English Language and Literature—Courses
Please note that not every course listed is offered each year and that students should consult the following sources for current course offerings:
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
1. Introductory Course
ENGL-1006. Introduction to Literature
An introduction to the range and variety of literature in English, to the practice of critical reading, and to writing about ideas and texts in conventional academic language and forms. The course concentrates on the central genres of literature.
ENGL-1013. Introduction to Literature for International Students (ESL)
An introduction for international students to a representative sampling of fiction and poetry written in English. The course will concentrate on the acquisition of close reading skills and expository writing skills. It will also be an exploration of some of the key themes of western literature. Open only to ESL students.
2. Intermediate Course
ENGL-2013. Research Methods in English
An introduction to the discipline and practice of English; specifically, the use of research and scholarly sources in academic writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1006. Co-requisite: ENGL 2023.
ENGL-2023. Survey of English Literature
A survey of literature representative of the major historical periods of English literature from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. Prerequisite: ENGL 1006. Co-requisite: ENGL 2013.
ENGL-2033. Survey of Engl. Lit. I
A survey of literature representative of the major historical periods of English literature from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century. Prerequisite: English 1006. Co-requisite: ENGL 2013.
ENGL-2043. Survey of Engl. Lit. II
A survey of literature representative of the major historical periods of English literature from the Romantic Period to the present day. Prerequisite: English 1006.
ENGL-2103. Creative Writing: Skills
A course for students interested in writing poetry, prose, and/or scripts. Along with work shopping each other's creative work in class, students give presentations on topics that will help them develop writing skills, for example, effective metaphor, writing dialogue, creating a story outline, etc.. Enrolment is restricted to those who have received permission, based on a 5-10 page sample of work submitted to the instructor at least a week before registration OR who have successfully completed ENGL 2123. (Categories: Genres, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-2123. Creative Writing: Strategies
A course for students interested in writing poetry, prose, and/or scripts. Along with work shopping each other's creative work in class, students give presentations on topics pertaining to being writers in the world, for example, writing organizations and supports, publication and other markets, etc.. Enrolment is restricted to those who have received permission, based on a 5-10 page sample of work submitted to the instructor at least a week before registration OR who have successfully completed ENGL 2103. (Categories: Genres, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-2213. Drama Production I
An initial exploration of the fundamental elements that combine to create theatre. Through improvisations, exercises, monologues, and scenes, students learn the techniques of acting and stagecraft to develop their awareness of the process of performance. Enrolment is restricted to those who have received permission of the instructor. (Categories: Creative and Performative). Co-requisite: ENGL-2233
ENGL-2223. The Page and the Stage
Using as focal texts scripts actually produced locally, participants in this course explore the experience of theatre. Each participant has the opportunity to learn about the process by which a script becomes a production, about reading plays and imagining productions, about research techniques, about writing for public purposes, and about understanding and appreciating the theatre. (Categories: Genres, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-2233. Drama Production II
Continued exploration of the fundamental elements that combine to create theatre. Through improvisations, exercises, monologues, and scenes, students learn the techniques of acting and stagecraft to further their awareness of the process of performance. Enrolment is restricted to those who have received permission of the instructor. (Categories: Creative and Performative). Co-requisite: ENGL-2213.
ENGL-2313. Ecotexts: Literature, Technology, Environment
This course examines a selection of works in various media - literature, painting, photography, radio, film, and television - from the perspective of current thinking about environmental issues. These ecotexts are read using literary vocabulary and analytic techniques. Readings are informed by environmental and literary theory, historical and contemporary. (Categories: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory)
ENGL-2383. Reading Popular Culture
A study of the mythic and narrative elements of a variety of popular texts: from cartoons and wrestling to trash talk shows, rock videos, slasher films, and other texts that students choose. Our cultural analyses are aided by close readings of literary and cultural theories, including myth criticism and psychoanalytic theory. The purpose of this course is to equip students with the language and theories necessary for informed cultural literacy. (Categories: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-2393. Literature, Technology, and Culture
This course will examine various kinds of technological change, from the invention of the printing press to the advent of the Web. We will consider how these changes have shaped our fears, expectations, and understandings of self and culture. The course will emphasize print literature while recognizing and evaluating new media. (Categories: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-2413. Manga and Graphic Novels
An introduction to the related genres of manga, global manga, and graphic novels. Particular attention will be paid to the narrative strategies of manga and graphic novel creators. Works of fantasy and science fiction, as well as more realistic texts, will be explored. Prerequisite: English 1006.
ENGL-2443. Recurring Themes in Canadian Literature
An examination of recurring themes such as our sense of place, relationship with the land and Native peoples, love where the nights are long, and survival. (Category: National or Regional).
ENGL-2463. Irish Literature
A survey of the major figures in twentieth century Irish literature including W.B. Yeats, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney. The Irish nationalism is a central focus. The course also includes a film component and features director/auteurs such as Neil Jordan and Jim Sheridan. The impact of the Irish diaspora on the literature and film of America is also considered, with special reference to Eugene O'Neill. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, National or Regional).
ENGL-2493. Atlantic Canadian Literature, Film and Art (excluding New Brunswick)
This course will study the cultural mosaic of Atlantic Canada in fiction, poetry, film, and art. We will begin with settler literature and advance to the present. (Categories: National or Regional, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2503. Short Story
A survey of the short story genre from its beginnings in the 19th century to its predominance as the traditional narrative literary form of the 20th century. (Categories: Genres).
ENGL-2513. Science Fiction I: The Development of Science Fiction
An introduction to the development of this genre from Shelley's Frankenstein through the Golden Age of the 1950s. Attention is paid to the related genres which contributed to the development of this genre. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2523. Study of Drama - An Introduction
An exploration from Greek theatre to contemporary works of the theatrical conventions, significant trends, playwrights and performers that inform and construct the social practice of theatre. Emphasis is placed both on close textual study of the works and the realities of staging productions. (Categories: Genres, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-2533. Comedy
An investigation of one or more types of comedy in drama and prose fiction. Attention may be paid to the role of comedy within genre systems, the cultural and historical work of comedy, and/or the comic technique in poetry and film. (Categories: Genres).
ENGL-2553. Tragedy
An investigation of the theory and elements of tragedy and its expression in drama and fiction. (Categories: Genres).
ENGL-2563. Science Fiction II: Themes in Contemporary Science Fiction
An exploration of central themes in science fiction from the New Wave of the 1960s to the present. Issues such as gender, the environment, technology, the alien, and others are the focus. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2573. Modern European Novel
This course examinies representative literature in translation with a view to broadening the student's awareness of the function of art and the artist in our time. (Categories: Genres)
ENGL-2583. Women Writers I
An investigation of the plurality of women's writing by examining contemporary poetry, fiction, drama, and theory written by women. We begin locally, with writers from the Fredericton area, and move outward through examples of regional, national, continental, and world literature by women. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2593. Women Writers II
A chronological presentation of texts by women writers, from the ancient past to the 21st century, discussing developments in cultural attitudes toward women as both writers of and characters in novels, poetry, essays, and letters throughout Western literary history. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2603. Survey of Children's Literature
An investigation of the variety of literature written for children: picture books, fantasy, junior fiction, poetry, nonfiction, etc., and of the role of children's literature in the classroom and the home. (Categories: Genres).
ENGL-2613. History of Children's Literature
An investigation of the history of children's literature, this course uses the resources of the UNB's Children's Literature Collection to explore the development of literature for children. (Categories: Genres).
ENGL-2633. Study of Drama - Theatre and Gender
A study of the development of the specific theme of gender on the stage. All plays in English translation are read in combination with critical background material in order to establish an introductory survey of the many aspects of this topic from an historical and contemporary point of view. We also examine various possibilities and imitations of the stage as a medium for this particular theme, and compare it with films. (Categories: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-2643. Medieval Drama
An introduction to the major examples of Medieval English Drama: Liturgical drama, Cycle drama, Morality plays, and secular drama. We also study Medieval stagecraft, and perform selections from cycle dramas. (Categories: Genres, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-2653. Literature and Aging (GERO)
An exploration of the way aging is portrayed -- and constructed -- in literary texts. (Categories: Cultural Studies, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-2673. Literature and Catholicism I
An exploration of literature from the early Middle Ages to the later Renaissance that reflects Catholic teachings, traditions, and attitudes. Readings may include The Dream of the Rood, medieval poetry, mystery and morality plays, mystical and devotional writings, and authors such as Augustine, Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, More, Southwell, and Cranshaw. (Categories:Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2723. Fiction, Drama, and Film: A Study of Narrative I
A study of novels, short fiction, drama, and film as narrative. Students are introduced to, among other things, the major narrative techniques and innovations in the history of cinema.(Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2733. Fiction, Drama, and Film: A Study of Narrative II
A study of the nature of narrative in fiction, drama, and film, but there is a more specific consideration of the art of adaptation - its thematic, technical, and aesthetic triumphs and pitfalls. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-2753. Major Canadian Writers
An examination of selected writers who have made a significant contribution to Canadian literature. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, National or Regional).
ENGL-2773. The Journalism of John McPhee - Reporting the Environment
By collaboratively investigating the environmental journalism of one writer, and the contexts in which he has worked, this course attempts to address questions of the rhetoric and ethics of journalism in general and particularly of the challenges of reporting on issues which are both immediately and practically important, and also complex and contentious. There is no uniform textbook, but students are expected to purchase at least one book chosen in consultation with the instructor and the rest of the class. This course requires students to use the St. Thomas computer network. Ability to use computers is, however, not a prerequisite.(Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-2783. Literary Nonfiction: The Art of Fact
An exploration of the development and practice of the literary nonfiction of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with attention to the work of such journalists as James Agee, George Orwell, John McPhee, Joan Didion, Tracy Kidder, Lillian Ross, Hunter Thompson, Peter Gzowski, Truman Capote and others. Attention will be paid to the contexts in which literary journalists practice their craft and the extent to which it is a consciously practiced genre. (Genres, Authors and Authorship)
ENGL-2903. Texts and Contexts: How Written Language Shapes, and Is Shaped By, Our Beliefs
This course will be conducted as a structured investigation, in which students will begin by exploring various examples of language in daily use, and then collaboratively choose further works for closer attention. As it will be taught as a linked course with RELS 2243: How language, shaping and shaped by human behaviour, becomes sacred, particular attention will be paid to works central to various belief traditions (including texts not normally thought of as sacred, such as On the Origin of Species, or Desiderata. It will be a blended or hybridcourse, in that significant amounts of the class work will be conducted on line. For further information, visit the main linked-course Website, at http://people.stu.ca/~truth/contexts/}
ENGL-29X3. Special Topics
The content of this course changes from year to year to reflect the special strengths of the Department and the particular needs of the students. It consists of a study of a topic or an area in literature.
3. Advanced Course
ENGL-3103. Advanced Poetry Workshop
An advanced course for students who have discovered an affinity for poetry. As well as discussions on various aspects of the craft, history, and aesthetics of poetry in contemporary Western culture, this course provides the opportunity for students to rewrite past poems and generate new ones. Enrolment is restricted to those who have successfully completed ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2123, or who have permission of the instructor. Applications and a 5-10 page portfolio should be submitted to the instructor a week before course registration. (Category: Creative and Performative).
ENGL-3113. Advanced Prose Workshop
An advanced course for students who have discovered an affinity for creative prose. Along with discussions on various aspects of the craft, history and aesthetics of prose - long and short fiction as well as creative non-fiction genres like memoir and personal essay - this course will provide an opportunity for students to rewrite past prose, and generate new work. Enrolment is restricted to those who have successfully completed ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2123, or who have permission of the instructor. Applications and a 5-10 page portfolio should be submitted to the instructor a week before course registration. (Category: Creative and Performative).
ENGL-3123. Advanced Script Workshop
An advanced course for students who have discovered an affinity for scriptwriting. Along with discussions on various aspects of the craft, history and aesthetics of scriptwriting - for both the stage and the screen - this course will provide an opportunity for students to rewrite past scripts, and generate new work. Enrolment is restricted to those who have successfully completed ENGL 2103 or ENGL 2123, or who have permission of the instructor. Applications and a 5-10 page portfolio should be submitted to the instructor at least a week before course registration (Category: Creative and Performative).
ENGL-3213. Art Cinema
An introduction to the development, influence and major trends of art cinema in the 20th century. Prerequisite: either ENGL 2723 or ENGL 2733. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3216. Advanced Drama Production
A course which focuses on learning to read a play as a script for performance rather than solely as written literature. Examples of the work of major dramatists from various historical periods and geographic areas are studied to understand the differing themes, natures of production and performance demands of the various forms. The focus is on the text as a performance vehicle written not only for readers but more immediately for actors, directors, and designers. The study of the history of staging and performance is an integral part of the course. There is a public production at the end of the year. In-class presentations are also a major component of the course. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: ENGL 2216 Drama Production and ENGL 2523 Introduction to Drama. (Category: Creative and Performative).
ENGL-3223. Auteur Cinema
A study of the cinema of some of the major auteurs of the 20th century. Among the artists considered are Sergei Eisenstein, Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Mike Leigh, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, and David Cronenberg. Prerequisite: either ENGL 2723 or ENGL 2733. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, National or Regional).
ENGL-3236. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama and Theatre
A study of the dramatic literature and practice of the period between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, with attention not only to the literature but to its artistic and social context. Participants in the course collaboratively investigate not only the plays, but also the theatres they were performed in, the society which supported the theatres, and the ideas about drama and literature voiced by their practitioners and their critics. We pay attention to the nature of literature written for performance, and to the implications of the social context for the kinds of texts produced. This course requires students to use the St.Thomas computer network. Ability to use computers is, however, not a prerequisite. (Categories: Genres, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-3306. Middle English Literature
An introduction to the literature and language of the 14th-15th centuries. Genres studied include estates satire, fabliau, dream vision, drama, romance, chronicle, travelogue, lyric and beast fable. Major authors may include Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain-poet and Mallory. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3313. Modern Literature I
A survey of several of the major themes and forms of the modern movement. Topics covered include: the advent of free verse as the dominant form in modern poetry, the role of myth and history in the central works of the great moderns, and the First World War and its aftermath. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3316. Shakespeare and the Drama of His Age
A study of plays of Shakespeare, his predecessors, and contemporaries such as Marlowe and Johnson. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-3323. Modern Literature II
A survey of the impact of the electronic age on the novel and short fiction, the birth of metafiction and the anti-novel, the feminist movement, the advent of the post-colonial, and the postmodern response. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3326. 17th Century Literature
A study of the prose and poetry of Jonson, Donne, Herbert, and Milton, and the minor writers of the age. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies)
ENGL-3336. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Prose and Poetry
An investigation of poetry, prose fiction, and nonfiction between 1660 and the French Revolution, and the intellectual and social context of the important writers and their work.(Categories: Genres, Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-3363. The Romantic Period I
A study of the writings of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and their contemporaries. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-3383. Victorian Literature Survey
Through a study of British poetry, prose (fiction and non-fiction), and drama, students discover the Victorians' profound impact - politically, geographically, scientifically, technologically, sexually, historically - on Western culture. (Categories: Cultural Studies, National or Regional).
ENGL-3386. Sixteenth Century Poetry and Prose
An exploration of the non-dramatic literature of the 16th century. A range of poetic genres including romance and the sonnet are examined, as well as examples of prose fiction. Authors such as Marlowe, Sidney, Shakespeare, and Greene are included. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3393. Victorian Authors and Movements
A study of the works of selected British Victorian authors, (such as the Brontë sisters, Eliot, Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossetti siblings, Morris, etc.) in the context of the movements they initiated (such as the Pre-Raphaelites, Arts and Crafts, Socialism, Aesthetics, etc.). (Categories: National or Regional, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-3396. Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature
An introduction to the basics of Old English language, literature, and culture. We will read several poems including The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Wulf, The Dream of the Rood and selections of Beowulf in Old English. (Categories: Genres, National or Regional).
ENGL-3413. African American Literature
An exploration of African-American fiction and poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and African-American literature's commentary on itself in the form of criticism and theory.(Categories: National or Regional, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3416. American Literature
A study of the major authors of nineteenth and twentieth century American Literature.(Categories: Authors and Authorship, National or Regional).
ENGL-3423. Modern Irish Drama
A study of selected plays from the major Irish dramatists of the 20th century. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, National or Regional).
ENGL-3433. World Literature in English: West Indies and Africa
An introduction to the range of literary expressions of writers from the non-Western cultures of the West Indies and Africa. The major genre studied is the novel, though poetry and essays are also examined. The focus of the course is to study the concerns of the colonized, those who were swept up by British expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries. (Categories: National or Regional, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3443. World Literature in English: India
An introduction to the range of literary expressions of writers from the Indian Subcontinent. The two major genres studied are the novel and short fiction, though poetry and essays are also examined. The focus of the course is to study the concerns of the colonized, those who were swept up by British expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries. (Categories: National or Regional, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3456. Canadian Drama
An exploration of Canadian dramatic works from the 19th century to the present, but focusing largely on post-1967 plays. Representative playwrights include George Ryga, John Herbert, Michel Tremblay, Sharon Pollock, Tomson Highway, Judith Thompson, and George F. Walker. (National or Regional, Creative and Performative)
ENGL-3473. Irish Film II
This course continues the study of the portrayal of the Irish in feature films begun in Irish Film I, there is, however, a greater emphasis on the films and auteurs of contemporary Ireland. The critical approach, as with Irish Film I, relies primarily on cultural studies theory. (Categories: Cultural Studies and Genres)
ENGL-3483. Irish Film I
A study of native Irish culture and the culture of the Irish diaspora. Students view films of high realist auteurs as well as adaptations of novels, short stories, and plays to the big screen. (Categories: National or Regional, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3493. New Brunswick Literature, Film and Art
This course will study the cultural mosaic of New Brunswick in fiction, poetry, film, music, and art. We will begin with settler literature and advance to the present. This course will also undertake archival research. Pre-requisite: English 2013. (Categories: National or Regional, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3503. The Classical Epic
An introduction to the conventions of the epic and to classical mythology. Texts may include Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad, and Vergil's Aeneid. All texts are in translation. (Categories: Genres).
ENGL-3506. History of the Novel
A study of the development of the novel from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-3533. Boundaries of the Novel and the Borders of Europe
This course explores a selection of major continental European novels in translation chosen for their formal innovations in the genre and their pertinence to critical social, political, and cultural concerns of later twentieth- and early twenty-first century Europe. (Categories: Genres, National or Regional).
ENGL-3543. Modern Poetry I
A survey of the (mostly) British and American writers of the Modern Movement up to and including World War II. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-3553. Modern Poetry II
A survey of the (mostly) British and American writers of the Modern Movement from World War II to the present. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-3583. Studies in Modern Drama I
Through critical analysis and interpretations of dramatic texts from Oscar Wilde to Tennessee Williams, this course explores plays, playwrights, and major aesthetic movements in the theatre from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-3593. Studies in Modern Drama II
An exploration of primary concepts and texts in contemporary theatre. We read and discuss one or two plays a week ranging from playwrights as diverse as Albee, Wilson, Churchill, Mamet, Parks, Kushner, and Stoppard. We work in a lecture and discussion format with, where available and applicable, viewings of film versions of the texts. Prerequisite: ENGL 3583.(Categories: Authors and Authorship, Creative and Performative).
ENGL-3623. The Literature of Politics
A survey of the literary treatment of political themes, from classical times to the present, in fiction, drama, poetry, essays, and film. The various themes explored include the conflict between the family and the state, nationalism, imperialism, totalitarianism, the post-colonial world, and the relationship between artist and politics. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3633. Literature and Medicine
An investigation of the literature of illness and healing. Poetry, prose fiction, and autobiographical writing are examined to explore the narrative modes that both distinguish and connect patient and physician.(Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3643. Fantasy
An exploration of the origins and development of fantasy literature, as well as recurrent themes and contemporary issues which appear in modern fantasy. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3656. Love and Friendship (GRID)
An exploration of the interrelated themes of friendship, love and beauty. Each theme is examined separately and as connected to the others. Ancient and modern texts are used to examine the ways that different ages have addressed these fundamentally personal and yet common human experiences. Texts vary from year to year, but may include works such as Plato's Symposium, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Rousseau's Confessions, Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, LeGuins Left Hand of Darkness, Woolfs Orlando, and Bellows Ravelstein. Prerequisite: GRID 3006 or permission of the instructors. (Category: Genres).
ENGL-3666. Human Nature and Technology (GRID)
A study of the way in which diverse thinkers have considered the question of human nature. This question is sharpened with a consideration of the way in which human beings considered as natural beings use and are affected by technology. Texts vary from year to year, but may include works such as: Aeschylus' Promethus Bound, Bacon's New Alantis, Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Grant's Technology and Empire, Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology, Shelley's Frankenstein, Gaskell's North and South, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and Sterling's Holy Fire. Prerequisite: GRID 2012 or permission of instructors. (Categories: Genres, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3706. Shakespeare and Politics (POLS)
An exploration of the works of Shakespeare in the context of Renaissance political thought as reflected in his plays and in early modern political texts. We focus on the plays, although Shakespeare's non-dramatic works may be included, as well as modern film adaptations. (Categories: Genres, Authors and Authorship).
ENGL-3723. Jane Austen
An examination of the novels of Jane Austen against the cultural contexts that produced and popularized them. (Categories: Authors and Authorship, Cultural Studies).
ENGL-3803. Psychoanalysis, Literature and Culture
An exploration of psychoanalytic theory and its application to literature and popular culture, with a concentration on the metapsychological theory of Sigmund Freud and its subsequent development by Jacques Lacan. Many of the rich and complex concepts of psychoanalysis are illustrated through film, fiction, and poetry. (Categories: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-3813. Theories of Gender and Sexuality
An exploration of contemporary theories of gender and sexuality, focusing on the manner in which gender, sexuality, and their attendant identity politics are re-visioned in terms of their constructedness, over against normalizing conceptions of sexual identity. Readings are taken from a diversity of disciplines, including psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, feminism, philosophy, and literary theory. (Categories: Cultural Studies, Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-3823. The History of Literary Theory
An introduction to the historical texts and sources for contemporary literary theory, which explores the manner in which the questions that shape contemporary inquiry in the human sciences are precisely those that humanity has been asking for the last 3000 years. Prerequisite: EENG 3833.(Categories: Authors and Authorship, Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-3833. Contemporary Literary Theory
An introduction to key thinkers of the 20th century whose thought has shaped humanist inquiry across a host of disciplines. We engage these thinkers in terms of the manner in which they have re-shaped our perceptions of, and ability to engage, power and authority. Prerequisite: ENGL 3823. (Categories: Literary Theory and Method).
ENGL-4213. Seminar in Performance and Production
As the capstone course in the Drama Concentration, this seminar is designed to further develop an understanding of the methodologies of text analysis and practical aspects of staging theatre productions. Students engage in readings of plays, secondary critical analyses, and exercises that explore stage composition. The semester culminates in a public performance of a short play or scene directed by each student. Students not pursuing the Major with a Concentration in Drama will be admitted only with the permission of the instructor. Pre- or co-requisites: ENGL 3216 and fourth-year standing. (Categories: Creative and Performative).
ENGL-4393. Advanced Old English
This course will continue the study of Old English, focussing on translation of prose and poetry. Pre-requisite: ENGL-3396. (Categories: Genres; Creative & Performative)
ENGL-4416. Contemporary Atlantic Canadian Women Poets
Students will do original research in this thriving and yet critically neglected area of literature, including meeting many of the authors. By working cooperatively on major papers from both terms, students will gain experience into the editing and revision required to produce an academic paper. (Categories: National or Regional, Authors and Authorship)
ENGL-4706. Monstrosity
This course will discover the monstrous Middle Ages in literature, art, science, theology and philosophy. We will discuss bestiaries, shapeshifters, monstrous races, monstrous spaces and consider the idea of the Middle Ages as themselves Monster Time. (Categories: Cultural Studies and Literary Theory and Method)
ENGL-4716. 16th Century Poetry and Prose
This course explores the non-dramatic literature of the sixteenth century. A range of poetic genres including romance, erotic minor epic, the complaint, and the sonnet will be examined, as well as examples of prose fiction. Authors will include Marlowe, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wroth. (Categories: Genres and Cultural Studies)
ENGL-4836. Versification
Versification encompasses both the practice and theory of the sound and form of poetry. We'll trace the various structures of sound patterning in English verse (including verse form, metre, and rhyme) from the 5th to the 21st century. Study of the versification practices of various poets will sensitize you to the aural aspect of verse, and enable you to be a more competent reader of poetry, from alliterative to free verse. We'll also explore the complex and contradictory theories of versification that have developed over the centuries.
ENGL-4XX6. Honours Seminar I and II
These courses vary from year to year, and normally treat only major writers from major periods. Required for Honours students.