English Major Worksheet

Students wishing to major in English must take 6 of junior English (or ★3 of junior English plus WRS 101) and a minimum of 30 to a maximum of 48 at the 200-level or above , including 9 at the 200-level* , 9 at the 300-level and 6 at the 400-level .

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★9 200-level ENGL courses*

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★9 300-level ENGL courses

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★6 400-level ENGL courses

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★6 - ★24 Options

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As you choose your courses, consider these three recommended components:


1. Strong Recommendations

Three areas of study are strongly recommended (consider taking ★3 or more from each of the following):

Canadian literature and culture
2020/21:

ENGL 373: Canadian Lit: Writing and Colonization
ENGL 374: Canadian Lit&Culture: Early 20th-C Texts
ENGL 375: Canadian Lit&Culture: Reading Canadian Cultures
ENGL 378: Canadian Lit&Culture: Contemporary Cultural Texts
ENGL 407 B1: Louis Riel in Canadian Literature
ENGL 465 A1: #meetoo and Canadian Literature
WRITE 494 A1: A Poetics of Treaty
Indigenous literature and culture
2020/21:

ENGL 125: Indigenous Writing
ENGL 308: Indigenous Literature: Intellectual Traditions
ENGL 309: Indigenous Literature: Literary Movements
WRITE 494 A1: A Poetics of Treaty
pre-1900 literature and culture
2020/21:

ENGL 325: Medieval Literature and Culture
ENGL 336: Early Modern: 16th-Century Texts
ENGL 339: Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 340: Early Modern: 17th-Century Texts
ENGL 348: The Eighteenth-Century Novel
ENGL 349: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
ENGL 350: 19th-C British: Romantic Texts
ENGL 352: 19th-C British: Early Victorian Texts
ENGL 353: 19th-C British: Late Victorian Texts
ENGL 358: Early American Literature and Culture
ENGL 390: Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing
ENGL 405: Victorian Poetry and Poetics
ENGL 407 A1: Constellating Moby-Dick
ENGL 407 B1: Louis Riel in Canadian Literature

2. Breadth Recommendations

We suggest that your Major cover the breadth of areas within English Studies and encourage you to take at least one course of each in the following areas:

Genres and media forms
ENGL 208 Reading Histories: Making Books
ENGL 209 Reading Histories: Making Readers
ENGL 210 Reading Histories: Histories in Texts
ENGL 218 Textualities: Reading and Interpretation
ENGL 219 Textualities: Narrative Theory and Poetics
ENGL 301 Social and Cultural History of Genre
ENGL 302 Literary and Cultural Theories
ENGL 303 Computing Technology and Culture: Cyberculture
ENGL 304 Computing Technology and Culture: Digital Humanities
ENGL 327 Medieval Lit&Culture: Medieval and Tudor Drama
ENGL 337 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Drama
ENGL 347 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: Drama (reserve)
ENGL 348 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: The Novel
ENGL 349 19th-C British Lit&Culture: The Novel
ENGL 368 Early 20th-C Lit&Culture: Drama
ENGL 369 Late 20th-C Lit&Culture: Drama
ENGL 377 Canadian Lit&Culture: Canadian Drama and Performance
ENGL 384 Popular Culture: Reading Popular Texts
ENGL 385 Popular Culture: Issues in Popular Culture
ENGL 386 Popular Culture: Working-Class Texts and Cultures (reserve)
ENGL 388 Children's Lit&Culture: Oral Traditions
ENGL 389 Children's Lit&Culture: Print Traditions
ENGL 395 Media Culture and History
ENGL 402 Studies in Genres
ENGL 405 Studies in Poetry
ENGL 406 Studies in Prose (reserve)
ENGL 424 Studies in the History of Books
ENGL 425 Studies in the History of Reading (reserve)
ENGL 424 Studies in the History of Books
ENGL 482 Studies in Drama and Performance
ENGL 483 Studies in Popular Culture
ENGL 485 Topics in Media Studies
ENGL 484 Studies in Literature and Film
ENGL 486 Studies in Computer Technologies and Culture
ENGL 487 Studies in Children's Literature (reserve)

All WRITE courses
Literary periods
ENGL * 320 Old English Language and Literature
ENGL 324 Medieval Lit&Culture: Chaucer
ENGL 325 Medieval Lit&Culture: Medieval Texts
ENGL 327 Medieval Lit&Culture: Medieval and Tudor Drama
ENGL 336 Early Modern Lit&Culture: 16th-Century Texts
ENGL 337 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Drama
ENGL * 338 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Shakespeare
ENGL 339 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 340 Early Modern Lit&Culture: 17th-Century Texts
ENGL 341 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: Restoration & Early 18-C Texts
ENGL 343 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: Late 18-Century Texts
ENGL 344 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Milton
ENGL 347 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: Drama (reserve)
ENGL 348 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: The Novel
ENGL 349 19th-C British Lit&Culture: The Novel
ENGL 350 19th-C British Lit&Culture: Romantic Texts
ENGL 352 19th-C British Lit&Culture: Early Victorian Texts
ENGL 353 19th-C British Lit&Culture: Late Victorian Texts
ENGL 358 American Lit&Culture: Early American Writing - Colonial, Rev…
ENGL 359 American Lit&Culture: Reading American Origins
ENGL 361 American Lit&Culture: American Modern - Postbellum & Early…
ENGL 362 American Lit&Culture: Toward the Now - Later 20th & Early 21st C
ENGL 363 Early 20th-C Lit&Culture: Modernism and Modernity
ENGL 364 Late 20th-C Lit&Culture: Modernism and Modernity
ENGL 365 Early 20th-C British Literature and Culture
ENGL 366 Late 20th-C British Literature and Culture
ENGL 367 Contemporary Literatures and Cultures
ENGL 368 Early 20th-C Lit&Culture: Drama
ENGL 373 Canadian Lit&Culture: Writing and Colonization
ENGL 374 Canadian Lit&Culture: Early 20th-C Texts
ENGL 376 Canadian Lit&Culture: Late 20th-C Texts
ENGL 378 Canadian Lit&Culture: Contemporary Cultural Texts
ENGL 390 Women's Writing: Writing by Women pre-1900
ENGL 391 Women's Writing: Writing by Women post-1900
ENGL 401 Studies in Authors
ENGL 409 Studies in Literary Periods and Cultural Movements
ENGL 426 Studies in Literary and Cultural Histories
National and global literature
ENGL 223 Reading Politics: Empire and the Postcolonial
ENGL 308 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Intellectual Traditions
ENGL 309 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Literary Movements
ENGL 312 Postcolonial Lit&Culture: African Writing in English
ENGL 313 Postcolonial Lit&Culture: Caribbean Writing in English (reserve)
ENGL 314 Postcolonial Lit&Culture: Irish Writing in English
ENGL 315 Postcolonial Lit&Culture: Indian Writing in English
ENGL 316 Postcolonial Lit&Culture: Middle-Eastern Writing in English
ENGL 320 Old English Language and Literature
ENGL 324 Medieval Lit&Culture: Chaucer
ENGL 325 Medieval Lit&Culture: Medieval Texts
ENGL 327 Medieval Lit&Culture: Medieval and Tudor Drama
ENGL 336 Early Modern Lit&Culture: 16th-Century Texts
ENGL 337 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Drama
ENGL * 338 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Shakespeare
ENGL 339 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 340 Early Modern Lit&Culture: 17th-Century Texts
ENGL 341 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: Restoration & Early 18-C Texts
ENGL 343 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: Late 18-Century Texts
ENGL 344 Early Modern Lit&Culture: Milton
ENGL 347 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: Drama (reserve)
ENGL 348 Restoration and 18th-C Lit&Culture: The Novel
ENGL 349 19th-C British Lit&Culture: The Novel
ENGL 350 19th-C British Lit&Culture: Romantic Texts
ENGL 352 19th-C British Lit&Culture: Early Victorian Texts
ENGL 353 19th-C British Lit&Culture: Late Victorian Text
ENGL 354 Pre-20th-C Transnational Literature and Culture (reserve)
ENGL 355 American Lit&Culture: American Minority Literature
ENGL 356 American Lit&Culture: Reading American Technologies
ENGL 357 American Lit&Culture: Reading American Ideologies
ENGL 358 American Lit&Culture: Early American Writing - Colonial, Rev…
ENGL 359 American Lit&Culture: Reading American Origins
ENGL 360 American Lit&Culture: Race and Belonging in American Writing
ENGL 361 American Lit&Culture: American Modern - Postbellum & Early…
ENGL 362 American Lit&Culture: Toward the Now - Later 20th & Early 21st C
ENGL 373 Canadian Lit&Culture: Writing and Colonization
ENGL 374 Canadian Lit&Culture: Early 20th-C Texts
ENGL 375 Canadian Lit&Culture: Reading Canadian Cultures
ENGL 376 Canadian Lit&Culture: Late 20th-C Texts
ENGL 377 Canadian Lit&Culture: Canadian Drama and Performance
ENGL 378 Canadian Lit&Culture: Contemporary Cultural Texts
ENGL 379 Canadian Lit&Culture: Canadian Minority Literature (reserve)
ENGL 380 Canadian Lit&Culture: Reading the Local
ENGL 481 Studies in Empire and the Postcolonial
Social and cultural diversity
ENGL 220 Reading Politics: Gender and Sexuality
ENGL 221 Reading Politics: Class and Ideology
ENGL 222 Reading Politics: Race and Ethnicity
ENGL 223 Reading Politics: Empire and the Postcolonial
ENGL 302 Literary and Cultural Theories
ENGL 305 Literature and Religion
ENGL 308 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Intellectual Traditions
ENGL 309 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Literary Movements
ENGL 355 American Lit&Culture: American Minority Literature
ENGL 360 American Lit&Culture: Race and Belonging in American Writing
ENGL 379 Canadian Lit&Culture: Canadian Minority Literature (reserve)
ENGL 380 Canadian Lit&Culture: Reading the Local
ENGL 388 Children's Lit&Culture: Oral Traditions
ENGL 389 Children's Lit&Culture: Print Traditions
ENGL 390 Women's Writing: Writing by Women pre-1900`
ENGL 391 Women's Writing: Writing by Women post-1900
ENGL 392 Queer Writing
ENGL 407 Studies in Texts and Cultures
ENGL 409 Studies in Literary Periods and Cultural Movements
ENGL 465 Studies in Gender and Sexualities
ENGL 466 Studies in Class and Ideology (reserve)
ENGL 467 Studies in Race and Ethnicity
ENGL 481 Studies in Empire and the Postcolonial
Theoretical approaches
ENGL 209 Reading Histories: Making Readers
ENGL 210 Reading Histories: Histories in Texts
ENGL 212 Intro to the English Language
ENGL 217 Textualities: Signs and Texts
ENGL 218 Textualities: Reading and Interpretation
ENGL 219 Textualities: Narrative Theory and Poetics
ENGL 220 Reading Politics: Gender and Sexuality
ENGL 221 Reading Politics: Class and Ideology
ENGL 222 Reading Politics: Race and Ethnicity
ENGL 223 Reading Politics: Empire and the Postcolonial
ENGL 224 The Literary Institution
ENGL 300 Social and Cultural History of the English Language
ENGL 302 Literary and Cultural Theories
ENGL 308 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Intellectual Traditions
ENGL 385 Popular Culture: Issues in Popular Culture
ENGL 390 Women's Writing pre-1900
ENGL 391 Women's Writing post-1900
ENGL 392 Queer Writing
ENGL 409 Studies in Literary Periods and Cultural Movements
ENGL 425 Studies in the History of Reading
ENGL 430 Studies in Theory
ENGL 465 Studies in Gender and Sexualities
ENGL 466 Studies in Class and Ideology (reserve)
ENGL 467 Studies in Race and Ethnicity
ENGL 481 Studies in Empire and the Postcolonial
ENGL 482 Studies in Drama and Performance

3. Follow your interests

Which of these areas interest you most? Here's a selection of our 2019-20 courses:

Popular genres
ENGL 209 B1: Reading Histories: Making Readers
ENGL 301 A1 Social & Cultural History of the English Language: Life Writing
ENGL 308 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Horror Stories
ENGL 375 A1: Contemporary Bestsellers and Popular Genres in 21c Canada
ENGL 384 A1 Popular Culture: Reading Popular Texts
ENGL 389 A1 Children's Literature: Print Traditions
ENGL 385 B1: Issues in Popular Culture: Social Media Networks
ENGL 483 A1 Studies in Popular Culture: J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
ENGL 485 A1 Queer Gaming-Gender, Sexuality & Playfulness
ENGL 401 B1 The Cultural Politics of Jane Austen
ENGL 425 B1: Reading, Readers and Mass Media
Global issues
ENGL 222 Reading Politics: Race and Ethnicity
ENGL 223 A1 & B1 Reading Politics: Empire and the Postcolonial
ENGL 308 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Horror Stories
ENGL 309 B1: The Poetry and Poetics of the Indigenous Renaissance
ENGL 314 Postcolonial Literature & Culture: Irish Writing in English
ENGL 316 Postcolonial Literature & Culture: Middle Eastern Writing in English
ENGL 367 B1 Contemporary Literature & Cultures: Migration and Displacement
ENGL 481 A1: Studies in Empire and the Postcolonial: Borders, Lines and Walls
ENGL 481 B1 Studies in Empire and the Postcolonial: African Literature and the Discourse of the Other
Contemporary - 21st Century
ENGL 308 Aboriginal/Indigenous Literature: Horror Stories
ENGL 309 A1 Indigenous Literary Movements
ENGL 309 B1: The Poetry and Poetics of the Indigenous Renaissance
ENGL 362 B1: American Literature & Culture: Toward the Now - Later 20th & Early 21st Century
ENGL 367 B1 Contemporary Literature & Cultures: Migration and Displacement
ENGL 376 B1: Late 20th-Century Canadian Literature & Culture: Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
ENGL 375 A1: Contemporary Bestsellers and Popular Genres in 21c Canada
ENGL 385 B1: Issues in Popular Culture: Social Media Networks
ENGL 391 B2: Women's Writing: Writing by Women Post-1900: #MeToo
ENGL 402 B1 Academia in Contemporary Fiction
ENGL 425 B1: Reading, Readers and Mass Media
Social justice and literature
ENGL 209 B1: Reading Histories: Histories in Texts (Literature and Environmental History)
ENGL 220 Reading Politics: Gender and Sexuality
ENGL 221 Reading Politics: Class and Ideology
ENGL 222 Reading Politics: Race and Ethnicity
ENGL 223 Reading Politics: Empire and the Postcolonial
ENGL 301 B1 Social and Cultural History of Genre: "All of Them Witches"
ENGL 309 A1 Indigenous Literary Movements
ENGL 309 B1: The Poetry and Poetics of the Indigenous Renaissance
ENGL 360 X50 Race and Belonging in American Writing
ENGL 367 B1 Contemporary Literature & Cultures: Migration and Displacement
ENGL 481 A1: Studies in Empire and the Postcolonial: Borders, Lines and Walls
ENGL 401 B1 The Cultural Politics of Jane Austen
ENGL 407 A1 Shakespeare and Ecological Crisis
ENGL 481 B1 African Literature and the Discourse of the Other
WRITE 494 A Poetics of Treaty
Gender and sexuality
ENGL 220 Reading Politics: Gender and Sexuality
ENGL 390 A1 Women's Writing: Writing by Women pre-1900: The Rise of Women Novelists
ENGL 391 B2: Women's Writing: Writing by Women Post-1900: #MeToo
ENGL 401 B1 The Cultural Politics of Jane Austen
ENGL 485 A1 Queer Gaming-Gender, Sexuality & Playfulness
Creative writing
WRITE 294 Introduction to Writing Poetry
WRITE 295 Introduction to Writing Prose
WRITE 297 Introduction to Writing Nonfiction
WRITE 392 Intermediate Poetry
WRITE 393 Intermediate Fiction
WRITE 397 Intermediate Creative Writing: Nonfiction
WRITE 399 A1 The Line between Nonfiction and Poetry
WRITE 399 A2 Story Lab: Producing Narrative Across Media and Culture
WRITE 399 X50 Creative Writing for Video Games
WRITE 494 A Poetics of Treaty
WRITE 495 Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction
WRITE 498 Advanced Creative Writing: Nonfiction: Researching and Writing the Object World and Material Culture
Media studies and print culture
ENGL 209 Making Readers
ENGL 303 Digital Cultures
ENGL 385 Issues in Popular Culture: Social Media Networks
ENGL 395 Media, Culture, History
ENGL 425 B1 Reading, Readers and Mass Media
ENGL 485 A1 Queer Gaming-Gender, Sexuality & Playfulness
WRITE 399 A2 Story Lab: Producing Narrative Across Media and Culture
WRITE 399 X50 Creative Writing for Video Games
Going to graduate school
Many graduate programs emphasize historical and national breadth in entrance requirements and thus if you are thinking about graduate school, you may wish to take courses in the following areas:
Medieval: ENGL 325, ENGL 409
Early Modern: ENGL 336, ENGL 339, ENGL 344, ENGL 407
Restoration and Eighteenth Century: ENGL 390, ENGL 343
Nineteenth Century: ENGL 349, ENGL 350, ENGL 352, ENGL 358, ENGL 401
Modernism: ENGL 363
Canadian: ENGL 376, ENGL 375, ENGL 376, ENGL 378
American: ENGL 358, ENGL 360, ENGL 362
Post-colonial: ENGL 314, ENGL 316, ENGL 481
Indigenous: ENGL 308, ENGL 309
Literary Theory: ENGL 218, ENGL 219

NOTES:
1. Students taking English as a major and Creative Writing as a minor cannot count WRITE courses toward requirements for the major. WRITE and approved cross-listed courses apply as ENGL courses for students taking English as a major and a subject other than Creative Writing as a minor; however no more than 15 of WRITE courses may be used to fulfill program requirements.

2. * Effective September 2019: Students who entered the program before September 2019 will be allowed to graduate with ★6 credits. All students entering the program after September 2019 will need ★9 at the 200-level.

 

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