Course Title: Effective Writing
Course Code: ENG100H5Y
Instructor: Jaclyn Piudik
Course Description: ENG 100 is designed to help students cultivate writing proficiency at the university level. It emphasizes writing as a process and will offer tools and strategies for working through all stages of this process from first draft to finished product: prewriting, drafting, revising and editing. Equal attention will be given to language and ideas, to active reading and to building analytical skills as a means to develop a confident voice in your writing. We will engage regularly with texts across genres and disciplines, study and apply various modes of writing and rhetoric, explore different stylistic conventions, as well as learn techniques for conducting research. The course will also have a component geared to formal and mechanical questions, such as structure, syntax and grammar, the foundational elements of all effective prose composition.
Required Reading:
The Mcgraw-Hill Handbook, 1st Canadian Edition, 2010 by Elaine Maimon , Janice Peritz, Kathleen Blake Yancey, and Deidre Flynn
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied: TBA
Method of Instruction: Lecture, discussion, in-class writing practice, grammar exercises, peer review, group activities, and assignments.
Method of Evaluation: In-class activities and assignments, weekly written work, peer review, midterm, essays, final exam.
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Course Title: Effective Writing
Course Code: ENG100H5S
Instructor:Siobhan O'Flynn
Course Description:
"I know words, I have the best words." Donald Trump
This course is designed to provide students with necessary basic skills for academic writing. The course will focus on the fundamentals of clear articulate prose, analytical thinking, expository and persuasive writing, pre-writing, editing and revision, and an introduction to the value and pitfalls of digital research in developing a topic and/or argument. Students will engage with writing as a process through multiple short exercises (in-class and take home), directed brainstorming, and peer review.
Required Reading:
Confirmed text: They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter… by Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff
Edition to be Confirmed: The McGraw-Hill Handbook by Elaine Maimon, Janice Peritz, Kathleen Blake Yancey
Method of Instruction: Lecture & discussion, workshops, peer collaboration, peer review.
Method of Evaluation: Participation, multiple short exercises (in-class and take home), essays & exam.
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Course Title: The Short Story
Course Code: ENG213H5S
Instructor: Daniela Janes
Course Description: This course examines the development of the short story from the nineteenth century to the present. We will explore stories drawn from a range of national literatures, including several works that will be studied in translation. The goal of the course is to develop your knowledge of the literary short story by examining major writers, and to build a sense of historical and theoretical context. We will consider the short story in terms of the formal features of the genre, and will seek to define some of the essential characteristics of the short story as more than, simply, a story that is short.
Required Reading:
Some of the authors to be covered include Achebe, Atwood, Baldwin, Borges, Carver, Chekhov, Chopin, Ellison, Faulkner, Garcia Marquez, Gogol, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mansfield, de Maupassant, Melville, Munro, O’Connor, Poe, Walker, and Woolf.
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied: Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”; Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”; Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”
Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion.
Method of Evaluation: in-class exercises (5%), two tests (50%), essay (35%), informed participation (10%).
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Course Title: Children’s Literature
Course Code: ENG234H5F
Instructor: Siobhan O'Flynn
Course Description: The stories we hear as children form the basis for our evolving understanding of literature and most broadly, of human interrelationships. We will consider key aspects such as the classic themes of maturation and escape, the construction and performance of gender, the significance of animal protagonists, children’s & YA serial fiction, and the often didactic function of children’s literature. We will also attend to the importance of historical and cultural contexts and the presence of “adult” concerns filtered (or not) through the presumably more limited perspective of children’s fiction and poetry.
This course will also touch on: structuralist & psychoanalytic approaches to children’s literature (Propp, Freud, Winnicott, Bettleheim);fan-culture’s engagement with children’s and YA literature, entertainment conglomerates & the battle for IP (fans won); merchandizing, media and digital extensions; pedagogy and new literary canons, among other topics.
Required Reading (a selection of the following):
C. Perrault, Fairy Tales (texts online); Selections from The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales; The Thousand and One Nights (various tales); L. Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; B. Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit; A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh; J.K Rowling, Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban; M.T. Anderson, Feed; Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games; iPad book adaptations TBA (demoed in class).
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied: Perrault; Grimm, Carroll
Method of Instruction: Lecture & Discussion, Multi-media presentations
Method of Evaluation: short assignments, 1 long essay, exam.
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Course Title: The Graphic Novel
Course Code: ENG235H5F
Instructor: Chris Koenig-Woodyard
Course Description: This course examines the contemporary graphic novel, exploring its roots in comic strips and action hero comic books from the 1930s onward. A number of secondary texts will accompany the graphic novels and comics and will help us flesh out a critical and historical understanding of the genre.
Please note that some texts contain explicit sexual and violent content.
Required Reading (Provisional as of early April 2016) :
- The Walking Dead, Volume 1: Days Gone Bye
Robert Kirkman ISBN-13: 978-1582406725 - Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Volume 1)
Art Spiegelman ISBN-13: 978-0590469012 - Ms. Marvel, Volume 1: No Normal Paperback
Wilson and Alphonso ISBN-13: 978-0785190219 - V for Vendetta
Alan Moore and David Lloyd ISBN-13: 978-1401208417 - Stitches: A Memoir
David Small ISBN-13: 978-0771081125 - Understanding Comics
Scott McCloud ISBN-13: 978-0060976255 - Additional Material on the PORTAL, which will be noted in the course schedule.
Method of Instruction: Lecture and Discussion
Method of Evaluation: Essays, tests, and exam
WEBSITE: Portal
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Course Title: Diasporic Literatures of Toronto
Course Code: ENG271H5F
Instructor: Siobhan O'Flynn
Course Description: Toronto has been called the world’s most multicultural city. Canada’s 2011 National Household Survey estimated that 2,537,410 foreign-born individuals live in the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA), accounting for 46% of the total CMA population and making this the largest percentage of any CMA in the country. With almost half of Toronto’s citizens tracing direct connections back to other countries around the globe and over 200 languages spoken in the GTA, Toronto is THE diasporic city in Canada. This course will examine:
- how novelists have represented the diasporic experience of different ethno-cultural communities, across different times and socio-cultural contexts;
- how literature can function as a window into lives and cultures that may seem initially foreign;
- how literature can support what we will discuss in terms of ‘diaspora dialogues’.
Required Reading :
Michael Ondaatje, 1987, In the Skin of a Lion ISBN - 10: 0394281829 Knopf
Vassanji, M.G., 1991. No New Land. ISBN - 10: 0771087225 McCLelland & Stewart
Michaels, Anne, 1996. Fugitive Pieces. ISBN - 10: 0771058829 McCLelland & Stewart
David Chariandy, 2007. Soucouyant ISBN - 10: 1551522268 Arsenal
Rabindranath Maharaj, 2010. The Amazing Absorbing Boy ISBN - 10: 0307397289 Knopf
Others TBD
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied:
Michael Ondaatje, 1987, In the Skin of a Lion
Vassanji, M.G., 1991. No New Land
Michaels, Anne, 1996. Fugitive Pieces
Method of Instruction: Lecture, Discussion
Method of Evaluation: short assignments, essay, informed participation, exam
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Course Title: Literature and Exile
Course Code: ENG272H5S
Instructor: Michael Donnelly
Course Description: This course will introduce students to a representative sampling of literature written while in exile as well as those where the homeland becomes a recurring, if not haunting, focus. We’ll read works both in English (including those by Joyce, Achebe, and Adichie) and in English translation (Bolaño, Broch, Sebald), exploring several literary treatments of exile as well as what German critics call Exilliteratur. More generally, we’ll consider whether or not exile refers to a particular kind of exodus, coerced or chosen; or, as Roberto Bolaño has asked, “Can it be that we are all exiles?” That question will keep us occupied from the start to the finish.
Required Reading : Selected short poems; Bolaño, “The Return” and “Last Evenings on Earth”; Joyce, “Araby” and “Eveline”; Broch, The Death of Virgil; Lahiri, “Interpreter of Maladies”; Diaz, “Negocios”; Adichie, Americanah; W. G Sebald, Austerlitz.
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied: Bolaño, Joyce, and Broch
Method of Instruction: Lecture
Method of Evaluation: Close Reading Exercise (20%); Essay, 5-6 pages (35%); 2hr Term Test, cumulative (35%); Informed Participation (10%)
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Course Title: Contemporary British Fiction
Course Code: ENG329H5F
Instructor: Mark Crimmins
Course Description: In this course we will examine four major works of Contemporary British Fiction and a number of small, experimental texts that will be handed out at class. We will start with Julian Barnes’s brilliantly postmodern novel, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters before going back to the early Sixties to explore Anthony Burgess’s dystopian masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange. Our post-millennial readings will include Nicola Barker’s novel, Clear, and Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach.
Required Reading : Anthony Burgess: A Clockwork Orange; Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters; Nicola Barker: Clear; Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach.
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied: Barnes, Burgess, Smith
Method of Instruction: Lecture and Discussion
Method of Evaluation: 2 short papers (20% each); midterm test (15%); Final Exam (35%) participation (10%)
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Course Title: Canadian Drama
Course Code: ENG352H5F
Instructor: Daniela Janes
Course Description: In this course we will read a selection of Canadian drama across its history, paying attention to the material conditions of production as well as formal developments and stylistic innovations. Students will be exposed to a variety of forms, including history, tragedy, satire, drama and comedy, and will be given a sense of the shape and development of Canadian theatre.
Required Reading (a selection of the following):
Students will read a variety of plays, ranging from one-act plays to more substantial works. The course reader covers nineteenth- and twentieth-century plays, including works by Nicholas Flood Davin, Sarah Anne Curzon, Merrill Denison, Herman Voaden, Len Peterson, and Lister Sinclair. Other readings will be drawn from Jerry Wasserman, ed., Modern Canadian Plays, Vol. 1 (5th Edition). Playwrights to be studied include George Ryga, Michel Tremblay, David French, John Gray, Sharon Pollock, Ann-Marie MacDonald and Tomson Highway.
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied: Plays by Davin, Curzon, Denison (course reader).
Method of Instruction: Lecture and discussion.
Method of Evaluation: in-class exercises (5%), essay proposal and annotated bibliography (10%), essay (35%), two tests (40%), informed participation (10%).
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Course Title: History of Literary Theory
Course Code: ENG380H5F
Instructor: Mark Crimmins
Course Description: This course will look at the history of ideas about literature: what it is or should or shouldn’t be; what it attempts to do; what its values are; etc. Focusing on the historical perspective, we will start with Plato, Aristotle, and Horace, and continue, from the Classical theories of the Greeks and Romans to the Medieval and Renaissance periods, followed by the Neoclassical and Romantic Periods. From here we will look at Victorian theories of literature before passing on to a plethora of Twentieth Century schools of criticism and theory, including Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Formalist, Structuralist and Postsructuralist theories, along with schools of criticism and theory, such as Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory, that have evolved from these currents of thought. Overall, we will examine the history of literary theory as a continuous conversation amongst philosophers, critics, and theorists over the ages and into our own time.
Required Reading : The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 2nd Edition.
First Three Texts/Authors to be Studied: Plato, Aristotle, Horace
Method of Instruction: Lecture and Discussion
Method of Evaluation: Two essays (2x20%); test (15%); final exam: 35%; participation (10%)
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