200 Level English
Courses at the 200 level introduce students to a diverse range of theories and methods relevant to literary and cultural study. These courses typically combine literary and theoretical readings, with an emphasis on key concepts, paradigms, and debates. You do not need to take 200 level courses in your second year - but because the theories and methods you encounter in these courses will likely inform perspectives and approaches at the 300 and 400 levels, you may want to consider taking at least one 200 level course early in your program.
Please consult the University Calendar for a full listing of our ENGL courses, not all of which are offered in a given year. Our department also offers Film Studies and Creative Writing courses.
English students: are you interested in theories of linguistics and the use of language? You can take LING 299 in Winter 2024 and have it count towards your English BA. Course information: LING 299 Special Topics in Linguistics: Metaphor in Language and Mind MWF 9:00-9:50 Instructor: Herb Coulston. Contact Craig Soars at efsadvsr@ualberta if you are interested.
fall 2024
ENGL 206 LEC A1: Introduction To Poetry
R. Brazeau
ENGL 207 LEC A1: Introduction To Narrative
ENGL 215 LEC A1: Reading Literature Across Time
C. Sale
ENGL 217 LEC A1: Intro Literary & Critical Theory
M. Litwack
We are, after all, talking about words, as we realize that by their efficacy we are damned or saved. –Hortense Spillers, "Interstices: A Small Drama of Words"
You can never be too sure what a word will do. –George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin
This course introduces participants to the theoretical foundations of contemporary literary and cultural criticism. We will consider a breadth of critical concepts and arguments from the nineteenth century to the present that have shaped practices of reading in the humanities and that you will likely encounter throughout your studies in English. Reading closely and situating texts in their intellectual contexts, participants will become fluent in a variety of frameworks for thinking rigorously and creatively about language, writing, rhetoric, interpretation, subjectivity, desire, difference, culture, historicity, and politics.
Throughout our collective inquiry into histories of modern and contemporary theory, a question posed by Louis Althusser—“what is it to read?”—will oversee our work. This question will bear directly on one of the objectives of this course: to learn to appreciate the pleasures and frustrations, the insights and surprises that accompany the pursuit of reading and rereading complex theoretical texts.
This course consists of three units: (I) Language, Signification, Writing; (II) Subjects, Ideologies, Antagonisms; (III) History, Representation, Fabulation.
ENGL 220 LEC A1: Reading Gender And Sexuality
N. Hurley
ENGL 221 LEC A1: Reading Class And Ideology
M. Simpson
ENGL 222 LEC A1: Reading Race and Ethnicity
O. Okome
ENGL 223 LEC A1: Reading Empire and Postcolinial
ENGL 250 LEC A1: Intro Canadian Literatures
D. Fuller
winter 2025
ENGL 206 LEC B1: Introduction To Poetry
C. Bracken
ENGL 215 LEC B1: Reading Literature Across Time
P. Sinnema
ENGL 216 LEC B1: Introduction to Indigenous Literary Methods
ENGL 217 LEC B1: Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory
K. Ball
ENGL 220 LEC B1: Reading Gender And Sexuality
ENGL 221 LEC B1: Reading Class And Ideology
E. Kent
ENGL 222 LEC B1: Reading Race And Ethnicity
ENGL 223 LEC B1: Reading Empire & Postcolonial
L. Harrington
Previous Offerings
2023-24 Fall and Winter Term Courses
2022-23 Fall and Winter Term Courses
Fall 2021
Course | Title | Instructor | Time |
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ENGL 207 A1 | How Stories Work: Introduction to Narrative | C. Bracken | MWF 1000-1050 |
ENGL 212 LEC 800 | Critical Approaches to the English Literature | L. Schechter | TR 1400-1520 |
ENGL 215 A1 | Reading Literature Across Time: "ROMANCE" and its Others | C. Harol | MWF 1500-1550 |
ENGL 217 A1 | Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory | K. Ball | TR 1230-1350 |
ENGL 220 A1 | Reading Gender and Sexuality | J. Rak | MWF 1200-1250 |
ENGL 221 A1 | Reading Class and Ideology | P. Sinnema | TR 0930-1050 |
ENGL 223 A1 | ReadingPolitics: Empire and the Postcolonial | E. Kent | TR 1100-1220 |
ENGL 299 LEC 800 | Essay Writing for Education Students | L. Ouzgane | TR 1400-1520 |
Winter 2022
Course | Title | Instructor | Time |
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ENGL 206 B1 | How Poems Work: Introduction to Poetry | B. Bucknell | MWF 1400-1450 |
ENGL 207 B1 | How Stories Work: Introduction to Narrative | B. Bucknell | MWF 1000-1050 |
ENGL 216 B1 | Introduction to Indigenous Literary Methods | J. Abel | MWF 1500-1550 |
ENGL 220 B1 | Reading Gender and Sexuality | C. Harol | TR 1100-1220 |
ENGL 222 B1 | Reading Race and Ethnicity | A. Spallacci | TR 0930-1050 |
ENGL 223 B1 | Reading Empire and the Postcolonial | T. Tomsky | MWF 1100-1150 |
ENGL 250 B1 | Introduction to Canadian Literatures | D. Fuller | TR 1400-1520 |
ENGL 299 B1 | Essay Writing for Education Students | L. Robertson | TR 1230-1350 |
Winter 2020
Course | Title | Instructor | Time |
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ENGL 208 B1 | Histories: History of the Book | G. Kelly | MWF 1000-1050 |
ENGL 209 B1 | Reading Histories: Making Readers | S. Brown | TR 1400-1520 |
ENGL 210 B1 | Reading Histories:Histories in Texts | S. Krotz | MWF 1000-1050 |
ENGL 212 B1 | Introduction to the English Language | J. Considine | MWF 1200-1250 |
ENGL 220 B1 | Reading Politics: Gender and Sexuality | L. Rasmussen | TR 1100-1220 |
ENGL 221 B1 | Reading Politics: Class and Ideology | E. Kent | MWF 1400-1450 |
ENGL 222 B1 | Reading Politics: Race and Ethnicity | L. Harrington | TR 0930-1050 |
ENGL 223 B1 | Reading Politics: Empire and the Postcolonial | O. Okome | MWF 0900-0950 |
ENGL 223 X50 | Reading Politics: Empire and the Postcolonial | C. van der Marel | W 1800-2100 |
ENGL 299 B1 | Essay Writing for Education Students | L. Schechter | TR 1230-1350 |
Spring 2020
Course | Title | Instructor | Time |
---|---|---|---|
ENGL 219 A1 | Narrative Theory and Poetics | CANCELLED |
Fall 2020
Course | Title | Instructor | Time |
---|---|---|---|
ENGL 209 A1 | Histories of Reading | D. Fuller | MWF 1100-1150 |
ENGL 212 A1 | Introduction to the English Language | R. Fowler | MWF 1300-1350 |
ENGL 218 A1 | Textualities: Reading and Interpretation | C. Bracken | MWF 1200-1250 |
ENGL 219 A1 | Textualities: Narrative Theory and Poetics | CANCELLED | TR 1230-1350 |
ENGL 220 A1 | Reading Politics: Gender and Sexuality | J. Rak | TR 1100-1220 |
ENGL 221 A1 | Reading Politics: Class and Ideology | R. Brazeau | TR 0930-1050 |
ENGL 222 A1 | Reading Politics: | W. Agorde | MWF 1400-1450 |
ENGL 223 A1 | Reading Empire and the Postcolonial | T. Tomsky | MWF 1000-1050 |
ENGL 299 A1 | Essay Writing for Education Students | L. Ouzgane | TR 1400-1520 |
Winter 2021
Course | Title | Instructor | Time |
---|---|---|---|
ENGL 208 B1 | History of the Book | G. Kelly | MWF 1000-1050 |
ENGL 209 B1 | Reading Histories: Histories of Reading: "Contested Readings" | A. Hasenbank | TR 1400-1520 |
ENGL 210 B1 | Reading Histories: Histories in Texts | R. Prusko | MWF 1000-1050 |
ENGL 212 B1 | Introduction to the English Language | L. Schechter | MWF 1200-1250 |
ENGL 219 B1 | Textualities: Narrative Theory and Poetics | Cancelled | MWF 0900-0950 |
ENGL 219 B2 | Textualities: Narrative Theory and Poetics | R. Brazeau | MWF 1400-1450 |
ENGL 220 B1 | Reading Politics: Gender and Sexuality | J. Sheckter | TR 1100-1220 |
ENGL 221 B1 | Reading Politics: Class and Ideology | M. Kosman | MWF 1400-1450 |
ENGL 222 B1 | Reading Politics: Race and Ethnicity | U. Umezurike | TR 0930-1050 |
ENGL 299 B1 | Essay Writing for Education Students | L. Robertson | TR 1230-1350 |
Spring 2021
Course | Title | Instructor | Time |
---|---|---|---|
ENGL 220 A1 | Reading Gender and Sexuality | J. Sheckter | MW 0930-1220 |
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