English
Department of English and Film Studies
The English Studies program offers students the opportunity to explore British, American, Canadian and other literatures from the Medieval period to the present. In keeping with the lively and vibrant developments in English studies, our undergraduate courses are organized in various ways: according to historical periods, national literatures, genres, themes and theoretical issues. The undergraduate English program encourages the development of skills in interpreting a variety of literary and cultural works, including fiction, film, drama, poetry, non-fiction, and the historical, political, cultural, and discursive frameworks determining their composition and reception. Courses introduce students to cross-cultural approaches, particularly in the context of postcolonial and global texts, and to the close analysis of the language and form of complex texts. Students also engage strategically with a variety of theories of writing, reading, and representation, and conduct independent research, including evaluating a variety of resources (print, audio-visual, and virtual). These skills promote intellectual growth, interdisciplinary thinking, and successful careers after university.
Honours BA, Honours Combined BA and Minor:
- Sandra Annett, PhD, Undergraduate Advisor (Film Studies)
- Andrea Austin, PhD
- Katherine Bell, PhD, Graduate Officer
- Jing Jing Chang, PhD
- Tamas Dobozy, PhD
- Philippa Gates, PhD
- Madelaine Hron, PhD
- Jenny Kerber, PhD, Undergraduate Advisor (English)
- Russell Kilbourn, PhD, Chair
- Tanis MacDonald, PhD
- Richard Nemesvari, PhD
- Mariam Pirbhai, PhD
- Markus Poetzsch, PhD
- Lynn Shakinovsky, PhD
- Katherine Spring, PhD
- Eleanor Ty, PhD
- Robin Waugh, PhD
- Honours BA English
- Honours BA English in Combination with another Honours BA Program
- Honours BA English Combined with Vancouver Film School Diploma Program
- Combined Honours BA English and Film Studies with Vancouver Film School Diploma Program
- Creative Writing Concentration
- Creative Writing Minor
- English Minor
- Writing for Career and Community Minor
- Youth and Children: Texts and Contexts Minor
- Vancouver Film School Diploma Program with Combined Honours BA English and Film Studies
- Vancouver Film School Diploma Program with Honours BA English
- Honours BA English (Sussex) LLB Stream
Senior English courses are not normally available to Year 1 students. Courses at the 400 level are open only to Year 4 students.
The following 400 level courses are studies of an advanced nature, conducted in small participating groups in which significant topics of literary interest are explored through reading primary and secondary sources.
Course # | Title | Credits |
---|---|---|
EN107 | Literature and Catastrophe | 0.5 |
EN108 | Literature and the Environment | 0.5 |
EN111 | Literature and Crime | 0.5 |
EN112 | Literature and Love | 0.5 |
EN119 | Reading Fiction | 0.5 |
EN165 | Enriched Literary Studies: Elements and Approaches | 0.5 |
EN190 | Introduction to Academic Writing | 0.5 |
EN200 | The Pleasures of Poetry | 0.5 |
EN201 | Children's Literature | 0.5 |
EN203 | Tragic Drama | 0.5 |
EN206 | Writing for Business | 0.5 |
EN207 | Comic Drama | 0.5 |
EN209 | Special Topics | 0.5 |
EN210 | Literature and Social Change | 0.5 |
EN211 | Roots, Race, Resistance: Post-Colonial Literature | 0.5 |
EN213 | The Child in African Literature and Popular Culture | 0.5 |
EN214 | Medieval Poetry of the Fantastic | 0.5 |
EN218 | Contemporary American Literature | 0.5 |
EN220 | Reading Culture: Strategies and Approaches | 0.5 |
EN222 | Literary Adaptation | 0.5 |
EN225 | Contemporary Women’s Writing | 0.5 |
EN231 | Arthurian Traditions | 0.5 |
EN233 | Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances: Gender and Genre | 0.5 |
EN234 | Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Histories | 0.5 |
EN237 | The Fairy Tale | 0.5 |
EN238 | Tolkien and Fantasy | 0.5 |
EN239 | Classic Science Fiction | 0.5 |
EN240 | Critical Reading and Writing | 0.5 |
EN245 | British Literary Tradition I | 0.5 |
EN246 | British Literary Tradition II | 0.5 |
EN249 | Mystery and Crime Fiction | 0.5 |
EN250 | Literature, Nature, Ecocriticism | 0.5 |
EN252 | Multiculturalism and Literature | 0.5 |
EN261 | Sport Literature | 0.5 |
EN263 | Canada Then: Exploring Canadian Literature | 0.5 |
EN264 | American Literary Tradition | 0.5 |
EN265 | American Literature to 1900 | 0.5 |
EN266 | American Literature of the Early 20th Century | 0.5 |
EN267 | Canada Now: Contemporary Canadian Literature | 0.5 |
EN271 | The Creative Process | 0.5 |
EN272 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 0.5 |
EN280 | Introduction to Indigenous Literatures | 0.5 |
EN281 | Contemporary Science Fiction | 0.5 |
EN285 | Tween Literature and Culture | 0.5 |
EN286 | Young Adult Literature | 0.5 |
EN292 | Romantic Radicals | 0.5 |
EN293 | Romantic Dystopians | 0.5 |
EN298 | British and Irish Writers 1900-1920 | 0.5 |
EN299 | Modernism and British Literature Between the Wars | 0.5 |
EN301 | Literary Theory | 0.5 |
EN303 | Advanced Academic Writing | 0.5 |
EN304 | Technical Writing | 0.5 |
EN309 | Special Topics | 0.5 |
EN310 | The Politics of Transgression and Desire | 0.5 |
EN313 | West African Literatures and Cultures | 0.5 |
EN322 | Modern Drama: Experiments in Form | 0.5 |
EN324 | Canadian Women's Writing | 0.5 |
EN330 | Human Rights in Contemporary Cultural Forms | 0.5 |
EN334 | Precarious Worlds:21c Brit Fic | 0.5 |
EN335 | Literature of 9/11 and Beyond | 0.5 |
EN344 | 18th-Century Fiction: Sex, Shopping and Scandal | 0.5 |
EN345 | The British Novel in the 19th Century | 0.5 |
EN346 | The British Novel in the 20th Century | 0.5 |
EN347 | The Narratives of Empire | 0.5 |
EN364 | Colonialism, Indigeneity, Theory | 0.5 |
EN369 | Creative Writing: Nonfiction | 0.5 |
EN370 | Creative Writing: Poetry | 0.5 |
EN371 | Creative Writing: Short Story | 0.5 |
EN372 | History of the English Language | 0.5 |
EN381 | Gaming and Narrative Theory | 0.5 |
EN388 | 18th-Century Literature: Strange Wonders | 0.5 |
EN390 | Chaucer and the Middle Ages | 0.5 |
EN392 | Diversity in the Middle Ages | 0.5 |
EN393 | Elizabethan Poetry and Prose | 0.5 |
EN394 | Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama | 0.5 |
EN395 | 17th-Century Literature | 0.5 |
EN396 | Mid-Victorian Literature: Culture and Anarchy | 0.5 |
EN397 | Later Victorian Literature: Dissonance and Decadence | 0.5 |
EN399 | Postmodern Narratives | 0.5 |
EN400 | Studies in Language and Discourse | 0.5 |
EN409 | Special Topics | 0.5 |
EN410 | Topics in Gender | 0.5 |
EN420 | Topics in Genre | 0.5 |
EN430 | Studies of an Individual Author | 0.5 |
EN440 | Advanced Studies of a Period | 0.5 |
EN450 | Texts and Contexts | 0.5 |
EN460 | Topics in Culture | 0.5 |
EN470 | Topics in Theory | 0.5 |
EN480 | Creative Writing: Advanced Workshop in Genre | 0.5 |
EN489 | Directed Study | 0.5 |