English Degree Patterns

Minor 

24 credits of ENGL.

Subsidiary 

24 credits ENGL, with at least 6 credits at the 300/400 level.

Major 

Students must choose a concentration (see below). 
Major: 36 credits - ENGL 111 or 100, 215, 285; 12 credits in chosen concentration with at least 3 credits at the 300 level; 3 credits in each of the other three concentrations (total 9 credits); 6 credits ENGL electives, or 3 credits if ENGL 100 is completed. At least 18 credits ENGL must be at the 300 level. 
Minor: 24 credits 
Open electives: 60 credits 
Total: 120 credits 
At least 36 credits at the 300/400 level. Maximum of 48 credits at the 100 level. 
Distribution requirements: The degree pattern must include 24 credits of breadth requirements and 12 credits of depth requirements; see section 4.1.3.

Joint Major 

ENGL major courses as outlined above. Students must choose a concentration (see below).  
Major 1: 36 credits 
Major 2: 36 credits 
Open electives: 48 credits 
Total: 120 credits 
At least 36 credits at the 300/400 level. Maximum of 48 credits at the 100 level. 
Distribution requirements: The degree pattern must include 24 credits of breadth requirements and 12 credits of depth requirements; see section 4.1.3.

Advanced Major 

Major: 36 credits - ENGL 111 or 100, 215, 285, 491, 492, 497; 12 credits in chosen concentration with at least 3 credits at the 300 level; 3 credits in each of the other three concentrations (see below) (total 9 credits). At least 18 credits ENGL must be at the 300/400 level. 
Minor: 24 credits 
Open electives: 60 credits 
Total: 120 credits 
At least 36 credits at the 300/400 level. Maximum of 48 credits at the 100 level. 
A senior research paper is required in a senior seminar. 
Distribution requirements: The degree pattern must include 24 credits of breadth requirements and 12 credits of depth requirements; see section 4.1.3.

Joint Advanced Major 

ENGL advanced major courses as outlined above if ENGL is major 1; ENGL 497 is not required if ENGL is major 2. 
Major 1: 36 credits 
Major 2: 36 credits 
Open electives: 48 credits 
Total: 120 credits 
At least 36 credits at the 300/400 level. Maximum of 48 credits at the 100 level. 
A senior research paper is only required in major 1. 
Distribution requirements: The degree pattern must include 24 credits of breadth requirements and 12 credits of depth requirements; see section 4.1.3.

Honours 

Honours: 60 credits - ENGL 111 or 100, 215, 285, 400, 491, 492; 3 credits from ENGL 314, 339; 12 credits from chosen concentration (see below) with at least 3 credits at the 300 level; 3 credits in each of the other three concentrations (total 9 credits), 15 credits ENGL electives (12 credits if ENGL 100 completed). At least 30 credits ENGL must be at the 300/400 level. 
Open electives: 60 credits 
Total: 120 credits 
At least 36 credits at the 300/400 level. Maximum of 48 credits at the 100 level. 
ENGL 491, 492, and the required 3 credits from ENGL 314, 339 cannot be used in fulfillment of the concentration and non-concentration requirements. Distribution requirements: The degree pattern must include 24 credits of breadth requirements and 12 credits of depth requirements; see section 4.1.3.

Honours with Subsidiary

Honours: 48 credits - ENGL 111 or 100, 215, 285, 400, 491, 492; 3 credits from ENGL 314, 339; 12 credits from chosen concentration with at least 3 credits at the 300 level; 3 credits in each of the other three concentrations (see below) (total 9 credits), 3 credits ENGL elective (if ENGL 100 was not completed). At least 30 credits ENGL must be at the 300/400 level. 
Subsidiary: 24 credits 
Open electives: 48 credits 
Total: 120 credits 
At least 36 credits at the 300/400 level. Maximum of 48 credits at the 100 level. 
ENGL 491, 492 and the required 3 credits from ENGL 314, 339 cannot be used in fulfillment of the concentration and non-concentration requirements.
Distribution requirements: The degree pattern must include 24 credits of breadth requirements and 12 credits of depth requirements; see section 4.1.3.

Senior Seminars

Each year certain advanced courses will be designated senior seminars. All honours and advanced major students must be enrolled in two of these during their senior year, one in the first term and the other in the second term. Normally, students will have third-year standing and have taken a minimum of 15 credits in English. Priority will be given to honours and advanced major students in English. Students may enrol in additional English seminars as part of their normal degree pattern, but do so as a 300-level course.

Humanities Colloquium

The humanities colloquium is an optional and interdisciplinary way of studying three first-year courses, usually ENGL 100, HIST 101, 102, and PHIL 100. See section 4.4 for further information.

Concentrations

Majors must complete 12 credits from one concentration and at least 3 credits from each of the other three concentrations.

Literatures in English
ENGL 201 Science Fiction and Fantasy
ENGL 204 Shakespeare on the Page, Stage, and Online
ENGL 205 Shakespeare Today
ENGL 208 Sex, Love, and Literature
ENGL 210 Bodies and Words
ENGL 212 Blindness and Insight in Shakespeare’s Tragedies
ENGL 213 Adaptation: Canadian Myths, Film, and Popular Stories
ENGL 218 New British Fiction
ENGL 219 How to Tell a Story
ENGL 220 The Horror, The Horror
ENGL 224 Short Stories, Big Effects
ENGL 226 From Tablets to Tablets: Texts and Technology
ENGL 227 Writing From “Here”: The Literature of Atlantic Canada
ENGL 232 Why Care About Literary Characters?
ENGL 233 Children’s Literature: 1865 to the Present
ENGL 240 Literature of the Middle East
ENGL 243 Unequal: The Novel
ENGL 248 Climate Fiction and Environmental Literature
ENGL 249 Detective Fiction and Film
ENGL 257 What’s New with the Novel?
ENGL 259 Gender, Literature, and Culture
ENGL 269 Me You Us Them: Self & Society
ENGL 275 Shakespeare and Sex: Love and Lust
ENGL 276 Shakespeare on War and Peace
ENGL 277 Shakespeare’s Subversive Poetry: A Study of His Narrative Poems, Sonnets, and Love Lyrics
ENGL 278 Short Turns: The Short Story in Canada
ENGL 279 What’s Canadian about Canadian Literature?
ENGL 280 Introduction to Contemporary Multiethnic Literatures in the
ENGL 282 Literatures of Global Justice: Human Rights, Asylum, Self Determination
ENGL 290 The Canterbury Tales
ENGL 302 The Fantastic: Genre and Form
ENGL 304 The Early Tudor and Elizabethan Renaissance
ENGL 308 Milton and His Time
ENGL 314 Contemporary Literary Theory
ENGL 315 Fashion and Fetishism
ENGL 316 How to Judge a Book by Its Cover
ENGL 325 The American Novel, 1850-1940
ENGL 329 Studies in Women Writers: Feminisms and Their Literatures
ENGL 334 The Western
ENGL 339 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
ENGL 341 Shakespeare and Marlowe
ENGL 347 The Afterlives of Slavery & 21st Century Black Narrative: Reading Africa and the African Diaspora
ENGL 353 Tolkien and the Inklings
ENGL 365 Canadian Fiction
ENGL 378 Human Scale: Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 379 American Literature
ENGL 388 Heroic Literature of the Middle Ages
ENGL 353 Tolkien and the Inklings

Social Justice
ENGL 210 Bodies and Words
ENGL 213 Adaptation: Canadian Myths, Film, and Popular Stories
ENGL 214 Contemporary Film
ENGL 218 New British Fiction
ENGL 220 The Horror, The Horror
ENGL 223 Creative Writing: Nature, Ecology, Climate Change
ENGL 227 Writing From “Here”: The Literature of Atlantic Canada
ENGL 233 Children’s Literature: 1865 to the Present
ENGL 236 Children’s Film and Television
ENGL 240 Literature of the Middle East
ENGL 243 Unequal: The Novel
ENGL 248 Climate Fiction and Environmental Literature
ENGL 257 What’s New with the Novel?
ENGL 258 Television Today
ENGL 259 Gender, Literature, and Culture
ENGL 268 Marriage, Murder, Justice: Law and Literature
ENGL 269 Me You Us Them: Self & Society
ENGL 275 Shakespeare and Sex: Love and Lust
ENGL 276 Shakespeare on War and Peace
ENGL 277 Shakespeare’s Subversive Poetry: A Study of His Narrative Poems, Sonnets, and Love Lyrics
ENGL 279 What’s Canadian about Canadian Literature?
ENGL 280 Introduction to Contemporary Multiethnic Literatures in the United States
ENGL 282 Literatures of Global Justice: Human Rights, Asylum, Self Determination
ENGL 284 Theatre and Performance
ENGL 315 Fashion and Fetishism
ENGL 325 The American Novel, 1850-1940
ENGL 329 Studies in Women Writers: Feminisms and Their Literatures
ENGL 330 Studies in Women Writers II: Genres, Cultures, Contexts
ENGL 338 Performing Canada
ENGL 339 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
ENGL 347 The Afterlives of Slavery & 21st Century Black Narrative: Reading Africa and the African Diaspora
ENGL 353 Tolkien and the Inklings
ENGL 365 Canadian Fiction
ENGL 378 Human Scale: Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 379 American Literature
ENGL 388 Heroic Literature of the Middle Ages
ENGL 378 Human Scale: Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 379 American Literature
ENGL 388 Heroic Literature of the Middle Ages

Media, Film, Digital Humanities
ENGL 213 Adaptation: Canadian Myths, Film, and Popular Stories
ENGL 214 Contemporary Film
ENGL 219 How to Tell a Story
ENGL 226 From Tablets to Tablets: Texts and Technology
ENGL 236 Children’s Film and Television
ENGL 249 Detective Fiction and Film
ENGL 258 Television Today
ENGL 261 Hollywood Film
ENGL 284 Theatre and Performance
ENGL 301 European Film
ENGL 309 Film Noir
ENGL 316 How to Judge a Book by Its Cover
ENGL 339 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
ENGL 284 Theatre and Performance

Communications, Storytelling, Performance
ENGL 204 Shakespeare on the Page, Stage, and Online
ENGL 213 Adaptation: Canadian Myths, Film, and Popular Stories
ENGL 219 How to Tell a Story
ENGL 223 Creative Writing: Nature, Ecology, Climate Change
ENGL 225 Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults
ENGL 258 Television Today
ENGL 267 Introductory Creative Writing
ENGL 283 Acting and Performance
ENGL 284 Theatre and Performance
ENGL 322 Intermediate Creative Writing
ENGL 338 Performing Canada
ENGL 422 Advanced Creative Writing