English: English MA, PhD Courses

The following list of possible courses is subject to revision; further information, including course descriptions and timetables, are posted on the Department of English website and may be obtained from the department before enrolment. Courses offered by the department vary considerably from year to year. Students in English are eligible to take courses in other graduate units (for example, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Drama, Information, South Asian Studies, Women's Studies). From time to time, the department also offers programs of directed reading in special fields. These reading courses are normally available only to students in the PhD program. With the special approval of the Director of Graduate Studies, PhD students may substitute one such course for one (and not more than one) of the required courses.

Course Code Course Title
ENG1001H
Old English I
ENG1002H
Introduction to Old English II: Beowulf
ENG1006H York’s Plays and Records
ENG1012H Writing the Self in Late-Medieval England: Hoccleve and Kempe
ENG1100H Topics in Canadian Literature
ENG1200H Topics in African Canadian Literature
ENG1300H Topics in Asian Canadian Literature
ENG1551H
The Canterbury Tales
ENG1582H Piers Plowman
ENG2012H Life-Writing in Early Modern England
ENG2017H Early Modern Asexualities
ENG2100H Topics in American Literature
ENG2200H Topics in African American Literature
ENG2226H
Early Modern Manuscripts
ENG2300H Topics in Asian American Literature
ENG2472H Milton
ENG2486H Early Modern Theater Theories
ENG2499H Shakespeare's Tragedies
ENG2506H Shakespeare’s Theatrical (After) Lives
ENG2509H Shakespeare and the Book
ENG3045H The Comic Novel from Fielding to Austen
ENG3100H Topics in Indigenous Literature
ENG3302H Being There: Liveness and Presence ca. 1750–1830
ENG3338H Satire and the Great Laughter Debate
ENG3707H Literature and Censorship, 1640–1860
ENG4100H Topics in Diasporic, Postcolonial, and Transnational Literature
ENG4200H Topics in Caribbean Literature in English
ENG4211H Romanticism and Translation
ENG4224H
Early Nineteenth-Century Environmental Literature
ENG4300H Topics in African Literature in English
ENG4400H Topics in South Asian Literature in English
ENG4404H Victorian Memory/Victorian Forgetting
ENG4405H Genres of the Victorian Novel
ENG4501H
Victorian Fiction and the Fragility of the Social
ENG4662H
Romantic Memory
ENG4664H
Romantic Pastoral Revisited
ENG4750H
Empire of Steam: Romanticism, Technology, and Modernity
ENG4770H Aesthetics and Ethics: the Late Victorians
ENG4973H
Marx and the American Renaissance
ENG5021H Black Forms: Critical Race Theory and Diasporic Literature
ENG5042H Justice and Form in Contemporary Canadian Ecopoetry
ENG5047H Class, Culture, and American Realism
ENG5078H Postcolonial Ecocriticism
ENG5080H Assembling the Afro-Métis Syllabus
ENG5088H Kind of Like: Difference, Similarity, Comparison
ENG5100H Topics in Medieval Literature
ENG5101H The Problem of Elsewhere
ENG5115H The Satanic Verses and the Public Life of Books
ENG5200H Topics in Early Modern Literature
ENG5300H Topics in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
ENG5400H Topics in Romantic and Victorian Literature
ENG5500H Topics in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Literature
ENG5580H
American Pastoral
ENG5712H Cinema of Refusal: Inuit Modernity and Visual Sovereignty
ENG5802H Global Protest Cultures
ENG5963H
James Joyce: Modernism, Modernity, Mythology
ENG6014H Adapting Short Fiction
ENG6015H Experimental Narrative and/as Narrative Theory
ENG6064H The Theory of the Novel
ENG6100H Topics in Genre and Form
ENG6171H
Writing a Journal Article
ENG6182H Eating Well
ENG6188H Land, Myth, and Translation in a Time of Crisis
ENG6362H
History and Structure of the English Language: Post-1500
ENG6365H
Diasporic Englishes
ENG6492H Speaking of What’s Next: Climate and Dystopia in Near Future Fiction
ENG6494H
Psychogeography and the Mapping of Literary Space
ENG6498H
Dystopian Fiction and Unsettled Space
ENG6510H
Creative Nonfiction
ENG6519H Postcolonial Theory and the World Literature Debates
ENG6532H Writing More-than-Human Lives
ENG6544H Queer, Trans, and Feminist Historiographies
ENG6552H
Law and Literature
ENG6818H
Social Robots in the Cultural Imagination
ENG6820H The Novel of Sexual Ideas
ENG6950Y
Workshop in Creative Writing
ENG6999Y
Critical Topographies: Theory and Practice of Contemporary Literary Studies in English
ENG7000Y Special Reading Course
ENG7100H Topics in Interdisciplinary Methods
ENG8100H Topics in Digital Literature
ENG9100H Topics in Theory
ENG9400H (0.25 FCE) Essential Skills Workshop Series (Credit/No Credit; exclusion: ENG8000H)
ENG9500H
Professional Development
ENG9900H
Professing Literature
JLE5116H
Naming the World: Realism Travels the Globe
JLE5220H Tricksters and Confidence Men
JLE5225H
The Passage from History to Fiction