ENGL 130 The Types of English Literature
An examination of the nature and forms of English literature, to be combined with practice in writing. (Primarily for Science students).
3 lectures.
English (ENGL)
28 courses in the 1966–67 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
curring themes. For all first-year Arts students electing English. 3 lectures.
ENGL 201 Masterpieces of English Literature, I
A study of the masterpieces of English literature from the Middle Ages to the latter part of the eighteenth century.
3 lectures.
ENGL 210 The Novel
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.
3 lectures.
ENGL 215 The Development of Drama to 1660
A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on the contribution of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
3 lectures.
ENGL 220 Drama from 1660
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.
3 lectures.
ENGL 225 Principles of Dramatic Production
An introduction to directing, acting, and staging, with practical experience in the University’s Theatre of the Arts. 3 hours a week.
ENGL 235 Selections from the Literature of Ideas
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 a 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.)
3 lectures.
ENGL 251 Literary Criticism: Its Origins and Practice
One part of the course is devoted to a study of the major classical critics and of the transmission of their writings through Italian and French critics. The other part provides a training in the application of critical principles to the works of literature.
3 hours a week.
ENGL 261 Old English and the History of the Language
An introduction to the Anglo-Saxon language and literature in their historical context, and a study of the development of the English language to modern times.
3 lectures.
ENGL 270 Middle 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.
3 lectures.
ENGL 280 Sixteenth-Century Non-Dramatic Literature
A study of the non-dramatic literature of sixteenth-century England. Special attention will be paid to Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
2 lectures.
ENGL 300 American Literature
A survey of the development of American literature from the beginning to the present time and an exploration of the themes of such major figures as Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, James, Eliot, and Faulkner.
3 lectures.
ENGL 301 Masterpieces of English Literature, II
A study of the masterpieces of English literature from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. 3 lectures.
ENGL 310 Literature of Canada and the Commonwealth
A survey of Canadian and Australasian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from South Africa and the West Indies.
3 lectures.
3303. American and Canadian Literature. The literature and literary history of British colonial America, of the Revolution and early American republic, and of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States and Canada, with some attention to cultural history, studied by means of lectures, reports, tutorials, quodlibets, papers, and tests.
3 meetings per week.
ENGL 335 Creative Writing
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.
3 lectures.
ENGL 340 Nineteenth-Century Literature
Designed to complement English 301, this course provides a more intensive study of Romantic and Victorian literature. 3 lectures.
ENGL 345 Supervision of Senior Essay
3 hours a week.
ENGL 350 Seventeenth-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.
2 lectures.
Department of English
ENGL 360 Drama to 1642
The rise of the drama and dramatic form; the work and influence of Shakespeare’s predecessors; the life and works of Shakespeare; the post-Shakespearean drama to the closing of the theatres.
3 lectures.
ENGL 370 The Augustan Age
An historical and critical study, in seminars, of the drama, poetry, novels, and other writings of the age from Dryden to Burns. 3 lectures.
ENGL 380 The Romantic Movement
A critical study, in seminars, of the principles and practice of the English Romantic authors (poets, novelists, and essayists) from Blake to Keats.
3 lectures.
ENGL 390 Beowulf
A literary and linguistic study of the Old English epic Beowulf (and the Finnsburg Fragment) with an investigation of its origins in history and mythology.
Prerequisite: English 261.
2 lectures.
ENGL 451 Literature of the Victorian Age
An historical and critical study of the writers in the period between the Romantic era and the rise of characteristically twentieth-century literature; with special emphasis on the major poets (Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold), on the more important novelists (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, James), and on writers of general and critical prose works of lasting significance (Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxley).
4 lectures.
ENGL 460 Twentieth-Century British Literature
A critical study of works by Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, James, Conrad, Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and others of the modern period.
3 lectures.
ENGL 470 History of Literary Criticism
A study in seminars of the literary criticism of the four great ancients and of English writers from the Elizabethans to the present day.
2 lectures.
ENGL 475 English Linguistics
The principles of English grammar. 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.
3 lectures.
ENGL 480 Senior Seminar
Designed specifically for fourth-year students in programs combining Honours English with a fraternal discipline, this course provides a study of the major works in those periods of English literature in which students have not taken Honours courses. Individual syllabi are prescribed for each student, and the course is conducted on a seminar basis, with students presenting and criticizing reports.
3 hours a week.
ENGL 495 Supervision of Senior Honours Essay
3 hours a week.
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.
Graduate Programme
In the autumn of 1967 the Department of English plans to introduce a graduate programme leading to the degree of Master of Arts in English.