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  Honours BA English

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        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.

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        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.

      Course List
        Code                                                                                         Title                                                               Units  
        Basic Skills                                                                                                                                                   
        3 course units from:                                                                         3 Units                                                           
          PHI 1101                                                                                   Reasoning and Critical Thinking                                            
          PHI 1301                                                                                   Philosophy: Ideas and Arguments                                            
        3 course units from:                                                                         3 Units                                                           
          AHL 1100                                                                                   Introduction to Interdisciplinary Study in the Arts 1                      
          AHL 1900                                                                                   Introduction to Interdisciplinary Study in the Arts 1                      
          PHI 1102                                                                                   Moral Reasoning                                                            
          PHI 1103                                                                                   Fundamental Philosophical Questions                                        
          PHI 1104                                                                                   Great Philosophers                                                         
          PHI 1302                                                                                   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                                                           
          ENG 2106                                                                                   Introduction to British Literature After 1700                              
          ENG 2107                                                                                   Introduction to Canadian Literature                                        
          ENG 2108                                                                                   Introduction to American Literature                                        
          ENG 2175                                                                                   Introduction to the Literatures of Asia and the Asian Diaspora             
          ENG 2176                                                                                   Introduction to the Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora         
        6 course units from the following Critical Conversations courses: 1                          6 Units                                                           
          ENG 2180                                                                                   Critical Conversations: Sex and Gender Identities                          
          ENG 2181                                                                                   Critical Conversations: Race and Decolonization                            
          ENG 2182                                                                                   Critical Conversations: Environmental Humanities                           
          ENG 2183                                                                                   Critical Conversations: Class, Capitalism, and Culture                     
          ENG 2184                                                                                   Critical Conversations: Form and Style                                     
          ENG 2185                                                                                   Critical Conversations: Special Topics                                     
        3 course units from List A (Literature Before 1700):                                         3 Units                                                           
          ENG 3133                                                                                   Elizabethan Shakespeare                                                    
          ENG 3134                                                                                   Jacobean Shakespeare                                                       
          ENG 3135                                                                                   Early Modern Drama                                                         
          ENG 3323                                                                                   Medieval Literature I                                                      
          ENG 3324                                                                                   Medieval Literature II                                                     
          ENG 3339                                                                                   Sixteenth-Century Literature                                               
          ENG 3340                                                                                   Seventeenth-Century Literature                                             
        3 course units from List B (Literature 1700-1900):                                           3 Units                                                           
          ENG 3108                                                                                   Transatlantic Literature 1700-1900                                         
          ENG 3318                                                                                   Romantic Literature                                                        
          ENG 3341                                                                                   Eighteenth-Century Literature                                              
          ENG 3349                                                                                   Restoration and 18th-Century Drama                                         
          ENG 3356                                                                                   18th-Century and Romantic Fiction                                          
          ENG 3362                                                                                   Victorian Literature                                                       
          ENG 3364                                                                                   Victorian Fiction                                                          
          ENG 3377                                                                                   American Fiction of the 19th Century                                       
          ENG 3384                                                                                   Literatures of Exploration and Settlement in Canada                        
          ENG 3385                                                                                   Canadian Literature of the Confederation Period (1867-1912)                
        3 course units from List C (Literature 1900 to the Present):                                 3 Units                                                           
          ENG 3106                                                                                   Topics in Film Studies                                                     
          ENG 3109                                                                                   Transnational Literatures 1900-Present                                     
          ENG 3110                                                                                   Canadian Drama                                                             
          ENG 3190                                                                                   Speculative Genres                                                         
          ENG 3191                                                                                   Gender, Sexuality, and Literature                                          
          ENG 3192                                                                                   African American Literature                                                
          ENG 3193                                                                                   Advanced Study in Children's Literature                                    
          ENG 3194                                                                                   Young Adult Literature                                                     
          ENG 3320                                                                                   Modern British Literature                                                  
          ENG 3321                                                                                   Canadian Short Story                                                       
          ENG 3370                                                                                   Modern British Poetry                                                      
          ENG 3371                                                                                   Modern Drama                                                               
          ENG 3372                                                                                   Modern Short Story                                                         
          ENG 3373                                                                                   Modern British Novelists                                                   
          ENG 3374                                                                                   Topics in the Environmental Humanities                                     
          ENG 3376                                                                                   Contemporary Novel                                                         
          ENG 3378                                                                                   American Fiction 1900 to the Present                                       
          ENG 3379                                                                                   American Poetry 1900 to the Present                                        
          ENG 3381                                                                                   Indigenous Literatures                                                     
          ENG 3383                                                                                   Jewish Canadian Writers                                                    
          ENG 3386                                                                                   Canadian Fiction 1900 to 1950                                              
          ENG 3387                                                                                   Canadian Fiction 1950 to the Present                                       
          ENG 3388                                                                                   Canadian Poetry 1900 to the Present                                        
          ENG 3389                                                                                   Writing Resistance in the English Literatures                              
        3 course units from List D (Forms, Theories and Methods):                                    3 Units                                                           
          ENG 3105                                                                                   Book History: Theories and Methods                                         
          ENG 3107                                                                                   Literature and Visual Culture: Theories and Approaches                     
          ENG 3111                                                                                   Poetics                                                                    
          ENG 3112                                                                                   Narrative Genres: Theories and Approaches                                  
          ENG 3195                                                                                   Critical Race Theory                                                       
          ENG 3375                                                                                   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                                                          
        
        Course List
          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, Microprogram(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.

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