Courses
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- Offered: Every other winter.
- Prerequisites: EN 125, or EN 225, or instructor's permission
- Offered: Contact department for information.
- Prerequisites: EN 125, or EN 225, or instructor's permission.
Study of selected national cinemas (or a selected topic in national cinema) with emphasis on their relationship to national cultural traditions.
Notes: May be repeated for credits if topic varies.- Offered: Contact department.
- Prerequisites: EN 217.
- Offered: Contact department
- Prerequisites: EN 211.
Important eighteenth and nineteenth century Romantic era writers, which may include Austen, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Mary Shelley, Wordsworth.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211.
Important British Victorian writers and texts from 1820 to 1900; authors may include Barrett Browning, Browning, Dickens, the Rossettis, Tennyson, and/or Wilde. Coursework culminates in the completion of a substantial research project.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: EN 304 and admission to the pre-methods phase of teacher education or with permission of instructor.
This course explores theoretical and pedagogical issues related to teaching literary texts in secondary English classrooms. Emphasis on classic and contemporary texts, including works by women and writers of color and/or ethnic diversity.
Notes: May not be applied toward a non-teaching major or any minor in English. May not be repeated for credit.- Offered: Fall Winter
- Prerequisites: Admission to the methods phase of teacher education.
Introduction to recent methods and materials to motivate secondary students. Presents phases of language, literature and composition in a classroom situation. Text readings are balanced with professional research tailored to individual interests.
Notes: May not be applied toward a non-teaching major or any minor in English. Can be applied to the secondary education English minor if required.- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211.
British and Irish fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction from 1900 to 1960, including major figures, such as Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett.
- Offered: Contact department for information.
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and junior standing or instructor permission.
A study of poetry meant to acquaint students with the broad variety of verbal activities in the genre. The course will include an examination of lyric, dramatic and narrative forms. Course will culminate in a substantial research project.
- Offered: Contact department for information.
- Prerequisites: EN 283 or EN 284.
A study of the characteristics that define this varied genre in history. The class provides students with a complex historical knowledge of narrative from the epic to the novel, with emphasis on the novel, the short story and theories of narrative.
- Offered: Contact department for information.
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and junior standing or instructor permission.
A study of drama as genre from Greek tragedy to modern drama. The course may be organized according to a history of drama, types of drama or major themes. Coursework culminates in a substantial research project.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and junior standing or instructor permission.
An examination of the ways in which film communicates story and experience, emphasizing structure, narrative techniques, and other elements of the cinematic art. Course will culminate in a substantial research project.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: EN 211.
Examination of contemporary literary theories, emphasizing their ways of redefining literature and the study of literature. It also explores the application of theory to literary texts.
- Offered: Contact department for information.
- Prerequisites: EN 206 and EN 217.
A methods-based course that prepares education majors to teach journalism and act as faculty advisers to student publications. Includes 25 contact hours of an in-school internship.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
Considers various literary genres of the colonial and early American period, ending with the literature of the early republic.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
Considers the movement toward inventing a national voice from the early 19th century to the Civil War, including the American literary Renaissance, transcendentalism, slave narratives, and the rise of the sentimental novel.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
Considers the literature that took shape in the wake of the Civil War through World War I, including literary movements such as regionalism, realism, naturalism, the Harlem Renaissance, as well as the impact of WWI upon American literature.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
Considers the literature of modernism and World War II, covering definitive movements from imagism to feminism, and experiments in literary form.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
A variable content survey that explores the distinct literatures and historical contexts of U.S. minorities. Possible offereings: African American, Asian American, Arab American, Latino American, Jewish American, etc.
Notes: May be repeated if topic differs.- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211and sophomore standing.
A variable content survey that explores the distinct literatures and historical contexts of U.S. minorities. Possible offerings: African American, Asian American, Arab American, Latino American, Jewish American, etc.
Notes: May be repeated if topic differs.- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
Considers the literature emerging after the Civil Rights and Women's movements, covering Postmodernism and the newest modes of literary expression.
- Offered: Fall
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
Considers in multiple genres the literature of slavery and resistance from the colonial era to 1900.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
Considers the literature taking shape throughout the 20th century and beyond, including literary movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Era, Black Theatre, the rise of the literary critic, and the newest modes of cultural expression.
- Offered: Contact department for information
- Prerequisites: EN 211.
British and Irish fiction, drama, poetry and nonfiction from 1960 to the present, including major figures such as Seamus Heaney, Martin Amis, Zadie Smith and Harold Pinter, as well as writers from Commonwealth countries such as Doris Lessing and Salman Rushdie. Course will culminate in a substantial research project.
- Offered: Summer
- Prerequisites: EN 211 and sophomore standing.
An interdisciplinary approach to four or five plays to be performed at that Stratford Theatre Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Students who simultaneously enroll in TH 493 Field Studies will be able to view these same plays in performance in Stratford.
Notes: Cross listed with TH 385.