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Stollman, Samuel S.; Rabbi (Yeshiva), B.Sc. (Columbia), M.A., Ph.D. (Wayne State)—1966.
Smedick, Lois Katherine; B.A. (Wilson), M.S.L. (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto), Ph.D. (Bryn Mawr)—1963. (Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research)
Ditsky, John M.; Ph.B., M.A. (Detroit), Ph.D. (New York)—1967.
MacLeod, Alistair; B.A., B.Ed. (St. F. X.), M.A. (New Brunswick), Ph.D. (Notre Dame), LL.D. (St. F.X.)—1969.
Janzen, Henry David; B.A. (Assumption), M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Wayne State)—1970.
MacKendrick, Louis King; B.A., M.A. (Western Ontario), Phil.M., Ph.D. (Toronto)—1971.
Dilworth, Thomas R.; B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto)—1977.
Herendeen, Wyman H.; B.A., M.A. (Brown), Ph.D. (Toronto)—1984. (Head of the Department)
Hornsey, Richard F.; B.A. (Assumption), M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Alberta)—1969.
Harder, Bernhard D.; B.A., M.A. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (North Carolina)—1970.
Atkinson, Colin B.; B.Eng. (McGill), B.A. (Sir George Williams), M.A. (Columbia), Ph.D. (New York)—1971.
Quinsey, Katherine M.; B.A. (Trent), Ph.D. (London)—1989.
Straus, Barrie Ruth; B.A. (Oregon), M.A., Ph.D. (Iowa)—1990.
Bebout, Linda J.; B.A. (Central), M.Sc. (San Francisco State), Ph.D. (Cornell)—1977.
Matheson, C. Suzanne; B.A. (McGill), M.A. (Toronto), D. Phil. (Oxford)—1991.
Campbell, Wanda R.; B.A. (New Brunswick), M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Western Ontario)—1991.
Bucknell, Bradley W. H.; B.A., M.A. (Alberta), Ph.D. (Toronto)—1993.
Ducharme, Edward W.; B.A., M.A. (Windsor), Ph.D. (Michigan), LL.B. (Windsor)—1969.
Cassano, Colleen G.; B.A., M.A. (Windsor)—1985.
The Department usually includes a writer in residence. Writers in residence have included Morley Callaghan, Tom Wayman, W.O. Mitchell, Adele Wiseman, Peter Robinson, Judith Fitzgerald and Daniel David Moses (1994-5).
1) For admission to courses numbered 200 or above, English majors are required to have taken two of the following first-year English courses: 26-110, 26-111, and 26-120. For majors pursuing an honours program in English, all three of 26-110, 26-111, and 26-120 must be completed by the end of the second year. Students minoring in English require two 100-level English courses, one of which must be a literature course, to proceed to upper-level courses in English. Non-majors wishing to enter an upper-level English course require two 100-level courses, one of which must be a literature course, or consent of the instructor.
2) No more than four 100-level English courses may be credited towards a degree in English.
Courses in the 100-Series are designed as introductory courses for first-year students. They are divided under the following headings: Writing Courses (26-100 through 26-105, and 26-120), Core Literature Courses (26-110 and 26-111), and Other Courses in Language and Literature (26-122 through 26-140.) Because of extensive reading or writing assignments, students are advised to take one, or at the most two 100-Series courses in a term. Credit will not be granted for more than four 100-level courses in any degree in English.
Category Courses are numbered in the 200s and 300s. The middle digit of the course number indicates the category to which it belongs (eg. 26-234 belongs to Category 3). Category Courses are more advanced than courses in the 100-Series, and the 300-level Category courses tend to be more demanding than 200-level courses. 400-level courses take the form of Honours Seminars and Studies Courses, and are described below (see "Honours Courses"). Detailed descriptions of Studies Courses are available in the Department's publication, Graduate Studies in English; detailed descriptions of Honours Seminars are available annually from the Department office.
There are ten categories, which provide a guide to the Department's course structure by designating period, national literature and approach to the study of literature, language and writing.
Category 0—Special Topics: 26-203, 26-204, 26-205, 26-206, 26-301, 26-303, 26-308, 26-309.
Category 1—Old English and Medieval Literature: 26-214, 26-311, 26-312, 26-314.
Category 2—Renaissance Literature:<|> 26-223, 26-224, 26-322, 26-326, 26-327, 26-328.
Category 3—Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature: 26-233, 26-234, 26-235, 26-338.
Category 4—Nineteenth-Century Literature: 26-243, 26-244, 26-246, 26-247, 26-348.
Category 5—Twentieth-Century Literature: 26-251, 26-252, 26-254, 26-354, 26-355.
Category 6—Canadian Literature: 26-263, 26-264, 26-266, 26-267, 26-361.
Category 7—American Literature: 26-274, 26-275, 26-276, 26-278, 26-279, 26-371.
Category 8—Critical Theory and Practice: 26-283, 26-284, 26-285, 26-286, 26-387.
Category 9—Language and Linguistics: 26-291, 26-292, 26-293, 26-298, 26-395, 26-396.
Students in all degree programs in English are required to choose courses from a variety of Categories to ensure that they study a wide range of literary periods and critical approaches to language and literature. The number and spread of the Categories specified by these programs allow students great freedom and flexibility. To make the most of this freedom and to avoid unwise choices, students should consult departmental advisors before beginning any program of courses.
In addition to the other requirements outlined for their programs, honours students must take two courses at the 400 level. 400-level courses consist of Honours Seminars (26-411 to 26-424) and of Studies Courses (26-426 to 26-499).
Studies Courses and Honours Seminars are designed for students in the final stages of an honours program. They may have fewer scheduled meetings than other undergraduate courses, with more opportunity for independent study. They require both individual research and class participation.
The Honours Seminar is an advanced undergraduate course designed primarily for fourth-year English students. The seminars have specialized subjects requiring developed literary methodology and research techniques. Enrolment is limited to twenty-five students. Subjects vary from term to term; details of the year's offerings are available annually from the Department office. Two Honours Seminars are offered each term; the Department expects to be able to cover all the Categories over a three-year period.
The Studies course requires the student to complete successfully, working at the appropriate honours level, one of the seminars described in the Department's publication, Graduate Studies in English. A limited number of places may be available in each graduate seminar for honours students.
For all 400-level courses, the appropriate 200- or 300-level prerequisite(s) must be satisfied.
In exceptional circumstances, a Directed Reading (26-401 to 26-410) may replace one of the above courses. Students must submit a written request to the instructor and the Department Head before any formal approval can be granted.
Students intending to proceed to the M.A. should discuss their plans with the departmental advisors. The Department publishes a booklet, Graduate Studies in English, which contains more information about graduate programs and requirements.
The Department of English offers a full spectrum of courses and programs in Creative Writing. All of the courses emphasize workshop participation and individual writing conferences. Altogether, the individual courses constitute a complete program, beginning with 26-104 and/or 26-105, and continuing with 26-203, 26-303, 26-498 and 26-499. Since 26-203, 26-303, 26-498 and 26-499 are all two-term courses, the program provides for continuous involvement from the first year through the fourth year, leading to an Honours B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing. Students who go on to graduate study can continue in the M.A. program in English and Creative Writing, which focuses on a seminar at the 500-level.
Creative Writing courses are open to English majors and non-majors alike, and to part-time students. They are not available on an Audit basis. Students may enter the program at any point consistent with the development of their talent and experience, or they may elect any of the Creative Writing courses independently. Admission to all courses (with the exception of 26-104) requires departmental approval based on the submission of a sample of the student's creative work.
The deadline for submissions for all Creative Writing courses is one month before the date of the first scheduled class.
Required: a minimum of six English courses, including two from the 100-Series, one of which must be a literature course; plus two courses from Categories 1 through 4; and two courses from Categories 5 through 10.
Requirements for Majors in English
Students intending to major in English are encouraged to take in first year at least two of 26-110, 26-111 and 26-120. In order to proceed to courses at the 200 level, students must have completed two of the above courses, and all three must be completed by the end of the second year of an honours degree program in English. (Modifications may be made in the case of General English and Honours English and Creative Writing; see below.) Prospective majors who want to develop their writing and analytic skills are advised to take 26-120, Writing about Literature, before proceeding to 26-110 or 26-111.
Total courses: thirty.
Major requirements: ten courses, including two of 26-110, 26-111, and 26-120, and at least one from each of six different Categories.
Other requirements:
(a) six options as in 3.3.2 for non-language majors;
(b) eight other courses from the Faculties of Arts, Social Science or Science, excluding English;
(c) six more courses from any department, school or faculty, including English.
Total courses: forty.
Major requirements: twenty courses, including 26-110, 26-111, and 26-120 (to be completed by the end of the second year); plus six courses distributed as evenly as possible among Categories 1 through 4; plus six courses distributed among the other six Categories; plus two 400-level courses; and three additional English courses.
Recommended: 26-309 (Scholarship and Bibliography).
Other requirements:
(a) six options as in 3.3.3 for non-language majors;
(b) four other courses from the Faculties of Arts, Social Science or Science, including English;
(c) four more courses from the Faculties of Arts, Social Science or Science, excluding English;
(d) six other courses from any department, school or faculty, excluding English.
Total courses: forty.
Major requirements: twenty courses, including 26-110, 26-111, and 26-120 (to be completed by the end of the second year); plus 26-203 (two-term course) Workshop in Creative Writing; plus 26-303 (two-term course) Creative Writing; plus six courses distributed as evenly as possible among Categories 1 through 4; plus five courses distributed among the other categories; and 26-498 (two-term course) Studies in Creative Writing.
With the permission of the Department, students may substitute 26-105 for 26-120.
Only one two-term Creative Writing course may be taken in a single year. In exceptional circumstances advanced standing may be granted (see 2.5.4). Students majoring in Creative Writing should seek academic advising from a member of the Creative Writing faculty.
Other requirements:
(a)six options as in 3.3.3 for non-language majors;
(b)four other courses from the Faculties of Arts, Social Science or Science, including English;
(c)four more courses from the Faculties of Arts, Social Science or Science, excluding English;
(d)six other courses from any department, school or faculty, excluding English.
Total courses: forty.
Major Requirements—English: seventeen courses, including 26-110, 26-111, and 26-120 (to be taken by the end of the second year); plus six courses distributed as evenly as possible among Categories 1 through 4; plus five courses distributed among the other Categories; plus two 400-level courses; and one additional English course.
Recommended: 26-309 (Scholarship and Bibliography).
Major requirements—Other Subject: as prescribed by that department or school.
Other requirements: six options as in 3.3.3 for non-language majors; plus additional options (if required) to a total of forty.
All courses listed will not necessarily be offered each year. All courses listed are three hours a week (3.00 credit hours) unless otherwise indicated.
Students intending to take advanced courses in English are reminded of the Department Regulations (see 3.6.2).
Enrolment in these courses is limited, and they are not available on an Audit basis. Only one of 26-100, 26-101, and 26-103 may be taken for credit.
Fundamentals of effective expository writing, including types of exposition, planning, logical development, organization, format and style. Through practice in writing, the course allows students to improve their expression so that they can write more correctly, clearly, and forcefully at the university level. Because of the large number of written assignments to be corrected and the need for individual instruction, enrolment in 26-100 is limited. (For regulations, see above under "Writing Courses.")
Fundamentals of effective expository writing, with basic instruction in the use of the microcomputer for word-processing. Because essays for this course are written with the aid of computers, students should have some proficiency in typing. In other respects this course is equivalent to 26-100 (see above).
Instruction in writing English in the style and form appropriate for Canadian university-level courses, with special emphasis on the grammatical problems of students whose first language is not English. (For regulations, see above under "Writing Courses.")
An introduction to the creative process, exploring ways creative writers transform raw material into text, trends in creative writing, and statements of artistic motivation. Students will consider technique, inspiration, influence, revision, and process through lecture discussion, reading, writing and workshop participation. (This is not a course in Expository Writing.)
Creative writers will explore the various genres and forms available to them through traditional and contemporary examples. Students will be asked to write in several forms (e.g., sonnet, scene, story). An introduction to the Honours B.A. in English and Creative Writing, this course may combine lecture, workshop participation, and interdisciplinary presentations. Portfolio approval is required for admission. (This is not a course in Expository Writing.)
These courses are designed to prepare prospective majors in English for advanced courses in literature.
Provides the student with an historical overview and critical study of selected works of English literature from its beginnings, through the medieval and Renaissance periods, to the early eighteenth century. A combination of historical knowledge and contemporary critical perspectives will provide necessary tools for the study of English literature in upper-level courses.
Provides the student with an historical overview and critical study of selected works of English literature from the Romantic period, through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the present day. Selections may include non-British literature in English. A combination of historical knowledge and contemporary critical perspectives will provide necessary tools for the study of English literature in upper-level courses.
Provides the student with the basic tools for analysing and writing about works of literature. Students will be trained in practical criticism of the major genres of literature (poetry, drama, and narrative) and will be expected to write a number of critical essays. (Not available on an Audit basis.) (Limited enrolment.)
An introduction to drama, presented from a theatrical as well as a literary point of view and based on analyses of selected tragedies and other related plays, from Greek and Roman times to the present.
An introduction to drama, presented from a theatrical as well as a literary point of view and based on analyses of selected comedies or other plays in which the comic vision is represented, from Greek and Roman times to the present.
An introduction to topics related to the study of language, such as the relationship of language to the society which uses it, how language varies from one region to another, the historical background of English, the language of English prose and poetry, how children learn language and how researchers study language. (This course is recommended for advanced study in language and linguistics.)
An exploration of the ways in which the nature and roles of women have been constructed in literature of various periods and types. Includes works (by both men and women) which reflect the actuality of women's lives as well as those which represent women as symbolic types.
Course topic varies from one section to another; students should consult the Department for details of offerings in a given year. Topics may include The Canadian Heritage, The American Heritage, Canadian Aboriginal Literature and Culture, the Bible as literature, Literature and Social Issues, and The Myth of Icarus.
Intensive workshop practice in selected genres. Successful completion of 26-104 or 26-105 or evidence of some previous formal creative writing experience (e.g., the equivalent of 26-104 or 26-105 elsewhere, community workshop, summer workshop) will ordinarily be expected. Permission to register will depend on staff evaluation of submitted writing. (Not available on an Audit basis.) (2 lecture hours a week; individual writing conferences at irregular intervals may be required.) (A 6.00 credit hour course.)
Survey of literature by international Aboriginal authors, from countries such as Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Authors who might be studied include Thomas King, Leslie Marmon Silko, Keri Hulme, and Mudrooroo Narogin.
Literature written for and read by children, including a survey of the historical and literary development of this genre. Students will analyse and assess both acknowledged classics of children's literature and contemporary works. Particular topics may include myth, archetypes, symbols, folk materials, fantasy, fable, and the relation of children's literature to that written for adults.
A comparative study of works of English and other literatures, chosen for their formal, thematic, or historical interrelationships. All texts will be read in English. Topics may vary from year to year but will be announced in advance. (May be taken more than once for credit if the topics are different.)
An introduction to representative literature of the medieval genres of dream vision and romance. The course will focus on fourteenth-century Middle English poetry such as Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Gower's Confessio Amantis. Works will be read in normalized Middle English. The selections for close study may vary, and some attention may be given to continental works in the same genres.
Study of the culture and major literary achievements of the English Renaissance up to the death of Elizabeth I. Among the writers to be studied are Thomas More, Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser.
Study of the culture and literature of the later Renaissance, from the death of Elizabeth I through the Restoration. Among writers to be studied are John Donne and the Metaphysical Poets, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson and John Milton.
Representative works in poetry, prose, and drama to be studied in the context of the radically shifting framework of political, social, and intellectual life in the period. Authors include Dryden, Swift, Wycherley, Pope, and early women writers such as Astell and Behn.
Representative works of the period encompassing the transition from the Restoration world-view to the Romantic. Focuses on the poetry of Pope, Thomson, Collins, Gray and others; novels by Sterne and Smollett; and a variety of prose forms by Samuel Johnson, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others.
A study of English plays and theatre 1660-1800, through a variety of modes and playwrights. Writers to be studied include, among others, Wycherley, Etherege, Behn, Dryden, Congreve, Steele, Lillo, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.
Origins of Romanticism in eighteenth-century England and in the period following the turn of the century. Both poetry and prose will be considered, with the main emphasis on writers such as Walpole, Radcliffe, Burns, Blake, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, and Coleridge.
Romanticism as a vital and continuing force throughout early nineteenth-century England. Both poetry and prose will be considered, with the main emphasis on writers such as Scott, Lamb, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
Responses to industrialism, urbanization, social reform, and late Romantic ideas, in such writers as Dickens, Tennyson, Carlyle, and Browning.
Responses to changing attitudes and values in art and society from mid-century to the death of Victoria, as seen in such writers as Arnold, Pater, Hardy, and Wilde.
Writing from the beginning of the Edwardian Period to the end of the 1940's. Writers may include such figures as Pound, Lewis, Woolf, Conrad, Owen, Lawrence, H.D. Auden, Isherwood, and Eliot.
Major figures and literary trends from the end of the 1940s to the present. Writers may include such figures as Orwell, Lessing, Larkin, Greene, Spark, Adcock, Drabble, Winterson, Harrison, Rushdie,and Thomas.
Drama from the realism and naturalism at the end of the nineteenth century through to the appearance of non-realistic forms, such as expressionism and absurdism, which mark the later twentieth century. Includes such writers as Ibsen, Chekov, Strindberg, Shaw, Beckett, Ionesco, and Pinter. All works will be read in English.
The narrative and lyric traditions in early Canadian poetry, from the beginnings through the Confederation group, including such writers as Crawford, Roberts, and Lampman.
The development of Canadian fiction from the beginnings up to the early modern period. Includes such writers as Haliburton, Richardson, Duncan, and Leacock.
Canadian poetry from the beginnings of modernism to the present, including such poets as Birney, Layton, Purdy, Atwood, and Ondaatje.
Aspects of the Canadian novel and short story after World War I, including such writers as Ross, Richler, Laurence, Munro, and Findley.
The beginnings of an American literary identity, from the earliest Colonial writings through the period of the Revolutionary War and into the first century of the new nation's existence. Religious, philosophical, political, and historical writings of the era will be considered in terms of how they contributed to the emergence of a distinctly American literature. Includes such writers as Franklin, Jefferson, Irving, Poe, and Cooper.
The first great period of American literary expression, and its philosophical movement, transcendentalism. The course will study the ways in which the new culture attempted to come to terms with the critical problems of the mid-nineteenth century, including slavery and the Civil War. Includes such writers as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and Whitman.
Innovations in literary style and subject matter during the period between the Civil War and World War I. Local-colour writing and a more critical perspective on the American experience will be considered. Includes such writers as Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry and William James, Crane, Adams, Dreiser, Howells, and Norris.
American writing in the period between the World Wars, including both the expatriates writing in Europe and the critics of domestic American society. The new styles in poetry, drama, and fiction will be considered in the context of contemporary events. Includes such writers as Frost, Fitzgerald, Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Pound, Steinbeck, Eliot, Cummings, and W.C. Williams.
Post-modern and postwar developments in American literary expression against the backdrop of contemporary moral, political, and artistic upheavals. The course will consider the literary responses to the testing of American values by the often chaotic circumstances of the second half of the twentieth century. Includes such writers as Mailer, Miller, Tennessee Williams, Bellow, Updike, Oates, Lowell, Plath, O'Connor, and Ammons.
Interrogation of such fundamental issues in the study of literature as: what is literature? what is a text? what are the roles of readers? of authors? to what uses is literature put? Emphasis is on the understanding of critical concepts and on seeing how such issues affect our reading of specific texts.
Interrogation of selected forms of criticism and their theoretical assumptions. Focus will vary, but may include one or more of such schools of thought as the Frankfurt school, the Chicago school, phenomenology, structuralism, rhetoric, literary history, reader-response, psychoanalysis, deconstruction(s), feminisms, Marxism, new historicism, gender studies, materialist criticisms, ethnic, and postcolonialism.
Major works, movements, and ideas in literary criticism from Plato and Aristotle through Dryden and Addison, Johnson and Young to Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Major works, movements, and ideas in literary criticism from Arnold and Pater through Santayana, Eliot and Richards to Ransom, Tate, and Brooks.
The origins of English and its various forms through the Early Modern English period (i.e., through Shakespeare's time).
How languages differ and change in time and space: dialects, stylistic differences, mechanisms of language change and variation.
An introduction to the field of linguistics (the study of languages as systems) with particular emphasis on the English language.
A practical and theoretical introduction for English speakers to the characteristics of the English language from the viewpoint of TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language).
An advanced exploration of how the concept of woman is constructed by women and men both in the writing and the reading of texts from a variety of periods. Some consideration of cultural contexts and notions of sexuality will be included as relevant.
The development of original writing in various forms. (2 lecture hours a week; individual writing conferences at irregular intervals may be required. Intensive workshop practice may be undertaken.) (Permission of the department is required.) (A 6.00 credit hour course.) (Not available on an Audit basis.)
A study of the nature and forms of fiction, of drama, or of poetry. Topics may vary from year to year but will be announced in advance. (May be taken more than once for credit if the topics are different.)
An introduction to methods of literary research and resources of textual and critical scholarship, including practice in literary research techniques and the correct presentation of the results of research. May include the study of editing procedures and bibliographic description, and the examination of historical and theoretical implications of textual production.
Beowulf and other literature of the period, read in modern English, with some consideration of the language and history of the Anglo-Saxon period.
An introduction to the major works of Chaucer, including The Canterbury Tales, and one or more of the dream visions: The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls. The works will be read in normalized Middle English.
Selected readings from poetry, drama, or prose of the Middle Ages. The emphasis may vary to stress such topics as gender, the representation of women or other "others," courtly love, particular genres, such as alliterative poetry, or particular modes, such as allegory, or particular authors, such as Malory.
Selected readings on literary topics such as the epic, love poetry, the pastoral, and prose fiction, or on themes in the intellectual and cultural history of the Renaissance, such as Platonism and humanism.
The course will explore Shakespeare's experiments in comedy, tragedy, and the history play during the maturest period of Elizabethan drama, and will study plays illustrating his most distinctive dramatic styles. Between nine and twelve plays will be studied, including The Comedy of Errors or A Midsummer Night's Dream, I Henry IV, As You Like It or Twelfth Night, and Hamlet.
The course will examine major examples of Shakespeare's contribution to the forms and styles of Jacobean drama, including tragicomedy, tragedy, and romance. Between nine and twelve plays will be studied, including Troilus and Creosote or All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Othello or Macbeth, and The Tempest.
The rise and development of drama from the Tudor interlude to the closing of the theatres, with particular emphasis on major non-Shakespearean playwrights, such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, and Ford.
The development of the novel from the late seventeenth century to the nineteenth, including works by Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Radcliffe, Burney, and Austen.
Development of the novel in the Romantic and Victorian periods, including works by such writers as Jane Austen, Scott, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Meredith, and Hardy.
Deals with the theory, history, and literature of nations emerging from English colonial domination. Areas covered may include the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and North America. Writers might include Rushdie, Emecheta, Brathwaite, Gordimer, Walcott, and Achebe, among many others.
The Irish experience, together with the Irish voice in British literature, including such figures as Yeats, Shaw, Joyce, O'Casey, O'Connor, O'Faolain, Behan, and Synge.
Selected topics in Canadian literature, with changing emphasis on particular themes, genres, or authors. (May be repeated for credit if the topics are different.)
A course the topic of which will ordinarily change from one term to another, but always providing a different emphasis on particular themes, genres, or authors. Interested students should consult the English Department for a description of the currently-offered version of the course. Recent versions of this course have included American war novels and major twentieth-century short novels. (May be repeated for credit if the topics are different.)
Selected major works, movements and countermovements in contemporary critical theory, such as structuralism, hermeneutics, reception theory, Marxism, myth, deconstruction, psychoanalytic criticism, feminisms, and post-colonialism.
This course will focus in different terms on areas such as language and society, theory of composition, semantics and pragmatics, or language and cultural identity. (May be repeated for credit if the topics are different.) (Prerequisite: 26-124, or a Category 9 course, or permission of instructor, depending upon the current focus of the course.)
A survey of theories and research on the cognitive processes concerning language production, comprehension, and acquisition. (Cross-listed in the Psychology Department as 46-344.) (Prerequisites: 46-115 and 46-116, or 26-124, or any Category 9 course.)
HONOURS COURSES
Honours Seminars are numbered in the range from 26-411 through 26-424; Studies courses are numbered in the range from 26-426 through 26-499.
Particular topics and detailed descriptions for Honours Seminars to be taught in the following Fall and Winter terms are available early in the preceding spring of each year from the Department. Four Honours Seminars are offered per year (two each term). The Department expects to be able to cover all of the Categories over a three-year period. Honours Seminars are numbered as follows:
26-411.Honours Seminar in Medieval Literature
26-412.Honours Seminar in Renaissance Literature
26-413.Honours Seminar in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
26-414.Honours Seminar in Romantic Literature
26-415.Honours Seminar in Twentieth-Century British Literature
26-416.Honours Seminar in Canadian Literature
26-417.Honours Seminar in American Literature
26-418.Honours Seminar in Critical Theory and Practice
26-419.Honours Seminar in Language and Linguistics
26-420.Special Topics Seminar
26-424.Honours Seminar in Literature of the Victorian Period
Students are urged to read carefully the course descriptions of available Honours Seminars and to consult a departmental advisor before making a selection.
Particular topics and detailed descriptions for Studies courses which will be taught in the following Fall and Winter terms are available early in the preceding spring of each year in the departmental publication, Graduate Studies in English. As in the case of Honours Seminars, students are urged to read the booklet carefully and to consult a departmental advisor before making their Studies course selections.