85 courses in the 1976–77 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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W. U. Ober, B.A. (Washington a (Indiana)
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P. D. Beam, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (Toronto)
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Associate Professor and Graduate OH Chicago) Ph.D
N.C. Hultin, B.A. (Concordia), M.A. (Johns Hopkins)
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Professor and Associate Dean, Undergre duate Affairs
J.C. Gray, B.A. (Washington State), Mi. (Connecticut), Ph.D. (Syracuse)
Professor and Associate Dean, Special Progra "$s
K.L. Ledbetter, A.B. (Central College, Mo.), M.A”’ PAD. (Illinois)
Professors
J. Gold, B.A. (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Wisconsin)
G. R. Hibbard, B.A., M.A. (London)
C. F. MacRae, B.A. (Westeri), 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
R. R. Dubinski, B.A., M.A. (Western), Ph.D. (Toronto)
A. 1. Dust, M.A., Ph.D. (Illinois)
B. N. Honeyford, B.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
H. E. Haworth, B.A. (Rollins), M.A., Ph.D. (llinois)
P. M. Hinchcliffe, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) J
R. M. Levitsky, B.S.Ed. (Central Missouri §.C.), M.S.Ed. (illinois Normal), Ph.D. (Missouri) J
H. M. Logan, A.B. (Franklin and Marshall), Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
W.R. Macnaughton, B.A. (Toronto), M.A., Ph.Ds (Wisconsin)
E. F. Shields, B.A. (Chestnut Hill), M.A. (Villanova), Ph.D, (Illinois)
G. E. Slethaug, B.A. (Pacific Lutheran), M.A., Ph.D. (Nebraska)
J. S. Stone, M.A. (British Columbia)
H. Tuyn, M.A. (Utrecht and Oxon.), Docteur de ? UnwNersite de Paris R
Assistant Professors
S. Fogel, B.A. (Carleton), M.A. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (Purdue) J
R. N. Gosselink, B.A. (Kansas), M.A., Ph.D. (Colorado)
Course Descriptions 255 English
D. S. Keppel-Jones, B.A. (Natal), M.A., PA.D. (Queen's) J
Sister M. Leon, S.S.N.D., B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (Detroit) J
D. R. Letson, B.A. (Waterloo), M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (Toronto) J
R. Lister, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)
E. P. McCormack, M.A. (Glasgow), Ph.D. (Manitoba) J
S. E. McMullin, B.A., M.A. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Dathousie)
J. S. North, B.A., M.A. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (Alberta)
M. G. Thysell, M.A. (Montana), Ph.D. (lowa) (part-time)
Lecturer L. Dorney, B.A., M.A. (Louisville) J (part-time)
For programmes and courses in Drama, see Drama and Theatre Arts Group in this Chapter.
English Honours Programmes
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English Genera] 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.
Although the Department of English provides advisers to help students to choose their programmes, to arrange their courses, and to conform with the University, Faculty, and departmental regulations, students are urged to study the Calendar very carefully because they are themselves responsible for failure to.abide by these regulations.
First Year
Either English 101 or 102 is the recommended first-year 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 first-year 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 esas written in connection with the reading.
Undergraduate Course ‘Descriptions
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 basic text will be the one-volume Norton Anthology.
Different kinds of literature will be explored so as to discover how the shape ofa literary work contributes to its meaning. Students will 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 Jiterature through thematic perspectives.
A study of human excellence in thought and action, embodied in representative men and women, as seen through works of literature.
This course will attempt to acquaint the student with forms of the literary artist’s moral vision of man in ‘*Utopian’’ writings. It will involve an examination of the role of the
imagination in helping to inform and embody cultural ideals of various periods.
Course Descriptions English
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ce atering 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 course will discuss the process in which wisdom and maturity are gained as the ultimate products of suffering.
The course provides training in the techniques that produce good university writing. It teaches such elements as focus of theme and development of central idea, use of supporting material, and methods of organization. The course moves from the paragraph to the essay, from exposition to argumentation. Ten to twelve short writing assignments, typically done within the class meetings, are required. Grammar review may be required of those students who demonstrate a need for it.
Note Persons whose native language is not English should be registered in a section identified with the division suffix “pe.
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*
Designed for students in all faculties, the course examines some of Shakespeare’s comedies, history plays, and tragedies. Shakespeare’s variety and flexibility in developing characters and dramatic structures are stressed, as are significant themes.
No previous work in Shakespeare is required.
Examples are the stories of Hemingway. Faulkner, James, D..H. Lawrence, and modern Canadian writers.
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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 nations of the English-speaking world. Topics such as oral literature, myth, legend, tale. and marchen will be discussed.
Similar to 203* but dealing with folk-drama, ballads, songs, medicines, riddles, chants, proverbs, and charms.
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. Students will be expected to work in some depth with individual authors.
Fall, Winter terms
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 adults. In considering the 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.
Course Descriptions 257 English
Various examples drawn, for instance, from Utopian and anti-Utopian science fiction, social science fiction, “‘gadget’’ science fiction, parapsychology, and alternate worlds and beings, will be considered. Some attention will be given to the historical development of the genre.
This course will deal with classic works of children’s literature, including fantasy written primarily for children. Selections by such authors as Kipling, Woolf, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Kenneth Grahame, and Thurber 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, Murdock, McCarthy, Lessing, Laurence, Plath and Atwood. Emphasis will be on the concerns of these writers with the roles of women, the writers’ 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 include: the impact of the landscape, rural-urban conflict, isolation, social conservatism, regional reality. Novels, poetry, Drama, essays and biography may be considered.
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 Fellowship of the Round Table.
The history and characteristics of the ‘‘detective novel,”’ the ‘‘novel of crime,’ and the ‘‘thriller.”’ Attention will also be given to the novel of intrigue and espionage. Such authors as Poe, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Hammett, Buchan, Greene, Deighton and Le Carre will be discussed. The course includes the examination of critical approaches to the form of detective fiction.
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 rote 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 and to interpret the bewildering human experience. This course undertakes an exploration of the forms 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.
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, meditative-descriptive verse, and perhaps other forms.
English 230* is not a prerequisite.
A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on 16th-century non-Shakespearean drama.
(Cross-listed with Drama 252*)
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.
(Cross-listed with Drama 253*)
Course Descriptions English '
This course considers 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, and 20th-century counterparts of these works.
Similar to English 236*, but dealing with moral implications of philosophical and scientific ideas and discoveries that have profoundly affected 20th century society.
, 245R Form and Function
The use 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.
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.
An study of Middle English literature with special emphasis of the work of Geoffrey 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.
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The Canadian novel since the appearance of Morley Callaghan, with brief consideration of the essay and short story during the period.
A study of plays by such dramatists as Merril] Denison, Robertson Davies, Gratien Gélinas (in translation), James Reaney, John Coulter, George Ryga and Michel Tremblay (in translation). Background for 20th-century drama will be provided in lectures.
(Cross-listed with Drama 351*)
A study of the principal writers of prose and of lyric and narrative poetry in England during and immediately preceding the reign of Elizabeth I. Reserved for special attention is Spenser’s epic poem glorifying Elizabeth I and England — The Faerie Queene.
Aimed at encouraging students to develop their creative and critical potentials, the course consists of supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions.
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.
Special emphasis will be given to the works of Mark Twain, Henry James and Stephen Crane.
Prerequisite: English 290* or consent of instructor.
A search for the American ‘‘voice’’ through a study of the major poets from Poe to Cummings.
Prereq: English 290* or consent of instructor.
Course Descriptions 259 English
A study of American literature from World War 2 to the present.
Prerequisite: English 290* or consent of instructor
The shaping of the American consciousness, with particular attention to such major figures as Edward Taylor, Benjamin Franklin, and Jonathan Edwards. Prereq: English 290* or consent of instructor.
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 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.
(Same as Cl. Civ. 321*)
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.
(Same as Cl. Civ. 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 dialects. Traditional, structural and generative approaches will be employed.
Linguistics and its application to the study of grammar and language. Included are 1) an introduction to descriptive and historical linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis and 2) an evaluation of English grammars ranging from the traditional to the structural and transformational-generative.
In its evaluation of modern systems of syntax, the course will provide a thorough and practical grounding in structure of language and will stress the need for semantic interpretation. (An extensive knowledge of syntax is not assumed.)
Prereq: English 141R* and 245R*, Fall term
Continuation of English 376R*. The semantic approach expanded: meaning conditions form and practical significance in language teaching. Of interest to intending teachers of English as the native or as a second language. Prereq: English 376R*, Winter term
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. Satirical. emotional and intellectual writing as studied in novels and plays by Graham Greene, 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.
3h. a week; 2h. lect., 1 h. consultation.
A study of English literature from 1660 to 1798: the comedy of the Restoration; the satire of Dryden, Swift, and Pope; the probing of mores and manners by Pope and Johnson; the emergence of the novel with Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and the transformation from classicism to romanticism.
Course Descriptions English
An intensive study of the work of two or three major Canadian authors. 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 Hopkins, Swinburne, Carroll, Morris or Pater.
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.
Environmental Studies
There are a number of courses offered in the Faculty of Environmental Studies of an integrative nature which extend across the academic interests of the four units, School of Architecture, Department of Geography, Department of Man-Environment Studies, and School of Urban and Regional Planning. The courses are of general interest and are open to all students in the University. There is no Department of Environmental Studies.
The following persons have wide ranging interests and hence have been appointed to the Faculty of Environmental Studies rather than to a specific Department and/or School.
Professor P. H. Nash, B.A., M.A. (U.C.L.A.), C.E. (Grenoble), M.C.P., M.P.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), M.C.1.P
Visiting Professor P. Dansereau, B.A. (Montreal), B.Sc.Agr. (Montreal), D.Sc. (Geneva)
Adjunct Professor D. B. Greenspan, B.A. (Toronto), LL.B. (Osgoode Hall) D. Estrin, B.A., LL.B. (Alberta)
Assistant Professor T. McL. Semple!', B.A. (Western), M.A., Ph.D. (Waterloo)
Adjunct Lecturers F. J. Bunting R. J. Pufall, B.A. (Waterloo)
Special Lecturer D. G. E. Wicken, Diploma A.A.
Faculty members cross appointments as shown 1 Man-Environment Studies and Environmental Studies
Course Descriptions 261 Environmental Studies
Non-technical survey of current approaches to thinking about and refining views of the ‘‘Future’’. The role of images and scenarios, contributions of the arts and concepts of space and time. Impacts of regional science, ekistics, bioethics, synergetics, and prognostics. Paths to “‘inventing’’ the future and the comprehensive design of “optimum” environments.
No prerequisite, 3 hours.
A discussion of some major environmental problems and issues such as the population explosion, the impact of urbanization of man’s environment, environmental pollution, resource management, conservation, and environmental planning.
Not availabe to Man-Environment Studies
3 hours, Fall and Winter terms
Note Students inthe Faculty of Environmental Studies may take this course in their first or second year only.
To introduce the main concepts and principles of ecology as a basis for understanding cycling of elements, energetics and structural organization of major ecological systems; population dynamics; impact of natural resource management practices and urban and industrial development on the environment; incorporating environmental quality considerations into development activities; ‘‘designing with nature’’.
Prerequisite 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students only
2 hours lecture, 2 hours lab, Fall and Winter terms
-252* Media Tools for Environmental Studies
An introduction to particular media and formats appropriate to the presentation of themes and issues of concern to environmentalists. Class activities will focus on the use of audio-slide, film and television presentations. Students will be expected to commit some of their own time to the use of equipment and the preparation of presentation formats. Students may be required to purchase certain materials.
Prerequisite: E.S. student only or consent of Instructors 3 hours, Fall and Winter terms
Advanced Level
A more in-depth approach to the use of the media and formats used in ES 252. There will be more emphasis on a participatory approach in the utilization of equipment and the preparation of software. Students will be expected to commit some of their own time to the use of equipment and preparation of presentation formats. Students may be required to purchase certain materials.
Prerequisite: ES 252 or consent of Instructors
3 hours, Winter term
Guests and University of Waterloo lecturers, expert in their respective fields, discuss specific problem areas related to the environment. Representative topics include impact on groundwater of waste disposal, effect of air pollution on plant life, population problems, viruses in surface water, reutilization of waste materials.
No prerequisite
3 hours, Fall and Winter terms
An interdisciplinary workshop focusing upon environmental issues in a project or research format. Prerequisite: 3rd and 4th year students in Environmental Studies; enrolment is by research team only with representatives from at least 3 units of the faculty (max. 7 people) and subject to selection of an advisor and a satisfactory project or research proposal.
Conflict as the core of all aspects of environmental relationships. A review of several current conflicts in: community planning law; ecological law; and natural resource law. We will isolate and define the legal tools available to the interests involved in such conflicts, and seek to understand both the effect and the limits of these tools under current legislation and practice. Prerequisite: 3rd and 4th year students
3 hours, evening, Year
Analysis of ‘‘ideal’’ environments of the past, including “‘utopian’’ communities. Scrutiny of current “‘concepts’’ of future environments, including distillation of works of Bell, Clarke, Commoner, de Chardin, de Jouvenal, Dror, Doxiadis, Ehrlich, Forrester, Fuller, Kahn, Mead, Meadows, McHale, Michael. Polak, Theobald, Thompson, Toynbee, and Ward.
Prerequisite: 3rd or 4th year standing
3 hours lecture
Examination of ‘‘issues’’ in futuristics and their ‘‘methodological’’ problems, with particular attention to resources utilization. Socio-Cultural Change Theory and Policy Science. Science Fiction, Extrapolation, and Technology Forecasting. Societal Indicators, Quality of Life, and Technology Assessment. Probable and Possible Urban Futures.
Prerequisite: ES 411*
3 hours lecture