71 courses in the 1975–76 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Professor, Chairman of the Department W.U. Ober, B.A.(Washington and Lee), Ph.D. (Indiana)
Professors
J..Gold, B.A.(Birmingham), Ph.D.(Wisconsin)
J.C. Gray, B.A.(Washington State), M.A.(Connecticut), Ph.D (Syracuse)
G.R. Hibbard, B.A., M.A.(London)
K. Ledbetter, A.B.(Central College, Mo.), M.A., Ph.D (illinois)
C.F. MacRae, B.A.(Western), M.A(McMaster), Ph.D.(Toronto)
W.R. Martin, M.A., D.Litt. et Phil(South Africa)
W.K. Thomas, M.A., Ph.D (Toronto)
Associate Professors
A.J. Dust, M.A., Ph.D.(Illinois)
B.N. Honeyford, B.A., Ph.D.(Toronto)
H.E. Haworth, B.A.(Rollins), M.A., Ph.D (Illinois)
P.M. Hinchcliffe, B.R.(British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D (Toronto) J
N.C. Hultin, B.A.(Concordia), M.A.(Chicago), Ph.D (Johns Hopkins)
R.M. Levitsky, B.S.Ed.(Central Missouri S.C.), M.S.Ed (Illinois Normal), Ph.D(Missouri) J
H.M. Logan, A.B.(Franklin and Marshall), Ph.W. (Pennsylvania)
E.F. Shields, B.A.(Chestnut Hill) M.A (Villanovu), Ph.D[lnois)
G.E. Slethaug, B.A.(Pacific Lutheran), M.A. Phw. (Nebraska)
U.S. Stone, M.A (British Columbia)
H. Tuyn, M.A.(Utrecht and Oxon.), Docteur de UUniversite de Paris R
Assistant Professors
P.D. Beam, B.A.(Waterloo), M.A.(McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto)
R.R. Dubinski, B.A.. M.A.(Western), Ph.D (Toronto)
R.N. Gosselink, B.A.(Kansas), M.A., Ph.D.(Colorado)
D.S. Keppel-Jones, B.A.(Natal) M.A., Ph.D. (Queen's) J
R. Lister, B.A., M.A., Ph.D(Toronto)
W.R. MacNaughton, B.A.(Toronto), M.A., Ph.D. (Wisconsin).
E.P. McCormack, M.A.(Glasgow), Ph.D(Manitobu) J
J.S. North, B.A., M.A.(British Columbia), Ph.D. (Alberta)
Sister M. Leon, S.S.N.D., B.A.(Toronto), M.A. (Detroit) f part-time)
D.R. Letson, B.A.(Waterloo), M.A (McMaster), Ph.D.(Toronto) J
M.G. Thysell, M.A.(Montana), Ph.D (Iowa) (part-time)
Course Descriptions English
Lecturers
L. Dorney, B.A., M.A (Louisville) J (part-time)
S.E. McMullin, B.A., M.A.(Carleton)
For programmes and courses in Drama, see Drama and Theatre Arts Group in this Chapter.
English Honours Programmes
For programmes in Honours English and dual Honours programmes involving English, see page 91.
English General Programme
To fulfill the requirements for a general degree in English, a student must take six courses in English consisting of: 101 or equivalent, 251, one full course equivalent from 310, 350, 362*, 363*; one full course equivalent from 305, 330, 373, 375, 410, 430, 451; two other approved English credits.
First Year
Either English 101 or 102 is the recommended firstyear course. However, a first year student may — without formal permission from the Department — take courses from the following list instead of either 101 or 102: English 108*, 190*, 211*-212*, and 230*-231*. All other English courses are open to firstyear students, but only with the permission of the Chairman of the English Department and the instructor of the course. Students may use only one full course equivalent in English from the 100-level to fulfill the minimum English requirements.
Upper Years
English 251 is strongly recommended for second year. With the consent of the Department upper-year courses may be taken at any time during the upper years without regard to course number or “level”.
Restrictions
English 109*, 140*-141*, 209*, 210*, 245R and 335 may not be included as approved English courses in fulfilling the minimum course requirements for an English Programme, but may be chosen as non- English electives.
Note 1
W.K. Thomas’s Correct Form in Essay Writing is the official style sheet for all undergraduate English 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 In all English courses, emphasis will be placed on student essays written in connection with the reading.
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
10 English as a Second Language
(a non-credit course)
The course will aim at the improvement of both written and spoken English to bring about ease and facility of expression in assignments and oral discussion through a detailed study of basic patterns in Grammar and Idiom and their practical application in writing commentaries, essays or summaries.
An examination of examples of the greatest literature in English and its relation to the periods of its origin. Figures such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Blake, Keats, Tennyson, Dickens, and T.S. Eliot will be examined. The precise list of readings will depend upon the individual instructor. The basic text will be the one-volume Norton Anthology of English Literature.
A study of the forms that imaginative literature assumes. Examples of different kinds of literature will be explored in detail so as to discover how the shape of a literary work of art contributes to its meaning. Students will for instance read ballad, lyric, and narrative poetry; classic tragedy and comedy and absurdist, existential and expressionist plays; novels and short stories.
An exploration of the great variety of literature through thematic perspectives. The following themes will be offered in the coming year.
A study of human excellence in thought and action, embodied in representative men and women, as seen through works of literature.
The purpose of this course will be to acquaint the student with various forms of the literary artist’s moral vision of man as it appears in “Utopian” writings. It will involve an examination of the role of the imagination in helping to inform and embody the cultural ideals of various periods.
Course Descriptions 293 English
Works in English literature from its beginnings are selected for their bearings on questions of morality.
A study of the nature and role of women in British, Canadian, and American literature from Chaucer to the present. Works by both men and women writers will be studied in which women are seen in such forms as earth mothers, people, sex objects, and bitches.
A study of various works of literature in which the protagonist is a rebel, a non-conformist to the standardized, existing norms of life and living. It will examine a number of rebel types and concepts, moral implications and final outcomes either in successful realization or in tragic defeat.
This course includes the study of a variety of works of literature centering on the theme of man in crisis, the stress being on the individual at variance with his inner self, his fellow man, or his world. The inner struggle isolates him from society and alienates him from his fellow man. The course will discuss the process in which wisdom and maturity are gained
as the ultimate product of suffering.
This course is designed for students who wish to develop basic writing skills. It teaches such elements of composition as focus of theme and development
of central idea, use of supporting material, and organization; it stresses as well proper mechanics and
good diction. The course takes the student from the paragraph to the essay, and from exposition to argumentation. Essays written will not be lengthy, but they will be frequent.
" 140* The Use of English 1
The use and abuse of spoken and written English. The study and evaluation of language as it is used for various purposes (e.g., colloquial, scientific, legal, political, commercial, journalistic, literary) in order to increase critical awareness and help students to write clearly and effectively themselves.
A continuation of English 140*. The study of factual, emotive, scientific and imaginative writing; relevance, context; meaning, tone, feeling and intention. Prerequisite: English 140*
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Designed for students in all programmes and faculties, the course examines some of Shakespeare’s comedies, history plays, and tragedies selected from his early, middle, and late periods. In addition, the full range of Shakespeare’s variety and flexibility in developing characters and dramatic structures is stressed as are significant and recurring themes.
No previous work in Shakespeare is required.
James, D.H. Lawrence, and modern Canadian writers.
The study of major themes, stories, myths, and characters of the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible, and their influence on other English literature.
An introduction to the scope and aims of folklore, together with a survey of the major types of folklore in the English tradition from earliest times to the present and from the various nations of the Englishspeaking world. Topics such as the following will be discussed: Oral literature and traditional cultures
of the English world; problems in the creation, transmission, and alteration of oral literature; myth, legend, tale, and marchen.
Similar to 203* but dealing with folk-drama, ballads, songs, riddles, chants, proverbs, and charms. Prerequisite: English 203* or consent of instructor
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. A course in the “fashions” of Canadian short story writing tracing changing modes and reference points. Students will be expected to work in some depth with individual authors.
Note
R courses are those administered by Renison College.
Essays of current and recurrent interest will be read both for the ideas presented and for the artistry involved in the presentation.
This course will deal with the history and forms of fantasy written for an adult reading audience. In considering fantasy as a genre, related forms like the romance, the fairy tale, the fable, and the gothic horror story will be discussed. Authors such as Morris, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Williams, and White will be studied in depth.
A discussion of the genre known as “science fiction,” with some attention to its historical development. Various examples, drawn from Utopian and anti- Utopian science fiction, the aftermath of war, invasion from and to outer space, social science fiction, the nature of the individual, “gadget” science fiction, parapsychology, and alternate worlds and beings, will be considered.
This course will deal with classic works of children’s literature, including fantasy written primarily for children. Selections by such authors as Thackeray, Emily Bronte, Hawthorne, Kipling, Woolf, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Kenneth Grahame, Welty, Thurber, and Langston Hughes will be studied.
The mode of satire in the fiction, drama, poetry, and discourse of the 20th century. Particular attention to the literary works of Waugh, Huxley, Orwell, Parker, Heller, Hiebert, and a dramatist of the absurd, but also attention to satiric cartoons and nightclub satire.
A study of such major 20th-century women writers as Woolf, Hellman, Murdoch, McCarthy, Lessing, Laurence, Plath and Atwood. The emphasis of this course will be on the specific concerns of these writers with the situations and roles of women in the modern world, their search for new meanings and their innovations in literary forms.
The course will explore a theme which is significant in the understanding of the Canadian literary mind. Examples of themes which may be considered will include: the impact of the landscape, rural-urban conflict, isolation, social conservatism, regional reality. Novels, poetry, drama, essays and biography drawn from both 19th-century and 20th-century sources may be used.
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 roles of magic, Merlin and Wales, romance, and the Fellowship of the Round Table.
The course outlines the key principles of rhetoric and gives the student opportunities to apply them in the various forms of descriptive, expository, argumentative, and persuasive writing. There is one weekly lecture and a weekly workshop where student writing is discussed. Six to eight essays will be required.
The role of the report as a key tool in modern communications is examined as are its various forms and techniques. The student will practice writing many different kinds of reports.
The novel, by its nature, constitutes an attempt to formulate, to interpret, to reach for the significance of, the bewildering human experience. This course, in turn, undertakes an exploration of the various forms and manifestations that that attempt can take. British, Canadian, and American novels will be studied. The two halves of the course may be taken independently.
A study of the novel in English from its beginnings to the late 19th century.
212* The Novel 2 A study of the novel in English from the later 19th century to the present.
230* /231* Poetry A study of the major forms of poetry in the English language. Each half may be taken independently.
A study of the major narrative forms in English poetry, including the ballad, epic, mock epic, and dramatic monologue.
A study of the development of various lyric forms (e.g., erotic, religious), the ode, elegy, meditativedescriptive verse, and perhaps other forms.
Course Descriptions 295 English
(formerly English 361*)
A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special] concentration on 16th-century non-Shakespearean drama.
.233* Drama from 1660 (formerly English 364*)
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.
This course is designed to stimulate oral and written controversy about such problems as idealism versus realism, the individual versus society, and rebellion versus revolution. Texts include classics such as Machiavelli’s The Prince, More’s Utopia, Marx’s Communist Manifesto, and Mill’s On Liberty, as well as 20th-century prose counterparts of these earlier works..
Similar to English 236*, but dealing with moral implications of philosophical and scientific ideas and discoveries that have profoundly affected 20thcentury society.
The uses of literacy and the functions of language
as acquired in English 140*/141*. These will be applied to the more advanced form of the literary and critical assignment essay, involving comparison, evaluation and exposition.
Note R courses are administered by Renison College.
A study of the elements of criticism and their application to a variety of literary texts and contexts. Much of the work of this course consists of analysis and discussion of literary problems by the students themselves.
The meaning of America — the myth, the dream, and the reality — as experienced through its major literary works, Sin, guilt, madness, mysticism, and grace.
the search for fulfilment and peace by such writers as Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Crane.
(formerly English 344*)
Approaches to reality amid the confusion and uncertainty of 20th-century America. Emphasis on such major writers as Faulkner, Miller, and Cummings..
Prerequisite: English 290*
An introduction to the literature and language of pre-conquest England. The principal literary methods, themes, and types of English literature up to the 12th century constitute the material of study in this course.
A study of Middle English literature with special - emphasis on the work of Chaucer. |
A survey of Australian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from South Africa and the West Indies.
A study of Canadian prose and verse to 1920, with particular attention given to the poetry of the School of the Sixties and to the historical and idyllic novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
to Leonard Cohen.
The Canadian novel since the appearance of Morley Callaghan, with brief consideration of the essay, and short story during the period.
A study of several plays by such dramatists as Merrill Denison, Robertson Davies, Gratien Gélinas (in translation), James Reaney, John Coulter, George Ryga and Michel Tremblay (in translation). The background for 20th-century Canadian drama will be provided by means of lectures.
(formerly English 280)
A study of the principal writers of prose and of lyric and narrative poetry in England during and immediately preceding the reign of Elizabeth 1. Reserved for special attention is Spenser’s epic poem glorifying Elizabeth I and England -The Faerie Queene.
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 manuscript as evidence of his ability to profit from the course.
Course Descriptions English
A study of the major trends in British literature from World War II to the present. The course will examine the rise of the angry generation and social protest, the renaissance in drama, the return to tradition and the reaction against experimentation, and other topics related to the literary emergence of a new England.
The Southern Myth: its origins in early literature, its flowering, testing, and shattering; as in the works of Twain, Faulkner, Grau, and O’Connor, as in the black literature of Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, and Jones.
Prerequisite: English 290* or consent of instructor
A study of American literature from World War 2 to the present.
Prerequisite: English 290* or consent of instructor
Of the non-dramatic literature of the late Renaissance in English special attention will be given to the poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell and to the prose works of Bacon, Burton, and Browne Approximately half the course will be devoted to an intensive study of nearly all of Milton’s English poetry and a selection of his prose works.
A study (in translation) of such classical forms of satire as formal verse satire and Menippean satire and their influence on English writers of the Renaissance and Augustan periods. Writers studied will include Horace, Juvenal, Donne, Marston, Pope, Petronius, Lucian, More and Swift. This course is offered for credit in either the Classics and Romance Languages Department or the English Department and will be taught jointly by instructors from the respective departments. (Same as Classical Civilization 321*) | (not offered in 1975-76)
A study (in translation) of pastoral and mythological aspects in both Classical and English writers of the Renaissance and Augustan periods. Writers such as Ovid, Shakespeare, Theocritus, Vergil, Spenser, Milton and Pope will be studied. This course is offered for credit in either the Classics and Romance Languages Department or the English Department and will be taught jointly by instructors from the respective departments. (Same as Classical Civilization 322*)
A study of those plays of Shakespeare written up to 1600, including the early comedies, the histories, Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.
A study of those plays of Shakespeare written after 1600, including the late comedies and the major tragedies.
365*-66* 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.
Prerequisite: consent of instructor
The processes of linguistic change as exemplified in the development of the English language from its origins in Indo-European and Germanic through modern Canadian dialects and other forms of English in the 20th century. Traditional, structural and generative approaches to historical linguistics will be employed in this survey.
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 transformationalgenerative..
Course Descriptions v4 297 English
An evaluation of modern systems of syntax from the learned European tradition to the computer grammar of today. The course will provide a thorough and practical grounding in the structure of language and will stress the growing need for semantic interpretation. (An extensive knowledge of syntax is not assumed.)
Prerequisites: English 141R* and 245 R*
The failure of descriptive dogma and its replacement by the new semantic approach which explains language as the outcome of unconscious mental processes which formulate the rules. Meaning conditions syntactic form. An assessment of its practical significance in language teaching. Of interest to the modern language student and intending teachers of _ English as the native or as a second language. Prerequisite: English 376R*
A survey of writing in the age of anxiety from the psychoanalytic novel to the theatre of the absurd. The concept of the anti-hero in the various approaches. Satirical, emotional and intellectual writing as studied in novels and plays by Graham Green, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and Harold Pinter.
Note
- R courses are administered by Renison College.
The course explores the origin, growth, and transformation of philosophical ideas and of literary themes, motifs, genres, forms, and movements from the beginning of English literature to the present. Each student will write research essays in areas he has not already studied. choosing individual topics in consultation with his instructor and reporting to him regularly.
Three hours a week: two hours of lectures and one of consultation on research essays. ‘
A study of English literature from 1660 to 1798, featuring the witty, bawdy comedy of the Restoration; the sophisticated satire of Dryden, Swift, and Pope; the probing of mores and manners by Pope and Johnson; the emergence and flowering of the novel with Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and the gradual transformation from classicism to romanticism.
An intensive study of the work of two or three major Canadian authors, The choice of authors will vary from year to year. Writers who may be studied include Morley Callaghan, F.P. Grove, Robertson Davies, A.M. Klein, Thomas Haliburton, Irving Layton, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor
An historical and critical study of the principles and practice of the English Romantic authors from Blake to Keats, with primary emphasis on poetry.
An historical and critical study with emphasis on the major poets (Browning, Tennyson, Arnold), novelists (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot), and essayists (Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxley). Provision will be made for students who wish to study other writers such as
A study of the major writers in British Literature from 1890 to World War 2, with special emphasis on such writers as Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence.
Note The following course is administered by St. Jerome’s
College
This course provides a study of the major works in those periods of English literature in which fourth- . year honours students have not taken courses. It also provides a study in depth of selected authors and topics. Individual syllabi are prescribed for each student, and the course is conducted on a seminar
- basis.
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