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English

All students majoring in English must take six credits in a 1000-level English course among their first 60 university credits. Students majoring in English are advised to take at least 12 credits in 2000-level English courses among their 30th to 60th credits. Students may only count six credits from a 1000-level English course towards their major program.

For a complete list of courses and detailed reading lists, see the department's supplemental calendar.

Students intending to proceed to graduate school should take a broad range of courses, should avoid concentration in a particular period or genre, and, in consultation with a member of the English Department, should plan a degree program with the understanding that certain traditional subjects may be regarded as essential by some graduate schools.

Students intending to teach in Ontario schools must meet the varied requirements of various Faculties of Education, and are advised to construct a balanced degree program by doing at least some work in each major period in literary history: such students should consult specific Faculties of Education about their regulations.

Students are responsible for planning their course of study and for ensuring that all degree and major requirements are met. Members of the department will be available during the summer months, as well as during the term, to advise those students who have questions about their program or about English studies in general. Enquiries may be made through the Undergraduate Office, 208 Stong, 416-736-5166.

Area Requirements

All English courses (above the 1000 level) are placed in eight areas as listed below. Not all courses are offered every year and additional courses may be added.

Area 1) Canadian:

AS/EN 2450 6.0--Canadian Literature
AS/EN 3330 6.0--Modern Canadian Drama
AS/EN 3340 6.0--Modern Canadian Fiction
AS/EN 3350 6.0--Modern Canadian Poetry
AS/EN 3430 3.0 (3430 6.0)--Studies in Women Writers
AS/EN 3440 6.0--Post-Colonial Writing in Canada
AS/EN 3721 6.0--Mapping the Italian Experience in Canada
AS/EN 4271 6.0--The Beginnings of Canadian Literature
AS/EN 4272 6.0--Canadian Literature: Elegy in Prose and Verse
AS/EN 4273 6.0--Studies in Canadian Literature: Poetry
AS/EN 4274 6.0--The Canadian Short Story
AS/EN 4275 6.0--Canadian Life Writing
AS/EN 4276 6.0--Four Contemporary Canadian Writers
AS/EN 4277 6.0--21st-Century Canadian Poetry

Area 2) American:

AS/EN 2330 6.0--Literature of the United States
AS/EN 2510 6.0--Modernisms
AS/EN 2690 6.0--Contemporary Literature
AS/EN 3310 6.0--Literature of the US: 1800-1865
AS/EN 3320 6.0--Poetry of the US
AS/EN 3437 6.0--Modern American Women Poets
AS/EN 4143 6.0--"The Cantos" of Ezra Pound
AS/EN 4144 6.0--City Texts and Textual Cities
AS/EN 4211 3.0--Nathaniel Hawthorne
AS/EN 4212 3.0--Henry James
AS/EN 4213 3.0--Wharton and Cather
AS/EN 4214 6.0--Harlem Renaissance
AS/EN 4216 6.0--Studies in the Literature of the US: Drama
AS/EN 4217 3.0--Contemporary Women Writers
AS/EN 4331 6.0--Contemporary Literature: Writers and Drugs

Area 3) Post-Colonial:

AS/EN 2370 6.0--Post-Colonial Literature: Caribbean
AS/EN 2371 6.0--Post-Colonial Literature: African Literature
AS/EN 2372 6.0--Post-Colonial Literature: South Asian
AS/EN 3440 6.0--Post-Colonial Writing in Canada
AS/EN 4215 6.0--African Diasporic Dialogues
AS/EN 4230 6.0--Studies in Post-Colonial Literature
AS/EN 4231 3.0--Post-Colonial Literature: Derek Walcott
AS/EN 4232 3.0--Post-Colonial Literature: Wole Soyinka
AS/EN 4233 6.0--Post-Colonial Literature: Diaspora Literatures

Area 4) British:

Area 4.1) to 1660:

AS/EN 2600 6.0--Medieval English
AS/EN 3110 6.0--Old English Language & Literature
AS/EN 3130 6.0--Poetry of the Early Modern Period 1500-1660
AS/EN 3190 6.0--Shakespeare
AS/EN 3210 6.0--Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
AS/EN 3260 6.0--Chaucer
AS/EN 3261 6.0--Drama and Vision in the Middle Ages
AS/EN 3270 6.0--17th-Century Perspectives
AS/EN 4121 6.0--Lyric Poetry from Sappho to Donne
AS/EN 4181 6.0--Studies in Renaissance Poetry
AS/EN 4182 6.0--Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England
AS/EN 4183 3.0--Edmund Spenser
AS/EN 4184 6.0--The Renaissance Theatre of Transgression
AS/EN 4185 6.0--Advanced Shakespeare
AS/EN 4220 6.0--Studies in Old English Literature
AS/EN 4281 6.0--Chronicles, Romances and Other Genres
AS/EN 4282 6.0--The Medieval Book

Area 4.2) 1660-1832:

AS/EN 3230 6.0--English Romantics
AS/EN 3270 6.0--17th-Century Perspectives
AS/EN 3400 3.0--Ballads and Folksongs
AS/EN 3540 6.0--Studies in 18th-Century Genres
AS/EN 4130 6.0--Milton
AS/EN 4191 3.0--The Rise of the Novel
AS/EN 4192 3.0--Female Bildungsroman
AS/EN 4193 6.0--Realism and Representation
AS/EN 4250 6.0--Studies in English Romantics
AS/EN 4251 6.0--Romantic Revolt
AS/EN 4252 6.0--Blake and Wordsworth after Milton

Area 4.3) After 1832:

AS/EN 2510 6.0--Modernisms
AS/EN 2550 6.0--British and European Novel 1880-1930
AS/EN 2660 6.0--Introduction to Victorian Culture and Literature
AS/EN 2690 6.0--Contemporary Literature
AS/EN 3165 6.0--From Fin de Siecle to Modernism
AS/EN 3170 6.0--Modern British Poetry
AS/EN 3280 6.0--Victorian Poetry
AS/EN 3300 6.0--Victorian Fiction and Its Reading Public
AS/EN 3715 6.0--The Literature of World War I
AS/EN 4144 6.0--City Texts and Textual Cities
AS/EN 4148 6.0--Post-World War II Poets
AS/EN 4208 6.0--Thomas Hardy
AS/EN 4209 6.0--Victorians into Moderns
AS/EN 4262 6.0--Comic Novel: Dickens and His Contemporaries
AS/EN 4263 3.0--Studies in Prose Fiction: George Eliot
AS/EN 4264 3.0--Thomas Hardy
AS/EN 4265 6.0--Late Victorian Fiction and the "New Woman"
AS/EN 4266 3.0--Studies in Prose Fiction: Virginia Woolf
AS/EN 4268 6.0--Joyce
AS/EN 4320 6.0--Studies in Contemporary Drama
AS/EN 4321 3.0--Rewriting History
AS/EN 4322 3.0--British Comedy
AS/EN 4331 6.0--Contemporary Literature: Writers & Drugs
AS/EN 4332 6.0--The Neo-Victorian Novel
AS/EN 4334 6.0--Recent Irish Fiction
AS/EN 4335 6.0--Seamus Heaney

Area 5) Gender Studies:

AS/EN 2850 6.0--Introduction to Gender Studies
AS/EN 2860 6.0--Women in Literature
AS/EN 3432 6.0--17th-Century Literature
AS/EN 3436 6.0--Canadian Women Writers
AS/EN 3438 3.0--Recent Women Fiction Writers
AS/EN 4107 3.0--The Sapphic Muse
AS/EN 4261 6.0--19th Century British Female Tradition
AS/EN 4265 6.0--Late Victorian Fiction and the "New Woman"
AS/EN 4291 6.0--Women's Writings in the Middle Ages
AS/EN 4292 6.0--Women Poets 1660-1720
AS/EN 4333 6.0--Gay Male Literature

Area 6) Genre:

AS/EN 2110 6.0--Introduction to Poetry
AS/EN 2120 6.0--Drama
AS/EN 2130 6.0--Introduction to Poetics
AS/EN 2220 3.0--Coming of Age in Fiction
AS/EN 2230 3.0--Comedy
AS/EN 2240 3.0--Apocalyptic Science Fiction
AS/EN 2250 3.0--20th-Century Children's Literature
AS/EN 2251 3.0--Children's Literature, 1590-1900
AS/EN 2260 3.0--"Going Far?'': Travel Writing in English
AS/EN 2270 3.0--Comics and Cartoons I
AS/EN 2271 3.0--Comics and Cartoons II
AS/EN 2470 6.0--Prose Narrative
AS/EN 2480 6.0--Satire
AS/EN 2770 6.0--Modern Drama
AS/EN 2860 6.0--Women in Literature: A Comparative Analysis
AS/EN 3150 6.0--The Writer/Critic
AS/EN 3190 6.0--Shakespeare
AS/EN 3210 6.0--Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
AS/EN 3300 6.0--Victorian Fiction and its Reading Public
AS/EN 3320 6.0--Poetry of the United States
AS/EN 3330 6.0--Modern Canadian Drama
AS/EN 3340 6.0--Modern Canadian Fiction
AS/EN 3350 6.0--Modern Canadian Poetry
AS/EN 3400 3.0--Ballads and Folksongs
AS/EN 3436 6.0--Canadian Women Writers
AS/EN 3540 6.0--Restoration and 18th-Century Drama
AS/EN 3700 6.0--Filming Literature
AS/EN 3710 6.0--Literary Nonfiction
AS/EN 4121 6.0--Lyric Poetry from Classical Greece
AS/EN 4143 6.0--"The Cantos" of Ezra Pound
AS/EN 4148 6.0--British and American Post-World War Poets
AS/EN 4184 6.0--The Renaissance Theatre of Transgression
AS/EN 4185 6.0--Advanced Shakespeare
AS/EN 4192 3.0--The Female Bildungsroman
AS/EN 4212 3.0--Henry James
AS/EN 4250 6.0--Studies in the English Romantics
AS/EN 4252 6.0--Blake and Wordsworth after Milton
AS/EN 4262 6.0--Comic Novel: Dickens and His Contemporaries
AS/EN 4264 3.0--Studies in Prose Fiction: Thomas Hardy
AS/EN 4265 6.0--Late Victorian Fiction and the "New Woman"
AS/EN 4273 6.0--Studies in Canadian Literature: Poetry
AS/EN 4275 6.0--Canadian Life Writing
AS/EN 4321 3.0--Rewriting History
AS/EN 4322 3.0--British Comedy
AS/EN 4332 6.0--The Neo-Victorian Novel
AS/EN 4334 6.0--Recent Irish Fiction
AS/EN 4335 6.0--Seamus Heaney
AS/EN 4951 3.0--Practical Poetics: A Workshop Seminar

Area 7) Language and Theory:

AS/EN 2060 6.0--Grammatical Structure of English
AS/EN 2070 6.0--Approaches to Grammar
AS/EN 2100 6.0--History and Principles of Literary Criticism
AS/EN 2130 6.0--Introduction to Poetics
AS/EN 3010 3.0 (3010 6.0)--Style and Stylistics
AS/EN 3100 6.0--Literary Interpretation
AS/EN 3150 6.0--The Writer/Critic
AS/EN 3420 6.0--Psychoanalysis and Approaches to Literature
AS/EN 4100 3.0--Literature and Philosophy
AS/EN 4101 3.0--Narratology
AS/EN 4102 3.0--Feminist Theory
AS/EN 4103 6.0--Cultural Studies
AS/EN 4104 6.0--The Genesis of Thought
AS/EN 4105 6.0--Imagining Language
AS/EN 4106 6.0--Studies in English Literary Theory
AS/EN 4107 3.0--The Sapphic Muse
AS/EN 4108 3.0--Aristotle's Poetics and English Literature
AS/EN 4110 6.0--History and Description of the English Language
AS/EN 4185 6.0--Advanced Shakespeare

Area 8) Creative Writing:

AS/EN 3240 6.0--Poetry Workshop
AS/EN 4951 3.0--Practical Poetics: A Workshop Seminar

Notes:

1. Some courses are listed in two areas. These may be taken to fulfill one, but not both, of the area requirements.

2. Similarly, some sections of some courses may fulfill requirements in more than one area (e.g. "Canadian Women Writers" may be counted as area 1 (Canadian) or area 5 (Gender Studies).

3. Area 4 (British Literature) is divided into three parts. Each part may be considered a separate area. All English majors are required to take six credits from area 4.1 or 4.2.

Specialized Honours BA Program

Students will take at least 60 credits in English, including:

one of AS/EN 1100 6.0, AS/EN 1200 6.0, AS/EN 1300 6.0, or AS/EN 1400 6.0, or AS/EN 1250 3.0 and AS/EN 1350 3.0;
18 credits from 2000-level courses;
12 credits from 3000-level courses;
12 credits from 4000-level courses;
12 additional credits above the 1000 level.

Students must take six credits from six of the areas listed above. Six credits must be chosen from area 4.1 or 4.2. The remaining 18 credits may be chosen from the department's offerings to suit the student's interests.

Honours BA Program

Students will take at least 48 credits in English, including;

one of AS/EN 1100 6.0, AS/EN 1200 6.0, AS/EN 1300 6.0, or AS/EN 1400 6.0, or AS/EN 1250 3.0 and AS/EN 1350 3.0;
18 credits from 2000-level courses;
24 additional credits in courses above the 2000 level, including at least 12 credits at the 4000 level.

Students must take six credits from five of the areas listed above. Six credits must be chosen from area 4.1 or 4.2.

Honours Double Major BA Program

The Honours BA program described above may be pursued jointly with any other Honours bachelor's degree program in the Faculties of Arts, Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, or with a major in earth and atmospheric science or physics and astronomy in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.

Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA Programs

English may be linked with any Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA program in the Faculty of Arts. Students must take at least 42 credits in English and at least 36 credits in the interdisciplinary program. Courses taken to meet English requirements cannot also be used to meet the requirements of the interdisciplinary program. Students in these interdisciplinary programs must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 4000 level including at least 12 credits in English and six credits in the interdisciplinary program. For further details of requirements, see the listings for specific Honours Double Major Interdisciplinary BA programs.

The 42 credits in English must include:

one of AS/EN 1100 6.0, AS/EN 1200 6.0, AS/EN 1300 6.0, or AS/EN 1400 6.0, or AS/EN 1250 3.0 and AS/EN 1350 3.0;
12 credits from 2000-level courses;
six credits from 3000-level courses;
12 credits from 4000-level courses;
six additional credits above the 1000 level.

Students must take six credits from four of the areas listed above. Six credits must be chosen from area 4.1 or 4.2.

Honours Major/Minor BA Program

The Honours BA program described above may be pursued jointly with any Honours Minor bachelor's degree program in the Faculties of Arts, Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, or with a minor in biology, chemistry, or physics and astronomy in the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science.

Honours Minor BA Program

The Honours Minor must be pursued jointly with an Honours Major/Minor BA program in the Faculty of Arts.

Students must take at least 30 credits in English, including:

one of AS/EN 1100 6.0, AS/EN 1200 6.0, AS/EN 1300 6.0, or AS/EN 1400 6.0, or AS/EN 1250 3.0 and AS/EN 1350 3.0;
six credits from 2000-level courses;
six credits from 3000-level courses;
six credits from 4000-level courses;
six additional credits above the 1000 level.

Students must take six credits from three of the areas listed above. Six credits must be chosen from area 4.1 or 4.2.

Note: Faculty of Arts legislation requires that, in order to obtain an Honours BA (120 credits), students must take a total of at least 18 credits at the 4000 level including at least 12 credits at the 4000 level in each Honours major or Specialized Honours major.

BA Program

Students must take at least 30 credits in English, including:

one of AS/EN 1100 6.0, AS/EN 1200 6.0, AS/EN 1300 6.0, or AS/EN 1400 6.0, or AS/EN 1250 3.0 and AS/EN 1350 3.0;
12 credits from 2000-level courses;
12 credits from 3000-level courses.

Students must take six credits from three of the areas listed above. Six credits must be chosen from area 4.1 or 4.2 at the 3000 level.