English (ENGL)

ENGL 100A Fiction

An introduction to fiction through the detailed examination of a range of novels and/or short stories.

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ENGL 100B Poetry

An introduction to poetry through a detailed examination of a range of poetic texts.

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ENGL 100C Drama

An introduction to dramatic literature through the detailed examination of a range of dramatic texts.

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ENGL 101A Introduction to Literary Studies

An introduction to the study of literature, covering such areas of enquiry as literary history, genre, criticism, analysis, and theory.

LEC · Course ID 011580On ucalendarENGL 101A today

ENGL 101B Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

This course introduces students to rhetoric: the art of persuasion. The history, theory, practice, and impacts of rhetoric will be considered. Students will analyze persuasive artifacts including propaganda, advertisements, political texts, and scientific communications. Students will also act as rhetors (users of rhetoric) to craft persuasive arguments.

LEC · Course ID 011581On ucalendarENGL 101B today

ENGL 103B Varieties of English

Introduction to the study of varieties of the English language - regional, social, temporal, functional, and stylistic. The relations of languages and literature and of speech and writing will be discussed.

LEC · Course ID 005042On ucalendarENGL 103B today

ENGL 104 Rhetoric in Popular Culture

This course examines the role of persuasion in contemporary society by focusing on one or more topic areas: film, television, video games, comic books, music, fashion, etc. Students will explore the topic area(s) in depth using a variety of rhetorical theories and methods.

LEC · Course ID 011395On ucalendarENGL 104 today

ENGL 108A The Superhero

An examination of hero figures, ranging broadly from ancient characters such as Gilgamesh to the modern comic book superhero. Literary as well as non-literary materials (e.g., film, comics, games) will be considered.

LEC · Course ID 013480On ucalendarENGL 108A today

ENGL 108B Global English Literatures

An exploration of texts from a range of geographical locations, such as South Africa, Australia, the Caribbean, India, New Zealand, and Pakistan.

LEC · Course ID 013481On ucalendarENGL 108B today

ENGL 108D Digital Lives

An examination of how digital communication technologies create and promote online identities and social spaces, as well as interpersonal and communal interactions.

LEC · Course ID 013483On ucalendarENGL 108D today

ENGL 108E Gender and Representation

A study of the ways gender in all its diversity is constructed and gendered experience is expressed in literature, rhetoric, and a variety of media.

LEC · Course ID 005049On ucalendarENGL 108E today

ENGL 108F The Rebel

A study of various works of literature in which the protagonist is a rebel against existing norms. The course will examine a number of rebel types and concepts, moral implications, and final outcomes either in successful realization or in tragic defeat.

LEC · Course ID 005050On ucalendarENGL 108F today

ENGL 108G Horror

A study of the contemporary horror genre in literature and film. Topics may include the history of horror, the construction of fear, and the development of horror archetypes. Authors and creators may include H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, George Romero, and Stephen King.

LEC · Course ID 015552On ucalendarENGL 108G today

ENGL 108P Popular Potter

This course examines all seven of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels.

LEC · Course ID 015165On ucalendarENGL 108P today

ENGL 108T Tolkien: From Book to Film

A study of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-55), and their film adaptations by Peter Jackson (2001-03, 2012-14).

LEC · Course ID 015164On ucalendarENGL 108T today

ENGL 108X Literature and Medicine

How can literature help us understand the body, illness, and healing? The course considers the perspectives of patients and medical practitioners across a range of works, including poetry, fiction, medical texts, and other nonfiction.

LEC · Course ID 015492On ucalendarENGL 108X today

ENGL 109 Introduction to Academic Writing

The course will explore a variety of issues in academic writing such as style, argument, and the presentation of information. Frequent written exercises will be required.

LEC · Course ID 005054On ucalendarENGL 109 today

ENGL 119 Communications in Mathematics & Computer Science

This course aims to build students' oral and written communication skills to prepare them for academic and workplace demands. Working independently and in collaboration with others, students will analyze and produce various written and spoken forms of communication. Projects and assignments will draw on materials for Mathematics and Computer Science students.

LEC · Course ID 011175On ucalendarENGL 119 today

ENGL 119W Reading Fiction (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 012111On ucalendarENGL 119W today

ENGL 129R Written Academic English

Designed specifically for students for whom English is not the first language, this writing skills course provides instruction in grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, elements of composition, and academic essay writing, including a focus on theme, development of central ideas, exposition, and argumentation. [Note: Not open to fluent writers of English.]

LEC · Course ID 005061On ucalendarENGL 129R today

ENGL 140R The Use of English

This course examines the use of English in a variety of contexts (colloquial, scientific, legal, political, commercial, journalistic, literary, etc.) to increase critical awareness of the language and help students write more clearly and effectively.

LEC · Course ID 005064On ucalendarENGL 140R today

ENGL 190 Shakespeare

Designed for students in all faculties, the course examines some of Shakespeare's comedies, history plays, and tragedies. Shakespeare's variety and flexibility in developing characters and dramatic structures are stressed, as are significant themes. [Note: No previous work in Shakespeare is required.]

LEC · Course ID 005068On ucalendarENGL 190 today

ENGL 191 Communication in the Engineering Profession (AE, CIVE, ENVE, GEOE)

In this course students in Architectural, Civil, Environmental, and Geological Engineering will enhance oral and written communication competencies in contexts relevant to the engineering profession.

LEC · Course ID 015735On ucalendarENGL 191 today

ENGL 192 Communication in the Engineering Profession (COMPE, ELE, MGTE)

In this course students in Computer, Electrical, and Management Engineering will enhance oral and written communication competencies in contexts relevant to the engineering profession.

LEC · Course ID 015736On ucalendarENGL 192 today

ENGL 193 Communication in the Sciences

In this course students will enhance oral and written communication competencies in contexts relevant to the life sciences and physical sciences.

LEC · Course ID 015737On ucalendarENGL 193 today

ENGL 200A Survey of British Literature 1

An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century.

LEC · Course ID 005069On ucalendarENGL 200A today

ENGL 200B Survey of British Literature 2

An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the late 18th century to the present.

LEC · Course ID 005070On ucalendarENGL 200B today

ENGL 201 The Short Story

This course deals with the history and techniques of the short story, with emphasis upon works by such British, American, and Canadian writers as Henry James, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and Alice Munro.

LEC · Course ID 005071On ucalendarENGL 201 today

ENGL 202A The Bible and Literature 1

A study of the major stories, themes, and literary characteristics of the Old Testament of the King James Bible (also known as the Hebrew Scripture), and of its influence on other English literature.

LEC · Course ID 005072On ucalendarENGL 202A today

ENGL 202B The Bible and Literature 2

A study of the major stories, themes, and literary characteristics of the New Testament of the King James Bible and of its influence on English literature.

LEC · Course ID 005073On ucalendarENGL 202B today

ENGL 203 Designing Digital Images and Interaction

This course draws on multiple theoretical perspectives to introduce students to the fundamental principles of multi-modal communication design in its social context. Students will analyze, design, and produce images and interactivity for use in a variety of digital platforms, including e-learning and business applications.

LEC · Course ID 011680On ucalendarENGL 203 today

ENGL 204 Designing Digital Video

This course introduces students to the principles of designing time-based multi-modal communication in a social context. Students will analyse, design, and produce video for use in a variety of digital platforms, including e-learning and business applications.

LEC · Course ID 011681On ucalendarENGL 204 today

ENGL 205R The Canadian Short Story

Exploration of the Canadian short story, from its beginnings - in the bush, in the north, on the land, in the small towns - through the struggles of an urbanizing society to the present. Students will be expected to work in some depth with individual authors.

LEC · Course ID 005078On ucalendarENGL 205R today

ENGL 206 Writing Lives

This course studies the ways the self is constructed through text by examining a variety of life-writing approaches, organized from youth to old age, along with theories of identity, memory, gender, narrative, cultural studies, and autobiography as a genre.

LEC · Course ID 011769On ucalendarENGL 206 today

ENGL 207W Comic Drama (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 005080On ucalendarENGL 207W today

ENGL 208A Forms of Fantasy

A study of fantasy literature, including some subgenres such as romances, fairy tales, fables, and gothic and horror fiction.

LEC · Course ID 005081On ucalendarENGL 208A today

ENGL 208B Science Fiction

Various examples drawn, for instance, from Utopian and anti-Utopian science fiction, social science fiction, "gadget" science fiction, parapsychology, and alternate worlds and beings will be considered. Some attention will be given to the historical development of the genre.

LEC · Course ID 005082On ucalendarENGL 208B today

ENGL 208C Studies in Children's Literature

A critical examination of works of children's literature. Specific readings may range broadly, encompassing works as diverse as ancient folk tales and novels and poetry from the 18th century to the present day.

LEC · Course ID 005083On ucalendarENGL 208C today

ENGL 208E Women's Writing

This course explores a range of women's writing and the social and cultural contexts in which they made their voices heard.

LEC · Course ID 005084On ucalendarENGL 208E today

ENGL 208G Gothic Monsters

A study of monstrosity, fear, terror, and horror in the gothic mode from its origins to the present, with attention to the ways various genres (from the novel to new media) represent gothic sexualities, genders, politics, and aesthetics.

LEC · Course ID 015124On ucalendarENGL 208G today

ENGL 208H Arthurian Legend

The story of Arthur and his knights of the Round Table will be discussed as it is treated at various times in various works and genres. Such matters will be considered as the character of Arthur, the concept of Camelot, and the Fellowship of the Round Table.

LEC · Course ID 005086On ucalendarENGL 208H today

ENGL 208K Detective Fiction

A study of the detective novel, the novel of crime, the thriller, the novel of intrigue, and of espionage with texts drawn from various time periods and national literatures. The course includes the examination of critical approaches to the form of detective fiction.

LEC · Course ID 005087On ucalendarENGL 208K today

ENGL 208L Race and the Literary Tradition

How have ideas of race been represented, transmitted, and resisted in the canon of literature in English over the centuries? Topics may include the invention of race, Eurocentrism and imaginative geography, racial beauty myths, internalized racism, and issues of gender, sexuality, and colonialism.

LEC · Course ID 009249On ucalendarENGL 208L today

ENGL 208M Travel Literature

The course examines the forms and functions of travel literature as a genre. Topics will include the representation of travel as adventure, discovery, pilgrimage, and escape; travel and tourism; travel and gender; travel and colonialism.

LEC · Course ID 010194On ucalendarENGL 208M today

ENGL 208N Sex in Literature

This course examines how varieties of sexual desire, sexual activity, and cultural attitudes to sex are represented in a selection of literary works from the middle ages to the present.

LEC · Course ID 010335On ucalendarENGL 208N today

ENGL 209 Advanced Academic Writing

This course will explore relationships between audience, situation, purpose, and form in academic writing in the disciplines. Students will explore the rhetorical features of knowledge creation across fields of study. They will practice situated inquiry and argumentation through a variety of research-based written exercises, including a significant research project in a field of their choice.

LEC · Course ID 015063On ucalendarENGL 209 today

ENGL 209W Special Topics (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 005090On ucalendarENGL 209W today

ENGL 210C Genres of Creative Writing

This course introduces students to both contemporary and historical forms of creative writing. Students will explore genres of poetry, prose, and/or drama through their own writing. Students will also investigate the culture of publishing, learn key revision strategies, and workshop the writing of their peers to develop their critical abilities.

LEC · Course ID 015086On ucalendarENGL 210C today

ENGL 210E Genres of Technical Communication

This course explores writing, presentation, and design across various genres of technical communication, with a primary focus on printed and/or online computer documentation. Other assignments might include white papers, product specifications, help-desk communication, etc.

LEC · Course ID 005095On ucalendarENGL 210E today

ENGL 210F Genres of Business Communication

This course explores the genres of communication in business and other organizations. Students will study and produce instances from several of the following: reports (of several kinds), letters, email messages, marketing materials, public relations materials, and any other types of organizational communication.

LEC · Course ID 005096On ucalendarENGL 210F today

ENGL 210G Grant Writing

The course covers researching, organizing, drafting, and editing proposals and applications for government grants for organizations. Topics may include interviews with domain experts, working with proposal guidelines and checklists, establishing milestones and expectations, using past proposals as models, treating individual sections as separate sub-genres, and creating coherence and flow in the final draft.

LEC · Course ID 014911On ucalendarENGL 210G today

ENGL 210H Arts Writing

A study of the various forms, processes, and modes of publication of professional writing in the arts. The course will consider both free-lance writing and writing within institutional contexts. Practice in research, writing, and editing will be emphasized.

LEC · Course ID 009890On ucalendarENGL 210H today

ENGL 210I Legal Writing

A study of the principles, processes, and various forms of writing used in the practice of law and drafting of legislation. The history and structure of legal writing, including current debates about plain language, will be examined.

LEC · Course ID 010336On ucalendarENGL 210I today

ENGL 210J Technical Editing

This course will introduce students to practices and tools of technical editing, such as language and format editing, verification and fact-checking, style guide consistency, discourse appropriateness, and the use of profession-specific software.

LEC · Course ID 014912On ucalendarENGL 210J today

ENGL 211 First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Literatures

This course examines literary works in a variety of genres by First Nations, Metis, and Inuit authors in Canada. Students will study the literature in relation to key concepts that recur in Indigenous literary criticism such as land, teaching, and respect.

LEC · Course ID 014998On ucalendarENGL 211 today

ENGL 213 Literature and the Law

A study of literary works that involve legal matters and/or have led to litigation on such grounds as obscenity, treason, heresy, libel, and plagiarism.

LEC · Course ID 011771On ucalendarENGL 213 today

ENGL 217 Canadian Children's Literature

A study of 19th- and 20th-century Canadian literature for children.

LEC · Course ID 005104On ucalendarENGL 217 today

ENGL 218 Mennonite Literature

A study of poetry and fiction by authors of Canadian Mennonite heritage written since 1962. The course will include a close examination of selected texts considered in the context of the various historical and cultural conditions that affected their production.

LEC · Course ID 005106On ucalendarENGL 218 today

ENGL 230 The Pleasure of Poetry

This course is an introduction to the enjoyment of poetry: what we like about it, what makes it fun, and how we can enjoy it more. Students will have an opportunity to expand their understanding of poetry. A range of poems will be sampled, and students will have opportunities to share poems that they like.

LEC · Course ID 016074On ucalendarENGL 230 today

ENGL 240R Migration, Diaspora, and Exile in Muslim Narratives

This course examines Muslim narratives written in the diaspora, such as from North America or the United Kingdom. It investigates the diversity of Islamic culture and expression in diasporic contexts, exploring an array of experiences and issues written from various sociocultural locations.

LEC · Course ID 015145On ucalendarENGL 240R today

ENGL 241R Sacred Spaces and Human Geographies in Muslim Literary Expressions

Using the Muslim dimension as a central theme, this course explores the social, cultural, and political implications to be found in a range of postcolonial literatures from Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Students investigate issues such as identities, nationalism and politics, cultural memory, and sacred space and place.

LEC · Course ID 015146On ucalendarENGL 241R today

ENGL 242 Literature, Rhetoric, and the Visual Arts

This course will study literature and rhetoric in dialogue with the visual arts, including potential materials such as paintings, photography, illustrations, sculpture, monuments and memorials, installation art, multimedia and digital media. Course material will draw on a variety of literary and rhetorical genres, historical periods, and forms of visual art.

LEC · Course ID 016054On ucalendarENGL 242 today

ENGL 243 Literature, Rhetoric, and Music

This course explores the cultural, historical, and aesthetic relationships between literature, rhetoric, and music. Course materials may draw on a range of historical periods and themes, as well as a variety of literary, lyrical, and musical genres. Attention will be paid to ways that literary, rhetorical, and musical arts exist in artistic dialogue.

LEC · Course ID 016055On ucalendarENGL 243 today

ENGL 247 American Literature and Popular Culture

An introduction to American literary and cultural studies through the examination of selected movements, moments, topics, or figures, drawing on both literature and other media.

LEC · Course ID 010338On ucalendarENGL 247 today

ENGL 248 Literature for an Ailing Planet

Can the humanities change how cultures relate to environments and the natural world? This course surveys environmental thought in works of literature and in popular culture.

LEC · Course ID 015350On ucalendarENGL 248 today

ENGL 251 Literary Theory and Criticism

What exactly are we doing when we study literature? By examining a selection of critical methods and theoretical approaches, this course will enhance understanding of the many different emphases, values, and priorities critics bring to literature, and the many available perspectives on what constitutes literature's significance.

LEC · Course ID 005120On ucalendarENGL 251 today

ENGL 260 Irish Literature and the "Troubles"

A study of Irish literature written during and about the "Troubles" (1916-1923; 1968 - present), focusing on the relationship between literature and its social, historical, and cultural contexts.

LEC · Course ID 011370On ucalendarENGL 260 today

ENGL 272W Introduction to Creative Writing (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 015652On ucalendarENGL 272W today

ENGL 275 Fiction and Film

A study of the relationships between written and cinematic narrative focusing on adaptations of fiction to film and the different narrative techniques of each medium.

LEC · Course ID 014997On ucalendarENGL 275 today

ENGL 280 Literatures of Migration

This course explores the literatures of one or more diasporic communities in North America (for example, African, Asian, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, South Asian) and topics such as memory, generational difference, and cultural hybridity.

LEC · Course ID 014901On ucalendarENGL 280 today

ENGL 281W Cyborg Fictions (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 014476On ucalendarENGL 281W today

ENGL 286W Young Adult Literature (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 015120On ucalendarENGL 286W today

ENGL 290 Global Shakespeare

An introduction to Shakespeare's continuing influence, focusing on adaptations and appropriations of his works in various media by contemporary writers, artists, and directors around the globe.

LEC · Course ID 013352On ucalendarENGL 290 today

ENGL 291 Global Literatures

How has border-crossing shaped the field of English literary studies? In this course, students will discuss works of literature from around the world that explore such themes as colonialism, migration, transnationalism, and the global.

LEC · Course ID 014899On ucalendarENGL 291 today

ENGL 292 Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

This course provides a survey of the multidisciplinary field of rhetorical studies. In addition to introducing key concepts, theoretical frameworks, and critical debates, this course examines the role of rhetoric in a range of academic disciplines and social contexts.

LEC · Course ID 005122On ucalendarENGL 292 today

ENGL 293 Introduction to Digital Media Studies

A study of theories of digital media, including critical, rhetorical, and semiotic approaches, and of the interpretation and creation of digital media artifacts.

LEC · Course ID 013353On ucalendarENGL 293 today

ENGL 294 Game Studies

This course introduces students to the field of humanities-based game studies. Topics may include the debate between ludological (rules-based) and narratological (story-based) approaches, procedural studies, platform and software studies, gamification, games and adaptation studies, and games as rhetorical objects.

LEC · Course ID 014790On ucalendarENGL 294 today

ENGL 295 Social Media

This course surveys the popular social media landscape and charts scholarly approaches, both methodological and theoretical, to understanding and analyzing social media texts. Topics to be addressed may include memes, social networks, fan communities and texts, digital identity, and other emergent social media forms.

LEC · Course ID 014791On ucalendarENGL 295 today

ENGL 303 Special Topics in Digital Design

In this course students will learn advanced digital design theory. They will participate in workshops with professional designers, develop specialized digital materials, and contribute signature work to their digital portfolio. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]

LEC · Course ID 011682On ucalendarENGL 303 today

ENGL 304 Designing with Digital Sound

In this course students will be introduced to sound analysis and production. Students will learn to record, edit, and implement sound in a variety of linear and non-linear media forms, with emphasis on film and video games.

LEC · Course ID 013106On ucalendarENGL 304 today

ENGL 305A Old English 1

An introduction to the English language in its earliest form and to English prose in pre-Conquest England, examining Old English prose style, its principal practitioners, and their world view.

LEC · Course ID 005124On ucalendarENGL 305A today

ENGL 305B Old English 2

An introduction to Old English poetry, noting in representative Old English poems those things about its purpose, style, and its audience which make it unique but which also provide the beginnings of the English poetic tradition.

LEC · Course ID 005125On ucalendarENGL 305B today

ENGL 306A Introduction to Linguistics

Introduction to linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis through an examination of English phonology, forms, syntax, and discourse.

LEC · Course ID 005126On ucalendarENGL 306A today

ENGL 306B Modern English Grammar

Introduction to modern English grammar and structure - its meaningful forms and syntax. Several methods of analysis will be employed and evaluated, including the traditional, structural, transformational-generative, and functional.

LEC · Course ID 005127On ucalendarENGL 306B today

ENGL 306C Historical Linguistics

Introduction to historical-reconstruction and comparative analysis. Basic phonological, morphological, syntactic changes as they manifest themselves in language will be examined.

LEC · Course ID 005128On ucalendarENGL 306C today

ENGL 306D The History of English

Introduction to the linguistic history of English from earliest documents to the present, with some consideration of various modern dialects.

LEC · Course ID 005129On ucalendarENGL 306D today

ENGL 306F Introduction to Semiotics

A study of systems of signs, codes, and signification in language, culture, and literature.

LEC · Course ID 005131On ucalendarENGL 306F today

ENGL 306G Critical Discourse Analysis

This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of critical discourse analysis (CDA), the close study of language and its effects in social context. Students will learn to apply discourse-analytical tools to a wide range of texts, conversations, images, and other artifacts.

LEC · Course ID 005136On ucalendarENGL 306G today

ENGL 308 Race and Resistance

An examination of how contemporary literary and cultural texts represent, reconfigure, and resist ideas of race. Analyzing literature, film, art, popular culture, and social movements, this course covers major debates in critical race theory and anti-racist practices.

LEC · Course ID 015493On ucalendarENGL 308 today

ENGL 309A Rhetoric, Classical to Enlightenment

A study of rhetorical theories from antiquity through the Renaissance to the 18th century, with an emphasis on how these theories reflect changing attitudes towards language, society, and the self.

LEC · Course ID 005133On ucalendarENGL 309A today

ENGL 309C Contemporary Rhetoric

An examination of contemporary rhetorical theory and its relationships to criticism, interdisciplinary studies, and digital applications.

LEC · Course ID 005135On ucalendarENGL 309C today

ENGL 309E Speech Writing

The analysis, writing, and editing of speeches. Analysis will focus on the reading and viewing of several famous 20th-century speeches using theories of communication. Writing and editing will focus on implementing oral/aural communication strategies.

LEC · Course ID 005137On ucalendarENGL 309E today

ENGL 309G The Discourse of Dissent

A study of the social, historical, and rhetorical dimensions of collective action. Topics may include health and welfare movements, civil rights and anti-war protests, and environmentalism.

LEC · Course ID 011393On ucalendarENGL 309G today

ENGL 310A Chaucer 1

An introduction to the poetry and the prose translations of Geoffrey Chaucer, including his dream allegories, "Troilus and Criseyde," and related compositions.

LEC · Course ID 005139On ucalendarENGL 310A today

ENGL 310B Chaucer 2

A study of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales".

LEC · Course ID 005140On ucalendarENGL 310B today

ENGL 310C Non-Chaucerian Middle English Literature

Non-Chaucerian English writings during the later Middle Ages; the Middle English romance, including "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; alliterative literature, such as "Piers Plowman"; and representative examples of Middle English non-Chaucerian verse.

LEC · Course ID 005141On ucalendarENGL 310C today

ENGL 313 Early Canadian Literatures

This course examines a selection of pre-1920 Canadian texts concerning first contact, imperialism, colonization, incipient nationhood, and early multi-racial immigration that participate in the ongoing invention of Canada.

LEC · Course ID 005145On ucalendarENGL 313 today

ENGL 315 Modern Canadian Literature

This course focuses on the varied ways in which 20th-century writers of poetry and prose participate in the shaping of Canadian literary culture, with emphasis on the literature of the middle decades.

LEC · Course ID 005147On ucalendarENGL 315 today

ENGL 316 Canadian Drama

This course explores traditions and experiments in Canadian drama through an analysis of Canadian plays, especially those from 1960 to the present, in their historical and theatrical contexts.

LEC · Course ID 005148On ucalendarENGL 316 today

ENGL 318 Contemporary Canadian Literature

This course examines Canadian Literature written in the latter decades of the 20th century and into the 21st century. Literary works are studied in relation to relevant contemporary social, cultural and political topics, such as nationalism, indigeneity, multiculturalism and diaspora.

LEC · Course ID 005150On ucalendarENGL 318 today

ENGL 319 History and Theory of Media 1

This course explores the development of media technologies such as writing and print (including the book) from their beginnings to the 20th century. Emphasis will be placed on the social, political, and cultural contexts and consequences of these developing technologies.

LEC · Course ID 012358On ucalendarENGL 319 today

ENGL 320 History and Theory of Media 2

This course explores the social, political, and cultural contexts and consequences of contemporary technologies of representation such as print and visual media, photography and film, audio recordings, computer-mediated communications, and interactive digital media.

LEC · Course ID 011392On ucalendarENGL 320 today

ENGL 322 Postcolonial Literature of the Americas

This course examines postcolonial literature in English from Canada, the U.S., and the Caribbean. Through study of both written and oral genres, we will discuss how language practices adapt to and are created in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Topics may include diaspora and migration, nationalism, gender, neo-colonialism, and multiculturalism.

LEC · Course ID 011583On ucalendarENGL 322 today

ENGL 324 Modern and Contemporary American Drama

This course explores traditions and experiments in American drama through an analysis of American plays, especially those from the 1940s to the present, in their historical, textual, and theatrical contexts.

LEC · Course ID 016059On ucalendarENGL 324 today

ENGL 325 Austen

A study of selected novels by Jane Austen, including Pride and Prejudice and Emma. Her letters and juvenilia may also be considered, as well as some of the films based on or inspired by her novels.

LEC · Course ID 012931On ucalendarENGL 325 today

ENGL 330A Sixteenth-Century Literature 1

A study of short poems by such writers as Wyatt, Gascoigne, Whitney, Ralegh, Spenser, the Sidneys, Shakespeare, and Donne.

LEC · Course ID 005152On ucalendarENGL 330A today

ENGL 330B Sixteenth-Century Literature 2

A study of selected genres, topics, and works from Tudor literature.

LEC · Course ID 005153On ucalendarENGL 330B today

ENGL 332 Topics in Creative Writing

This course will focus on a selected genre, approach, creative method, or other aspect of creative writing. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]

LEC · Course ID 015723On ucalendarENGL 332 today

ENGL 335 Creative Writing 1

Designed to assist students with an interest in developing their creative writing skills in various genres, this course consists of supervised practice, discussions of craft, and peer critiques.

WSP · Course ID 005155On ucalendarENGL 335 today

ENGL 336 Creative Writing 2

This course is designed to assist advanced creative writers in developing a body of work in one or more genres by means of supervised practice, discussions of craft, and peer critiques. [Note: Admission by portfolio review]

WSP · Course ID 005156On ucalendarENGL 336 today

ENGL 342 American Literature to 1860

A study of developments in early American Literature. Texts may be drawn from Anglo-European movements such as gothicism and romanticism; captivity narratives and other colonial writings; African American, Native American, and other minority traditions; sentimental and domestic fiction; and American forms such as the frontier romance, and other minority literatures.

LEC · Course ID 010339On ucalendarENGL 342 today

ENGL 343 American Literature 1860-1910

A survey of literary developments in America from the Civil War through the turn of the 20th century, including significant movements of the period such as realism, regionalism, and naturalism; the New Woman's writing and other developments in women's literatures; popular forms such as the Western; and minority literatures.

LEC · Course ID 005157On ucalendarENGL 343 today

ENGL 344 Modern American Literature

A study of American Literature from the early twentieth century through the second world war, emphasizing aesthetic innovation in the modernist movement, and its aftermath in the social writings of the 1930s.

LEC · Course ID 005158On ucalendarENGL 344 today

ENGL 345 American Literature in a Global Context

A study of the ways in which movements of peoples and cultures have shaped American literature. Topics may include colonialism, immigration and migration, literary influence across borders and languages, nativism and internationalism, racial and ethnic styles and exchanges.

LEC · Course ID 005159On ucalendarENGL 345 today

ENGL 346 American Fiction

A study of four to five writers. Topics may include the evolution of narrative style, realism and anti-realism, literature and story, fiction and history, the novel and film, gender and ethnicity.

LEC · Course ID 010195On ucalendarENGL 346 today

ENGL 346R Global Asian Diasporas

This course explores the literature and culture from one or more global Asian diasporas, with particular emphasis on cultures of East Asian origin. Topics may include identity, transnationalism, imperialism, war, labour, migration, and popular culture.

LEC · Course ID 015354On ucalendarENGL 346R today

ENGL 347 American Literature Since 1945

A study of the movements of American Literature following the second world war. The course will consider the formal and cultural diversity of writing in this period, with attention to topics such as avant-garde experiment, the persistence of realism, counter-cultural politics, feminism and literature, postmodernism, and the emergence of minority writers in the mainstream.

LEC · Course ID 005162On ucalendarENGL 347 today

ENGL 348 American Poetry Since 1850

A study of poems, poets, ideas, and movements, contributing to the growth of a distinctive American poetry from Whitman and Dickinson to the 21st century. Texts will be drawn from popular and avant-garde contexts, as well as the literary mainstream.

LEC · Course ID 010196On ucalendarENGL 348 today

ENGL 350A Seventeenth-Century Literature 1

A study of literature by such writers as Jonson, Donne, Wroth, Herbert, Bacon, Milton, Behn, and Dryden.

LEC · Course ID 005164On ucalendarENGL 350A today

ENGL 350B Seventeenth-Century Literature 2

An intensive study of Milton's epic, Paradise Lost, in its historical and literary contexts.

LEC · Course ID 005165On ucalendarENGL 350B today

ENGL 361 English Drama to 1642

The Middle Ages, the Elizabethans and Jacobeans (excluding Shakespeare), and the Spanish Golden Age.

LEC · Course ID 004682On ucalendarENGL 361 today

ENGL 362 Shakespeare 1

A study of the plays written before 1599-1600, excluding Julius Caesar.

LEC · Course ID 005166On ucalendarENGL 362 today

ENGL 363 Shakespeare 2

A study of the plays written after 1599-1600, including Julius Caesar.

LEC · Course ID 005167On ucalendarENGL 363 today

ENGL 364 Shakespeare in Performance at The Stratford Festival

An historical, theoretical, and analytical introduction to Shakespeare's plays in performance, both on stage and screen, this course focuses on specific problems and decisive issues of past productions and of those in the current Stratford Festival season. [Note: This course will be taught on location at Stratford, Ontario. Students must provide their own transportation to and from Stratford to attend the course meetings and the Stratford plays on the course schedule.]

LEC · Course ID 010197On ucalendarENGL 364 today

ENGL 365 Selected Studies

Designed to provide an in-depth study of problems and/or authors selected by the instructor. Students interested in initiating such courses are encouraged to do so by bringing their ideas to the attention of individual instructors.

RDG · Course ID 005168On ucalendarENGL 365 today

ENGL 366 Selected Studies

Designed to provide a study in-depth of problems and/or authors selected by the instructor. Students interested in initiating such courses are encouraged to do so by bringing their ideas to the attention of individual instructors.

RDG · Course ID 005169On ucalendarENGL 366 today

ENGL 371 Editing Literary Works

Investigating scholarly, educational, popular, and electronic editions, this course explores the theory and practice of editing literary texts.

LEC · Course ID 011772On ucalendarENGL 371 today

ENGL 376R Applied English Grammar 1

In exploring different definitions and types of grammar (e.g., descriptive vs. prescriptive), students develop their own critical framework for explaining the structure of English. Of interest to intending teachers of English as the first or second language.

LEC · Course ID 005172On ucalendarENGL 376R today

ENGL 377R Applied English Grammar 2

A continuation of ENGL 376R. Practical applications of language theories to error analysis and correction.

LEC · Course ID 005173On ucalendarENGL 377R today

ENGL 378 Professional Communications in Statistics and Actuarial Science

This course introduces students to oral and written communication in the fields of statistics and actuarial science. With emphasis on the public presentation of technical knowledge, the ability to give and receive constructive feedback, and communication in a collaborative environment, this course helps students develop proficiencies in critical workplace skills. This course is writing intensive and includes extensive collaborative assignments. [Note: Students are encouraged to complete this course by their 4A term. Offered: F,W,S]

LEC · Course ID 014969On ucalendarENGL 378 today

ENGL 392A Information Design

The theory and practice of design for print and digital media, including the study of design concepts such as space, colour, typography, interactivity, immersion, motion, and presence. Students produce designs using professional software tools.

LEC · Course ID 005175On ucalendarENGL 392A today

ENGL 392B Visual Rhetoric

This course introduces students to the study of images from a rhetorical perspective, including the interaction of texts and images in such professional writing fields as advertising, book illustration, technical documentation, journalism, and public relations. Issues may include visual and textual literacy, the semiotics and rhetoric of design, and the ideological basis of social communication.

LEC · Course ID 005176On ucalendarENGL 392B today

ENGL 403 Digital Design Research Project

Students work in small groups under the supervision of a faculty researcher on an ongoing, large-scale, digital design project. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of four times.]

PRJ · Course ID 011683On ucalendarENGL 403 today

ENGL 406 Advanced Rhetorical Study

Topics may include communication, media, politics, science, and social movements. Students will explore the topic(s) in depth using a variety of rhetorical theories and methods.

LEC · Course ID 012663On ucalendarENGL 406 today

ENGL 407 Language and Politics

This course explores how language shapes and is shaped by the unequal distribution of power in modern societies. The role of language will be considered in, for example, the maintenance of sexual difference, the establishment and maintenance of national identity, and the conflict between social classes. The reading will consist of literary and theoretical texts, the latter including such writers as Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Foucault, Cameron, Lakoff, Ngugi wa Thion'go, and Paulin.

LEC · Course ID 012357On ucalendarENGL 407 today

ENGL 408A Writing for the Media

This course examines the genres and strategies of both journalism and public relations. With a strong orientation towards rhetorical and linguistic theories, this course will cover audience concerns from both within and outside organizations.

LEC · Course ID 005177On ucalendarENGL 408A today

ENGL 408B The Discourse of Advertising

This course introduces students to writing and editing advertising copy. Students will also be introduced to models of discourse and rhetorical analysis of advertising texts. Assignments include creating a portfolio of advertising copy and an extensive analysis of sample advertising discourse.

LEC · Course ID 005178On ucalendarENGL 408B today

ENGL 408C The Rhetoric of Digital Design: Theory and Practice

Students apply a variety of analytic perspectives - design discourse, multimodal discourse, rhetorical theory, social semiotics - to the design and production of a major digital project (or compilation of projects) using professional software and hardware tools.

LEC · Course ID 005179On ucalendarENGL 408C today

ENGL 409A Rhetoric of Argumentation

This course studies the discursive, social, and rhetorical principles of argumentation, including topics such as evidence, reasoning, and the organization and presentation of arguments. Scholars studied may include Richard Whatley, Jurgen Habermas, Stephen Toulmin, Chaim Perelman, Lucie Olbrecht-Tyteca, Kenneth Burke, and Pierre Bourdieu.

LEC · Course ID 011394On ucalendarENGL 409A today

ENGL 410A Restoration Literature

A selection of literature, including drama, from the period 1660-1700 by such authors as Cavendish, Dryden, Behn, Etherege, Rochester, and Wycherley. Topics may include the poetry of the court wits, literary reflections of Restoration feminism and libertinism, and the rise of print culture.

LEC · Course ID 005183On ucalendarENGL 410A today

ENGL 410B Eighteenth-Century Literature 1

A selection of early and mid eighteenth-century literature by such writers as Finch, Pope, Swift, Congreve, Manley, Montagu, Addison, and Steele. Topics may include satire, neo-classicism vs. literary modernism, the development of women's publication, and generic experimentation.

LEC · Course ID 005184On ucalendarENGL 410B today

ENGL 410C Eighteenth-Century Literature 2

A selection of mid and late eighteenth-century fiction by such writers as Thomson, Gray, Smart, Thrale, Johnson, Sheridan, and Wheatley. Topics may include the culture of sensibility, the emergence of (auto) biography and of (anti-) colonial writing, and the consolidation of women's publication.

LEC · Course ID 012930On ucalendarENGL 410C today

ENGL 410D Eighteenth-Century Fiction I

A selection of late 17th- and 18th-century fiction by such writers as Behn, Manley, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. Topics may include the novel as an experimental form, romance and amatory fiction, and authorial engagement with issues of gender, class, and colonialism.

LEC · Course ID 010341On ucalendarENGL 410D today

ENGL 410E Eighteenth-Century Fiction II

A selection of mid and late 18th-century fiction by such writers as Fielding, Haywood, Sterne, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen. Topics may include sentiment and sociability, the gothic, and abolitionism.

LEC · Course ID 014557On ucalendarENGL 410E today

ENGL 410F Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

A selection of writing by women such as Behn, Finch, Montagu, Fielding, Edgeworth, and Austen. Topics may include the culture of sensibility, romance and the gothic, and the interaction of women's writing with discourses of race and colonialism.

LEC · Course ID 014558On ucalendarENGL 410F today

ENGL 410W Topics in Gender (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 011854On ucalendarENGL 410W today

ENGL 411 Eighteenth-Century Literature: Sex, Satire, and Sentiment

A selection of writing embracing the themes of sex, satire, and sentiment that characterize the Restoration and 18th century. Authors may include Behn, Swift, Finch, Pope, Defoe, and Radcliffe.

LEC · Course ID 016058On ucalendarENGL 411 today

ENGL 412 Eighteenth-Century Literature and Media

A study of oral, printed, and popular media and literature (such as ballads, fiction, and newspapers) in the Restoration and 18th century. Topics may include the role of women in the rise of print culture, the social role of popular print forms, and the literary reception of new media technologies.

LEC · Course ID 016057On ucalendarENGL 412 today

ENGL 425 Transnational Feminisms and Contemporary Narratives

This course examines the dialogue between transnational feminist theories and literary practices. Drawing on a range of literary and media genres from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, this course considers the historical developments, as well as contemporary contexts (e.g., migration, globalization), that gave rise to the framework of transnational feminism and its negotiations with Anglo-American and European feminist literary theories.

LEC · Course ID 016056On ucalendarENGL 425 today

ENGL 430A Literature of the Romantic Period 1

An examination of the first generation of Romantic writers, including such authors as Barbauld, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.

LEC · Course ID 005185On ucalendarENGL 430A today

ENGL 430B Literature of the Romantic Period 2

An examination of the second generation of Romantic writers, including such authors as Byron, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Hemans.

LEC · Course ID 005186On ucalendarENGL 430B today

ENGL 450W Texts and Contexts (WLU)

LEC · Course ID 014675On ucalendarENGL 450W today

ENGL 451A Literature of the Victorian Age 1

A critical study of early to mid-Victorian literature, including authors such as Carlyle, Arnold, Tennyson, the Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Gaskell, Ruskin, and Dickens. Topics may include liberty, work, gender, class, imperialism, and poetry.

LEC · Course ID 005190On ucalendarENGL 451A today

ENGL 451B Literature of the Victorian Age 2

A critical study of mid to late Victorian literature, including authors such as Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, George Eliot, Newman, Hopkins, Michael Field, Wilde, and Hardy. Topics may include the "Woman Question," the crisis in religious faith, and aestheticism.

LEC · Course ID 005191On ucalendarENGL 451B today

ENGL 460A Early Literature of the Modernist Period in the United Kingdom and Ireland

A study of the literatures of the United Kingdom before and after World War I, including such writers as Conrad, Forster, Hopkins, Mansfield, Shaw, Synge, Wilde, and Yeats.

LEC · Course ID 005192On ucalendarENGL 460A today

ENGL 460B Literature of the Modernist Period in the United Kingdom and Ireland

A study of the literatures of the United Kingdom and Ireland from World War I to World War II, including such writers as Auden, Eliot, Isherwood, Joyce, Lawrence, Orwell, West, and Woolf.

LEC · Course ID 005193On ucalendarENGL 460B today

ENGL 460C Literature of the Postwar Period in the United Kingdom and Ireland

A study of the literatures of the United Kingdom and Ireland after World War II, including such writers as Beckett, Greene, Larkin, Murdoch, Osborne, Pinter, and Spark.

LEC · Course ID 005194On ucalendarENGL 460C today

ENGL 460D Contemporary Literature of the United Kingdom and Ireland

A study of the contemporary literatures of the United Kingdom and Ireland, including such writers as Byatt, Boland, Drabble, Heaney, Hughes, Rushdie, and Stoppard.

LEC · Course ID 014269On ucalendarENGL 460D today

ENGL 463 Postcolonial Literatures

This course examines postcolonial literature (fiction, poetry, and drama) from Africa, Australia, Britain, India, New Zealand, and Pakistan. Topics may include the range of creative forms and language use in texts; indigeneity and migration; intersections of gender, sexuality and race; and resistance, nationalism, and history.

LEC · Course ID 011584On ucalendarENGL 463 today

ENGL 470A Contemporary Critical Theory

Contemporary critical theory offers an array of competing constructions of text and culture. This course examines several topics in recent critical theory, such as gender, race, subjectivity, textuality, and popular culture.

LEC · Course ID 005195On ucalendarENGL 470A today

ENGL 470B History of Literary Criticism

An historical survey of major critical texts and movements from the Greek and Roman classics to the New Criticism of the mid 20th century, examining different critical theories and practices in a context of cultural changes.

LEC · Course ID 005196On ucalendarENGL 470B today

ENGL 470C Literary Studies in Digital Forms

A critical examination of literary publication, research, and criticism in digital forms.

LEC · Course ID 005197On ucalendarENGL 470C today

ENGL 471 Adapting Literary Works

Focusing on adaptations of classic works of literature in English, this course examines the problems, possibilities, and principles of representing such works in other literary forms and in other media.

LEC · Course ID 011773On ucalendarENGL 471 today

ENGL 472 Research Methods in Technical Communication

This course teaches students the practice and theory of research methods in the field of technical and professional communication. Topics may include resource validity and renewal cycles, data-gathering techniques and analytics, interview techniques for subject-matter experts, rapid research skills, and user-experience design.

LEC · Course ID 014913On ucalendarENGL 472 today

ENGL 481 Topics in the History and Theory of Language

A special study of a selected topic in the history and theory of language. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 009976On ucalendarENGL 481 today

ENGL 484 Topics in Literatures Medieval to Romantic

A special study of a selected topic, author, genre, or period in Medieval to Romantic literatures. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 009979On ucalendarENGL 484 today

ENGL 485 Topics in Literatures Romantic to Modern

A special study of a selected topic, author, genre, or period in Romantic to Modern literatures. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 014485On ucalendarENGL 485 today

ENGL 486 Topics in Literatures Modern to Contemporary

A special study of a selected topic, author, genre, or period in Modern to Contemporary literatures. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 014486On ucalendarENGL 486 today

ENGL 491 Topics in Literature and Rhetoric

A special study of a selected topic in literature and rhetoric. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 015553On ucalendarENGL 491 today

ENGL 492 Topics in the History and Theory of Rhetoric

A special study of a selected topic in the history and theory of rhetoric. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 014487On ucalendarENGL 492 today

ENGL 493 Topics in Professional Writing and Communication Design

A special study of a selected topic in professional writing and communication design. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 014488On ucalendarENGL 493 today

ENGL 494 Topics in Forms of Media and Critical Analysis

A special study of a selected topic in forms of media and critical analysis. Please see course instructor for details. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of 10 times.]

LEC · Course ID 014489On ucalendarENGL 494 today

ENGL 495A Supervision of Honours Essay

Senior honours essay will be completed under supervision. [Note: A grade for ENGL 495A will be submitted only after the completion of ENGL 495B.]

ESS · Course ID 005223On ucalendarENGL 495A today

ENGL 495B Supervision of Honours Essay

Senior honours essay will be completed under supervision.

ESS · Course ID 005224On ucalendarENGL 495B today