57 courses in the 1977–78 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, BA (Washington and Lee), PhD (indiana)
Associate Professor, Associate Chairman and Undergraduate Officer W. R. Macnaughton, BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Wisconsin)
Associate Professor and Graduate Officer G.E. Slethaug, BA (Pacific Lutheran), MA, PhD (Nebraska)
Professor and Associate Dean, Undergraduate Affairs J.C. Gray, BA (Washington State), MA (Connecticut), . PhD (Syracuse)
Professor and Associate Dean, Special Programmes K. L. Ledbetter, AB (Central College, Mo.), MA, PhD (Illinois)
Professors
J. Gold, BA (Birmingham), PhD (Wisconsin)
G.R. Hibbard, BA, MA (London)
C.F. MacRae, BA (Western), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto)
W.R. Martin, MA, DLitt et Phil (South Africa)
W.K. Thomas, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professors
R.R. Dubinski, BA, MA (Western), PhD (Toronto)
A.\. Dust, MA, PhD (iHinois)
R.N. Gosselink, BA (Kansas), MA, PhD (Colorado)
B.N. Honeyford, BA, PhD (Toronto)
N.C. Hultin, BA (Concordia), MA (Chicago), PhD (John’s Hopkins)
H.B. Ellis, BA (Rollins), MA, PhD (Illinois)
P. M. Hinchcliffe, BA (UBC), MA, PhD (Toronto) J
R. M. Levitsky, BSEd (Central Missouri S.C.), MSEd (Illinois Normal), PhD (Missouri) J
H. M. Logan, AB (Franklin and Marshall), PhD (Pennsylvania)
J.S.North, BA, MA (UBC), PhD (Alberta)
E.F. Shields, BA (Chestnut Hill), MA (Villanova), PhD (illinois)
J.S. Stone, MA (UBC)
H. Tuyn, MA (Utrecht and Oxon), Docteur de l'Universite de Paris R
Course Descriptions 287 English
Assistant Professors
S. Fogel, BA (Carleton), MA (UBC), PhD (Purdue) J
D.S. Keppel-Jones, BA (Natal), MA, PhD (Queen's) J
Sister M. Leon, SSND, BA (Toronto), MA (Detroit) J
D.R. Letson, BA (Waterloo), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto) J
R. Lister, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto).
E. P. McCormack, MA (Glasgow), PhD (Manitoba) J
S.E.McMuilin, BA, MA (Carleton), PhD (Dalhousie)
M. G. Thysell, MA (Montana), PhD (lowa)
Lecturer L. Dorney, BA, MA (Louisville) J (part-time)
For courses in Drama, see Drama and Theatre Arts . : Group. in this Chapter.
Although the Department of English provides advisors to heip 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 Engl 101 or 102 is the recommended first-year course. However, a first-year student may-— without formal permissiom from the Department~ take courses from the following list instead of either 101 or 102: Engl 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
Engl 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”’.
Note 1 W. K. Thomas's Correct Form in Essay Writing is the official style sheet for all undergraduate English courses.
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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 ali English courses, emphasis will be placed on Student essays written in connection with the reading.
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Group One '
1) Courses in this group carry full degree credit and count as eléctives in any programme in the University. None of them, however, may be counted as fulfilling minimum core requirements for a major or honours programme in English.
A) Courses in Group 1(A) are primarily concerned with assisting students to improve their writing.
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The course teaches the construction of the expository
essay with attention to the structure of good paragraphs.
to techniques of putting the essay together, and to the nature of the language. Ten to twelve short writing
assignments are required. .
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Persons whose native language is not English should be registered in a section identified with the division suffix “Z." Also offered at St. Jerome's College
Course Descriptions English
The course teaches the construction of the persuasive essay, with attention to the elements of logical thinking, to the techniques of successful persuasion, and to the demands of the library research paper. Six to eight writing assignments are required.
Prereq: Eng! 109
Provides further opportunities for serious students of writing to study and to practise descriptive, expository, argumentative, and persuasive writing. In addition to lectures, there are workshop sessions in which student writing is discussed.
Prereq: Eng! 109/110 or Eng! 150/151 or consent of instructor.
The many functions of the report-an orderly and objective communication of factual information which
-serves some specific purpose -are taught. Students will
receive practice in research, in organization, and in writing many kinds of reports. Prereq: Second-year standing or above
Classical theories of rhetoric and the various devices available to an author to achieve various ends are the key theoretical principles of the course as students pursue extended and sophisticated forms of the essay. Prereq: Eng! 209 or consent of instructor
Aimed at encouraging students to develop their creative and critical potentials, the course consists of supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions.
1B)
The course is designed to improve the reading and writing of students from all disciplines. In order to develop clarity of thought and critical awareness, students will identify and study in various media the various ends that are served by language: objective reporting; persuasion; argument; and emotional, social, and artistic expression. About eight written exercises are assigned.
Engli51 W 5
English as an Instrument of Thought and Communication 2
A continuation of Engl 150. From a basis of simple semantics and elementary logic, students will proceed to examine more complex language and to examine fiction and other forms of literature. About six written exercises are assigned..
Prereq: Engi 150
Engl 140R 5
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.
Engl 141R 5
The Use of English 2
A continuation of Engl 140R. The study of factual, emotive, scientific and imaginative writing; relevance, context; meaning, tone, feeling and intention. Prereq: Eng!140R
The uses of literacy and the functions of language as acquired in Eng! 140R/141R. These will be applied to the more advanced form of the literary and critical assignment essay, involving comparison, evaluation and exposition.
Group Two
Courses in this group carry full degree credit and may be counted as fulfilling the minimum requirements for a major or honours English programme.
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.
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Different kinds of literature will be explored so as S to discover how the shape of a 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.
Course Descriptions 289 English
Engi 108 5
Themes of Literature
An exploration of the great variety of Jiterature through thematic perspectives.
Engl 108A 5 The Hero
A study of human excellence in thought and action, embodied in representative men and women, as seen through works of literature.
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Engl 108B 5
Utopia and Anti-Utopia
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.
Engl108C 5
Literature and Morality
Works in English literature from its beginnings are selected for their bearings on questions of morality.
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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. .
Engl203. FF 5
introduction to Folklore 1
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 townsthrough the struggles of an urbanizing society to the
present. Students will be expected to work insome depth
with individual authors.
Note R Courses are those administered by Renison College.
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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.
Engi211 5
The Novel 1
Astudy of the novel in English from its beginnings to the tate 19th century.
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Engl212 5
The Novel 2
Astudy of the novel in English from the later 19th century to the present.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
Engl 230 5
Narrative Poetry
A study of the major narrative forms in English poetry including the ballad, epic, mock epic, and dramatic monologue.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
Engl231 5
Lyric and Other Poetry
A study of the development of various lyric forms (e.g., erotic, religious), the ode, elegy, meditative-descriptive verse, and perhaps other forms.
Engl 230 is not a prereq.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
Engl 232 5 The Development of Drama to 1660 A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on 16th-century non-Shakespearean drama. (Cross-listed with Drama 252)
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The study and practice of the skills needed for a close, analytical reading of literary texts and for the writing of critical analyses on them; studies of theories concerning literature and literary criticism.
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Engl 290 5
American Literature
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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College
Engl 291 5
Modern American Literature
Approaches to reality amid the confusion and uncertainty of 20th-century America. Emphasis on such major writers as Faulkner, Miller, and Cummings.
Prereq: Engl 290
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
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.
Engl310- 1.0
Middie English
A study of Middle English literature with special emphasis on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
Engl312 5
Literature of the Commonwealth
A survey of Australian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from South Africa and the West Indies.
Engl 313 rs)
Canadian Literature to 1920
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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Engl314 5
Canadian Poetry Since 1920
Poetry in Canada from E. J. Pratt and A. J. M. Smith to Leonard Cohen.
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Engi315 5
Canadian Prose Since 1920
The Canadian novel since the appearance of Morley Callaghan, with brief consideration of the essay and short story during the period. .
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
Engl316 5
Canadian Drama
A study of plays by such dramatists as Merrill 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 |. Reserved for special attention is Spenser's epic poem glorifying Elizabeth | and England-The Faerie Queene.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College
Engl339 5
Contemporary British Literature
Astudy of the major trends in British literature from World War Il 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.
Engl345/346/347 5
Studies in American Literature
(Usually only one or two courses from this series are offered each year)
Course Descriptions English
Special emphasis will be given to the works of two or three major American novelists such as Herman Melville and William Faulkner.
Prereq: Eng! 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.
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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.
Prereq: consent of instructor
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
The process 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.
Engi376R 5
Our Changing Language: Syntax and Semantics 1
In its evaluation of modern systems of syntax, the course wilt 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: Eng/141R and 245R
Engl377R 5
Our Changing Language: Syntax and Semantics 2 Continuation of Engl376R. 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 asecond language.
Prereq: Eng!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. Satirical, emotional and intellectual writing as studied in novels and plays by Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and Harold Pinter.
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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.
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Engl410 - 1.0
The Augustan Age
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.
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Course Descriptions 293 English
Engl415 5
Major Canadian Writers
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.
Prereq: 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.
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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.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College
Astudy 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.
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Eng] 208. Women Writers of the Twentieth Century