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First-YearEnglish Literature Courses
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE 1000Y ENGL-1000Y Offered only in Peterborough This course focuses on selected genres, issues, forms and movements from the broad spectrum of literature in English – British, American, Canadian and postcolonial. Excludes ENGL 1003H, 1005H. ENGL 1000Y introduces students to a diverse range of literary texts and to the skills necessary for appreciating, understanding and discussing these texts. We organize our readings by means of three broad literary genres: prose narrative, poetry, and drama. The first unit of the course considers poetry, and what makes it work, with examples drawn from a variety of sources; the second, devoted to narrative, introduces the short story and novel forms and the conventions that make them work. Second semester begins with another unit devoted to narrative, this time examining experiments and innovations in storytelling, with an eye on the question, “What do stories do? And how do they do it?” Finally, in the drama unit we look at how four very different plays expand, define or reject the conventions of their shared genre. 2011-12 ENGL-1000Y Reading List
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE I ENGL-1003H Offered only in Oshawa This introductory course focuses on selected genres (poetry and the novel), issues, forms and movements from the broad spectrum of literature in English – British, American, Canadian and postcolonial. Excludes ENGL 1000Y. 2011FA ENGL 1003H Reading List (Rita Bode) [PDF]
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE II ENGL 1005H Offered only in Oshawa This introductory course focuses on selected genres (prose, excluding the novel, and drama), issues, forms and movements from the broad spectrum of literature in English – British, American, Canadian and postcolonial. Excludes ENGL 1000Y.
For more information regarding these course offerings or if you have any other questions, please contact the English Literature Department.
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