English
30471 ENGL 100 – C01 J. Alex MacDonald
33431 ENGL 100 – C02 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing I MWF 0930 – 1020
This course focuses on critical reading strategies for better understanding, and on expressing such understanding in writing that is clear and correct. The reading list features the short story, with some poems/song lyrics and articles included as well.
30469 ENGL 100 – C03 Shawna Geissler
30470 ENGL 100 – C04 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing I TR 1000 – 1115
This course develops students’ proficiency in critical reading and writing through the study of a wide range of non-literary and literary texts, and the study of composition, with emphasis on connections between modes of reading and writing.
30476 ENGL 100 – C05 TBA
30477 ENGL 100 – C06 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing I MWF 1030 – 1120
(See description above)
30474 ENGL 100 – C07 R. Frank Obrigewitsch, SJ
(Campion students only. Must also register in HIST 104-C07)
30475 ENGL 100 – C08
Critical Reading and Writing I MWF 1130 – 1220
(See description above)
30472 ENGL 100 – C09 Heather Scott
30473 ENGL 100 – C10 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing I TR 1130 – 1245
(See description above)
31160 ENGL 100 – C11 Barbara Lunney
31161 ENGL 100 – C12 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing I MWF 1230 – 1320
(See description above)
33439 ENGL 100 – C13 Barbara Lunney
33440 ENGL 100 – C14 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing I MWF 1330 – 1420
(See description above)
30606 ENGL 110 – C01 Colleen Biro
30607 ENGL 110 – C02 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing II: Horror Fiction: Caught Between Fear and Pleasure TR 1130 - 1245
This course is an introduction to short horror fiction from J.S. Le Fanu to Stephen King and beyond. It focuses on a variety of the genres monsters: the living and the dead, the animate and inanimate, the double and other fears of the unknown. The course distinguishes between Gothic and Horror fiction and what constitutes the latter. Broader issues to be discussed are the audience’s emotive response to horror, the relationship between fear and pleasure, and the difference between physical or supernatural and psychological horror.
30478 ENGL 110 – C03 Kathryn MacLennan
30479 ENGL 110 – C04 (Campion students only)
Critical Reading and Writing II: Children’s Fantasy Literature
MWF 1230 – 1320
Did you love the Harry Potter series and want to read more books like it? If so, this class is for you! We will study a variety of children's fantasy novels that share many similarities with the Harry Potter series, including The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling. The class will focus on the kind of generic conventions these novels share as well as how these novels are so different when they share so many of the same elements. Far from simply copying other works, the authors adhere to certain elements that identify the genre, but produce very different works. We will also look at the role of mythology in these works and hopefully answer the question of why these works have such a wide-ranging appeal.
31080 ENGL 212 – C01 J. Alex MacDonald
Literature Survey II MWF 1030 – 1120
This course surveys British literature from about 1800 to the present. The reading list includes a survey core, plus a number of topics that could be selected as particular areas of study. These include: nature poetry, the supernatural, Pre-Raphaelitism, industrialization, nonsense literature, Imagism, feminist themes, post-colonial themes, literary topics such as the dramatic monologue form, and others.
33436 ENGL 222 – C01 Susan Bauman
Fiction MWF 1230 – 1320
This course offers practice in the analysis of fiction. The emphasis is on the critical analysis of the genre as well as of a variety of fictional types from different historical periods up to the present day. Through the study of a wide range of fictional genres, such as the short story, the novella, and the novel, this course provides students with methods and a vocabulary for the formal, stylistic, cultural and historical study of both individual texts and the traditions of fiction. The course also examines how such narrative strategies as plot, character, point of view, and language construct meaning. The intent of this course is not only to survey types of fiction, but also to provide students with strategies for reading fiction, in order to help them become better readers of fictional narratives. Through their reading of a range of short and long fiction during the course, students will be 1) learning about various narrative techniques, styles, symbols, and themes available to fiction writers, and 2) developing skills of reading, evaluating, and writing about the genre of fiction.
31800 ENGL 301 – C01 TBA
Shakespeare Comedies/Romances MWF 1330 – 1420
A study of five to seven of Shakespeare's comedies and romances.
33437 ENGL 336AE – C01 Deborah Hoffmann
Lyric Romanticism MWF 1330 - 1420
This course will examine primarily the works of the major Romantic poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats) in the context of the revolutionary literary trends of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: the focus on humanism and primal innocence, the shift to subjectivity and individuality and emphasis on the ego as catalyst to creativity, the rejection of poetic diction, the creation of new mythologies including one of nature, the use of symbolism, and the reliance on the powers of the imagination rather than reason to attain truth. This new poetics, with its emphasis on the lyric as the essence of poetry, was to affect the course and development of literature to the present day.
33435 ENGL 377AF – C01 Leanne Groeneveld
33461 THEA 454AC – C01
Staging the Passion TR 1000 – 1115
In this course, we will examine theatrical representations of Christ’s crucifixion, death, and resurrection, from its early remembrance and re-enactment in the ritual of the Mass and the Easter liturgy to its reinterpretation and re-imagination in plays such as Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi and Adrienne Kennedy’s Motherhood 2000. As we discuss texts ranging from the early and late medieval to the postmodern, we will note and attempt to understand two apparently opposing representational impulses: to historicize the events leading to and including Christ’s death, and to transpose those events, making them contemporaneous with the time of theatrical production. Texts to be discussed will include Jesus Christ Superstar, the York Crucifixion and Death of Christ, the N-Town Passion Play, the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, Ghelderode’s The Women at the Tomb, McNally’s Corpus Christi, Kennedy’s Motherhood 2000, and the film Jesus of Montreal. Some previous experience with late-medieval English literature would be beneficial but is not required.
33728 ENGL 386AE – C01 Christian Riegel
Literature and the Environment T 1730 – 2020
This course examines trends in Canadian and American environmental poetry, focusing on work in the last 100 years or so, and includes such topics as nature poetry and the environment, aesthetics, gender, and poetics. We will be centrally concerned with what the trends have been over the past century and in how contemporary poets relate to a larger tradition. A key focus will be writing in the last 30 years as it relates to ecocriticism.
33781 ENGL 387AG – C01 J. Alex MacDonald
Ideas of the University M 1900 – 2145
This course explores representations of the university in literature, considering such issues as the purpose(s) of university education and research (for example, pure knowledge as opposed to practical or commercial applications), the university as a community and the university as part of the wider community (sometimes described as the town/gown relationship). Texts include recent novels set in universities and a course-pack of shorter selections to provide some of the long historical context.
33471 ENGL 388 – C01 Susan Bauman
Methods – Literary Genre TR 1300 - 1415
The aim of this course is to introduce students to English Literature through genre, the concept of grouping literary works together according to their forms and characteristics. Genres are not simply classifications for literary works, but sets of implicit and explicit conventions that are shared over time between writers and readers. Therefore this class encourages students to consider the role that genre plays in the reading and interpretation of literary texts. We will also look at how certain writers choose to blur or even violate generic boundaries in their explorations of a given genre since many of the best works exemplify their genre by redefining it in new or unexpected ways. This course examines selected important literary genres through representative works of lyric poetry, satire, romance, comedy, tragedy, gothic/horror and detective fiction.