This Year's Courses

Fall 2024

ENGL 100A - Fiction

ENGL 100B - Poetry

ENGL 101A - Introduction to Literary Studies

ENGL 101B - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

ENGL 108D - Digital Lives

ENGL 108E - Gender and Representation
- cross-listed with GSJ 108

ENGL 108G - Horror

ENGL 108P - Popular Potter

ENGL 108T - Tolkien: From Book to Film

ENGL 108X - Literature and Medicine

ENGL 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing

ENGL 119 - Communications in Mathematics Computer Science

ENGL 200A - English Literatures 1

ENGL 200B - English Literatures 2

ENGL 203 - Designing Digital Media
- cross-listed with DAC 201

ENGL 204 - Designing Digital Video
- cross-listed with DAC 202

ENGL 208A - Forms of Fantasy

ENGL 210C - Genres of Creative Writing

ENGL 210F - Genres of Business Communication

ENGL 210G - Genres of Fundraising Communication

ENGL 210H - Arts Writing

ENGL 210I - Legal Writing
- cross-listed with LS 291

ENGL 210J - Technical Editing

ENGL 225 - Introduction to Anti-Racist Communication
- cross-listed with BLKST 203, COMMST 203

ENGL 251 - Literary Theory and Criticism

ENGL 275 - Fiction and Film

ENGL 292 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

ENGL 294 - Introduction to Critical Game Studies

ENGL 295 - Social Media

ENGL 303 - Special Topics in Digital Design
- cross-listed with DAC 300, COMMST 300

ENGL 304 - Designing Digital Sound
- cross-listed with DAC 203

ENGL 306A - Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 309A - Rhetoric, Classical to Enlightenment

ENGL 309C - Contemporary Rhetoric

ENGL 309E - Speech Writing
- cross-listed with COMMST 323

ENGL 309G - The Discourse of Dissent
- cross-listed with COMMST 434, GSJ 309, HIST 309

ENGL 315 - Modern Canadian Literature

ENGL 325 - Austen

ENGL 335 - Creative Writing 1

ENGL 347 - American Literature Since 1945

ENGL 348 - American Poetry Since 1850

ENGL 362 - Shakespeare 1
- cross-listed with THPERF 386

ENGL 392A - Information Design

ENGL 392B - Visual Rhetoric

ENGL 409A - Rhetoric of Argumentation

ENGL 412 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Media

ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing
Topic: Writing Children's Picture Books (Prof J. Harris)

This course focuses on the study and writing of Children’s Picture Books, across genre. The approach is practical, paying close attention to craft, audience, and marketplace. A historical overview of the field will be accompanied by the close reading of texts from the beginning to our present. Analyzing picture books by others, as well as manuscripts by class members, will enrich our understanding of the art of picture book writing. By the end of the semester, students will have a portfolio of polished works representing various genres.

ENGL 460B - Literature of the Modernist Period in the United Kingdom and Ireland

ENGL 471 - Adapting Literary Works

ENGL 486 - Topics in Literatures Modern to Contemporary
Topic: Contemporary African Literature and Film (Prof P. Ugor)

Drawing on a wide range of genres that include prose fiction, plays, popular fiction, and films, this course will examine the ways in which Africa narrativizes itself through all kinds of cultural representations. We will pay attention to the varied historical and cultural contexts that shaped the rise and global circulation of contemporary African literature since the mid-twentieth century. Covering different regions in the continent, the course will also look at the recurrent thematic concerns and unique stylistic techniques that some of the major writers from Africa have used in their work since the 1960s. We will examine themes relating to colonization in Africa and its impacts, cultural nationalism, politics and misgovernance, gender and identity politics, globalization and modernity in Africa, and blackness and the diaspora experience. The main objective of the course will be to help students develop a greater appreciation of the socio-cultural, aesthetic and thematic representations in African Literature and Film from its inception in the pre-independence era to the present. Taken together, the course seeks to demonstrate the ways in which African Literature in general is both a product of and a response to global and local political, economic, cultural, and social forces. Our aim is not only to explore what African literature tells us about Africa, but also what it tells us about literature itself as a global cultural form and subject matter.

ENGL 494 - Topics in Forms of Media and Critical Analysis
Topic: From Cyborgs to ChatGPT: Critical Explorations of AI (Prof A. Bhandari)

Fall 2025

ENGL 100A - Fiction

ENGL 100B - Poetry

ENGL 101A - Introduction to Literary Studies

ENGL 101B - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

ENGL 101C - Introduction to Literature and Rhetoric

ENGL 103 - Combating Racisms
- cross-listed with BLKST 103, COMMST 103

ENGL 107 - Writing With Your Own English(es)

ENGL 108D - Digital Lives

ENGL 108E - Gender and Representation
- cross-listed with GSJ 108

ENGL 108G - Horror

ENGL 108P - Popular Potter

ENGL 108T - Tolkien: From Book to Film

ENGL 108X - Literature and Medicine

ENGL 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing

ENGL 190 - Shakespeare

ENGL 200A - English Literatures 1

ENGL 200C - English Literatures 3

ENGL 208A - Forms of Fantasy

ENGL 208C - Studies in Children's Literature

ENGL 210C - Genres of Creative Writing

ENGL 210F - Genres of Business Communication

ENGL 210H - Arts Writing

ENGL 210I - Legal Writing
- cross-listed with LS 291

ENGL 230 - The Pleasure of Poetry

ENGL 243 - Literature, Rhetoric, and Music

ENGL 248 - Literature for an Ailing Planet
- cross-listed with ERS 288

ENGL 251 - Literary Theory and Criticism

ENGL 262 - Manga
- cross-listed with EASIA 262R

ENGL 291 - Global Literatures

ENGL 292 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism

ENGL 295 - Social Media

ENGL 305A - Old English Language and Literature

ENGL 306A - Introduction to Linguistics

ENGL 307 - Linguistic Imperialism and Resistance

ENGL 309A - Rhetoric, Classical to Enlightenment

ENGL 309C - Contemporary Rhetoric

ENGL 309G - The Discourse of Dissent
- cross-listed with COMMST 434, GSJ 309, HIST 309

ENGL 318 - Contemporary Canadian Literature

ENGL 320 - History and Theory of Pre-Internet Media

ENGL 325 - Austen

ENGL 326 - Language, Life, and Literature in the Caribbean
- cross-listed with BLKST 210

ENGL 335 - Creative Writing 1

ENGL 345 - American Literature in a Global Context

ENGL 347 - American Literature Since 1945

ENGL 350A - Seventeenth-Century Literature 1

ENGL 361 - Early Modern Worlds on Stage

ENGL 363 - Shakespeare 2
- cross-listed with THPERF 387

ENGL 371 - Editing Literary Works

ENGL 392A - Information Design

ENGL 392B - Visual Rhetoric

ENGL 408A - Writing for the Media

ENGL 430A - Literature of the Romantic Period 1

ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing

ENGL 460B - Literature of the Modernist Period in the United Kingdom and Ireland

ENGL 493 - Topics in Professional Writing and Communication Design
Topic: TBA (Prof N. Randall)