Course Descriptions

An introduction to the main kinds of literature. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practice composition.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Only 6 credit units of ENG 110, 111, 112, 113, and 114 may be taken for credit. ENG 120 may be used to fulfill 3 credit units of first-year English or Humanities requirements, and may also be taken as an elective in addition to 6 credit units of other first-year English classes. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

An introduction to the major forms of poetry in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practice composition.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Only 6 credit units of ENG 110, 111, 112, 113, and 114 may be taken for credit. ENG 120 may be used to fulfill 3 credit units of first-year English or Humanities requirements, and may also be taken as an elective in addition to 6 credit units of other first-year English classes. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

An introduction to major forms of dramatic activity in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practice composition.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Only 6 credit units of ENG 110, 111, 112, 113, and 114 may be taken for credit. ENG 120 may be used to fulfill 3 credit units of first-year English or Humanities requirements, and may also be taken as an elective in addition to 6 credit units of other first-year English classes. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

An introduction to the major forms of narrative literature in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practice composition.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Only 6 credit units of ENG 110, 111, 112, 113, and 114 may be taken for credit. ENG 120 may be used to fulfill 3 credit units of first-year English or Humanities requirements, and may also be taken as an elective in addition to 6 credit units of other first-year English classes. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

An introduction to historical and contemporary cultural forms in English. In addition to learning the tools of critical analysis, students will study and practice composition. Class themes will vary according to instructor choice. Students are encouraged to refer to the Department of English website for descriptions of specific sections.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Only 6 credit units of ENG 110, 111, 112, 113, and 114 may be taken for credit. ENG 120 may be used to fulfill 3 credit units of first-year English or Humanities requirements, and may also be taken as an elective in addition to 6 credit units of other first-year English classes. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

This course introduces students to strategies for writing original fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The course will include both lectures and writing workshops in which students critique original writing by class members. Visiting authors may be invited into the classroom, and students will be encouraged to attend literary events in the community. By the end of the course, students will have a portfolio of polished writing in three genres.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Only 6 credit units of ENG 110, 111, 112, 113, and 114 may be taken for credit. ENG 120 may be used to fulfill 3 credit units of first-year English or Humanities requirements, and may also be taken as an elective in addition to 6 credit units of other first-year English classes. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

Cultural studies is the exploration of "culture," what Raymond Williams calls nothing less than "one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language." Cultural studies analyzes the artistic, social, political, and historical texts and objects that help construct our contemporary lives, and it assumes that such objects go well beyond "mere entertainment" and affect deeply how we perceive class, race, gender, and other markers of identity. As an introduction to the theory and practice of cultural studies, this course will familiarize students with some of the most important thinkers and methodologies in the field and will allow students to use some of the tools of critical analysis to analyze different forms of cultural production, including literature, popular culture, and print and electronic media.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite: 6 credit units of 100-level English.
Note: Category 4 course.

An introduction to colonial and decolonizing literatures and their cultural and historical contexts. The focus will be on defining key terms such as coloniality, Empire, postcolonialism, and delcoloniality as they are related to a range of literary texts. There will be a selection of Anglophone texts from the regions that have been affected by colonialism and imperialism including sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Category 5 course for the 2020-21 program year and later.

An introduction to literatures written between histories, geographies, and cultural practices and produced at the borders of nations and languages/lects, when authors move from one national and/or linguistic context to another, or when peoples are dispersed from their original homelands and settle in diasporic socio-cultural formations.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Category 5 course for the 2020-21 program year and later.

The term “literary canon” refers to a body of literary works regarded as significant, authoritative, and worthy of study. This course seeks to engage critically with changing expressions of canonicity over time. What cultural forces have affected canon formation? What do literary canons reveal about the values and biases of their societies? In what ways might decolonization and globalism shape the study of nationalistically based literary traditions?

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG
Note: Students with credit for ENG 204.6 may not take this course for credit. Histories of English course. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

This course is designed to introduce students to a history of English Literature through snapshots of historical and contemporary developments in the technology and impact of the book. It focuses on three aspects of the book’s history and its prospects: the evolution of media, from bound leaves of parchment or paper, to contemporary e-books and web pages; the relationship between the medium of expression and literary expression; and the relationships between the history of the book and the culture of digital texts. In the process, we will explore medieval scriptoria; the invention and impact of the Gutenberg printing press; the impact of mass-produced books and of digital texts; and the relationships between media and literature.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG
Note: Students with credit for ENG 204.6 may not take this course for credit. Histories of English course. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

This course surveys some aspects of the history of English as a language, from Proto-Indo-European to the present day, through exploring the formation and histories of English words. Students will learn skills and knowledge to study the lexicon and morphology of English, and will discover how the past of English affects its present.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or LING 111; or a senior course in a language.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 204.6 may not take this course for credit. Histories of English course. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement.

This course surveys some aspects of the history of English as a language, from Proto-Indo-European to the present day, through exploring how English has been and is pronounced and written. We will investigate methods for studying English phonology and orthography, ways in which the human history of English speakers has shaped the language, dialect variety and standardization, and past and present controversies surrounding spoken and written forms of English around the world.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG; or LING 111; or a senior course in a language.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 290.6 may not take this course for credit. Eligible to be used toward the College of Arts & Science English Language Writing Requirement

A study of the forms that life writing has taken from the Middle Ages to the present, with attention to such issues as constructions of the self, themes, language, and audience.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 370 may not take this course for credit.

A study of the mythology of medieval northern Europe, including a survey of the sources, an examination of several chief deities and myths associated with them, and a consideration of some old northern European literary evidence.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 317 may not take this course for credit.

A study of “reading like a writer,” this course explores two genres—typically, contemporary poetry and fiction—through the critical analysis and subsequent practice of literary technique. In addition to engaging with elements of style through lectures and workshops, students will explore the aesthetic and sociopolitical underpinnings of assigned readings to consider how form and content exist in a mutually enlivening relationship. Visiting authors may be invited into the classroom, and students will be encouraged to attend literary events in the community. By the end of the course, students will have completed at least one research essay and a portfolio of polished writing in two genres.

Weekly hours: 1.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level ENG.
Note: Prior completion of ENG 120.3 is strongly recommended.

This course will focus on the romantic comedies and English history plays that Shakespeare wrote for Elizabethan audiences in the first half of his theatre career; it will also include the darker, more tragicomic “problem comedies” that he wrote under James I.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 221.6 or 321.6 may not take this course for credit. Category 2 course.

Throughout his career Shakespeare wrote tragedies of romantic love, family and political conflict, and revenge, reaching his peak in this genre in the first decade of the seventeenth century. This course will focus on a selection of plays in this genre, and will also treat his late romances, a comic genre in which fateful adventures end in forgiveness and reconciliation between enemies.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 221.6 or 321.6 may not take this course for credit. Category 2 course.

An examination of literary genres that explore alternative worlds, experiment with the bounds of the real, and challenge the norms of reading. The course moves from precursors in legend, folktale, and romance, to Victorian fantasy, science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, and late-twentieth-century feminist revisionary narratives.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.

A critical study of literature written or adopted for children and young adult readers. Emphasis will be placed on the historical significance of key forms, such as fables, folk stories, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes, as well as later developments in drama, poetry, and prose fiction, including fantasy, realism, animal stories, historical fiction, and the young adult "problem novel." The interplay between oral, written, and visual texts will be considered, as will the cultural contexts that inform changing attitudes towards children, childhood, and adolescence.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.

This course will trace the Gothic mode, in its various forms, from its origins in Britain in the 1760s through its assimilation into mainstream literature in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 332 may not take this course for credit.

A study of the Indigenous storytelling traditions in the prairie region, including oral traditions and written literature.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG OR 3 credit units of 100-level ENG and INDG 107.3.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 342 may not take this course for credit. Category 4 course. Meets the College of Arts & Science Indigenous Learning Requirement.

A broad introduction to the study of Indigenous literatures in the Canadian context, preparing students for more advanced study of Indigenous literatures in the discipline of English. Students will read and listen to a diversity of First Nations, Metis and Inuit texts and oral stories, and learn to understand them as part of Indigenous literary traditions and histories. They will learn key concepts and approaches in Indigenous literary study, including learning about the processes of settler colonialism past and present. A focus will be placed on students understanding the literatures in terms of their own position and context.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG
Note:This course is particularly recommended for students who plan to take ENG 335.3 or ENG 338.3. Category 4 course. Meets the College of Arts & Science Indigenous Learning Requirement.

This course examines the development of short fiction from its origins in myth, fable, and folktale to its flourishing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While some attention will be paid to works in translation, the emphasis will be on writing in English.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 346 may not take this course for credit.

A study of Canadian speculative fiction, including but not limited to such literary modes as science fiction, fantasy, magic realism, utopian and dystopian literature, and alternate history.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 298.3 – Canadian Speculative Fiction: Amazing Stories may not take this course for credit.

This course investigates works of prose and poetry that map not only geographical place in Canada, but also social and cultural positioning. Areas of study include Canadian regional literature; explorer-settler perspectives on Canada; Indigenous literature; Canadian nationalism after Confederation; Canadian manifestations of modernism and postmodernism; and literary contributions by diasporic writers.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG
Note: Students with credit for ENG 253 or ENG 353 may not take this course for credit. Category 4 course.

Through the study of novels, short stories, critical essays, and historical documents, this course explores the roots of the modern detective story, its “golden age” consolidation in the 1920s and 30s, and its recent variations.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.

An introduction to the theory of myth and selected examples of the classical and other myths most frequently adapted and reinterpreted in literature in English. Emphasizes the ways in which different writers can find quite different kinds of significance in the same myth.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.

This course provides a selective historical overview of literature by women studied together with key examples of feminist critical theory.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s):6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note:Students with credit for ENG 281.6 may not take this course for credit.

A study of Beowulf in Modern English translation, including extensive consideration of its cultural and literary backgrounds, and readings in related or pertinent heroic narratives, primarily of North Germanic origin.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 384 may not take this course for credit.

An examination of romantic love, chivalry, and the family during the Middle Ages. The course will focus on a number of medieval romances, but will also cover many areas of women's cultural expression, including musical composition and mystical visions, and the tensions between the various forms of medieval women's experience and models of clerical authority.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 386 may not take this course for credit.

A survey of world cinema from the silent era to the present and an introduction to the fundamental formal concepts of film analysis including mise en scène, cinematography, editing, and sound. Emphasis will be placed on historically important films, directors, genres, and movements.

Weekly hours: 2 Lecture hours and 2 Practicum/Lab hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 388 may not take this course for credit. Category 4 course.

This course instructs students in the critical methodology of the study of poetry. It examines such mechanics as rhyme, rhythm and meter, imagery and symbolism, figurative language, sound devices, and the conventions of verse forms. Students thus enhance their literary-critical vocabulary and learn a range of methods for building an understanding and appreciation of poems. The course uses as its primary texts Canadian poems that range from the sonnet to contemporary spoken word, and it engages with diverse poets, texts, and movements in Canadian poetry.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level ENG.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This course is an introduction to Old English grammar, with select readings in the original language. Successful completion of the course will enable students to enroll in English 310.3, where they will have the opportunity to read more Old English literary texts. Included also will be selections from Beowulf in the original language, accompanied by study of the complete poem in Modern English.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 208 may not take this course for credit. Category 1 course.

This course focuses on the techniques of writing poetry in a variety of forms. We will read challenging and experimental work by a variety of writers, with the aim of developing aesthetic sensibility and writing original poetry. Class sessions will be organized around craft topics and assigned readings, covering topics essential to an advanced understanding of poetry, such as: the line, the image, compression, the prose poem, music, sound, ekphrasis, and revision. Students will learn to read poems analytically to understand poetic techniques and how they function, and students will practice various techniques and forms in their own poetic compositions. Participants must be prepared to have their poems discussed by the instructor and their fellow students in a workshop atmosphere.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): ENG 220.3 or by permission of the instructor.
Note: Students requesting permission to register in this course should contact the Department of English, english.department@usask.ca.

This course studies the development of Canadian fiction in English to 1960 and may examine other forms of storytelling and non-fictional prose.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 352 may not take this course for credit. Category 4 course.

An introduction to digital narrative, poetry, and media theory. This course investigates the ways in which text, language, and writing have been used in creative and experimental digital media, including artworks and installations, e-literature and e-poetry, video games and websites. Students will read a variety of digital works alongside critical readings in new media theory and practice.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 42 credit units at the university. Category 4 course.

An introductory seminar/workshop in the basic techniques and methods of writing creative nonfiction. By examining the works of established writers, studying craft and history, engaging in workshop discussions, and producing a portfolio, students will be prepared to move forward to the advanced study of creative nonfiction. Participants must be prepared to have their work discussed by the instructor and their fellow students in a workshop atmosphere.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): ENG 220.3 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Students requesting permission to register in this course should contact the Department of English, english.department@usask.ca.

A study of several poems and some prose passages in Old English, including elegies, battle narratives, and a more extensive consideration of Beowulf than in English 301, including its backgrounds and analogues.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): ENG 301.3
Note: Students with credit for ENG 208 may not take this course for credit. Category 1 course.

An introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with principal attention to The Canterbury Tales.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 1 course.

The course examines Geoffrey Chaucer’s literary works before The Canterbury Tales, namely, the dream visions and the romance tragedy Troilus and Criseyde.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 1 course.

An introduction to late medieval stories of adventure, through the Middle English romance genre and its contexts.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 1 course.

An introduction to the varieties of drama produced in the British Isles up to the inception of permanent theatres in late-sixteenth-century London.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 1 course.

In England, the late Middle Ages (1100-1500) were a time of social and political upheaval as well as literary innovation. This course examines Middle English literary texts that reflected and participated in historical and intellectual change and debate.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 1 course.

Sixteenth-century English literature absorbed and contributed to the European Renaissance, led at Henry VIII's court by the Thomas More circle, while popular culture developed new expressions of older traditions. These rich courtly and popular traditions unite in the achievements of the Elizabethan younger generation, especially the Sidneys, Spenser, and Shakespeare. Omitting full-length drama and epic treated elsewhere, this course highlights other major genres of prose and poetry in English from 1485 to 1603.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 320 may not take this course for credit. Category 2 course

Seventeenth-century literature reflects a nation emerging into modernity through a revolution in politics and science and a reshaping of social bonds and relationships. Excluding full-length drama and epic, this course focuses on both sacred and secular poetry by such writers as John Donne, George Herbert, Aemelia Lanyer, and Ben Jonson, and prose by such writers as Francis Bacon and Thomas Browne.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 325 may not take this course for credit. Category 2 course.

A study of English drama, 1580-1640, including such playwrights as Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker, Middleton, and Ford. The course will investigate the philosophies, techniques, power, and popularity associated with Tudor, Stuart, and Caroline plays.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 2 course.

This course explores two of English literature’s grandest, longest, and most demanding poems, Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene and John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It investigates Spenser's and Milton's transformation of classical epic and medieval romance conventions in the context of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English culture, politics and religion.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note:Students with credit for ENG 325.6 or ENG 323.3 may not take this course for credit. Category 2 course.

A study of the drama of the Restoration and the eighteenth century, emphasizing the comedy of manners, but also dealing with dramatic genres particular to the period.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 3 course.

A study of poetry, drama, and prose in relation to the historical and political contexts of Britain and Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century. Authors may include Sitwell, Sassoon, Yeats, Auden, Shaw, Synge, Joyce, Forster, Lawrence, Woolf, Sayers, Waugh, Orwell.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 4 course.

A study of British literature from 1780 to 1830, examining the nature of Romanticism and the usefulness of the term "Romantic," and emphasizing the works of such writers as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and John Keats.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note Category 3 course.

A study of the period 1830-1890, with emphasis on such prose writers as Carlyle, J. S. Mill, Newman, Huxley, Arnold and Pater, and such poets as Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Pre-Raphaelites, and Hopkins.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note Category 3 course.

Examines the emergence of written literature among Indigenous people in Canada from first contact to the 1970s. Attention will be paid to how and why Indigenous people took up literacy and literature and to the distinctive forms of writing that emerged.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note(s): Prior completion of ENG 243.3 is recommended but not required. Meets the College of Arts & Science Indigenous Learning Requirement.

A survey of Indigenous literature from 1968 to the present, examining the explosion of Indigenous writing in the United States and in Canada during that period. Drawing on a range of genres, we will investigate the causes of this literary "renaissance" and the literary forms that have emerged from it.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note(s): Prior completion of ENG 243.3 is recommended but not required. Category 4 course. Meets the College of Arts & Science Indigenous Learning Requirement.

A time of rebels and reactionaries, Enlightenment Britain (1660-1800) saw writers respond to dramatic social change. In this brief but grand tour of literary modes and genres, students will encounter many of the ideas that underpin contemporary Eurocentric culture. The course will include works of satire and sentiment, amatory fiction and conduct books, political poetry, slave narratives, plays of wit, and the first periodicals. Featured authors may include Behn, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Johnson.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 336 and/or ENG 337 may not take this course for credit. Category 3 course.

A study of the development of the British novel, beginning with the mature work of Charles Dickens and George Eliot, and culminating in the late century work of authors such as Meredith, Hardy, Stevenson, and Wilde.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 374 may not take this course for credit. Category 3 course.

The development of Canadian drama in English, with emphasis on the period since 1960.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 4 course.

A study of Western Canadian literature in English, especially fiction, poetry, and drama, produced on the Canadian prairies.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 4 course.

A study of poetry, drama, and prose in relation to the shifting political and cultural landscapes of Britain and Ireland since 1950. Authors may include Larkin, Smith, Heaney, Beckett, Friel, Kureishi, Selvon, Kelman, and Carter.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 4 course.

A study of the development of the British novel, beginning with Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott, and ending with the early work of Dickens, Gaskell, and the Brontës.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 374 may not take this course for credit.
Note: Category 3 course.

This course examines major works of twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, including short fiction, across national boundaries. Students will explore literary genres and modes such as realism, modernism, postmodernism, magic realism, and metafiction. Authors may include Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison, Naipaul, Rushdie, Atwood, King, Munro, Carter and McEwan.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note Category 4 course.

Intended for students who are seriously interested in the practice of imaginative writing (fiction, poetry, etc.). Course work will include an assignment of writing each week. Participants must be prepared to have their work discussed by the instructor and their fellow students in a workshop atmosphere.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 6 credit units of 100-level English and permission of the instructor.
Note: Students requesting permission to register in this course should contact the Department of English, english.department@usask.ca.

This course focuses on the techniques of writing successful fiction, such as character creation, dialogue, narrative strategies, and prose style. Participants must be prepared to have their fiction discussed by the instructor and their fellow students in a workshop atmosphere.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): ENG 220.3 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Students requesting permission to register in this course should contact the Department of English, english.department@usask.ca.

A study of poetry and poetics from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. The course examines the tension between established forms of poetry and the efforts of modern poets to "make it new" (Pound), to reinvent poetry. In poetry since the Second World War, we will examine the enduring influence of modernism as well as anti- and post-modern strategies, forms, and styles. Twentieth and twenty-first century cultural and historical contexts will be crucial throughout. Poets studied may include Yeats, Pound, H.D., Williams, Moore, Eliot, Stevens, Auden, Ginsberg, Plath, Heaney, Walcott, Atwood, Brand, Halfe, and Wah.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 4 course.

A study of various types of prose fiction from early romances, travel tales and rogue biographies, to Defoe and the rise and development of the novel in England. Particular emphasis will be given to the major novels and novelists of the eighteenth century.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Category 3 course.

Reflecting the remarkable transformation of theatre in modernist and postmodern contexts, this course engages with dramatic texts and movements from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary plays and performances. While works in translation will be addressed, including those by Ibsen and Strindberg, the primary focus will be British, Irish, and American dramatists, such as Shaw, O’Neill, Beckett, Pinter, Williams, Hansberry, Stoppard, Churchill, and Kane.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units 200-level ENG
Note: Students with credit for ENG 348, 349, or 380.6 may not take this course for credit. Category 4 course.

The nineteenth century was a turbulent and formative period in American history, marked by the legacy of revolution along with civil war, the abolition of slavery, the emergence of feminism, and the settlement of the West. This course will examine how different writers engaged with the political, moral, and cultural implications raised by these issues, and the distinctive literary culture that grew out of this engagement. Although most course time will be spent in the nineteenth century, the course will look back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to examine the literary, intellectual, and religious contexts that were relevant to the shaping of this culture.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 343 or ENG 344 may not take this course for credit. Category 3 course.

From the turn of the twentieth century, the United States has been marked by two important literary and cultural phenomena: modernism and postmodernism. As a survey of American literature from 1900 to the present, this course is an attempt to figure out what these two large movements look like, to understand how and why the shift from modernism to postmodernism occurred, to account for the differences and similarities between them, and, in a post-9/11 present, to ask: what’s next?

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 345 or ENG 347 may not take this course for credit. Category 4 course.

A study of Canadian fiction in English, and some non-fictional prose, from 1960 to the present.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 352 may not take this course for credit. Category 4 course.

This course provides a foundational grounding in decolonial theories and literatures. Themes to be examined include subaltern knowledge, land, language, hybridity, environment, gender, power, and history. A wide range of theorists from (post)colonial and decolonizing contexts will be considered in tandem with a selection of contemporary Anglophone literature.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 283 may not take this course for credit. Category 5 course for the 2020-21 program year and later.

A study of the changing forms of poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to the major events and shifting political and cultural landscapes of Britain and Ireland since 1900. Areas of focus will vary, but may include feminism, the modernist revolution in the arts, the World Wars, Irish independence, and the decline of British imperial rule and its long aftermath. Authors may include, for example, Shaw, Yeats, Sassoon, Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Orwell, Beckett, Larkin, Kureishi, Selvon, and Carter.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level ENG
Note: Students with credit for ENG 330 or ENG 360 may not take this course for credit.

Literary theory serves as a kind of base for all modes of criticism and interpretation; it can be thought of as playing a similar role as math does for the sciences, or philosophy for history. This course offers an introduction to some of the major texts and approaches to literary and cultural theory, going as far back as antiquity, but with an emphasis on relatively contemporary debates.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 3 credit units of 200-level English.
Note: Students with credit for ENG 203.6 may not take this course for credit.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 1 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 2 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 2 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 3 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 3 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Prerequisite(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 3 course.

Students will produce a portfolio of written work. Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s) 3 credit units from among the following: ENG 302.3, ENG 308.3, ENG 365.6, ENG 366.3 or by permission of the instructor.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 3 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 1 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 5 course for the 2020-21 program year and later.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 4 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s):Permission of the department.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 4 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 4 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different. Category 4 course.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Focus and texts vary from year to year according to the interests of instructors. See the department website or the current course handbook for 400-level course descriptions.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Prerequisite(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

This course offers senior English students an opportunity to apply their skills and gain professional experience through internships with Saskatoon-based organizations and units within the University. Placements vary from year to year, but typically involve activities such as research, internal and external communications, grant writing, editing, and literacy outreach. Interns provide approximately seventy work hours to the organization in which they are placed; they also meet as a class every second week throughout the term and complete assignments relating to their work placements.

Weekly hours: 6 Practicum/Lab hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.

This course is the capstone of the English Honours program. Graduating Honours and Double Honours students prepare short scholarly papers for conference-style presentation at the Colloquium, held in the first week of February. Presentations are normally adapted from essays written for 300- or 400-level courses, after consultation with the course professor or the Undergraduate Chair. Three preparatory sessions led by the Undergraduate Chair are held between October and January.

Permission of the department required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Honours program in English.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Permission of the department required.
Restriction(s): Normally open to students in an Honours Program or in the upper years of a four-year B.A. in English.
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

An introduction to textual authority, including the study of bibliographic description, editorial technique, textual transmission, database searches, and the history of modes of publication.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Particular topics in the study of periods, movements, issues of influence, reputation or reception. Theories of literary history may also be studied.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Particular topics in the work of an author writing in English, or on particular works in the author's oeuvre.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Particular topics in national and regional literatures and constructions of nationality.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Particular topics and issues in selected theories, or on particular theorists.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Particular topics and issues in the application of selected methods to selected texts.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Particular topics and issues in traditional or emerging genres of writing, and in their intertextual, disciplinary and extraliterary contexts.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours
Note: Students may take this course more than once for credit, provided the topic covered in each offering differs substantially. Students must consult the Department to ensure that the topics covered are different.

Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours

Offered occasionally in special situations. Students interested in these courses should contact the department for more information.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours

All graduate students are required to attend the series of workshops entitled "Conversations on Graduate Studies in English" in their first year of graduate work. All Ph.D. students are required to give a seminar presentation in anticipation of their dissertation defence. All graduate students must attend the Ph.D. seminar presentations plus department colloquia.

Weekly hours: 9 Practicum/Lab hours
Prerequisite(s): Admission to M.A. or Ph.D. program in English.

Students taking the project-based M.A. must register for this course, which requires appropriate work leading to the completion of the 25-30 page research project.

Prerequisite(s):Admission into the M.A. project-based program.

Students writing a Master's thesis must register for this course.

Students writing a Ph.D. thesis must register for this course.