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ENGL 1100 Introduction to University Writing (3,0,0)ENGL 1100 Introduction to University Writing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the practices of reading and writing in scholarly contexts by investigating a chosen topic or issue. Students read, critically analyze, and synthesize information and ideas found in appropriate secondary sources and coming from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. They also develop their abilities to communicate knowledge by composing in the genres and sub-genres of scholarly writing, including the incorporation of research and documentation while using a clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style.
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ENGL 1110 Critical Reading and Writing (3,0,0)ENGL 1110 Critical Reading and Writing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students develop skills in close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation through the exploration and evaluation of a variety of creative narrative texts. Students learn critically and creatively to articulate complexities of various perspectives, techniques and rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers to convey a given subject matter or social issue. They also practice critical reflection and clear, persuasive, and grammatically-correct communication by building on scholarly writing and documentation skills. Students develop critical reading and writing skills, which are keys to success in any academic discipline and transfer directly to the workplace.
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ENGL 1120 Introduction to Poetry (3,0,0)ENGL 1120 Introduction to Poetry (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students develop skills in close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation through the exploration and evaluation of a variety of poetic forms that take up a particular theme, topic, or issue chosen by the professor. Through lecture, class discussion, and written assignments, students learn critically and creatively to interpret and compare classic and contemporary poetic texts. Students demonstrate how to reflect critically and to articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by poets to convey a given subject matter or social issue. They also practice clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct communication while building on scholarly writing and documentation skills.
Prerequisites: English Studies 12 /English First Peoples 12 with a minimum 73% or equivalent
Exclusion Requisites: ENGL 1210-Introduction To Drama & Poetry, ENGL 1011-Literature and Composition II |
ENGL 1140 Introduction to Drama (3,0,0)ENGL 1140 Introduction to Drama (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students develop skills in close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation through the exploration and evaluation of a variety of poetic forms that take up a particular theme, topic, or issue chosen by the professor. Through lecture, class discussion, and written assignments, students learn critically and creatively to interpret and compare classic and contemporary poetic texts. Students demonstrate how to reflect critically and to articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by poets to convey a given subject matter or social issue. They also practice clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct communication while building on scholarly writing and documentation skills.
Prerequisites: English Studies 12 /English First Peoples 12 with a minimum 73% or equivalent
Exclusion Requisites:
ENGL 1210-Introduction To Drama & Poetry
ENGL 1011-Literature and Composition II |
ENGL 1150 Introduction to Creative Writing (3,0,0)ENGL 1150 Introduction to Creative Writing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the field of creative writing by composing original creative works in three of the four following literary genres: poetry, fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction. Students develop skills in close critical and creative reading comprehension and the application of literary techniques by analyzing classic and contemporary literary works. Through developmental exercises on creative writing techniques, writing workshops, and peer review, students practice discerning the elements of writing craft and developing skills for creating image, voice, character, setting, and structure. Students also learn how to employ grammatical, linguistic, and stylistic conventions appropriate for compositions in each genre.
Prerequisites: English Studies 12 /English First Peoples 12 with a minimum 73% or equivalent. |
ENGL 1210 Introduction to Drama and Poetry (3,0,0)ENGL 1210 Introduction to Drama and Poetry (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students develop skills in close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation through the exploration and evaluation of a variety of poetic and dramatic forms that take up a particular theme, topic, or issue chosen by the professor. Through lecture, class discussion, and written assignments, students learn critically and creatively to interpret and compare classic and contemporary poetic and dramatic texts. Students demonstrate how to reflect critically and to articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by poets and dramatists to convey a given subject matter or social issue. They also practice clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct communication while building on scholarly writing and documentation skills.
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ENGL 2000 Introduction to Canadian Studies (3,0,0)ENGL 2000 Introduction to Canadian Studies (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore Canadian Studies by examining some key concepts and themes that have emerged across a wide spectrum of scholarship on Canada. Students increase their awareness of the dynamics of all aspects of Canadian literature and culture. At the discretion of the individual instructor, this course may focus on a particular time period, relationship, or theme.
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ENGL 2010 Writing and Critical Thinking: The Personal in Academic Discourse (3,0,0)ENGL 2010 Writing and Critical Thinking: The Personal in Academic Discourse (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits The subject of this course includes reading and writing, with a focus on the literacy narratives genre. Students read and interpret a selection of literacy narratives by scholars as well as scholarly articles that explore the role of the personal in academic discourse. Students gain extensive practice in thinking critically and writing about their own literacy experiences.
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ENGL 2020 Writing and Critical Thinking: Research (3,0,0)ENGL 2020 Writing and Critical Thinking: Research (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to explore the theory and practice of academic reading and writing through a variety of topics or issues. Students perform close critical readings of scholarly texts to identify, analyze, and communicate the stylistic strategies and characteristics of academic sources. While investigating a topic, students use various research methods to assess, organize, and synthesize those scholarly sources in their own writing. They gain extensive practice in research writing, and apply the theories and practices of academic writing, with a focus on the research genres, including critical summaries, research proposals and research papers, and reinforced attention on documentation and grammatically-correct style. Students also practice communication strategies for professional discourse through group feedback on writing.
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ENGL 2040 Canadian Drama: From Page to Stage and Screen (3,0,0)ENGL 2040 Canadian Drama: From Page to Stage and Screen (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Through a focus on modern and contemporary plays, this course introduces students to various theatrical techniques and dramatic modes. Works by such playwrights as Tremblay, Ryga, Highway, Clements, and Lepage may be among those studied. Whenever possible, texts are studied in conjunction with local theatrical productions.
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ENGL 2060 Creative Writing - Fiction (3,0,0)ENGL 2060 Creative Writing - Fiction (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the genre of literary fiction by composing original works of short fiction. Students develop skills in close critical and creative reading comprehension and the application of literary techniques by analyzing classic and contemporary short fiction. Through developmental exercises on creative writing techniques, writing workshops, and peer review, students practice discerning the elements of writing craft and developing skills for creating image, voice, character, setting, and structure. Students also learn how to employ grammatical, linguistic, and stylistic conventions appropriate for short story compositions.
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ENGL 2070 Creative Writing - Drama (1,2.0)ENGL 2070 Creative Writing - Drama (1,2.0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the genre of drama writing by composing original short stage plays. Students develop skills in close critical and creative reading comprehension and the application of literary techniques by analyzing classic and contemporary stage plays. Through developmental exercises on creative writing techniques, writing workshops, and peer review, students practice discerning the elements of writing craft and developing skills for creating image, dialogue, character, stage directions, and structure. Students also learn how to employ grammatical, linguistic, and stylistic conventions appropriate for stage play compositions.
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ENGL 2080 Creative Writing - Poetry (3,0,0)ENGL 2080 Creative Writing - Poetry (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the genre of poetry writing by composing original poems. Students develop skills in close critical and creative reading comprehension and the application of literary techniques by analyzing classic and contemporary poetry. Through developmental exercises on creative writing techniques, writing workshops, and peer review, students practice discerning the elements of writing craft and developing skills for creating image, voice, character, setting, and structure. Students also learn how to employ grammatical, linguistic, and stylistic conventions appropriate for poetry compositions.
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ENGL 2110 Literary Landmarks in English to 1700 (3,0,0)ENGL 2110 Literary Landmarks in English to 1700 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through investigation and evaluation of the development of the English language, key genres, influential authors, and important literary movements that emerged from approximately 700 C.E. to the late 1600s. Through reading representative genres, including epic, romance, sonnets, and comedy, and through analysis of these genres in their historical and cultural contexts, students learn to critically and creatively interpret and articulate complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers. They also consider the far-reaching influence of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton, as well as the contributions of other writers of the period, through the practice of critical reflection and scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
Prerequisites: 6 credits of first-year English (with the exception of ENGL 1150) or equivalent OR permission of instructor or department Chair |
ENGL 2120 Reading Literature: Essential Skills (3,0,0)ENGL 2120 Reading Literature: Essential Skills (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students from all disciplines, and especially those entering or currently enrolled in an English Major or English Minor degree, continue to develop fluency in close critical reading comprehension and written communication and gain practical tools for success in upper-level writing and literature courses. Students critically and creatively interpret and evaluate literary texts in three genres (poetry, drama and fiction) using a range of rhetorical strategies and diverse critical perspectives. They investigate a topic, and critically reflect on the complexities and assumptions of various historical, political and cultural contexts. Students demonstrate scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style, a coherent and well-structured literary argument, convincing incorporation of literary evidence, secondary source support, and appropriate documentation skills. .
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ENGL 2140 Biblical and Classical Backgrounds of English Literature 1 (3,0,0)ENGL 2140 Biblical and Classical Backgrounds of English Literature 1 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits The course introduces students to Classical literature (mainly Greek) and the Bible (Old Testament: Hebrew Scriptures)& texts that are relevant and significant to subsequent culture, and especially for written works in English. Students also read and discuss additional representative works in English that have been influenced by the Bible and by Classical literature.
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ENGL 2150 Women and Literature: Voice, Identity and Difference (3,0,0)ENGL 2150 Women and Literature: Voice, Identity and Difference (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop close critical reading comprehension through investigation of women's writing from a variety of time periods, diverse sociocultural backgrounds, and genres. Students understand and apply theoretical concepts, including voice, identity, and difference, to critically evaluate various elements of the female experience. Students critically and creatively interpret and analyze women's writing to consider and articulate how gender can unify women and give them a shared sense of power, while also acknowledging the complexities and multiplicities of female identity and experience as reflected by such differences as social class, ethnicity/culture, gender, and sexual expression, They investigate a topic, applying various critical perspectives and rhetorical strategies towards composing articulate arguments. Through the practice of scholarly writing, students illustrate grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2160 Introduction to American Literature 1 (3,0,0)ENGL 2160 Introduction to American Literature 1 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of major writers and works in American literature up to 1900. Through reading representative nineteenth-century works, including poetry, nonfiction, and prose fiction, and through analysis of these genres in their historical and cultural contexts, students learn critically and creatively to interpret and articulate techniques, rhetorical strategies, and reflect on the complexities of various perspectives and assumptions employed by writers. They also explore the development of American literary identity through the practice of critical reflection and scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2170 Literary Landmarks in Canada (3,0,0)ENGL 2170 Literary Landmarks in Canada (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of the development of literary culture in Canada. Students critically and creatively evaluate influential authors and important literary movements that emerged circa 1700 to the present moment through reading representative genres, including exploration and travel narratives, settlement narratives, novels, poetry, and drama in their historical and cultural contexts. Students learn to critically and creatively interpret Canadian literary texts, applying a range of rhetorical strategies and diverse critical perspectives. They critically reflect on and articulate complexities of various perspectives, and assumptions employed by a broad range of writers. Students practice scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2180 Studies in Literature and Culture (3,0,0)ENGL 2180 Studies in Literature and Culture (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of the relationship between literature and cultural contexts. The approach of the course varies, sometimes focusing on a specific literary and cultural theme in a variety of genres and time periods, sometimes focusing on a specific cultural period, place, or movement and the literary texts and issues that emerge from it. Students critically and creatively evaluate a variety of texts, interpret and analyze a range of rhetorical strategies, and apply diverse critical perspectives. Whatever the focus, students learn to reflect critically and creatively and to articulate complexities and assumptions of various literary texts, considering their historical, political, and cultural contexts. Students investigate a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2190 Studies in Literature and Film (3,0,0)ENGL 2190 Studies in Literature and Film (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of the connected arts of literature and film, and study of the relationships between cinematic form and literary genres, such as drama and the novel. Students critically and creatively evaluate a variety of literary and cinematic genres, interpret and analyze a range of rhetorical strategies, and apply diverse critical perspectives. While the specific literary genre and the selected films change each year, students learn to reflect critically and creatively and to articulate complexities and assumptions of various literary and cinematic texts, considering their historical, political, and cultural contexts. Students investigate a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2200 Studies in Literature 1 (3,0,0)ENGL 2200 Studies in Literature 1 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of literary topics, themes, or issues within the discipline. Students critically and creatively evaluate a variety of interrelated literary texts, interpret and analyze a range of techniques and rhetorical strategies, and apply diverse critical perspectives. While course topics vary depending on faculty and student interest and current developments in the field, students learn to reflect critically and creatively and to articulate complexities and assumptions of various literary texts, considering their historical, political, and cultural contexts. Students investigate a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2210 Survey of English Literature, 18th and 19th Century (3,0,0)ENGL 2210 Survey of English Literature, 18th and 19th Century (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of selected major authors of the Augustan, Romantic and Victorian periods in English literature. Students critically and creatively evaluate a variety of literary texts, interpret and analyze a range of techniques and rhetorical strategies, and apply diverse critical perspectives. Through reading representative genres and through examination of these genres in their historical and cultural contexts, students learn to reflect critically and creatively and to articulate complexities and assumptions of various literary texts, considering their historical, political, and cultural contexts. They also consider the far-reaching influence of representative poets and novelists through the practice of scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2240 Biblical and Classical Backgrounds of English Literature 2 (3,0,0)ENGL 2240 Biblical and Classical Backgrounds of English Literature 2 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course introduces students to Classical literature (mainly Roman) and the Bible (New Testament) - texts that are relevant and important for subsequent culture and especially for writing in English. Representative works in English that have been influenced by the Bible and by Classical literature are also read and discussed.
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ENGL 2250 Women and Literature: Women's Bodies/Women's Roles (3,0,0)ENGL 2250 Women and Literature: Women's Bodies/Women's Roles (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop close critical reading comprehension through an exploration of women's writing from a variety of time periods, diverse sociocultural backgrounds, and genres. Students critically and creatively interpret and evaluate the work of women writers, applying concepts of body theory and feminist perspectives on social roles, as well as literary terminology, techniques, and rhetorical strategies. They also consider the complexities and multiplicities of female ways of knowing and being in the world, including such elements of difference as social class, ethnicity/culture, gender identity and sexual expression and how they affect our understanding of social and corporeal experiences and possibilities. Students investigate a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2260 Introduction to American Literature 2 (3,0,0)ENGL 2260 Introduction to American Literature 2 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of major writers and works in American literature after 1900. Through reading representative literary works, including poetry, nonfiction, prose fiction, and drama, and through analysis of the rise of American modernism and other historical and cultural contexts, students learn critically and creatively to interpret American literary texts, applying a range of rhetorical strategies, and diverse critical perspectives. Students reflect on and articulate the complexities of the American literary identity and assumptions of various American historical, political, and cultural contexts. Students investigate a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2270 Subversion and Social Justice in Canadian Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 2270 Subversion and Social Justice in Canadian Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of the the ways in which Canadian poets, dramatists and fiction writers have been in the forefront of movements for social change, expressing new visions of responsible government, economic fairness, and social equity. Students critically and creatively interpret Canadian poetry, drama, and fiction, applying a range of techniques and rhetorical strategies, diverse critical perspectives, and possible thematic lenses, including protest, satire, creativity, and citizenship. Through the study of literary expressions of subversion and social justice in their historical and cultural contexts, students learn critically and creatively to reflect on and to articulate complexities of Canadian identity. Students investigate a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2400 Studies in Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 2400 Studies in Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through exploration and evaluation of literary topics, themes, or issues within the discipline. Students critically and creatively evaluate a variety of interrelated literary texts, interpret and analyze a range of techniques and rhetorical strategies, and apply diverse critical perspectives. While course topics vary depending on faculty and student interest and current developments in the field, students learn to reflect critically and creatively and to articulate complexities and assumptions of various literary texts, considering their historical, political, and cultural contexts. Students investigate a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2410 Indigenous Narratives in Canada (3,0,0)ENGL 2410 Indigenous Narratives in Canada (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students continue to develop skills in close critical reading comprehension and written composition through evaluation of the contemporary application of narrative structure that shapes the literature of Indigenous cultures. Students critically and creatively explore Indigenous experiences through narrative structure, including local Secwepemc narratives, oral culture, and relationships between land and identity. They investigate and interpret modern and contemporary poetry, drama, short stories, novels, and essays, relating principles of Indigenous knowledges and ways. Students also critically and personally reflect on and articulate the complexities and multiplicities of Indigenous writing and the Indigenous experience of systemic marginalization, discrimination, and cultural oppression within Canada. Students explore a topic, using scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 2420 Canadian Literature and Film (3,0,0)ENGL 2420 Canadian Literature and Film (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students complete a comparative study of the written and filmed versions of selected Canadian texts, from novels and short stories to poems, scripts, and plays, and they explore the effects of the translation from literary text to film.
The selected literary genres and films change each year.
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CMNS 3070 ***Studies in Rhetoric (3,0,0)CMNS 3070 ***Studies in Rhetoric (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course covers special topics in rhetorical theories and their applications.
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ENGL 3080 Advanced Composition 1 - Personal Expression (3,0,0)ENGL 3080 Advanced Composition 1 - Personal Expression (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of the genre of personal expression, through close critical reading comprehension, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of professional examples of personal communication, students show an awareness of past and present knowledge, an advanced ability to critically and creatively reflect on and articulate the complexities of multiple literacies and techniques, including description and narration, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers, and a mastery of independent research and the creation of new knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in personal expression with a clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style.
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ENGL 3120 Indigenous Dramas (3,0,0)ENGL 3120 Indigenous Dramas (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine plays by Indigenous peoples with a focus on understanding the connections between traditional storytelling and staged works. Issues of ethnicity, appropriation, hybridity, historical revisionism, canon formation, and cultural stereotyping may be discussed. Students study plays in their historical and cultural contexts and examine the development of First Nations theatre.
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ENGL 3140 ***Studies in Fiction (3,0,0)ENGL 3140 ***Studies in Fiction (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course includes special topics involving thematic, generic, or formal approaches to fiction. Students may take this course more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3150 Studies in Non-Fiction (3,0,0)ENGL 3150 Studies in Non-Fiction (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students discuss the development and theory of a non-fiction genre, including autobiography, biography, creative non-fiction, memoir, or travel narrative. This course may be taken more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3160 ***Studies in Literature and the Other Arts (3,0,0)ENGL 3160 ***Studies in Literature and the Other Arts (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students analyze the strategies writers and artists in other media use to deal with common themes, and examine problems in formal and stylistic relationships between literature and other arts. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3170 Science Fiction (3,0,0)ENGL 3170 Science Fiction (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students focus on the main trends in science fiction since 1960, including works by Dick, Ballard, Le Guin, Gibson, and others.
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ENGL 3180 Children's Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 3180 Children's Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Through exploration of children's literature of the last three centuries representing a range of experiential perspectives, students demonstrate critical understanding of changing perceptions of childhood, an advanced ability to critically and creatively evaluate and articulate the complexities of rhetorical strategies and assumptions used by writers, and mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students investigate and analyze how literature aimed at children was used to differentiate them from adults (and to challenge such a distinction), and to entertain and socialize them on issues relevant to their lives. Students explore connections between children's literature and adult cultural traditions, and the importance of hybrid audiences. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 3190 ***Studies in the Intellectual Backgrounds of Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 3190 ***Studies in the Intellectual Backgrounds of Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course covers special topics in the history of ideas, with particular reference to ideas that illuminate or are embodied in literature. Students may take this course more than once provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3240 Fairy Tale Variants and Transformations (3,0,0)ENGL 3240 Fairy Tale Variants and Transformations (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate critical understanding of the history of several fairy tales through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of chosen tales from oral folklore to early written versions, as well as subsequent literary variants from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries representing a range of experiential perspectives, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 3250 Women's Memoirs (3,0,0)ENGL 3250 Women's Memoirs (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate critical understanding of memoirs as a unique sub-genre included under the umbrella term “Life Writing" through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of memoirs written by women from a variety of time periods and diverse sociocultural backgrounds, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by memoir writers, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students investigate and analyze how women have found memoir to be a useful tool of self-representation in various contexts that reflect a range of experiential differences and illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 3300 Reading Literature and Literary Theory: Advanced Skills (3,0,0)ENGL 3300 Reading Literature and Literary Theory: Advanced Skills (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course provides an opportunity for extended practice in literary criticism -- that is, in reading works closely and responding to them through interpretation and evaluation. Students examine a limited number of texts through a variety of critical theories such as formalism, reader response, psychological, New Historicist, feminist, deconstruction and cultural criticism. Students gain an understanding of the theories and of the degree to which each approach 'opens up' a text.
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ENGL 3320 Modern Critical Theories (3,0,0)ENGL 3320 Modern Critical Theories (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course surveys major modern theories, and provides students with an opportunity to apply them to literary texts.
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ENGL 3330 *** Special Topics in Creative Writing (1,2,0)ENGL 3330 *** Special Topics in Creative Writing (1,2,0)Credits: 3 credits This course offers the advanced study and practice of one or more of the following topics: literature for a young audience, and genre writing (for example, mystery, horror, or fantasy). Through readings and workshops, students define their own projects and produce a substantial portfolio of original work. Students may take this course more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3340 Writing Speculative Fiction (1,2,0)ENGL 3340 Writing Speculative Fiction (1,2,0)Credits: 3 credits This advanced course in writing speculative fiction includes work on projects in science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, and prehistoric fiction, and progresses through discussion, lectures, and workshops. Assignments, discussions, readings and workshops focus on learning and implementing a variety of fictional methods within these genres. Students explore the intersections of the known and unknown worlds through the tools of literary fiction.
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ENGL 3350 ***Studies in Major Authors (3,0,0)ENGL 3350 ***Studies in Major Authors (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course probes the works of no more than two significant writers. Specific topics are announced each year. Students may take this course more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3360 Advanced Short Fiction Writing (1,2,0)ENGL 3360 Advanced Short Fiction Writing (1,2,0)Credits: 3 credits Through readings, discussion, lectures, and workshops, this course provides an opportunity for advanced practice in writing fictional short stories, between 1,000 and 10,000 words in length. Students produce a substantial portfolio of original work.
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ENGL 3370 Novel Writing (1,2,0)ENGL 3370 Novel Writing (1,2,0)Credits: 3 credits Through readings, discussion, lectures, and workshops, this course provides an opportunity for practice in planning and writing a novel. Students define their own projects and produce the first 30 pages of a novel as well as a substantial synopsis of the whole work.
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ENGL 3380 Advanced Poetry Writing (1,2,0)ENGL 3380 Advanced Poetry Writing (1,2,0)Credits: 3 credits Through readings, discussion, lectures, and workshops, this course provides an opportunity for practice in planning and writing poetry. Assignments and workshops focus on learning, implementing, and revising a variety of poetic forms and styles. Students learn about a variety of poetic schools and traditions.
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ENGL 3390 Advanced Drama Writing (1,2,0)ENGL 3390 Advanced Drama Writing (1,2,0)Credits: 3 credits Through readings, discussion, lectures, and workshops, this course provides an opportunity for advanced practice in writing stage plays. Students are expected to write a one-act play of 20-40 pages. |
ENGL 3410 Screenwriting (3,0,0)ENGL 3410 Screenwriting (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore both similarities and differences in stage and screen writing, through examining and participating in: a critical analysis of contemporary short screenplays as models; developmental exercises on techniques of screen writing; and in-class workshops. The course is based on the premise that creative writing is a craft that requires knowledge of contemporary practitioners in a given genre as well as continual practice.
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ENGL 3550 Chaucer (3,0,0)ENGL 3550 Chaucer (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course provides a detailed study of Chaucer's major works.
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ENGL 3650 Shakespeare (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ENGL 3650 Shakespeare (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits This course consists of lectures on various aspects of Shakespeare's art, and includes a detailed study of twelve plays.
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ENGL 3660 Studies in Shakespeare (3,0,0)ENGL 3660 Studies in Shakespeare (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate critical understanding of a chosen topic of focus in Shakespeare studies through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of the chosen topic, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by Shakespeare, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills
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ENGL 3710 Poetry of the Early Seventeenth Century (3,0,0)ENGL 3710 Poetry of the Early Seventeenth Century (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the two main traditions of English verse in this 'golden age of poetry': the metaphysical and neo-classical. Of the metaphysical poets, Donne and Herbert receive most attention, while Jonson and Herrick are most representative of the neo-classical tradition. Interesting variations within each mode are also considered. The emergence of women's writing in this context is important, especially in the works of Lanyer, Wroth, and Philips. Students consider such topics as the politics of desire, representing the sacred, the ideology of landscape, the emergence of the subject, and the usefulness of such terms as 'metaphysical,' and 'neo-classical.' Emphasis is placed on the thoughtful reading of poems in their cultural context for the purpose of appreciating each poet's literary art.
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ENGL 3730 ***Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 3730 ***Topics in Seventeenth-Century Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course explores special themes, forms, and authors (excluding Milton) of seventeenth century literature. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3740 Milton's Paradise Lost (3,0,0)ENGL 3740 Milton's Paradise Lost (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course provides students with the opportunity to gain an in-depth appreciation of Milton's Paradise Lost, one of the most influential poems in the English language. As well as reading the poem closely and considering such topics as Milton's epic style, the gendering of Adam and Eve, the relationship between individual liberty and authority, the characterization of Satan, and Milton's use of symbolic forms and images, we place the poem in the context of Milton's life and his participation in the Civil War. Above all, Milton's achievement in the art of poetry is emphasized since this is what influenced such diverse writers as Blake and Pope, Eliot and Melville, Byron and Bronte, Pullman and Lewis and led him to have such an important impact on literary tradition.
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ENGL 3750 Milton (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ENGL 3750 Milton (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits This course is an in-depth examination of the works, and their contexts, of seventeenth century English poet, John Milton.
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ENGL 3810 Poetry of the Age of Dryden and Pope (3,0,0)ENGL 3810 Poetry of the Age of Dryden and Pope (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore poetry from the Restoration to the middle of the eighteenth century. Representative authors include Rochester, Finch, and Addison, in addition to Dryden and Pope.
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ENGL 3820 Poetry of the Middle and Late Eighteenth Century (3,0,0)ENGL 3820 Poetry of the Middle and Late Eighteenth Century (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore poetry from the time of Johnson to the beginnings of Romanticism. Representative authors include Johnson, Collins, Smart, and Cowper.
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ENGL 3840 The English Novel in the Eighteenth Century (3,0,0)ENGL 3840 The English Novel in the Eighteenth Century (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine, in chronological sequence, the growth of the novel in eighteenth-century England, by looking at the relationship (sometimes hostile, sometimes sympathetic) between the novel and the traditions of comedy, romance, and epic. Topics include an examination of the relationship between the novel and journalistic prose, autobiography, and biography.
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ENGL 3850 Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 3850 Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course offers a survey of Restoration and early eighteenth century English literature and its backgrounds. Students examine poetry, drama and prose. The course is organized chronologically, to emphasize literary developments.
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ENGL 3860 Mid and Late Eighteenth Century Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 3860 Mid and Late Eighteenth Century Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course offers a survey of literature from the middle to the end of the eighteenth century. Students explore poetry, drama and prose, as well as backgrounds to the works studied. The course is organized chronologically, to emphasize literary developments.
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ENGL 3890 Studies in Eighteenth Century Thought and Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 3890 Studies in Eighteenth Century Thought and Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This single-term or full-year course studies systems of thought, or other cultural elements, as they contribute to the interpretation and evaluation of literature. Students may take this course more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 3910 Romantic Poetry (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ENGL 3910 Romantic Poetry (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats.
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ENGL 3940 The Victorian Novel (3,0,0)ENGL 3940 The Victorian Novel (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Developments in the novel from Dickens to Thomas Hardy.
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ENGL 4000 Early Modern British Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4000 Early Modern British Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Development in British Literature, including the genres of novel, poetry, drama, and biography, from 1880 to the 1920s.
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ENGL 4040 The Modern British Novel (3,0,0)ENGL 4040 The Modern British Novel (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Developments in the novel up to the Second World War.
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ENGL 4130 Contemporary British Drama (3,0,0)ENGL 4130 Contemporary British Drama (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course surveys British drama from the 1950s, with Beckett's absurdist work and John Osbourne's hyper-realism, to the 1980s and 1990s' feminist cultural critiques by Caryl Churchill and Pam Gems.
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ENGL 4140 The Contemporary British Novel (3,0,0)ENGL 4140 The Contemporary British Novel (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine the novel, from the Second World War to the present.
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ENGL 4150 ***Studies in Women's Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4150 ***Studies in Women's Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Major themes in Women's literature or theory.
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ENGL 4160 Topics in Modern Irish Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4160 Topics in Modern Irish Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course examines topics in Irish literature (in English) since the Irish Literary Renaissance. Students may take this course more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 4200 Canadian Literature (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ENGL 4200 Canadian Literature (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 6 credits A study of the literature in English with some attention to major French-Canadian works in translation. **This course is going to be semesterized. Consult English and Modern Languages department for details.
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ENGL 4210 Studies in British Columbia Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4210 Studies in British Columbia Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore work that depicts aspects of BC life. From the urban to the rural, from the coast to the interior, and from the past to the present, course readings provide a panorama of the province. Through this exploration, students gain not only a greater sense of local and provincial literature but also an understanding of relevant literary movements.
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ENGL 4220 Modern Canadian Drama on the Page, Stage, and Screen (3,0,0)ENGL 4220 Modern Canadian Drama on the Page, Stage, and Screen (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students can expect to become familiar with the themes and approaches of Canadian drama from 1967 to the present. Taking a survey approach, students study plays from different regions of Canada that represent a spectrum of approaches that may include postmodern, feminist, postcolonial, collective creations, and intercultural. Films or excerpts of some of these plays will be included, and students may be engaged with current local productions and with theatre professionals.
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ENGL 4240 Nineteenth Century Canadian Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4240 Nineteenth Century Canadian Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course will survey major authors and trends in Canadian literature written before 1900. Some pre-nineteenth century work will be included, but the course will focus on the nineteenth century.
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ENGL 4250 Contemporary Canadian Poetry (3,0,0)ENGL 4250 Contemporary Canadian Poetry (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course focuses on English Canadian poetry written between mid-twentieth century and the present. In addition to examining and analyzing representative poems, students are expected to consider questions of both a 'national poetry' and the poetic genre itself. Students explore the following questions: What constitutes the Canadian-ness of Canadian poetry? What poetic techniques characterize innovative expression in these poems? Can common themes and poetic techniques be ascribed to these poems? Throughout the semester, students are encouraged to consider individual poems and the work of individual poets in this larger context.
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ENGL 4260 Studies in Canadian Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4260 Studies in Canadian Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate critical understanding of chosen special topics and approaches to Canadian literature through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of the selected content, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers of this period, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 4340 American Fiction to 1900 (3,0,0)ENGL 4340 American Fiction to 1900 (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course focuses on the writings of Irving, Poe, Hawthorne and Melville.
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ENGL 4350 American Fiction in the First Half of The Twentieth Century (3,0,0)ENGL 4350 American Fiction in the First Half of The Twentieth Century (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate critical understanding of major works and movements in American fiction between 1900 and 1950, including naturalism, realism, and modernism, through close investigation, written composition, and argumentation. Through exploration and evaluation of chosen fiction, students show an advanced ability to critically and creatively analyze and articulate the complexities of various perspectives, techniques, rhetorical strategies, and assumptions employed by writers of this period, and a mastery of independent research and application of existing knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 4360 ***Studies in American Literature (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)ENGL 4360 ***Studies in American Literature (3,0,0) or (3,0,0)(3,0,0)Credits: 12 credits This course involves special studies of individual periods of authors or themes in American literature. Students may take this course more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 4370 American Fiction From Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present (3,0,0)ENGL 4370 American Fiction From Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course examines major works and movements since 1950, including realism, neorealism, and postmodernism.
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ENGL 4430 Studies in Literature and the Environment (3,0,0)ENGL 4430 Studies in Literature and the Environment (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore the relationships between humans and the natural (or the “more-than-human") environment as it is represented in a variety of literary sources, such as poems, plays, short stories, novels and creative non-fiction. Students analyze the construction of the natural world through language, genre, imagery, and narrative. The specific focus of the course will change each year.
Prerequisites: 6 credits of first-year English (with the exception of ENGL 1150) or equivalent AND completion of 45 credits OR permission of the instructor or department chair.
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ENGL 4440 Postcolonial Women's Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4440 Postcolonial Women's Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course studies literature, written in English, by women from African nations, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Caribbean, and India. It includes work written from imperialist, colonial, and aboriginal perspectives. Students explore identity and gender politics through the analysis of texts by women from diverse nations and backgrounds.
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ENGL 4450 Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4450 Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits This course surveys 'colonial' and 'postcolonial' literature from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, with an emphasis on modern fiction. Works are studied within their historical and cultural contexts, and students gain an understanding of issues including canon formation, generic conventions, language choices, ethnic and first nations identifications, and competing definitions of 'postcolonial.'
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ENGL 4460 ***Studies in Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4460 ***Studies in Commonwealth/Postcolonial Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine major themes in postcolonial literature or theory. This course may be taken more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 4470 Studies in Indigenous Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4470 Studies in Indigenous Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students demonstrate depth of knowledge and critical understanding of writing by Indigenous peoples in various parts of the world, especially those of Canada and the United States, through close critical reading and writing. Through exploration of how Indigenous writers approach issues of marginalization, oppression, representation, and both personal and communal identity; adapt oral strategies to writing; and employ various techniques to challenge and subvert colonial assumptions and privileges about genre, gender, class, race, and relationships with the land, students show an awareness of past and present knowledge, an advanced ability to critically and creatively reflect on and articulate the complexities of various cultural perspectives and rhetorical strategies, and a mastery of independent research and the creation of new knowledge. Students illustrate proficiency in scholarly writing with clear, persuasive, grammatically-correct style and appropriate documentation skills.
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ENGL 4510 The Beat Writers (3,0,0)ENGL 4510 The Beat Writers (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine such literary movements as Naturalism, Realism, Imagism, Impressionism, Vorticism, and Modernism. This course may be taken more than once, provided the content is different each time. Since the content of this course varies, please visit the English and Modern Languages web pages, pick up a booklet of course offerings, or contact the English Department to request more information.
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ENGL 4600 American Poetry of the First Half of the Twentieth Century (3,0,0)ENGL 4600 American Poetry of the First Half of the Twentieth Century (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine major poets, themes, and movements between 1900 and 1950.
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ENGL 4610 American Poetry From the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present (3,0,0)ENGL 4610 American Poetry From the Mid-Twentieth Century to the Present (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students examine major poets, themes, and movements from 1950 to the present.
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ENGL 4760 Editing and Publishing (3,0,0)ENGL 4760 Editing and Publishing (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits In this Capstone course for the English Major program, students will have an opportunity to hear invited speakers, for example Indigenous and non-Indigenous creative non-fiction writers. Students will develop practical skills in editing and publishing, with a focus on publishing peer authors' work, both academic and creative. They will gain hands-on experience editing and communicating with authors who have submitted their work to the Proceedings of the TRU Undergraduate Research and Innovation Conference, and they will also compose, revise, and edit their own creative non-fiction piece, as well as critique and copy-edit their peers' creative non-fiction. Students will learn about the publication process by working together to produce an online student creative writing publication. The course will be useful for literature students, creative writing students, and anyone else contemplating a career in publishing or teaching.
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ENGL 4770 Studies in Literature (3,0,0)ENGL 4770 Studies in Literature (3,0,0)Credits: 3 credits Students explore literary topics, themes, or issues within the discipline. Topics may vary depending on faculty and student interest and current developments in the field.
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