English Literature, Media, and Writing

This course explores the relationship between reading and writing at a basic academic level. The course helps students to develop skills essential to essay writing and critical reading. Some emphasis is also placed on practical exercises in diction, grammar and idioms. This course is designed to meet the needs of English-speaking students who require further preparation for university-level reading and writing. In the first week of classes, students will be required to demonstrate an appropriate level of competency in reading and writing English. This course does not count for credit in an English concentration, specialization, major, or minor but may be used as an elective. (sem 3) cr 6. Students cannot retain credits for ENGL 1540, 1550 and 1511.

Designed to meet the needs of students whose first language is not English, this course explores the relationship between reading and writing at a basic academic level. The course helps students to develop skills essential to essay-writing and critical reading. Some emphasis is also placed on practical exercises in diction, grammar and idioms. In the first week of classes, students will be required to demonstrate an appropriate level of competency in reading and writing English. This course does not count for credit in an English concentration, specialization, major, or minor but may be used as an elective. (sem 3) cr 6. Permission of the unit required. Students cannot retain credit for both ENGL 1550 and ENGL 1540.

This course develops academic reading and writing skills including active and critical reading, critical thinking, writing in a variety of academic forms, research, and oral presentations. The teachings of the Seven Grandfathers guide the learning environment as well as workshops and individual conferences. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course augments the fundamental skills taught in ENGL 1551 including research practices, reporting, and argumentative writing. PREREQ: ENGL 1551 or permission of the instructor. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course introduces students to a range of literary and rhetorical genres: fiction, poetry, drama, non-fictional prose, film, and public discourse. The course develops students' critical reading and writing abilities. Focusing on the principles of argumentation, exposition, and writing process, the course actively engages in writing workshops, developing students' proficiencies in peer-editing, essay writing, as well as research paper preparation and presentation. (sem 3) cr 6. Student cannot retain credit for both ENGL 1705 and ENGL 1706 or ENGL 1707.

This course provides a historical and geographical survey of literatures in English, intended as a foundation for students majoring in English Literature. Students cannot retain credit for ENGL 2005 and ENGL 2056/3056. (lec 3) cr 6.

This course is intended for students with a demonstrated competence in writing who wish to expand their repertoire of forms and styles of writing. Students examine and write within a variety of rhetorical contexts including academic, journalistic, and professional writing. Emphasis is placed on critical reading and rhetorical principles such as purpose, audience, tone and voice. (sem 3) cr 6.

This course introduces the foundational principles of rhetorical theory and practice as developed by writers and teachers in Ancient Greece and Rome. The course explores the relevance of classical rhetoric to the contemporary study and practice of persuasive communication. PREREQ:30 university credits(lec/sem 3) cr 3.

This course is an introductory study of critical theory as practised in the areas of literature, drama, rhetoric and film. Applying selected theories to a variety of texts enhances students' understanding of critical approaches. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 2626 and ENGL 2326.

This course is a study of major writings about Northern Ontario including many by northerners. Themes include regionalism, outsiders and outlaws, Native people, landscape and land-space, etc. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 2656 and ENGL 2456.

This course is a study of popular literatures and cultures, which may involve one of the following: science fiction, gothic or children's literature. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 2676 and ENGL 3676.

This course is a study of popular literatures and cultures, which may involve one of the following: science fiction, gothic or children's literature. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 2677 and ENGL 3677.

This course introduces basic knowledge of filmmaking and film criticism. The curriculum includes an intensive study of film techniques, as well as a detailed examination of one artistic movement in world cinema (to be selected by instructor). Although the course is a core requirement for English students enrolled in the Rhetoric and Media Studies program, it is open to all students interested in the making and/or the appreciation of film art. (sem 6) cr 6. Crosslisted with FILM 2805. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL/FILM 2805 and FILM 2005.

Through studying a variety of critically acclaimed documentary films, this course will develop students' understanding of the rhetorical dimensions of documentary films and prepare them for documentary filmmaking and media journalism. The course will engage students in a critical exploration of the rhetoric of documentary films by examining issues such as image icons and ideology, narrative and discourse, voices and authority, audience and rhetorical situation. Course assignments will include rhetorical criticism of documentary films as well as research and proposal writing for a short documentary film. (lec 4) cr 3. Crosslisted with FILM 2826.

This course is an intensive documentary film production seminar. Students will be divided into groups to create short but sophisticated documentary films. Ten comprehensive weekly workshops will be given during the term to explore stylistic and technical topics, such as narrative structure, time manipulation, filming interviews, montage principles, script writing and treatments. PREREQ: ENGL/FILM 2826 or permission of the instructor. (sem 4) cr 3. Crosslisted with FILM 2827.

This course provides the foundation for rhetorical analysis and composition of motion picture arts and visual texts through careful examination of selected films and/or other visual media. Topics may include power dynamics, cinesonica, symbolism, etc. (lec/sem 4) cr 3. Cross-listed with FILM 2846.

This course introduces basic knowledge of filmmaking and film criticism. The curriculum includes an intensive study of film techniques, as well as a detailed examination of one artistic movement in world cinema (to be selected by instructor). Although the course is a core requirement for English students enrolled in the Rhetoric and Media Studies program, it is open to all students interested in the making and/or the appreciation of film art. (sem 6) cr 6. Crosslisted with ENGL 2805. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL/FILM 2805 and FILM 2005.

Through studying a variety of critically acclaimed documentary films, this course will develop students' understanding of the rhetorical dimensions of documentory films and prepare them for documentary filmmaking and media journalism. The course will engage students in a critical exploration of the rhetoric of documentary films by examining issues such as image icons and ideology, narrative and discourse, voices and authority, audience and rhetorical situation. Course assignments will include rhetorical criticism of documentary films as well as research and proposal writing for a short documentary film. (lec 4) cr 3. Crosslisted with ENGL 2826.

This course is an intensive documentary film production seminar. Students will be divided into groups to create short but sophisticated documentary films. Ten comprehensive weekly workshops will be given during the term to explore stylistic and technical topics, such as narrative structure, time manipulation, filming interviews, montage principles, script writing and treatments. PREREQ: ENGL/FILM 2826 or permission of the instructor. (sem 4) cr 3. Crosslisted with ENGL 2827.

This course provides the foundation for rhetorical analysis and composition of motion picture arts and visual texts through careful examination of selected films and/or other visual media. Topics may include power dynamics, cinesonica, symbolism, etc. (lec/sem 4) cr 3. Cross-listed with ENGL 2846. Lecture (3.00).

This course focuses on approximately 15 of the dramatist's plays. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3125 and ENGL 2535.

This course is a study of medieval poetry and prose, including works by Chaucer. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3145 and ENGL 2505.

This course considers literary and cultural concerns of women's writing from the 16th through the mid-17th centuries in both manuscript and print. It examines the many modes in which women write; constructions of literary tradition and authority; responses to early modern gender ideology and theories of women's education; and relations among gender, sexuality and economics. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3157 and either ENGL 3737 or ENGL 3747.

This course is a study of miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and Tudor and Stuart tragedy, comedy and romance. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3175 and ENGL 2465.

This course is an extended treatment of a selected topic in medieval or renaissance literature written in English. The specific topic of the course may change from year to year. (lec 3) cr 6.

This core seminar will focus on a specific topic of study in Medieval and Renaissance literature. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course is a study of the rise of the novel in Britain from its beginning in the late 17th and early 18th century to the end of the century, covering the development of the novel as a genre from Defoe to Austen. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3206 and ENGL 2406.

This course is a study of the 19th century novel in Britain, tracing the rise and decline of realism through novelists from Austen to Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy and Meredith. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3207 and ENGL 2407.

The emphasis of this course is on the poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3215 and ENGL 3115.

This course is a study of Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and other writers of the period. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3245 and ENGL 2095.

This course is a study of the emergence of professional women writers in the 18th century, with emphasis on their works, the conditions of the literary marketplace and their relationship to it. Representative works are examined in detail. (sem 3) cr 3. This course may be applied to a concentration in Women's and Gender Studies. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3256 and ENGL 3706.

This course is an extended treatment of a selected topic in English literature written during the 18th and 19th centuries. The specific topic of the course may change from year to year. (lec 3) cr 6.

This core seminar will focus on a specific topic of study in 18th and 19th century literature. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course situates English literature in its colonial and postcolonial contexts. The course introduces the history and theory of postcolonial approaches and examines various literary representations of colonial and postcolonial societies. (lec 3) cr 6.

This course is a study of the principal novels in English from the late nineteenth century to approximately World War II. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3326 and ENGL 3426.

This course is a study of the principal novels in English from approximately World War II to the present. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3327 and ENGL 3427.

This course is a study of major developments in poetry in English from the late nineteenth century to the present. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3335 and ENGL 3435.

This course examines a selection of works by women, containing significant commentary on the status and experience of women including such issues as race, class and sexual preference, from 1900 to about 1950. Works are drawn primarily from British and North American literature, as well as from other emerging English literatures. (sem 3) cr 3. This course may be applied to a concentration in Women's and Gender Studies. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3346 and ENGL 3726.

This course examines a selection of works by women, containing significant commentary on the status and experience of women including such issues as race, class and sexual preference, from about 1950 to the present. Works are drawn primarily from British and North American literature, as well as from other emerging English literatures. (sem 3) cr 3. This course may be applied to a concentration in Women's and Gender Studies. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3347 and ENGL 3727.

This course is an extended treatment of a selected topic in modern and contemporary English literature. The specific topic of the course may change from year to year. (lec 3) cr 6.

This core seminar will focus on a specific topic of study in 20th century literature. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course is a study of McLuhan, Frye, Innis, Grant, Macpherson and others as well as a survey of Canadian art, music and film. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3405 and either ENGL 3225 or ENGL 4205.

Through the examination of representative texts, this course treats influential movements and diverse currents in the culture of the United States. This course goes beyond the parameters of traditional literary surveys to address the abundance of cultural production in the United States, from, for example, popular best-selling novels in the 19th century to television and experimental theatre and poetry in this and the past century. Theorists and critics will be studied, as well as artists, to develop a sense of how American culture is produced and what values are entailed in this process. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3416 and ENGL 3306.

This course is a study of fiction, poetry, drama and criticism from the 19th and 20th centuries. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3445 and ENGL 2255.

This course is a survey of American literature from its beginnings in the colonial period through to 1865. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3465 and ENGL 3365.

This course is a study of works representative of the American literary tradition from the late 19th century to the present. (sem 3) cr 6. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3485 and ENGL 3375.

This course is an extended treatment of a selected topic in North American literature. The specific topic of the course may change from year to year. (lec 3) cr 6.

This core seminar will focus on a specific topic of study in North American literature. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course examines the work of writers who have succeeded in more than one genre or voice. The focus of study is on how writers create distinctive voices through, for example, tone, figurative language, diction, syntax, theme, sense of audience, point of view. Such writers as the following may be included: Mary Wroth, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, Adrienne Rich, Tomson Highway, Anne-Marie MacDonald. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3507 and ENGL 3807.

This course explores imaginative literary expression. Although the course focuses on the work of class members, it also involves examining the works of published authors. Specific attention is given to editorial procedure, form, techniques, and literary devices. PREREQ: 18 university credits. ENGL 1717 strongly recommended. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course introduces students to foundational perspectives on rhetoric developed by writers and teachers in Ancient Greece and Rome, such as the Sophists, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian. Working from these foundations, the course also examines one or more ways in which the classical tradition of rhetoric has been revisited and/or challenged in more recent times through, for example, enlightenment rhetoric, the study of women's rhetoric, the new rhetoric of the 20th century, the recent revitalization of sophistic rhetoric, the development of non-western perspectives on rhetoric, etc. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3526 and ENGL 2526.

This course introduces students to a selection of rhetorical principles and methods of rhetorical criticism from classical and/or contemporary rhetoric and engages students in the application of these principles and methods to the analysis of communicative events in their own context. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3527 and ENGL 2527.

This course explores contemporary environmental communication in the range of contexts and genres. Topics include public and media discourse on environmental issues, environmental policy-making, environmental risk communication, environmental justice and activism, corporate environmentalism and green marketing, and art and environmentalism. The course draws on principles of rhetorical theory to engage in the critical analysis of environmental communication and to develop relevant projects. (lec 3) cr 3.

This workshop-style course aims to develop students' critical understanding of fundamental rhetorical theories and principles of workplace communication and to develop their abilities to apply these principles in practice. It introduces students to written, oral and other forms of workplace communication as appropriate. It emphasizes writing process, sequenced assignments, group work and assignments simulated in workplace contexts. The forms and principles of workplace communication covered may vary from year to year, or section to section. (sem 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL 3556 and ENGL 2556.

This course is an extended treatment of a selected topic in rhetoric or media studies. The specific topic of the course may change from year to year. (lec 3) cr 6.

This core seminar will focus on a specific topic of study in Rhetoric and Media Studies. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course will deal with the roles of women in film, women behind the camera, and women who write about film. The course will make use of examples from the silent period to the present. PREREQ: a previous film course, RLST 2365, or permission of the department. (sem 3) cr 3. This course may be counted towards a concentration in Women's and Gender Studies. Crosslisted with FILM 3836. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL/FILM 3836 and FILM 3136.

The knowledge of applied aesthetics serves two purposes: first, for film and rhetoric studies, to improve the critical ability to interpret media arts through examining the scientific and artistic principles of different aesthetic fields; second, for media production, to establish students' own creative proficiency by exposing them to various aesthetic possibilities. The course introduces basic technical and aesthetic knowledge for video production and visual design on TV and computer screens: shot planning, screen forces, golden ratio, lighting, editing, etc. PREREQ: ENGL/FILM 2846 or approval of the department. (sem 3) cr 3. Crosslisted with FILM 3846. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL/FILM 3846 and FILM 3206.

This course will deal with the roles of women in film, women behind the camera, and women who write about film. The course will make use of examples from the silent period to the present. This course may be counted toward a concentration in Women's Studies. PREREQ: a previous film course, RLST 2365, or permission of the department. (sem 3) cr 3. Crosslisted with ENGL 3836. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL/FILM 3836 and FILM 3136.

The knowledge of applied aesthetics serves two purposes: first, for film and rhetorical studies, to improve the critical ability to interpret media arts through examining the scientific and artistic principles of different aesthetic fields; second, for media production, to establish students' own creative proficiency by exposing them to varoius aesthetic possibilities. The course introduces basic technical and aesthetic knowledge for video production and visual design on TV and computer screens: shot planning, screen forces, golden ratio, lighting, editing, etc. PREREQ: ENGL/FILM 2805 or approval of the department. (sem 3) cr 3. Crosslisted with ENGL 3846. Students may not retain credit for both ENGL/FILM 3846 and FILM 3206.

Through the analysis of selected topics, students explore a range of theoretical discourses and critical issues relevant to literary, media and rhetorical studies. PREREQ: Minimum 24 credits in English. (lec 3) cr 6.

Individual instruction in a special field of interest through the discussion of assigned texts. Students choose their topic in consultation with a professor. Normally the course is restricted to 4th-year students. (sem 3) cr 3.

Each seminar is devoted to a special topic proposed by the professor and approved by the department. In all cases, the topic must lie in the professor's field of specialization. PREREQ: Minimum 24 credits in English or department approval. (sem 3) cr 3.

Each seminar is devoted to a special topic proposed by the professor and approved by the department. In all cases, the topic must lie in the professor's field of specialization. PREREQ: Minimum 24 credits in English or department approval. (sem 3) cr 3.

This course provides qualified students with an opportunity to write an Honours thesis based on original research in an area related to their specialization or major(s) for which faculty supervision is available. Students are not permitted to obtain credit for more than one Honours thesis. PREREQ: A minimum overall GPA of 7 (75-79% or B+), completion of at least 84 university credits, and permission of the department. Students must normally submit their research proposal to the department chair by March 31 to register in the next academic year. (tut 3) cr 6.

Each seminar is devoted to a special topic proposed by the professor and approved by the department. In all cases, the topic must lie in the professor's field of specialization. PREREQ: Minimum 24 credits in English or department approval. (sem 3) cr 3.

Each seminar is devoted to a special topic proposed by the professor and approved by the department. In all cases, the topic must lie in the professor's field of specialization. PREREQ: Minimum 24 credits in English or department approval. (sem 3) cr 3.