NOTE: Instructor's course descriptions are subject to change. If a schedule below varies from the The Registrar's Timetable the Registrar's Timetable shall prevail.
FIRST YEAR: ENG100H5F/ENG100H5S | SECOND YEAR: ENG213H5F | ENG215H5F | ENG279H5S | ENG280H5S | ENG289H5F | THIRD YEAR: ENG312H5F | ENG316H5Y | ENG323H5F | ENG371H5Y | | ENG372H5S | FOURTH YEAR DRE420H5F |
Course Title: Effective Writing
Course Code: ENG100H5F | W/F 10-1 and ENG100H5S | T/R 10-1
Instructor: (F) Stephanie Butler | (S) 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
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Course Title: The Short Story
Course Code: ENG213H5F | T/R 10-1
Instructor: Daniela Janes
This course explores shorter works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Special attention will be paid to formal and rhetorical concepts for the study of fiction as well as to issues such as narrative voice, allegory, irony, and the representation of temporality.
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 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: The Canadian Short Story
Course Code: ENG215H5F | M/W 11-2
Instructor: Daniela Janes
An introduction to the Canadian short story, this course emphasizes its rich variety of settings, subjects, and styles.
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 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: Video Games
Course Code: ENG279H5S | W/F 1-4
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
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 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: Critical Approaches to Literature
Course Code: ENG280H5S | M/W 9-11 + Tutorials: M/W 11-12
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 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
Course Code: ENG289H5F | T/R 1-3 + Tutorials: T/R 3-4
Instructor: Brent Wood
Students will engage in a variety of creative exercises, conducted across a range of different genres of literary writing
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 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: Special Topic in Medieval Literature: Blame Chaucer
Course Code: ENG312H5F | T/R 1-4
Instructor: Jessica Henderson
A concentrated study of one aspect of medieval literature or literary culture, such as a particular genre or author, a specific theme, or the application of a particular critical approach.
Prerequisites: 2.0 credit in ENG, including ENG202Y5, and 4.0 additional credits.
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Course Title: Special Topic in Modern and Contemporary Literature: Stranger Things and the Gothic Tradition
Course Code: ENG316H5Y | M 2-5
Instructor: Chris Koenig-Woodyard
A concentrated study of one aspect of modern or contemporary literature or literary culture, such as a particular subgenre or author, specific theme, or the application of a particular critical approach.
Prerequisites: 2.0 credit in ENG, including ENG202Y5 or ENG203Y5, and 4.0 additional credits
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Course Title: Austen and Her Contemporaries
Course Code: ENG323H5F | W/F 2-5
Instructor: Chris Koenig-Woodyard
A study of selected novels by Austen and of works by such contemporaries as Radcliffe, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Edgeworth, Scott, and Shelley, in the context of the complex literary, social, and political relationships of that time.
Prerequisites: 1.0 credit in ENG and 3.0 additional credits
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Course Title: Special Topic in World Literatures: Theatres of Resistance
Course Code: ENG371H5Y | F 10-1
Instructor: Natasha Vashisht
A concentrated study of one aspect of postcolonial literature or literary culture, such as a particular genre, author, period, regional or national context, or theme, or the application of a particular critical approach.
Prerequisites: 2.0 credit in ENG, including ENG270Y5, and 4.0 additional credits
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Course Title: Special Topic in Literary Theory: The Trans Novel Now
Course Code: ENG372H5S | T/R 12-3
Instructor: Daniel Wright
In this course, we’ll read a selection of recent trans and two-spirit novels in order to investigate the relationship between trans identity and the novel form. In short, we’ll ask: why the trans novel (as opposed to the memoirs, for example, that for so long dominated the field of trans literature), and why the trans novel now? What do we gain and what do we lose when we categorize novels as trans?
Prerequisites: 1.0 credit in ENG and 3.0 additional credits.
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Course Title: Bad Shakespeare
Course Code: DRE420H5F | M/W 1-4
Instructor: Lawrence Switzky
A senior research seminar in Theatre and Performance.
Why have some audiences thought that the most famous playwright of all time is also one of the worst? This seminar examines Shakespearean badness and “badness” through textual analysis, performance exercises, in-class screenings, and attendance at productions. Topics to be considered will include problematic representations of gender, sexuality, race, and religion in the plays; the unclassifiable “problem plays” that Shakespeare wrote in the late 1590s and the early years of the seventeenth century; unfunny and obscure jokes and puns; Bardolatry (aka Shakespeare-worship); and plays that have been judged minor or uneven by subsequent critics. We will also survey the history of despising Shakespeare and what the hatred of specific plays tells us about theatrical and cultural sensibilities since Shakespeare’s era.
The plays we will read, perform, and watch together are: The Taming of the Shrew; The Merchant of Venice; Measure for Measure; Othello; Henry VIII; and Cymbeline. Essays, manifestoes, screeds, rewritings, and expressions of outrage will be distributed online.
We will travel to Stratford to see productions of Othello and Henry VIII on Wednesday, June 5th. Students will pay for discounted tickets to both productions when they register for the course. Transportation will be provided from UTM to Stratford and back again.
Prerequisites: 9 credits, including DRE/ENG121H5, 122H5; DRE200H5/222H5; or permission of the U of T Mississauga program director.
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