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Department of English

Course Spotlight

Course Spotlight

Curious about what kinds of things we do in English? Our course spotlight features some of the concepts, texts, and approaches explored in various corners of the UTSC English programs. Read below for a sampling, and feel free to contact any of the professors if you have questions about their courses.

Winter 2024 Courses

Explore our Past Courses 

ENGC03: Haunted Canada - skull

ENGC03: Haunted Canada

Offered Winter 2022. Explore haunted Canada with Prof. Marlene Goldman!
ENGC07: Canadian Drama

ENGC07: Canadian Drama

Offered Winter 2022. Explore works by prominent Indigenous Canadian playwrights with Prof. Randy
ENGC12: Individualism and Community in American Literature

ENGC12: Individualism and Community in A

Offered Winter 2022. Explore conflicting conceptions of the self with Prof. Neal Dolan!
ENGC37 Literature & Culture

ENGC37 Literature & Culture

Offered Winter 2022. Explore literature and literary culture during the end of the eighteenth and
ENGC92: Film Theory

ENGC92: Film Theory

Offered Winter 2022. Explore major theorists and schools of thought in the history of film theory
ENGD52 Cinema: Auteur Theory

ENGD52 Cinema: Auteur Theory

Offered Winter 2022. Explore the genesis of auteur theory with Prof. Sara Saljoughi!
ENGB22: African Literature

ENGB22: African Literature

Offered Fall 2021. Learn about a literary tradition that confronts language, literature, history
ENGB52: Literature & Science

ENGB52: Literature & Science

Offered Fall 2021. Are you interested in where the nuclear meets the novel? This is the course
ENGC05: Poetry, Experimentation, Activism

ENGC05: Poetry, Experimentation, Activis

In Prof. Akiwenzie-Damm's class, you'll work hard, play hard, and write poetry that just might
ENGC20: The Antihero in Literature and Film - person standing on a mountain faded in background

ENGC20: The Antihero in Literature and F

Offered Fall 2021. This course examines the historical and cultural contexts that enabled the
ENGC75: Children in Contemporary Film & Media

ENGC75: Children in Contemporary Film

Offered Fall 2021. How are children are represented in fiction and film, from Boyhood to Girlhood
ENGC82: Topics in Cinema Studies

ENGC82: Topics in Cinema Studies

Offered Fall 2021. Focus on questions of identity and cultural difference in Canadian filmmaking
ENGD03: Black Feminist Theory

ENGD03: Black Feminist Theory

Offered Fall 2021. This semester Prof. Vernon's D-level theory seminar will focus on
ENGD71: Studies in Arab North American Literature

ENGD71: Studies in Arab North American L

Offered Fall 2021. Join Prof. Assif in exploring the concept of "home" in selected Arab North
ENGD98: Capstone Seminar & Senior Essay

ENGD98: Capstone Seminar & Senior Es

Offered 2021-22. In this yearlong course you will develop and present your own independent
C14 Black Canadian Literature with purple-toned swamp illustration by April de la Noche

ENGC14: Black Canadian Literature

Offered Winter 2021. Experience the very special inauguration of Prof. Vernon's course on Black
ENGC39 The Early Novel in Context: Old book volume backed by postmodern painting

ENGC39: The Early Novel in Context

Offered Winter 2021. You think you know about The Novel? HAH. This course will challenge
ENGC45: Queer Literature & Theory

ENGC45: Queer Literature & Theory

Offered Winter 2021. This semester Prof. SJ Sindu asks us to think about queerness and transness
ENGC87: Creative Writing Fiction II

ENGC87: Creative Writing Fiction II

Offered Fall 2020. Explore your voice and expand your writing skills with award-winning author
ENGD18: Enlightenment Orientalisms (Topics in the Long 18th C.)

ENGD18: Enlightenment Orientalisms (Topi

Offered Fall 2020. Join Prof. Milne to continue the critical inquiry started by Edward Said, and
ENGD59: American Poetry (Elizabeth Bishop)

ENGD59: American Poetry (Elizabeth Bisho

Offered Winter 2021. Prof. Dubois will walk with you through the work of Elizabeth Bishop -- you
ENGB33: Shakespeare in Context II

ENGB33: Shakespeare in Context II

Offered Fall 2020. Shakespeare's context is more familiar to us that you might imagine: love, war
ENGB37: Popular Literature & Mass Culture

ENGB37: Popular Literature & Mass Cu

Offered Fall 2020. You'll never have more fun at the end of the world -- and exploring what comes
ENGB63: summary image

ENGB63: Creative Writing: Nonfiction I

Offered Fall 2020. Explore truth and transformation with Andrew Westoll, as he guides you through
ENGC02: Major Canadian Authors - butterflies against black background

ENGC02: Major Canadian Authors

Offered Fall 2020. How can Canadian literature help us understand the transformations our world
ENGC59: Literature and the Environment

ENGC59: Literature and the Environment

Offered Fall 2020. How can literature help us understand -- and engage with -- environmental
ENGC87: Creative Writing Fiction II

ENGC87: Creative Writing Fiction II

Offered Fall 2020. Explore your voice and expand your writing skills with award-winning author
ENGC91: American Realisms

ENGC91: American Realisms

Offered Fall 2020. Looking for perspective on today's struggles for justice and equality in
ENGD02: Teaching Academic Writing: Theories, Methods, and Service Learning

ENGD02: Teaching Academic Writing: Theor

Offered 2020-21. Prof. Assif's year-long service learning course will give you the opportunity to
ENGD30: Topics in Medieval Literature

ENGD30: Topics in Medieval Literature

Offered Fall 2020. Go on a thousand-year quest to find the meaning in King Arthur, covering a
ENGD50: Fake Friends and Artificial Intelligence

ENGD50: Fake Friends and Artificial Inte

Offered Fall 2020. Confront the complex questions of "social robots" and creation myths in Prof.
ENGD55: Literature, Politics, Revolution

ENGD55: Literature, Politics, Revolution

Offered Fall 2020. Build worlds while you explore the fate of our own with Prof. Bolus-Reichert's
ENGC33: Deceit, Dissent, and the English Civil Wars

ENGC33: Deceit, Dissent, and the English

Offered Winter 2020. Explore a tumultous and war-torn but innovative period in English literature
ENGC38: Novel Genres

ENGC38: Novel Genres

Offered Winter 2020. Explore early forms of the novel with Dr. Anne Milne!
ENGD19: Early Modern Sexualities

ENGD19: Early Modern Sexualities

Offered in Winter 2020. Explore early modern representations of sexualities with Prof.
ENGD48: Adapting Jane Eyre

ENGD48: Adapting Jane Eyre

Offered Winter 2020. Explore adaptations of Jane Eyre with Dr. Nikk!
ENGD60: Topics in American Prose

ENGD60: Topics in American Prose

Offered Winter 2020. Explore the impact of advanced literacy in American prose with Prof. Neal