Graduate Course Listing
Course Listings Results Block
Please visit the Academic Timetable to see which courses are presently being offered and in which location(s). Not all courses listed below run every term or in all locations. For specific details about program requirements and degree regulations, please refer to the Academic Calendar.
-
ENGL-5001H: Colloquium
Offered:
- Peterborough
The Colloquium will bring together all students in the program with faculty, visiting scholars and experts (e.g., archivists, librarians, printers, publishers, editors, booksellers, book designers, researchers in various aspects of theories of publics) for an exploration of relevant historical, theoretical and practical issues. The Colloquium will be offered in fall semester.
-
ENGL-5003H: Research and Professional Development Seminar
Offered:
- Peterborough
Topics include research methods and resources; the nature and requirements of a research project; the presentation of the results of research in public forums; career development, academic and non-academic. At the end of the year, students will publicly present a paper; in most cases this will be a proposal for their Thesis or Major Research Paper or Internship. The Seminar will be offered in winter semester.
-
ENGL-5007H: Public Texts
Offered:
- Peterborough
Explores philosophies and theories of publics through political, affective, and radical public texts. We will focus on concepts of publics in multiple historical contexts in order to put pressure on our ideas of what publics have been, what they are, and what they can be in the future.
-
ENGL-5204H: From Private to Public Letters
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course considers the many ways in which written correspondence plays a significant role in other literary genres, most notably, the novel, and also occupies an enduring position as a genre on its own contributing substantially, in its adaptability and flexibility, to human communication.
-
ENGL-5207H: Imagining Immunity
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course explores the role of immunity (in both its interlocking legal and biological senses) in shaping a sense of collectivity and community both in literary and political discourse. Of particular interest will be the medical rhetoric informing contemporary debates on vaccination and other public health interventions.
-
ENGL-5306H: Culture, Heritage & the Arts
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course will critically explore selected theoretical, empirical, and creative constructions, contestations and celebrations of Canadian culture(s). Course content ranges from the national to the local, examining cultural communities and identities, intellectual traditions, cultural policies, museums and galleries, and cultural expression in film, theatre and literature.
Cross-listed: CSID-5202H, CAST-6102H
-
ENGL-5311H: Black Lives Matter
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course examines the Black Lives Matter movement as the most recent form of collective social protest against state-sanctioned racial violence. The course looks at the influence of earlier civil rights movements on contemporary forms of protest, the theoretical parameters behind the movement, the "racial formations" (the prison complex, racial justice activism, the Obama presidency) from which the movement emerged, as well as recent literary accounts of the movement.
Cross-listed: CUST-5509H
-
ENGL-5315H: Arts of Conflict: Violence, Art, and the Irish Troubles
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course will explore practical and theoretical conflicts between public violence and its cultural artifacts, including literature, film, murals, sculpture and parades. Our focus will be on twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, images and public displays from Ireland, usually relating to the Irish Republican Army. We will question why modern cultural formations and political structures condemn violence even as they rely on it; and we will ask what place public violence has in a modern culture defined by its faith in the possibility of reasoning and debating all conflicts away. (Excludes CUST-4512H.)
Cross-listed: CUST-5315H
-
ENGL-5340H: Politics of Black Art
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course investigates how twentieth- and twenty-first century African American authors have critically reflected upon the political function of artistic production. Among other topics, it questions how art interlinks the private and public spheres of life and explores art's contribution to the realization of a more just and ethical world.
-
ENGL-5500Y: Major Research Paper
Offered:
- Peterborough
Approximately 50 pages, modeled on a scholarly journal article. It is supervised and assessed by a member of the English graduate faculty. The grade will be assigned by the supervisor and a second reader from the English graduate faculty.
-
ENGL-5501H: Identities & Social Movements
Offered:
- Peterborough
The course directly addresses a wave of identity politics and its controversial place even within seemingly identity-based movements. Readings on gender, queer theory and politics, disability, aging, and race will come from sociology and political science as well as cultural, literary and film studies.
Cross-listed: CSID-5501H, CAST-6401H
-
ENGL-5600Y: Internship
Offered:
- Peterborough
The Internship will be supervised by a member of the English graduate faculty and by a placement supervisor. The placement supervisor will submit a report at the end of the internship to the faculty supervisor and, assuming the report is satisfactory, the faculty supervisor will assign a grade based on a research essay of approximately 25 pages placing the Internship in the context of the student's research.
-
ENGL-5901H: Reading Course
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course enables students to pursue topics of particular interest which are not presented in existing courses. It allows concentrated, integrated study on a topic or problem that is specifically relevant to a student's approved program. It enables the student and instructor the opportunity to explore shared interests.