers, and experimental and participatory methods. Topics may include the rise of the games industry (digital and analogue), gamification as a tool of domination, the history of radical games, play and games in literature and popular culture, queer, feminists and post/anti-colonial approaches to play and games, and theories of play in the expanded field. Students will be supported to pursue academic inquiries or critical creative projects.

Prerequisite(s):  4 FCEs in English or permission of the Chair of the Department of English

Cross-List(s): English 5018 and Social Justice 5018

Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities