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 2020-2021 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 2101 | Introduction to Canadian Literature I: Beginnings to 1920 | 3 Units |
| ENG 2102 | Introduction to Canadian Literature II: 1920 to the Present | 3 Units |
| ENG 2103 | Introduction to American Literature I: Beginnings to 1900 | 3 Units |
| ENG 2104 | Introduction to American Literature II: 1900 to the Present | 3 Units |
| ENG 2105 | Introduction to British Literature I: Beginnings to 1700 | 3 Units |
| ENG 2106 | Introduction to British Literature II: 1700 to the Present | 3 Units |
| ENG 2124 | Second-Year Seminar | 3 Units |
| Optional courses | ||
| 9 course units from List A (Literature Before 1700): | 9 Units | |
| Elizabethan Shakespeare | ||
| Jacobean Shakespeare | ||
| Early Modern Drama | ||
| Medieval Literature I | ||
| Medieval Literature II | ||
| Sixteenth-Century Literature | ||
| Seventeenth-Century Literature | ||
| 9 course units from List B (Literature 1700-1900): | 9 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) | ||
| 9 course units from List C (Literature 1900 to the Present): | 9 Units | |
| Topics in Film Studies | ||
| Transnational Literatures 1900-Present | ||
| Canadian Drama | ||
| 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 Theory | ||
| 6 course units at the 4000 level, 3 of which can be fulfilled by a special topics 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. |