Faculty of Arts & Science
2015-2016 Calendar |
---|
To study literature is to engage, through the medium of the written word, with some of history’s most creative and articulate minds as they contemplate fundamental and persistent questions: What does it mean to be an individual in society? What is the purpose of art? What is the significance of human endeavor, and what are the limits of human experience? As a student in the English program you will be introduced to the literary tradition in English, a fascinating conversation spanning over a thousand years and connecting nations and peoples all across the globe. In addition, you will be trained in methods of critical reading and writing which will help you not only to comprehend, but also to grapple with, the complexity of texts and of the authors and societies that produce them. The skills acquired by students of English are directly applicable to any career that requires critical thinking and analysis—from education to government, law to engineering, business to medicine, and beyond. Perhaps just as valuably, the study of English will provide you with models and tools for discovering and articulating your own complex perspective on art, history, society, and your relation to all three.
The Department of English offers courses in Canadian and Indigenous North American literature; in American and transnational literatures; in the national and diasporic English literatures of Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia; in British literature from its origins to the present day; and in the critical and theoretical literature through which literary critics and philosophers have developed vocabulary and methods for describing the forms, histories, and ideologies of literary art.
English courses are arranged in four series. Courses in our 100 series introduce students, in large lectures, to the study of English literature through sweeping surveys: of the literary tradition from Homer through the 19th century; of literature written in direct response to the events of recent decades; or of narrative forms in many genres and historical periods. All 100-series courses include small-group tutorials, where students are introduced to critical reading and writing skills; essays at the 100 level typically do not require research or secondary sources. Courses in the 200 series are devoted to the study of literature in a specific genre, or the literature of a specific place or people. Coursework at the 200 level may require some research or engagement with critical literature on the subject. 300-series courses focus on particular literary periods, on diasporic literatures, and on special topics within a literature or literary genre. Courses at this level introduce students to research skills and typically require essays that incorporate secondary sources. Courses in the 400 series are both advanced and focused—unique courses created by Department faculty which often relate to their own research. These courses require a substantial research essay.
The Department of English offers several Programs of Study. The Specialist is the most intensive and comprehensive, requiring a minimum of ten full-course equivalents (FCE) in a 20-FCE degree. The Major is the Department’s most popular program. It provides both depth and breadth to students who wish to focus on English studies but also wish to leave room in their degrees to pursue other interests. The Minor is the Department’s second-most popular program, and can be combined with Majors or Specialists in a wide variety of other fields. On the presumption that the Minor is a curiosity-driven program, Minors are exempt from the distribution requirements of the Specialist and Major.
Students with questions about English Programs should consult the Office of the Associate Chair or the Undergraduate Counsellor. Students interested in graduate school in English should seek advice on course selection from their professors, academic counsellors, and the Office of the Director of Graduate Studies. Students considering a teaching career in Ontario should consult the admission counsellors at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/UT.
The Department of English publishes detailed course descriptions and reading lists online, usually by the beginning of May. Students are urged to consult these course descriptions at www.english.utoronto.ca before enrolment begins.
Associate Chair: Professor J. Lopez, Room 608, 170 St. George Street
Undergraduate Counsellor: Ms V. Holmes, Room 609, 170 St. George Street (416-978-5026)
General Enquiries: Room 610, 170 St. George Street (416-978-3190)
Enrolment in the English Specialist program requires a final grade of at least 73% in ENG110Y, ENG140Y, or ENG150Y; or, after second year, a final grade of at least 77% in 2.0 ENG 200-series FCE. Students are responsible for completing all the requirements of an English program from the Calendar of the year in which they enrolled in the program. Completion of a first-year ENG course is not a requirement for any of our programs. Please note that we do not accept any CR/NCR courses toward any of our programs.
Enrolment in the English Specialist program requires a final grade of at least 73% in ENG110Y, ENG140Y, or ENG150Y. Students applying to enrol in the Specialist after second year require a final grade of at least 77% in 2.0 ENG 200-series FCE. Students are responsible for completing all the requirements of an English program from the Calendar of the year in which they enrolled in the program.
Ten FCE (including at least 7.0 ENG FCE) from the courses listed below, including 3.0 300+series FCE and 1.0 400-series ENG FCE.
Only 1.0 100-series ENG FCE may be counted. ENG100H1 may not be counted.
Courses must fulfill the following requirements:
1. At least 1.0 FCE from Group 1 (Theory, Language, Methods)
2. At least 1.0 FCE from Group 2 (Canadian and Indigenous North American Literatures)
3. At least 1.0 FCE from Group 3 (American and Transnational Literatures)
4. At least 3.0 FCE from Group 4 (British Literature to the 19th Century)
5. At least 1.5 FCE from Group 5 (Literature since the 18th Century)
6. ENG287H1; if not, STA201H1 Why Numbers Matter, or 0.5 FCE in any other BR=5 course
Seven FCE (including at least 5.0 ENG FCE) from the courses listed below, including 1.5 300+series FCE and 0.5 400-level ENG FCE.
Only 1.0 100-series ENG FCE may be counted. ENG100H1 may not be counted.
Courses must fulfill the following requirements:
1. At least 0.5 FCE from Group 1 (Theory, Language, Methods)
2. At least 1.0 FCE from Group 2 (Canadian and Indigenous North American Literatures)
3. At least 1.0 FCE from Group 3 (American and Transnational Literatures)
4. At least 2.0 FCE from Group 4 (British Literature to the 19th Century)
5. At least 1.0 FCE from Group 5 (Literature since the 18th Century)
6. ENG287H1; if not, STA201H1 Why Numbers Matter, or 0.5 FCE in any other BR=5 course
Four FCE (including at least 3.0 ENG FCE) from the courses listed below, including 1.0 300+series FCE.
Only 1.0 100-series ENG FCE may be counted. ENG100H1 may not be counted.
ENG110Y1 OR ENG140Y1 OR ENG150Y1; ENG299Y1; ENG389Y1; ENG390Y1 OR ENG392H1; ENG391Y1 OR ENG393H1; ENG398H0; ENG399Y0; ENG499Y1
Group 1: Theory, Language, Methods
ENG201Y1, ENG205H1, ENG207H1, ENG280H1, ENG285H1, ENG287H1, ENG380H1, ENG382Y1, ENG383H1, ENG384Y1, ENG385H1, ENG414H1, ENG415H1, ENG418H1, JEI206H1; JFV323H1, PHL285H1, PHL388H1, SMC229H1, VIC301H1
Group 2: Canadian and Indigenous North American Literatures
ENG215H1, ENG252Y1, ENG254Y1, ENG350H1, ENG352H1, ENG353Y1, ENG354Y1, ENG355H1, ENG357H1, ENG359H1 (or ENG277Y1), ENG424H1, ENG425H1, ENG428H1; ABS322H1, ABS341H1, CDN218H1, DRM268H1, ITA233H1, JSU325H1, SLA238H1, SMC376H1
Group 3: American and Transnational Literatures
ENG250Y1, ENG270Y1, ENG273Y1, ENG360H1, ENG363Y1, ENG364Y1, ENG365H1, ENG366H1 (or ENG264H1), ENG367H1 (or ENG278Y1), ENG368H1 (or ENG268H1), ENG369H1 (or ENG269H1), ENG370H1, ENG375H1, (ENG375Y1 or ENG275Y1), ENG434H1, ENG435H1, ENG438H1; EAS284Y1, NEW322H1
Group 4: British Literature to the 19th Century
ENG200H1, ENG202Y1, ENG220Y1, ENG240Y1, ENG300Y1, ENG301H1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG304Y1, ENG305H1, ENG306Y1, ENG307H1, ENG308Y1, ENG311H1, ENG322Y1, ENG323H1, ENG330H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, ENG336H1, ENG337H1, ENG444H1, ENG445H1, ENG448H1; CLA204H1, CLA236H1, ITA200H1, MST200Y1, SMC226H1, SMC360H1, VIC342H1, VIC344H1
Group 5: Literature since the 18th Century
ENG210Y1, ENG213H1, ENG214H1, ENG232H1, ENG234H1, ENG235H1, ENG236H1, ENG237H1, ENG239H1, ENG324Y1, ENG325H1, ENG328Y1, ENG329H1, ENG340H1, ENG341H1, ENG347Y1, ENG348Y1, ENG349H1, ENG454H1, ENG455H1, ENG458H1; DRM342H1, FIN240H1, GER220H1, GER240H1, SLA212H1, SLA252H1, SMC342Y1, SMC375H1, SPA254H1
This humanities-based Type 3 Minor program represents a unique opportunity to study Asian Literatures and Cultures within a Southasian location. Students take core subjects at the first-year or second-year level in Toronto and then spend one semester of their second, third or fourth year at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where they are enrolled in lecture courses. For more information, contact the English Undergraduate Office and the Centre for International Experience at www.cie.utoronto.ca.
Four FCE, including ENG270Y1 and one other ENG FCE from the list above and two appropriate NUS FCE, including at least one 300-series ENG or NUS FCE. Students are advised to contact the Undergraduate Counsellor in advance of going abroad to discuss course selection at NUS.
The 199Y1 and 199H1 seminars are designed to provide the opportunity to work closely with an instructor in a class of no more than twenty-four students. These interactive seminars are intended to stimulate the students’ curiosity and provide an opportunity to get to know a member of the professorial staff in a seminar environment during the first year of study. Details can be found at www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/course/fyh-1/.
Only ONE of ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1 may be counted toward English program requirements. ENG100H1 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 ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1.
Practical tools for writing in university and beyond. Students will gain experience in generating ideas, clarifying insights, structuring arguments, composing paragraphs and sentences, critiquing and revising their writing, and communicating effectively to diverse audiences. This course may not count toward any English program.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseThis 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 judgments, travel writing, histories, songs, diaries, biographies.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseAn exploration of how recent literature in English responds to our world. Includes poetry, prose, and drama by major writers of the twentieth century and emerging writers of the current century.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseAn introduction to major authors, ideas, and texts that shaped and continue to inform the ever-evolving traditions of literature in English. Includes works and authors from antiquity to the nineteenth century such as the Bible, the Qur'an, Plato, Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Dante, Christine de Pizan, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne, Austen, Dostoevski.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseEnglish 200-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in 1.0 ENG FCE or in any 4.0 FCE. Students without these prerequisites may enrol in a 200-series course if they are concurrently enrolled in ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1. Please note that prerequisites and exclusions will be strictly enforced.
This course introduces the Bible and explores its influence on literary traditions. Through close readings of literary texts that rework biblical material, we will explore issues such as translation, reception, intertextuality, and form.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEThis course teaches students who already write effectively how to write clear, compelling, research-informed English essays. The course aims to help students recognize the function of grammar and rhetoric, the importance of audience, and the persuasive role of style.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCE. English students have priority.A critical and historical exploration of the interrelations between law and literature, especially their use of and response to each other's structures, styles, themes, narratives, and rhetorical strategies.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn introduction to the novel through a reading of ten to twelve texts, representing a range of periods, techniques, regions, and themes.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn introduction to the Canadian short story, this course emphasizes its rich variety of settings, subjects, and styles.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEA representative survey of Shakespeare's work, covering the different periods of his career and the different genres in which he worked. Readings may include such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, Henry IV, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Non-dramatic poetry may also be included.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn introduction to biography and autobiography, with a sampling of important examples in English.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEA 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, Fitzhugh.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn 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, Seth.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAt least twelve works by such authors as Poe, Dickens, Collins, Doyle, Chesterton, Christie, Sayers, Van Dine, Hammett, Chandler, Faulkner, P.D. James, Rendell.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEPrepares 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn introductory survey of major works in American literature, this course explores works in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, and slave narratives.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn introductory survey of major Canadian works in poetry, prose, and drama from early to recent times.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEAn 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEIn 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEIntroducing 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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEA practical introduction to literary theory and its central questions, such as the notion of literature itself, its political underpinnings, the relation between literature and reality, the making of literary canons, and the roles of the author and the reader.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEMany-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.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCEExplores the relations between digital technology and literary studies. Students will use such tools as computer-assisted analysis, digital editions, and visualization to ask new questions about literature. Readings may include born-digital fiction. Students will gain hands-on experience with digital technology, but no programming experience is required.
Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG FCE or any 4.0 FCECredit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/course/rop. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseEnglish 300-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in 4.0 FCE, including 2.0 ENG FCE. Students should note the special prerequisites for ENG389Y1, ENG390Y1, ENG391Y1, ENG392H1, and ENG393H1: consult the descriptions online before the May 15 deadline for instructions on applying for these courses. Please note that prerequisites and exclusions will be strictly enforced.
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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCESelections from The Faerie Queene and other works.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEConsidering 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, Machiavelli.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCESelections from Paradise Lost and other works.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEConsidering 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, Marvell, and such prose writers as Bacon, Clifford, Donne, Wroth, Burton, Cary, Browne, Hobbes, Milton, Cavendish.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCESelected 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEWriters 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA study of poems, plays, novels, letters, periodical essays, polemical works, and books for children by such writers as Cavendish, Behn, Finch, Centlivre, Leapor, Burney, Wollstonecraft. Topics may include patronage and publishing; nationality, class, and gender; and generic conventions.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEPoetry and critical prose of Blake, W. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, and Keats; may include selections from other writers such as Crabbe, Scott, Landor, Clare, D. Wordsworth, M. Shelley, De Quincey.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores a selection of writings in early English, excluding those by Chaucer.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEExploring 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores forms of realism in Victorian fiction and includes at least six novels by such authors as Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell, Collins, Trollope, Hardy.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores ten to twelve works by such writers as James, Conrad, Cather, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Faulkner, Rhys, Hemingway, Achebe, Ellison, Spark, Lessing.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores six or more works by at least four British contemporary writers of fiction.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCETexts and performances preceding and underlying the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including creation-to-doomsday play cycles; plays performed in parishes, inns, great halls, outdoor arenas, and at court; religious and political propaganda plays; political pageants. Attention to social, political, and theatrical contexts.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores English drama to the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, with attention to such playwrights as Lyly, Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis 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, Webster.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE including ENG220Y1, and any 4.0 FCEAt 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA study of plays in English by such dramatists as Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Synge, Glaspell, Hughes, O'Neill, as well as plays in translation by such dramatists as Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Pirandello.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA study of plays by such dramatists as Beckett, Miller, Williams, Pinter, Soyinka, Churchill, with background readings from other dramatic literatures.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEWriters (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-Arts-Sake, Fin de siècle, and "Decadence."
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCESpecial study of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Auden, Stevens; selections from other poets.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEWorks by at least six contemporary poets, such as Ammons, Ashbery, Heaney, Hughes, Lowell, Muldoon, Plath.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEWriting 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA study of major Canadian playwrights and developments since 1940, with some attention to the history of the theatre in Canada.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA study of ten to twelve Canadian works of fiction, primarily novels.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA study of major Canadian poets, modern and contemporary.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEA 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEClose 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEBlack 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, ex-slave-descended, and colonial-settler-established communities. Pertinent theoretical works, films, and recorded music are also considered.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis 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, court transcripts.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores American writing in a variety of genres from the end of the Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores twentieth-century American writing in a variety of genres.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis course explores six or more works by at least four contemporary American writers of fiction.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCELiteratures and cultures of the Caribbean and the diaspora, including fiction, poetry, theory, drama, film, and other media.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEWhat, if anything, is distinctively "African" in African texts; what might it mean to produce "African" readings of African literature? We address these, as well as other quiestions, through close readings of oral performances and literary and other cultural texts.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCELiterature and cultures of Asian Canadians and Asian Americans, including fiction, poetry, theory, drama, film, and other media.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEMajor authors and literary traditions of South Asia, with specific attention to literatures in English from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the diaspora. The focus will be on fiction and poetry with some reference to drama.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEJewish literature in English, focusing on questions of language, history, religion, national identity, and genre. May include prose, poetry, drama, film, or music from various Jewish literary communities.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG/CJS FCE and any 4.0 FCE, or permission of the instructor and the Associate Chair.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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCESustained study of one school, movement, or approach in literary theory, history, or criticism. Content varies with instructors.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEAn 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCEThis 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.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE and any 4.0 FCERestricted to students who in the opinion of the Department show special aptitude for writing poetry, fiction, or drama. For application procedure, see the descriptions online and submit an application by May 15. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG FCE, any 4.0 FCE and permission of the instructor and the Associate ChairA 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 online and from the Department. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 3.0 ENG FCE, any 4.0 FCE and permission of the instructor and the Associate ChairA 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 online and from the Department. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 3.0 ENG FCE, including ENG389Y1, any 4.0 FCE and permission of the instructor and the Associate ChairA 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 online and from the Department. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 3.0 ENG FCE, any 4.0 FCE and permission of the instructor and the Associate ChairA 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 online and from the Department. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 3.0 ENG FCE, including ENG389Y1, any 4.0 FCE and permission of the instructor and the Associate ChairAn instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/course/399. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseAn instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/course/399. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirement Status: This is a Humanities courseEnglish 400-series courses are open to students who have obtained standing in 9.0 FCE, including 4.0 ENG FCE. Students who require a 400-series course to satisfy their program requirements have enrolment priority in the first round of course enrolment. Individual topics to be specified by instructors. Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. These courses are not eligible for the CR/NCR option. Please note that prerequisites and exclusions will be strictly enforced.
Advanced Studies: Theory, Language, Methods
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: Theory, Language, Methods
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies Seminar: Theory, Language, Methods
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: Canadian and Indigenous North American Literatures
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: Canadian and Indigenous North American Literatures
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: Canadian and Indigenous North American Literatures
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: American and Transnational Literatures
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: American and Transnational Literatures
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies Seminar: American and Transnational Literature
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: British Literature to the 19th Century
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: British Literature to the 19th Century
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies Seminar: British Literature to the 19th Century
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: Literature since the 18th Century
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies: Literature since the 18th Century
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEAdvanced Studies Seminar: Literature since the 18th Century
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE and any 9.0 FCEA seminar designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. Admission by invitation and permission of the instructor and the Associate Chair. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG FCE, any 9.0 FCE, and permission of the Department.