94 courses in the 1968–69 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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Department Of English
Faculty listed in 1968–69
W.U. Ober, B.A. (Washington and Lee), Ph.D. (Indiana) Professor Chairman of the Department E.M. Boyd (Miss), A.B. (Grinnell), M.A. (Chicago), Ph.D. (Columbia)
(Roberts Fellow) Professor L.A. Cummings, 4.B. (Washington), M.A. (Missouri), Ph.D. (Washington) Professor J 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. Perry, B.A. (Hons.} (King’s College, London), B.A. (Queen’s), M.A. (Toronto), Professor Emeritus (Brandon University) Professorial Associate 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 H.E. Haworth (Mrs.), B.A. (Rollins), M.A, Ph.D. (Illinois) 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.£d. (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
Deputy Chairman J.S. Stone, M.A. (British Columbia) Associate Professor R.R. Dubinski, B.A., M.A. (Western) Assistant Professor R.N. Gosselink, B.A. (Kansas), M.A., Ph.D. (Colorado) Assistant Professor
P.M. Hinchcliffe, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A. {Toronto}, Ph.D. (Toronto) Assistant Professor J H.M. Logan, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall), 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
ENGL 1Ahmad, M.A. (Allahabad), M.A. {Toronto} Lecturer P.D. Beam, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (McMaster) Lecturer M.J. Estok, B.A., M.A. (Saskatchewan) Lecturer D.L. Hedges, B.A. (Northeastern, Okla.), M.A. (Arkansas) Lecturer N.M. Hodge, B.A. (Waterloo) Lecturer J D. Letson, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. {McMaster} Lecturer J R. Lister (Mrs.), B.A., M.A. (Toronto) Lecturer M.G. Thysell (Mrs.), A¢.A. (Montana) Lecturer E.M. Uram, C.R., B.A. (Western), M.A. (St. Louis) Lecturer J R. Wiljer, B.A. (Waterloo) 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 22-28.
English Major In General Arts
Recommended Programme
Year I English 101 Philosophy 100 or equivalent One of French 100, German 100, Latin 100 Three other courses in accord with the general regulations of the Arts Faculty (see p. 10)
Year II English 251, 360 Three other courses
Year II Three approved English courses, of which at least one shall be chosen from English 270, 350, 370, 380, 452*/453* Two other courses
Undergraduate Courses
Restrictions: With the exception of 16*, 17*, 50J, and 130 all the following courses
-are Honours courses, but are also open to students enrolled in General programmes. English 190, however, is not open to English majors; English 225, 240, 325, and 335 may not be included in fulfilling minimum course requirements for any English programme.
Note I: In English programme descriptions, the word ‘“‘course’’ means one full course or two half courses.
Note 2: The “normal” number of lectures per week in each course is three; however, each instructor determines how often his particular class will meet.
Note 3: A dagger (t) following a course description indicates that the course is tentatively scheduled for the session 1968-69.
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. Poetry and drama will be emphasized. +
A study, through representative works, of the major genres, modes, and methods of literature, and its principal recurring themes. For all first-year Arts students electing English.t+
A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on sixteenth-century and early seventeenthcentury non-Shakespearean drama.t
This course, which deals chiefly with the moral implications of political 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. t
The use and abuse of present-day English as a spoken and written language. The search for criteria in evaluating different means of communication such as journalese, technical jargon, slang and colloquialisms. The bearing of structure, semantics and imagery on clear expression and its practical application in effective writing.
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 Mediaeval and Renaissance critics. The other part provides a training in the application of critical principles to the works of literature.t
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.t
ENGL 282Later Sixteenth-Century Non-Dramatic Literature
A study of the non-dramatic literature of the last two decades of the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on Sidney and on Spenser’s Faerie Queene. t
The mutations of prose style and form as seen in the “romance” writers such as Malory, Sidney, Bunyan, Swift; in the Novella and picaresque writers such as Nashe and Defoe; in the short story and novelette writers such as Poe, Conrad, and Faulkner.
The mutations of prose style and form as seen in writers of biography and autobiography such as Boswell, Franklin, Strachey; letter writers’ such as Chesterfield, Keats, Dickinson; essayists such as Bacon, Burton, Ruckin, Orwell: and writers of scientific, historical, and philosophical prose such as Browne, Darwin, Macaulay, Trevelyan. t
This course extends the work of English 225 and gives attention to technical aspects of voice, movement, lighting, etc., as well as an historical perspective. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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.t
The life and works of Shakespeare, with the rise of the drama and dramatic form, the work and influence of Shakespear’es predecessors, and the post-Shakespearean drama to the closing of the theatres.t+
Designed to provide a study in depth of problems and/or authors selected by the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. t
An historical and critical study, in seminars, of the principles and practice of the English Romantic authors from Blake to Keats, with primary emphasis on poetry.t
Preparation for student production in the Theatre of the Arts
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.
The development of the early theatres (c.1500- c.1642), with attention to the structure of the Academic, Court, and Public theatres; to the organization and personnel of the dramatic companies; to different methods of staging in the various types of theatres; and to representative plays of the period. Includes practical work in the theatre.
An historical and critical study of the writers in the period between the Romantic era and the rise of characteristically twentiethcentury literature; with special emphasis on the major poets (Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold) and on writers of critical prose works of lasting significance (e.g. Newman, Ruskin.)t
Similar in scope té 452 above, but with emphasis on the more important novelists (e.g. Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) and on writers of general prose (e.g. Mill, Huxley).
ENGL 456Literature and History of the Victorian Age
A literary and historical survey of Victorian England through authors and works that have major significance in both fields. The student will be encouraged to use several approaches and forms of evaluations of this material. He will be obliged to register in English 456 or in History 456 and to direct and concentrate his studies accordingly.
A critical study of works by Shaw, Conrad, Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Lawrence, and others of the modern period. (Note: students electing English 460 may not enroll for credit in English 461 or 462; conversely, students electing English 461 and/or 462 may not enroll for credit in English 460).+
ENGL 462Twentieth-Century British Poetry and Criticism
A critical study of the poetry of such authors as Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Thomas, with a consideration of the major literary criticism of the period. t
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 linguistic analysis. It will include an evaluation of English grammars ranging from the traditional to the structural and transformational-generative.t
ENGL 331J. American and Canadian Literature I. A survey of North American English lit-
erature from the beginnings in the seventeenth century until after the American Civil War and Confederation in Canada, with some attention to cultural history.
A study of such writers as Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, Henry Green, Kingsley Amis, Irwin Shaw, John O’Hara, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter. An examination of the anti-hero and the stream of consciousness from the psychoanalytical novel to the theatre of the absurd.
Graduate Courses
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 1968-69.
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 letter grade).t
After a cursory consideration of the ancient theatre and its cessation, a study of the rise of the drama in the tenth century until the sixteenth century, using principally English examples. The church -music-play, the mystery, the miracle, the morality, and the interlude will be examined from the approaches of the textual critic, the musicologist, the literary historian, and the literary critic.t
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. t
ENGL 632The Periodical Essay in the Eighteenth Century
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.
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.
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 works and movements in Canadian literature, seen in the context of social and political developments. (Given in conjunction with the Department of History).
A study of the works of the major Australian poets, seen in the context of Australian literary history as a whole and compared with Canadian literary development.