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ENG100H1
Effective Writing 39L
A course designed to improve competence in writing expository and persuasive prose for academic and other purposes. It
aims to teach the principles of clear, well-reasoned prose, and their practical applications; the processes of composition
(drafting, revising, final editing); the conventions of various prose forms and different university disciplines. The course does
not meet the needs of students primarily seeking to develop English language proficiency. This course may not count toward
any English program.
ENG110Y1
Narrative 78L
This course explores the stories that are all around us and that shape our world: traditional literary narratives such as ballads,
romances, and novels, and also non-literary forms of narrative, such as journalism, movies, myths, jokes, legal judgements,
travel writing, histories, songs, diaries, biographies.
ENG120Y1
Forms of Literary Expression 78L
An exploration of how major forms of drama, poetry, and fiction have shaped the writer's expression and the reader's response
through different eras. At least nine works, from such genres as comedy, tragedy, pastoral, elegy, satire, detective story,
autobiography.
ENG140Y1
Literature for our Time 78L
An exploration of how the literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries responds to our world through major forms of
poetry, prose, and drama in texts drawn from a variety of national literatures. At least nine authors, such as Eliot, Frost,
Heaney, Page, Plath, Rich, Wayman, Walcott, Yeats, Faulkner, Gordimer, Joyce, Morrison, Munro, Naipaul, Rushdie, Woolf,
Beckett, Highway, O'Neill, Shaw, Soyinka, Stoppard.
ENG185Y1
The Study of Literature 52L
See Academic Bridging Program.
Only for students registered in the Academic Bridging Program. This course may not count toward any English program.
HUM199Y1
First Year Seminar 52S
Undergraduate seminar that focuses on specific ideas, questions, phenomena or controversies, taught by a regular Faculty
member deeply engaged in the discipline. Open only to newly admitted first-year students. It may serve as a distribution
requirement course; see page 40. This course may not count toward any English program.
JEF100Y1
The Western Tradition 78L
(formerly WLD 100Y1)
An introduction to literature through major works of the Western literary tradition. What constitutes a literary "classic"? How
have the great concerns of the Western tradition - human nature, its place in society, its mythmaking, its destiny - been
represented in literature? These and other questions are examined by reference to 11-12 works, from ancient times to the
twentieth century, by such authors as Homer, Sophocles, Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, MoliŠre, Austen,
Dostoevski, Kafka, Camus, Beckett and M rquez. (A joint course offered by the Departments of English and French; see also
JEF100Y1 in the French program listings.)
Exclusion: WLD 100Y1
200-Series Courses
Note
200-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in one
full 100-series ENG or JEF course, or in at least
four full-course equivalents in the Faculty. Students without this Prerequisite may
enrol in ENG201Y1 or ENG202Y1 if
they are
concurrently enrolled in any of ENG110Y1, ENG120Y1, ENG140Y1,
or JEF100Y1. Students in a Specialist,
Major, or Minor program in
English are required to take either ENG201Y1 or ENG202Y1.
Students should note the special Prerequisite for ENG269Y1 and
should consult the Department's Brochure for instructions about applying
for this course.
ENG200Y1
The Bible and English Literature 78L
An introductory study of the Bible's influence on literature in English. Selections from the Bible, Milton, Blake, Eliot. Other works
to be chosen by the instructor.
ENG201Y1
Reading Poetry 78L
An introduction to poetry through a close reading of texts, focusing on its traditional forms, themes, techniques, and uses of
language; its historical and geographical range; and its twentieth-century diversity.
Co-requisite: For students with fewer than four full-course equivalents, one of ENG110Y1/ENG120Y1/ENG140Y1/JEF100Y1
ENG202Y1
Major British Writers 78L
Lectures and tutorials on the essential and influential texts that have helped ground our English literary heritage. Poetry, drama
and fiction by at least fourteen authors such as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, Congreve,
Pope, Swift, Fielding, Austen, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Dickens, George Eliot, Joyce, Woolf,
T.S. Eliot.
Co-requisite: For students with fewer than four full-course equivalents, one of ENG110Y1/ENG120Y1/ENG140Y1/JEF100Y1
ENG213H1
The Short Story 39L
A introduction to fiction through short stories of various kinds, written mainly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Authors
such as Hawthorne, Poe, James, Conrad, Kipling, Joyce, Lawrence, Mansfield, Faulkner, Hemingway, Singer, Gallant.
ENG214H1
The Short-Story Collection 39L
A study of interrelated short-story collections written and put together by such authors as Kipling, Joyce, Lawrence,
Hemingway, Mansfield, Salinger, Roth, Laurence, Faulkner, O'Connor, Gallant.
ENG215H1
The Canadian Short Story 39L
A study of Canadian short fiction in English since its beginnings. A wide variety of regions, periods, styles, and writers is
considered. Works by authors such as Callaghan, Ross, Laurence, Gallant, Munro, Buckler, Hood, Hodgins, and Atwood are
included.
ENG216Y1
Twentieth-Century Canadian Fiction 78L
The vitality of modern and contemporary Canadian fiction is acclaimed both nationally and internationally. This course
examines the work of writers who have achieved world-wide recognition as well as others who have added significantly to our
knowledge of ourselves and our country. Twelve or more works studied.
ENG220Y1
Shakespeare 78L
About twelve plays by Shakespeare representing the different periods of his career and the different genres he worked in
(comedy, history, tragedy). Such plays as Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Richard II; Henry IV, Parts I and II;
As You Like It, Twelfth Night; Measure for Measure; Hamlet; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; The Tempest. Non-dramatic
poetry may be included.
ENG223H1
Canadian Drama 26L
Canadian plays, with emphasis on major playwrights and on developments since 1940, but with attention also to the history of
the theatre in Canada.
ENG232H1
Twentieth-Century Biography 39L
An introduction to the varieties of biography in this century. Issues such as the nature of biographical sources, the aims of the
biographer, the difference between biography and autobiography, and the bias of the biographer are discussed. Figures such
as Wilde, Russell, Woolf, Plath, Lennon, Layton, MacEwen may be included.
ENG233Y1
Major Women Writers 78L
A study of at least eight and not more than twelve major women writers. The course includes works of poetry and fiction.
Drama and non-fiction may also be represented.
ENG234H1
Children's Literature 39L
An historical and critical study of poetry, fiction, and drama written for or appropriated by children. Works by at least twelve
authors such as Bunyan, Defoe, Stevenson, Carroll, Twain, Milne, Tolkien, Norton, and Andersen.
ENG236H1
Detective Fiction 39L
At least twelve works by such authors as Poe, Dickens, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Christie, Sayers, Van Dine, Hammett,
Chandler, Faulkner, P.D. James, Rendell.
ENG237H1
Science Fiction and Fantasy 39L
The literature of possible worlds and thought experiments. Science fiction invents or extrapolates an inner or outer cosmology
from the physical, life, social, and human sciences, and fantasy animates a supernatural universe. Typical subjects include AI,
alternate histories, holocaust, space-time travel, strange species, theories of everything, utopias or dystopias.
ENG238H1
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Film 26L, 39P/T
(formerly ENG273H1)
Ten to twelve American films, from the 1950s to the present, by such directors as Haskin, Siegel, Kubrick, Spielberg, Reiner,
Ridley Scott, Lucas, Fincher, Verhoeven.
Exclusion: ENG273H1
ENG240Y1
Old English Language & Literature 78L
Prepares students to read the oldest English literary forms in the original language. Introduces the earliest English poetry in a
woman's voice, expressions of desire, religious fervour, and the agonies of war. Texts, written 680 - 1100, range from the epic
of Beowulf the dragon-slayer to ribald riddles.
ENG241Y1
Medieval Literature 78L
Poetry, prose and drama of medieval England.
ENG243Y1
Early Modern Literature 78L
Poetry, prose and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
ENG244Y1
Eighteenth-Century Literature 78L
Poetry, prose and drama of the eighteenth century.
ENG247Y1
Nineteenth-Century Literature 78L
Poetry, prose and drama of the nineteenth century.
ENG250Y1
American Literature 78L
Introductory survey of major works in American literature. Works by about twelve authors writing in a variety of genres,
including not only poetry and fiction, but also essays and slave narratives. Representative authors include Hawthorne, Melville,
Thoreau, Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Douglass, Twain, Whitman, Dickinson, James, Wharton, Faulkner, Cather, Hurston, Eliot,
Frost, Brooks, Stevens.
ENG252Y1
Canadian Literature 78L
An introductory survey of Canadian poetry, prose and drama, consisting of the work of at least twelve writers, at least one of
them of Native Canadian origin. At least one third of the works date from before 1950, but attention is also given to very recent
works. The course includes works by at least eight of the following: Moodie, Lampman, Leacock, Pratt, Klein, Ross, Birney,
Davies, Laurence, Reaney, Munro, Atwood.
ENG253Y1
World Literatures in English 78L
A study of approximately twelve writers from diverse English-speaking cultures, for example, those of Africa, Australia, India,
New Zealand, and the West Indies. Authors include at least six of the following: Achebe, Coetzee, Gordimer, Ngugi, p'bitek,
Soyinka, Keneally, Stead, Stow, White, Narayan, Rao, Rushdie, Frame, Bennett, Brathwaite, Harris, Naipaul, Walcott.
ENG254Y1
Contemporary Native North American Literature 78L
Contemporary North American aboriginal writing in English. The writings are placed within the context of aboriginal cultures
and living oral traditions. Attention is given to linguistic and territorial diversity. Writers may include Paula Gunn Allen,
Jeannette Armstrong, Beth Brant, Maria Campbell, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Tomson Highway, Basil Johnston, Emma
LaRoque, Lee Maracle, N. Scott Momaday, Daniel David Moses, Leslie Marmon Silko.
ENG256Y1
Twentieth-Century North American Jewish Literature 78L
A survey of major texts, focusing on the relationship between genre and ethnic and national identity. Included are works of
prose, poetry, drama, film, music, and other forms of popular culture by writers and artists who identified themselves, or were
identified, as Jewish.
ENG257Y1
English Literature and Film 78L
At least eight literary works and a film adaptation of each focusing on a particular genre, topic, or period.
ENG267H1
Literature and Criticism: An Introduction 39L
An introduction to some central issues and concepts of literary criticism, such as the notion of literature, the relation of literature
to criticism, critical analysis and evaluation, and the making of literary canons.
ENG269Y1
Writing: Purposes, Strategies, Processes 78L
The skills involved in critical thinking are also used in the process of expressing thoughts precisely, suggestively, and
persuasively in writing. This course in expository writing is an intermediate-level seminar in which students who already write
effectively can improve their understanding and practice of rhetorical strategy and prose style through workshops in a variety of
forms and subjects.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and the Associate Chair
ENG273Y1
Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Literature 78L
The course also introduces students to literary theory in this field.
ENG277Y1
Introduction to African Canadian Literature 78L
A study of Black Canadian Literature (poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction) from its origin in the African Slave Trade in the
eighteenth century to its current flowering as the expression of immigrants, exiles, refugees, and "indigenous Africans" (whose
roots are essentially "Canadian"). Pertinent theoretical works, films and recorded music are also considered.
ENG278Y1
Introduction to African Literature in English 78L
The course also introduces students to literary theory in this field.
ENG279Y1
Chinese North American Literature in English 78L
An introduction to major Chinese Canadian and Chinese American writers in English through a survey of their writings in a
variety of literary forms (e.g., novel, poem, drama, essay, autobiography). This course explores representations of radical and
ethnic identity in relation to issues of gender, class, and nation.
ENG290Y1
Literature and Psychoanalysis 78L
Introduction to the study of literature by reference to psychoanalysis. Literary texts are examined in the context of major ideas
of psychoanalysis, e.g., the Oedipus complex, dream interpretation, the desire of the Other, stages of development, and by
reference to the common concern of literature and psychoanalysis with language. Texts include psychoanalytic and literary
works by such authors as Freud, Jung, Lacan, Shakespeare, Dickens and D.H. Lawrence.
ENG299Y1
Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 43 for details.
300-Series Courses
Note
300-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in at
least four full-course equivalents in the Faculty,
including at least two full-course equivalent ENG or JEF courses. Students
should note the special Prerequisites for ENG
369Y1, 390Y1, 391Y1, 392H1, 393H1 and 394Y1 and they should consult the
Department's Brochure for instructions about
applying for these courses.
ENG300Y1
Chaucer 78L
The foundation of English literature: in their uncensored richness and range, Chaucer's works have delighted wide audiences
for over 600 years. Includes The Canterbury Tales, with its variety of narrative genres from the humorous and bawdy to the
religious and philosophical, and Troilus and Criseyde, a profound erotic masterpiece.
ENG301H1
Spenser 39L
Selections from The Faerie Queene and other works.
Exclusion: ENG302Y1
ENG302Y1
Poetry and Prose, 1500-1600 78L
Poetry: Wyatt and Surrey, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser (The Faerie Queene, at least two Books; and the
Mutabilitie Cantos), and Donne. Other poets may be added. Prose: More, Utopia; and Sidney, Defence of Poetry. Selections
from at least two of Elyot; Ascham; Hakluyt; Hooker; Lyly; Sidney, Arcadia; Nashe; Deloney. Supplementary readings from
such authors as Erasmus, Castiglione, Machiavelli, and Ariosto may be prescribed.
Exclusion: ENG301H1
ENG303H1
Milton 39L
Selections from Paradise Lost and other works.
Exclusion: ENG304Y1
ENG304Y1
Poetry and Prose, 1600-1660 78L
Literature in an age of Civil War, intellectual revolution, and religious upheaval, from Donne and Jonson to Milton and Marvell.
Such prose writers as Bacon, Burton, Browne and Traherne are also studied.
Exclusion: ENG303H1
ENG305H1
Swift, Pope and their Circle 39L
Selected works of poetry and prose by Swift and Pope; selected works by others in their circles such as Gay, Arbuthnot,
Manley, Parnell; with occasional reference to works by contemporaries outside their circle such as Wortley Montagu, Addison,
Steele, Defoe, Haywood.
Exclusion: ENG306Y1
ENG306Y1
Poetry and Prose, 1660-1800 78L
Writers of this period grapple with questions of authority and individualism, tradition and innovation, in politics, religion,
knowledge, society, and literature itself. Special attention to Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and at least six other authors.
Exclusion: ENG305H1
ENG307H1
Women's Writing of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 39L
Selected works from women writers active in the period 1660-1800.
ENG308Y1
Romantic Poetry and Prose 78L
Poetry and critical prose of Blake, W. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, Keats; may include selections from other
writers such as Crabbe, Scott, Landor, Clare, D. Wordsworth, M. Shelley, De Quincey.
ENG309H1
Women Writers of the Romantic Period 39L
This course will examine the important place of women's writing in the literature of the Romantic period. Poets, such as
Barbauld, Hemans, Letitia Landon, and/or novelists, such as Austen, Charlotte Smith, Mary Shelley, will be represented.
ENG312Y1
Victorian Poetry and Prose 78L
Writers (such as Darwin, Tennyson, Browning, Wilde, Nightingale, Christina Rossetti, Kipling) respond to crisis and transition:
the Industrial Revolution, the Idea of Progress, and the "Woman Question"; conflicting claims of liberty and equality, empire
and nation, theology and natural selection; the Romantic inheritance, Art-for-Art's-Sake, Fin de siŠcle, and "Decadence."
ENG322Y1
Fiction before 1832 78L
A study of major and minor works of fiction, illustrating the emergence of prose fiction as a genre recognized in both a literary
and a commercial sense. Authors studied include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Scott, Austen.
ENG324Y1
Fiction, 1832-1900 78L
Exploring the social and political dilemmas of a culture in transition, this course studies such topics as the comic art of Dickens,
Trollope, and Thackeray, the Gothicism of the Bront‰s, the crisis of religious faith in George Eliot, and the powerful moral
fables of Hardy. Students will read 10-12 novels.
Exclusion: ENG325H1
ENG325H1
Victorian Realist Novels 39L
The Victorian novel has been described as the heyday of literary realism. This course explores the great formal variety of
"realism"-industrial novels, sensation fiction, multiplot novels, fictional autobiographies, historical fiction, mysteries. Six novels
by such authors as Dickens, Thackerary, Eliot, Charlotte Bront‰, Gaskell, Collins, Trollope, Hardy.
Exclusion: ENG324Y1
ENG328Y1
Fiction, 1900-1960 78L
At least twelve works, including one or more by each of James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, and Faulkner.
ENG329H1
Contemporary British Fiction 39L
At least six works by at least four contemporary British novelists, such as Beckett, Burgess, Fowles, Golding, Lessing, Spark,
Thomas.
ENG330H1
Drama Before 1558 39L
A study of medieval English drama. Works include the Corpus Christi Cycle; Mary Magdalene; Castle of Perseverance,
Mankind, Everyman; plays by Henry Medwall and John Redford; at least two other plays.
ENG332Y1
Drama to 1642 78L
English drama from its beginnings to the closing of the public theatres during the English Civil War: medieval plays; Tudor
interlude; Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline history, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, and romance; special attention to
Shakespeare (reflecting the range of his career) and his contemporaries, particularly Marlowe and Jonson.
Exclusion: ENG333H1
ENG333H1
Marriage and the Family in Drama, 1580-1642 39L
At least eight plays, by a variety of authors including Shakespeare, that deal with such issues as marriage, adultery, parents
and children, and domestic violence.
Exclusion: ENG332Y1
ENG334H1
Drama, 1660-1800 39L
At least twelve plays, including works by Dryden, Wycherley, Congreve, and their successors, chosen to demonstrate the
modes of drama practised during the period, the relationship between these modes and that between the plays and the
theatres for which they were designed.
ENG338Y1
Modern Drama 78L
A minimum of twenty representative modern plays, one or more by at least five of Beckett, Churchill, O'Casey, O'Neill, Pinter,
Shaw, Stoppard, Synge, Williams, Yeats; background readings from other dramatic literatures.
ENG339H1
Contemporary Drama in English 39L
At least ten plays by at least six contemporary dramatists, such as Pinter, Albee, Stoppard, Orton, Bond, Storey, Mercer,
Griffiths, Shaffer, Shepard, Sackler, Terry.
ENG348Y1
Poetry, 1900-1960 78L
Special study of Hopkins, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Stevens; selections from other poets.
ENG349H1
Contemporary Poetry in English 39L
Works by at least six contemporary poets, such as Dickey, Ginsberg, Heaney, Howard, Hughes, Larkin, Lowell, Plath, Warren.
ENG350H1
Early Canadian Literature 39L
Writing in English Canada before 1914, from a variety of genres such as the novel, poetry, short stories, exploration and settler
accounts, nature writing, criticism, First Nations cultural production.
ENG354Y1
Modern Canadian Poetry 78L
Fifteen or more poets from the twentieth century, at least six to be chosen from Pratt, F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, Birney, Layton,
Livesay, Klein, Avison, Purdy, Souster, Reaney, Page, Atwood, Webb.
ENG356H1
Topics in Canadian Literature 39L
Topics and issues in Canadian writing from its beginnings, covering a variety of genres. Topics vary from year to year; details
are listed in the departmental brochure. Topics may include ethnic identity, periodical writing, forms of narrative, the individual
and the community, realism and symbolism, nationalism and culture.
ENG358Y1
American Literature Before 1880 78L
A study of American writing before 1880, including works by at least five authors from the following list: Emerson, Cooper, Poe,
Stowe, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, James.
ENG359Y1
American Literature, 1880-1960 78L
A study of American writing between 1890 and 1960, including works by at least five authors from the following list: James,
Twain, Wharton, Dreiser, Dos Passos, Cather, Williams, Stein, Hemingway, Faulkner, Frost, Welty, Stevens, A. Miller.
ENG361H1
Contemporary American Fiction 39L
At least six works by at least four contemporary American novelists, such as Bellow, Doctorow, Hawkes, Mailer, Nabokov,
Percy, Pynchon, Updike, Vonnegut.
ENG366Y1
Contemporary Theory and Criticism 78L
Major issues and movements in the theory of literature and literary criticism, with emphasis on the twentieth century. Among
the movements studied are varieties of formal, psychological, and moral criticism and theory, feminist criticism, structuralism
and post-structuralism. Authors studied may include such figures as Richards, Leavis, Brooks, Frye, Trilling, Barthes, Bloom,
Eagleton, Barbara Johnson.
ENG367Y1
History of the English Language 78L
English from King Alfred's ninth-century Germanic to many-voiced present-day English, dominating popular culture, science,
diplomacy, and business throughout the world. Specific texts show how sociopolitical history changes and varies this language.
Topics include semantics, standardization, syntax, and vocabulary.
ENG369Y1
Creative Writing 52S
Restricted to students who in the opinion of the Department show special aptitude for writing poetry, fiction, or drama. (For
application procedure, see Department Brochure)
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and the Associate Chair
ENG390Y1/392H1/393H1/394Y1
Individual Studies TBA
A scholarly project chosen by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The form of the project and the manner of
its execution are determined in consultation with the supervisor. All project proposals should be submitted by June 1. Proposal
forms are available from the Department offices.
Exclusion: ENG490Y1
Prerequisite: Three courses in English, permission of the instructor and the Associate Chair
ENG391Y1
Individual Studies (Creative) TBA
A project in creative writing chosen by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The form of the project and the
manner of its execution are determined in consultation with the supervisor. All project proposals should be submitted by June
1. Proposal forms are available from the Department offices.
Prerequisite: Three courses in English, including ENG369Y1, permission of the instructor and the Associate Chair
ENG398H0/399Y0
Independent Experiential Study Project
An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. See page 43 for details.
400-Series Courses
Note
400-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in at
least nine full-course equivalents in the Faculty,
including at least five full-course equivalent ENG or JEF courses. These
advanced courses normally presuppose earlier study
in the field, and in some cases specific Prerequisites are indicated.
Except for ENG490Y1, courses in this series
are taught in
a seminar format, enrolment being limited to 25 students. Not all 400-series
courses are offered every year; students should
consult the Department's Brochure for course descriptions and deadlines.
Students who require a 400-series course to satisfy
their program requirements will have enrolment priority in the first round
of course enrolment for these courses. Those who
plan to take ENG490Y1 should consult
the Department's Brochure for instructions about applying.
ENG400Y1
Beowulf and Other Old English Poetry 52S
Klaeber, ed., Beowulf. Other texts to be selected.
Exclusion: ENG480Y1
Prerequisite: Five courses in English, including ENG240Y1
ENG401Y1
Studies in Medieval Literature 52S
Prerequisite: Five courses in English, including ENG240Y1 or ENG300Y1
ENG405H1/406H1/407H1/408H1
Studies in an Individual Writer, Pre-1800 26S
ENG420H1/421H1/422H1/
423H1
Studies in an Individual Writer, Post-1800 26S
ENG430H1/431H1/
432H1/
433H1
Studies in an Individual Canadian Writer 26S
ENG440Y1
Studies in Renaissance Literature 52S
ENG441Y1
Studies in Seventeenth-CenturyLiterature 52S
ENG442Y1
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literaure 52S
ENG443Y1
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 52S
ENG444Y1
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 52S
ENG455H1
Studies in Renaissance Literature 26S
ENG456H1
Studies in Seventeenth-Century Literature 26S
ENG457H1
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature 26S
ENG458H1
Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 26S
ENG459H1
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature 26S
ENG467Y1
History of Literary Criticism 52S
Introduction to the work of the major figures in literary criticism from Plato to the mid-twentieth century. Topics include the
evaluation and interpretation of literature, theories of the imagination, conceptions of genre and style, the social and historical
context of literature. Among the authors will be five of the following: Plato, Aristotle, Sidney, Johnson, Coleridge, Arnold, Eliot,
Woolf.
ENG468H1
Critical Methods 26S
Study of one or more modes of criticism in relation to the interpretation of literary works.
ENG480Y1
Studies in Beowulf 52S
An undergraduate/graduate seminar devoted to a close reading of Beowulf.
Exclusion: ENG400Y1
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and five courses in English, including ENG240Y1
ENG481H1
Studies in Medieval Literature 26S
ENG485H1/486H1/487H1
Advanced Research Seminar 26S
ENG490Y1
Senior Essay TBA
A scholarly project devised by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The course is open to students enrolled in
the English Specialist Program or in Combined Specialist Programs where it is an option. Proposal forms are available from the
Department offices. Proposals should be submitted by June 1.
Prerequisite: Fourteen full-course equivalents, with at least five full-course equivalent ENG/JEF courses; an overall B average
in all ENG/JEF courses previously taken, permission of the instructor and the Associate Chair
Exclusion: ENG390Y1, 392H1, 393H1, 394Y1
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