138 courses in the 1993–94 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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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. Courses normally meet three hours per week; however, each instructor determines the pattern of meetings for her/his courses.
3. In all English courses, emphasis will be placed on student essays written in connection with the reading.
4. Information on availability of courses in this section is accurate at the time of publication. Sometimes, however, course offerings must be altered because of budget restraints or availability of faculty. For precise information on course offerings, students should check with the English Department.
5. Enrolment in certain English courses which are in heavy demand and which are program requirements for English Students may be subject to priority enrolment restrictions. While all English courses may be affected, those most likely to be subject to enrolment restrictions wil! include ENGL 200A/B, 209, 210C, 210E, 210F, 219, 251A/B, 30GA-F, 309A-E, 343, and 344. Because of its place in the Applied Studies requirements, ENGL 109 may also on occasion be subject to registration restrictions.
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
Course Descriptions English
language in various contexts and to assist them to improve their writing.
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The course will explore a variety of issues in academic writing such as style, argument, and the presentation of information. Frequent written exercises will be required.
Students may receive credit for only one of ENGL 109 and 129R.
May be subject to priority enrolment
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 matemal language is not English and who lack language mastery sufficient for admission to other introductory English language courses
Students may receive credit for only one of ENGL 109 and 129R
Offered at Renison College
The use and abuse of spoken and written
English. The study and evaluation of lan-
guage as it is used for various purposes
(6.g.. colloquial, scientific, legal, political.
commercial, journalistic, literary) in order
to increase critical awareness and to help
students to write clearly and effectively. Offered at Renison College
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A continuation of ENGL 140R. The study of factual, emotive, scientific and imaginative writing; relevance, context, meaning, tone, feeling, and intention.
Prereq: ENGL 140R
Offered at Renison College
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.
Also offered at Renison College
A study of novels and poetry to determine how the shape of a literary work contributes to its meaning.
Also offered at Renison 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, tem-
poral, functional, and stylistic. The rela-
tions of languages and literature and of
speech and writing will be discussed. Prereq: ENGL 103A or consem of
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A close examination of a representative selection of works by major authors writing in Engtish such as Yeats, Woolf, Lawrence, Eliot, Hemingway, and Faulkner.
A continuation of ENGL 105A. A clase examination of a representative selection of works by major authors writing in English such as Thomas, Bellow, Laurence, and Atwood.
Prereq: ENGL 105A or consent of instructor
A survey of major developments in Canadian literature in English from its beginnings to the present.
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 individuals in crisis, the stress being on people at variance with their inner selves, other persons, or their 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.
Course Descriptions English
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. May be subject to priority enrolment
An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the late 18th century to the present.
May be subject to priority enrolment
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, Emest Hemingway, and Alice Munro.
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.
Offered at Renison College
This course will deai with the history and forms of fantasy written for adults. In considering the genre, related forms like the romance, the fairy tate, 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.
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 wiil be discussed. The course includes the examination of critical approaches to the form of detective fiction.
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, or successful completion of ENGL 109
Counts as an English Major credit as of Fall 1984
May be subject to priority enrolment
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 teport. Prereq: Second-year standing or above May be subject to priority enrolment
A study of the principles, processes and Rroducts which constitute technical writing. This course provides an introduction to techniques of audience analysis and principles of document design as well as experience in the process of creating techhical documents. Writing practice will be provided in the many roles of the technical writer — from researcher to editor.
Prereq: Second-year standing or above
Not open to students who have taken ENGL 210A in 1992 or earlier
May be subject to priority enrolment
This course examines business communication from a rhetorical perspective. Various forms and processes of business communication will be studied with an emphasis on producing rhetorically effective business writing.
Prereq: Second-year standing or above
Not open to students who have taken ENGL 210A in 1992 or earlier
May be subject to priority enrolment
This course will provide a survey of litera-
ture set in a distinctive region of Canada. Students may receive credit for only one
of ENGL 215 and 214
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 May be subject to priority enrolment
Course Descriptions
Jacobeans (excluding Shakespeare), and the Spanish Golden Age.
Cross-listed as DRAMA 311
Close reading of poetry and narrative; acquisition of critical vocabulary and terminology. Three to five written assignments.
May be subject to priority enrolment
Introduction to classical and contemporary theoretical approaches to literature; literary emphasis on drama. Three to five written assignments.
Prereq: ENGL 251A
May be subject to priority enrolment
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 beginnings of the English poetic tradition.
Prereq: ENGL 305A
ENGL 306A/B/C/D/E/F
English Language and Linguistics
A study of basic linguistic principles and
concepts, historical and formal. Formerly ENGL 373 and 375
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Introduction to linguistics and the princi-
ples of linguistic analysis through an examination of English phonology, forms, syntax, and discourse.
Formerly ENGL 375A
May be subject to priority enrolment
Introduction to modem English grammar and structure ~ its meaningful forms and syntax. Several methods of analysis will be employed and evaluated, including the traditional, structural, transformationalgenerative, and functional.
Prereq: ENGL 306A
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 3738
A study of linguistics and its applications in analyzing the style and lagnuage 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
A Study of systems of signs, codes, and signification in language, culture, and literature.
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 rhetorical theories from the Classical period (Pre-Socratic to Augustine) with an emphasis on how these theories reflect changing attitudes towards language, reality, and the self. Prereq: Third-year standing, or consent of instructor Priority may be given to RPW students
A study of the rhetorical theories from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Enlightenment with an emphasis on how these theories retlect changing attitudes toward language, reality, and the self. Prereq: Third-year standing or consent of instructor Priority may be given to RPW students
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
May be subject to priority enrolment
The analysis, writing, and performance of speeches. Analysis will focus on the theory of communication and speech models for imitation; writing, on in-class workshops; and performance, on videotaping and student evaluation of speeches. Cross-listed as DRAMA 323 May be subject to priority enrolment
An introduction to the poetry and the prose translations of Geoffrey Chaucer, including his dream allegories, “Troilus and Criseyde,” and related compositions.
A study of Geoffrey Chaucer's “Canterbury Tales.”
Non-Chaucerian English writings during the later Middle; the Middle English romance, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; alliterative literature, such as “Piers Plowman”; and representative examples of Middle English non- Chaucerian verse.
A survey of Australian poetry and prose, with some consideration of the literatures, in English, from Africa and the West indies.
Course Descriptions English
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 novet since the appearance of Morley Callaghan, with brief consideration of the essay and short story during the period.
Also offered at Renison College
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 380 (formerly 351)
A study of 19th- and 20th-century Canadian literature for children.
A study of developments in Canadian literature since 1967 in prose, poetry, drama and criticism.
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 workshop-style seminar. Assignments will be approximately eight novels or anthologies. A bibliography will be provided. A term paper will be required.
16th-Century Literature 1 (excluding Drama)
A study of the principal writers of prose and lyric and narrative poetry in England during the Tudor period, including its culmination in the reign of Elizabeth i.
16th-Century Literature 2 (excluding
Drama)
A continuation of ENGL 330A, with a con-
sideration of selected topics and works
specific to the Elizabethan period. Authors
studied may include Sir Philip Sidney.
Mary Sidney, and Edmund Spenser. Prereq: ENGL 330A 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.
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
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.
May be subject to priority enrolment
Approaches to reality amid the confusion and uncertainty of 20th-century America. Emphasis on such major writers as Faulkner, Miller, and Cummings.
May be subject to priority enrolment
(Usually only one or two courses from this series are offered each year.)
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
War 2 to the present.
Prereq: ENGL 343 or consent of instructor
A study of secular and religious lyric poetty by poets such as Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell.
A study of selected prose works of Bacon, Burton, anc 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.
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 thair ideas to the attention of individual instructors.
Prereq: Consent of instructor and permission of the English Undergraduate Officer
In exploring different definitions and types of grammar (e.g. descriptive vs. prescriptive), students develop their own critical framework for explaining the structure of English. Of interest to intending teachers of English as the native or second language.
Prereq: A minimum of a 100-level writing course or consent of instructor
applications of language theories to error analysis and correction.
Prereq: ENGL 376R
This course will introduce students to recent research on documentation in fields such as information design, reading, and technical writing. Students apply this knowledge by developing or revising documents.
Prereq: ENGL 292 or consent of instructor
Course Descriptions English
This course introduces students to the interaction of texts and images in such professional writing fields as advertising, book illustration, technical documentation, journalism, and public relations. Issues may include visual and textual literacy, the semiotics and rhetoric of design, and the ideological basis of social communication. Prereq: ENGL 292 or consent of instructor
Topics may include 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 of non-academic experts may be made.
Prereq: Fourth-year standing in RPW. RPW students below fourth-year are not eligible for the course.
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.
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An historical and critical study of major poets (Browning, Tennyson, Amold) and of the literary criticism of the period.
An historical and critical study of major novelists (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) and major essayists (Newman, Ruskin, Mil, Huxley).
A study of works by such writers as Shaw, Conrad, and Yeats.
A study of the works by such writers as Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf.
A study of works by such writers as Beckett, Pinter, Churchill, Murdoch, Rushdie, Carter, Desai, Naipaul, Ackroyd, Larkin, Heaney, Hill.
An examination of recent influential critical theories. Among the schools studied will be feminist criticism, Marxist criticism, psycholanalytic criticism and, especially, deconstruction.
An historical survey of major critical texts and movements from the Greek and Roman classics to the New Criticism of the mid-20th century, examining different critical theories and practices in a context of cultural changes.
A consideration of various 20th-century feminist theoreticians.
ENGL 4954/8 0.5/0.5
Supervision of Honours Essay.
A letter grade for ENGL 495A will be submitted only after the completion of ENGL 495B.
From time to time, the Department may offer senior special topic seminars in the following areas. Consutt with the Undergraduate Officer for details. Courses ENGL 481 - 492 may Substitute for other required Period and Genve courses. Prereq: Fourth-year standing normally, and permission of the instructor
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