1. English
The study of literature enables learners to better understand how literary works uniquely reflect and shape our world. The purpose of literary study is to appreciate how literary texts impact the world, to better understand the relationship between the past and present, to appreciate cultural contexts, and to explore complex questions. This program guides students through junior and senior level courses, lecture-focused classes, seminar courses, and capstones with the option of pursing a research emphasis that may include an independent study. The goal of the four-year program in English is to prepare students to apply various methodologies and theories to the practice of reading literary texts, develop critical reading and writing skills, to compose original scholarship, engage ethically in academic conversations, and to participate in collaborative learning.
These skills equip students to pursue after- degree programs in education as well as careers in administration, library studies, journalism, writing, editing, copywriting, marketing, media, communications, and law. Students who undertake this degree will also have a greater opportunity to pursue further education in graduate studies or professional programs.
A. General Academic Requirements
- 42–60 credits required, to include:
- 6 credits of junior-level ENG (Recommended: ENG 111 (Literature and Composition I) and ENG 112 (Literature and Composition II))
- 6 credits chosen from
- ENG 220 (Competing Stories: Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales),
- ENG 230 (Introduction to Shakespeare ),
- ENG 240 (Transformation and Trauma: Eighteenth-Century British Literature),
- ENG 250 (Creators, Wanderers, Rebels: British Literature of the Romantic Period),
- ENG 255 (Victorian Poetry),
- ENG 260 (Mapping the Nation: Modern British and Irish Literature),
- ENG 270 (Myths & Traditions: Early American Literature),
- ENG 280 (Imagining the Wilderness: Early Canadian Literature),
- ENG 291 (International English Literature I),
- ENG 323,
- ENG 324,
- ENG 330 (Desire, Death and Rebirth: The Early English Renaissance),
- ENG 331 (Liberty and License: The Later English Renaissance),
- ENG 338, or
- ENG 339
- 6 credits chosen from
- ENG 320 (Virtue and Valour: Literature of the Late Middle Ages),
- ENG 330 (Desire, Death and Rebirth: The Early English Renaissance),
- ENG 331 (Liberty and License: The Later English Renaissance),
- ENG 335 (Soul of His Age: Shakespeare in Context),
- ENG 340,
- ENG 344,
- ENG 349 (The Eighteenth-Century British Gothic Novel),
- ENG 350,
- ENG 351 (Jane Austen and Adaptation),
- ENG 354, or
- ENG 356 (Nineteenth-Century English Novel)
- 6 credits chosen from
- ENG 365,
- ENG 366,
- ENG 367,
- ENG 381,
- ENG 382,
- ENG 383,
- ENG 384,
- ENG 388 (Contemporary Indigenous Literature),
- ENG 392,
- ENG 393,
- ENG 394,
- ENG 395,
- ENG 360 (The Empire Writes Back: Contemporary British and Irish Literature),
- ENG 370 (Politics & Aesthetics: Modern American Literature),
- ENG 371 (Cowboys, Drifters, & Runaways: Contemporary American Literature),
- ENG 380 (National Avatars: Contemporary Canadian Literature),
- ENG 388 (Contemporary Indigenous Literature), or
- ENG 391 (International Literature II)
e. One of
f. 6 credits chosen from
g. 9-27 credits of unspecified senior level ENG or WRI courses
- In addition to the above, students must complete:
- h. 6 credits of courses offered by the Departments of Fine Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Classics, Literature and Languages other than ENG or WRI.
- i. 6 credits of courses in the Faculty of Science.
- j. 6 credits of courses offered by the Departments of Social Sciences and/or Psychology.
- In addition to the above, students must present:
- k. AIT 100 (Undergraduate Academic Integrity Training)
- Permissible minors:
- All minors listed in section 10.6 other than English.