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Key to Course Descriptions.

For Distribution Requirement purposes, all ENG courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses.

Please note: Not all courses are offered every year.

Course Winter Timetable

100-Series Courses

Note

The 100-series courses are designed to increase the students’ skills in interpretation and effective writing, and are open to all students who have standing in no more than one full-course equivalent in English. ENG 100H1 is a course in general writing skills relevant to a wide range of university subject areas. Only one of JEF 100Y1, ENG 110Y1, 120Y1, and 140Y1 can be used in fulfillment of a Specialist, Major, or Minor Program. JEF 100Y1 offers an acquaintance with the major works of various Western literary traditions in English translation. ENG 110Y1 explores the nature of narrative writing in a variety of fictional and non-fictional, poetic, and cinematic forms. ENG 120Y1 approaches the diversity of literature in English historically, dealing with works from many different periods; ENG 140Y1 approaches this diversity more geographically, focusing on contributions made to modern and contemporary literature in English in various areas of the world. Students with fewer than four full courses in the Faculty may enrol in ENG 201Y1 or 202Y1 provided they enrol in one of ENG 110Y1, 120Y1, 140Y1 or JEF 100Y1 as a co-requisite. ENG 100H1, ENG 185Y1, HUM 199Y1 may not be used to meet the requirements of any English program.


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.


HUM199H1/Y1
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 45. This course may not count toward any English program.


JEF100Y1
The Western Tradition        78L

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, Molière, Austen, Dostoevski, Kafka, Camus, Beckett and Márquez. (A joint course offered by the Departments of English and French; see also JEF100Y1 in the French program listings.)



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. 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 they should consult the Department’s Brochure before the May 15 deadline 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        39L

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

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.


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 45 for details.


300-Series Courses

Note

300-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in at least four full-course equivalents, including at least two full-course equivalent ENG or JEF courses. Students should note the special Prerequisites for ENG369Y1, ENG390Y1, ENG391Y1, 392H1, 393H1 and 394Y1 and they should consult the Department’s Brochure before the May 15 deadline for instructions about applying for these courses.

Please note that exclusions will be strictly enforced.


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 siècle, 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 Brontës, 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 Brontë, 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 by May 15.
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 May 15. 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 May 15. 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 45 for details.



400-Series Courses

Note

400-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in at least nine full-course equivalents, 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 before the May 15 deadline for instructions about applying.

Please note that exclusions will be strictly enforced.


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-Century Literature        52S


ENG442Y1
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature        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 May 15.
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