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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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      The table below includes only the discipline-specific courses. Please refer to the Academic Regulations for information on the Honours bachelor's with double major and the Honours bachelor's with major and minor.

      Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2022-2023 calendars for the previous requirements.

        Co-operative education is available when taken as part of an honours degree.

      Course List
        Code                                                          Title                                                               Units  
        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
        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         
        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                                                            
        6 optional course units in English (ENG) at the 4000 level 1  6 Units                                                           
        Total:                                                        42 Units                                                          
        

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        The 4000-level requirement can only be met by 4000-level seminars or special topics courses. Honours Essays, Directed Readings, and Writing Workshops will not count towards 4000 level requirements.

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