English


Faculty List

University Professors Emeriti 
J.E. Chamberlin, PhD, FRSC (N) 
R. Frank, MA, PhD, FRSC (U) 
L.A. Hutcheon, MA, PhD, FRSC (N) 
M. Millgate, MA, PhD, FRSC 

Professors Emeriti 
T.H. Adamowski, MA, PhD 
F.J. Asals, MA, PhD (N) 
J.D. Baird, MA, PhD (V)
C.R. Blake, MA, PhD (U) (Obit) 
W.F. Blissett, MA, PhD, FRSC (U) 
R.M. Brown, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 
E. Cameron, MA, PhD (U) 
D.D.C. Chambers, MA, PhD (T) 
E. Cook, MA, PhD, FRSC (V) 
B. Corman, AM, PhD (T) 
M. Cuddy-Keane, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 
A.H. de Quehen, PhD (U) 
E.W. Domville, PhD (T) 
J.D. Duffy, MA, PhD (I) (V)
J. Dutka, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) (Obit)
D.L. Esch, MA, PhD (V)  
D.I. Galbraith, MA, PhD (V) 
M. Garson, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
W.H. Halewood, MA, PhD (U)
G.A. Hamel, MA, PhD (N) (Obit) 
E.R. Harvey, M Phil, PhD 
B.S. Hayne, AM, PhD (SM) 
A. diP. Healey, MA, PhD (U) 
H.J. Jackson, MA, PhD 
A.F. Johnston, MA, PhD, LL D, FRSC (V) 
D.N. Klausner, PhD (U)
N. ten Kortenaar, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 
J.C. Kuhn, MA, PhD (SM) 
A.C. Lancashire, AM, PhD, FRSC (U) 
D.I. Lancashire, MA, PhD, FRSC (N) 
A.M. Leggatt, MA, PhD, FRSC (U) 
J.L. Levenson, MA, PhD, FRSC (T) 
N.R. Lindheim, MA, PhD 
G. Matteo, MA, PhD (SM) 
J.L. Matus, MA, PhD, FRSC (U) 
R.R. McLeod, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
S. Neuman, PhD, FRSC
M. Nyquist, MA, PhD (N) 
R.B. Parker, MA, PhD (T) 
M. Redekop, MA, PhD (V) 
J.H. Reibetanz, AM, PhD (V)
J.M. Reibetanz, MA, PhD (T) (Obit) 
A. Saddlemyer, MA, PhD, D Litt, LL D, FRSC (V) 
P.D. Seary, MA, D Phil (N) 
W.D. Shaw, AM, PhD, FRSC (V) 
M.J. Sidnell, MA, PhD (T) 
S.Z. Solecki, MA, PhD (U) 
R. Sullivan, MA, PhD, FRSC 
L. Thomson, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
D. Townsend, MA, PhD (U) 
C. Visser, B Litt, PhD (U) 
G.T. Warkentin, MA, PhD (V) (FRSC) 
F.W. Watt, MA, B Litt, PhD (U) 

Associate Professors Emeriti 
G. Fenwick, MA, PhD (T) 
J.M. Heath, MA, PhD (V) 
G. Henderson, MA, PhD 
M.J. Levene, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
V. Li, MA, PhD 
J.J. O'Connor, MA, PhD (SM) 
J.W.O. Patrick, MA, PhD (V) 
E.P. Vicari, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
M. Woodland, MA, PhD 

Professor and Chair of the Department
N. Morgenstern, MA, PhD 

Associate Professor and Associate Chair
A.E. Hernandez, MA, PhD 

University Professors
T. Keymer, MA, PhD, FRSC  

Professors 
A. Ackerman, MA, PhD (U)  
A.J. Bewell, MA, PhD, FRSC (U) 
R. Boyagoda, MA, PhD (SM), Vice-Dean, Undergraduate 
G.E. Clarke, MA, PhD (U) 
M. Cobb, MA, PhD (U) 
P.B. Downes, MA, PhD (T) 
A. Esterhammer, PhD, FRSC (V) (Principal of Victoria College)
A. Gillespie, MA, D Phil (Vice-President & Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga) 
M. Goldman, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 
R. Greene, D Phil (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
A. Jaffe, PhD 
S. Kamboureli, MA, PhD, FRSC (U) 
K.R. Larson, M Phil, PhD (Vice-Dean, Teaching, Learning and Undergraduate Programs, University of Toronto Scarborough) 
G.M. Leonard, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 
L. Magnusson, MA, PhD, FRSC (V)
R. McGill, M Phil, PhD
A. Most, MA, PhD 
N. Mount, MA, PhD (T) 
C.E. Percy, MA, D Phil (N)
J. Rogers, MA, PhD
S. Salih, MA, D Phil 
C. Schmitt, MA, PhD
D. Seitler, MA, PhD
S. Stern, JD, PhD (U) 
P.A. Stevens, MA, PhD, FRSC (T)
R. R. Trilling, MA, PhD (January 2024)
C. Warley, MA, PhD 
K. Weisman, MA, PhD 
D.E. White, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga)
I. Williams, MA, PhD
M. Xie, PhD

Associate Professors 
L. Blake, M Phil, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga)
C. Bolus-Reichert, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
A. Charise, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
T. Dancer, MA, PhD
S.E. Dickie, MA, PhD 
N. Dolan, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
A. DuBois, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
K. Gaston, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
M. Gniadek, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga)
A. Hammond, MA, PhD
J. Hansen, MA, PhD (January 2024)
C. Hill, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
S. Lamb, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 
H. Li, PhD 
A. Maurice, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) (UTSC Chair)
S. Radović, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga)
T.F. Robinson, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga)
W. Robins, MA, PhD (V)
M. Sergi, PhD
A. Slater, MFA, M Phil, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
C. Suzack, MA, PhD 
L. Switzky, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
H.S. Syme, AM, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
K. Vernon, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough) 
A. Walkden, M Phil, PhD
D. Wright, MA, PhD (University of Mississauga)

Associate Professors, Teaching Stream 
P. Grav, MA, PhD 
S. Rayter, MA, PhD (U) 

Assistant Professors 
T. Aguila-Way, MA, PhD 
D.F. Baker, MA, PhD 
C. Battershill, PhD
U. Chakravarty, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
R. Mehta, MA, PhD 
F.L. Michelet, M Phil, PhD 
Y. Ryzhik, MA, PhD (University of Toronto Scarborough)
M. Teramura, MA, PhD 
A. Thomas, M St, PhD (University of Toronto Mississauga) 
C.C. Azubuko-Udah, C Phil, PhD
A. Walton, MTS, PhD 
K. Williams, MA, PhD 

Assistant Professors, Teaching Stream 
D. Flynn, PhD
D.A. Newman, MA, PhD

Introduction

Literary study engages with some of history's most creative and articulate thinkers as they contemplate fundamental and persistent questions: How do individuals form and sustain meaningful relationships with one another? What is the purpose of art? How does language record and shape human experience? As a student in the English program, you will be introduced to the literary tradition in English, a fascinating conversation spanning over a thousand years and connecting nations and peoples all across the globe. In addition, you will be trained in methods of critical reading and writing which will help you to comprehend complex texts and the authors and societies that produced them. The skills acquired by students of English are directly applicable to any career that requires critical thinking and effective communication--from education to government, law to engineering, business to medicine, and beyond. Just as valuably, the study of English will provide you with models and tools for discovering and articulating your own perspective on the many different kinds of written texts that make up our world.

The Department of English offers courses in British, Canadian, and American literature; Indigenous literatures of North America; postcolonial, transnational, and diasporic English literatures of Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia; and in the critical and theoretical literature through which literary critics and philosophers have developed vocabulary and methods for describing the forms, histories, and ideologies of literary art.

English courses are arranged in four levels. Courses at the 100-level introduce students, in large lectures, to the study of English literature through sweeping surveys: of the literary tradition from Homer through the 19th century; of literature written in direct response to the events of recent decades; or of narrative forms in many genres and historical periods. Most 100-level courses include small-group tutorials, where students are introduced to critical reading and writing skills; essays at the 100-level typically do not require research or secondary sources. Courses at the 200-level provide historically, geographically, generically, or theoretically grounded introductions to the study of English literature. These include the four "gateway" courses required of all Specialists and Majors—introductions to the major national-historical fields (British, Canadian, and American) that comprise literatures in English—as well as a wide range of courses that will prepare students for further study. 300-level courses focus on particular literary periods, on diasporic literatures, and on special topics within a literature or literary genre. Courses at this level introduce students to research skills and typically require essays that incorporate secondary sources. Courses in the 400-level are both advanced and focused—unique courses created by Department faculty which often relate to their own research. Active student participation, including oral presentations, is an important part of these courses. These courses require a substantial research essay. English 400-level courses are open to students who have obtained standing in at least 9.0 credits, including 4.0 ENG credits, and who have completed ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, and ENG252H1 (though exemptions may be made for students registered in our pre-2018 programs).

The Department of English offers several Programs of Study. The Specialist is the most intensive and comprehensive, requiring a minimum of 10.0 credits in a 20.0 credits degree. The Major is the Department’s most popular program. It provides both depth and breadth to students who wish to focus on English studies but also wish to leave room in their degrees to pursue other interests. The Minor is the Department’s second-most popular program, and can be combined with Majors or Minors in a wide variety of other fields. On the presumption that the Minor is a curiosity-driven program, Minors are exempt from the required courses and distribution requirements of the Specialist and Major. In Fall 2022, the Department of English started offering a Minor in Creative Writing. The Minor in Creative Writing is a limited enrolment program with the objective of allowing students to exercise their creativity and to improve as writers through the practice-based and reflective study of genres, strategies, and techniques.

The Department of English publishes detailed course descriptions and reading lists online, usually at the beginning of May. Students are urged to consult these course descriptions at www.english.utoronto.ca before enrolment begins.

Students with questions about the English Undergraduate Programs should consult the Undergraduate Advisor.

Undergraduate Associate Chair: Professor Alex Hernandez, 170 St. George Street, Room 608

Undergraduate Advisor: Vanessa Andres, 170 St. George Street, Room 609 (416-978-5026), english.undergraduate@utoronto.ca

 

Regarding English Programs

Students are responsible for completing all the requirements of an English program from the Calendar of the year in which they enrolled in the program. Completion of a first-year ENG course is not a requirement for any of our programs. Please note that we do not accept ENG100H1, ENG102H1, or any CR/NCR courses toward any of our programs. Enrolment in the English Specialist program requires a final grade of at least 73% in ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1; or a final grade of at least 73% in 2.0 ENG credits at the 200-level.

English Programs

English Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE1645

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Completed courses (with minimum grades)
The following courses with the stated minimum grades are required:

  • 73% in ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1, or
  • 2.0 credits from 200-series ENG courses, with a final grade of 73% in each.
Completion Requirements:

10.0 ENG credits including 4.0 credits from 300+ level courses, at least 1.0 credit of which must be at the 400-level.
Only 1.0 credit from 100-level ENG courses may be counted. We do not accept ENG100H1, ENG102H1, or any CR/NCR courses toward our programs.
Courses must fulfill the following requirements:

  1. ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1
  2. 0.5 ENG credit from Indigenous, Postcolonial, Transnational Literatures
  3. 2.0 ENG credits from Pre-1800 British Literature
  4. 0.5 ENG/ JEI/ JWE credit from Theory, Language, Critical Methods
  5. ENG286H1 or ENG287H1. If not, one 0.5 credit in any BR=5 course

Indigenous, Postcolonial, Transnational Literatures:
ENG253H1, ENG254H1, ENG269H1, ENG270H1, ENG355Y1, ENG356Y1, ENG367H1, ENG368H1, ENG369H1, ENG370Y1, ENG371H1, ENG372H1

Pre-1800 British Literature:
ENG220H1, ENG240Y1, ENG300Y1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG305H1, ENG306Y1, ENG308Y1, ENG311H1, ENG320Y1, ENG322Y1, ENG323H1, ENG330H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, ENG337H1, ENG373H1, ENG374H1

Theory, Language, Critical Methods:
ENG201Y1, ENG205H1, JEI206H1/​ JWE206H1, ENG280H1, ENG281H1, ENG285H1, ENG376H1, ENG377H1, ENG382Y1, ENG384Y1, ENG385H1

English Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1645

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

7.0 ENG credits including 2.0 credits from 300+ level courses, at least 0.5 credit of which must be at the 400-level.
Only 1.0 credit from 100-level ENG courses may be counted. We do not accept ENG100H1, ENG102H1, or any CR/NCR courses toward our programs.
Courses must fulfill the following requirements:

  1. ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1
  2. 0.5 ENG credit from Indigenous, Postcolonial, Transnational Literatures
  3. 1.0 ENG credit from Pre-1800 British Literature
  4. 0.5 ENG/ JEI/ JWE credit from Theory, Language, Critical Methods
  5. ENG286H1 or ENG287H1. If not, one 0.5 credit in any BR=5 course

Indigenous, Postcolonial, Transnational Literatures:
ENG253H1, ENG254H1, ENG269H1, ENG270H1, ENG355Y1, ENG356Y1, ENG367H1, ENG368H1, ENG369H1, ENG370Y1, ENG371H1, ENG372H1

Pre-1800 British Literature:
ENG220H1, ENG240Y1, ENG300Y1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG305H1, ENG306Y1, ENG308Y1, ENG311H1, ENG320Y1, ENG322Y1, ENG323H1, ENG330H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, ENG337H1, ENG373H1, ENG374H1

Theory, Language, Critical Methods:
ENG201Y1, ENG205H1, JEI206H1/​ JWE206H1, ENG280H1, ENG281H1, ENG285H1, ENG376H1, ENG377H1, ENG382Y1, ENG384Y1, ENG385H1

English Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1645

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

4.0 ENG credits, including 1.0 credit from 300+level ENG courses.

Only 1.0 credit from 100-level ENG courses may be counted. We do not accept ENG100H1, ENG102H1, or any CR/NCR courses toward our programs.

Minor in Creative Writing (Arts Program) - ASMIN1646

The Minor in Creative Writing allows students to exercise their creativity and to improve as writers through the practice-based and reflective study of genres, strategies, and techniques. The program includes lecture courses on forms including short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction; form-specific workshops focused on the discussion of students’ work; opportunities to write in longer forms such as the novella and the poetry collection; and seminars on subjects such as the publishing industry and literary culture. Through these courses, students will develop their writing and editorial skills while gaining a better understanding of literary craft and of writing beyond the university.

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average in required courses is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:

For students who have completed 4.0 to 8.5 credits:

For students who have completed 9.0 or more credits:

  • 2.0 credits in 200-level ENG courses, each with a final grade of at least 77%
Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits as follows, including at least 1.5 credits at the 300 level or above)

  1. 1.5 credits from: ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, ENG150Y1, ENG201Y1, ENG205H1, ENG210H1, ENG213H1, ENG215H1, ENG234H1, ENG235H1, ENG237H1, ENG239H1, ENG285H1, ENG287H1
  2. ENG289H1
  3. 2.0 credits from the following: ENG387H1/​ CRE279H1, ENG388H1/​ CRE280H1, ENG389H1/​ CRE275H1/​ WRR311Y1, ENG394H1, ENG497H1, ENG498H1; approved courses offered by other departments and programs (see list of Cognate Courses below).

Accepted Cognate Courses:

Notes:

  • We do not accept any CR/NCR courses toward our program.
  • 200-level English courses in the program are open to students who have obtained standing in 1.0 ENG credit or in any 4.0 credits. Students without these prerequisites may enrol in a 200-level course if they are concurrently enrolled in ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1.
  • ENG387H1, ENG388H1, ENG389H1, and ENG394H1 are open to students who have obtained standing in ENG289H1 and any further 3.5 credits.
  • ENG497H1 and ENG498H1 are open to students who have obtained standing in 9.0 credits, including ENG289H1 and any additional 1.5 ENG credits.
  • ENG387H1, ENG388H1, ENG389H1, ENG394H1, ENG497H1, and ENG498H1 may not be counted toward fulfilling the requirements for the Specialist, Major, or Minor programs in English.
  • Please note that prerequisites and exclusions will be strictly enforced.

Regarding English Courses

Please note that not all courses are offered every year. 

Only ONE of ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1 may be counted toward English program requirements. ENG100H1 and ENG102H1 may not be used to meet the requirements of any English program. First-year students may enrol in a 200-level ENG course if they are concurrently enrolled in ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1. English 200-level courses are open to students who have obtained standing in 1.0 ENG credit or in any 4.0 credits. Students without these prerequisites may enrol in a 200-level course if they are concurrently enrolled in ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1, or ENG150Y1. English 300-level courses are open to students who have obtained standing in 4.0 credits, including 2.0 ENG credits. English 400-level courses are open to students who have obtained 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1); and any 9.0 credits (though exemptions may be made for students registered in our pre-2018 programs). Students who require a 400-level course to satisfy their program requirements have enrolment priority in the first round of course enrolment. Individual topics to be specified by instructors. Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level. These courses are not eligible for the CR/NCR option. Prerequisites and exclusions will be strictly enforced.

Combined Degree Program (CDP) offered with Victoria College and Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

  • Combined Degree Program in HBA/HBSc and Master of Teaching (MT)

Students enrolled in the Minor in Education and Society and Major in English may apply for this Combined Degree Program. For details about application and program requirements, see the Combined Degree Programs section.

 

English Courses

ENG100H1 - Effective Writing

Hours: 36L

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 may not be counted toward any English program.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG102H1 - Literature and the Sciences

Hours: 36L

Literature has always provided a place for the imaginative exploration of science, technology, and the physical universe. For students interested in literary treatments of science and scientific problems, concerns, and methods. Assumes no background in the methods and techniques of literary scholarship. This course may not be counted toward any English program.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG110Y1 - Narrative

Hours: 48L/24T

This course explores the stories that are all around us and that shape our world: traditional literary narratives such as ballads, romances, and novels, and also non-literary forms of narrative, such as journalism, movies, myths, jokes, legal judgments, travel writing, histories, songs, diaries, biographies.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG140Y1 - Literature for our Time

Hours: 48L/24T

An exploration of how recent literature in English responds to our world. Includes poetry, prose, and drama by major writers of the twentieth century and emerging writers of the current century.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG150Y1 - Literary Traditions

Hours: 48L/24T

An introduction to major authors, ideas, and texts that shaped and continue to inform the ever-evolving traditions of literature in English. Includes works and authors from antiquity to the nineteenth century such as the Bible, the Qur'an, Plato, Homer, Sappho, Virgil, Dante, Christine de Pizan, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Montaigne, Austen, Dostoevski.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG196H1 - Cook the Books

Hours: 36S

If, as Brillat-Savarin so famously said, “you are what you eat”, then what are we? What do our eating choices reveal about us and what we value? In this class, we will examine stories about farming, cooking, and eating in order to understand how culture shapes culinary traditions and vice versa. But we don’t stop there: through cooking and eating together, we will create new stories about our food and our relationship to the earth that sustains us. Co-taught with a professional chef, this course combines literary and historical analysis with hands-on cooking classes, shared meals, and food-oriented field trips. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. An additional fee to cover food and field trip costs is required.

Exclusion: ENG197H1, ENG198H1, ENG199H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG197H1 - Time Travel and Narrative

Hours: 24S

From H.G. Wells to Star Trek to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, tales of time travelers remain captivating. What does our fascination with time travel tell us about storytelling and narrative? This course will explore the questions that time travel raises about narrative as well as history, temporality, subjectivity, and agency. We will look at examples of time travel in film, television, and books as well as philosophical and scientific writing about it. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Exclusion: ENG196H1, ENG198H1, ENG199H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG198H1 - Representing Disability

Hours: 24S

Understanding disability as a cultural concept—not a medical condition or personal misfortune—that describes how human variation matters in the world, this course asks: how do literary texts represent physical and intellectual disability? Reading drama, fiction, and poetry, we will consider how disability prompts new strategies of writing and thinking, in order to consider what new forms of representation disability can produce, and what the concept of disability can teach us about being human. We will consider literary, visual, performative, and performance-based possibilities for bodies and minds that resist normative structures, theorize ideas of access, cure, and care, and claim disability as enlivening identity. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Exclusion: ENG196H1, ENG197H1, ENG199H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG199H1 - Tree Stories

Hours: 24S

Trees are all around us. We climb them, tell stories about them, write on paper, at desks, in homes made from them. But most people tend to take them for granted. This course considers how we imagine trees in works of art and legend and what trees can teach us about our own place in the world. We will read stories and poems as well as exploring the trees around campus and the environment we share. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Exclusion: ENG196H1, ENG197H1, ENG198H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG201Y1 - Reading Poetry

Hours: 72L

An introduction to poetry through a close reading of texts, focusing on its traditional forms, themes, techniques, and uses of language; its historical and geographical range; and its twentieth-century diversity.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG202H1 - Introduction to British Literature I

Previous Course Number: ENG202Y1

Hours: 36L

An introduction to British literature, exploring works in poetry, prose, and drama from the medieval period to the end of the seventeenth century.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG202Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG203H1 - Introduction to British Literature II

Previous Course Number: ENG202Y1

Hours: 36L

An introduction to British literature, exploring works in poetry, prose, and drama from the end of the seventeenth century into the twentieth century.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG202Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

JWE206H1 - Writing English Essays

Previous Course Number: JEI206H1

Hours: 24L/12T

This course teaches students who already write effectively how to write clear, compelling, research-informed English essays. The course aims to help students recognize the function of grammar and rhetoric, the importance of audience, and the persuasive role of style.

Prerequisite: Completion of 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: JEI206H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG210H1 - Introduction to the Novel

Previous Course Number: ENG210Y1

Hours: 36L

An introduction to the novel as literary genre through a reading of five or six key novels from a range of periods and regions.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG210Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG213H1 - The Short Story

Hours: 36L

This course explores shorter works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. Special attention is 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.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG215H1 - The Canadian Short Story

Hours: 36L

An introduction to the Canadian short story, this course emphasizes its rich variety of settings, subjects, and styles.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG220H1 - Introduction to Shakespeare

Previous Course Number: ENG220Y1

Hours: 36L

An introduction to Shakespeare's work through five or six representative plays. Readings may include non-dramatic poetry as well as plays.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG220Y1, ENG320Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG234H1 - Children's Literature

Hours: 36L

A critical and historical study of poetry and fiction written for or appropriated by children, this course may also include drama or non-fiction and will cover works by at least twelve authors such as Bunyan, Stevenson, Carroll, Twain, Alcott, Nesbit, Montgomery, Milne, Norton, Fitzhugh.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG235H1 - The Graphic Novel

Hours: 36L

An introduction to book-length sequential art, this course includes fictional and nonfictional comics, with a focus on formal properties such as narrative layout and text/art hybridity. Themes vary but may include superheroes; auto/biography; the figure of the outsider; women in comics; alienation and youth; and war reporting.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG237H1 - Science Fiction

Hours: 36L

This course explores speculative fiction that invents or extrapolates an inner or outer cosmology from the physical, life, social, and human sciences. Typical subjects include AI, alternative histories, cyberpunk, evolution, future and dying worlds, genetics, space/time travel, strange species, theories of everything, utopias, and dystopias.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG239H1 - Fantasy and Horror

Hours: 36L

This course explores speculative fiction of the fantastic, the magical, the supernatural, and the horrific. Subgenres may include alternative histories, animal fantasy, epic fantasy, the Gothic, fairy tales, magic realism, sword and sorcery, and vampire fiction.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG240Y1 - Old English Language and Literature

Hours: 72L

Prepares students to read the oldest English literary forms in the original language. Introduces the earliest English poetry in a woman's voice, expressions of desire, religious fervour, and the agonies of war. Texts, written 680 - 1100, range from the epic of Beowulf the dragon-slayer to ribald riddles.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG250H1 - Introduction to American Literature

Previous Course Number: ENG250Y1

Hours: 36L

An introduction to American literature, exploring works in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, and slave narratives.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG250Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG252H1 - Introduction to Canadian Literature

Previous Course Number: ENG252Y1

Hours: 36L

An introduction to Canadian literature, exploring works in poetry, prose, and drama from early to recent times.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG252Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG253H1 - Caribbean Literature

Hours: 36L

An introduction to Caribbean poetry, prose, and drama in English or translation.

Prerequisite: English 200-level courses are open to students who have obtained standing in 1.0 ENG credit or in any 4.0 credits. Students without these prerequisites may enrol in a 200-level course if they are concurrently enrolled in ENG110Y1, ENG140Y1 or ENG150Y1.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG254H1 - Introduction to Indigenous Literatures

Previous Course Number: ENG254Y1

Hours: 36L

An introduction to Indigenous writings in English, with significant attention to Indigenous literatures in Canada. The writings are placed within the context of Indigenous cultural and political continuity, linguistic and territorial diversity, and living oral traditions. The primary focus may be on contemporary Indigenous writing.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG254Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG269H1 - English Literature and Chinese Translation

Hours: 36L

This course studies how works of English literature have been translated and presented in modern Chinese culture. It requires no background in translation or literary studies. Through exercises and workshops, students will be exposed to works by British, American, and Canadian authors. Students will engage with issues in translation studies and learn practical skills of translation from English to Chinese. Class will be taught primarily in English, supplemented by Mandarin. Assignments to be completed in English. Reading knowledge of Mandarin is required.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits, reading knowledge of Mandarin
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ENG270H1 - Introduction to Colonial and Postcolonial Writing

Previous Course Number: ENG270Y1

Hours: 36L

In this course, we examine the colonial archive for its representations of race, indigeneity, sexuality, and capital accumulation. We familiarize ourselves with the aesthetic and political modes of resisting colonial power around the world. Besides literary texts, our objects of study may include photographs, film, and digital media.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG270Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG273Y1 - Queer Writing

Hours: 72L

Introducing a lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer tradition in literature and theory, this course explores classical, modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature, criticism, art, film, music, and popular culture.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG280H1 - Critical Approaches to Literature

Hours: 36L

An introduction to the theory and practice of literary criticism. Focusing on a single text or small group of texts, students will gain experience with close reading and analysis, critical theory, research methods, and the conventions and skills particular to literary-critical writing.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG281H1 - Writing About Literature

Hours: 24L/12T

An introduction to the skills and contexts that underlie university-level writing about literature. Students will analyze the style and mechanics of literary criticism in a variety of fields, including published essays by Department faculty. Guest speakers and writing-intensive tutorials will help students begin to join the critical conversation.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG285H1 - The English Language in the World

Hours: 36L

This introductory course surveys transnational, regional, and social varieties of Later Modern English; the linguistic and social factors that have shaped them; their characteristic structures; and their uses in speech and in writing, both literary and non-literary.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ENG286H1 - Literature and Data

Hours: 24L/12T

Geared toward the interests and aptitudes of humanities students, this course provides an accessible introduction to computer programming, statistics, and data science, and equips students with the practical and theoretical skills to engage critically with literary data and computation. What new insights about literary form, history, or culture might we glean from a spreadsheet of bestsellers, a database of fan fiction, or an archive containing more novels than any individual could ever read? What gaps exist in literary datasets, and what biases are enshrined in code? No programming or statistical experience required or expected.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: CSC111H1, CSC148H1, STA130H1, STA238H1, STA248H1, STA261H1, GGR274H1, EEB125H1
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

ENG287H1 - The Digital Text

Hours: 24L/12T

This course explores the stakes and consequences of literature’s transition from printed to digital forms. How do digital and printed texts differ materially, and how does this affect literary form, authorship, consumption, reception — and society more broadly? What new expressive possibilities are present in “born digital” forms like webcomics, fan fiction, interactive fiction, and videogames? How do social media and online reading communities impact the way that literature is marketed and discussed? Will electronic archives make literature more accessible, or less? How do digital texts challenge existing definitions of what counts as “literature”?

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG289H1 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Hours: 36L

An introduction to creative writing, especially poetry and short fiction, attending to conventions of literary forms and genres, as well as to writing strategies, techniques, and terminology.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG389Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG296Y0 - Topics in English Literature

Content varies with Instructor. Offered by the Summer Abroad program, usually in Oxford, England.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits

ENG297Y0 - Topics in English Literature

Content varies with Instructor. Offered by the Summer Abroad program, usually in Siena, Italy.

Prerequisite: 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits

ENG299Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

ENG300Y1 - Chaucer

Hours: 72L

An in-depth study of Chaucer's major works, including The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG302Y1 - English Renaissance Literature

Hours: 72L

A survey of some of the major works in English poetry and prose written between 1500 and 1660. Some dramatic literature may be considered as well.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG304Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG303H1 - Milton

Hours: 36L

Selections from Paradise Lost and other works.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG305H1 - Swift, Pope, and Their Contemporaries

Hours: 36L

Selected works in prose and verse by Swift and Pope studied alongside works by their contemporaries. Topics may include the legitimacy of satire, the role of criticism, and the growing importance of writing by women.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG306Y1 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Hours: 72L

A study of selected works by Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and at least six other authors.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG308Y1 - Romantic Literature

Hours: 72L

Poetry and critical prose of Blake, W. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P.B. Shelley, and Keats; may include selections from other writers such as Crabbe, Scott, Landor, Clare, D. Wordsworth, M. Shelley, De Quincey.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG311H1 - Medieval Literature

Hours: 36L

This course explores a selection of writings in early English, excluding those by Chaucer.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG320Y1 - Shakespeare

Hours: 72L

An in-depth study of Shakespeare's work, covering the different periods of his career and the different genres in which he worked. Readings may include non-dramatic poetry as well as plays.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG322Y1 - The Rise of the Novel

Hours: 72L

This course, spanning from 1660 to the 1830s, studies the emergence of prose fiction as a genre recognized in both a literary and a commercial sense. Authors may include Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Scott, Austen.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG323H1 - Austen and Her Contemporaries

Hours: 36L

A study of selected novels of Jane 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.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG324Y1 - The Victorian Novel

Hours: 72L

A study of such topics as the comic art of Dickens, Trollope, and Thackeray; the Gothicism of the Brontës; the crisis of religious faith in George Eliot; and the powerful moral fables of Hardy. Students will read 10-12 novels.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG328Y1 - Modern Fiction

Hours: 72L

This course explores ten to twelve works by such writers as James, Conrad, Cather, Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Faulkner, Rhys, Hemingway, Achebe, Ellison, Spark, Lessing.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG329H1 - Contemporary British Fiction

Hours: 36L

This course explores six or more works by at least four British contemporary writers of fiction.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG330H1 - Medieval Drama

Hours: 36L

Plays and other texts composed for live performance across the first millennium of English history, primarily 1300-1485; morality plays, biblical pageants, solo performances, large-scale spectacles, mummings, religious rituals, rude songs, recovered fragments. Basic training in reading/translating medieval English sources and in decoding early cues for staging.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG331H1 - Drama 1485-1603

Hours: 36L

Plays and performance history across Britain, 1485 to 1603; the rise of London theatres and of named English and Scottish playwrights (Medwall, Redford, Marlowe, Shakespeare, etc.); anonymous sixteenth-century plays from Cheshire, Yorkshire, East Anglia, and Cambridgeshire; traces of lost performances in the archives.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG335H1 - Drama 1603-1642

Hours: 36L

This course explores English drama from the death of Queen Elizabeth I to the closing of the theatres, with attention to such playwrights as Jonson, Middleton, Shakespeare, Webster.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG337H1 - Drama 1660-1800

Hours: 36L

At least twelve plays, including works by Dryden, Wycherley, Congreve, and their successors, chosen to demonstrate the modes of drama practiced during the period, the relationship between these modes and that between the plays and the theatres for which they were designed.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG340H1 - Modern Drama

Hours: 36L

A study of plays in English by such dramatists as Wilde, Yeats, Shaw, Synge, Glaspell, Hughes, O'Neill, as well as plays in translation by such dramatists as Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Pirandello.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG341H1 - Post-Modern Drama

Hours: 36L

A study of plays by such dramatists as Beckett, Miller, Williams, Pinter, Soyinka, Churchill, with background readings from other dramatic literatures.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG347Y1 - Victorian Literature

Hours: 72L

A survey of major texts in a variety of genres by authors such as Darwin, Tennyson, Browning, Wilde, Nightingale, Christina Rossetti, Kipling.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG348Y1 - Modern Poetry to 1960

Hours: 72L

Special study of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Auden, Stevens; selections from other poets.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG349H1 - Contemporary Poetry

Hours: 36L

Works by at least six contemporary poets, such as Ammons, Ashbery, Heaney, Hughes, Lowell, Muldoon, Plath.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG350H1 - Early Canadian Literature

Hours: 36L

Writing in English Canada before 1914, from a variety of genres such as the novel, poetry, short stories, exploration and settler accounts, nature writing, criticism, First Nations cultural production.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG352H1 - Canadian Drama

Hours: 36L

A study of major Canadian playwrights and developments since 1940, with some attention to the history of the theatre in Canada.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG353Y1 - Canadian Fiction

Hours: 72L

A study of ten to twelve Canadian works of fiction, primarily novels.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG354Y1 - Canadian Poetry

Hours: 72L

A study of major Canadian poets, modern and contemporary.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG355Y1 - Transnational Indigenous Literatures

Previous Course Number: ENG355H1

Hours: 72L

A study of works by Indigenous writers from North America and beyond, with significant attention to Indigenous writers in Canada. Texts engage with issues of de/colonization, representation, gender, and sexuality, and span multiple genres, including fiction, life writing, poetry, drama, film, music, and creative non-fiction.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG355H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG356Y1 - African Canadian Literature

Previous Course Number: ENG359H1

Hours: 72L

Black Canadian Literature (poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction) from its origin in the African Slave Trade in the eighteenth century to its current flowering as the expression of immigrants, exiles, refugees, ex-slave-descended, and colonial-settler-established communities. Pertinent theoretical works, films, and recorded music are also considered.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG359H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG357H1 - New Writing in Canada

Hours: 36L

Close encounters with recent writing in Canada: new voices, new forms, and new responses to old forms. Texts may include or focus on poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, or new media.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG360H1 - Early American Literature

Hours: 36L

This course explores writing in a variety of genres produced in the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as narratives, poetry, autobiography, journals, essays, sermons, court transcripts.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG363Y1 - American Literature to 1900

Hours: 72L

This course explores American writing in a variety of genres from the end of the Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG364Y1 - American Literature 1900 to the present

Hours: 72L

This course explores twentieth-century American writing in a variety of genres.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG365H1 - Contemporary American Fiction

Hours: 36L

This course explores six or more works by at least four contemporary American writers of fiction.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG367H1 - African Literatures in English

Hours: 36L

What, if anything, is distinctively "African" in African texts; what might it mean to produce "African" readings of African literature? We address these, as well as other questions, through close readings of oral performances and literary and other cultural texts.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG368H1 - Asian North American Literature

Hours: 36L

Literature and cultures of Asian Canadians and Asian Americans, including fiction, poetry, theory, drama, film, and other media.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG369H1 - South Asian Literatures in English

Hours: 36L

Major authors and literary traditions of South Asia, with specific attention to literatures in English from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the diaspora. The focus will be on fiction and poetry with some reference to drama.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG370Y1 - Postcolonial and Transnational Discourses

Previous Course Number: ENG370H1

Hours: 72L

This course focuses on recent theorizations of postcoloniality and transnationality through readings of fictional and non-fictional texts, along with analyses of contemporary films and media representations.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: ENG370H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG371H1 - Topics in Indigenous, Postcolonial, Transnational Literatures

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a topic pertaining to Indigenous, postcolonial, or transnational literatures. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG372H1 - Topics in Indigenous, Postcolonial, Transnational Literatures

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a topic pertaining to Indigenous, postcolonial, or transnational literatures. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG373H1 - Topics in Pre-1800 British Literature

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a topic pertaining to British literature before 1800. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG374H1 - Topics in Pre-1800 British Literature

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a topic pertaining to British literature before 1800. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG376H1 - Topics in Theory, Language, Critical Methods

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a topic pertaining to literary theory, critical methods, or linguistics. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG377H1 - Topics in Theory, Language, Critical Methods

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a topic pertaining to literary theory, critical methods, or linguistics. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG378H1 - Special Topics

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a variety of topics, including: Canadian literature, American literature, Post-1800 British literature, and genres or themes that span across nations and periods. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.


Note: An additional fee of $123 will apply to the "Cook the Books" subtitle offering.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG379H1 - Special Topics

Hours: 36L

Sustained study in a variety of topics, including: Canadian literature, American literature, Post-1800 British literature, and genres or themes that span across nations and periods. Content varies with instructors. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG382Y1 - Literary Theory

Hours: 72L

This course explores contemporary literary theory, but may include related readings from earlier periods. Schools or movements studied may include structuralism, formalism, phenomenology, Marxism, post-structuralism, reader-response theory, feminism, queer theory, new historicism, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, critical race studies, and ecocriticism.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ENG384Y1 - Literature and Psychoanalysis

Hours: 72L

An introduction to psychoanalysis for students of literature, this course considers major psychoanalytic ideas through close readings of selected texts by Freud. The course also explores critiques and applications of Freud's work and examines a selection of literary texts that engage psychoanalytic theory.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ENG385H1 - History of the English Language

Hours: 36L

This course explores English from its prehistory to the present day, emphasizing Old, Middle, and Early Modern English and the theory and terminology needed to understand their lexical, grammatical, and phonological structure; language variation and change; codification and standardization; literary and non-literary usage.

Prerequisite: 2.0 ENG credits and any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ENG387H1 - Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction

Hours: 36S

A course devoted to the study and production of creative nonfiction, with attention to such matters as literary style and rhetoric, authorial self-positioning, and political and ethical considerations. Genres to be considered may include journalism, criticism, essays, biography, memoir, and autotheory. Priority enrolment will be given to students in the Creative Writing Minor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits including ENG289H1
Exclusion: CRE279H1; INI308H1 (Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Literary Journalism), offered in Summer 2021; WRR312H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG388H1 - Creative Writing: Poetry

Previous Course Number: ENG389Y1

Hours: 36S

A course devoted to the craft of writing poetry, with attention to a range of forms, genres, styles, and compositional methods. The workshopping of student writing will take place alongside discussions of key texts in the field. Priority enrolment will be given to students in the Creative Writing Minor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits including ENG289H1
Exclusion: ENG389Y1, CRE280H1, ENG373H5, ENGB60H3, ENGC86H3
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG389H1 - Creative Writing: Short Fiction

Previous Course Number: ENG389Y1

Hours: 36S

A course devoted to the craft of writing short fiction, with attention to matters such as genre, narratorial perspective, characterization, plot, style, and setting. The workshopping of student writing will take place alongside discussions of key texts in the field. Priority enrolment will be given to students in the Creative Writing Minor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits including ENG289H1
Exclusion: ENG389Y1, CRE275H1, ENG374H5, ENGB61H3, ENGC87H3, WRR311Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG390Y1 - Individual Studies

A scholarly project chosen by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The form of the project and the manner of its execution are determined in consultation with the supervisor. Proposal forms and deadlines are available on the department website. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 3.0 ENG credits, any 4.0 credits, and permission of the instructor and the Associate Chair
Exclusion: ENG392H1

ENG392H1 - Individual Studies

A scholarly project chosen by the student and supervised by a member of the staff. The form of the project and the manner of its execution are determined in consultation with the supervisor. Proposal forms and deadlines are available on the department website. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 3.0 ENG credits, any 4.0 credits, and permission of the instructor and the Associate Chair
Exclusion: ENG390Y1

ENG394H1 - Creative Writing: Special Topics

Hours: 36S

Sustained study and creative practice with respect to a topic pertaining to Creative Writing: e.g., writing for children; science fiction and fantasy; digital/interactive stories; writing across culture; writing and the environment. Content varies with instructors. Class format may include seminar discussion and a workshop devoted to student writing. See Department website for current offerings. Course may not be repeated under the same subtitle. Priority enrolment will be given to students enrolled in the Creative Writing Minor.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits including ENG289H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG398H0 - Research Excursions

An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-excursions-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

ENG398Y0 - Research Excursions

An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-excursions-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

ENG399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

ENG480H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG481H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG482H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG483H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG484H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG485H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG486H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG487H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG488H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG489H1 - Advanced Studies Seminar

Hours: 24S

Seminars are designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation, and to participate in critical discussion, at a particularly advanced level. All seminars demand substantial class participation and most require an oral presentation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1) and any 9.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG497H1 - Advanced Creative Writing Seminar: Literary Citizenship

Hours: 24S

A course examining efforts to build and sustain literary culture and literary communities through individual initiatives and collective efforts. Topics may include book reviewing, youth engagement, small presses, writers’ organizations, and the state’s role in the publishing industry. Priority enrolment will be given to students enrolled in the Creative Writing Minor.

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits including ENG289H1 and 1.5 additional ENG credits.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG498H1 - Advanced Creative Writing Seminar: Long-Form Writing

Hours: 24S

Students study and produce long-form creative work in a genre of their choice (the novella, short stories, the long poem) or in a genre determined by the professor. Beyond craft and literary analysis, this course develops capacities that writers need to cultivate for future success, such as idea-generation, persistence, independence, and creative problem-solving. Priority enrolment will be given to students enrolled in the Creative Writing Minor.

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits including ENG289H1 and 1.5 additional ENG credits.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ENG499Y1 - Advanced Research Seminar

Hours: 48S

A seminar designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice their skills of research and interpretation at a particularly advanced level, especially suited for students considering a graduate degree in English or a related discipline. The course is open to Year 4 students in English Specialist and Major programs who have achieved 80% in all English courses they have taken at the 200-level or above. Students also need 4.0 ENG credits (including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1).

Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits, including ENG202H1, ENG203H1, ENG250H1, ENG252H1, and an additional 2.0 ENG credits. A minimum of 80% must be achieved in all ENG courses taken at the 200+ level.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

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