Undergraduate Course Listing
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.
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ENGL-1001H: Truth Lies & Storytelling
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
When we tell stories, whether in song, poetry, drama, film, or prose, are we telling lies? How do literary fictions in any genre engage, reflect, distort, or heighten the truth? Can words get in the way of the truth? These questions will provide entrances into the texts in this course. Excludes ENGL 1000Y.
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ENGL-1003H: Revolution
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Revolution is variously defined as a) a drastic and farreaching change in ways of thinking and behaving, b) the overthrow of a government by those who are governed, and c) rotation: a single complete turn. This course looks at how authors create and respond to the revolutions that turn our world upside down and then, sometimes, back around again. Excludes ENGL 1000Y.
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ENGL-1005H: Love and Hate
Offered:
- Online
The subject of a million popular songs and poems, all great films, and all of Shakespeare's tragedies, love and hate still defeat us. This course looks at how love and hate are represented in poetry, popular song, drama, and fiction and asks, if "love alters not," why is it that "love will tear us apart"? Excludes ENGL 1000Y.
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ENGL-1809H: Making a Scene
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course is about how to read a play as a guide to voice and movement. It is not a course about acting; it explores the concept of character, the relationships among silence, noise, sounds and voice, the difference between dialogue and monologue, the utility of stage directions, and the process of adaptation.
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ENGL-1851H: The Writing Life: An Introduction to Creative Writing
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
An overview of writerly inspiration, perspiration, and contemplation, this course considers the creative process that leads to literary texts within and across a variety of genres, periods, and personalities. Readings and assignments will include not only literary texts, but also essays on writing and the writing life.
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ENGL-2001H: Reading Literature: a Practical Intro
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
An introduction to critical practice and to the assumptions underlying a wide range of approaches to literature. Explores British, American, Canadian, and postcolonial works, and draws on parallels between literary and non-literary language and between literature and other forms of expression. Emphasis is placed on learning through writing. Excludes ENGL 2000Y.
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ENGL-2020H: Digital Humanities: New Tools, Stories
Offered:
- Peterborough
Digital Humanities is the fusion of digital tools with humanities research and scholarship. Students learn how to bring a solid grounding within the humanities to technological innovations and development, engaging with the use of digital resources and their application in different ways grounded in the fields of the Humanities. Prerequisite: 3.0 university credits.
Cross-listed: HIST-2020H
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ENGL-2121H: Perilous Realms I: Introduction to Medieval Literature
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Provides an introduction to medieval English literature and traces the development of new genres and national, social, and cultural identities. Texts studied feature monsters and dragons, beautiful maidens and courageous knights, fairy lovers, and poor shepherds. Old English texts are read in translation; most Middle English texts are read in the original language. Prerequisite: 1.0 ENGL credit at the 1000 level with a minimum 60% in each course. Excludes ENGL 2100Y.
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ENGL-2123H: Perilous Realms 2: Introduction to Renaissance Literature
Offered:
- Peterborough
Explores Early Modern English literature of the Reformation and Renaissance, tracing the development of new genres and literary responses to historical events, to the revival of classical learning, and to concepts of national, social, and cultural identity. Special attention is paid to such themes as the romantic and heroic impulses, sacred and profane love, nostalgia for the old, and enthusiasm for the new. Prerequisite: 1.0 ENGL credit at the 1000 level with a minimum 60% in each course. ENGL 2121H strongly recommended. Excludes ENGL 2100Y.
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ENGL-2152Y: Shakespeare in the Classroom & Stage
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Explores Shakespeare's plays as texts for public spaces. Emphasis is on "hearing the plays" and on engaging the material in contemporary contexts, preparing students to teach or perform the texts. Coursework includes scene presentations focused on imagining Shakespeare's theatrical intent and exploring how the texts awaken moral feeling in the audience. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 2152Y or 2153H for credit.
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ENGL-2609H: Contagion
Offered:
- Online
Explores intersections between medicine and literature with particular attention to the representation of outbreaks and pandemics in historical and contemporary fiction, graphic novels, dystopian works, and film. What does it mean to narrate contagion? What might fictions of contagion teach us about our communities, our priorities, and our (in)humanity? Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-2703H: Literature & Social Justice
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Studies a range of works from different periods and genres that raise moral questions and ethical dilemmas concerning issues of social justice involving race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, and other variables. Considers literature's power to evoke the plight of the socially disadvantaged, and the implications for social change. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3703H.
Cross-listed: GESO-2703H
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ENGL-2705H: Literature & Environment
Offered:
- Durham GTA
An examination of selected works through a focus on the natural environment, including non-human forms of life. Studies examples of nature and environmental writing, but also brings ecocritical perspectives to a wide range of texts through discussions of the wilderness, gardens, waste, nature, culture, and other topics. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3705H.
Cross-listed: ERST-2705H
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ENGL-2707H: Popular Fiction
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Explores the diverse forms, history, social functions and concerns of popular genre fiction. Our study of romance, crime, adventure, horror, fantasy, and speculative fiction considers especially the gendering of affective reading practices, as well as issues of cultural capital, literary taste, and the relation between elite and commercial writing. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 2706Y or 2707H for credit.
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ENGL-2709H: Graphic Fiction
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
A survey of graphic fiction and its subgenres. Topics may include the graphic novel, superheroes, comix, and manga. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-2753H: Horror, Terror, and the Gothic
Offered:
- Durham GTA
Explores the Gothic as a literary genre and mode, beginning with its historical roots and tracking its permutations to the present day. Taking a range of interpretive methods (such as historical, aesthetic, and psychoanalytic approaches), it examines the enduring appeal of the frightening, the horrific, and the abject. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-2803H: Modern Poetry
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
An introduction to the works of some of the important poets writing in English in the twentieth century, designed to give an overview of modernism and its democratization of poetic language. Writers to be studied may include Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Williams, Stevens, Frost, Thomas, Auden, Bishop, Plath, Klein, and Page. Prerequisite: 4.0 univeristy credits. Excludes ENGL 3802Y/3803H. Students may take only one of ENGL 2802Y or 2803H for credit.
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ENGL-2805H: Modern Drama
Offered:
- Peterborough
Studies in the works of twentieth-century English, Irish, Canadian, and American playwrights. Writers to be studied may include Shaw, Wilde, Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard, Beckett, Churchill, Gems, Williams, Miller, Albee, Thompson, Walker, and Tremblay. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3804Y/3805H. Students may take only one of ENGL 2804Y or 2805H for credit.
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ENGL-2807H: Modern Fiction
Offered:
- Peterborough
Examines the development of modern fiction from the flourishing of experimental modernism in the 1920s to contemporary voices and trends. The texts are interpreted from both a social/historical perspective and a formal aesthetic perspective. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3806Y/3807H. Students may take only one of ENGL 2806Y or 2807H for credit.
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ENGL-2809H: Stage and Screen
Offered:
- Peterborough
Examines the relationship between theatre and cinema, exploring the limitations of both genres through studying plays that have been made into films. Documentary, television and digital formats are also considered. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-2810Y: Childrens Literature
Offered:
- Online
A study of children's literature from the eighteenth century to the present, addressing such topics as folk and fairy tales, the eighteenth-century popular press, the late nineteenth-century cult of the child, illustration, the "Golden Age," and contemporary novels for middle-grade and YA readers. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including 1.0 ENGL credit. Excludes ENGL 3810Y.
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ENGL-2811H: Children's Lit: Poetry, Picture, Play
Offered:
- Durham GTA
Focuses on poetry, stories, picture books, and theatre for children: the emphasis will be placed upon oral narratives, graphic culture, and performance. Texts include nursery rhymes, Where the Wild Things Are, Peter Pan, and Disney's Pinocchio. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-2851H: Introductory Prose Writing Workshop
Offered:
- Peterborough
An introduction to the practice of writing prose, both fiction and non-fiction, this course asks students to experiment with a variety of contemporary prose forms. The course will benefit both those interested in pursuing writing careers and those intending to be teachers who hope to incorporate creative writing in their teaching practices. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including ENGL 1851H.
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ENGL-2853H: Introductory Poetry Writing Workshop
Offered:
- Peterborough
A broad introduction to the practice of writing poetry, this course asks students to experiment with poetic creation in a variety of contemporary modes, forms, and contexts. Weekly writing and editing tasks are required, as is a careful consideration of poetic concepts, modes of working, assigned readings, and poetics. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including ENGL 1851H.
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ENGL-2855H: Intro to Creative Non-Fiction Wkshp
Offered:
- Durham GTA
This introductory class on creative non-fiction exposes students to the variety of texts grouped in this genre (personal essay, memoir, journalistic essay, case study, and hybrids), through discussion, practice, and workshop. Students consider issues such as audience, literary strategies, diction, voice, tone, and ethical responsibilities to living subjects. Prerequisite: 0.5 ENGL credit. ENGL 1851H is strongly recommended. Offered only at Trent University Durham - GTA.
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ENGL-2859H: Introductory Creative Writing Workshop
Offered:
- Durham GTA
An introduction to the practice of writing prose and poetry, this course asks students to experiment with a variety of contemporary forms. The course will benefit both those interested in pursuing writing careers and those intending to be teachers who hope to incorporate creative writing in their teaching practices. Prerequisite: 0.5 ENGL credit. ENGL 1851H is strongly recommended. Offered only at Trent University Durham. Excludes ENGL 2851H, 2853H.
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ENGL-3121H: Medieval Romance
Offered:
- Peterborough
Examines medieval romance through the lens of several overlapping sub-genres: penitential, family, and Arthurian romance. We will be attentive to how romance maps the stresses and changes in medieval culture-particularly in England-and how it becomes a vehicle for exploring political, social, and ideological change. Prerequisite: 1.0 ENGL credit at the 1000 level with a minimum 60% in each. Strongly recommended: ENGL 2100Y.
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ENGL-3151H: Staging Race in the Early Modern Theatre
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course considers early modern plays in conjunction with insights from the field of premodern critical race studies to explore the role that the English commercial theatre industry played in establishing, perpetuating, and occasionally challenging emerging notions of racial difference in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. Prerequisite: One of ENGL 2123H, 2151H, 2152Y/2153H, or 3153H.
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ENGL-3153H: Renaissance Drama
Offered:
- Peterborough
The popular medium of Renaissance theatre offered one of the first outlets for a new breed of writer-the "professional." We explore the plays of several of Shakespeare's contemporaries (Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and others) both as literary texts and theatrical events. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-3205H: Modern Laughter
Offered:
- Peterborough
Compares late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century satire with that of the late twentieth and early twenty-first. Authors such as Lord Rochester, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Mart Montagu, Alexander Pope, and John Gay are studied alongside comedians such as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Joan Rivers, George Carlin, Lewis CK, Sarah Silverman, and Amy Schumer. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-3251H: The Romantics
Offered:
- Peterborough
A study of the "Romantic revolution" and its aftermath in politics, mores, philosophy, religion, and aesthetics. Romantic writers include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others (such as Rousseau, Burke, Wollstonecraft). Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3253H. Students may take only one of ENGL 3250Y or 3251H for credit.
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ENGL-3301H: Back to the Future, Forward to the Past
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Americans experienced the suffering of two civil wars in coming to a sense of nationhood and wrestled with formulating their own literary tradition into the twentieth century. This course surveys Americans' writing about themselves since the eighteenth century through the filters of geographical regions, racial segregation, urban alienation, and modern aestheticism. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 2300Y. Students may take only one of ENGL 3300Y or 3301H for credit.
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ENGL-3305H: Modern American Fiction
Offered:
- Peterborough
An examination of American fiction from the flourishing of modernism in the 1920s to contemporary voices and trends. The texts are interpreted as products of American culture, and also as examples of literary genres or aesthetic movements which have a complex history and development within and outside of American literary circles. Prerequisite: 4.0 univeristy credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3304Y or 3305H for credit.
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ENGL-3309H: African American Literature
Offered:
- Peterborough
Although African American slaves were denied many civil liberties, including access to literacy, an African American literacy culture nonetheless emerged. This course examines that literary culture through its engagement with and contestation of canonical American literary texts. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3308Y or 3309H for credit.
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ENGL-3403H: Those Wild Victorians
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Studies in literary movements and genres of Victorian literature. Some of the movements and genres to be discussed include Pre-Raphaelitism, fin de siecle writings, sensation fiction, the New Woman novel, poetry. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3402Y or 3403H for credit.
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ENGL-3411H: 20th Century Literature
Offered:
- Peterborough
Examines the echoes of Empire and "Englishness" in twentieth-century British literature, and traces the emergence of a distinctly post-Empire sensibility in contemporary British culture. Emphasis is placed on the two world wars, the collapse of Empire, the "rise" of the working class, and "new" colonial voices. Prerequisite: 4.0 univeristy credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3410Y or 3411H for credit.
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ENGL-3413H: 20th Century British Literature
Offered:
- Durham GTA
Modernism was the twentieth century's most influential literary movement. Its repudiation of the modes of thought and art that preceded it worked to reconfigure our ideas of what literature is or can be. This course examines British High Modernism and its various legacies, most importantly anti-modernist and post-modernist approaches. Prerequisite: 4.0 unversity credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3412Y or 3413H for credit.
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ENGL-3483H: Indigenous Poetry
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
Considers the range of contemporary poetry by Indigenous authors from Canada and the United States, and the poems' relations to traditional language forms and to literary traditions and genres. It begins with a brief study of "orature" and songs, and includes a discussion of one nineteenth-century exemplar. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
Cross-listed: CAST-3483H, INDG-3483H
This course meets the Indigenous Course Requirement.
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ENGL-3503H: Contemporary Canlit (1960-Now)
Offered:
- Durham GTA
We explore critical, historical, aesthetic, and sociological contexts of the emergence of CanLit. Focusing on Anglophone cultural production since 1960, we read literary works alongside political speeches, government documents, visual artifacts, popular culture, and essays to explore how Canadians have formed and transformed a national literature over the last fifty years. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3502Y or 3503H for credit.
Cross-listed: CAST-3503H
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ENGL-3505H: Where Is Here? an Examination of Space And Place in Canadian Literature
Offered:
- Peterborough
An examination of Canadian literature's geographic and social spaces, this course considers Canadian regionalism from a variety of perspectives. You might examine, among many other possibilities, the literatures of Toronto (or Winnipeg or Halifax or Vancouver), the poetry of the north, or the rise and fall of prairie fiction. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Students may take only one of ENGL 3504Y or 3505H for credit.
Cross-listed: CAST-3505H
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ENGL-3507H: Canadian Women's Writing
Offered:
- Peterborough
A survey of Canadian women's prose fiction and life-writing from the nineteenth century to the present. Includes mainstream authors such as Moodie, Montgomery, Laurence, Munro, and Atwood; less well-known Indigenous, immigrant, and translated) francophone writers; and recent work by young authors. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes CAST-ENGL-WMST 2660Y. Students may take only one of CAST 3506Y or 3507H for credit.
Cross-listed: CAST-3507H, GESO-3507H
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ENGL-3601H: Twentieth Century Theory and Criticism
Offered:
- Peterborough
Examines some of the major critical approaches to literature and interpretation in the twentieth century: formalism, structuralism and semiotics, reader-response criticism, new historicism, psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, and feminism. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3600Y.
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ENGL-3609H: Sicklit
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
We read works that imagine disease, cure, and convalescence as gendered modes, asking how literature exposes pathologization and how authors rewrite illness beyond pathology. We focus on the regulation imposed by cultural and social understandings of "sickness" and the resistance posed by authors to medicalization. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excludes ENGL 3701H (2012FA).
Cross-listed: GESO-3609H
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ENGL-3701H: Writing the Body
Offered:
- Durham GTA
Studies how literary production is influenced by gender and sexuality, with selected works from different genres and literary periods in English. Areas of study may include the female literary tradition, discourses in masculinities, and queer and trans-gendered narratives, among others. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits. Excudes ENGL-WMST 3700Y.
Cross-listed: GESO-3701H
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ENGL-3704H: Queer Lit
Offered:
- Peterborough
Examines literary and cultural representations of queerness through historical, theoretical, and aesthetic approaches. What does it mean for a text to be "queer"? How do sexual identities intersect with racial, ethnic, and religious ones? What can explorations of queerness as an identity category tell us about identity itself? Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
Cross-listed: GESO-3704H
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ENGL-3707H: Literature & Globalization
Offered:
- Online
A study of literature and theory exploring the political, economic, cultural, and existential effects of globalization. With an emphasis on contemporary texts, approaches may focus on energy, cosmopolitanism, migration, technology, and environmentalism among others.
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ENGL-3709H: Girlhood Bodies and Narratives
Offered:
- Durham GTA
Studies selected girlhood bodies and narratives as they have developed within the contexts of Canadian and global literature and popular culture. Focusing on the negotiation of girlhood bodies and narratives through a variety of spaces and over diverse borders, this course considers relationships between Canadian and global girlhoods. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits including 1.0 ENGL credit or permission of the instructor.
Cross-listed: CAST-3709H, GESO-3709H
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ENGL-3808Y: The Novel
Offered:
- Peterborough
A study of the development of the English novel, stressing both its thematic and technical aspects. Writers to be studied may include Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Scott, Emily Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, James, Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.
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ENGL-3851H: Creative Writing
Offered:
- Peterborough
A writing-intensive workshop in original contemporary fiction, this course offers student writers an opportunity to deepen, extend, and enhance their current creative writing practices using a variety of fictional forms. Weekly writing, editing, reading, and live conversational critiques are required. Prerequisite: 1.0 ENGL credit at the 1000 level with a minimum 60% in each. 4.0 university credits including ENGL 2853H or 2859H (or permission of the instructor, with portfolio submission). Students may take only one of ENGL 3850Y or 3851H for credit.
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ENGL-3853H: Intermediate Poetry Writing Workshop
Offered:
- Peterborough
Aimed at poets already engaged in an ongoing poetic writing practice, this course asks students to complete weekly, original poetry writing in a variety of contemporary modes, complemented by ongoing readings and discussions of poetry and poetics and the development of peer editing skills. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: ENGL 2853H or 2959H (or permission of the instructor, with portfolio submission).
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ENGL-3855H: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
Offered:
- Durham GTA
Provides students with the opportunity to develop, through exercises and routines, a sustainable and robust writing practice, while exploring the connections between reportage and story, between documentary and art, between poetry and persuasion, and other relationships between the writer and the world. Prerequisite: ENGL 2855H or 6.0 university credits including one of ENGL 2851H, 2853H, or 2859H, or permission of the instructor.
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ENGL-4020D: Honours Thesis
Offered:
- Peterborough
A double credit in which instruction in research methods leads to a thesis of about 15,000 words. The department deadline for a thesis abstract and bibliography (signed by the thesis supervisor) is May 1 of the student's third year. See www.trentu.ca/english for details.
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ENGL-4040Y: Practicum Course
Offered:
- Peterborough
Designed to permit students, under the direction of a faculty member and with the approval of the department, to apply their skills in written and oral communication as well as their understanding of the role and function of literary culture to practical endeavours. See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits, including 2.0 credits at the 3000 level, a minimum cumulative average of 70%, and permission of the department. Students must obtain the agreement of a faculty member to supervise the course and apply for permission to enrol prior to the commencement of the session in which the course will be offered. Students may take only one of ENGL 4040Y or 4041H for credit.
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ENGL-4041H: Practicum Course
Offered:
- Peterborough
Designed to permit students, under the direction of a faculty member and with the approval of the department, to apply their skills in written and oral communication as well as their understanding of the role and function of literary culture to practical endeavours. See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits, including 2.0 credits at the 3000 level, a minimum cumulative average of 70%, and permission of the department. Students must obtain the agreement of a faculty member to supervise the course and apply for permission to enrol prior to the commencement of the session in which the course will be offered. Students may take only one of ENGL 4040Y or 4041H for credit.
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ENGL-4301H: Advanced Studies in American Literature
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Students may take only one of ENGL 4300Y or 4301H for credit.
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ENGL-4351H: Black Lives Matter
Offered:
- Peterborough
This course examines the Black Lives Matter movement within a history of social protest against state-sanctioned racial violence in the US. The course situates BLM within earlier civil rights movements and the "racial formations" (the prison industrial complex, racial justice activism, the Obama presidency) from which the movement emerged. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits or 1.0 GESO credit at the 2000 level or beyond (or permission of the department). Excludes ENGL 4301H (2018-2019).
Cross-listed: GESO-4351H
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ENGL-4501H: Adv Studies Canadian Literature
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 7.0 university credits (or permission of the department). Students may take only one of ENGL 4500Y or 4501H for credit.
Cross-listed: CAST-4501H
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ENGL-4651H: Crip Theory
Offered:
- Peterborough
Literary scholars have reclaimed the term "crip" to explore overlaps between queer and disability cultures in neoliberal contexts. The course starts with disability approaches to literature and culture, then considers the emergence of crip theories, studying topics such as heteronormativity, compulsory able-bodiedness, futurities, cure, and "slow death." Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Excludes ENGL 4601H (2021-2022).
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ENGL-4801H: Advanced Studies in Genre
Offered:
- Peterborough
- Durham GTA
See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Students may take only one of ENGL 4800Y or 4801H for credit.
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ENGL-4803H: Advanced Studies in Modern Poetry
Offered:
- Peterborough
See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Students may take only one of ENGL 4802Y or 4803H for credit.
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ENGL-4807H: Advanced Studies in Modern Fiction
Offered:
- Peterborough
See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Students may take only one of ENGL 4806Y or 4807H for credit.
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ENGL-4809H: Setting the Scene
Offered:
- Peterborough
Develops leadership, analytical, and directorial skills for students with a background in reading dramatic texts. Students participate in group work with students in ENGL 1809H as they learn to read plays as guides to voice and movement. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department).
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ENGL-4850Y: Advanced Seminar in Creative Writing
Offered:
- Durham GTA
See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Students seeking admission submit a short portfolio of written work to the department. Students may take only one of ENGL 4850Y or 4851H for credit.
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ENGL-4851H: Advanced Creative Writing
Offered:
- Peterborough
See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits (or permission of the department). Students may take only one of ENGL 4850Y or 4851H for credit.
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ENGL-4859H: Publishing Workshop
Offered:
- Peterborough
A hands-on course in the essential skills of literary publishing and editing, this course invites students to become active editors in the planning, budgeting, selection, editing, publishing, and launch of an annual anthology of student creative writing housed in the Department of English Literature: Chickenscratch. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and 1.0 credit from ENGL 2851H, 2853H, 2855H, 2859H, 3851H, 3853H, 3855H, or 4851H.
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ENGL-4901H: Reading Course
Offered:
- Durham GTA
The course allows the student to select, with the approval of the department, an area for research study which is then pursued under the direction of a member of the department. Students must obtain the agreement of a faculty member to supervise the course and must apply for admission to enrol prior to the commencement of the session in which the course will be offered. See trentu.ca/english for details. Prerequisite: 4.0 ENGL credits, including 2.0 credits at the 3000 level, and a cumulative average of 70% or higher in all courses taken (or permission of the department).