111 courses in the 1983–84 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Associate Professor, Chairman of Department
W.R. Macnaughton, BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Wisconsin)
Associate Professor and Graduate Officer
G.E. Slethaug, BA (Pacific Lutheran).
MA, PhD (Nebraska)
Associate Professor, Associate Chairman and Undergraduate Officer
R.R. Dubinski, BA, MA (Western Ontario), PhD (Toronto)
Professor and Director of the Office of Part-Time Studies and Continuing Education
J.C. Gray, BA (Washington State), MA (Connecticut), PhD (Syracuse)
Professors
L.A. Cummings', AB (Washington), AM (Missouri), PhD (Washington)
J. Gold, BA (Birmingham), PhD (Wisconsin)
G.R. Hibbard, BA, MA (London)
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English
K.L. Ledbetter, AB (Central College, Mo.), MA, PhD (Ilinois)
W.R. Martin, BA,-MA, D Litt et Phil (South Africa) Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
W.U. Ober, BA (Washington and Lee), PhD (indiana)
W.K. Thomas, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professors
P.D. Beam, BA (Waterloo), MA {McMaster), PhD (Toronto)
A.l. Dust, MA, PAD (Iilinois)
H.B.Ellis, BA (Rollins), MA, PAD (Illinois)
S. Fogel, BA (Carleton), MA (British Columbia), PhD (Purdue) J
R.N. Gosselink, BA (Kansas), MA, PhD (Colorado)
P.M. Hinchcliffe, BA (British Columbia), MA, PhD (Toronto) J
N.C. Hultin, BA (Concordia), MA (Chicago), PhD (Johns Hopkins)
D.R. Letson, BA (Waterloo), MA (McMaster),-PhD (Toronto) J, Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
R. Lister, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
H.M. Logan, AB (Franklin and Marshall), PhD (Pennsylvania)
E.P. McCormack, MA (Glasgow), PhD (Manitoba) J
J.S. North, BA, MA (British Columbia), PhD (Alberta)
E.F. Shields, BA (Chestnut Hill), MA { Villanova), PhD {Ilinois)
J.S. Stone, BA, MA (British Columbia)
Assistant Professors
M.A. Gerhardstein, MA (Montana), PhD (lowa) © .
C.E. McGee, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto) J
S.E. McMullin, BA, MA (Carleton), PhD (Dalhousie)
Lecturers
L. Dorney, BA, MA (Louisville) J (Part-Time)
J. Miller, 8A, BLS (McGill), MA, MPhil (Waterloo), PhD (York), R (Part-Time)
Faculty Members of English holding joint appointments to: Architecture
Course Descriptions
Courses not offered in the current academic year are listed at the end of this section.
Introductory Notes
Although the Department of English provides advisors to help students to choose their programs, 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.
W.K. Thomas's Correct Form in Essay Writing is the official style sheet for all undergraduate English courses.
The “normal” number of lectures per week in each course is three; however, instructors determine how often their particular class will meet.
In all English courses, emphasis will be placed on student essays written in connection with the reading.
R’ courses are administered by Renison College.
Group One
1. Courses in this group count towards a degree as electives in any program in the University. None of them, however, fulfills a core requirement for a General or an Honours program 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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Note: Students may receive credit for only one of ENGL 109 and ENGL 129R.
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: ENGL 109
Instruction provided in basic grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, elements of composition and essay writing including focus on theme, development of central idea, exposition and argumentation. Minimum of four hours of instruction each week with additional tutorial hours as required. Prereq: Open only to students whose maternal language is not English and who lack language mastery sufficient for admission to other introductory English language courses.
Course Descriptions
English
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: Second-year standing or above.
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.
Aimed at encouraging students to develop their creative and critical
potentiais, the course consists of
supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions.
1B)
The course is designed to improve the reading and writing of students from al! disciplines. In order to develop clarity of thought and critical awareness, students will identify and study in several 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.
A continuation of ENGL 150. From a basis of simple semantics and elementary logic, students wilt proceed to examine more complex language in fiction and other forms of literature. About six written exercises are assigned.
Prereq: ENGL 150. °
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, potitical, commercial, journalistic, literary) in order to increase critical awareness and to help students to write clearly and effectively.
Acontinuation of ENGL 140R. The
study of factual, emotive, scientific and imaginative writing; relevance, context; meaning, tone, feeling and intention. Prereq: ENGL 140R.
The uses of literacy and the functions of language as acquired in ENGL 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 degree credit and may be counted as fulfilling the minimum requirements for a General or Honours program in Engfish.
Different kinds of literature will be explored so as 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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Introduction to the study of the English language. Topics to be discussed include the nature and origin of language, the structure of English and its development, and the relations between language and reality.
introduction to the study of varieties of the English language - regional, social, temporal, functional, and stylistic. The
relations of languages and literature and of speech and writing will be discussed.
Prereq: ENGL 103A or consent of instructor.
A close examination of a representative selection of works by major British, Canadian, American and other authors writing in English.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
1900-30
A close examination of a representative selection of works by major authors writing in English such as W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
1930-80
A continuation of ENGL 105A. A close examination of a representative selection of works by major authors writing in English such as William Fautkner, Dylan Thomas, and Margaret Laurence. Prereq: ENGL 105A or consent of instructor. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
An exploration of the great variety of literature through thematic perspectives.
A study of human excellence in thought and action embodied in representative men and women, as seen through works of literature.
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. Works by both men and women will be studied in which women are seen in such forms as mothers, saints, sex objects, and witches.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Course Descriptions 319
English
A sutdy of various works of literature in which the protagonist is a rebel against existing norms. The course will examine a number of rebel types and concepts, moral implications and final outcomes either in successful realization or in tragic defeat.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
The study of a variety of works 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 course will discuss the process in which wisdom and maturity are gained as the ultimate products of suffering.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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.
Survey of British Literature
An historical survey of major figures, types and trends in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
An historical survey of major figures, types and trends in British literature from the Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
An historical survey of major figures, types and trends in British titerature from the late eighteenth century to the present. —
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
This course deals with the history, and techniques of the short story with emphasis upon works by such British, American-and Canadian writers as
Henry James, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, and Alice Munro.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The Bible and Literature
The study of major themes, stories, myths, and characters of the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible, and their inftuence on other English literature.
Selections from Hebrew Scripture will be studied in relation to English literature.
The course will continue the study of the Bible, emphasizing the Christian gospels and epistles in relation to English literature.
Prereq: ENGL 202A or consent of instructor.
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.
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.
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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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This course will deal with classic works of children’s literature, including fantasy written primarily for children. Selections from such authors as Kipling, Woolf, C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Kenneth Grahame, and Thurber will be studied.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of such major 20th-century women writers as Woolf, Hellman, Murdoch, McCarthy, Lessing, Laurence, Plath and Atwood. Emphasis will be on the concerns of these writers with the roles of women, the writer's search for new meanings, and their innovations in literary forms.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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 Tabie.
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.
A study of dehumanized worlds in fiction that can be called “apocalyptic”. Works by such writers as St. John the Divine, Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Aldous Huxley, Mordecai Richler, and Kurt Vonnegut will be studied.
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.
Course Descriptions
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Canadian, and American novels will be studied. The two halves of the course may be taken independently.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of the novel in English from its beginnings to the late 19th century.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of the novel in English from the fate 19th century to the present.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The course will survey a theme which is significant to the understanding of the Canadian literary mind. Topics will vary from section to section.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
ENGL 2514/B
The Practice and Theory of Criticism The study and practice of 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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The first half of ENGL 2514/8 (see above)
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The continuation of ENGL 251A (see above).
Prereq: ENGL 251A
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Old English
An introduction to the English language in its earliest form and to the literature of pre-Conquest Engiand.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
An introduction to the English language in its earliest form and to English prose in pre-Conquest England, examining Old English prose style, its principal practitioners and their world view.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
An introduction to Old English poetry, noting in representative Old English poems those things about its purpose, style, and its audience which make it unique but which also provide the beginnings of the English poetic tradition.
Prereq: ENGL 305A
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
ENGL 310A4/B
Middle English
A study of Middle English literature with special emphasis on the work of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of the minor poems of Chaucer, “The Book of the Duchess”, “Parliament of Fowts”, and “Troilus”, along with related Middle English texts.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
_and related Middle English poems and
prose. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A survey of Australian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from Africa and the West Indies.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of Canadian prose and verse to 1920, with particular attention to the poetry of the School of the Sixties and to the historical and idyllic novels of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Poetry in Canada from E.J. Pratt and A.J.M. Smith to Leonard Cohen. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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.
ENGL 3304/8
Elizabethan Literature (excluding Drama)
A study of the principal writers of prose and of lyric and narrative poetry in England during and immediately before 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.
A study of the principal writers of prose and of lyric and narrative poetry in England during and immediately before the reign of Elizabeth |.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The continuation of ENGL 330A. Reserved for special attention is Spenser's epic poem glorifying England and Elizabeth | - The Faerie Queene. Prereq: ENGL 330A or consent of instructor.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
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 fulfillment and peace by such writers as Poe, Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, and Crane.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Approaches to reality amid the confusion and uncertainty of 20th-century America. Emphasis on such major writers as Faulkner, Miller, and Cummings.
Prereq: ENGL 343 or consent of instructor.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
(Usually only one or two courses from this series are offered each year.)
Course Descriptions 321
English
The Southern Myth: its origins in early literature, its flowering and ruin, as seen by white and black writers, including Twain, Faulkner, Welty, Styron, Grau, O'Connor, Wright, and Ellison.
Prereq: ENGL 343 or consent of instructor.
Special emphasis will be given to the . works of two or three major American novelists such as Herman Melville and William Faulkner. ‘ Prereq: ENGL 343 or consent of instructor.
c porary American Lit e A study of American Literature from World War 2 to the present.
Prereq: ENGL 343 or consent of instructor.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Seventeenth-Century Non-Dramatic Literature .
Special attention will be given to the poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, 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.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
A study of secular and religious lyric poetry by poets such as Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan ard Marvell. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of selected prose works of Bacon, Burton and Browne. A more intensive study of Milton’s English poetry and a selection of his prose works.
Also offered at St. Jerome’s College.
A study of the plays written before 1599-1600, excluding Julius Caesar. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of the plays written after 1599- 1600, including Jutius Caesar.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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.
An Introduction to the History of English
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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
These lectures present language as an historical phenomenon subject to constant change. Methods of reconstruction as well as the various ways languages have undergone alteration will be discussed. Indo-European languages will be the source of examples. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
These lectures continue the discussion begun in ENGL 373A, focusing attention upon the changing English language. Phonetic, morphological, and syntactic changes as they contribute to the creation of modern English will be considered.
Prereq: ENGL 373A or consent of instructor.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
ENGL 3754/8
Linguistics and English Grammar Linguistics and its application to the study of grammar and language. tncluded 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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Introduction to descriptive linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis through an examination of the phonology, forms, syntax, and semantics of English.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Introduction to Modern English Grammar and structure - its meaningful forms and syntax. Several methods of analysis will be employed and evaluated, including the traditional, structural, transformational-generative, and functional.
Prereq: ENGL 375A or consent o instructor. .
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The course complements ENGL 386R by studying the same topics in relation to modern dramas generally classified under the title of “The Theatre of the Absurd.”
ENGL 410A/B Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature Literature of the period that began as neo-classical, England's Augustan Age paralleling that of ancient Rome, and gradually, through subtle changes, became the precursor to the Romantic movement, giving rise, along the way, to new genres, such as comedy of manners, heroic tragedy, descriptivemeditative poetry, and the novel. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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The Restoration comedy of manners, heroic and high tragedy, poetry of the court wits and other amused commentators on society, and the major writings of Dryden, Swift, Addison, Defoe, and the early Pope. Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The probing of mores and manners by Pope and Johnson, the emergence of the novel with Fielding and Sterne, and the transformation (in “the age of sensibility”) of literary attitudes and practice from classicism to romanticism.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
ENGL 4304/8
The Romantic Movement
An historical and critical study of the principles and practice of the English Romantic authors from Blake to Keats, with primary emphasis on poetry.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The poetry and critical theory of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Emphasis is primarily on poetry; selected minor writers may be considered.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
The poetry and critical theary of Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Emphasis is primarily on poetry: selected minor writers may be considered.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Literature of the Victorian Age
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.
An historical and critical study of major poets (Browning, Tennyson, Arnold) and of the titerary criticism of the period.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
An historical and critical study of major novelists (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) and major essayists (Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxley).
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
ENGL 460A/B ‘ British Literature from Shaw to Eliot A study of the major writers in British Literature from 1885 to Worid War 2, with special emphasis on such writers as Shaw, Yeats, Eliot, Conrad, Joyce, and Lawrence.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of works by such writers as Shaw, Conrad, and Yeats.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
A study of works by such writers as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
Not Offered 1983-84
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