*The Course Schedules below are subject to change once the new Academic Calendar is published as well as pending enrolment pattern changes. Detailed course descriptions by instructors are added when available and are also subject to change.
**Please consult the Registrar's Time Table for mode of delivery for courses.
First-Year Courses
Course Title: Effective Writing
Course Code: ENG100H5F | Lecture MW 6-9
Instructor: TBD
This course provides practical tools for writing in university and beyond. Students will gain experience in generating ideas, clarifying insights, structuring arguments, composing paragraphs and sentences, critiquing and revising their writing, and communicating effectively to diverse audiences. This course does not count toward any English program.
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Course Title: Effective Writing
Course Code: ENG100H5S | Lecture MW 3-6
Instructor: Siobhan O'Flynn
This course provides practical tools for writing in university and beyond. Students will gain experience in generating ideas, clarifying insights, structuring arguments, composing paragraphs and sentences, critiquing and revising their writing, and communicating effectively to diverse audiences. This course does not count toward any English program.
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Course Title: Narrative
Course Code: ENG110H5F | Lecture MW 1-3 | Tutorials W 3-4, W 5-6
Instructor: Daniela Janes
This course gives students skills for analyzing the stories that shape our world: traditional literary narratives such as ballads, romances, and novels, and also the kinds of stories we encounter in non-literary contexts such as journalism, movies, myths, jokes, legal judgments, travel writing, histories, songs, diaries, and biographies.
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Second-Year Courses
- ENG202H5F British Literature in the World I: Medieval to Eighteenth-Century
- ENG203H5S British Literature in the World II: Romantic to Contemporary
- ENG259H5S Literature and Environmental Criticism
- ENG279H5S Video Games
- ENG280H5S Critical Approaches to Literature
- ENG289H5F Creative Writing
- ENG289H5S Creative Writing
Course Title: British Literature in the World I: Medieval to Eighteenth-Century
Course Code: ENG202H5F | Lecture TR 9-11 | Tutorials R 11-12, R 1-2
Instructor: TBD
This course serves as an introduction to influential texts that have shaped British literary history from Beowulf and Chaucer to Shakespeare, from Milton and Behn to Burney. Students will focus on questions such as the range and evolution of poetic forms, the development of the theatre and the novel and the emergence of women writers. The course will encourage students to think about the study of English literatures in relationship to history, including the history of world literatures.
Exclusion: ENG202Y5
Prerequisite: Open to students who have successfully completed at least 4.0 full credits. Students who do not meet the prerequisite but are enrolled in any 100-level ENG or DRE course (except ENG100H5) may petition the department in writing for approval to take the course. See the guidelines for written petitions on the department website.
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Course Title: British Literature in the World II: Romantic to Contemporary
Course Code: ENG203H5S | Lecture TR 9-11 | Tutorials R11-12, R 1-2
Instructor: Chris Koenig-Woodyard
An introduction to influential texts that have shaped British literary history from the Romantic period to the present, covering developments in poetry, drama and prose, from William Wordsworth to Zadie Smith and beyond. The course will address topics such as revolution and war; the increasing diversity of poetic forms; the cultural dominance of the novel; romanticism, Victorianism, modernism and postmodernism; feminism; colonialism and decolonization; the ethnic and cultural diversity of Anglophone literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; literature and sexual identity; the AIDS epidemic; and technology and the digital age. The course will encourage students to think about the study of English literatures in relationship to history, including the history of world literatures.
Exclusion: ENG203Y5
Prerequisite: Open to students who have successfully completed at least 4.0 full credits. Students who do not meet the prerequisite but are enrolled in any 100-level ENG or DRE course (except ENG100H5) may petition the department in writing for approval to take the course. See the guidelines for written petitions on the department website.
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Course Title: Literature and Environmental Criticism
Course Code: ENG259H5S | Lecture TR 12-3
Instructor: Stanka Radovic
This course examines the relationship between writing and the environment. Students will examine the role of the written word in defining, thinking about, and acting in the interest of the planet and its climate, while considering literary genres, theoretical frameworks, and contemporary and multidisciplinary debates. Readings will vary but may include Wordsworth, Thoreau, Whitman, Carson, Glissant, Butler, Kincaid, and Ghosh.
Group 1
Course Title: Video Games
Course Code: ENG279H5S | Lecture MW 9-12
Instructor: Siobhan O'Flynn
What is the literary history of video games? This course considers how some novels and plays work like games; how games have evolved complex and often non-verbal means of conveying narratives; and whether narrative in fiction, theatre, and film can or should be a model for storytelling in the rule-bound, interactive worlds of video games.
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Course Title: Critical Approaches to Literature
Course Code: ENG280H5S | Lecture MW 1-3 | Tutorials W 3-4, W 5-6
Instructor: Thomas Laughlin
An introduction to literary theory and its central questions, such as the notion of literature itself, the relation between literature and reality, the nature of literary language, the making of literary canons, and the roles of the author and the reader.
Exclusion: ENG267H5
Prerequisites: Open to students who have successfully completed at least 4.0 full credits. Students who do not meet the prerequisite but are enrolled in any 100-level ENG or DRE course (except ENG100H5) may petition the department in writing for approval to take the course. See the guidelines for written petitions on the department website.
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Course Title: Creative Writing
Course Code: ENG289H5F | Lecture TR 11-1 | Tutorials TR 1-2
Instructor: Brent Wood
Students will engage in a variety of creative exercises, conducted across a range of different genres of literary writing.
Prerequisite: Open to students who have successfully completed at least 4.0 full credits. Students who do not meet the prerequisite but are enrolled in ENG101H or ENG102H5 or ENG110H5 or ENG140Y5 or DRE/ENG121H5 and DRE/ENG122H5 may petition the department in writing for approval to take the course. See the guidelines for written petitions on the department website.
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Course Title: Creative Writing (Online)
Course Code: ENG289H5S | Lecture TR 1-3 | Tutorials TR 3-4
Instructor: TBD
Students will engage in a variety of creative exercises, conducted across a range of different genres of literary writing.
Prerequisite: Open to students who have successfully completed at least 4.0 full credits. Students who do not meet the prerequisite but are enrolled in ENG101H or ENG102H5 or ENG110H5 or ENG140Y5 or DRE/ENG121H5 and DRE/ENG122H5 may petition the department in writing for approval to take the course. See the guidelines for written petitions on the department website.
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Third-Year Courses
- ENG301H5S Making Love in the Sixteenth Century
- ENG315H5F Special Topic in 19th-C. Brit. Lit: The Gothic
- ENG317H5F Drama of the Global South
- ENG362H5F Canadian Literature,1920 to the Present
Course Title: Making Love in the Sixteenth Century
Course Code: ENG301H5S | Lecture MW 9-12
Instructor: Liza Blake
In this course, students will follow the changing constructions of love and love poetry in the sixteenth century, starting with Wyatt and Surrey, passing through Tottel, to the Elizabethan court, and ending with the erotic love poetry that served as a backlash against the Petrarchanism of the early sixteenth century.
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Course Title: Special Topic in 19th-C. Brit. Lit: The Gothic
Course Code: ENG315H5F | Lecture TR 3-6
Instructor: Chris Koenig-Woodyard
A concentrated study of one aspect of nineteenth-century British literature or literary culture, such as a particular subgenre or author, specific theme, or the application of a particular critical approach. Topics may vary from year to year.
Group 4
Course Title: Drama of the Global South
Course Code: ENG317H5F | Lecture MW 3-6
Instructor: TBD
This course compares works of selected playwrights of the Global South in an effort to understand their refashioning of postcolonial perspectives and subaltern histories. Ranging beyond the West and its theatrical traditions, the course will explore innovative theatrical performances that focus on South-South affiliations and link discourses, places, and people positioned between peripheries. Students will learn about traditions of orality, cultural pluralities, and indigenous mythic/folk styles that constitute the unique syncretism of South-South theatre cultures. Writers may include Padmanabhan, Nadeem, Jinghui, Taha, Fugard, Aidoo, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Miri, Walcott, Triana, and Dorfman.
Group 2
Course Title: Canadian Literature,1920 to the Present
Course Code: ENG362H5F | MW 9-12
Instructor: Daniela Janes
This course explores Canadian literature from the 1920s to the contemporary period. Students will examine the work of major authors in their cultural, social, and historical contexts. Topics may include the development of literary modernism in Canada, regional literary geographies, postmodern innovations, multiculturalism and hybridity, and Indigenous literary and cultural production in the part of Turtle Island that is called Canada.