Email this page Print this page

English

ENGL 010Language Skills
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
This is an intensive course in fundamental writing and reading skills. It is not transferable to university, but successful completion guarantees admission to English 100.
ENGL 100Academic Writing Strategies
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
This course emphasizes academic research and essay writing skills in a lively context that encourages and enhances both critical thinking and critical reading expertise.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 103Studies in Contemporary Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
Novels, plays, poems, screenplays, memoirs, graphic novels, and more: this course explores the rich variety of contemporary literature in both traditional and new hybrid genres.
Note: While ENGL 100 is not a prerequisite, competence in essay writing and research is expected.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website
ENGL 104Contemporary Fiction
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
An introduction to new developments in the field of narrative fiction and criticism, this course studies short stories, novellas, traditional and experimental novels, and more.
Note: While ENGL 100 is not a prerequisite, competence in essay writing and research is expected.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 105Contemporary Poetry
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
Students read, research, and discuss a wide variety of developments and innovations in the writing, publishing, and performance of primarily 20th and 21st century poetry.
Note: While ENGL 100 is not a prerequisite, competence in essay writing and research is expected.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 106Contemporary Drama
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
This course focuses on recent innovations in drama and important plays written and produced for stage and film primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Note: While ENGL 100 is not a prerequisite, competence in essay writing and research is expected.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 107First Nations Literature and Film
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
Students read and discuss aboriginal poetry, plays, screenplays, films, novels, and memoirs across national boundaries. The course may also include work by non-aboriginals on aboriginal subjects.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 109Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
This course explores contemporary issues and how they are interpreted in literature, film, and music. The issue chosen for consideration will be announced during the registration period.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 190Creative Writing I
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
Students sharpen their writing craft by work-shopping their prose, poetry, drama, and/or creative non-fiction while also studying contemporary practice in a selection of these genres.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 191Creative Writing II
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.
This course builds on Creative Writing I as students further develop their writing practice in selected genres and further study the art of contemporary forms.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 200English Literature from Beowulf to Paradise Lost
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
Epic poetry, Arthurian romances, lyrics, sonnets, Renaissance and Jacobean drama: the course surveys significant works in all major forms from the medieval period to the mid-17th century.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 201English Literature Since 1660
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
This course examines significant works in all major forms from the Restoration to the Modernist Period. With the rise of print culture these works include diaries and journals, familiar letters, novels, poems, and plays.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 203Canadian Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
Students in this course discuss works of literature by key Canadian authors of poetry, novels, and plays, while exploring the unique history of Canadian cultural identity.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor. This course serves as a Canadian Studies credit.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 205Modern American Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
The course explores modern American culture through selected works of literature written in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 207Literary Theory and Criticism
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
Students in this course learn about the dynamic history of literary theory and criticism, focusing on the last century and approaches such as formalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, and post-structuralism.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 208Studies in Fiction
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
Revolutions in story-telling will be studied while reading novels, graphic novels, and more. The course will focus on the cultural contexts in which fictional forms have emerged and gained popularity.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 209Poetry and Poetics
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
This course examines the craft and history of poetry by looking at individual poets, poetic forms, and poetry movements within historical and cultural contexts.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 210Staging Literature: Studies in Drama
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
The course investigates the relationship between dramatic texts and performances within their historical and cultural contexts. Major plays from various periods and national theatres will be discussed as we consider how this art form has evolved.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 211Studies in Short Fiction
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
Through a detailed analysis of representative texts, students learn how the short story and novella have developed in different historical and cultural contexts.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 212Traditions in Western Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
The course examines influential works of literature in translation from various periods and countries and explores how mythology, religion and history from non-English traditions have influenced western literature.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 213World Literature in English
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
Students sample modern literature written in English and drawn from a variety of countries, cultures, and traditions around the globe.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 214Technology and Culture
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
This is a cultural survey of modern writing with an emphasis on how technology has both influenced and been incorporated into a variety of literary works.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 217Literature on the Edge
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
The course examines special topics, texts, and/or genres outside or on the margins of traditional literary studies, e.g. the memoir, fantasy and science fiction, the literature of utopias and dystopias and psychedelic literature.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website
ENGL 218The Art of Children's Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
This course explores the rich variety of children's literature and considers how writing for children delights, instructs, and subverts. Texts will include poems, novels, tales, illustrations, and films.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 219Reel Lit: Literature into Film
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses.
Works of literature transformed into television and film form the basis of this course. The individual works are examined critically and from theoretical perspectives.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 225Directed Internship - English
3.00 credits(0,0,5) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: Any combination of two first-year English courses
This course provides students with 75 hours of directed work experience in fields associated with the production, promotion, delivery and/or study of print and literary culture. Students gain relevant experience while facilitating later transition into the workforce. The emphasis of this experience is to put existing critical, editorial, and writing skills into practice while learning new skills. The English coordinators or designates must approve the proposed internship in advance of registration.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
ENGL 290Creative Writing: Letter and Line
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: ENGL 190 and 191
This is an intensive workshop in the writing of poetry, concentrating on an understanding of form, an awareness of voice, and an individual poetics. Students will have the opportunity to try a variety of forms: the short lyric, the serial poem, narrative verse, prose poetry.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 291Creative Writing: Narrative Fictions
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: ENGL 190 and 191
This is an intensive workshop in the writing of fiction, concentrating on narrative techniques in student writing and in a variety of published works of contemporary fiction. Students will have the opportunity to develop an awareness of voice, rhythm, dialogue, diction, character, and point-of-view.
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.
ENGL 292Creative Writing: Children's Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: ENGL 190 and 191
This is an intensive workshop in writing literature for children of various ages. Students will work on such forms as text for picture books, nonsense rhymes, and chapters of young adult novels in verse.
Note: ENGL 218 is recommended
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website. Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
ENGL 293Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: ENGL 190 or ENGL 191
This is an intensive workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction, concentrating on contemporary forms such as magazine articles, personal essays, travel writing, blogging, etc, as well as professional aspects of writing, such as "the pitch", book proposals, and the editing process.
Note: Recommended course follow-up: ENGL 290, 291, 292
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website. Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
ENGL 295Special Topics in Creative Writing
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: ENGL 190 or 191
The focus of this Creative Writing course is determined by the individual instructor in consultation with the department. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
Note: Recommended course follow-up: ENGL 290, 291, 292, 293
Note: Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
ENGL 296Creative Writing: Writing for the Stage
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: ENGL 190 or 191, or ACTR 100 and ENGL 100
This is an intensive workshop in the writing of short plays, concentrating on effective playwrighting skills with an established playwright and a director. Students will develop and draft their works multiple times, ultimately seeing these works performed before a public audience at the end of the course.
Note: Recommended course follow-up: ENGL 290, 291, 292
Note: For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website. Prerequisites may be waived by permission of instructor.
ENGL 300Advanced Academic Writing: Research and Methods
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
Building on scholarly, analytical, and rhetorical skills introduced English 100, this course teaches students how to take an investigative project through its various stages of inception, research, composition, revision and publication. It is strongly recommended that all Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies students take this course at least one term before graduation in preparation for their General Studies 490 Graduating Project (or an approved alternative).
Note: ENGL 100 is strongly recommended
ENGL 301Studies in Rhetoric
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course offers advanced study in the theory and/or history of rhetoric. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
Note: ENGL 100 is strongly recommended
ENGL 302Studies in British Columbian Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This exploration of British Columbian literature reveals perspectives on places and events, and on the operation of language as seen from different cultural perspectives.
ENGL 305Studies in Canadian Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course studies selected works of Canadian literature. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 308Studies in British Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
The course explores aspects of British literature through selected works of literature written by authors from or based in the United Kingdom from early modern period to the present day. Topics covered might include the birth of the novel, representations of the Industrial Revolution, the Imperial and post-Imperial novel, or Anglo-American modernism. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 311Studies in American Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course explores aspects of American literature through selected works of literature written by authors from or based in the United States from the early modern period to the present day. Topics covered might include the birth of a nation, race relations, the West and Manifest Destiny, or the post-9/11 novel. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 314Studies in National Literatures
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course explores national literatures and their cultural, social, and political power in relation to the development and construction of personal and national identity. The course, for example, may focus on Central American, Iranian, Irish, and Russian literature. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 317Traditions in Western Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course examines influential works of literature, both in English and in translation, from various periods and countries that are part of what has been traditionally known as the Western World. It explores the ways in which mythology, religion, and history have helped construct western literature. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 320World Literature in Translation
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course introduces students to contemporary non-English literatures in translation. The course will emphasize current developments and trends in global writing, selecting materials from such countries as China, India, Iran, Columbia and Mexico. Students will also explore the relationship between recent literature and current events, contemporary political theory, religious belief, demographics, linguistics, and a range of ideas relevant to the modern world. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 323Studies in Genre
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course examines prose genres, such as the essay, biography, autobiography, tragedy, the gothic, or travel narrative. The course is intended to develop a critical awareness of literary techniques and contexts in the representation of experience. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 326Traditions in Poetry
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
The course surveys poetry traditions and practices across different times and cultures with particular attention to the emergence of new forms and theories of poetry. A specific section of the course may select a particular time period and place, e.g. medieval poetry in England, France, and Japan. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
Note: ENGL 105 and/or ENGL 209 recommended
ENGL 329Literature and Performance
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course examines a range of literary performance texts and practices and introduces analytical methods and theoretical perspectives with which to approach such works. Students will experience performances through films, recordings, and local theatre. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 332Literature and Society
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course explores ideology, religion, theory, and other societal constructs as presented by writers across the centuries; sample courses include "Marxism and the Novel," "Representations of Faith in Twentieth-Century Literature," and "Lawyers, The Truth, and The Novel". See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 335Electronic Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course examines electronic literature (literature created on the computer to be read on the computer) assessing how this emergent literary form affects the way we read, study, and understand literature. It situates digital literature within literary history, examining connections to print narrative, concrete poetry, OULIPO constraint-driven experiments, and other lineages. Students will also consider the genre as a form possessing computer-driven aesthetics - such as speed, animation, and multimodal semiotics - that produce different literary effects and reading practices. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
Note: ENGL 214 recommended
ENGL 338Literature and Media
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course investigates and theorizes the relation of literature to different media such as manuscript, print, visual, aural, electronic, and/or oral. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 341Literature and Visual Culture
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level English course
This course surveys the complex interplay between text, typography, images and the book as a material object from a historical and/or contemporary vantage point, emphasizing the ways in which literary texts register both technological change as well as historical, societal, and cultural change. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 344Literature and the Environment
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including 3 credits of 200-level English
This course explores literature in the context of recent environmental and ecological thought. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 390Advanced Poetry and Poetics
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level Creative Writing course
This course focuses on developments in poetry and poetics since the 1970s such as the long poem, serial forms, procedural writing, language-centred writing, ecopoetics, conceptual writing, visual poetry, prose poetry, documentarian forms, poet's theatre, guerrilla poetry, dialect and patois, and new media. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 391Advanced Narrative Forms
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level Creative Writing course
This course focuses on developments in fiction and narrative since the 1970s such as new narrative, genre fiction, graphic novels, microfiction, the city-novel, appropriated narratives, biofiction, new media, and other forms and modes.
ENGL 395Special Topics in Creative Writing
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 45 lower level credits including one 200-level Creative Writing course
The focus of this Creative Writing course is determined by the individual instruction in consultation with the department. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 400Major Authors
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 15 upper level credits including one 300-level English course
This course is an advanced seminar that takes the form of a single author study or comparative analysis of canonical authors. Students will study the complete works of an author including non-literary writing, such as criticism, journals, letters, religious and political tracts. Special emphasis will be placed on situating authors within their historical, social, and ideological contexts. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 410Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 15 upper level credits including one 300-level English course
This course is an advanced seminar in twentieth-century literature with an emphasis on the close study of specific literary movements and schools such as Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, OULIPO, the New York School, or Postmodernism and/or prevalent thematic concerns present in twentieth-century literature. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 420Topics in Literary Theory
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 15 upper level credits including one 300-level English course
This course is an advanced seminar in literary theory. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.
ENGL 490Directed Studies
3.00 credits(4,0,0) hrs15 wks
Prerequisite: 15 upper level credits including one 300-level English course
Students will work with an English faculty member and be guided in the development of a research-based project. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. See the Department of English website for complete details on the application process. Admission is by permission of the instructor and the department.