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English Option
Revised curriculum for students admitted Fall 2015 and after.
This option provides students with a course of study that focuses on how to read critically—that is, analyze, historicize, and politicize—a wide range of literary and cultural texts. Students examine how such things as genre, form, method, historical period, geography and nation inform narrative media, including works of literature, film, television, digital culture, and the visual arts. Through an engagement with narratives of the past and the present, students develop a critical understanding of contemporary cultural production.
Thirteen (13) courses are required, grouped as follows:
REQUIRED:
ENG 110 | Literatures Across Borders |
ENG 208 | Introduction to Non-Fiction |
ENG 400 | Literary and Cultural Theory |
ENG 810 | Advanced English Research Methods |
ENG 910* | English Capstone Seminar |
One course from the following:
ENG 302 | Practicum: Writing in the Arts |
ENG 304 | Practicum: Online Publishing |
ENG 306 | Practicum: Forms of Creative Writing |
ENG 390 | Practicum: Open Topics |
Two courses from the following:
ENG 421 | 16C Literature and Culture |
ENG 422 | 17C Literature and Culture |
ENG 531 | 18C Literature and Culture |
ENG 632 | 19C Literature and Culture |
Five courses from the following:
Students may opt for depth by selecting courses within thematic categories, or may opt for breadth by sampling broadly across those categories.
Media & Culture Studies:
ENG 590 | Studies in Word and Image |
ENG 611 | Film and Literature |
ENG 703 | Popular Literatures |
ENG 705 | Studies in Visual Cultures |
ENG 706 | Shakespeare and Performance |
ENG 888 | Televisual Texts and Contexts |
ENG 921 | Narrative in a Digital Age |
ENG 941 | Gender and Sex in Literature and Culture |
Urban & Global Literatures:
ENG 203 | The Literature of Native Peoples |
ENG 223 | Lit of Exile and Migration |
ENG 408 | World Literatures |
ENG 409 | Urban Literatures |
ENG 413 | Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures |
ENG 416 | American Literatures |
ENG 620 | English Caribbean Literatures and Cultures |
ENG 621 | Women's Texts, Global Contexts |
ENG 640 | Lit of Asia and its Diasporas |
ENG 701 | Canadian Literatures |
ENG 710 | Special Topics in Canadian Literatures |
ENG 942 | Postcolonial Interventions |
Literary History & Movements:
ENG 421 | 16C Literature and Culture |
ENG 422 | 17C Literature and Culture |
ENG 531 | 18C Literature and Culture |
ENG 624 | 20C Literature and Culture |
ENG 632 | 19C Literature and Culture |
Rhetoric, Writing & Culture:
ENG 200 | Writing as a Cultural Act |
ENG 520 | The Language of Persuasion |
ENG 529 | Controversies in Public Disc |
ENG 720 | Persuasion from Plato to Present |
ENG 730 | The Social Life of Books |
Genre Studies:
ENG 222 |
Fairy Tales and Fantasies |
ENG 224 |
Children's Literature |
ENG 517 | Techniques in Creative Writing |
ENG 530 |
Literary Non-Fiction |
ENG 540 |
The Novel |
ENG 550 | Drama |
ENG 560 | Poetry and Poetics |
ENG 570 | Auto/Biography |
ENG 580 | The Gothic |
ENG 707 | Shakespeare and His World |
Independent Study:
ENG 904 | Independent Research Paper |
ENG 907 |
Senior English Project |
NOTE: English courses cannot be used toward the liberal studies requirement if the English Option is chosen. Students in the English Option cannot complete the English Minor.