Spring / Summer Courses 2024
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Spring term May 1 - June 12, 2024 (6 weeks)
Spring Term 2024
ENGL 1015 SDE: Introduction to Academic Writing
Instructor: Cindy Soldan Delivery mode: WEB (online)
An introduction to university-level standards of composition, revision, editing, research, and documentation. A review of English grammar (word and sentence level) and rhetorical forms (paragraph level and beyond), and a study of the methods and conventions of academic argumentation and research, with an emphasis on finding and evaluating sources, formulating research questions, developing arguments, and composing various types of analyses including academic essays.
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 1011, 1031, or 1500 may not take English 1015 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 1016 SDE: Introduction to Professional Writing
Instructor: Evan Sills Delivery mode: WEB (online)
An introduction to professional-level standards of composition, revision, editing, research and documentation. A review of English grammar (word and sentence level), rhetorical forms (paragraph level and beyond), and a study of writing in a variety of professional contexts with an emphasis on assessing rhetorical situations and crafting messages to inform and persuade diverse audiences in a variety of forms and formats.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 1115 SDE: Foundations of Literary Study
Instructor: Megan Arnott Delivery mode: WEB (online)
An introduction to literary study, focusing on texts from the major genres (drama, poetry, prose) within their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be given to the development of skills in critical analysis, research, writing, and documentation.
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 1100, 1102, 1111 or 1112 may not take English 1115 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL/INDI 2717 SDE: Indigenous Literatures in Canada
Instructor: Rebecca Menhart Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Cross-List(s): Indigenous Learning 2717
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 2702/Indigenous Learning 2702 may not take English 2717/Indigenous Learning 2717 for credit. English 2717 counts towards fulfillment of the Area 3 requirement.
ENGL 3911: Special Topics: Pandemics, Plagues, and Poxes
Instructor: Dr. Kathryn Walton Delivery mode: WEB (online)
For many living in Canada, the COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most impactful events of the 21st century. It changed, for a time, the way we work, attend school, interact, and shop, and its impacts are still being felt today. At the time, the pandemic felt unprecedented. As this course will show, however, pandemics are a fixture of human history and literature. This course will take students through literary accounts of some of history’s most deadly pandemics. Our texts will range from Boccaccio’s devastating record of the Black Death in medieval Italy, to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, to Katherine Anne Porter’s account of the Spanish Flu in Pale Horse, Pale Rider. We will then move forward to look at a few speculative pandemic narratives including Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Ling Ma’s speculative, satirical pandemic, Severance. We will finish with a few modern Zombie narratives, almost all of which begin with a pandemic, and a few narrative accounts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Throughout the course, students will examine how writers across history have accounted for disease and pandemic within their individual social contexts and consider how issues of culture, identity, and humanity are bound up in narratives of disease and death. Assignments will also allow students to connect their own experiences with the Covid-19 pandemic to the tradition of pandemic writing, in hopes that they will gain a better understanding of the legacy of that impactful event.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
Summer term July 2 - August 13, 2024 (6 weeks)
Summer Term 2024
ENGL 1014 ADE: Introduction to Creative Writing
Instructor: Taina Maki-Chahal Delivery mode: WEB (online)
An introduction to the craft of creative writing. Genres studied may include drama, poetry, prose fiction, creative nonfiction.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 1015 ADE: Introduction to Academic Writing
Synonym: TBA Delivery mode: WEB (online)
An introduction to university-level standards of composition, revision, editing, research, and documentation. A review of English grammar (word and sentence level) and rhetorical forms (paragraph level and beyond), and a study of the methods and conventions of academic argumentation and research, with an emphasis on finding and evaluating sources, formulating research questions, developing arguments, and composing various types of analyses including academic essays.
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 1100, 1102, 1111 or 1112 may not take English 1115 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL/MDST 1117 ADE: Introduction to Popular Culture
Instructor: Rebecca Menhart Delivery mode: WEB (online)
An introduction to the critical study of popular culture, considering definitions of "the popular" and how popular movements, genres, and subcultures emerge and develop. Popular culture theories and their applications will be covered; a variety of cultural texts will be analyzed.
Cross-List(s): Media, Film, and Communications 1117
Notes: Students who have previous credit in English 2902 may not take English 1117 for credit.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL/WOME 2917 ADE: Children's Literature
Instructor: Dr. Kathryn Walton Delivery mode: WEB (online)
Children’s literature includes some of the most beloved and influential texts written in English. Focusing on genres such as fairy tales, poetry, picture books, and novels, a variety of topics will be covered, such as constructions of childhood and child development, literature’s role in the cultivation of the imagination, the relationship between image and text, the conflict between didacticism and pleasure, and the nature of innocence and experience.
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 3053ADE: Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality - Medieval Masculinities
Instructor: Megan Arnott Delivery mode: WEB (online)
We will look at medieval masculinities. This means looking at masculinity in different religious traditions, including cloisters, or church hierarchies, looking at texts like saints’ lives and monastic rules. It also means looking at masculinity as represented in martial cultures, including knights or Vikings or soldiers, particularly in romances or sagas. But it also means looking at the way that medieval is coded masculine in modern texts or societies.
Prerequisite(s): Two FCEs in English, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or two FCEs in Gender and Women’s Studies, including at least one half-course at the second-year level; or permission of the Chair of the Department English
Cross-List(s): Gender and Women’s Studies 3053
Notes: Gender and Women's Studies Group 1 Course
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities
ENGL 4018ADE/ENGL 5018/SOCJ 5018: Honours Seminar in the Radical Imagination: Play Revolution
Instructor: Dr. Max Haiven Delivery mode: Zoom; 0830 - 1130 Monday and Thursday
This course takes up the question of how play and games have become central to racial capitalism and imperialism in our age and contrasts it to a longer history of the role of play and games in revolutionary and radical social movements. To do so, we draw on theoretical readings, case studies, conversations with key thinkers and makers, and experimental and participatory methods. Topics may include the rise of the games industry (digital and analogue), gamification as a tool of domination, the history of radical games, play and games in literature and popular culture, queer, feminists and post/anti-colonial approaches to play and games, and theories of play in the expanded field. Students will be supported to pursue academic inquiries or critical creative projects.
Prerequisite(s): 4 FCEs in English or permission of the Chair of the Department of English
Cross-List(s): English 5018 and Social Justice 5018
Course Classifications: Type A: Humanities