If you are interested in the literature and culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries – how literature engages with the move into and beyond modernity – consider building your program around a selection of these courses.
- ENGL 2600Y: Documenting Canada (see Canadian Studies)
- ENGL 2802Y/28-3H: Modern Poetry
- ENGL 2804Y/2805H: Modern Drama
- ENGL 2806Y/2807H: Modern Fiction
- ENGL 2709H: Graphic Fiction
- ENGL 2751H: Literature and Sports
- ENGL 2809H: Stage and Screen
- ENGL 3304Y/3305H: Modern American Fiction
- ENGL 3308Y/3309H: African American Literature
- ENGL 3306Y/3307H: Latino/Latina American Literature
- ENGL 3410Y/3411H: Twentieth Century British Literature: History, Politics, Culture
- ENGL 3412Y/3413H: Twentieth Century British Literature: Literary Movements and Genres
- ENGL 3421H: Modern Irish Literature
- ENGL 3451H: Contemporary African Fiction
- ENGL/CAST/INDG 3481H: Indigenous Fiction
- ENGL/CAST/INDG 3483H: Indigenous Poetry
- ENGL/CAST 3500Y/3501H: I Am Canadian
- ENGL/CAST 3502Y/3503H: Contemporary CanLit
- ENGL 3606Y/3607H: Producing Punk
- ENGL/WMST 3609H: Sick Lit
- ENGL/WMST 3700Y/3701H: Writing the Body
- ENGL3707H: Literature and Globalization
- ENGL 4450Y/4451H Postcolonial Texts
- ENGL 4802Y/4803H: Advanced Studies in Modern Poetry
- ENGL 4804Y/4805H: Advanced Studies in Modern Drama
- ENGL 4806Y/4807H: Advanced Studies in Modern Fiction
Other Humanities departments that offer courses in modern and contemporary literature and culture include Cultural Studies and Canadian Studies. An English degree focusing on the modern world will be enriched by a selection of electives chosen from these courses:
- CUST 1500H Introduction to the Study of Modern Culture
- CUST 2029Y Science Fiction
- CUST 2060Y/2560H The Making of the Modern Body
- CUST 2551H Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Ideology, Language
- CUST 3015Y/3515H Modernism and the Avant-Garde
- CUST 3050Y/3550H Studies in Cultural Theory
- CAST 3485H Indigenous Women’s Writing in Canada
- CAST 3250Y/3521H Literary Landscapes of Montreal
For more information about studying modern and contemporary literature and culture, contact englishadvice@trentu.ca