29 courses in the 1963–64 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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Faculty listed in 1963–64
W. K. Thomas, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) - Professor and Chairman of the Department J. W. McCutchan, A.B, (Davidson), A.M., Ph.D. (Virginia) - = - Professor
L. A. Cummings, A.B. (Washington), M.A. (Missouri), Ph.D. (Washington) ; : Assistant ProfessorF
In Year I the prospective English major should select English 100, Philosophy 100, Natural Science 100, at least one of French 100, German 100, and Latin 100, and other subjects in accord with the general regulations.
In Year II the English major shall complete English 200 and 250; in the course of Years II and III he shall complete one further Honours English course and at least two of English 210, 220, 225, 230, 330, 335, or any Honours English courses; in Year III he shalt also complete English 345 and shall write a Comprehensive Examination in the general field of English Literature.
Subjects related to the study of English, and from which the English major is expected to choose his optional courses, are the following: Classics, French, German, History (especially English or American), Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Knowledge, Russian, Sociology and Spanish.
Note on numbering: English 100 and 200 are designed for both Honours and General students. Otherwise courses numbered 250-299, 350-399, and 450-499 are Honours
courses, and all others are General courses.
Note on prerequisites: Normally English 100 (or its equivalent at another University) will be prerequisite to all courses numbered 200 and above (except 225 and 235). In addition English 200 (or its equivalent) will normally be prerequisite to English 380, 450, 455, 460 and 470.
Designed for those Engineering students who enter the University from Grade 12, this course seeks to help them gain a reasonable command of written English, and so consists of the discussion of the English language, the reading of expository essays, and the frequent writing of such essays.
Texts: Braddock, Introductory Readings on the English Language; Morrison & Robbins, As A Man Thinks; Kazin, The Open Form; Sears, Harbrace Guide to the Library and the Research Paper. .
Designed as an option for first-year Engineering students, this course seeks to further the understanding and appreciation of the various types of English literature and of the humanistic values to be found in it. Since such understanding cannot be separated from the clear and effective communication of the ideas concerned, students are required to write a number of essays on topics related to the literature studied.
Texts: First term: Scott, Topics and Opinions, First Series; Conrad, Lord Fim; Amis, Lucky Fim; Paton, Too Late the Phalarope; Golding, Lord of the Flies.
Second Term: Barnet, Berman & Burto, Eight Great Tragedies, Eight Great Comedies; Coffin, The Major Poets.
ENGL 100The Periods of English Literature, I: Mediaeval to Augustan
Beginning with a training in critical reading and an introduction to the conventions of various literary types, this course then examines the principal characteristics of English Literature in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Augustan Age. (For both General and Honours students who are likely to take a further English course.) Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Othello, A Winter's Tale; oncom, The Alchemist; Defoe, Moll Flanders; Fielding, Joseph Andrews; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Thomas, Form and Substance; and further texts to be prescribed by the individual instructors for the introductory part of the course.
An examination of the humanistic content of English literature and the various forms in which it is expressed. (For students who are likely not to take a further English course).
Texts: Barnet, Berman, & Burto, Eight Great Tragedies, Eight Great Comedies; Coffin, The Major Poets; Amis, Lucky Fim; Golding, Lord of the Flies; Conrad, Lord Fim; Paton, rin Late the Phalarope; Milton, Paradise Lost; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.
An examination of the humanistic content of English literature and the various forms in which it is expressed. (Primarily for science students.)
Texts: Barnet, Berman, & Burto, Eight Great Tragedies, Eight Great Comedies; Coffin, The Major Poets; Amis, Lucky Fim; Golding, Lord of the Flies; Conrad, Lord Fim; Paton, Too Late the Phalarope.
ENGL 200The Periods of English Literature, II: Romantic to Contemporary
Completing the survey begun in English 100, this course examines English literature in the Romantic movement, the early and later Victorian period, and our contemporary period. (For both General and Honours students).
Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2; Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer; Sheridan, The School for Scandal; Shaw, Saint Joan, Steinberg, Aspects of Modern Drama; Sterne, A Sentimental Fourney; Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Dickens, Great Expectations, James, The Portrait of a Lady; Hardy, Tess of the d’ Urbervilles: Lawrence, The Rainbow; Forster, 4 Passage to India.
A study, through selected authors, of the principal techniques and movements in the development of the English novel from its beginning to the present day.
A study of the principal playwrights, plays and movements in dramatic history from the re-opening of the theatres in 1660 to the present day. Texts: Wilson, Six Restoration Plays; Congreve, Comedies; Taylor, Eighteenth Century Comedy; Sheridan, Plays; Rowell, Nineteenth Century Plays; Shaw, Man and Superman, Three Plays for Puritans, Plays Pleasant, Warnock, Representative Modern Plays: British; Warnock, Representative Modern Plays: American; Steinberg, Aspects of Modern ama, 3 lectures.
This course, which deals chiefly with the moral implications of scientific, political, social, and economic thought, is designed both to stimulate thought and to improve the student’s ability to express himself in clear, organized fashion. Students are required to write essays and seminar Papers on the topics discussed. (Primarily for Science students, but open to General Arts students.)
Texts: Machiavelli, The Prince; More, Utopia; J. S. Mill, On Liberty; Marx, Communist Manifesto; E. H. Carr, The New Society; Erich Fromm, May Man Prevail.; Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science; J. Bronowski, Science and Human Values; Julian Huxley, Knowledge, Morality and Destiny; J. W. N. Sullivan, The Limitations of Science; A, Koestler, Darkness at Noon; Paton, Too Late the Phalarope; Golding, Lord of the Flies.
A training in the application of critical principles to literary works. The course consists of a series of seminar meetings, for which the students prepare critical appraisals of literary works and in which these appraisals are examined and discussed in considerable detail.
An introduction to Anglo-Saxon language and literature in their historical context, with special attention to the development of the language. Texts: Alston, 4n Introduction to Old English; Wyatt, Anglo-Saxon Reader.
ENGL 270Middle English, with Special Emphasis on Chaucer
A study of Middle English literature, partly in translation and partly in the original, with special emphasis on the works of Chaucer, which will be read in the original’
Texts: Chaucer, Works, ed. Robinson; Dickins & Wilson, Early Middle English Texts; Sisam, Fourteenth Century Verse 9 Prose; The Lay of Havelok the Dane, ed. Skeat & Sisam; Langland (?), Piers Plowman, ed. Skeat; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (in translation).
Aimed at encouraging the.student to develop his creative and critical potentials, the course consists of supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions. Enrolment is limited and, in order to be accepted, an applicant must first submit a MS as evidence of his ability to profit from the course.
ENGL 350Seventeenth-Century Non-Dramatic Literature
A study of the nondramatic literature of the Jacobean, Caroline, and Interregnum periods, with special
attention to Milton’s major works. : Texts: Coffin & Witherspoon, Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry; Milton, Complete Poems and Major Prose, ed. Hughes; Bacon, Adoancement of Learning, ed. Kitchin, Essays, ed. Patrick; Browne, Religio Medici and Other Writings, ed. Herford; Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress, ed. Martz.
An historical and critical study, in seminars, of the drama, poetry, novels, and other writings of the age from Dryden to Johnson.
Texts: Brady & Price, English Prose and Poetry, 1660-1800; Wilson, Six Restoration Plays; Dryden, Selected Works, ed. Frost; Dryden, Three Plays, ed. Saintsbury; Addison & Steele, Selections from “The Tatler” and “The Spectator”; Pope, Selected Poetry and Prose, ed, Wimsatt; Swift, Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings, ed. Landa; Johnson, Rasselas, Prose and Poetry, ed. Bronson; Boswell, Life of Johnson, ed. Norman; Thomas, Supplementary Collection of Augustan Writing; Defoe, Fournal of the Plague fee Richardson, Pamela; Fielding, Jonathan Wild, Tom Jones; Smollett, Humphrey
A critical study, in seminars, of the principles and practice of the Pre-Romantic and Romantic authors (poets, novelists, and essayists) rom Gray to Keats.
Texts: Noyes, English Romantic Poetry & Prose; Byron, Don Juan, ed. Marchand; Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield; Shorter Novels of the Eighteenth Century; Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling; Sterne, Tristram Shandy; Burney, Evelina; Lewis, The Monk; Austen, Emma; Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor.
An historical and critical study, in lectures and seminars, of the principal works of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Newman, Carlyle, Ruskin, Huxley, Pater, Trollope, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and others of the early Victorian period. oO.
ENGL 455The Later Victorians, 1880-1914, An historical and critical study, in lectures and seminars, of the principal works of Hopkins, Housman, Hardy, Wilde, Synge, Shaw, Kipling, Bennett, and others of the later Victorian period
ENGL 460Twentieth-Century Literature, A critical study of the principal works of Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, James, Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and others of the modern period
The principles of good English usage as approached through a discussion of modern linguistic theories. The first third of the course deals with historical and comparative linguistics, with particular application to the history and development of English; the latter two-thirds stress structural linguistics, with reference to English grammar. The class is limited to 20 students.
Note: Upon securing the consent”of the departmental chairman and the instructor concerned, Science and Engineering students may choose courses from those offered to Arts students. -