This course is designed primarily for those not pursuing a specialization in English and focuses on the development of the skills for effective writing. Topics will include sentence and paragraph structure, essay organization, and the implementation of convincing written arguments. Students will apply these skills to the completion of several written assignments, culminating in a short work of non-fiction prose.

The creative use of language in literature, cinema, and related media enables us to explore the issues that have mobilized communities in different eras and English-speaking regions of the globe. Using case studies on issues that resonate from the past into the present, students will employ close reading methods to investigate how language gives form to ideas, and use academic writing as a vehicle for conveying an argument about these ideas. Reading- and writing-intensive course.

This course, which is designed primarily for those not planning a specialization in English, introduces students to literary texts and persuasive forms of writing, bringing to the fore some of the links between language and contemporary social and political issues. Course materials will represent diversity in terms of national origins, gender, race, and class. The course emphasizes the use of figurative language as well as the development of students' critical reading and writing skills. Students planning to major or minor or pursue an area of concentration in English must take ENGL*1080 and ENGL*2080, but may also take ENGL*1200 and count it as an elective lecture.

This course explores the representational and cultural practices concerning health care and the body. Students will examine how literary texts represent, interpret, and critique the cultures of biomedical science, the clinic, and the hospital. Areas of interest include disease, illness, health, disability, and psychological and physiological trauma.

This course introduces students to English-language literature produced by writers of Latin American descent in both the United States and Canada. Students will focus on Latinx writers who endeavor to maintain ethnic traditions and ties to Latin America by engaging myth, magic, and memory in their fiction. Reading-intensive course.

This course revisits the historical, national, and genre sweep of ENGL*1080 by conducting a range of specific, more in-depth studies of particular works (including some of the texts examined in ENGL*1080) in their historical moments. Seminars help students to develop a range of critical approaches through oral presentations and essay-writing.

This course focuses on Shakespeare as both a writer and an enduring cultural presence. It may, at the instructor's choice, focus on works by Shakespeare as well as works by others in response to Shakespeare, in Shakespeare's original historical context or in more contemporary contexts. The course may address, among others, genre, performance, adaptation, the politics of Shakespearean interpretation, including issues such as gender, subjectivity, empire, and nation. Reading-intensive course.

This course guides students through a range of critical approaches and explores their implications for readings of a limited number of literary texts. The seminar's main areas of concentration are: (1) close reading, centering on the way a particular poem, work of fiction, or play works in its details and overall structure; (2) critical approaches and methodologies; (3) critical writing and discussion. (Choices of approaches and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course.

This course explores the social and cultural work that literary texts perform. Seminars will illuminate such categories as gender, sexuality, nation, race, ethnicity, and class; particular ways in which they are written into a limited number of literary works; and some of the critical debates surrounding our interpretations of those processes. (Choices of approaches and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course.

This course examines the ways in which gender, sexuality, and identity politics are addressed, critiqued, and shaped by queer literature, performance and media. This course will consider the meanings of "queer" itself and explore how queerness intersects with race, class, gender, sex, and other forms of social difference.

This course introduces students to contemporary literatures, film, and other media that engage with the impact of European colonization on eighty-five percent of the globe. The course may include material from Africa, Australia, the Americas, the Caribbean, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Pacific. Reading-intensive course

This course introduces students to the intersections between law and literature. The course encourages students to read literary texts by focusing on issues of justice, crime, judgment, and equity. Students will examine how literature can serve as an alternative cultural arena or site that gives voice to experiences and knowledges that cannot be translated into the law's language of equivalence and neutrality. By reading literary texts in relation to the law, students will examine how literature and literary theory can enhance our understanding of the law.

This course examines various aspects of sports and play as they are manifested in a range of literary texts and other cultural forms. Because the emergence of sport as a social practice has been so intertwined with notions of regulation, performance, and fandom, sporting culture offers a valuable site for looking at questions of identity and social relations more broadly.

While we often dismiss the occult or the supernatural in literature as simple entertainment, this course encourages students to examine how literary works engage the occult and the supernatural in order to address issues of power, race, gender, imperialism and modernity from the nineteenth century to the present.

This course introduces students to literature before 1500 by considering how medieval writers imagined and moved across the world. Students will read poetry, drama, travel writing, and scientific texts written in and beyond England. The course will situate these texts in their historical contexts, approaching premodern societies as dynamic, diverse, and interconnected. Topics will vary but may include intercultural contact and colonization, gender and sexuality, technology, medicine, and views of nature.

This course offers an introduction to the challenges posed by poetic discourse and provides students with the practical tools they need to analyze and appreciate verse. Students will read and analyze a broad range of verse practice in English, thereby gaining a base repertoire through which they can approach future encounters with poetry in other classes. Significant portions of the course will be devoted to thinking about poetry in historical terms.

This course explores selected issues, perspectives, and voices within the study of Indigenous literatures and their contexts in North America. One purpose of the course is to raise questions about the meaning of the U.S. - Canadian border for Indigenous writers. Reading-intensive course.

This course will open up debates around emergent issues, perspectives, and voices in the literatures of minoritized cultures particularly within the North American context. Questions about the meanings of various borders for understanding Canadian negotiations of identity, culture, and location will remain a consistent feature of this variable content course. Reading-intensive course.

This course serves as an introduction to the critical study of children's literature and culture. Focusing on selected genres of, issues in, or theoretical approaches to literature for children, this variable-content course explores shifting (and often conflicting) conceptions of childhood, in general, and of children as readers and cultural consumers. Reading-intensive course.

This variable-content course will involve the study and discussion of poems, stories, novels and plays by or about women. Reading-intensive course.

This experiential-learning course will provide a combination of theoretical background and practical, hands-on experience in the field of literary magazine editing and publishing. Students will produce an undergraduate literary journal devoted to showcasing the writing of the University of Guelph community. Duties involved in the production of the journal include soliciting and evaluating submissions, editing, proofreading, publicity, and more. Students will study the art and technique of editing through reading essays by editors, editor-author correspondence, and original and edited texts, as well as gaining an understanding of the current magazine landscape.

This course introduces the methods and debates concerning digital forms of writing, and digital methods of literary analysis and knowledge creation. Studies will encounter and analyze one or more digital forms of writing such as digital poetry, e-literature, hypertext fiction, digital recordings, video games, or podcasts.

This course introduces students to the multiple, varied, and unstable understandings of the "fairy tale," focusing on the history of the term in the English language; the various ways in which the genre's form, function, and meaning have been defined and debated over the past three centuries; and the range of forms (oral, written, theatrical, cinematic, etc.) that have been considered part of the genre's intertextual web.

This course examines various aspects of the literature and culture of early modern England. The course may examine, at the instructor's choice, some part of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and may focus on a variety of issues, including gender and sexuality, poetics and politics, religion and authority, nation and empire, and their relation to literary production. The genres and writers examined will vary.

This course addresses British literature in relation to cultural debates and concerns of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Working within a subset of this period, the course will address topics such as politics and literature, revolution and resistance, satire, gender and sexuality, institutional power, domesticity and the evolution of literary forms or movements. Reading-intensive course.

This course explores the key texts in various genres of British cultural debates of the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Focal points may include: literary representations of family and society; science and narrative; Britain's "others"; class and conflict; protest and power; the roots of modernism; European influences. Reading-intensive course.

This multi-genre course introduces students to the literature of British imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course will consider the changing relationship between nation, empire, and colony by examining literary representations of such topics as: orientalism; travel writing; the construction of race; the representation of trade; the popular literature of empire; children's literature; the question of the other. Reading-intensive course.

This course will examine a range of issues arising from the materiality of book production and circulation. Topics may include serialization; mass production and circulation; patronage; reviewing; circulating libraries; licensing; censorship; children's literature; periodicals; gift books; letters; and other aspects of publishing and the public sphere. Reading-intensive course.

This course explores literary depictions of the natural environment. Topics may include climate change, fossil fuels, human/animal relations, meteorological disasters, extinction, agriculture, and scientific ethics. Students will have opportunities to put theory into practice through critical writing and public outreach. Reading-intensive course.

This course offers a selective study of 20th- and/or 21st-century play-scripts written in English. Students are advised to consult the web-descriptions for the particular focus of the course's offering.

This multigenre course explores aesthetic and socio-cultural movements in British literature from the twentieth century to the present. Reading-intensive course.

This multigenre course explores the relationship between literary production and political power from the emergence of U.S. culture through the long nineteenth century. Areas of focus may include national fantasy; the literatures of war, imperial expansion, captivity, and genocide; narratives of race and immigration; the cult of domesticity; and the rise of mass culture. Reading-intensive course.

This multigenre course explores powerful examples of modern United States literatures, from about the First World War to the present. The selection is wide, including both traditional and experimental forms; female and male writers from various ethnic and racial groups; and a range of cultural issues. Reading-intensive course.

This course will introduce students to significant aspects of Chaucer's writing read in the context of works by Chaucer's precursors and near contemporaries. Reading-intensive course.

Using literature and non-fiction prose written primarily before 1900, this course addresses the relationship between print culture and the environment. Readings are not confined to a specific national literature and may be chosen to address transnational thought or the non-national spaces of the ocean and polar regions. Topics will vary but may address industrialization, human/animal relationships, resource extraction, plantation ecologies, specimen collection, extinction, scientific thought, or encounter with unfamiliar environments.

This multigenre course focuses on Canadian literature to World War One, examining cultural contestation in the Canadian settler colony among the Canadian, U.S., British, and indigenous peoples. Topics may include the rise of nationalist discourse, race and nation, landscape and the sublime, gothic, sentimental, and historical fiction, children's literature, slavery and resistance narratives, travel and captivity narratives. Reading-intensive course.

This course examines Canadian literature and criticism in English from the beginnings of the twentieth century to the present in relation to a variety of social, cultural, and historical contexts. Reading-intensive course.

This course is a concentrated study in a major sub-area of postcolonial literature. Specific topics will vary each year, but may involve focus on a particular genre or region such as Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, and the Pacific. Reading-intensive course.

These variable-content courses provide opportunities for topics in cross-period studies, inter- and transdisciplinary studies and cultural studies, among others that are not available in regular offerings. Consult the School for specific offerings in a given semester. Reading-intensive course.

These variable-content courses provide opportunities for topics in cross-period studies, inter- and transdisciplinary studies and cultural studies, among others that are not available in regular offerings. Consult the School for specific offerings in a given semester. Reading-intensive course.

This variable-content seminar focuses on conventions of literatures, film or media as they inform our interactions with a text. Seminars will explore the impact of generic conventions on the processes of production, reception, and interpretation of meaning. Activities involve historically and critically informed close readings of a limited number of texts. (Choice of focus and texts to be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course.

This variable-content course explores the processes by which specific texts or genres are imbedded in their time. Seminars may focus on such topics as the archive surrounding one text, memory writing, or emergent genres in order to negotiate theoretical problems pertaining to historicization, rhetorical reading, narratology, gender/sexuality studies or the racialization of national fantasy. (Choice of period and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course.

A seminar designed to allow students to delve into a particular aspect of digital literary studies in depth, understanding the critical debate surrounding it, experimenting with techniques or tools associated with it, and reflecting critically on its implications. Topics will vary and may include: Writing in the Digital Age; Topic Modelling for Literary Studies; Literary Networks; and Digital Humanities, Feminisms and Diversity. The course will engage aspects of digital textuality and literary study such as: e-literature; interactive digital narrative, including video games; non-linear long-form arguments, including hypertext; semantic text encoding; exploration of several digital writing platforms; the rhetoric of interface and the materiality of digital media; text analysis; and visualization.

This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of British literature from the beginnings to 1660. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of British literature from 1660 to 1900. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of United States literatures. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

This seminar provides the opportunity for intensive study of Canadian literatures. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

A seminar designed to provide students in semesters 7 and 8 with an opportunity to pursue studies in an area or areas of language or literature not available in other courses. The course may be taught by a visiting professor or members of the school.

This course provides the opportunity for intensive study of a representative selection of literature in English by writers from Africa, India, the Caribbean, Australia, and the Pacific. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

This course provides the opportunity for a study of significant works in fiction, poetry, and drama that demonstrate new approaches in form and content characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century writings in English. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

This course provides for intensive study of issues relating to the aesthetic strategies, such as those associated with structure, imagery, and language, devised by women writers to reflect women's experience and perceptions. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

This course offers an intensive study of non-fiction prose. Topics to be explored may include the roles and contexts of public and/or private writing, the role of literary criticism in reading texts sometimes marked as non-literary, the history of non-fictional prose forms, or the formal or ideological uses of the distinctions between fact and fiction.

This course is intended particularly as preparation for ENGL*4910. The student will design a course of readings and assignments with the instructor, whose consent must first be obtained. This option is intended only for students who have performed particularly well within the honours program. Exceptional students may take ENGL*4810 in preparation for a ENGL*4910 creative writing project, on the approval of the instructor.

This seminar provides opportunities to study English-language modern and contemporary poetry. Students are advised to complete a 3000-level lecture course in this subject area prior to enrolling in the 4000-level course.

This course will study the major branches of contemporary literary theory. Topics covered will include structuralism, reader-oriented theory, feminist theory, new historicist and materialist critique, postcolonialist critique, and deconstruction.

A major essay (approx. 25 pages) on some subject of special interest to the student is prepared and written under the direction of a faculty member. Consent of the instructor must be obtained and the subject must be approved by the School prior to the semester in which the course is to be taken. This option is intended only for students who have performed particularly well within the honours program. Exceptional students may use ENGL*4910 for creative writing, on the approval of the instructor.