
Below is a listing of the next two academic years' undergraduatecourses. Also see our other course lists:
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Note: Course offerings are subject to change/cancellation. For further information on course offerings, please feel free to contact Jenny Conroy.
Last updated: September 9, 2025
Fall 2025
ENGL 101A - Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 101B - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies
ENGL 101C - Introduction to Literature and Rhetoric
ENGL 103 - Combating Racisms
- cross-listed with BLKST 103, COMMST 103
ENGL 108E - Gender and Representation
- cross-listed with GSJ 108
ENGL 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing
ENGL 119 - Communications in Mathematics Computer Science
ENGL 200A - English Literatures 1
ENGL 200C - English Literatures 3
ENGL 203 - Designing Digital Media
- cross-listed with DAC 201
ENGL 210C - Genres of Creative Writing
ENGL 210F - Genres of Business Communication
ENGL 210I - Legal Writing
- cross-listed with LS 291
ENGL 225 - Introduction to Anti-Racist Communication
- cross-listed with BLKST 203, COMMST 203
ENGL 230 - The Pleasure of Poetry
ENGL 234 - Young Adult Literature
ENGL 251 - Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 262 - Manga
- cross-listed with EASIA 262R
ENGL 292 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
ENGL 293 - Introduction to Digital Media Studies
ENGL 304 - Designing Digital Sound
- cross-listed with DAC 203
ENGL 305A - Old English Language and Literature
ENGL 306A - Introduction to Linguistics
ENGL 309A - Rhetoric, Classical to Enlightenment
ENGL 318 - Contemporary Canadian Literature
ENGL 340 - Contemporary African Literature and Film
- cross-listed with BLKST 340
ENGL 344 - Modern American Literature
ENGL 345 - American Literature in a Global Context
ENGL 363 - Shakespeare 2
- cross-listed with THPERF 387
ENGL 392A - Information Design
ENGL 406 - Advanced Rhetorical Study
- held-with ENGL 492
Topic: The Rhetoric of Fascism (Prof A. McMurry)
ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing
- held-with DAC 303
Topic: Storytelling with Sound (Prof D. Deveau)
This course explores creative fiction and non-fiction in audio media, including scripting and recording of podcasts, audio documentaries, spoken word, and radio dramas. Students will experiment with writing and producing stories, with a focus on what makes a compelling auditory narrative. Topics will include technical instruction in sound capture and the creation of soundscapes, critical understanding of theories about orality and storytelling, and the practice of strategies for fostering creative expression through sound.
ENGL 492 - Topics in the History and Theory of Rhetoric
- held-with ENGL 406
Topic: The Rhetoric of Fascism (Prof A. McMurry)
Fascism. Neo-fascism. Right-wing Populism. Illiberal Democracy. These are some of the names applied to anti-democratic, xenophobic, ultranationalist political movements and ideologies on the rise in the world today, which exploit the tensions in an already precarious world (climate change, economic inequality, geopolitical tensions) to drive retrograde social and political agendas. One of the key differences between fascism and other forms of authoritarian rule is that fascists are popularly elected. They seduce the nation by harnessing preexisting hatreds, divisions, and unfulfilled aspirations. They identify victims and villains. They offer returns to imagined eras of purity and harmony. They empower charismatic strongmen. We will explore the past and present of fascism, seeking clues as to why it is once again emerging as a powerful force in mature democracies. We will examine some of the primary texts of fascism by figures such as Marinetti, Schmitt, Mussolini, and Hitler. But our main focus is to understand fascist messaging in all its forms: demagogic speeches, propaganda, symbol, spectacle, art, rallies. One of the most important strategies of the fascist mode is to control common expression and thought by retooling language itself: Orwell, Klemperer, Burke, Sontag, and Stanley will help us here. This course will appeal to all undergraduate students interested in language, literature, history, and rhetoric. It is open to all students at the 3A level or above, or by permission of the instructor.
ENGL 493 - Topics in Professional Writing and Communication Design
- held-with DAC 300
Topic: Generative AI in Communication and Design (Prof N. Randall)
This course explores the use of generative AI to produce various types of communication and design. By the end of the course, you will have (a) produced a small portfolio of text, graphic, sound, and video artifacts exclusively through readily available AI tools; (b) written an academic paper on the impact of AI tools in academic and work settings; (c) generated an AI version of your academic paper and written a short comparison between the two; (d) discussed the ramifications of AI for ethics, intellectual property, teaching, and environmental impact; (e) produced a semester-length AI project of your choice.
Note: No experience with generative AI is required, but I'm guessing you'll have some anyway.
Winter 2026
ENGL 101A - Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 101B - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies
ENGL 104 - Rhetoric in Popular Culture
ENGL 108X - Literature and Medicine
ENGL 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing
ENGL 119 - Communications in Mathematics Computer Science
ENGL 200A - English Literatures 1
ENGL 200B - English Literatures 2
ENGL 203 - Designing Digital Media
- cross-listed with DAC 201
ENGL 204 - Designing Digital Video
- cross-listed with DAC 202
ENGL 208C - Studies in Children's Literature
ENGL 208E - Women's Writing
- cross-listed with GSJ 208E
ENGL 210C - Genres of Creative Writing
ENGL 210E - Genres of Technical Communication
ENGL 210F - Genres of Business Communication
ENGL 213 - Literature and the Law
- cross-listed with LS 292
ENGL 243 - Literature, Rhetoric, and Music
ENGL 251 - Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 292 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
ENGL 305B - The Age of Beowulf
ENGL 306A - Introduction to Linguistics
ENGL 309A - Rhetoric, Classical to Enlightenment
ENGL 309C - Contemporary Rhetoric
ENGL 309G - The Discourse of Dissent
- cross-listed with COMMST 434, GSJ 309, HIST 309
ENGL 315 - Modern Canadian Literature
ENGL 320 - History and Theory of Pre-Internet Media
- held-with COMMST 229
ENGL 328 - Introduction to Black Canadian Writing
- cross-listed with BLKST 244
ENGL 347 - American Literature Since 1945
ENGL 373 - Writing Anti-Racism
- cross-listed with BLKST 308, COMMST 308
ENGL 392A - Information Design
ENGL 408A - Writing for the Media
ENGL 408C - The Rhetoric of Digital Design: Theory and Practice
- held-with DAC 400, ENGL 403
ENGL 410 - Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
- cross-listed with GSJ 410
ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing
Topic: Writing Children's Picture Books (Prof J. Harris)
This course focuses on the study and writing of Children’s Picture Books, across genre. The approach is practical, paying close attention to craft, audience, and marketplace. A historical overview of the field will be accompanied by the close reading of texts from the beginning to our present. Analyzing picture books by others, as well as manuscripts by class members, will enrich our understanding of the art of picture book writing. By the end of the semester, students will have a portfolio of polished works representing various genres.
ENGL 461 - Irish Literature
- held-with ENGL 486
ENGL 485 - Topics in Literatures Romantic to Modern
Topic: Bleak House, bleak nation(Prof K. Lawson)
This course focuses on Charles Dickens’ powerful 1852-53 novel Bleak House. Representing both bleakness and reparation, the novel begins in the infamous court of Chancery—a court for wills and estates—and radiates out to explore connections between slums and country houses, street sweepers and baronets, romance and murder. The novel was originally published over 19 months; we will mimic this, discussing two of the original monthly installments each week and analysing how “serial reading” affects our interpretation. Other topics include law, family, class, gender, affect, and disability.
ENGL 486 - Topics in Literatures Modern to Contemporary
- held-with ENGL 461
Topic:Irish Literature (Prof D. Williams)
ENGL 494 - Topics in Forms of Media and Critical Analysis
Topic: TBA (Prof A. Morrison)
Spring 2026
ENGL 101A - Introduction to Literary Studies
ENGL 101B - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies
ENGL 109 - Introduction to Academic Writing
ENGL 119 - Communications in Mathematics Computer Science
ENGL 200B - English Literatures 2
ENGL 203 - Designing Digital Media
- cross-listed with DAC 201
ENGL 204 - Designing Digital Video
- cross-listed with DAC 202
ENGL 210C - Genres of Creative Writing
ENGL 210E - Genres of Technical Communication
ENGL 210F - Genres of Business Communication
ENGL 225 - Introduction to Anti-Racist Communication
- cross-listed with BLKST 203, COMMST 203
ENGL 251 - Literary Theory and Criticism
ENGL 292 - Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
ENGL 306A - Introduction to Linguistics
ENGL 306F - Introduction to Semiotics
ENGL 309C - Contemporary Rhetoric
ENGL 350B - Seventeenth-Century Literature 2
ENGL 362 - Shakespeare 1
- cross-listed with THPERF 386
ENGL 364 - Shakespeare in Performance at The Stratford Festival
ENGL 367 - Voice and Text at the Stratford Festival
ENGL 371 - Editing Literary Works
ENGL 432 - Topics in Creative Writing
Topic: TBA (Prof N. Randall)