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ENGA10H3 Introduction to Literary Study: 1890 to World War II
An exploration of how literature reflects the artistic and cultural concerns that shaped the first part of the twentieth century. An introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of early twentieth-century men and women.
Exclusion: ENG140Y

ENGA11H3 Introduction to Literary Study: 1945 to Today
An exploration of how literature reflects the artistic and cultural concerns that shaped the world after the Second World War. An introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of late twentieth-century men and women from a range of backgrounds and nationalities.
Exclusion: ENG140Y

ENGB03H3 Critical Thinking About Narrative
An introduction to the literary analysis of narrative. This course will study closely a small number of narratives and narrative genres from different periods in order to develop the critical skills to analyse narratives.
Exclusion: ENG110Y

ENGB04H3 Critical Thinking About Poetry
An introduction to the literary analysis of poetry. This course will study closely poems and poetic forms from different periods in order to develop the critical skills to analyse poetry.
Exclusion: ENG201Y

ENGB05H3 Critical Writing about Literature
Intensive training in critical writing about literature. Students learn essay-writing skills (explication; organization and argumentation; research techniques; bibliographies and MLA-style citation) necessary for the study of English at the university level through group workshops, multiple short papers, and a major research-based paper. This is not a grammar course; students are expected to enter with solid English literacy skills.
Limited enrolment: 25 per section
Exclusion: (ENGB01H), (ENGB02H)

ENGB06H3 Canadian Literary Traditions
An examination of large issues and themes that have shaped Canadian literature. Focusing on the development and emergence of a Canadian literary tradition, this course examines the problems of writing in a New World nation, the emergence and definition of an indigenous tradition, and the challenges such a tradition faces.
Exclusion: ENG252Y

ENGB07H3 Nation in Canadian Writing
An examination of the formation of identity, of a sense of belonging, and of the problematics of nationhood in Canadian writing.
Exclusion: ENG252Y

ENGB08H3 Collisions of Culture and the Emergence of a Liberal Nation
An examination of Early American literature in historical context from colonization to the Civil War. This introductory survey places a wide variety of genres including conquest and captivity narratives, theological tracts, sermons, and diaries, as well as classic novels and poems in relation to the multiple subcultures of the period.
Pre-1900 course
Exclusion: ENG250Y

ENGB09H3 American Literature from the Civil War to the Present
An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama. An introductory survey of major novels, short fiction, poetry, and drama from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah, with an emphasis on themes of immigration, ethnicity, modernization, individualism, class, and community.
Exclusion: ENG250Y
Prerequisite: ENGB08H

ENGB12H3 Life Writing
Life-writing, whether formal biography, chatty memoir, postmodern biotext, or published personal journal, is popular with writers and readers alike. This course introduces students to life-writing as a literary genre and explores major issues such as life-writing and fiction, life-writing and history, the contract between writer and reader, and gender and life-writing.
Exclusion: ENG232H

ENGB14H3 Twentieth-Century Drama
A study of major plays and playwrights of the twentieth century. This international survey might include turn-of-the-century works by Wilde or Shaw; mid-century drama by Beckett, O'Neill, Albee, or Miller; and later twentieth-century plays by Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Caryl Churchill, Peter Shaffer, August Wilson, Tomson Highway, David Hwang, or Athol Fugard.
Exclusion: ENG340H, ENG341H, ENG342H, (ENGB11H), (ENGB13H), (ENG338Y), (ENG339H)

ENGB17H3 Contemporary Literature from the Caribbean
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry from the West Indies. The course will examine the relation of standard English to the spoken language; the problem of narrating a history of slavery and colonialism; the issues of race, gender, and nation; and the task of making West Indian literary forms.
Exclusion: ENG253Y, NEW223Y

ENGB19H3 Contemporary Literature from South Asia
A study of literature in English from South Asia, with emphasis on fiction from India. The course will examine the relation of English-language writing to indigenous South Asian traditions, the problem of narrating a history of colonialism and Partition, and the task of making the novel South Asian.
Exclusion: ENG253Y

ENGB25H3 The Canadian Short Story
A study of the Canadian short story. The Canadian short story has been vital to the Canadian literary tradition and has produced writers of international stature, including Munro, Atwood, Laurence, and Gallant.
Exclusion: ENG215H

ENGB32H3 Shakespeare in Context I
An introduction to the poetry and plays of William Shakespeare, this course situates his works in the literary, social and political contexts of early modern England. The main emphasis will be on close readings of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, to be supplemented by classical, medieval, and renaissance prose and poetry upon which Shakespeare drew.
Pre-1900 course.
Exclusion: ENG220Y, (ENGB10H)

ENGB33H3 Shakespeare in Context II
A continuation of ENGB32H, this course introduces students to selected dramatic comedies, tragedies and romances and situates Shakespeare's works in the literary, social and political contexts of early modern England. Our readings will be supplemented by studies of Shakespeare's sources and influences, short theoretical writings, and film excerpts.
Pre-1900 course.
Exclusion: (ENGB10H), ENG220Y
Recommended preparation: ENGB32H

ENGB34H3 The Short Story
An introduction to the short story as a literary form. This course examines the origins and recent development of the short story, its special appeal for writers and readers, and the particular effects it is able to produce.
Exclusion: ENG213H

ENGB35H3 Children's Literature
An introduction to children's literature. This course will locate children's literature within the history of social attitudes to children and in terms of such topics as authorial creativity, race, class, gender, and nationhood.
Exclusion: ENG234H

ENGB36H3 Detective Fiction
A study of the evolution and forms of detective fiction. This course examines the formal rules that govern detective fiction - a mainstay of mass media and a genre that has influenced literature - and the social contexts that make this a genre that has cut across classes, cultures, and continents.
Exclusion: ENG236H

ENGB41H3 Science Fiction
An examination of the genre of science fiction. This course will look at different forms of this genre (novels, short stories, and films), emphasizing the way a popular genre comes into being, the effect on the form of innovation, and the interaction that exists between science fiction and literary writing.
Exclusion: ENG237H

ENGB50H3 Women and Literature: Forging a Tradition
An examination of the development of a women's tradition of writing. This course considers the legacy and impact of writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Virginia Woolf
Exclusion: ENG233Y

ENGB51H3 Gender and Genre
An analysis of the role of gender in fiction, poetry, and drama. This course will examine such things as the genres women have gravitated toward and excelled at in the light of Woolf's claim that the novel was the genre most accessible to women because it was not entirely formed.

ENGB60H3 Creative Writing: Poetry
An introduction to the writing of poetry. This course will provide an introduction to the writing of poetry through workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. Portfolios for students seeking admission should be left with the Humanities departmental assistant in H525A no later than the first Monday of October. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which could include fiction, poems or essays. Do not include originals.
Limited enrolment: 20
Exclusion: ENG369Y

ENGB61H3 Creative Writing: Fiction
An introduction to the writing of fiction. This course will provide an introduction to the writing of short fiction through workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. Portfolios for students seeking admission should be left with the Humanities departmental assistant in H525A no later than the first Monday of October. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which could include fiction, poems or essays. Do not include originals.
Limited enrolment: 20
Exclusion: ENG369Y

ENGB62H3 Creative Writing: Scripts and Drama
This course provides an introduction to script-writing through intensive workshop sessions. Admission by portfolio. Portfolios for students seeking admission should be left with the Humanities departmental assistant in H525A no later than the first Monday of October. They should contain a selected sample (5-15 pp.) of your strongest writing, which could include fiction, poems, or essays. Do not include originals.
Limited enrolment: 20

ENGB64H3 Native North American Literature
An introduction to Native North American writing with an emphasis on First Nations literature and culture of the last 30 years. Dealing with the literatures of a broad range of peoples and a wide variety of genres and styles, students will explore such issues as identity, representation, transmission, and translation.
Exclusion: ENG254Y

ENGB70H3 Introduction to Cinema
An introduction to the critical study of cinema, including films from a broad range of genres, countries, and eras, as well as readings representing the major critical approaches to cinema that have developed over the past century.
Exclusion: INI115Y

ENGB75H3 Cinema & Modernity I
An investigation of film genres such as melodrama, film noir, and the western from 1895 to the present. We will look at the creation of an ideological space and of new mythologies that helped organize the experience of modern life. Works of twentieth-century prose and poetry will also be studied.

ENGB76H3 Cinema & Modernity II
An investigation of film genres such as romance, gothic, and science fiction from 1895 to the present. We will look at the way cinema developed and created new mythologies that helped people organize the experience of modern life. Works of twentieth-century prose and poetry will also be studied.
Exclusion: ENG238H

ENGC02H3 Major Canadian Authors
An examination of three or more Canadian writers. This course will draw together selected major writers of Canadian fiction or of other forms.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB06H or ENGB07H]

ENGC03H3 Studies in Canadian Fiction
An analysis of Canadian fiction with regard to the problems of representation. Topics considered may include how Canadian fiction writers have responded to and documented the local; social rupture and historical trauma; and the problematics of representation for marginalized societies, groups, and identities.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG216Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB06H or ENGB07H]

ENGC10H3 Studies in Shakespeare
A study of the plays of Shakespeare. An in-depth study of select plays from Shakespeare's dramatic corpus combined with an introduction to the critical debates within Shakespeare studies. Students will gain a richer understanding of Shakespeare's texts and their critical reception.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG220Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or (ENGB10H)

ENGC12H3 Individualism and Community in Classic American Literature
An exploration of the tension in American literature between two conflicting concepts of self. We will examine the influence on American literature of the opposition between an abstract, "rights-based," liberal-individualist conception of the self and a more traditional, communitarian sense of the self as determined by inherited regional, familial, and social bonds.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC13H3 Ethnic Traditions in American Literature
A survey of the literature of Native Peoples, Africans, Irish, Jews, Italians, Latinos, and East Asians in the U.S, focusing on one or two groups each term. We will look at how writers of each group register the affective costs of the transition from "old-world" communalism to "new-world" individualism.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB08H or ENGB09H].

ENGC14H3 Concepts in Literary History
A study of the concepts and methodologies of literary history. This introduction to the development and practice of literary history will consider artistic and intellectual movements; the concepts and difficulties of periodization; the political, social, and cultural imperatives of literary canonization; and the history of English as a discipline.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC15H3 Concepts in Literary Criticism
A study of selected topics in literary criticism.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG267H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC16H3 The Bible and Literature I
Literary analysis of the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament) and its profound influence on literature. This course considers both the literary nature of and the influence on literature of such narratives as the fall of Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, Abraham's binding of Isaac, and the story of Moses, The Song of Solomon, Job, Jonah, Jeremiah.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: (ENGB42H), ENG200Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC17H3 The Bible and Literature II
Literary analysis of the narratives and other literary forms in the New Testament, and extended consideration of selected literary texts that the New Testament has influenced.
Pre-1900 course.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: (ENGB43H), ENG200Y
Prerequisite: ENGC16H or (ENGB42H)

ENGC20H3 Victorian Poetry and Prose
An introduction to the poetry and non-fiction prose of the Victorian period, 1837-1901. Representative authors will be studied in the context of a culture in transition, in which questions about democracy, the rights of women, national identity, imperialism, science and religion, and the place of the arts in everyday life were prominent.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG347Y & (ENG312Y)
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC21H3 The Victorian Novel to 1860
A study of major works of Victorian fiction, 1830-1860. This course focuses on the development of the realist novel in its social context. Authors studied might include Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, the Bronte sisters, Anthony Trollope and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG324Y, ENG325H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC22H3 The Victorian Novel after 1860
A study of major works of Victorian fiction, 1860-1901. This course examines the emergence of the sensation novel, fantasy and science fiction, and high Victorian realism. Authors studied might include George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, George MacDonald, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, or Rudyard Kipling.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG324Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC23H3 Fantasy and the Fantastic in Literature and the Other Arts
A study of fantasy and the fantastic from 1800 to the present. Students will consider various theories of the fantastic in order to chart the complex genealogy of modern fantasy across a wide array of literary genres (fairy tales, poems, short stories, romances, and novels) and visual arts (painting, architecture, comics, and film).
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG239H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC26H3 Drama: Tragedy
An exploration of major dramatic tragedies in the classic and English tradition. Tragedy has been thought of as one of the earliest and most profound literary forms, having ritual and philosophical implications and inspiring theoretical treatises beginning with Aristotle's Poetics.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]
Alternative pre/co-requisites: VPDB10H & VPDB11H

ENGC27H3 Drama: Comedy
An historical exploration of comedy as a major form of dramatic expression. Theatrical comedy has been thought of as having social as well as literary dimensions (healing rifts; providing carnivalesque escape; mocking folly).
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]
Alternative prerequisites: VPDB10H & VPDB11H

ENGC29H3 Chaucer
Selections from The Canterbury Tales and other works by the greatest English writer before Shakespeare. In studying Chaucer's medieval masterpiece, students will encounter a variety of tales and tellers, with subject matter that ranges from broad and bawdy humour through subtle social satire to moral fable.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG300Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC30H3 Topics in Medieval Literature
A study of selected medieval texts by one or more authors.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG330H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC31H3 The Romance: In Quest of the Marvelous
A study of the romance as genre. The romance as episodic tale of marvellous adventures and questing heroes has been both criticized and celebrated. This course looks at the range of a form stretching from Malory and Spenser through Scott and Tennyson to contemporary forms such as fantasy, science fiction, postmodern romance, and the romance novel.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC32H3 The Golden Age: Elizabethan Literature
A study of the poetry, prose, and drama written in English throughout the Age of Queen Elizabeth I. We will explore innovations in poetic and dramatic forms, shifts in ideological tensions in religious and social life, emerging forms for narrating the exchange between Old worlds and New, and conflicts regarding the place of a female ruler on the world's political stage.
Pre-1900 course.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG302Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC33H3 Literature of Deceit and Dissent, 1603-1660
A study of the poetry, prose, and drama written in England between the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603 and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. This course will examine the innovative literature of these politically tumultuous years alongside debates concerning personal and political sovereignty, religion, censorship, ethnicity, courtship and marriage, and women's authorship.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG304Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC34H3 Early Modern Women and Literature, 1500-1700
A focused exploration of women's writing in the early modern period. This course considers the variety of texts produced by women (including closet drama, religious and secular poetry, diaries, letters, prose romance, translations, polemical tracts, and confessions), the contexts that shaped those writings, and the theoretical questions with which they engage.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB50H or [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC35H3 Imagined Communities in Early Modern England, 1500-1700
A study of the real and imagined multiculturalism of early modern English life. How did English encounters and exchanges with people, products, languages, and material culture from around the globe redefine ideas of national, ethnic, and racial community? In exploring this question, we will consider drama, poetry, travel journals, autobiography, letters, cookbooks, costume books, and maps.
Pre-1900 course.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]
Recommended preparation: [ENGB32H or ENGB33H] & [ENGC10H or ENGC32H or ENGC33H]

ENGC36H3 Literature and Culture, 1660-1750
Studies in literature and literary culture during a turbulent era that was marked by extraordinary cultural ferment and literary experimentation. During this period satire and polemic flourished, Milton wrote his great epic, Behn her brilliant comedies, Swift his bitter attacks, and Pope his technically balanced but often viciously biased poetry.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG305H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [either ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) & (ENGB02H)]

ENGC37H3 Literature and Culture, 1750-1830
An exploration of literature and literary culture during the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. We will trace the development of a consciously national culture, and birth of the concepts of high, middle, and low cultures. Authors may include Johnson, Boswell, Burney, Sheridan, Yearsley, Blake, and Wordsworth.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG322Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC38H3 Novel Genres: Fiction, Journalism, News, and Autobiography, 1640-1750
An examination of generic experimentation that began during the English Civil Wars and led to the novel. We will address such authors as Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, alongside news, ballads, and scandal sheets; and look at the book trade, censorship, and the growth of the popular press.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG322Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC39H3 The Early Novel in Context, 1740-1830
A contextual study of the first fictions that contemporaries recognized as being the novel. We will examine the novel in the context of its readers; of neighbouring genres such as letters, non-fiction travel writing, conduct manuals; and of culture more generally. Authors might include Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen and others.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG322Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC42H3 Romanticism
A study of the Romantic Movement in European literature, 1750-1850. This course investigates the cultural and historical origins of the Romantic Movement, its complex definitions and varieties of expression, and the responses it provoked in the wider culture. Examination of representative authors such as Goethe, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, P. B. Shelley, Keats, Byron and M. Shelley will be combined with study of the philosophical and historical backgrounds of Romanticism.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG308Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC47H3 Modern Poetry
A study of poetry written roughly between the World Wars. Poets from several nations may be considered. Topics to be treated include Modernist difficulty, formal experimentation, and the politics of verse. Literary traditions from which Modernist poets drew will be discussed, as will the influence of Modernism on postmodern writing.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC49H3 The American Renaissance
Study of the works of the remarkable literary efflorescence in the U.S. running from the publication of Emerson's "Nature" in 1836 to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860. Authors to be considered include Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Stowe, Douglass, and Lincoln.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG358Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB08H or ENGB09H]

ENGC50H3 Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
Developments in American fiction from the end of the 1950s to the present. A study of fiction from the period that produced James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, John Updike, Norman Mailer, Ann Beatty, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The course may be organized around themes or movements.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG361H
Prerequisite: [ENGB03H & ENGB04H & one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or [ENGB08H or ENGB09H]

ENGC51H3 Contemporary Arab Women Writers
A study of Arab women writers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Their novels, short stories, essays, poems, and memoirs invite us to rethink western perceptions of Arab women; therefore, issues of gender, religion, class, nationalism, and colonialism will be examined from Arab women's perspectives, from both the Arab world and North America.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC56H3 Literature and Media: From Page to Screen
Written literature and film and television. What happens when literature influences film and vice versa, and when literary works are recast as visual media (including the effects of rewriting, reproduction, adaptation, serialization and sequelization).
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC57H3 The Graphic Novel
A study of extended narratives in the comic book form. Emphasis on formal analysis of narrative artwork combined with an interrogation of social, political, and cultural issues in this popular literary form. Works to be studied may include graphic novels, comic book series, and comic book short story or poetry collections.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG235H
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC58H3 Classical Myth and Literature
An analysis of the relationship between classical myth and literature. This course examines classical Greek and Roman myth in relationship to English literary works.
Pre-1900 Course
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: (ENGC60H), (ENGC61H)
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC59H3 The Myth of the West in American Literature
The "West" as myth and a metaphor in the shaping of American identity. This examination of written narratives and films will focus on the construction of the American West, the relationship of the "Indian" to Native writers, and contemporary efforts to de-romanticize the West.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC65H3 Studies in Travel Literature before 1830
An examination of the genre of travel literature before 1830. Focus may change yearly and will include: travel literature by women or other marginalized groups such as servants and slaves; exploration literature; literature of imperial or colonial travel; travel literature hoaxes; pilgrimage; fictional travel.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

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ENGC67H3  

ENGC68H3 Independent Studies: Creative Writing
An opportunity for students who have excelled in introductory creative writing to pursue independent study. Students should discuss their interests in advance with an appropriate faculty member. Note: Students may count no more than 1.0 full credit of independent study in creative writing towards an English program.
Exclusion: ENG391Y
Prerequisite: [ENGB60H or ENGB61H or ENGB62H] & permission of the instructor.

ENGC69H3 Gothic Literature
A study of the Gothic tradition in literature since 1760. "Gothic" is a dark style in the arts, a language of terror, recognizable by allusions to ruined castles, graveyards, sublime landscapes, religious superstition, and plots involving imprisonment and torture, nightmares of the unconscious mind, and monstrous deformities of the human body.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC70H3 The Immigrant Experience in Literature to 1980
An examination of twentieth-century literature, especially fiction, written out of the experience of people who leave one society to come to another already made by others. We will compare the literatures of several ethnic communities in at least three nations, the United States, Britain, and Canada.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC71H3 The Immigrant Experience in Literature since 1980
A continuation of ENGC70H, focusing on texts written since 1980.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] & ENGC70H

ENGC72H3 Contemporary Literature from Africa
A study of fiction, drama, and poetry from English-speaking Africa. The course will examine the relation of English-language writing to indigenous languages, to orality, and to audience, as well as the issues of creating art in a world of suffering and of de-colonizing the narrative of history.
Limited enrolment: 50
Exclusion: ENG253Y
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)] or AFSA01H

ENGC76H3 The Body in Modernity: Theories and Representations
An interdisciplinary course about the body in art, film, photography, narrative and popular culture. How bodies are written or visualized as "feminine" or "masculine", as heroic, as representing normality or perversity, beauty or monstrosity, legitimacy or illegitimacy, nature or culture. Same as VPAC47H.
Limited enrolment: 45
Exclusion: VPAC47H, (VPHC47H)
Corequisite: Two full credits at the B-level or above from ENG, WST, VPA, VPH, and/or VPS, or permission of the instructor.

ENGC77H3 The Body in Contemporary Culture: Theories and Representations
A course focusing on the experience of the body in the public spaces of the modern city and in cyberspace. Of special interest will be the viewpoints of artists, writers, and filmmakers who explore how the "other" is constructed in terms of class, culture, and ethnicity. Same as VPAC48H.
Exclusion: VPAC48H, (VPHC48H)
Corequisite: Two full credits at the B-level or above from ENG, WST, VPA, VPH, and/or VPS, or permission of the instructor.

ENGC78H3 Dystopian Visions in Fiction and Film
Negative utopias and post-apocalyptic worlds. The course will draw from novels such as 1984, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, and Oryx and Crake, and films such as Metropolis, Mad Max, Brazil, and The Matrix. Why do we find stories about the world gone wrong so compelling?
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC80H3 Modernity: Modernism and Literature, 1900-1950
The aesthetic movements (Dadaism, Futurism, Vorticism, surrealism) that gave rise to modernity and the modernist literary movements that followed.
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC81H3 Modernity II: Post-modernism and Other Developments in Literature 1950 to the Present
Reactions to modernity and modernism since 1950. This course investigates the various ways writers of the later twentieth century began to understand "reality" and how that shaped their writing. We will look at how post-colonialism, post-structuralism, multiculturalism, and feminism emerged in this era to contest how the "centre" constructed the "margin".
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC82H3 Cinema Studies: Themes and Theories
A variable theme course that will feature different theoretical approaches to Cinema: feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, and semiotic. Thematic clusters include "Madness in Cinema", and "Films on Films".
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGC83H3 The Imperial Imaginary in Cinema
An exploration of how the representation of travel, adventure, conflict, and formation of identity in the "adventure film" of Western culture promotes, preserves and sustains mythologies of "whiteness" and (European) "masculinity" as the focal point of knowledge, desire and power in an idealized fantasy of Western culture. From the image of King Kong gripping the Empire State Building, to the loyal but doomed Gunga Din, to Harrison Ford spying on "savage" rituals in the Temple of Doom, the construct of the "white" explorer or soldier has depended on a counter-image: the exotic, inscrutable, treacherous, unpredictable native or "other".
Limited enrolment: 50
Prerequisite: ENGB03H & ENGB04H & [one of ENGB05H or (ENGB01H) or (ENGB02H)]

ENGD03H3 Topics in Contemporary Literary Theory
A study of selected topics in recent literary theory.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC15H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD04H3 Gulliver's Texts and Contexts
An examination of Swift's Gulliver's Travels (originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World) through material Swift drew from (such as More's Utopia and Montaigne's essay on cannibals), movements the work responded to (such as the New Science, medieval and Early Modern travel narratives, stories of monsters, ideas and theories about satire), and the responses the text provoked (such as children's versions, Nazi and other racist uses of the problematic Voyage 4, and film versions).
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD07H3 Studies in Postmodern Poetry
The study of a poet or poets writing in English after 1950. Topics may include the use and abuse of tradition, the art and politics of form, the transformations of an oeuvre, and the relationship of poetry to the individual person and to the culture at large.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD08H3 South African Literature
A study of South African literature. In this course we will look at fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry produced in South Africa in the last fifty years.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD12H3 Studies in Life Writing
A detailed study of some aspect or aspects of life-writing. Topics may include life-writing and fiction, theory, criticism, self, and/or gender.
Can count as a pre-1900 course depending on the topic.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD14H3 Topics in Early Modern English Literature
An advanced inquiry into critical questions relating to the development of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Focus may include the intensive study of an author, genre, or body of work.
Pre-1900 Course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD18H3 Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830
Topics in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Topics vary from year to year and might include a study of one or more authors, or the study of a specific literary or theatrical phenomenon.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD19H3 Theoretical Approaches to Early Modern English Literature and Culture
An in-depth study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature together with intensive study of the theoretical and critical perspectives that have transformed our understanding of this literature.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD30H3 Studies in Medieval Literature
Topics in the literature and culture of the medieval period. Topics vary from year to year and might include a study of one or more authors.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD40H3 Confessional Poetry
The emergence of the confessional voice in American and British poetry. Authors emphasized will be Robert Lowell, Ann Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Adrienne Rich.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD42H3 James Joyce
A study of Joyce's work and accomplishments. Texts include Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD43H3 Studies in Romanticism, 1750-1850
Topics in the literature and culture of the Romantic movement. Topics vary from year to year and may include Romantic nationalism, the Romantic novel, the British 1790s, or American or Canadian Romanticism.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC42H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD48H3 Studies in the Major Victorian Writers
Advanced study of a selected Victorian writer or small group of writers. The course will pursue the development of a single author's work over the course of his or her entire career or it may focus on a small group of thematically or historically related writers.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD52H3 Cinema: The Auteur Theory
An exploration of the genesis of auteur theory.
By focusing on a particular director such as Jane Campion, Kubrick, John Ford, Cronenberg, Chaplin, Egoyan, Bergman, Godard, Kurosawa, Sembene, or Bertolucci, we will trace the extent to which a director's vision can be traced through their body of work.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI374H, INI375H
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD57H3 Topics in a Major Canadian Writer I
Advanced study of a single Canadian writer such as Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munro.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: (ENGD51H), (ENGD88H)
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD58H3 Topics in a Major Canadian Writer II
Advanced study of a single Canadian writer such as Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munro.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: (ENGD51H), (ENGD88H)
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD59H3 Topics in American Poetry
This seminar will usually provide advanced intensive study of a selected American poet each term, following the development of the author's work over the course of his or her entire career. It may also focus on a small group of thematically or historically related poets.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: [ENGB04H & [ENGB08H or ENGB09H ]] & 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD60H3 Topics in American Prose
This seminar course will usually provide advanced intensive study of a selected American prose-writer each term, following the development of the author's work over the course of his or her entire career. It may also focus on a small group of thematically or historically related prose-writers.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC12H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD61H3 James Baldwin, the African-American Experience, and the Liberal Imagination
A study of the fiction, drama, and essays of James Baldwin and their cultural context.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: ENGC12H or 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD62H3 Power and Perception: Imperialism, Colonialism, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Fiction
An exploration of multicultural perspectives on issues of power, perception, and identity as revealed in literary treatments of imperialism and colonialism in the twentieth century.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD63H3 Rap Poetics
An intensive study of form and rhetoric in rap lyrics. We will consider the quarter-century recorded history of this sub-set of African-American poetry in rough chronological order. We will also look for the pre-history of rap in such traditions as minstrelsy, blues, political speech, comic monologues, and lyric poetry proper.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD65H3 Popular American Lyric
A study of two centuries' worth of the favourite poems and songs of the American people, from the Fireside Poets to Rap music. Authors to be studied might include Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Frost, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, and twenty years of Rap.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD67H3 Satire
An investigation of the literatures and theories of the unthinkable, the reformist, the iconoclastic, and the provocative. Satire can be conservative or subversive, corrective or anarchic. This course will address a range of satire and its theories. Writers may range from Juvenal, Horace, Lucian, Erasmus, Donne, Jonson, Rochester, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Gay, Haywood, and Behn to Pynchon, Nabokov and Atwood.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD68H3 Contemporary Literature by Muslims
An examination of the twentieth-century flowering of secular literature, in particular fiction and poetry, by writers of Muslim background around the world. We will address such themes as the tension between religion and the secular forms of the novel and the need to write the Muslim experience into the modern world.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level English courses

ENGD69H3 Knowing the Other: Ethics and Canadian Literature
A study of the connections among literature, literary theory, politics and moral philosophy. In this course, we will turn to Canadian writers to examine their contribution and responses to ongoing ethical debates concerning what it means to engage with the Other, the native, the land, the animal, and the transhuman.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level English courses

ENGD71H3 Arab North-American Literature
A study of Arab North-American writers from the twentieth century to the present. Surveying one hundred years of Arab North-American literature, this course will examine issues of gender, identity, assimilation, and diaspora in poetry, novels, short stories, autobiographies, and nonfiction.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD76H3 Travel and Travellers in Literature
A study of fictional, semi-fictional, and non-fictional accounts of travel. Reading works by such writers as Homer, Lucian, Margery Kempe, Sir John Mandeville, Raleigh, Nashe, Lady Montagu, Swift, and John Bartram, we will study travel accounts ranging through the forced transportation of slaves, pilgrimage, exploration, and tourism.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD80H3 Women and Canadian Writing
A study of the remarkable contribution of women writers to the development of Canadian writing. Drawing from a variety of authors and genres (including novels, essays, poems, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and travel writing), this course will look at topics in women and Canadian literature in the context of theoretical questions about women's writing.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD81H3 Myth and Canadian Fiction
An examination of Canadian writing in the context provided by myth.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: (ENGC62H)
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD84H3 Canadian Writing for the New Century
An analysis of features of Canadian writing at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. This course will consider such topics as changing themes and sensibilities, canonical challenges, and millennial and apocalyptic themes associated with the end of the twentieth century.
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD89H3 Studies in the Victorian Period
Topics vary from year to year and might include Victorian children's literature; city and country in Victorian literature; science and nature in Victorian writing; aestheticism and decadence; or steampunk.
Pre-1900 course
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: ENG443Y
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English.

ENGD91H3 Avant-Garde Cinema
An exploration of Avant-Garde cinema from the earliest experiments of German Expressionism and Surrealism to our own time. The emphasis will be on cinema as an art form aware of its own uniqueness, and determined to discover new ways to exploit the full potential of the "cinematic".
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI322Y
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

ENGD92H3 The Film Musical
An analysis of the Hollywood musical. We will focus on how genres are defined and what they tell us about meaning and cultural norms. How strict are genre rules and conventions and what happens when we stretch them? How do genres convey cultural assumptions about race, gender, class, and sexuality?
Limited enrolment: 22
Prerequisite: Two C-level courses in English

ENGD93H3 Cinema and Spectatorship
An introduction to films, film theory debates, and critics that address the role of the spectator. What spectators are assumed or constructed by the movies. How does a film's structure influence our understanding of what we see? How do movie stars affect us? How has technology changed spectatorship?
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI214Y
Prerequisite: Two C-level courses in English

ENGD94H3 Stranger Than Fiction: The Documentary Film
The study of films from major movements in the documentary tradition, including ethnography, cinema vérité, social documentary, the video diary, and "reality television". The course will examine the tensions between reality and representation, art and politics, technology and narrative, film and audience.
Limited enrolment: 22
Exclusion: INI325Y
Prerequisite: 2 courses at the C-level in English

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ENGD99H3 Independent Studies in Literature
An opportunity for students to pursue one-term projects of independent literary study under the supervision of a member of the English faculty. Students should discuss their interests in this opportunity with appropriate faculty and the Discipline Representative or Supervisor of Studies one term in advance of the proposed course. These courses are only open to students with a strong record who are completing the last 5 courses of their degree and who have completed 2 full credits in C-level English. This course is contingent on acceptance by a faculty supervisor and the approval of the English group. Depending on subject area, this course can be counted towards the pre-1900 requirement. Note: Students may count no more than 1.0 full credit of ENGD97H, ENGD98Y and ENGD99H toward an English program.
Prerequisite: 2.0 full credits in English at the C-level.

ENGD98Y3 Senior Essay
A scholarly project chosen by the student and supervised by a faculty member. Students should discuss their proposals with appropriate faculty and the Discipline Representative or Supervisor of Studies one term in advance of the proposed course. This course is only open to students with a strong record who are completing the last 5 credits of their degree and who have completed 2 full credits in C-level English. This course is contingent on acceptance by a faculty supervisor and approval of the English group. Depending on subject area, this course can be counted towards the pre-1900 requirement. Note: Students may count no more than 1.0 full credit of ENGD97H, ENGD98Y and ENGD99H towards an English program.
Exclusion: ENG490Y
Prerequisite: 2 C-level courses in English

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