In the first two years of the program, you explore the foundations of reading, writing and critical thinking. Classes are a mixture of discussion and lecture, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions. This format builds toward interactive, seminar-style classes in your third and fourth years, where you present on topics of your choice to classmates and your professors. These formal sessions give you the opportunity to show your mastery of a specific topic.
As you progress through the program, you learn to produce analysis and opinion that is clear, original and persuasive. You become a confident creator, and sometimes co-creator, of analysis and ideas. Class discussion provides you with perspectives that drive your writing. By the time you enter your fourth year, you have discovered your unique voice, writing insightful and cogent arguments and analysis. You are comfortable presenting your ideas thoughtfully and respectfully to a group of peers.
Specific Major Requirements
ENGL 102 Analysis and Argument
Choose 3 credits
ENGL 103
Approaches to Literature: Trends and Traditions
ENGL 104
Approaches to Literature: Narrative Across Media
ENGL 105
Approaches to Literature: Contemporary Literature and Culture
ENGL 391 Topics in Literary Theory
Choose 3 credits from the following:
ENGL 205
Rhetoric and Stylistic Analysis
ENGL 306
Advanced Grammar
ENGL 307
The History of the English Language
Choose 9 credits from Literature before 1800 from the following:
ENGL 243
Genesis of English Literary Forms: Old English to Late Renaissance
ENGL 319
Earlier Medieval English Literature
ENGL 320
Later Middle English Literature
ENGL 324
Chaucer
ENGL 336
Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 337
English Renaissance Literature
ENGL 340
Studies in 17th Century English Literature
ENGL 341
Augustan Literature
ENGL 342
Topics in the Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
ENGL 348
Milton
ENGL 491
Early and Later Middle English
ENGL 492
Elizabethan/17th Century Literature
ENGL 493
Restoration/Eighteenth Century Literature
Choose 3 credits from Canadian Literature from the following:
ENGL 374
Early Canadian Literature
ENGL 376
Contemporary Canadian Literature
ENGL 377
Studies in Indigenous Literature
General Major Requirements
Choose 18 to 36 credits from junior- or senior-level ENGL. Students may also choose a maximum of 9 credits from junior- or senior-level CRWR.
Secondary Major or Minor(s)
Students have the option of completing a second Arts major, or one or two minors. Minor courses must be completed at the senior-level.
Options
Students can complete up to 15 credits in out-of-faculty options, with no more than 3 credits in physical activity (PACT) courses.
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