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Curriculum & Courses
The English MA at Ryerson provides a high standard of literary education within a flexible program structure. The program’s principal goals are the following:
- To provide a sustained, scholarly analysis of conventional literary forms such as fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama, and less conventional forms such as digital poetics, life writing, the illustrated book, and manifestos,
- To establish a foundation of research for PhD studies in English and related fields such as Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature,
- To develop skills in literary studies and engagement that prepare students for a broad range of career options, and
- To provide students with the opportunity to write a major research paper, to take up a practicum related to their program research, or to fulfill a combination of the two.
Core Structure of Program Requirements
This program is designed for completion by full-time students in three consecutive terms: Fall, Winter, and Spring/Summer.
Fall Term
- Foundations
- Elective Course
- Elective Course
Winter Term
- Professional Skills
- Elective Course
- Elective Course
Spring/Summer Term
Courses
The following foundation course is a required course for all students in the program and will be offered once per year during the first term.
- LM8931: Science, Literature, and Art
- LM8932: Interfaces: Open Topic*
- LM8933: Literary Theories
- LM8934: Studies in 18th Century Literature and Culture
- LM8935: Rise of Children’s Literature
- LM8936: Genders, Sexualities, and Humans*
- LM8937: Modernisms
- LM8938: Modernism and Auto/Biography
- LM8939: Studies in 19th C Literature and Culture*
- LM8940: Modernity and Identity
- LM8941: Modernity’s Others*
- LM8942: Modernity and the Visual: Image and Text*
- LM8943: New Directions: Open Topic*
- LM8944: Diasporic Modernities
- LM8945: Politics and American Writing
- LM8946: Psychoanalysis and Literature
- LM8947: Early Modern Literature and Culture
- LM8948: Studies in Rhetoric
- LM8950: Unreal Cities
* Courses offered in 2020/21