Department of English
Examine the English literature of the world from a variety of critical standpoints. Research the interactions of literary, political, economic and intellectual culture. Gain a broader understanding of writing. Write poetry, fiction and drama. Edit literary works and journals. Explore timely and important issues through literature. Learn to communicate effectively. Analyze theatrical productions at Greystone and Saskatoon professional theatres.
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English Degree Requirements
College of Arts & Science Department of English
English Courses Taught by St. Thomas More College
ENG 110.6 — 1&2(3L)
Literature and Composition
An introduction to the main kinds of literature. In addition to
learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and
practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 111.3 — 1/2(3L)
Literature and Composition Reading Poetry
An introduction to the major forms of poetry in English. In addition
to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and
practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 112.3 — 1/2(3L)
Literature and Composition Reading Drama
An introduction to major forms of dramatic activity in English. In
addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study
and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 113.3 — 1/2(3L)
Literature and Composition Reading Narrative
An introduction to the major forms of narrative literature in
English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis,
students will study and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 114.3 — 1/2(3L)
Literature and Composition Reading Culture
An introduction to historical and contemporary cultural forms in
English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis,
students will study and practise composition.
Note: Only 6 credit units of 100-Level English may be taken for credit.
ENG 202.6 — 1&2(3L)
Reading Canon Texts and Contexts
A survey of English literature with primary emphasis on the
historical development of the British canon (including Chaucer,
Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Austen, for example), with some
attention to the critical issues raised by the concept of “canon”
itself, to non-canonical writers, and to other literatures in English.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 200 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 215.3 — 1/2(3l)
Life Writing
A study of the forms that Life Writing has taken from the Middle Ages
to the present, with attention to such issues as constructions of the
self, themes, language, and audience.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level Englinsh
Note: Students with credit for ENG 370 may not take this course for credit
ENG 221.6 ---- 1&2(3L)
Shakespeare
A general course in Shakespeare’s plays.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English
Note:Students with credit for ENG 321 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 253.6 ---- 1&2(3L)
Canadian Literature in English
A survey of English-Canadian literature (principally poetry and fiction), with emphasis on the 20th century.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 353 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 277.3 — 1/2(3L)
Literary Uses of Mythology
An introduction to the theory of myth and selected examples of the
classical and other myths most frequently adapted and reinterpreted in
literature in English. Emphasizes the ways in which different writers
can find quite different kinds of significance in the same myth.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level English.
ENG 286.3 — 1/2(3L)
Courtly Love and Medieval Romance
An examination of romantic love, chivalry, and the family during the
Middle Ages. The course will focus on a number of medieval romances, but
will also cover many areas of women’s cultural expression, including
musical composition and mystical visions, and the tensions between the
various forms of medieval women’s experience and models of clerical
authority.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 386 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 298.3 — 1/2(3L)
Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special
situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in
regularly offered courses.
ENG 301.3 — 1/2(3L)
Anglo Saxon Language and Culture
Discussion of the importance of Old English language and literature
for the Anglo-Saxon culture of early medieval England. Investigation of
this language as foundation for the development of English. Introductory
study of texts such as Beowulf and writers such as King Alfred.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 208 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 310.3 — 1/2(3L)
Old English Literature
A study of several poems and some prose passages in Old English,
including elegies, battle narratives, and a more extensive consideration
of Beowulf than in English 201, including its backgrounds and
analogues.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 301.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 208 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 311.3 — 1/2(3L)
Chaucer
An introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with principal attention to ‘The Canterbury Tales’.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 212 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 313.3 — 1/2(3L0
English Literature 1100-1500
An introduction to later medieval literature in English, including
romances such as ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, allegories such as
‘Piers Plowman’, religious prose such as ‘Ancrene Wisse’, and shorter
poems such as the Harley Lyrics.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English
ENG 314.3 — 1/2(3L)
Early British Drama
An introduction to the varieties of drama produced in the British
Isles up to the inception of permanent theatres in late
sixteenth-century London.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 200-level English.
ENG 318.3 — 1/2(3L)
Renaissance and Reformation
Renaissance literature flourished in the Tudor court and the Thomas
More circle until the Reformation made books a battlefield for public
opinion. After the Elizabethan Settlement, English writers laid the
foundations for the age of Shakespeare. This course surveys poetry and
prose in its historical contexts from 1485 to 1578.
Formerly: ENG 320.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English, History or Classics.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 320 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 319.3 — 1/2(3L)
The Elizabethan Age
The Elizabethan younger generation, including Sidney and Spenser,
experimented with courtly and popular traditions to create Renaissance
literature that defined England in relation to its neighbors and the New
World. This course surveys poetry and prose in its historical contexts
from 1579 to 1603.
Formerly: ENG 320.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English
Note: Students with credit for ENG 320 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 341.3 — 1/2(3L)
The British Novel 1850-1900
A study of the development of the British novel, beginning with the
mature work of Charles Dickens and George Eliot, and culminating in the
late century work of authors such as Meredith, Hardy, Stevenson, and
Wilde.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English
Note: Students with credit for ENG 374 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 344.3 —1/2(3L)
American Literature 1865-1914
A survey of American literature and literary movements from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of WWI.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-evel English
Note: Students with credit for ENG 355 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 345.3 — 1/2(3L)
American Literature 1914-1960
A survey of American literature and literary movements from World War
I to the rise of the civil rights movement, including, at the
discretion of the instructor, a consideration of the contribution of the
American cinema to literary tradition.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English
Note: Students with credit for ENG 356 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 362.3 — 1/2(3L)
The British novel 1800-1850
A study of the development of the British novel, beginning with Jane
Austen and Sir Walter Scott, and ending with the early work of Dickens,
Gaskell, and the Brontes.
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 200-level English
Note: Students with credit for ENG 374 may not take this course for credit.
ENG 366.3 — 1/2(3L)
Advanced Creative Writing Fiction
Intended for students who have acquired some practice and skill in
the writing of prose. Interested students should (a) obtain an
application form from the English Department general office, Arts 320,
and (b) register in an alternate class until final selection of the
class has been completed.
Prerequisite(s): Evidence of practice and skill in the writing of creative prose as determined by the instructor.
Note:
Applications for this course, offered in Term 2 of the 2009-2010
academic year, Wednesdays from 7:00pm - 9:20pm, must be received by
August 1, 2009
ENG 398.3 — 1/2(3S)
Special topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.
ENG 401.6 — 1&2(3S)
Studies in Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
Prerequisite(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
ENG 406.3 — 1/2(3S)
Topics in 17th Century Literature in English
Prerequisite(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department.
ENG 420.3 — 1/2(3L)
Medieval Genres
Prerequisite(s): Admission to an honours program or permission of the department
ENG 498.3 — 1/2(3S)
Special Topics
Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special
situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in
regularly offered courses.
