2. 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, and seminar courses with an emphasis on research.
The goal of the three-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.
A. General Academic Requirements
27-33 credits required, to include:
- 6 credits of junior-level ENG (Recommended: ENG 111 (Literature and Composition I) and ENG 112 (Literature and Composition II))
- One of
- 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 331 (Liberty and License: The Later English Renaissance),
- ENG 338,
- ENG 339,
- ENG 350, or
- ENG 354
- 6 credits of
- ENG 320 (Virtue and Valour: Literature of the Late Middle Ages),
- ENG 324,
- 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 351 (Jane Austen and Adaptation),
- ENG 356 (Nineteenth-Century English Novel),
- 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)
- One of
- ENG 401–425 series,
- ENG 491 (Literary Criticism I),
- ENG 492 (Literary Criticism II), or
- WRI 401 (Magazine Editing and Production)
- 9-15 credits of unspecified senior-level ENG or WRI courses
In addition to the above, students must complete:
- 3 credits in courses offered by the departments of Fine Arts, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Classics, or Literature and Languages except English or Writing.
- 6 credits in any courses offered by the departments of Social Science and/or Psychology.
- 6 credits of courses in the Faculty of Science.
In addition to the above, students must present:
Permissible minors: All minors listed in section 10.6, except English.