Besides providing an excellent base for professional careers, a degree in English literature can offer you unmatched intellectual challenges and rewards. The Department provides courses in all major historical periods and national traditions of literature in English. It also offers courses in creative writing and literary theory, along with general interest courses in such topics as literature and film, children's literature, science fiction, graphic novels, and literature and the environment. The Undergraduate English degree lays a foundation for the pursuit of graduate studies, and is also an excellent preparation for professional degrees like Law, Business and Education.
This program is offered in English only.
Co-operative education is available with this program.
Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2022-2023 calendars for the previous requirements.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Skills | ||
| 3 course units from: | 3 Units | |
| Reasoning and Critical Thinking | ||
| Philosophy: Ideas and Arguments | ||
| 3 course units from: | 3 Units | |
| Introduction to Interdisciplinary Study in the Arts 1 | ||
| Introduction to Interdisciplinary Study in the Arts 1 | ||
| Moral Reasoning | ||
| Fundamental Philosophical Questions | ||
| Great Philosophers | ||
| Philosophy: Themes and Texts | ||
| Compulsory Courses | ||
| ENG 1124 | Engaging with Literature | 3 Units |
| ENG 1140 | Introduction to Indigenous Literatures | 3 Units |
| ENG 1141 | Reading the Contemporary World | 3 Units |
| ENG 2105 | Introduction to British Literature Before 1700 | 3 Units |
| ENG 2124 | Second-Year Seminar | 3 Units |
| Optional Courses | ||
| 9 course units from: | 9 Units | |
| Introduction to British Literature After 1700 | ||
| Introduction to Canadian Literature | ||
| Introduction to American Literature | ||
| Introduction to the Literatures of Asia and the Asian Diaspora | ||
| Introduction to the Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora | ||
| 6 course units from the following Critical Conversations courses: 1 | 6 Units | |
| Critical Conversations: Sex and Gender Identities | ||
| Critical Conversations: Race and Decolonization | ||
| Critical Conversations: Environmental Humanities | ||
| Critical Conversations: Class, Capitalism, and Culture | ||
| Critical Conversations: Form and Style | ||
| Critical Conversations: Special Topics | ||
| 3 course units from List A (Literature Before 1700): | 3 Units | |
| Elizabethan Shakespeare | ||
| Jacobean Shakespeare | ||
| Early Modern Drama | ||
| Medieval Literature I | ||
| Medieval Literature II | ||
| Sixteenth-Century Literature | ||
| Seventeenth-Century Literature | ||
| 3 course units from List B (Literature 1700-1900): | 3 Units | |
| Transatlantic Literature 1700-1900 | ||
| Romantic Literature | ||
| Eighteenth-Century Literature | ||
| Restoration and 18th-Century Drama | ||
| 18th-Century and Romantic Fiction | ||
| Victorian Literature | ||
| Victorian Fiction | ||
| American Fiction of the 19th Century | ||
| Literatures of Exploration and Settlement in Canada | ||
| Canadian Literature of the Confederation Period (1867-1912) | ||
| 3 course units from List C (Literature 1900 to the Present): | 3 Units | |
| Topics in Film Studies | ||
| Transnational Literatures 1900-Present | ||
| Canadian Drama | ||
| Speculative Genres | ||
| Gender, Sexuality, and Literature | ||
| African American Literature | ||
| Advanced Study in Children's Literature | ||
| Young Adult Literature | ||
| Modern British Literature | ||
| Canadian Short Story | ||
| Modern British Poetry | ||
| Modern Drama | ||
| Modern Short Story | ||
| Modern British Novelists | ||
| Topics in the Environmental Humanities | ||
| Contemporary Novel | ||
| American Fiction 1900 to the Present | ||
| American Poetry 1900 to the Present | ||
| Indigenous Literatures | ||
| Jewish Canadian Writers | ||
| Canadian Fiction 1900 to 1950 | ||
| Canadian Fiction 1950 to the Present | ||
| Canadian Poetry 1900 to the Present | ||
| Writing Resistance in the English Literatures | ||
| 3 course units from List D (Forms, Theories and Methods): | 3 Units | |
| Book History: Theories and Methods | ||
| Literature and Visual Culture: Theories and Approaches | ||
| Poetics | ||
| Narrative Genres: Theories and Approaches | ||
| Critical Race Theory | ||
| Critical Theory | ||
| 12 course units in English (ENG) at the 3000 level from the list of optional courses | 12 Units | |
| 6 course units at the 4000 level, 3 of which can be fulfilled by a Special Topics course. 2 | 6 Units | |
| Total: | 66 Units | |
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Elective courses | ||
| 54 elective course units | 54 Units | |
| Total: | 54 Units | |
The electives may be replaced by a combination of a Minor, Option(s), and/or elective units.
Note(s)
- 1
This course has variable topics. Students may take this course twice.
- 2
Honours Essays, Directed Readings, and Writing Workshops will not count towards 4000 level requirements.
For example, this requirement could be fulfilled by 6 units of seminars OR 3 units of seminar and 3 units of special topics.