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ENGL 101A Introduction to Literary Studies

An introduction to the study of literature, covering such areas of enquiry as literary history, genre, criticism, analysis, and theory.

ENGL 101B Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

An introduction to the study and practice of persuasion, including the history and theory of rhetoric, the structures and strategies of arguments, and the analysis of texts and artifacts.

ENGL 102A The Major Forms of Literature: Short Stories and Drama

A study of short stories and drama to determine how the shape of a literary work contributes to its meaning.

ENGL 102B 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.

ENGL 103B Varieties of English

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.

ENGL 104 Rhetoric in Popular Culture

This course examines the role of persuasion in contemporary society by focusing on one or more topic areas: film, television, video games, comic books, music, fashion, etc. Students will explore the topic area(s) in depth using a variety of rhetorical theories and methods.

ENGL 105A 20th-Century Literature in English, 1900-45

A close examination of a representative selection of works by major authors writing in English such as Yeats, Woolf, Lawrence, Eliot, Hemingway, and Faulkner.

ENGL 105B 20th-Century Literature in English, 1945-Present

A continuation of ENGL 105A. A close examination of a representative selection of works by major authors writing in English such as Thomas, Bellow, Laurence, and Atwood.

ENGL 107 Issues in Canadian Literature

Canada's literature in English is marked not only by its variety of forms, but also by certain ongoing concerns: language, region, politics, genre. This course introduces a range of writing that illuminates some of these issues and the reading strategies they invite.

ENGL 108E Women in 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.

ENGL 108F The Rebel

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 realization or in tragic defeat.

ENGL 108H Isolation and Alienation

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.

ENGL 108M Youth and Adolescence

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.

ENGL 109 Introduction to Academic Writing

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.

ENGL 119 Communications in Mathematics & Computer Science

This course aims to build students' oral and written communication skills to prepare them for academic and workplace demands. Working independently and in collaboration with others, students will analyze and produce various written and spoken forms of communication. Projects and assignments will draw on materials for Mathematics and Computer Science students.

ENGL 129R Introduction to Written English

This writing skills course is open only to students whose first language is not English. It provides instruction in basic grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, elements of composition and essay writing including a focus on theme, development of central ideas, exposition and argumentation.

ENGL 140R The Use of English 1

The use and abuse of spoken and written English. The study and evaluation of language as it is used for various purposes (e.g., colloquial, scientific, legal, political, commercial, journalistic, literary) in order to increase critical awareness and to help students to write clearly and effectively.

ENGL 190 Shakespeare

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.

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ENGL 200A Survey of British Literature 1

An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century.

ENGL 200B Survey of British Literature 2

An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the late 18th century to the present.

ENGL 201 The Short Story

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.

ENGL 202A The Bible and Literature

A study of the major stories, themes and literary characteristics of the Old Testament of the King James Bible (also known as the Hebrew Scripture); and of its influence on other English literature.

ENGL 203 Designing Digital Images and Hypertext

This course draws on multiple theoretical perspectives to introduce students to the fundamental principles of multi-modal communication design in its social context. Students will analyze, design, and produce images and hypertext for use in a variety of digital platforms, including e-learning and business applications.

ENGL 204 Designing Digital Video

This course introduces students to the principles of designing time-based multi-modal communication in a social context. Students will analyse, design, and produce video for use in a variety of digital platforms, including e-learning and business applications.

ENGL 206 Autobiography

This course studies the ways the self is constructed through text by examining a variety of autobiographical approaches, organized from youth to old age, along with theories of identity, memory, gender, narrative, cultural studies, and autobiography as a genre.

ENGL 208A Forms of Fantasy

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.

ENGL 208B Science Fiction

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.

ENGL 208C Studies in Children's Literature

A critical examination of works of children's literature. Specific readings may range broadly, encompassing works as diverse as ancient folk tales and novels and poetry from the eighteenth century to the present day.

ENGL 208E Women Writing since 1900

This course explores work of women writers, their challenges to social and literary conventions, and their development of voice through major literary movements of the twentieth century and beyond.

ENGL 208H Arthurian Legend

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.

ENGL 208K Detective Fiction

A study of the "detective novel", the "novel of crime", the "thriller", the "novel of intrigue", and of "espionage" with texts drawn from various time periods and national literatures. The course includes the examination of critical approaches to the form of detective fiction.

ENGL 208L Race and English Literature

An introduction to representations of race in English writings, and the ways in which racial ideas are transmitted and resisted in literature, from the middle ages to the present. Topics may include the invention of the "race", Eurocentrism and imaginative geography, racial beauty myths, internalized racism, and issues of gender, sexuality, and colonialism. Possible writers include "Mandeville", Shakespeare, Behn, Wheatley, Hurston, Achebe, Kogawa, Mukherjee, Kureishi, and Highway.

ENGL 208M Travel Literature

The course examines the forms and functions of travel literature as a genre. Topics will include the representation of travel as adventure, discovery, pilgrimage, and escape; travel and tourism; travel and gender; travel and colonialism.

ENGL 208N Sex and Marriage in Literature

An examination of changing attitudes toward sex and marriage as those attitudes are expressed in literary works written in English during the various periods of literary production from the medieval period to the modern age.

ENGL 210E Genres of Technical Communication

This course explores writing, presentation, and design across various genres of technical communication, with a primary focus on printed and/or online computer documentation. Other assignments might include white papers, product specifications, help-desk communication, etc.

ENGL 210F Genres of Business Communication

This courses explores the genres of communication in business and other organizations. Students will study and produce instances from several of the following: reports (of several kinds), letters, email messages, marketing materials, public relations materials, and any other types of organizational communication.

ENGL 210H Arts Writing

A study of the various forms, processes, and modes of publication of professional writing in the arts. The course will consider both free-lance writing and writing within institutional contexts. Practice in research, writing, and editing will be emphasized.

ENGL 210I Legal Writing

A study of the principles, processes, and various forms of writing used in the practice of law and drafting of legislation. The history and structure of legal writing, including current debates about plain language, will be examined.

ENGL 211W Postcolomial Literatures (WLU)

ENGL 212 Convict Literature

This course examines the representation of the prison experience in literary works written by or about prisoners as well as the legal contexts of their imprisonment.

ENGL 214 Themes in Canadian Literature

The course will survey a theme which is significant to the understanding of the Canadian literary mind. Topics will vary from section to section.

ENGL 216 Canadian Multicultural Literature

A study of writing by Canadian authors from a range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Works are studied in the context of the social, political and cultural forces that produced Canadian literature in general and Canadian minority literatures in particular.

ENGL 217 Canadian Children's Literature

A study of 19th- and 20th-century Canadian literature for children.

ENGL 218 Mennonite Literature

A study of poetry and fiction by authors of Canadian Mennonite heritage, since 1962. The course will include a close examination of selected texts considered in the context of the various historical and cultural conditions that affected their production.

ENGL 220B Languages and Society II

This course examines the role that languages play in multilingual societies from a social and cultural perspective. It focuses on topics such as plurilingualism and multilingualism, language maintenance and loss, language planning and politics, multilingual and heritage language education.

ENGL 233C Survey of Dramatic Literature and Theory 5

The first part of the 20th century.

ENGL 233D Survey of Dramatic Literature and Theory 6

The second part of the 20th century.

ENGL 247 American Literature and Popular Culture

An introduction to American literary and cultural studies through the examination of selected movements, moments, topics, or figures, drawing on both literature and other media.

ENGL 251A Criticism 1

An introduction to strategies of reading, interpretation, and analysis of literary and non-literary texts, focusing on narrative, poetics, discourse, and rhetoric, and the acquisition of critical vocabulary.

ENGL 251B Criticism 2

An introduction to the theorizing of literary and non-literary texts. Emphasizing contemporary theories, the course will focus on the text, the reader, and culture.

ENGL 292 Contemporary Issues in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric

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.

ENGL 301H Honours Literary Studies

Through lectures, discussion, and presentations by visiting faculty, this course provides Honours students with an enriched survey of the discipline of literary studies. Topics of discussion will be drawn from bibliography and research methods, critical approaches to literature, literary history, genre studies, rhetoric, media perspectives, and other areas of scholarly interest.

ENGL 303 Special Topics in Digital Design

In this course students will learn advanced digital design theory. They will participate in workshops with professional designers, develop specialized digital materials and contribute signature work to their Digital Portfolio.

ENGL 304 Designing with Digital Sound

In this course, students will be introduced to sound analysis and production. Students will learn to record, edit, and implement sound in a variety of linear and non-linear media forms, with emphasis on film and video games.

ENGL 305A Old English 1

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.

ENGL 305B Old English 2

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.

ENGL 306A Introduction to Linguistics

Introduction to linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis through an examination of English phonology, forms, syntax, and discourse.

ENGL 306F Introduction to Semiotics

A study of systems of signs, codes, and signification in language, culture, and literature.

ENGL 306G Approaches to Style

Theories of style and approaches to the stylistic analysis of both literary and non-literary 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.

ENGL 309A Rhetoric: Principles and Practice 1

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.

ENGL 309B Rhetoric: Principles and Practice 2

A study of rhetorical theories and practices from late Antiquity, Medieval, Renaissance, and the Enlightenment periods, with an emphasis on how those theories and practices reflect changing attitudes towards language, society, and the self.

ENGL 309C Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

An examination of contemporary rhetorical theory and its relationships to criticism, interdisciplinary studies and computer applications.

ENGL 309G The Discourse of Dissent

A study of the social, historical, and rhetorical dimensions of collective action. Topics may include health and welfare movements, civil rights and anti-war protests, and environmentalism.

ENGL 310A Chaucer 1

An introduction to the poetry and the prose translations of Geoffrey Chaucer, including his dream allegories, "Troilus and Criseyde," and related compositions.

ENGL 310B Chaucer 2

A study of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales".

ENGL 310C Non-Chaucerian Middle English Literature

Non-Chaucerian English writings during the later Middle Ages; 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.

ENGL 313 Early Canadian Literatures

This course examines a selection of pre-1920 Canadian texts concerning first contact, imperialism, colonization, incipient nationhood, and early multi-racial immigration that participate in the ongoing invention of Canada.

ENGL 315 Modern Canadian Literature

This course focuses on the varied ways in which 20th-century writers of poetry and prose participate in the shaping of Canadian literary culture, with emphasis on the literature of the middle decades.

ENGL 316 Canadian Drama

This course explores traditions and experiments in Canadian drama through an analysis of Canadian plays, especially those from 1960 to the present, in their historical and theatrical contexts.

ENGL 318 Contemporary Canadian Literature

This course examines Canadian Literature written in the latter decades of the 20th century and into the 21st century. Literary works are studied in relation to relevant contemporary social, cultural and political topics, such as nationalism, aboriginality, multiculturalism and diaspora.

ENGL 320 History and Theory of Media 2

This course explores the social, political, and cultural contexts and consequences of contemporary technologies of representation such as print and visual media, photography and film, audio recordings, computer-mediated communications, and interactive digital media.

ENGL 322 Postcolonial Literature of the Americas

This course examines postcolonial literature in English from Canada, the U.S., and the Caribbean. Through study of both written and oral genres, we will discuss how language practices adapt to and are created in colonial and postcolonial contexts. Topics may include diaspora and migration, nationalism, gender, neo-colonialism, and multiculturalism.

ENGL 330A Sixteenth-Century Literature 1

A study of short poems by such writers as Wyatt, Gascoigne, Whitney, Ralegh, Spenser, the Sidneys, Shakespeare, and Donne.

ENGL 330B Sixteenth-Century Literature 2

A study of selected genres, topics, and works from Tudor literature.

ENGL 335 Creative Writing 1

Aimed at encouraging students to develop their creative and critical potentials, the course consists of supervised practice, tutorials, and seminar discussions.

ENGL 336 Creative Writing 2

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.

ENGL 342 American Literature to 1860

A study of developments in early American Literature. Texts may be drawn from Anglo-European movements such as gothicism and romanticism; captivity narratives and other colonial writings; Afro-American, Native American, and other minority traditions; sentimental and domestic fiction; and indigenous American forms such as the frontier romance, and other minority literatures.

ENGL 343 American Literature 1860-1910

A survey of literary developments in America from the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth-century, including significant movements of the period such as realism, regionalism, and naturalism; the New Woman's writing and other developments in women's literatures; popular forms such as the Western; and minority literatures.

ENGL 344 Modern American Literature

A study of American Literature from the early twentieth century through the second world war, emphasizing aesthetic innovation in the modernist movement, and its aftermath in the social writings of the 1930s.

ENGL 346 American Fiction

A study of four to five writers. Topics may include the evolution of narrative style, realism and anti-realism, literature and story, fiction and history, the novel and film, gender and ethnicity.

ENGL 347 American Literature Since 1945

A study of the movements of American Literature following the second world war. The course will consider the formal and cultural diversity of writing in this period, with attention to topics such as avant-garde experiment, the persistence of realism, counter-cultural politics, feminism and literature, postmodernism, and the emergence of minority writers in the mainstream.

ENGL 348 American Poetry Since 1850

A study of poems, poets, ideas, and movements, contributing to the growth of a distinctive American poetry from Whitman and Dickinson to the twenty-first century. Texts will be drawn from popular and avant-garde contexts, as well as the literary mainstream.

ENGL 350A Seventeenth-Century Literature 1

A study of literature by such writers as Jonson, Donne, Wroth, Herbert, Bacon, Milton, Behn, and Dryden.

ENGL 350B Seventeenth-Century Literature 2

An intensive study of Milton's epic, Paradise Lost, in its historical and literary contexts.

ENGL 362 Shakespeare 1

A study of the plays written before 1599-1600, excluding Julius Caesar.

ENGL 363 Shakespeare 2

A study of the plays written after 1599-1600, including Julius Caesar.

ENGL 364 Shakespeare in Performance at The Stratford Festival

An historical, theoretical, and analytical introduction to Shakespeare's plays in performance, both on stage and screen, this course focuses on specific problems and decisive issues of past productions and of those in the current Stratford Festival season.

ENGL 365 Selected Studies

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.

ENGL 366 Selected Studies

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.

ENGL 371 Editing Literary Works

Investigating scholarly, educational, popular, and electronic editions, this course explores the theory and practice of editing literary texts.

ENGL 376R Applied English Grammar 1

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.

ENGL 377R Applied English Grammar 2

A continuation of ENGL 376R. Practical applications of language theories to error analysis and correction.

ENGL 392A Information Design

The theory and practice of design for print and digital media, including the study of design concepts such as space, colour, typography, interactivity, immersion, motion, and presence. Students produce designs using professional software tools.

ENGL 392B Visual Rhetoric

This course introduces students to the study of images from a rhetorical perspective, including 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.

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ENGL 408A Writing for the Media

This course examines the genres and strategies of both journalism and public relations. With a strong orientation towards rhetorical and linguistic theories, this course will cover audience concerns from both within and outside organizations.

ENGL 408B The Discourse of Advertising

This course introduces students to writing and editing advertising copy. Students will also be introduced to models of discourse and rhetorical analysis of advertising texts. Assignments include creating a portfolio of advertising copy and an extensive analysis of sample advertising discourse.

ENGL 408C The Rhetoric of Digital Design: Theory and Practice

Students apply a variety of analytic perspectives - design discourse, multimodal discourse, rhetorical theory, social semiotics - to the design and production of a major digital project (or compilation of projects) using professional software and hardware tools.

ENGL 409A Rhetoric of Argumentation

This course studies the discursive, social, and rhetorical principles of argumentation, including topics such as evidence, reasoning, and the organization and presentation of arguments. Scholars studied may include Richard Whatley, Jurgen Habermas, Stephen Toulmin, Chaim Perelman, Lucie Olbrecht-Tyteca, Kenneth Burke, and Pierre Bourdieu.

ENGL 410B Eighteenth-Century Literature 1

A selection of early and mid eighteenth-century literature by such writers as Finch, Pope, Swift, Congreve, Manley, Montagu, Addison, and Steele. Topics may include satire, neo-classicism vs. literary modernism, the development of women's publication, and generic experimentation.

ENGL 410D Eighteenth-Century Fiction

A selection of eighteenth-century fiction by such writers as Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Austen. Topics may include the novel as an experimental form, romance and amatory fiction, the rise of the woman novelist, and the interlinking of aesthetics with issues of gender, class, and colonialism.

ENGL 430A Literature of the Romantic Period 1

An examination of the first generation of Romantic writers, including such authors as Barbauld, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.

ENGL 430B Literature of the Romantic Period 2

An examination of the second generation of Romantic writers, including such authors as Byron, P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats, and Hemans.

ENGL 451A Literature of the Victorian Age 1

An historical and critical study of major poets (Browning, Tennyson, Arnold) and of the literary criticism of the period.

ENGL 451B Literature of the Victorian Age 2

An historical and critical study of major novelists (Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot) and major essayists (Newman, Ruskin, Mill, Huxley).

ENGL 460A British Literature, 1885-1918

A study of works by such writers as Conrad, Egerton, Field, Forster, Shaw, Wilde, and Yeats.

ENGL 460B British Literature, 1918-1945

A study of works by such writers as Compton-Burnett, Eliot, Isherwood, Joyce, Lawrence, Smith, and Woolf.

ENGL 460C British Literature, 1945 to the Present

A study of works by such writers as Beckett, Byatt, Carter, Heaney, Hollinghurst, Murdoch, Pinter, Rushdie, Welsh, and Winterson.

ENGL 463 Postcolonial Literatures

This course examines postcolonial literature (fiction, poetry, and drama) from Africa, Australia, Britain, India, New Zealand, and Pakistan. Topics may include the range of creative forms and language use in texts; indigeneity and migration; intersections of gender, sexuality and race; and resistance, nationalism, and history.

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