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(B.A.)
Discipline Representative: G. Leonard (287-7141)
Supervisor of Studies: (until June 30 2000: M.C. Cuddy-Keane (287-7162)
Supervisor of Studies: (from July 1 2000 to June 30 2001) G. Leonard (287-7141)
The discipline of English involves not only broad study of the great works of literature but also training in complex modes of interpretation and communication that are invaluable in our increasingly media-saturated world. At Scarborough, the curriculum offers courses in the English-language literatures of Britain, Canada, America, and other areas of the world, as well as providing large investigations of culture. An emphasis on literature of more recent periods is balanced by historical examinations of earlier eras and a general survey of the British literary tradition. All courses place emphasis on close responsive reading, critical thinking, and clarity of expression.
A-level courses introduce all students to the study of English at the university level. ENGA11Y is designed both for students planning a Specialist, Major, or Minor Programme in English and for students having a general interest in literature or the twentieth century. ENGA12H is available for those students enrolled in ENGA11Y who want training in writing essays for English courses. It is required of English specialists and majors before they take ENGB01Y, a course that continues instruction in the writing of English essays.
ENGB01Y and ENGB02Y are required for all students planning a Specialist or Major Programme in English. Other B-level courses require no prerequisites and are available both to beginning and to more advanced students.
C-level courses, as their prerequisites indicate, are designed to build upon previous work and presuppose some background in critical skills and some familiarity with the subject matter.
D-level courses provide opportunities for more sophisticated study and require some independent work on the part of the student. These courses are generally restricted in enrolment and may involve the presentation of seminars.
Students are advised to check the prerequisites
for C- and D-level courses when planning their individual programmes,
and to consult with the Supervisor of Studies or the Discipline
Representative before taking courses on other campuses.
A web site exists for English students at http://www.scar.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/English/FAQs.html . On the web page students will find advice on choosing courses and answers to frequently asked questions.
Supervisor: (from July 1 2000 to June 30 2001) G. Leonard (287-7141)
Ten full-course equivalents in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGA12H Writing Workshop for ENGA11Y (Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need ENGA12H to fulfil requirements for a Specialist Programme in English.)
3. ENGB01Y Critical Thinking and Writing
4. ENGB02Y English Literature: Historical Survey
5. One full-course equivalent from the Geographical Series: ENGB07Y; ENGB08Y; ENGB17H; ENGB18H; ENGB19H (ENGB23Y); ENGB25H; ENGC02Y; ENGC12Y; ENGC18Y; ENGC61H; ENGC62Y
6. One of the C-level Historical Series: (ENGC20Y, ENGC32Y, ENGC37Y (ENGC42Y))
7. One full-course equivalent at the D-level
8. Additional full-course equivalents, at least 2
of which must be at the C-level, to bring the total number of
English courses successfully completed to ten (10) full-course
equivalents.
Supervisor: (from July 1 2000 to June 30 2001) G. Leonard (287-7141)
Seven full-course equivalents in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGA12H Writing Workshop for ENGA11Y (Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need ENGA12H to fulfil requirements for a Major Programme in English.)
3. ENGB01Y Critical Thinking and Writing
4. ENGB02Y English Literature: Historical Survey
5. Additional full-course equivalents, at least 2
of which must be at the C- or D-level, to bring the total number
of English courses successfully completed to seven (7) full-course
equivalents.)
Supervisor: (from July 1 2000 to June 30 2001) G. Leonard (287-7141)
Four full-course equivalents in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGA12H Writing Workshop for ENGA11Y (Students
who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99
do not need ENGA12H to fulfil requirements for a Minor Programme
in English Literature.)
Supervisor: (from July 1 2000 to June 30 2001) G. Leonard (287-7141)
Four full-course equivalents in English are required. They should be selected as follows:
1. ENGA11Y Introduction to Literary Study: The Twentieth Century
2. ENGB05Y What is Culture?
3. 2 additional full-course equivalents, at least
1 of which must be at the C-level.
An introduction to literary and cultural concerns in the twentieth century through the study of works written in English from the beginning of the century to the present day.
As an introduction to university-level critical reading and interpretation, this course will analyse the writing of twentieth-century men and women from a range of backgrounds and nationalities. As well as looking closely at selected works from the last 100 years, we will consider questions such as: how do individual texts and writers fit into larger movements or make up an era? how does the literature of our century both reflect and help us come to terms with the complex realities of our world? what is the relationship between what we read and how we make sense of ourselves and others? Marks will be based on in-class writing assignments, quizzes and exams. Students wishing to supplement this course with training in university-level essay-writing for English and all students planning to continue the study of English should take ENGA12H while they are enrolled in ENGA11Y.
NOTE: Students who successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need ENGA12H to gain admission to ENGB01Y.
Exclusion: (ENGA01, ENGA08), ENG140
An adjunct to ENGA11Y, providing intensive training in critical writing for English courses.
This course is designed to develop the essay-writing skills required for the study of English literature at the university level. It will make use of group workshops in which attention will be given to writing techniques and strategies of argumentation; to questions of appropriate tone and voice; to research techniques; and to proper bibliographic style. As well as providing a general consideration of essay writing appropriate for introductory English studies, the course will also devote some time to special kinds of writing, such as abstracts and writing in time-controlled situations. Assignments will be coordinated with the current ENGA11Y and will reflect writers and topics studied there.
NOTE: Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need to take ENGA12H to gain admission to ENGB01Y.
Co-requisite: ENGA11Y
Course Co-ordinator: G. Leonard (287-7141)
An introduction to critical writing and an exploration of selected critical approaches to literary texts.
This course will study closely a small number of texts from different periods as a means of becoming acquainted with the variety of critical approaches available today. Through an examination of selected critical essays, students will develop their own critical approaches and their analytical and writing skills.
This course is required for Majors and Specialists in English.
Exclusion: (ENGA01)
Prerequisites: ENGA11Y & ENGA12H
NOTE: Students who have successfully completed ENGA11Y prior to Winter 1998/99 do not need to take ENGA12H to gain admission to ENGB01Y.
Course co-ordinator: D. Bennett (287-7139)
A survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, in the context of relevant intellectual, aesthetic, social, and political developments.
This course provides a general introduction to the main periods of English literary history - the Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration, Eighteenth-Century, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Reading will be extensive, involving brief selections from approximately fifty writers. The primary text is The Norton Anthology of English Literature (sixth edition), Vols. 1 and 2; further texts will be announced.
NOTE: This is exclusively a lecture and examination course. Students are advised to combine this course with English B01Y in order to include group discussion, detailed textual study, and practice in essay writing in their study of English.
Exclusion: (ENGA02), ENG202
Prerequisite: ENGA11Y
A text-based exploration of the development and emergence of "culture" as a concept and as a field of study.
What is the relationship between culture and civilization? Culture has often been associated with a society's artistic and imaginative expression, but can we discuss culture today without reference to science and technology? What does a group's culture tell us about its social and political organization and its attitudes to race, class, gender, sexuality and nationhood? How do we distinguish between mainstream culture and subcultures, between industrial and post-industrial culture, or between "high" culture and "low"? We will explore the ways in which new approaches to culture are redefining the nature of English literary studies. Drawing on a wide range of materials - including literary texts, film, videos, advertisements, visual art, and hypertext - this course will offer multicultural perspectives on such topics as contemporary media and communications, popular and commodity culture, technology, musical subcultures, and the history of the cinema.
A broad survey of literature in the United States.
Examining the many different cultural points of view operating within the framework of the American experience, this course will explore such questions as: What is the make-up and significance of the American Dream? What is distinct about the American Hero? How are such human dilemmas as good versus evil, or sin versus redemption, presented and interpreted in an American context? The reading will include cultural and historical background material as well as literary texts by such writers as Hawthorne, Dickinson, Melville, Twain, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wright, Morrison, and Bellow.
Exclusion: ENG250
T.B.A.
A study of at least eleven plays by Shakespeare, both as unique works of art and in the larger context of his work as a Renaissance dramatist. A list of texts will be available in H-525A.
Exclusion: ENG220
A study of drama in English from 1880 to the present.
Introduction to various dramatic forms through a reading of eighteen plays. The course will introduce students to various dramatic genres and methods, such as realism, expressionism, mannerism, etc. Filmed versions of several of the plays will be viewed and compared to the texts from which they derive.
Exclusion: (ENGC50Y), ENG338Y
A study of the Canadian short story.
This course will examine some of the foremost writers of the Canadian short story, a form that has been vital to the Canadian literary tradition and has produced such writers of international stature as Munro, Atwood, Laurence, and Gallant.
Exclusion: ENG215
An introduction to children's literature.
This course will locate children's literature from the nineteenth century to the present within the history of social attitudes to children and in terms of such topics as authorial creativity, race, class, gender, behaviour, and nationhood, topics that become altered as different generations read "classic" texts and as different critical approaches reinterpret children's literature.
Exclusion: ENG234
T.B.A.
A study of the evolution and forms of detective fiction.
We will examine the formal rules that govern detective fiction and that have made it a mainstay of mass media as well as a genre that has influenced literary narratives. In addition, we will consider the social contexts that have helped the detective genre become a popular fictional form that has cut across classes, cultures, and continents.
Exclusion: ENG236H
T.B.A.
An examination of the genre of science fiction.
This course will look at novels, as well as shorter works, selections from long texts and films, from the beginnings of science fiction to cyberpunk. Emphasis will be placed on the way a formulaic popular genre comes into being; the relationships of that genre to its milieu; the way later innovation is introduced into an established form; and the interaction that exists between science fiction and literary writing. The course will be marked through examination and through one written essay project.
Exclusion: ENG231H
A study of Canadian fiction in English from its origins in the eighteenth century to the contemporary period.
The course examines authors confronting the problems of finding a fictional form and voice for their responses to Canada and of locating themselves in a viable tradition; it focuses on several contemporary novelists both in terms of that tradition and through close readings of specific novels.
Texts which may be studied include Ross, As for Me and My House; Callaghan, Stories; MacLennan, Two Solitudes; Atwood, Surfacing; Ondaatje, Running in the Family.
Exclusion: (ENGB27)
Prerequisite: One full-course equivalent in English.
An exploration of literature and its wider culture during the second half of the eighteenth and the first third of the nineteenth centuries.
This year, we will trace the development in the period of a consciously national culture, and the concurrent birth of the concepts of "high," "middle," and "low" cultures. Why do we use the term "culture" to refer to learning and the arts as well as using it to refer to a whole way of life? This duality dates from the eighteenth century - what was its development responding to? Why would things such as different as music, painting, literature, archeology, and mathematics begin to be grouped together as a category of like things? How did learning and knowledge of the arts begin to be understood as marking social and national status, and why would this shift occur when it did? We will read works by such writers as Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, Frances Burney, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anne Yearsley, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Lord Byron.
Sub-topics will include: developments in publishing,
circulating libraries, readership and education; travel; public
entertainment
such as the theatre and the opera; collecting and museums.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y and one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
A study of the development of the English novel from its early stages through the Victorian period.
This course investigates the English novel from its inception through the end of the nineteenth century, as it comes to explore a wide range of social behaviour, including relationships between women and men, class structure, and the labyrinths of human laws, customs and institutions. This course will consider how the novel has shaped the way in which people perceive their own and past times through analysis of the works of such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, the BrontÎs, Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Carroll, and Hardy.
Students are advised to consult the instructor for specific titles and to read as many of these novels as possible before classes begin.
Exclusion: (ENGB17) ENG322
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, one of which must be in English]
A substantial project chosen by the student and supervised by one faculty member. It is the responsibility of the student to locate a supervisor.
Admission by permission of the supervisor of studies and of the instructor. Enrolment in this course is limited to one or two students per year. For more details, contact the supervisor of studies.
Prerequisite: ENGB60Y
An examination of the creative literature written out of, and written about, the experience of immigrants.
We will compare the literatures produced by several ethnic communities in at least three nations - Canada, the United States, and Great Britain - in order to examine the nature of diasporan identity, national identity, and the creation and experience of ethnicity. We will consider the themes of continuity, rupture, integration, preservation, and reproduction, and the relations of individual and community and of community and larger society. We will also consider the strategic location of ethnicity in the larger racial divides (such as those between black and white or between indigenous peoples and settlers) already characterizing these societies. We will consider voices such as those of Conrad, Wiebe, Ricci, Coppola, Roth, Singer, Richler, Mo, Hong Kingston, Choy, Tan, Garcia, Naipaul, Kincaid, Brand, Rushdie, Ondaatje, Vassanji, and Mistry.
Prerequisite: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
N. ten Kortenaar
An investigation of the body in literature, cinema and theory from the last fin de siËcle to the present one.
Over the last century, writing about the body has been shaped by desire, drama, fantasy, and the search for authenticity. Because psychoanalytic theory became an important theory fundamentally concerned with narratives about the intersection between the body and culture, we will read selections from theorists such as Freud, Lacan, Foucault, and Irigaray. As well, we will look at films, from such early works as Metropolis and Chaplin's Modern Times, which recorded the exhilaration and strain of modern living on the body, to more recent movies such as The Terminator, Aliens, or Eyes Wide Shut. Literary selections will include such works as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Jean Rhys's After Leaving Mr. McKenzie, Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, or Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. This course is complete in itself, but in its interdisciplinary interests, it also complements VPAB01F: The Body: Theories and Representations, and places the works it studies in the rich visual context of the twentieth century fascination with the body.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English] or [VPAB01H]
Limited enrolment: 20
Prerequisite: ENGB01, ENGB02, and two further full-course equivalents in
English, or ENGB10; or ENGC33
The course will begin from the question of Beckett's status as a writer: thorough-going modernist, proto-postmodernist, or neo-medievalist? The full range of his career will be surveyed, through a selection of exemplary texts from all genres: drama, poetry, short fiction, and the novel, with emphasis on his innovations in prose fiction. Primary readings will be supplemented with appropriate critical-theoretical material. Texts will include: Waiting for Godot; Krapp's Last Tape; Collected Poems; Complete Short Prose; Murphy; Molloy.
Limited enrolment: 20
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent
in English] or [ENGC50] or [ENGC52]
Limited Enrolment: 20
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent
in English] or [[ENGB05 or ENGB08Y] & one C-level full-course equivalent
in English]
In the nineteenth century, when London was the biggest city in the world, England saw tremendous upheaval as a result of industrialization, capitalist fervour and working class self-consciousness, the development of railways and canals, the organization of mass society, and the dislocation and migration of whole populations. We will explore how attitudes to nation, class, gender, empire, and the countryside changed as a result. The emphasis will be on the forms adopted by the literary imagination to convey the excitement, the fears, and the bewilderment aroused by the new phenomena.
Authors to be considered may include: Wordsworth, Gaskell, Dickens, Gissing, Ruskin, Conan Doyle, Thackeray, Arnold, Carlyle, Wilde. In addition, a course reader of background materials will be available from the instructor.
Limited Enrolment: 20.
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & B02Y & one further full-course equivalent in
English] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English] or
[ENGC20]
Introducing a New D-level Spring-Term Course offered by the English Department,
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English]
The student writes a substantial essay on a literary subject under the supervision of a member of staff. It is the responsibility of the student to locate a supervisor; advice on this matter may be sought from the Discipline Representative. The following deadlines should be observed: by the last day of the previous spring term a brief statement of the area of the project, signed by the supervisor should be submitted to the Discipline Representative. By November 15th a more specific statement of the project is to be submitted, including the exact title of the proposed study and a short description of its subject and method. After the topic has been approved by the discipline, a second reader will be appointed.
Exclusion: (ENGC14Y), ENG490
Prerequisite: Open only to students completing the
last five courses for the four-year degree, and who have at least
three full-course equivalents in English, at least one at the
C-level.
ENGB07Y3 Canadian Literature: An Introduction
Exclusion: ENG252
ENGB17H3 Contemporary Literature from the Caribbean
ENGB18H3 Contemporary Literature from Africa
Exclusions: (ENGB23Y); ENG253Y
ENGB19H3 Contemporary Literature from South Asia
Exclusions: (ENGB23Y); ENG253Y
ENGB34H3 The Short Story
Exclusion: ENG213
ENGB40Y3 The Bible and English Literature
ENGB50Y3 Women and Literary Study
Exclusion: ENG233
ENGB60Y3 Creative Writing
Exclusion: ENG369Y
ENGB64H3 Native North American Literature
Exclusions: ENG254Y, ENGD64H
ENGC12Y3 American Authors
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC18H3 South African Literature: Apartheid, Emergency, or After
Exclusion: (ENGB23Y); ENG253Y
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y or ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English] or [one of ENGB17H, ENGB18H, ENGB19H (ENGB23Y)]
ENGC20Y3 The Victorians
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC32Y3 The Renaissance
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC52Y3 Early Twentieth-Century Fiction
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC61H3 The West in American Literature
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC62Y3 Myth and History in Canadian Fiction
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC63Y3 Literature and Travel
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGC70Y3 The Gothic Tradition
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y] or [ENGB05Y & one other full-course equivalent in English] or [three full-course equivalents at the B-level, at least one of which must be in English]
ENGD02H3 Literary Theory and Criticism
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD03H3 Topics in Contemporary Literary Criticism
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & two further full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD42H3 James Joyce
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD51H3 Alice Munro
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD72H3 Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD77H3 Toni Morrison and Her Contemporaries
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD78H3 The Open Road in North American Narrative
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD85H3 The Image of Home in North American Fiction
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [(ENGB24Y or ENGB07Y or ENGB08Y) & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD86H3 The Scriblerians
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD87H3 Between Traditions and Freedoms: Writing by Canadians of Asian Descent
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGB05Y & one C-level full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD89H3 The City in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English] or [ENGC20Y or ENGC42Y]
ENGD90H3 Virginia Woolf
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y & one further full-course equivalent in English]
ENGD95H3 Satire
Prerequisites: [ENGB01Y & ENGB02Y &
one further full-course equivalent in English]
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