Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2013–2014!"1 Department of English
Language and Literature Undergraduate Courses Handbook for Undergraduate Students 2014–2015 Department of English, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada, 613-533-2158 The Arts and Science Calendar offers generic descriptions of English courses. This booklet provides detailed descriptions of the courses that are actually offered in the coming academic year. These descriptions were written by the prospective instructors, so they give you the clearest idea of the readings you can expect and the assignments for which you will be responsible. This listing is subject to revision; for the most up-to-date information, refer to the departmental web site.! Overview of English Course Levels For complete information, consult the booklet English at Queen’s and the English Department’s web site.! 100-Level Courses! ENGL 100, “Introduction to Literary Study,” is the gateway course to further study in English. Its goal is to provide knowledge and skills essential to university-level literary study. Students attend two lectures every week, plus one small-size tutorial meant to foster intensive disContents English Courses!............................................................2! 100 Level!..................................................................2! 200 Level!..................................................................2! 300 Level!..................................................................9! 400 Level and Above!...........................................12!
[email protected] cussion. Grading is shared between instructors and teaching assistants, who lead the tutorials.! 200-Level Courses! ENGL 200, “History of Literature in English,” is a required lecture course for all students registered in an English Plan. Majors and Medials are also required to take a second-year seminar, ENGL 290 (30 students max), which develops students’ writing abilities and also introduces the basic research tools of literary studies.! The format of all other 200-level courses is lecture and discussion. These non-required 200-level courses are subdivided into broad Surveys (English 201–229) and courses in genre (230–249), authors in context (250–269), issues and themes (270–289), and theory and criticism (291–299). Grading is shared between instructors and teaching assistants.! To enrol in 200-level courses, students need a minimum of C in ENGL 100. 300-Level Courses! Small lecture surveys of particular literary periods (60 students max). Courses offered at the 300-level are divided into the following three historical distribution groups: Group I, pre-1800 literature; Group II, roughly 1780-1920; Group III, post-1900 literature. Grading is shared between instructors and teaching assistants. Creative Writing Courses!..........................................19! To enrol in 300-level courses, students normally must be in either a Major or Medial English Plan, must have completed ENGL 200 and 290, and must have a minimum GPA of 2.4 or better in all previous English units.! Courses in Other Subjects!........................................21! 400-Level Courses! Online, Spring-Summer, and BISC Courses!........21 Seminars focused on specific topics; intensive discussion is a vital component of these courses. All grading is done by the instructor. To enrol in these courses, students need a minimum GPA of 2.4 in all previous English units.
Queen’s English Department: http://www.queensu.ca/english/! Revised July 2014 Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! 160/6.0 Modern Prose Fiction English Courses 100 Level "2 Term: Full year! Instructors: Robert May! Description: This course is designed to promote interest in and appreciation for modern and contemporary prose fiction by introducing students to a selection of the most influential short stories and novels of the twentieth century. The course will provide students with a vocabulary for reading and discussing twentieth-century works of prose, and it will explore some of the most important themes, ideas, and preoccupations in modern and contemporary prose fiction. American, British, Canadian, and world authors will be represented.! Requirements: Evaluation methods will include written assignments, class attendance and participation, periodic quizzes, and a final exam.! Note: Enrolment is limited to students not registered in an ENGL Plan, and preference is given to upper-year students. This course may not be used as a foundation for an ENGL Plan or a prerequisite for upper-year ENGL courses.! Exclusion: No more than 6.0 units from ENGL 100/6.0, ENGL 110/6.0, ENGL 112/6.0, ENGL 160/6.0.! 100/6.0 Introduction to Literary Study Term: Full year! Instructors: John Pierce (100 001), John Pierce / Marta Straznicky (100 002)! Description (from the Arts & Science Calendar): An introduction to literary study, with an emphasis on the formal analysis of a diverse range of poetry and prose. Specific content and approach vary from section to section, but all sections share the goals of developing sensitivity to genre, cultivating writing skills, and providing students with a set of literary terms and critical techniques as a foundation for further literary study.! Note: This course is offered in two sections, each involving two lectures and one tutorial per week. Students must enrol in the same section and the same tutorial for the entire year. Enrolment preference is given to first-year students. ENGL 100 is a prerequisite for all subsequent ENGL courses. Also offered as an online course; first-year on-campus Arts students are excluded from the online section.! Exclusion: No more than 6.0 units from ENGL 100/6.0, ENGL 110/6.0, ENGL 112/6.0, ENGL 160/6.0.! 100/6.0 Introduction to Literary Study (online course) Term: Full year! Instructors: Robert Morrison! Description: This English course introduces you to the four main literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay. It is also designed to improve your writing skills, and to develop your knowledge of literary terms and critical techniques as a foundation for further literary study. Why study literary genre? “We need poems and stories and novels and plays, as well as essays,” replies the great American writer Scott Russell Sanders. “Each genre offers us paths through the dark woods of this life, and we need all the paths we can find.! Note: Also offered as an on-campus course; first-year oncampus students are excluded from the online section.! Exclusion: No more than 6.0 units from ENGL 100/6.0, ENGL 110/6.0, ENGL 112/6.0, ENGL 160/6.0.! Queen’s English Department: http://www.queensu.ca/english/! 200 Level The prerequisite for ENGL 200–299 is a minimum grade of C in ENGL 100/6.0. Note that courses at the 200 level have limited enrolments. Students registered in an English plan applying to take these courses have priority over those applying to take them as electives.! 200 001/6.0 History of Literature in English Term: Full year! Instructor: Ruth Wehlau! Description: This course will provide an overview of the predominantly British and Anglo-Irish literary tradition from the Anglo-Saxon period up to and including contemporary literature in English from around the world. The aim of the course is to introduce students to the major works and literary movements of this tradition within their historical context, to consider the reception of these works, and to examine the changes in the understanding of literature and its place in the world that occur throughout more than a thousand years of writing in English. To this end we will investigate a variety of issues: orality vs. literacy, the rise of the novel, the Revised July 2014 ! ! Texts may include Vol. making it impossible to speak of one Canadian literature. South Africa. Medials. from early writings from the Anglo-Saxon period to contemporary works from around the English-speaking world.0. Les Belles Soeurs. such as colonial discourse analysis. Lives of Girls and Women. an exam. Works to be read include prose. literature and / as resistance. Nation and Migration. by Alice Munro. and Minors in their 2nd year before advancing to 3rd year. and Postcolonial Literature and Commodification. and Minors in their 2nd year before advancing to 3rd year. After a short introduction on Colonialism and Postcolonialism. and Britain. by Tomson Highway. how to imagine the future. and Minors. increasingly globalized world. the status and role of the writer in society. Rez Sisters. we will look at novels. exam. Globalization and Neo-colonialism. the Caribbean. Enrolment preference is therefore given to English Majors. and digital forms. and from in-between places with a neither/both perspective on home and nation. material. In order to determine what Canadian Literatures are. by Ethel Wilson. and The Swamp Angel. and the ways literature circulates in oral.0 units from ENGL 110/6. Running in the Family. literature and commodification. ENGL 200/6. we will examine both the similarities and differences between various communities’ literatures. language and representation. ENGL 200/6. then. will consider not only the literatures of those who were once imperial subjects. among others.! Requirements: Essays. and post-colonialism.g. The Lesser Blessed. Milton.0 Postcolonial Literature Term: Full year! Instructor: Holly McIndoe / Kris Singh! Description: The postcolonial condition could be understood as the struggle to live hopefully while (or through) remembering the harrowing nature of the colonial past which still haunts us. Ghana. and how they influence our perception of Canada. Nigeria. and Minors.. it is equally as preoccupied with how we conceive of the past and our relationship to it.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! Romantic movement. poetry and drama by writers such as Chaucer. the course will be divided into four overlapping sections: Settlers and Indigenous People. in-class quizzes. in-class quizzes and a final exam.0 History of Literature in English Term: Full year! Instructor: Gwynn Dujardin! Description: This survey course introduces students to the history of literature in the English language. Austen and Wordsworth. by Richard Van Camp. including but not limited to novels.0. Starting with examples of traditional Indigenous literatures. India. but also contemporary writing so that we may think about what the aftermath and continuation of this imperial history means for us all in our postcolonial. by Sinclair Ross. Disappearing Moon Cafe. Medials. Postcolonial studies is concerned with particular historical events. Shakespeare.! Note: ENGL 200 is required for English Majors.! 200 002/6.0 units from ENGL 110/6. of course. nationalist narrative as liberation and oppression. and the representation and performance of gender. Organized around canonical works representative of periods in literary history (e. and poetry. We will of course be Revised July 2014 . Victorian.ca/english/! 217/6. poetry. contemporary). short stories. and who exactly “we” are. Medials.! Note: ENGL 200 is required for English Majors. ENGL 217 will consider some of the most provocative and innovative twentieth-century literature in English from Australia.! "3 literature on our understanding of diverse and shared experiences. the course traces developments in the definition of English as a literary language.0 History of Literature in English Term: Full year! Instructor: Heather Macfarlane! Description: Canada is home to a long and rich variety of literary traditions. by Michael Ondaatje. Medials.! Exclusion: No more than 6.! Requirements: A test. as well as the contexts in which they were written. by Sky Lee.! Requirements: Assessment will be by essays.! Exclusion: No more than 6. songs and films from many communities. by Michel Tremblay.0.! ! In order to pursue these lines of thought. As For Me and My House. The course will also introduce students to critical approaches and debates central to postcolonial studies.0. medieval. plays. participation/attendance.! 215/6. This course. however. regions and historical periods with the goal of demonstrating the impact of Queen’s English Department: http://www. 2 essays.! ! The course is thematic in approach which allows for the study of a number of different genres. Enrolment preference is therefore given to English Majors. by George Elliott Clarke. Execution Poems. short stories. 1 of Canadian Literature in English.queensu. Botswana. short reading responses. Raymond Carver. “who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?” This course introduces you to fiction.0. we will keep the literary qualities and the question of the literary central to our enquiries in order to help us consider what the role of the literary is for postcolonial studies. Lydia Davis. sexuality.0! Description: In A Room of One’s Own (1929). Jhumpa Lahiri. Asian. Robert Coover. reality. Tim O’Brien. as well as changing publishing conditions (such as the rise of the university-sponsored journal and the popularity of magazines such as The New Yorker). James Baldwin. Philip K. Given the area’s commitment to political.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! attentive to historical and political context.0! Description: This course takes as its focus the history of children’s literature in Britain from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. 35%. We will concern ourselves with the global diversity of feminine Anglophone literary traditions across categories of genre.0! Queen’s English Department: http://www. Joyce Carol Oates. and psyche. 20%.0 The Short Story in English Instructor: Shannon Minifie
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. among other “ethnic” and/or minority writers. A.! Requirements: 2 essays and several voluntary and assigned participation exercises. mid-term essay.! ENGL 237 001/3. Dick. Salinger. and the events of 9/11). and geography. 30%. to the canon of short fiction previously crowded with white male authors. Sherman Alexie. consideration of the selected literary and (occasionally) theoretical or sociological texts will serve as the basis for discussions about changes in the formal and thematic characteristics of the short story in the contemporary United States.0 Selected Women Writers II (online course) Instructor: Asha Varadharajan
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. that “unacknowledged hegemony of creative writing programs”). and African American.0 Children’s Literature Instructor: Amber Hastings
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. Overall. end of term essay. what is the space of the literary? And what is made possible by the aesthetic ventures of these postcolonial writers?! Requirements: Both the Fall Term and the Winter Term will have the following grade break-down and course assignments: participation (reflections and closereadings). 15%. Alice Walker. however. ethical. M. technological and cultural transformations of the modern world on time. economic. Donald Barthelme. by emerging American Indian. we will consider how they trace the effects of the radical social. race. the Cold War years and its various political upheavals. Finally. Homes. focusing on the contexts from which contemporary authors of the short story emerge. subsequent battles between “Realism” and postmodern metafiction. as well as the ways in which literary (and popular) culture register and/or refashion contemporary reading practices. George Saunders.! Requirements: A shorter essay (20%). We will explore how women writers adapt and alter masculine literary influences to both scandalous and sobering effect.ca/english/! "4 Description: This course traces the formal and thematic developments of the American short story in the period after 1945. Virginia Woolf wonders. John Barth. Leslie Marmon Silko. Philip Roth. Students will also consider the important challenge.! Note: Students registered in a Gender Studies Plan may take this course without the usual prerequisite of ENGL 100. with an emphasis on nineteenth-century works for children.queensu. David Foster Wallace. ethnicity. and educational causes.! ENGL 234/3. and a final exam (25%). a longer essay (30%). Students will also examine innovations in the short story form during this period (including a consideration of the legacy of what John N. The first part of Revised July 2014 . Louise Erdrich. as well as other questions of genre and style. Indigenous. D. John Updike. exam. and the short story’s engagement with history (including World War II. class. Such contexts will include the popularity of the “creative writing workshop” (or MFA program).! Equivalency: ENGL 265/3. and drama by twentieth-century and twenty-first century women writers who have sought both to “measure” and to heal the division between poet’s heart and woman’s body that Woolf so eloquently describes. occasional quizzes and other in-class assignments (25%). Duvall has called the “institutionalization” of minimalism. Flannery O’Connor.! ! Authors may include J. Cynthia Ozik. poetry.! ENGL 223/3. Latino/a. and other cultural sites. We will explore the ways that children’s literature engages with a dual audience of adult and child readers as it intersects with a wide range of issues including. We will question the ways that literature for children reinforce or challenge ideological and cultural assumptions about childhood.0! Description: Early modern playwright Ben Jonson called Shakespeare’s works. or that children’s literature is simplistic. Our discussion of recent works for children and young adults will be built on a survey of the historical development of a literature specifically shaped for young readers. From Instruction to Delight and on John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. or that children are naturally sweet.! Equivalency: ENGL 207/3. art. and promote an awareness of the world around it. and a final exam (35%). politics. politics.0! Description: This course will introduce students to the history of children’s literature from its beginnings as a genre through to its current interdisciplinary form in the twenty-first century.0.ca/english/! "5 Note: Also offered as an online course. religion. J.0 Elizabethan Shakespeare Instructor: Erin Weinberg
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. Russell Hoban.! ENGL 257/3. innocent little angels. renew. and is designed to survey the development of a literature shaped specifically for children from its beginnings to the golden age of the nursery in the mid-nineteenth century.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! this course will focus on texts included in the anthology From Instruction to Delight and will move through a selection of fairy tales from the early nineteenth century to bring us to the Golden Age of children’s literature in the mid-nineteenth century. Revised July 2014 . “Not of an age. religion. economics. but for all time. essay (30%). gender.! Equivalency: ENGL 207/3. As we move through this historical survey of literature for children we will challenge stereotypes and assumptions that children’s literature must be educational. active participation in online discussions (10%). engage. conservative.0 Children’s Literature (online course) Instructor: Heather Evans
Offered: Fall & Winter Terms
Units: 3. but not limited to. and a final exam (50%). M. we will explore the connections linking children’s texts and children’s environmental experiences and how these may challenge. R. commerce. Philip Pullman. both real and imagined. and a final exam (35%).0! Description: This course takes as its focus the history of children’s literature in Britain from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. and an investigation of the dynamic between literature written for adult audiences and books read by children. fantasy and the imagination. philosophy.! Requirements: In-class response papers (15%). essay (30%).0 Children’s Literature Instructor: Melissa Li Sheung Ying
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. The last half of the course will explore one dominant genre in children’s literature of the twentieth century—fantasy—and will include works by writers such as George MacDonald.! Note: Also offered as an online course. economics.! Requirements: Two short essays (15% and 25%). even 400 years later. we will consider how children’s literature continues to cultivate. Tolkien. close reading assignment (20%). consideration of the intersections and relationships between literature.! ENGL 237/3.! Queen’s English Department: http://www. or moral. with an emphasis on nineteenthcentury works for children. and J.queensu. close reading assignment (20%). and/or reflect our current concerns about the environment.! ENGL 237 002/3.! Equivalency: ENGL 207/3. Barrie. Beatrix Potter. The first half of the course concentrates largely on texts included in the anthology. Roald Dahl. R. By considering the relationship between the child and his or her landscape. As we work through our course we will interrogate hackneyed clichés and popular assumptions such as that the primary function of books read by children (past or present) is to stimulate the imagination of the child. Central to our study will be the questions of what distinguishes children’s literature from other genres and how the construction and nature of childhood is challenged historically and socio-politically across the centuries.0.” These words ring true today because.! Note: Also offered as an on-campus course. Central to our study will be an examination of the construction of childhood across the centuries. race.! ! As we move towards more recent texts and narratives for young readers. technology.! Requirements: In-class response papers (15%). Oscar Wilde.0. conservative and moralizing. as the repressed tendencies of body and mind claw their way to the surface. 15%. This course will introduce students to the theoretical background of the Gothic and the literary study of the environment. promiscuity. alienated by technology. gender and more. Shakespeare’s works are very much a product of their time. as fears and anxiety about prostitution. We will reflect on the staging of Shakespeare’s plays in Elizabethan outdoor playhouses. these locations. womanly men and manly women began to pervade the cultural atmosphere. 1 Henry IV.ca/english/! Revised July 2014 ENGL 277/3. we will seek to consider how issues of sex and gender intersect with questions of race.0. and electronic media. Mary Shelley. While exploring the various natures of femininity and masculinity.0 units from ENGL 256/6.0). monarchy. Yet. and rigid sexual codes. We will discover how Gothic settings are gendered.! Requirements: Participation.0 (formerly ENGL 228/3. it has often been suggested that the setting in Gothic fiction is a character unto itself. Queen’s English Department: http://www. her image has represented. Despite these lasting associations.! ENGL 278/3.! "6 disciplined unsexiness.! Exclusion: No more than 6. At the same time. Titus Andronicus. revenge. How are Shakespeare’s plays “of an age”.0 Literature and Gender
Victorian Sexology . matronly domesticity and a Instructor: Steve Asselin
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3.0! Description: This course aims to put the “nature” back in “supernatural” by examining the role of the environment in Gothic fiction of the last two centuries. eugenics. The plays we will study are Romeo and Juliet. the homosexual) and even new ways of being in one’s gender. Despite Queen Victoria’s prolific brood of children and life-long romantic obsession with her husband. ENGL 257/3.0 Literature and Place
Haunted Ground: The Gothic Environment Instructor: Mikaela Withers
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. hatred. degeneracy and the expansion of the British Empire. a term paper and a final exam.0 (formerly ENGL 226/6. and otherwise transformed into strangely “Other” spaces.0! Description: The word “Victorian” has in today’s vernacular become nearly synonymous with modesty. 30%. Bram Stoker.! ENGL 259/3. The Merchant of Venice. ENGL 258/3. Edgar Allan Poe. essay. culminating in film adaptations of Shakespeare’s works today. the latter part of the nineteenth century saw an almost obsessive desire to understand. and will then reflect on how Shakespeare’s words come alive and shift in meaning through the medium of performance. Authors examined may include Horace Walpole.! ! This course aims to explore how textual narratives by turns responded to. Ultimately. isolated castle of Otranto to the zombie-strewn ruins of The Walking Dead. reinforced or subverted expectations around sex and gender. and in what ways are these works “for all time”?! Requirements: Pop quizzes (top 5 of 6 count towards final grade). and continues to represent. 2-hour exam..0 Global Shakespeare (online course) Instructor: Marta Straznicky
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! we can identify with the ideas he shares about love. with a focus on the development of Shakespeare as a “global” author. From the ancient. and Hamlet. despite the plays’ contemporary resonances.0! Description: A study of the dissemination of Shakespeare’s plays across a range of cultures and sites from the early seventeenth century to the present. and how these obsessions and anxieties helped to create new categories of sexuality (i. prudishness. foreign or familiar. We will explore these plays first through the practice of close reading. prostitution. We will look at figures as varied as the “Angel in the House. racialized. close reading assignment.0). print. as well as explore issues of sexual violence.0 (formerly ENGL 227/3. 35%.” the fallen woman. the human body itself becomes the site of Gothic haunting. the dandy and the New Woman. heterosexuality and homosexuality. Samuel Coleridge.e. cross-dressing and genderbending. Selected plays will be studied in historical context and in geographically diverse adaptations in theatrical. are replete with barelycontained secrets to threaten the protagonists of these stories. family. pathologize and categorize various aspects of sex and gender.queensu. power.0)! Equivalency: ENGL 227/3. 20%. a close reading assignment. and consider the ways in which adapting Shakespeare has evolved over the centuries. Twelfth Night. our goal will be to consider the ways in which Victorian literature wrote and responded to issues of sex and gender. 0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation This description from the Arts & Science Calendar applies to all sections of ENGL 290: An intensive study of one text or a cluster of related texts.0! Description: Though our focus will be on Elizabeth Bishop’s poems. and Robert Kirkman.! 290/3. and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Nova Scotia).! Requirements: Course work will include short essays. cultivating close reading skills through discussion. but also questions of genre. for whom it is a required course. style. William Faulkner.! Requirements: A sourced essay. a seminar presentation.” Class discussions and writing assignments will help students develop skills of close reading and critical interpretation.! Note: ENGL 290 is required for Majors and Medials in English in their 2nd year before advancing to 3rd year. subvert. Brooke Cameron
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3.! Note: Available only to English Majors and Medials who chose their English plan after May 2011. inclass graded writing assignments. a group presentation. exploring issues central to our own concerns today. but is it really a post-slavery novel?! Requirements: Because one of its central objectives is to help students develop independent critical voices. a presentation. pop quizzes.! ENGL 290 003/3. a longer essay. Written by Himself (1855). The course develops students’ writing abilities and also introduces the basic research tools of literary studies.! ENGL 290 001/3. We will look into the historical context of these works.0! Description: Students in this section of ENGL290 will read Twain’s comic novel (1885) about the travels of an abused child and an escaped slave alongside three slave autobiographies: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb. too. we will also use Bishop as a means of entering into discussions about gender and travel. the course will require intensive seminar engagement: all students will be expected to contribute to all discussions.! ENGL 290 002/3. and voice. four in-class response papers. How were slave writers constrained and enabled by the conventions of autobiography and testimony? How did Twain reinvent. gender.0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation
The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop! Instructor: Yaël Schlick
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.ca/english/! "7 of our time to a close reading of them. and explore how our own contemporary moment appraises and treats her writings. Brazil. Assignments will include short reading responses.! Revised July 2014 . Stephen King. which the author himself described as a tragic story about a “poor girl” who “dream[s] of freedom and nobleness” but “finds herself in reality ground in the very mill of the conventional. for whom it is a required course.0! Description: This seminar course will focus on Henry James’s masterpiece The Portrait of a Lady (1881). and though we will devote the majority Queen’s English Department: http://www. regular participation. form. Elizabeth Bishop will be our entry point to gaining close reading skills. P. Additional course readings will include biographical and secondary material on both the author and novel. “I think geography comes first in my work. a library research exercise.0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Slave Narratives! Instructor: Laura Murray
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. or reflect on the slave narrative in fiction? Twain’s novel was written after the abolition of slavery. Tim Burton.”) We’ll explore her depiction of specific places (Key West. and a final exam. An American Slave. situate her in the world of 1950s and 60s America when the confessional lyric began to dominate the poetry scene. and understanding the multiple interpretive possibilities that a writer’s works offer readers. Doris Lessing. But I like people. and then animals.! Note: Available only to English Majors and Medials who chose their English plan after May 2011. and a final exam.0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation
Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady! Instructor: S.! Requirements: Short in-class quizzes. (In an interview she once said. Lovecraft.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! H. Enrolment restricted to second-year students registered in an English Major or Medial Plan. In short. a brief written assignment mid-way through the semester. and a final paper. Written by Himself (1849).queensu. An American Slave. and a final exam. about the nature of the self and of the animal world. psychoanalytic. most famously in the form of spontaneous human combustion. and a final examination. or reader. politics and psychology. such as George Hughes’ Reading Novels (2002) or equivalent depending on availability. a seminar. and the depiction of scientific and technological advancement.! Note: Available only to English Majors and Medials who chose their English plan after May 2011.! ENGL 292/6.0! Description: This seminar examines Charles Dickens’s 1852–1853 novel Bleak House.! Revised July 2014 . a test.! Note: Available only to English Majors and Medials who chose their English plan after May 2011. Through class discussion. an essay (2000–2500 words). for whom it is a required course. and examine the impact of literature on our understanding of the world around us.! Requirements (subject to change): Active participation. and queer. attendance and participation. language. sociology.0! Description: This course asks what we are doing when we read literature and why we are doing it. for whom it is a required course. and an end of year examination.queensu. and writing.! ENGL 290 002/3. Each term we will employ literary texts as “case studies.! Queen’s English Department: http://www. structuralist. individual research. weekly reading quizzes. an essay (2000–2500 words) and an exam.0 Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory Instructor: Maggie Berg
Offered: Full year
Units: 6.0! Description: The study of literature is a multidisciplinary undertaking. We will examine what people have proposed about the nature of literature and its role in our lives. feminist. two close reading assignments. In the Fall Term we will consider various ways in which people have interpreted literary texts in terms of their language and structure. including Marxist.0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation
Reading Michael Ondaatje! Instructor: Heather Macfarlane
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3.! Requirements: Weekly reading quizzes.0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation
Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick! Instructor: Glenn Willmott
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. Seminar discussion will be emphasized.! Requirements: Regular attendance and participation.0! Description: This seminar course introduces students to the analytic interpretation of narrative fiction.! Requirements: Two term papers.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! Note: Available only to English Majors and Medials who chose their English plan after May 2011. and specifically to close reading the novel. In addition to introducing students to the Victorian print and publishing culture. disability.! Note: Available only to English Majors and Medials who chose their English plan after May 2011. author. research and writing we will consider a broad range of critical approaches to the texts themselves and to literature in general. and offers insight into such numerous domains as aesthetics. this seminar investigates the novel’s unique narrative structure and literary aesthetics. social context.0 Seminar in Literary Interpretation
Charles Dickens’s Bleak House! Instructor: Carla Manfredi
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. this seminar allows students to develop their close-reading and analytical skills. four close reading assignments.ca/english/! "8 ENGL 290 003/3. some creative projects. gender. or the Whale (1851).” to see the implications of the various theories for how we read works of literature. for whom it is a required course.! ENGL 290 001/3. This seminar will allow participants to engage intimately with three Ondaatje texts in order to develop closereading skills and hone their ability to think critically. and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. a final examination. poststructuralist. Course requirements are designed to teach and test basic literary analytic skills rather than full literary argument development and essay composition. Through discussion. the representation of the English civil justice system and legal reform. to name but a few. In the Winter Term we will focus on contemporary theories that are relevant to how we read literature. postcolonial. Our two required readings will be a formalist textbook. for whom it is a required course. geography. two formal essays. routine participation. Irish.! ! All texts will be read in translation except for the relatively unchallenging late Middle English works. continental. ENGL 321/6. participation. selected Canterbury Tales. and a final exam. film and media studies. and publicly represent private concerns such as love and sexuality. while everyone was struggling to reconcile their traditional pagan beliefs with those of the Latin Church. Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot (1975). and a final exam.queensu.! Revised July 2014 .) papers. John Milton opened Paradise Lost proclaiming that he “pursues/ Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. and French. and plays. 1–2 creative assignments./ Rusty and moth eaten. essays.0 Renaissance Poetry and Prose Instructor: Gwynn Dujardin
Offered: Full year
Units: 6. Old Norse.0 Medieval Literature of the British Isles Instructor: Matthew Scribner
Offered: Full year
Units: 6. Texts studied could include The Mabinogion. Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938). Scottish and Welsh people interacted with invaders who spoke Anglo-Saxon.0.” A century and a half later. producing celebrated works of literature in multiple genres. Moodlebased research assignment (in which students are asked to post a document analyzing some aspect of contemporary popular culture). several in-class writing assignments. and Le Morte D’Arthur./ Tattered and jagged/Rudely rain beaten. this small lecture course studies English writing from the Tudor era of King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I through Stuart England to the English Civil War. and ways that different forms. and medieval literatures. The course proceeds chronologically. This course will follow medieval Britain’s literary transformation.0 Introductory Approaches to Cultural Studies Instructor: Chris Bongie
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3.0.! Requirements (provisional): Two or three short (3–4 pp. charting changing conceptions of popular culture in (for the most part) Britain and North America from the nineteenth century to the present.0 units from: ENGL 221/6.! Requirements (subject to change): Attendance.! 300 Level ENGL 310/6. express contentious religious and political points of view. and the often disavowed relations between literature and the marketplace. Lectures and discussions will examine ways that English Renaissance authors define their writing in relation to classical. Reading a diverse selection of verse and prose texts.0! Description: When we think of the Middle Ages. then ending with the Middle English classics. we will also consider the relationship between popular and literary forms of writing. The Lais of Marie de France.” Focusing on the development of English as a literary language.” but the British Isles in the early medieval period were home to a diverse set of languages and cultures. Required readings for this course include Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897).0! Description: This lecture course introduces students to some of the major critical approaches associated with the interdisciplinary field of “cultural studies. the immediate and longstanding impact of print publication (introduced to England in the late fifteenth century). autobiography. It was not until much later that (Middle) English established itself as the dominant language in the Queen’s English Department: http://www. such as sociology.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! ENGL 293/3.! ENGL 321/6. including romances.0! Description: At the beginning of the sixteenth century. Beowulf. we don’t usually think “multicultural. and a final exam. anthropology.ca/english/! "9 region. and genres interrelate and crosspollinate throughout the period.! Requirements: Attendance. Cultural studies draws on a variety of disciplines. We will practice short poems in Middle English to make sure that we are up to speed before beginning those works.” with a particular emphasis on how that field has reshaped our understanding of popular culture. with specific attention paid to the genres of horror fiction and romance. but the primary focus here will be on the ways in which it intersects with literary studies and helps us better understand (for example) distinctions between “high” and “low” or “middlebrow” literary production. starting with early Celtic texts and Old English poetry before moving to Latin and French. including small group work. and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005).! Exclusion: No more than 6. modes. John Skelton described English verse as “ragged. George Eliot. Wordsworth. social problem. Thomas Middleton. creating new kinds of selves and lives for a dramatically changing. and Keats. and essays relating to poetics. their influence can endure for centuries. two term essays. Shelley. influenced each other.queensu. Thematically.! ENGL 340/6. regular participation.ca/english/! "10 by Austen and Mary Shelley. and a 3-hour final exam. but we will also read texts that do not fit these categories (e. the course relates Romantic literature and literary theory to the authoritarian and counter-authoritarian currents of an age of revolution and counter-revolutionary war.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! ENGL 326/6. Byron.! Requirements (provisional): Two researched term papers. a midterm and final exams. romance. comedy. and will discover that it really didn’t emerge from nowhere: it was the product of some very talented people working intelligently with a diverse array of rich source material.0! Description: This lecture-discussion course will introduce students to poetry from the fin-de-siècle to the 1940s in the Fall Term.0. how to live and who to be. including poetry and poetics of Blake. Ben Jonson. censored. a group presentation. bildungsroman.g. an longer research essay. ENGL 341/6.! Requirements: 80% attendance. Coleridge.0 Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Instructor: Scott-Morgan Straker / Ian Maness
Offered: Full year
Units: 6. and contemporary events.0 Modern and Contemporary Poetry! Instructor: Glenn Willmott / Yaël Schlick
Offered: Full year
Units: 6.0 British Fiction of the 19th Century Instructor: S. and although they tend to last for only a short time.0! Description: Every so often moments of incredible cultural richness blaze forth: they appear to emerge from nowhere. students will be expected to participate in discussions.0. We will see how they shaped this material into the now-familiar genres of tragedy. read from plays. and stole from each other.! Equivalency: ENGL 250/6.0 Romantic Literature Instructor: Mark Jones
Offered: Full year
Units: 6. gothic. occasional quizzes. Our class conversations will attend closely to questions of form. performed. pop quizzes. In Fall Term we will seek to understand how poets confronted the experiences and ideas of twentiethcentury modernity. We will examine Shakespeare alongside his contemporary playwrights..0. We will therefore look at the range in gendered and classed characters associated with an evergrowing range in novel genres. crisis-ridden world. and published. and H. and from the 1940s to the present in the Winter term. We will also study the theatre as an institution to understand the material conditions in which plays were commissioned. ENGL 350/6. We will immerse ourselves in the work of four exemplary poets—Yeats. masque).! Equivalency: ENGL 241/6. and gender—for as Nancy Armstrong reminds us. but he was part of a community of writers—sometimes collaborators. Possible authors include (but are not limited to) Jane Austen. This course will chart that rise through a representative sampling of texts. the Brontë sisters. including epistolary.! ENGL 365/6. and a 2-hour exam.! Requirements: Students will receive a grade for each term’s work. sometimes rivals—who collectively took theatrical art to heights it had never reached before. Elizabeth Gaskell. to see that the English theatre in this period really was a community of writers and performers who routinely worked together. Christopher Marlowe. politics. This is a course for students who are willing to talk and who do not want to spend the whole class sitting down. Eliot.D. and Thomas Hardy. several in-class response papers. Maria Edgeworth.0! Description: The nineteenth century witnessed the dazzling rise of the novel as both the most popular and dominant literary form. Walter Scott. Brooke Cameron
Offered: Full year
Units: 6. Wilkie Collins.0. In the Fall Term.0! Description: ENGL 340 surveys English Romantic literature. in addition to a short research assignment. and perform short scenes. regular preparation and class participation. and sensational fiction.—while Revised July 2014 . including Thomas Kyd. exploring what it meant to be modern. Pound. domestic. English theatre in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was one such cultural moment: Shakespeare is the most famous figure associated with it. fiction Queen’s English Department: http://www.! ! In this course we will examine some of the roots of this cultural flowering. character. and history.! ENGL 356/6. Charles Dickens. and John Webster. the first “modern subject” was a woman (Desire and Domestic Fiction). the final grade will be the average of the two. Each term grade will be based on a verse analysis presentation and submission (15%). landscape. and all versions that you take will count toward your program and toward your GPA. anxious. essays. or just? what’s new about contemporaneity—haven’t we always been bored. Mark Behr.! ENGL 389/6. Auden. truthful. satire. cyberpunk. dangerous.queensu. John Ashbery. We will balance our interrogation of geographies. we’ll explore the diverse directions poetry takes from mid-century to the present day: from confessional writing to the Beats. metafiction. Josh Neufeld. John Berryman. Harper Lee. Gautam Malkani. Percival Everett. We will consider a variety of modes and genres.5% to the cumulative term grade. Jean Hegland. uncanny. biodiversity and organic farming. spectacle. and Jeanette Winterson. Roo Borson. hilarious. John Steinbeck. ecofeminism. Sebald. ephemeral.! Requirements: Participation including quizzes. two essays. realism. horror or pulp.—H. Aldo Leopold. a term examination (35%). Some of the questions we explore might be what does the word have to say in a world dominated by sound. Jamie Bastedo. The course is organized in six interconnected sections: climate change.! Requirements: Participation including quizzes and posts to a discussion forum. The authors under consideration might be Kathy Acker. Among other things. Helen Oyeyemi.! human/animal/machine? of imagining “Nature’s body” and urban ecology? Evaluation will be based on participation including quizzes and posts to a discussion forum. crime. Charles Portis. a term essay (50%). from new formalism to poetry that explores our relations with the natural world. secular. and other poets. and a final exam.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! touching upon others of their generation. ecologies. Andrew O’Hagan. Indra Sinha. Mark Strand. and a participation adjustment of +/. Mindy Hung. colonial. and loss of biodiversity. Elizabeth Bishop. Chuck Palahniuk. W. travelogue. restless.0! Description: This course will explore how nature and the relationship between humans and the non-human world are constructed in contemporary American. Jessica Anderson. Linda Hogan. endangered species. and anguished? how might the chosen works on the syllabus guide us safely past the “post”-modern. and the Creation and ReCreation stories in the Anishinaabe tradition. population growth. Jorie Graham. post-apocalyptic writing. and a final exam. G. and Rachel Carson). the graphic novel. Course texts will include novels by Julia Alvarez. Ruth Ozeki. to explore questions of ecological poetics and environmental aesthetics. In the Winter Term. and Thomas Wharton. water. Margaret Atwood. as retold by Basil Johnston. manifesto. environmental crises. We will begin by considering the non-fiction texts of some of the pioneers of ecological writing (Henry David Thoreau.ca/english/! "11 400 Level and Above 400-level courses are repeatable: you may take as many versions of these courses as you like provided that the topics are different. Winter term readings will include works by W.0! Description: This course takes an international and cosmopolitan approach to Anglophone prose fiction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. and Indigenous ways of storytelling. histories. Canadian. and Indigenous fiction in this age of climate change. innocent.! ENGL 369/6. and sexualities with a serious attention to the generic innovations and transformations that make such interrogation possible. Chester Himes. James Merrill. Truman Capote. Catharine Parr Traill.0 Context North America Instructor: Petra Fachinger
Offered: Full year
Units: 6. Seamus Heaney. Redmond O’Hanlon. Leslie Marmon Silko. essays. and war. Ann Eriksson. Adam Foulds. including young adult fiction. to name only some of its incarnations? how do the works on our syllabus offer new ways of thinking and being Queen’s English Department: http://www. geopolitics.0 Modern and Contemporary Prose
Fiction! Instructor: Asha Varadharajan
Offered: Full year
Units: 6. Three-digit numbers after the course number are not Revised July 2014 . allegory. cynical.! Requirements (provisional): Evaluation for each term will be calculated separately by each instructor and combined for your overall grade for the course. virtuality? what makes prose fiction erotic. we will explore how fictional texts that focus on environmental issues transform consciousness and create dialogue about sustainability and biocultural restoration and revitalization. Some of the modes featured might be autobiography and/or the Bildungsroman. cultures. Jim Lynch. Barbara Kingsolver. and a final exam. Neal Stephenson. and Bartholomew Fair) which draw on both. ENGL 421/3. and to do a class presentation. literacy and readership. ENGL 328/3.0. but there will be an opportunity to explore any of Shakespeare’s texts in depth. including biblical plays from the mystery cycles.! Requirements: Students will be required to participate in class discussion. ENGL 421/3. Terence and Seneca.! Revised July 2014 . All three playwrights attended humanist grammar schools where they encountered the works of Plautus. and all lower-level courses are not. Henry V. and theoretical issues involved in electronic editions. script.0.! Exclusion: No more than 6. and Pericles. all 400-level courses are repeatable. Approaching Shakespeare’s texts as material books. and Magnificence. 237.0. This course will sample a variety of plays from the medieval and Tudor era. a research essay developed from the presentation. The Alchemist. Everyman. we will also study the history of Shakespearean textual scholarship.ca/english/! "12 ENGL 421/3. including the technical.0. but students will receive help and instruction in acquiring the skills needed to read and pronounce the language. and stage a scene and perform it for the class.0. Hamlet. situations (identity mix-ups.! Queen’s English Department: http://www. we will learn about the early modern book trade. If you have any questions about which courses are repeatable. a 15minute presentation. ENGL 422/3. revenge plots) and character types (the wily servant. and the relationships among performance. In this course we will first look at some instances of both the classical and the popular dramatic traditions and then at some of the major plays of the English Renaissance (Dr Faustus.queensu.! ENGL 421/3. modes of signification (allegory) and a subtle sense of theatrical space.0! Description: Medieval and Tudor drama is a lively and accessible genre. an in-class test of a factual nature. the noble avenger.! ENGL 436/3.0 Group I: Special Topics I Topic: Medieval and Tudor Drama! Instructor: Ruth Wehlau
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. or about how repeatable courses work. the Croxton Play of the Sacrament. dissemination. William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Our focus will be on plays that have a particularly interesting or complicated textual history: Hamlet. and readership of Shakespeare’s plays in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. then write a final paper of 10 pages discussing the decisions involved in the staging and the implications of these for an understanding of the play. Towards the end of course.! Requirements: Students will be expected to write an essay and an exam.! There are repeatable courses at the 200 level.! Exclusion: No more than 6. the clown. instead. From this they gleaned different character types (the Vice. SOLUS uses them to differentiate between versions of a course offered in the same term.0 Topics in Renaissance Drama I Topic: Shakespeare and Early Modern Print Culture! Instructor: Marta Straznicky
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. There will be a 2-hour final exam.0. ENGL 422/3.0 units from ENGL 323/3. and printed play. dealing with serious themes of life and death and yet often filled with comic horseplay. In this course we will examine this fusion in the works of Christopher Marlowe. the production and circulation of print material in the period. but none is offered in 2014–2015. the shrew). actor’s part. as in the case of ENGL 100. ENGL 328/3. Twelfth Night.0. the braggart soldier).0 Topics in Renaissance Drama I Topic: The Classical and the Popular in Renaissance Drama! Instructor: Elizabeth Hanson
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. and 290. Our goal will be to assess what thematic and dramatic meanings are made available by the combinations of classical and popular English traditions these playwrights wrought.0! Description: The drama of Renaissance England arguable achieves its extraordinary vitality through the fusion it effects of classical forms and English popular traditions. contact the Undergraduate Chair. But they also encountered English popular drama. In this academic year. and the morality plays Mankind.0! Description: This course will explore the publication. From these plays they gleaned genres (comedy and tragedy). All plays will be read in Middle English. write several short responses on Moodle. legal. Students will also be assessed on their class participation and to perform or read a portion of a play in conjunction with other students.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! section numbers.! Requirements: Assignments will include several short research exercises. 200. and a final exam. King Lear.0 units from ENGL 323/3.0. ENGL 441/3. ENGL 442/3. Novels by Henry James and William Dean Howells paint a picture of urban prosperity and the politics of class and polite society. one term paper.0. ENGL 442/3. and nibble our way through tasty essays. and Food in Nineteenth-Century Literature Instructor: Heather Evans
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3.0 Topics in Romanticism I "13 Instructor: Mark Jones
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3.0 Topics in Romanticism I ENGL 451/3.0. and dystopian dreams.ca/english/! Topic: At Table with the Victorians: Gastronomy. a final exam. and a collaborative “mapping” project.0. Queen’s English Department: http://www. Brooke Cameron
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. Treating the long nineteenth century as a grand literary banquet. ENGL 452/3.0. Brooke Cameron
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. while authors such as George Egerton and Theodore Dreiser write of the newcomer within the cosmopolitan city of opportunity. and a 2-hour final exam.0! Description: Introductory seminar on Wordsworth’s major works in poetry and poetics.0! Description: Introductory seminar on Keats’s major works. from Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence to “neo-Victorian” interpretations and steampunk. a final research essay.0.! Exclusion: No more than 6.0.! Requirements: 80% attendance.! ENGL 451/3.0. Lewis Carroll. fantastically charmless and elaborately dire. ENGL 441/3.queensu. Along the way. we will whet our appetites on gastronomic treatises by writers such as Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de la Reynière. one seminar facilitation. one or two essays. emphasizing Lyrical Ballads and other works (both lyric and narrative) of his “golden decade” (1797–1807). regular preparation and class participation. and a final exam. one seminar facilitation. We will look at how writers’ innovative approaches to both narrative form and content produce a literary history of this unique city as a site of exhilaration and hope.0 Topics in Victorian Literature I Topic: Slumming in the 19th Century Instructor: S. ENGL 354/3.0 Topics in Literature of the Americas I Topic: Literary New York City in the Gilded Age! Instructor: S.0! Description: “New York is appalling.0. and a 2-hour final exam. William Makepeace Thackeray. William Kitchiner. such as Charles Dickens. ENGL 442/3. and Sarah Grand. We will conclude the course with a discussion of the city’s literary legacy.! Requirements: One seminar presentation. literary networks. women cooks. and the importance of tea.0 units from ENGL 353/3.0 units from ENGL 353/3. fiction and poems penned by both epicurean and abstemious writers.! Requirements: Regular participation. as well as anxiety and/or despair. two short response papers. temperance. Elizabeth Gaskell. Cookery Books.! ENGL 446/3.0. spanning his short career but emphasizing his stunning final volume of 1820. regular preparation and class participation.! document the city’s slums and its underclass or marginalized poor. ENGL 354/3.0.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! ENGL 441/3. Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. ENGL 359/3.! Exclusion: No more than 6. ! ENGL 441/3.0! Description: This course will offer an introduction to the history and literature of nineteenth-century gastronomy.0.0. ENGL 354/3. ENGL 451/3. ENGL 441/3. and Thomas Walker.0 Topics in Victorian Literature I Topic: Poetry and Poetics of Wordsworth! Topic: Poetry and Poetics of John Keats! Instructor: Mark Jones
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. Because this course places such a strong emphasis on the link between place and text.”—Henry James! ! This course will survey a range of authors writing about urban experience in New York City at the end of the nineteenth century (the “Gilded Age”). Christina Rossetti. Still others.0! Revised July 2014 . tippling. such as Stephen Crane and Jacob Riis.! Requirements: 80% attendance.0.0 units from ENGL 353/3. one or two essays. we will also experiment with digital technologies in order to “map” the literary city—the city of impressions.0.0 units from ENGL 358/3. the art of fine dining. active participation. the emergence of the restaurant.! Exclusion: No more than 6.0. famine. we will snack on Victorian cookbooks and stir up issues such as vegetarianism.! Exclusion: No more than 6.0. by Arthur Morison. we’ll think about the First World War.” We’ll think about the anxieties associated with commemoration.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! Description: This course will look at Victorian literature’s effort to make visible working-class and urban poverty.0 units from ENGL 358/3. These readings will be divided into 4 course units: 1) the politics of dirt.! Requirements: An essay. Rather than reproduce any impulse of voyeurism—therein “othering” the urban poor—we will instead focus on literary efforts to understand and. Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem (1994). A Child of the Jago.ca/english/! Revised July 2014 456/3. Our discussion will be enriched by references to commemorations of the centenary of the start of the war taking place in 2014. 2) the city of dreadful night. a short group presentation. H. at times. their antiArcadianism. and a series of unannounced quizzes. and appropriated in a series of texts. by Charles Dickens. by Robert Louis Stevenson. As a category. including Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil (1857). and David Morrell’s Murder as a Fine Art (2013). response papers. They offer windows into the grief and suffering it produced. a final exam. two important genres in an era marked by a “boom in sorrow” (W.0. and the often paradoxical relationship between commemoration and forgetting. by Siegfried Sassoon and Vera Brittain. Finally. and in its aftermath. by Arthur Conan Doyle. undermined. and a final exam. by Rupert Brooke and others.0.0 Topics in Modern/Contemporary British Literature I
Topic: War Literature between the Wars! Instructor: Robert Morrison
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. we’ll begin asking questions about what happened to the consolatory and anti-consolatory discourses of World War I as the 1930s Queen’s English Department: http://www. a final research paper. In the first half of the course. humanize the working-class and urban poor.! Requirements: Regular participation. We’ll then turn to poems that approach loss and sorrow differently: anti-elegies whose aim is to disrupt or prevent consolation.0 Group II: Special Topics I Topic: Drugs.0.” Our analyses of these alternative responses to grief will assist us as we turn to two famous memoirs of the War. ENGL 451/3. We’ll start by looking at some World War I elegies for the dead. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 3) in darkest London and the way out. by Oscar Wilde. Death. or what Freud called “success” in mourning. Both memoirs describe World War I from the vantage point of the early 1930s. Auden. class participation. The Sign of the Four. or to cultivate “melancholia. We’ll familiarize ourselves with the discourses of consolation used both during the war. or the costs of industrialism and the shift to a new capitalist economy. It then examines the ways in which De Quincey’s various self-representations are exploited. and The Picture of Dorian Gray. We will read a variety of texts covering this wide range in forms of nineteenth-century slumming.0! Description: This course examines Thomas De Quincey and his portraits of addiction in works such as Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) and On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1827). ENGL 359/3. with both poems and memoirs in mind.)! ! The course content will be divided roughly into two halves.! Instructor: Patricia Rae
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3.! ! In the second half of the term. We’ll reflect on the political messages implicit in these critiques of consolation: their pacifism. ENGL 452/3.! Exclusion: No more than 6. we’ll consider the role commemorative practices play in constructing “collective memory. So-called “slumming” was an obsession with Victorian citizens and writers. the tension between “collective” and “personal” memory. their recipes for constructive social action.queensu. and 4) the aesthetics of the city. to cope with its extraordinary cost in human lives.0! Description: This seminar will concentrate on literature and culture in Britain between the First and Second World Wars (1919–1939). Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892). We will consider the important role of Victorian literature as an active participant in writing cultural history and urban reform.0. the memoirs will also get us thinking about how views of mourning are inflected by gender.! "14 ENGL 461/3. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). Our focus will be on examples of the elegy and the memoir. Texts will include Oliver Twist. Supplemented by poems by women elegists (and by some male misogynists) of the War. but also critique the consolatory strategies and commemorative rituals it inspired. “slumming” covers everything from a voyeuristic tourism of “darkest London” to genuine acts of social reform and charitable efforts. that encourage recovery from loss. students should emerge with tools enabling them to assess the merits and weaknesses of those events. and Detectives: Thomas De Quincey and the Literature of Addiction . Bentley.0 Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I Topic: Gay Voices in Canada Instructor: Robert May
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. shone a harsh spotlight on Canada’s ambivalent attitude towards gayness.! Exclusion: This course will be closed to students who have previously taken ENGL 274/3. ENGL 466/3. ENGL 386/3. Turning to Orwell’s memoir.0! Description: In 1943.0.0 Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I Topic: Canadian Poetry: Modernism and After Instructor: Tracy Ware
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. recognizing their limitations as well as their usefulness. and we’ll consider some entirely new types of poetry on loss that reflects the truth of the conflict.! Exclusion: No more than 6. and D.” effectively outing Anderson at a time when homosexual relations were still punishable in Canada with prison sentences.0. war. very different. one seminar presentation. ENGL 467/3.0. Since many of the enduring generalization about Canadian literature are based on Queen’s English Department: http://www.! Requirements: There will be one mid-term examination. and evolving sexual politics. one research paper. and one two-hour exam.M. Homage to Catalonia —we’ll ask how elegiac discourse changes with this.! Revised July 2014 . What category could ever describe such poets as Leonard Cohen or Anne Carson? How does the sonnet (which we will read in the Wells anthology) relate to these broad terms? The course will demonstrate that. M. and ending with some of the most recent gay Canadian poets such as John Barton and R. and we will weigh the claims of aesthetics and politics as necessary.0.0 units from ENGL 385/3. We will try to elaborate working definitions of such terms as we proceed. culture. In this context.0.! ENGL 466 001/3. and the gay experience.0 Literature and War. and subsequent half-hearted retraction. beginning at the turn of the twentieth century with trailblazers such as Frank Oliver Call and Émile Nelligan. and Modernists at least as engaged as Postmodernists. we will also consider the debates inspired by the influential work of such critics as Margaret Atwood. one term paper. Vaughan. we’ll focus especially on British writers’ responses when pressured to “take sides” on the Spanish Civil War (1936–39): a conflict widely regarded as the first great test of the anti-fascist movement and a dress-rehearsal for World War II. Students must still decide for themselves if political engagement is always a good thing. Northrop Frye. Looking again at poems. to a surprising extent. This course will trace the growth and development of gay poetry in Canada. ENGL 467/3. Students will also be evaluated on class participation. poets in Canada are at least as politically engaged as novelists. How do the discourses of consolation and commemoration play out in it? What distinctive forms of consolation (or its opposite) are to be found there?! ! We’ll conclude the course by reading some poems written just as World War is about to break out for the second time in just over two decades.! ENGL 466 002/3.! Requirements: Course requirements include one term paper.0.0 units from ENGL 385/3. The course will examine these poets’ depiction of same-sex male desire.R. one seminar presentation with both an oral and a written component. this course will spend about five weeks on Canadian Modernism and five weeks on Canadian Postmodernism. by several little-known poets. critic John Sutherland referred to a homoerotic image in a poem by Patrick Anderson as “twisted” and “not quite normal.0.ca/english/! "15 some of the poets on this course. proceeding into the middle part of the century with figures such as Edward A. towards elucidating their legitimate place in the canon of Canadian literature. and a final exam. and a memoir—George Orwell’s famous account of the war. and a final examination. we’ll ask how his account of the Spanish war and its costs compare with those of World War I.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! progressed and Fascism became a mounting threat in Europe.0! Description: After a brief look at the Confederation poets. Frank Davey. What happens to elegiac consolations when World War repeats itself so soon?! Requirements: One group seminar.queensu. We’ll ask whether the categories of elegy and anti-elegy still apply. the male body. Sutherland’s attack.0. Lacey (who published what has been called the first “openly gay” collection of Canadian poetry) and bill bissett (the “extremity” of whose work was denounced in the House of Commons). ENGL 466/3. ENGL 386/3.! Exclusion: No more than 6. in the larger contexts of Canadian nationhood. one seminar presentation. and Madeleine Thien’s Certainty. and political conditions that shape it and about identity formation.! Requirements: The course work will involve one term paper. and the antipodean I/eye. Kyo Maclear’s The Letter Opener. one group presentation. a mid-term examination. and Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder. Alexis Wright. crocodile hunters.queensu.0. and peacekeeping. trauma.0 Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I Topic: Canadian Short Story Collections Instructor: Tracy Ware
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. narratives of transnational and transracial adoption. Judith Wright. Christos Tsiolkas. parables. ENGL 386/3. Transnationalism has become fundamental to debates about literature as scholars wrestle with the interrelated phenomena of economic and cultural globalization. and colourful slang…. the tropes of mateship. Revised July 2014 . the national. Sally Morgan.! Exclusion: No more than 6. multidirectional memory.” and “the dreaming”. with both irreverence and insight. and David Malouf. ENGL 467/3. short fiction remains vital though sometimes overshadowed by the novel. including the founding of the nation as a penal colony.! Exclusion: No more than 6. Rohinton Mistry’s Tales From Firozsha Baag.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! ENGL 466 001/3. Maggie Helwig’s Between Mountains. This course will investigate the ways in which five authors arrange their stories into books: at one end of the spectrum.! Requirements: Active participation in discussion. and documentary film in our reflections on the shaping of Australian identity. migration. a miscellaneous collection may be most notable for the diversity of its stories. and moral and cultural values. narratives of war. a sequence of stories may have the same protagonist and setting.0.0.0. as in Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House. terrorism.0! Description: This seminar explores the representation of diasporic and transnational contexts in contemporary Canadian fiction.0 units from ENGL 385/3. Camilla Gibb’s The Beauty of Humanity Movement. ENGL 467/3. Munro’s Runaway. Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?.! ENGL 466 002/3. and cultural identity in the context of everexpanding transnational relations? What is the relationship between diaspora and transnationalism? How is the intersection between the local.0 Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I Topic: Diasporic and Transnational Perspectives in Contemporary Canadian Fiction Instructor: Petra Fachinger
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. and global travel. the cultural cringe.0. writing the global city.0 Topics in Postcolonial Literature I Topic: Terra Australis: An Introduction to Australian Literature and Culture Instructor: Asha Varadharajan
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. The seminar is organized in four interconnected sections: transnational shifts in Asian Canadian fiction. the fantasy of “the white nation” and the meaning of tolerance.0. Tessa McWatt’s Step Closer. and fables.0! Description: Convicts. “the bush.ca/english/! "16 citizenship. Kerri Sakamoto’s One Hundred Million Hearts. with their recurring themes and strong sense of place. Peter Goldsworthy. Somewhere in between come the typical books of Alistair MacLeod and Alice Munro.0 units from ENGL 385/3. Christina Stead. kangaroos.! ! ENGL 476/3. Some effort will be made to include art. celebrity couples. Catherine Bush’s The Rules of Engagement. Henry Handel Richardson. These works probe. Jen Sookfong Lee’s The End of East. and Queen’s English Department: http://www. romance.0! Description: In Canada. Course texts may include Gurjinder Basran’s Everything Was Good-By. Some of the authors and poets under scrutiny are Marcus Clarke. nationalism.0. George Johnston. Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For. Les Murray. In addition to A Bird in the House. music. the “anxious proximities” of settler and aborigine. and a final paper. ENGL 466/3. ENGL 466/3. we will read MacLeod’s The Lost Salt Gift of Blood. What are the connections among literature. Louis Stone. a midterm exam. institutional.0. ENGL 386/3. socio-political and environmental concerns. at the other extreme. and adventure in tales. Crikey! Surely there’s more to the land down under than meets the eye (or mouth that savours Foster’s beer)! This course traces the complex and contentious formation of Australian national culture in and through an eclectic selection of significant literary and cinematic works. diaspora. Katharine Susannah Prichard. and the transnational imagined in Canadian fiction? The increasingly transnational character of Canadian writing also raises questions about the creative. Patrick White. the colonial manifestations of gothic. and a final examination. We will trace the representation of aboriginal culture. Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! epistemology.0. a seminar. short stories. ENGL 482/3. language and storytelling. Monkey Beach.0.0. a test. the seminar will also be concerned with the implications and limitations of crosscultural and textual affiliative politics. by Tomson Highway. ENGL 388/3.0. In order to develop a broader understanding of the powerful anti-colonial sentiment at the core of Indigenous cultural production.0. pair films such as Romper Stomper with Stone’s Jonah or Gallipoli with Malouf’s Fly Away Peter to explore urban violence and war and masculinity respectively. Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.! Exclusion: No more than 6. traditional stories.” Okanagan writer and scholar Jeannette Armstrong challenges Indigenous writers to use their writing to decolonize their people.ca/english/! "17 Description: This seminar is inspired by Rita Wong’s article “Decolonizasian: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature” and the 2012 special issue of Ricepaper Magazine entitled “Aboriginal & Asian Canadian Writers. the family. “The Disempowerment of First North American Native Peoples and Empowerment Through Writing.! ENGL 481/3. and decolonizing antiracism.0! Description: In her much quoted essay.0. ENGL 481/3. assimilation and “the lifeblood of resurgence. and digital cultures.0! Description: This course examines Indigenous novels. reaction pieces or journal entries.! Requirements (subject to change): Active participation. misogyny.! Exclusion: No more than 6. “living in the hyphen” as life writing.0 units from ENGL 381/3.0 Topics in Indigenous Literatures I Topic: Aboriginal and Chinese Canadian Connections in Contemporary Literature in Canada Instructor: Petra Fachinger
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3.0 units from ENGL 383/3. and Bran Nue Dae. by Maria Campbell.! ! Texts may include An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature in English. transnational/transracial adoption. by Lela Kiana Oman. like Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Café and Lee Maracle’s “Yin Chin. one group presentation. knowledge holders. and history in films such as Rabbit-Proof Fence. cross-cultural relations. The Epic of Qayaq. and a major research project using the resources of visual.0. plays and films from various time periods and numerous nations across Canada. aesthetics and politics of the texts using a combination of culturally specific and pan-Native approaches.! ENGL 481 001/3. Chinese migration to British Columbia.0 Topics in Indigenous Literatures I Topic: Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada Instructor: Heather Macfarlane
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3.queensu. ENGL 388/3. We will study the themes. reconfigured colonial relations between Aboriginal peoples and European Canadians.” As Wong observes.0. In its discussion of the relationship between indigeneity and (the Chinese) diaspora. and Halfbreed.”! Requirements: Active participation in discussion. rewriting the European Gothic and the “spectres of settlement”.0.0. a midterm exam. The seminar is organized in six interconnected sections: joint histories.! Exclusion: No more than 6. ENGL 476/3. an essay. We will discuss novels and short stories that portray relationships between Chinese and Indigenous people.0! Queen’s English Department: http://www. and sexuality. The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith.0 Topics in Indigenous Literatures I Topic: The Role of Writing Instructor: Armand Ruffo
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. ethnicity. “The challenging relationships between subjects positioned as ‘Asian Canadian’ and ‘indigenous’ raise questions regarding immigrant complicity in the colonization of land as well as the possibility of making alliances toward decolonization” (158–59). As such. and an exam.” and read other texts like Wayson Choy’s The Jade Peony and Ruby Slipperjack’s Silent Words in juxtaposition to tease out textual and cultural affinities as well as fundamental differences. which dates back to the 1780s. we will examine a wide range of texts. This seminar will consider the role of writing in creating a sense of identity and empowerment among Indigenous peoples as it provides a vehicle to speak back to the colonizer and increasingly to the colonized. 4th edition. which may Revised July 2014 . aural/oral. ENGL 481/3. consider adaptations of Tsiolkas’ Loaded and The Slap to reflect on class. ENGL 384/3. ENGL 477/3.0 units from ENGL 381/3. decolonization and “reconciliation”.! Requirements: Assigned and voluntary participation. we will also consider the texts in the light of current critical methodologies.0. Walkabout. and examine The Chaser among other examples of humour and anarchy on the Australian scene. and a final paper. Samson and Delilah.! ENGL 481 002/3. ENGL 482/3.0. by Eden Robinson. The Fringe-Dwellers. poetry. one short introductory work.0.” Beryl Bainbridge’s The Birthday Boys. and Elizabeth Leane’s study Antarctica in Fiction. Jules Verne’s The Sphinx of the Ice. what can colonized peoples hope to achieve.ca/english/! "18 enactments of Antarctican feats. Eliot and Virginia Woolf Instructor: Gabrielle McIntire
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3.” Together we will consider some of the striking correspondences and affinities that exist in Eliot and Woolf’s poetic. and Kim Stanely Robinson’s Antarctica. Robinson).0 Group III: Special Topics I Topic: The Graphic Novel: Visualizing History and Bearing Witness to Trauma Instructor: Heather Evans
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3. Readings will include Klaus Dodd’s The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction. Bill Manhire’s literary anthology The Wide White Page. and thematic preoccupations as we read Eliot’s major poetry from “The Love Song of J. we will also draw on the critical work of Indigenous traditionalists and scholars for culturally specific perspectives. will serve as touchstones for our exploration. such as film. We’ll examine how it was imagined by authors who never went there (Poe. aesthetic.0! Description: This course will explore just the tip of the literary iceberg about this southernmost continent. and portrayed by writers intent to revise Antarctica’s contentious history—or even fiction about Antarctica— through their writing (Le Guin. and language.! Exclusion: No more than 6. healing. S.! ENGL 486 001/3.0! Description: “It is rare for a new genre to appear in any art form. fiction. Verne. Ash-Wednesday.0 Group III: Special Topics I Topic: T.queensu. we will consider socio-political and historical influences. and Four Quartets.! Requirements: Course work will include a seminar presentation. depicted by those who did (Bainbridge. Although they are rarely considered together as a pair. ENGL 482/3. and their consideration of ecological threat to pristine places on our globe. and one travel narrative. H. produced by Indigenous people in North America. Lovecraft). The remaining weeks of term will be devoted to studying how Antarctica has been represented in fiction and in popular culture. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness. and The Waves. 15% seminar presentation.0! Description: T. and engage with several of Woolf’s most important novels. their strategies of representation and use of the imagination when depicting unknown places. their fictionalization of historic expeditions to Antarctica.0. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries (born in 1888 and 1882. Our discussions will explore the artistic and ideological positions of these texts. Mat Johnson’s Pym.0 units from ENGL 381/3. respectively). cultural critique. if anything. gender troubling.0 Group III: Special Topics I Topic: Antarctica and the Imagination Instructor: Yaël Schlick
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. short weekly writing assignments.” This course will provide students with an opportunity to explore and to apply to this relatively new literary form the close reading and Revised July 2014 . and close friends for over twenty years. Johnson). Dalloway. Mrs. Apsley-Cherry Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World.” remarks Stephen E. yet “[with] the emergence of the graphic or comic book novel. a term paper.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! include storytelling. 10% active and engaged participation and attendance. and explorations of the sacred and the secular after “the death of God. ENGL 388/3. reconciliation. in the least. Ursula Le Guin’s “Sur. Tabachnick in an essay on pedagogy. and a final exam. Alfred Prufrock” through “Gerontion. readers and critics of each others’ work. in reimagining their experiences? Can a creative work really serve as an effective vehicle for attaining sovereignty or.! Requirements: 35% 2500-word term paper. poetry and playwriting as well as other forms of creative expression. including To the Lighthouse. We’ll begin with an overview of Antarctica’s history and familiarize ourselves with it through one film.! ENGL 486/3. self-determination. Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. redress? In order to gain a broader understanding of current cultural production. Eliot and Woolf exemplify some of the most fascinating contestations at the heart of literary modernisms: aesthetic and formal innovation. For example. 30% final exam. class discussion. We’ll wrap up with Monty Python’s “Scott of the Antarctic” and a discussion of other recent reQueen’s English Department: http://www.0.! ENGL 486 002/3. precisely that phenomenon has been happening before the excited gaze of [readers] of both literature and the visual arts. 10% group presentation.0. Questions will naturally arise in considering recent work in such areas as diaspora.” The Waste Land. P. ENGL 481/3. sexual abuse. self.0 Topics in Literary Criticism and Theory I Topic: Reading Subjectivity Instructor: Maggie Berg
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3.! 590/3.0! Description: An intensive workshop course focusing on the writing and editing of short fiction. For additional information. Framed loosely by a consideration of the history of the genre. For more information. Art Spiegelman. Students attempt several approaches to the writing of short fiction and complete the course with a formal submission for publication in a magazine. or core. We will ask how we know who we are and to what degree we possess agency. an examination. and Alan Moore has coincided with growing representation in literature of troubling social phenomena. a student must have permission of the Department.html. and consider the implications of this construction of the self.0: Rules Governing the Writing of the Honours Essay (PDF). including submission deadlines for writing samples.ca/english/undergrad/creativewriting.0! Revised July 2014 . and participation. written under the supervision of a faculty member. a term paper.ca/english/! "19 March 10. We will examine a selection of theorists who argue that the individual is a function of language. and others.! ! We will examine selections from the work of Louis Althusser. the essay should be submitted by Queen’s English Department: http://www.0 Creative Writing in Prose Instructor: Carolyn Smart
Offered: Fall Term
Units: 3. our course will especially focus on ways that the genre gives voice to personal trauma such as mental illness. Jacques Lacan. There are in-class discussions on editing and publishing.queensu.! Requirements: One seminar presentation.5 in at least 24.0! Description: Most of us believe we have an essential. war. see ENGL 590/3. learned first hand through interaction with their instructor. Marjane Satrapi. By the end of the term the student will be able to bring more sharply refined skills to the reading of their work.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! critical analytical skills they have become accustomed to applying to more familiar genres.! Requirements: A learning journal. based on their assessment of writing samples. We will also read Tom Chatfield. and bears witness to such cultural trauma as racism. active participation and a final exam. Judith Butler. The 3. we will interrogate the relationships between the graphic novel and other forms of sequential art.0 Senior Essay Option Offered: Winter Term! Instructor: Various! Description (from the Arts & Science Calendar): A critical essay of at least 7500 words on a topic of the student’s choice. They will have an intimate look at contemporary Canadian writers and writing.! ! A prospectus for the essay signed by two supervisors must be submitted to the chair of undergraduate studies by the beginning of winter term. and genocide. as well as through public readings and personal interaction with authors visiting the class. Open only to students in the final year of a Major or Medial Plan in English. revolution. and edit themselves with a more clearly intuitive. finely practiced eye.0 previous English units. Joe Sacco. consult the Department’s creative writing page: http:// www. Given that the development of the graphic novel by writers such as Will Eisner. students should consult the Department. one term paper. Michel Foucault.! Creative Writing Courses These are limited-enrolment courses for which students may not preregister.0 Creative Writing in Poetry Instructor: Armand Ruffo
Offered: Winter Term
Units: 3.! Prerequisite: To be eligible to write the Senior Essay.! Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.50 GPA requirement may be waived in exceptional cases by request of the essay’s faculty supervisor. and a minimum GPA of 3. Admission is by permission of the instructors. an award-winning professional writer. preferably in the spring of their third year. and loss.queensu.! CWRI 293/3.! ENGL 496/3. How to Thrive in a Digital Age. based on writing samples. For information on applying for Creative Writing courses. but poststructuralist theory has challenged this idea.! CWRI 294/3. participate in the workshop in a respectful manner.0! Description: This course is structured entirely around the creative writing workshop. Students will be expected to photocopy and distribute their poems to their peers each week. All writings and course materials are Queen’s English Department: http://www.! CWRI 296/3. Selections from the text and/or other reading material will be assigned for discussion. Students may concentrate on short fiction or poetry all term. There is intensive focus on publication and editing in a class-produced anthology.! CWRI 295/3. In addition. and keep up with the readings and assignments.0! Description: A practical creative writing workshop. Students submit independent creative work to the instructor and to their classmates for feedback and read and respond to their classmates’ writing. however.0 Creative Writing I Instructor: Carolyn Smart
Offered: Fall Term! Units: 3. It is therefore intended for the self-motivated student and seeks to develop a professional competence in the writing of poetry. students learn from and support one another and develop critical judgement.! ! CWRI 295/3. During the course of the term students will be expected to write a new poem each week. Each week the instructor will select work from various students for discussion.! Prerequisite: One or more of CWRI 293. based on writing samples of either a short story or a non-rhyming poem. They also practice computer and internet skills and become comfortable working online.! Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. The concentration is on short fiction and poetry. a portion of each class will be devoted to discussing poetics and analyzing the work of established poets. The course is designed to help students write regularly and to enjoy writing.queensu.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! Description: This seminar focuses on the writing and editing of poetry and includes a detailed discussion and analysis of the students’ work.ca/english/! Revised July 2014 . Part of the final assignment will be a submission to a literary magazine.! Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. By sharing work in progress.0 Creative Writing II Instructor: Carolyn Smart
Offered: Winter Term! Units: 3. accept detailed analysis of their work. 294 and 295. plus permission of the instructor. each student will present a mini-seminar on a contemporary poem by an established poet. concentrating on short fiction and poetry. which will likewise exhibit an understanding of poetic technique. based on writing samples. The majority of class time will be spent primarily on the workshop process. which will demonstrate the writing technique being studied for that class.! Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.! "20 shared electronically via web site and e-mail. or they may choose to alternate between the two genres in the writing workshops and assignments.0 Creative Writing I (online course) Instructor: Carolyn Smart
Offered: Winter Term! Units: 3.0! Description: An online introduction to the art of composing fiction and poetry. though memoir and creative nonfiction are options. based on writing samples of either a short story or a non-rhyming poem. launched at the end of term with a public reading. 0! WMNS 217/3. 295/3.0! RELS 238/3. East Sussex.0! IDIS 200/6.0! LING 100/6.0! INTS 301/3. and Option Course 2C for the Medial.0. These too are offered through CDS. 200. 370/3. from the following list. but the specific offerings are not determined until February or March of the relevant year. 311/3.0! GRMN 251/3. 205/3.0.0. 303/3. They ordinarily include courses at the 100. 232/3. 533-3222).ca/artsci_online/courses>.! English courses are also offered at the Bader International Studies Centre (BISC) at Herstmonceux Castle. 304/3.ca/artsci_online/courses>.0! GNDS 335/3. 234/3. 305/3.0! DRAM 303/3.0.0! LLCU 226/3. Spring-Summer.0. 257/3. 428/3.queensu. 432/6.0.0. 305/3.0.0. 312/3.! Some English courses are offered online during the Spring and Spring-Summer terms. or are no longer offered. 306/3.0.0. 320/3.0 units.0. 322/3.0.0 units. and towards a Major English Plan up to 12. 294/3.ca/english/! Revised July 2014 . which publishes a current listing <http:// www.0. see <http://www. 321/3. 202/3.0. For a current listing of these course offerings. 340/3. 381/3. 215/3.0. these ordinarily include at least one course at each of the 100 and 200 levels.0.0. 310/3.0.0! PHIL 271/3.queensu. see <http:// www. 340/3. 428/6.0. 370/3. and BISC Courses Queen’s offers some English courses online through Continuing and Distance Education (CDS) (F-100 MacCorry.Queen’s English Department Undergraduate Courses 2014–2015! Courses in Other Subjects A student may count towards a Minor or Medial English Plan up to 6. 432/3. 252/3. and the upper-year courses may be in accelerated format (full-year credits in half-year deliveries) to make it possible for students travelling abroad to fulfil the English curriculum requirements on schedule.0.0.0.0.0. SPAN 316/3.0. 233/3.0.queensu. 296/3. These courses count toward Option Course 2B for the Major and Minor.queensu.0. For a current listing.0! "21 Online.0.0.0! ! Queen’s English Department: http://www.0. 330/3.0! CWRI 293/3.! CLST 203/3.0! ITLN 210/3.0.ca/bisc/academics/programs/ upper-year>. Courses in italics have either been renumbered. and 400 levels.