55 courses in the 1967–68 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 1967–68
W. U. Ober, B.A. (Washington and Lee), Ph.D. (Indiana) Professor and Chairman of Department
E. Birney, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) Visiting Professor and Writer-in-Residence
D. R. Galloway, B.A., M.A. (Cambridge) - - - Professor C. F. MacRae, B.A. (Western), M.A. (McMaster).
Ph.D. (Toronto) - - - - - - - Professor W. K. Thomas, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) — - - - - Professor E. M. Boyd (Miss), A.B. (Grinnell), M.A. (Chicago).
Ph.D. (Columbia) (Roberts Fellow) - - Associate Professor L. A. Cummings, A.B. (Washington), M.A. (Missouri).
Ph.D. (Washington) - - - Associate Professor J A. I. Dust, M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - Associate Professor J. C. Gray, B.A. (Washington State), M.A. (Connecticut).
Ph.D. (Syracuse) - - - - - Associate Professor B. N. Honeyford, B.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) - - Associate Professor K. Ledbetter, A.B. (Central College, Mo.)
M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - - Associate Professor R. Levitsky (Mrs.), B.S.Ed. (Central Missouri S.C.).
M.S.Ed. (Illinois Normal), Ph.D. (Missouri) - Associate Professor J W. R. Martin, M.A., D. Litt. et Phil. (South Africa) - Associate Professor J. S. Stone, M.A. (British Columbia) - - Associate Professor
R. N. Gosselink, B.A. (Kansas), M.A., Ph.D. (Colorado) Assistant Professor
H. E. Haworth (Mrs.), B.A. (Rollins), M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - - Assistant Professor
P. M. Hinchcliffe, B.A. (British Columbia:), M.A. (Toronto) Assistant Professor J
H. M. Logan, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall).
Faculty listed in 1967–68
Ph.D. (Pennsylvania) - - - - Assistant Professor A. M. MacQuarrie, B.A. (Acadia), M.A. (Toronto) - Assistant Professor J E. F. Shields (Miss), B.A. (Chestnut Hill).
M.A. (Villanova), Ph.D. (Illinois) - - - Assistant Professor Sister M. Leon, S.S.N.D., B.A. (Toronto).
M.A. (Detroit) - - - - Assistant Professor J H. Tuyn, M.A. (Utrecht and Oxon.) - - Assistant Professor R P. D. Beam, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (McMaster) - - - Lecturer C. H. DeRoo, B.A. (McMaster) - - oe - - Lecturer R. R. Dubinski, B.A., M.A. (Western) - - - - Lecturer M. J. Estok, B.A., M.A. (Saskatchewan) = - - - - Lecturer
C. J. Hayward, B.A. (Western) - - - - - Lecturer N. M. Hodge, B.A. (Waterloo) - - - - LecturerJ R. Lister (Mrs.), B.A., M.A. (Toronto) - - - - Lecturer M. G. Thysell (Mrs.), M.A. (Montana) - - - - Lecturer E. M. Uram, C.R., B.A. (Western), M.A. (St. Louis) - - Lecturer J
English Honours Programmes
For programmes in Honours English, Honours English and French, Honours English and German, Honours English and History, Honours English and Latin, Honours English and Philosophy. Honours English and Russian, and Honours English and Spanish, see pages 24-29.
English Major in General Arts
In Year I the prospective English major should select English 101, Philosophy 100 or equivalent, 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 at least English 201 and 251.
In Year III he shall complete (a) English 301, (b) another English course chosen from the whole range of courses offered (except 225, 240, and 335), and (c) either English 345 (Senior Essay) or an Honours English course.
Note on numbering: English 101 and 300 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.
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Note: The number of hours or lectures shown after the course description is an attempt to indicate the “normal”; each instructor determines how often his particular class will meet.
Designed for students in Applied Physics, Applied Chemistry, and Co-operative Mathematics, 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.
A study, through representative works, of the major genres, modés, and methods of literature, and its principal recurring themes. For all first-year Arts students electing English.
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 hours a week.
A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on the contribution of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
This course, which deals chiefly with the moral implications of political, philosophical, and scientific thought. is designed both to stimulate controversy 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.
The use and abuse of present day English as a spoken and written language. The search for criteria in evaluating different means of communication, including journalese and other technical jargon. Pronunciation, slang, colloquialisms. The practical analysis of structure, semantics, and imagery. Not open to Year I students.
ENGL 251Literary 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.
ENGL 261Old 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.
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.
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.
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 hours a week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 (e.g., Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) and on writers of general and critical prose works of lasting significance (e.g., Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxley).
An interpretation of linguistics and its application in the English classroom to the study of grammar and language. The course will provide an introduction to descriptive and historical linguistics and the principles of inguistic analysis. It will include an evaluation of English grammars ranging from the traditional to the structural and transformational-generative.
Designed for fourth-year students in the Honours English program or in programs combining Honours English with a fraternal discipline, this course provides a study in depth of a selected author or group of authors. Open also to superior third-year General students.
The Department of English offers courses leading to the degree Master of Arts and to the degree Master of Philosophy. (The departmental graduate brochure provides details of the requirements for these degrees.) The courses marked with a dagger are tentatively scheduled for the session 1967-68.
+601. Studies in Bibliographic Method (Half course). Work on_ individual bibliographic problems, with a study of book manufacture, manuscripts and their relation to the printed text, editorial problems, and literary forgeries. (No Icttcr gradc).
+603. Practical Criticism (Half course). Instruction and supervised practice in the art of reading closely, interpreting, and evaluating. (No letter grade).
The chief comedies and tragedies of the period 1660-1707.
+630. Satire (Full course). A study of the early development of satire, an intensive examination of its flowering in the Restoration and Augustan periods, and a survey of the contributions made to it by such later writers as Burns, Byron, Peacock, Huxley, Orwell, and Auden. Attention will be paid to varying purposes, to the genesis of major works, and especially to methods and devices.
ENGL 632The Periodical Essay in the Eighteenth Century (Half course)
A study of the origins of the literary periodical essay, an intensive examination of The Spectator, and a survey of the contributions to the genre made by such later writers as Johnson and Goldsmith.
A study of a few of Fielding’s plays for the dramatic techniques he carried over to the novel, and a close examination of his various works of fiction: their genesis, their art forms, and their methods.
Her place in the development of the novel; her work in relation to the Romantic Revival; an analysis of Jane Austen criticism.
+650. Studies in Victorian Poetry (Full course). A complete survey of the poetry of Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold, in relation to the thought of. the Victorian Age.
ENGL 652Expository Prose of the Victorian Age (Full course)
Reading, study, and discussion of the major prose works of Carlyle, Newman, Ruskin, Arnold, Mill, and Huxley, with selected readings from Macaulay, Pater, and Stevenson.
ENGL 660Antebellum American Literature (Full course)
After some attention to the colonial beginnings, the course will centre on such authors as Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman.
A study of the major drama of the twentieth century.
+680. Twentieth-Century American Fiction (Half course). A study of the works of such authors as Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos, and Steinbeck.
+682. Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Half course). A study of the works of such poets as Frost, Sandburg, Jeffers, Eliot, and Stevens.
+685. Studies in Canadian History and Letters (Full course, given in conjunction with the History Department.) A study of the major works and movements in Canadian literature, seen in the context of social and political developments.
ENGL 687Studies in Australian Poetry (Half course)
A study of the works of the major Australian pocts, seen in the context of Australian literary history as a whole and compared with Canadian literary development.
1695. Special Studies (Half course). Studies in a specific author, genre, or period.
+696. Special Studies (Full course). Studies in a specific author, genre, or period.
1697. M.A. Thesis.
1698. M.Phil. Thesis.
Preparation for a Student Production in the Theatre of the Arts