106 courses in the 1988–89 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 the
Department
G.E. Slethaug, BA (Pacific Lutheran), MA, PhD (Nebraska)
Professor, Associate Chairman and
Graduate Officer
J.C. Gray, BA (Washington State), MA (Connecticut), PhD (Syracuse)
Assistant Professor, Associate Chairman
and Undergraduate Officer
M.A. Gerhardstein, BA, MA (Montana), PhD (lowa)
Professor Emeritus : GR. Hibbard, BA, MA (London), DLitt (Waterloo)
Professors
L.A. Cummings,’ AB (Washington), AM (Missouri), PhD (Washington), Recipient of the OCUFA (Ontario) Teaching Award
S. Fogel, BA (Carleton), MA (British Columbia), PhD (Purdue) J
J. Gold, BA (Birmingham), PhD (Wisconsin)
K.L. Ledbetter, AB (Central College, Mo.), MA, PhD (Illinois), Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
D.R. Letson, BA (Waterloo), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto) J, Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
C.F. MacRae, BA (Western Ontario), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto) (Retired) *
W.R. Martin, BA, MA, D Litt et Phil (South Africa), Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award (Retired)*
W.U. Ober, BA (Washington and Lee), PhD (Indiana)
P.H. Smith, Jr.,? BA (Harvard), PhD (Pennsylvania)
W.K. Thomas, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professors
P.D. Beam, BA (Waterloo), MA (McMaster), PhD (Toronto)
R.R. Dubinski, BA, MA (Western Ontario), PhD (Toronto)
A.l. Dust, MA, PhD (illinois)
H.B. Ellis, BA (Rollins), MA, PhD (illinois)
R.N. Gosselink, BA (Kansas), MA, PhD (Colorado)
M. Higgins, BA (St. Francis Xavier), MA, PhD (York), J
P.M. Hinchcliffe, BA (British Columbia), MA, PhD (Toronto) J
N.C. Hultin, BA (Concordia), MA (Chicago), PhD (Johns Hopkins)
R. Lister, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
H.M. Logan, AB (Franklin and Marshall), PhD (Pennsylvania)
W.R. Macnaughton, BA (Toronto), MA, PhD (Wisconsin)
E.P. McCormack, MA (Glasgow), PhD (Manitoba) J
C.E. McGee, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto), J
S.E. McMullin, BA, MA (Carleton), PhD (Dalhousie)
JH. Miller, BA, BLS (McGill), MA, MPhil (Waterloo), PhD (York), R
J.S. North, BA, MA (British Columbia), PhD (Alberta)
E.F. Shields, AB (Chestnut Hill), MA (Villanova), PhD (Illinois)
J.S. Stone, BA, MA (British Columbia), (Retired)*
Assistant Professors
L. Dorney, BA, MA (Louisville), J
D.G. Goodwin, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
A.L. Magnusson, BA (Manitoba), MA, PhD (Toronto)
N.F. Randall, BA (Guelph), MA (Waterloo), PhD (York)
P.M. Saunders, BA (Pace), MA, PhD (Toronto)
J.Z. Segal, BA (McGill), MA, PhD (British Columbia)
Adjunct Faculty C.A. Redmond, BA (Queen's), MA (Waterloo)
Faculty Members holding cross appointments to English from: Architecture
Faculty of Arts
*Also has Adjunct appointment
J refers to faculty members at St. Jerome's College
Course Descriptions 16:49 English
R refers to faculty members at Renison College
Course Descriptions Introductory Notes
1. Although the Department of English provides advisors to help students choose their programs, arrange their courses and conform with the University, Faculty, and Department regulations, students are urged to study the Calendar very carefully because they are themselves responsible for failure to abide by these regulations.
2. W.K. Thomas's Correct Form in Essay Writing is the official style sheet for all undergraduate English courses.
3. The “normal” number of lectures per week in each course is three; however, instructors determine how often their particular class will meet.
4. Inall English courses, emphasis will be placed on student essays written in connection with the reading.
Most courses are also taught at St. Jerome's College.
R' courses are administered by Renison College.
GROUP ONE
Courses in this group count towards a degree as electives in any program in the University. Normally, none of them qualifies as a major credit for a General or Honours program in English. These courses are primarily designed to make students aware of the different functions of language in various contexts and to assist them 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 12 short writing assignments are required.
Students may receive credit for only one of ENGL 109 and ENGL 129R.
The course deals with the persuasive essay. Attention will be given to the elements of logical thinking and the techniques of persuasion. The demands of the library research paper will be considered.
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
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 to help students to write clearly and effectively.
A continuation of ENGL 140R. The study
of factual, emotive, scientific and imagi-
native writing; relevance, context.
meaning, tone, feeling, and intention. Prereq: ENGL 140R
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 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.
and Communication 2
A continuation of ENGL 150. From a
basis of simple semantics and elemen-
tary logic, students will proceed to
examine more complex language in
fiction and other forms of literature.
About six written exercises are assigned. Prereq: ENGL 150
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 English.
A study of short stories and drama to determine how the shape of a.literary work contributes to its meaning.
The Major Forms of Literature: Novels and Poetry
A study of novels and poetry to determine how the shape of a literary work contributes to its meaning.
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
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.
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 Faulkner, Dylan
Thomas, and Margaret Laurence. Prereq: ENGL 105A or consent of
instructor
A study of human excellence in thought and action embodied in representative men and women, as seen through works of literature.
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.
A study 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 realisation or in tragic defeat.
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.
Studies the portrayal of young protagonists as they respond to the mores of adult society; their own physical, mental, and psychological development; and the expectations placed upon them by themselves and by others.
Studies the experience of war and attitudes toward it as revealed in literary works from different historical periods.
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.
An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century.
An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the late 18th century to the present.
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.
The study of major themes, stories, and literary characteristics of the King James Bible (Hebrew Scripture) and their influence on English literature.
The study of major themes, stories, and
literature characteristics of the King
James Bible (Christian Scripture) and
their influence on English literature. Prereq: ENGL 202A or consent of
instructor
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 Englishspeaking world. Topics such as oral literature, myth, legend, tale, and marchen will be discussed.
Similar to 203 but dealing with folkdrama, ballads, songs, medicines, riddles, chants, proverbs, and charms.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Course Descriptions 16:51 English
A study of such major 20th-century 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.
This course will focus on literary works that present various aspects of aging, such as changes in physical and mental abilities, relationships with children and grandchildren, coping with disease and death, and the satisfactions unique to the elderly.
Cross-listed as GERON 208
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 Carré will be discussed. The course includes the examination of critical approaches to the form of detective fiction.
Vision in Literature
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.
Students practise effective writing along with the study of established models. The goal is to develop language competence to meet a variety of academic, business, and professional situations. Prereq: Second-year standing or above Counts as an English Major credit as of Fall 1984.
16:52 Course Descriptions English
A study of the principles of business and technical writing including the styles, techniques, and forms of business and technical correspondence, application letters and résumés, abstracts, outlines, and technical description, with copious writing practice. Special attention to techniques of editing and presentation. Some practice in oral presentation. Prereq: Second-year standing or above
A study in the principles and practice of good report writing including report language and styles and various forms of report organization — various kinds of short reports as well as the long formal research report.
Prereq: Second-year standing or above
The study of the novel written in English from its beginnings to the late 19th century.
The study of the novel written in English from the late 19th century to the present.
The course will survey a theme which is significant to the understanding of the Canadian literary mind. Topics will vary from section to section.
An in-depth, applied study of the conventions governing contemporary English grammar, punctuation, syntax, diction, spelling, and sentence structure. in addition, the course will examine variations and changes in conventions; the question of the determiners of correct usage; and the impact of dictionaries, textbooks, journals, large publishing houses, and international wire services on accepted English usage in general and on Canadian usage in particular.
Prereq: Second-year standing or above
A study of the origins and development of English drama, with special concentration on 16th-century non-Shakespearean drama.
Students may receive credit for only one of ENGL 232 or DRAMA 252.
Drama from 1660 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.
Students may receive credit for only one of ENGL 233 or DRAMA 253.
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 criticisms.
The continuation of ENGL 251A (see ~ above).
Prereq: ENGL 251A
The course inductively defines the fields of Rhetoric and Professional Writing through an exploration of contemporary issues in language, writing, and rhetoric, as those issues are identified and dealt with, in the pertinent scholarly and professional journals, by current researchers and their work.
Prereq: Enrolment limited to RPW students
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.
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 begin-
nings of the English poetic tradition. Prereq: ENGL 305A
ENGL 306A/B/C/D/E English Language and Linguistics
A study of basic linguistic principles and -
concepts, historical and formal. Formerly ENGL 373 and ENGL 375
Introduction to linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis through an examination of English phonology, forms, syntax, and discourse.
Formerly ENGL 375A
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 306A
Formerly ENGL 375B
Introduction to historical reconstruction and comparative analysis. Basic phonological, morphological, syntactic changes as they manifest themselves in language will be examined.
Prereq: ENGL 306A
Formerly ENGL 373A
Introduction to the linguistic history of English from earliest documents to the present, with some consideration of various modern dialects.
Prereq: ENGL 306A
Formerly ENGL 373B
A study of linguistics and its applications
in analyzing the style and language of
literature. Topics include the relationship
between the structure of language and
literature, speech and writing, speech
acts and genres, discourse and text. Prereq: ENGL 306A
The principles of computer-aided learning and instruction applied to language and literary themes. Prereq: Computer experience or permission of instructor
A study of various theories of rhetoric. Students are assigned several essays in order to practise and apply the principles of rhetoric to discourse.
Prereq: A 200-level writing course or consent of instructor
A continuation of ENGL 309A with an emphasis on the importance of style in rhetorical theory and practice.
Prereq: A 200-level writing course or consent of instructor
An examination of contemporary rhetorical theory and its relationships to criticism, interdisciplinary studies, and computer applications.
Prereq: A 200-level writing course or consent of instructor ~
Theories of style and approaches to the stylistic analysis of both literary and nonliterary texts. Students will consider contributions to the study of style from such areas as traditional stylistics, New Criticism, formalism, affective stylistics, speech act theory, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics.
Prereq: Consent of instructor
A study of the minor poems of Chaucer, “The Book of the Duchess,” “Parliament of Fowls,” and “Troilus,” along with related Middle English texts.
A study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and related Middle English poems and Prose.
A survey of Australian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from Africa and the West Indies.
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.
A.J.M. Smith 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 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 as DRAMA 351
An introduction to the selection and application of literature in Counselling, Recreation, and community settings. Students will be offered theoretical and experiential instruction in a workshopstyle seminar. Assignments will be approximately eight novels or anthologies. A bibliography will be provided. A term paper will be required.
A study of the principal writers of prose and of lyric and narrative poetry in England during and immediately before the reign of Elizabeth |.
for special attention is Spenser's epic poem glorifying England and Elizabeth | - The Faerie Queene.
Prereq: ENGL 330A is recommended
Aimed at encouraging students to develop their creative and critical potentials, the course consists of supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions.
Designed to assist advanced creative writers to develop their skills in various genres by means of workshop processes, supervised practice, and critical discussion of one or more major projects.
Prereq: ENGL 335 or consent of instructor
Course Descriptions 16:53 English
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.
Approaches to reality amid the confusion and uncertainty of 20th-century America. Emphasis on such major writers as Faulkner, Miller, and Cummings.
(Usually only one or two courses from this series are offered each year.)
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
A study of American Literature from World War 2 to the present.
Prereq: ENGL 343 or consent.of instructor
17th-Century Non-Dramatic Literature 1
A study of secular and religious lyric poetry by poets such as Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell.
17th-Century Non-Dramatic Literature 2
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.
A study of the plays written before 1599-1600, excluding Julius Caesar.
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16:54 Course Descriptions English
A study of the plays written after 1599-1600, including Julius Caesar.
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
and 2 Each term will consist of three or four units on such topics as editing; magazine, newspaper, and editorial writing; advertising and public relations writing; instructional manuals; interpretation of specialized information for general audiences; writing for non-print media; ethics in writing; etc. Substantial use will be made of non-academic experts in the fields covered.
Enrolment limited to fourth-year studénts in RPW program, or consent of instructor
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.
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 classical to romanticism.
The poetry and critical theory of Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge. Emphasis is primarily on poetry; selected minor writers may be considered.
The poetry and critical theory of Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Emphasis is primarily on poetry; selected minor writers may be considered.
An examination of the “fictions” of such major American writers as Wallace Stevens, Herman Melville, and Eugene O'Neill.
Prereq: ENGL 343/344 or consent of instructor ~
An historical and critical study of major poets (Browning, Tennyson, Arnold) and of the literary criticism of the period.
An historical and critical study of major novelists (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) and major essayists (Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxley).
A study of works by such writers as Shaw, Conrad, and Yeats.
A study of works by such writers as James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and T.S. Eliot..
An examination of recent influential critical theories. Among the schools studied will be feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, psychoanalytic criticism and, especially, deconstruction.
A letter grade for ENGL 495A will be submitted only after the completion of ENGL 495B.
Department of Environment and Resource Studies
Associate Professor, Chairman of the
Department.
J.E. Robinson,? BSc (Waterloo), MES (York), PhD (Michigan)
Associate Professor, Undergraduate
Officer
S.C. Lerner,? BA (Ohio State), MA (Columbia), Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award
Professors
M. Chandrashekar,® BTech (Indian Insti tute of Technology, Kanpur), MASc, PhD (Waterloo), PEng
G.R. Francis, BA (Toronto), BA (McGill), MA (British Columbia), PhD (Michigan)
S. Kumar, BSc, MSc (Punjab), MA, PhD (Toronto)
P.H. Nash,* BA, MA (California-Los Angeles), CE (Grenoble), MCP, MPA, PhD (Harvard), MCIP, AICP
Associate Professors
D. Estrin,4 BA, LLB (Alberta)
R. Keith, BSA (Guelph), MA, PhD (Michigan State)
G.B. Priddle,’ BA, (Western Ontario), MA, PhD (Clark)
J.B. Robinson,’ BA (Toronto), MES (York), PhD (Toronto)
Assistant Professors
R.B. Gibson, BA (York), MA, PhD (Toronto)
J.J. Kay,? BASc (McGill), MASc, PhD (Waterloo) .
M.C. Kesik-Delfgaauw, BEcon (Amsterdam), MA, PhD (Waterloo)
G.O. Michalenko, BA, PhD (Saskatchewan)
Faculty Members of Environment and Resource Studies holding cross and/or joint appointments with.
Geography, Urban and Regional Plarning, and School of Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph
systems Design Engineering
3Planning
Faculty Members holding cross and/or joint appointments to Environment and Resource Studies from: Environmental Studies
5systems Design Engineering
Courses not offered in the current academic year are listed at the end of this section.