English CoursesFor Distribution Requirement purposes, all ENG courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses. Please note: Not all courses are offered every year. |
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100-Series Courses Note 100-series courses are designed to introduce students to the study
of English at the university level. They aim to foster interpretive skills
and to promote effective writing. ENG100H1 examines basic writing skills
relevant to a wide range of university subject areas. ENG110Y1 focuses on
elements of narrative writing in a variety of fictional and non-fictional
forms. ENG125Y1 explores the theatrical aspects of various literary forms.
ENG140Y1 ranges over modern and contemporary literature, considering drama,
fiction, and poetry from various regions of the world. JEF100Y1 explores
some of the major works of the Western literary tradition from Homer to the
twentieth century. Students should note that only ONE of ENG110Y1, 125Y1,
140Y1, and JEF100Y1 may be counted towards English program requirements.
ENG100H1, ENG185Y1, HUM199Y1 may not be used to meet the requirements of
any English program. First-year students may enrol in a 200-series ENG course,
if they are concurrently enrolled in one of ENG110Y1, 125Y1, 140Y1 or JEF100Y1. ENG100H1 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 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. ENG125Y1 Considering major dramatic genres such as comedy and tragedy, this course explores how performance affects our engagement with literature by focusing on the theatrical aspects of various literary forms—plays, novels, poems, sermons, essays—as well as adaptations of these texts into other forms and media—television, film, musical recordings. ENG140Y1 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 See Academic Bridging Program. HUM199H1 HUM199Y1 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; Details here.. This course may not count toward any English program. JEF100Y1 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-course equivalent ENG or JEF course or in at least four full-course
equivalents. Students without these Prerequisites
may enrol in a 200-series course if they are concurrently enrolled in
one of ENG110Y1, ENG125Y1, ENG140Y1, or JEF100Y1. Not ALL 200-series courses are offered every year: please consult the Department’s Brochure for further information. MEJ204H1 and JUM204H1 may not be used to meet the requirements of any English program. ENG201Y1 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. ENG202Y1 An introduction to influential texts that have shaped the British literary heritage, covering approximately twelve writers of poetry, drama, and prose, from Chaucer to Keats, with attention to such questions as the development of the theatre, the growth of the novel form, and the emergence of women writers. ENG205H1 An introduction to the rhetorical tradition from classical times to the present with a focus on prose as strategic persuasion. Besides rhetorical terminology, topics may include the discovery and arrangement of arguments, validity in argumentation, elements of style, and rhetorical criticism and theory. ENG210Y1 An introduction to the novel through a reading of ten to twelve texts, representing a range of periods, techniques, regions, and themes. ENG213H1 This course explores shorter works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Special attention is paid to formal and rhetorical concepts for the study of fiction as well as to issues such as narrative voice, allegory, irony, and the representation of temporality. ENG214H1 This course explores collections of short stories. It examines individual stories, the relationships among and between stories, the dynamics of the collection as a whole, the literary history of this genre, along with its narrative techniques and thematic concerns. ENG215H1 An introduction to the Canadian short story, this course emphasizes its rich variety of settings, subjects, and styles. ENG220Y1 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. ENG232H1 An introduction to the varieties of life writing. Issues discussed include the differences between biography and autobiography, the nature of sources, the ethics of life writing, and the aims and biases of the biographer. ENG233Y1 A study of eight to twelve women writers, this course may include fiction, drama, poetry and non-fiction. Approaches may engage feminist theories, histories, print culture, and other relevant concerns. ENG234H1 A critical and historical study of poetry and fiction written for or appropriated by children, this course may also include drama or non-fiction and will cover works by at least twelve authors such as Bunyan, Stevenson, Carroll, Twain, Alcott, Nesbit, Montgomery, Milne, Norton, and Fitzhugh. ENG235H1 An introduction to book-length sequential art, this course includes fictional and nonfictional comics by artists such as Will Eisner, Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Julie Doucet, Marjane Satrapi, Chester Brown, and Seth. ENG236H1 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 This course explores speculative fiction that invents or extrapolates an inner or outer cosmology from the physical, life, social, and human sciences. Typical subjects include AI, alternative histories, cyberpunk, evolution, future and dying worlds, genetics, space/time travel, strange species, theories of everything, utopias, and dystopias. ENG239H1 This course explores speculative fiction of the fantastic, the magical, the supernatural, and the horrific. Subgenres may include alternative histories, animal fantasy, epic fantasy, the Gothic, fairy tales, magic realism, sword and sorcery, and vampire fiction. ENG240Y1 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. ENG250Y1 An introductory survey of major works in American literature, this course explores works in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, and slave narratives. ENG252Y1 An introductory survey of major Canadian works in poetry, prose, and drama from early to recent times. ENG254Y1 An introduction to Indigenous North American writing in English, with significant attention to Aboriginal literatures in Canada. The writings are placed within the context of Indigenous cultural and political continuity, linguistic and territorial diversity, and living oral traditions. The primary focus is on contemporary Indigenous writing. ENG268H1 Introduction to the literature and culture of Asian Canadians and Asian Americans, including fiction, poetry, drama, film, video, and electronic media. The course also explores how such works respond to representations of Asians in popular culture and to Asian North American history and politics. ENG270Y1 In this course we study literary and non-literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present day. Colonial texts are analysed alongside postcolonial interpretations of the nineteenth-century archive, giving students a grasp of colonial discourse and contemporary postcolonial analyses. ENG273Y1 Introducing a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer tradition in literature and theory, this course explores classical, modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature, criticism, art, film, music, and popular culture. ENG275Y1 A survey of Jewish literature in English, focusing on questions of language, history, religion, national identity, and genre, this course may include works of prose, poetry, drama, film, or music from various Jewish literary communities. ENG277Y1 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 What, if anything, is distinctively “African” in African texts; in what form is that distinction encoded, and how? Is it possible to produce “African” readings of African texts? We address these, as well as other relevant theoretical issues, through close readings of oral performances, short stories, novels, plays, and selected essays. ENG280H1 An introduction to literary theory and its central questions, such as the notion of literature itself, the relation between literature and reality, the nature of literary language, the making of literary canons, and the roles of the author and the reader. ENG285H1 Many-voiced modern English dominates science, business, diplomacy, and popular cultures worldwide. This introductory course surveys transnational, regional, and social varieties of Later Modern English; the linguistic and social factors that have shaped them; their characteristic structures; and their uses in speech and in writing, both literary and non-literary. ENG290Y1 An introduction to psychoanalysis for students of literature, this course considers major psychoanalytic ideas through close readings of selected texts by Freud. The course also explores critiques and applications of Freud’s work and examines a selection of literary texts that engage psychoanalytic theory. ENG299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details here. MEJ204H1 An interdisciplinary exploration of creativity and imagination as they arise in the study of mathematics and poetry. The goal of the course is to guide each participant towards the experience of an independent discovery. Students with and without backgrounds in either subject are welcome. No calculus required.
Note 300-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in
at least four full-course equivalents, including one full-course equivalent
ENG or JEF
course. Not ALL 300-series courses are offered every year: please consult
the Department’s
Brochure for further information. Students should note the special Prerequisites for ENG389Y1, ENG390Y1, ENG391Y1, ENG392H1, ENG393H1 AND394Y1: consult the Brochure before the May 15 deadline for instructions on
applying for these courses. ENG300Y1 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 Selections from The Faerie Queene and other works. ENG302Y1 Considering literature during the reign of the Tudors, this course may include poetry of Wyatt, Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Donne; prose of More, Askew, Sidney, Hakluyt, Hooker, Elizabeth I, Lyly, and Nashe; and supplementary readings from such writers as Erasmus, Castiglione, and Machiavelli. ENG303H1 Selections from Paradise Lost and other works. ENG304Y1 Considering literature during the reign of the early Stuarts and the Civil War, with special attention to Milton and Paradise Lost, this course also includes such poets as Donne, Jonson, Lanyer, Wroth, Herbert, and Marvell, and such prose writers as Bacon, Clifford, Donne, Wroth, Burton, Cary, Browne, Hobbes, Milton, and Cavendish. ENG305H1 Selected works in prose and verse by Swift and Pope studied alongside works by their contemporaries. Topics may include the legitimacy of satire, the role of criticism, and the growing importance of writing by women. ENG306Y1 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. ENG307H1 A study of poems, plays, novels, letters, periodical essays, polemical works, and books for children by such writers as Cavendish, Behn, Finch, Centlivre, Leapor, Burney, and Wollstonecraft. Topics may include patronage and publishing; nationality, class, and gender; and generic conventions. ENG308Y1 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. ENG311H1 This course explores a selection of writings in early English, excluding those by Chaucer. ENG322Y1 This course studies the emergence of prose fiction as a genre recognized in both a literary and a commercial sense. Authors may include Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Scott, and Austen. ENG323H1 A study of selected novels of Jane Austen and of works by such contemporaries as Radcliffe, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Edgeworth, Scott, and Shelley, in the context of the complex literary, social, and political relationships of that time. ENG324Y1 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. ENG325H1 This course explores forms of realism in Victorian fiction and includes at least six novels by such authors as Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell, Collins, Trollope, and Hardy. ENG328Y1 This course explores ten to twelve works by such writers as James, Conrad, Cather, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Faulkner, Rhys, Hemingway, Achebe, Ellison, Spark, and Lessing. ENG329H1 This course explores six or more works by at least four British contemporary writers of fiction. ENG330H1 This course explores liturgical plays, biblical plays, religious and political morality plays, and Tudor interludes. ENG331H1 This course explores English drama to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, with attention to such playwrights as Lyly, Kyd, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. ENG335H1 This course explores English drama from the death of Queen Elizabeth I to the closing of the theatres, with attention to such playwrights as Jonson, Middleton, Shakespeare, and Webster. ENG336H1 A concentrated study of one aspect of Shakespeare’s work, such as his use of a particular genre, a particular period of his work, a recurring theme, or the application of a particular critical approach. ENG337H1 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. ENG340H1 A study of plays in English by such dramatists as Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Synge, Glaspell, Hughes, and O’Neill, as well as plays in translation by such dramatists as Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, and Pirandello. ENG341H1 A study of plays by such dramatists as Beckett, Miller, Williams, Pinter, Soyinka, and Churchill, with background readings from other dramatic literatures. ENG342H1 A study of ten or more plays by at least six recent dramatists. ENG347Y1 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.” ENG348Y1 Special study of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Auden, Stevens; selections from other poets. ENG349H1 Works by at least six contemporary poets, such as Ammons, Ashbery, Heaney, Hughes, Lowell, Muldoon, and Plath. ENG350H1 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. ENG352H1 A study of major Canadian playwrights and developments siNCE 1940, with some attention to the history of the theatre in Canada. ENG353Y1 A study of twelve or more Canadian works of fiction, primarily novels. ENG354Y1 A study of major Canadian poets, modern and contemporary. ENG355H1 A study of works by Indigenous women writers from North America and beyond, with significant attention to Aboriginal writers in Canada. Texts engage with issues of de/colonization, representation, gender, and sexuality, and span multiple genres, including fiction, life writing, poetry, drama, film, music, and creative non-fiction. ENG357H1 Close encounters with recent writing in Canada: new voices, new forms, and new responses to old forms. Texts may include or focus on poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, or new media. ENG360H1 This course explores writing in a variety of genres produced in the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as narratives, poetry, autobiography, journals, essays, sermons, and court transcripts. ENG363Y1 This course explores American writing in a variety of genres from the end of the Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century. ENG364Y1 This course explores twentieth-century American writing in a variety of genres. ENG365H1 This course explores six or more works by at least four contemporary American writers of fiction. ENG368H1 Close study of works by Asian American and Asian Canadian authors, with attention to the historical and political contexts in which such works have been written and read. Topics may include racial, diasporic, and hybrid identity; cultural nationalism and transnationalism; gender and sexuality; the politics of poetic form. ENG370H1 This course focuses on recent theorizations of postcoloniality and transnationality through readings of fictional and non-fictional texts, along with analyses of contemporary films and media representations. ENG375H1 This course will offer a focused exploration of a particular genre, national literature, literary period or thematic thread in modern Jewish literature and culture in English. ENG380H1 Literary theory from classical times to the nineteenth century. Topics include theories of the imagination, genre analysis, aesthetics, the relations between literature and reality and literature and society, and the evaluation and interpretation of literature. ENG382Y1 This course explores literary theory from the early twentieth century to the present. Schools or movements studied may include structuralism, formalism, phenomenology, Marxism, post-structuralism, reader-response theory, feminism, queer theory, new historicism, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and cultural and race studies. ENG383H1 Sustained study of one school, movement, or approach in literary theory, history, or criticism. Content varies with instructors. ENG385H1 This course explores English from its prehistory to the present day, emphasizing Old, Middle, and Early Modern English and the theory and terminology needed to understand their lexical, grammatical, and phonological structure; language variation and change; codification and standardization; literary and non-literary usage. ENG389Y1 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. ENG390Y1 ENG392H1 ENG393H1 ENG394Y1 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. ENG391Y1 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. ENG398H0 ENG399Y0 An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details here.
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. Students who require a 400-series course to satisfy
their program requirements have enrolment priority in the first round of course
enrolment. 400-series courses are taught in a seminar format: enrolment
is limited to
25 and students are expected to attend regularly and participate fully.
Not
ALL 400-series courses are offered every year: please consult the Department’s
Brochure for further information. ENG402H1 An undergraduate/graduate seminar devoted to a close reading of selected Old English texts. ENG414H1 ENG415H1 ENG416H1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG417Y1 ENG418Y1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG419Y1 A seminar designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. Admission by permission of the Department. ENG424H1 ENG425H1 ENG426H1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG427Y1 ENG428Y1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG429Y1 A seminar designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. Admission by permission of the Department. ENG434H1 ENG435H1 ENG436H1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG437Y1 ENG438Y1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG439Y1 A seminar designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. Admission by permission of the Department. ENG460H1 ENG461H1 ENG462H1 ENG463H1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG464Y1 ENG465Y1 ENG466Y1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG469Y1 A seminar designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. Admission by permission of the Department.
ENG470H1 ENG471H1 ENG472H1 ENG473H1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG474Y1 ENG475Y1 ENG476Y1 Individual topics to be specified by instructors. ENG479Y1 A seminar designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. Admission by permission of the Department. |