The course list identifies approved courses that MacEwan University may offer. Not all courses will be offered every year and some courses are restricted to particular programs. Contact an advisor in your program for information on course availability.
ENGL 307 - The History of the English Language
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course traces the history of English from its ancient Indo-European and Germanic roots to the Early Modern Period. By examining representative texts from Old, Middle, and Early Modern English, students learn how English spelling, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and syntax have evolved. English 307 stresses the development of analytic skills that are central to the study of literature. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in ENGL 103, ENGL 133 or 6 credits of 100 level University ENGL. |
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ENGL 319 - Earlier Medieval English Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course examines the poetry and prose of one of the longest, richest, and most significant periods of English literature. From the world of Beowulf to the Anglo-Norman court, from Old English epic and elegy to early medieval lyric and romance, the themes and forms from this period have reverberated throughout English literature and inspired countless writers down to our own time, including Tolkien and Lewis. Students read most works in translation, although some early Middle English works may be read in the original. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 320 - Later Middle English Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course focuses on the literature of fourteenth and fifteenth-century England by examining a selection of poetry, prose and drama from one of the richest periods of English literature. From tales of chivalry to Arthurian adventure; romance to religious mysticism; lyrical love poetry to witty satire and bawdy humour, this period has near-unrivalled diversity and depth and is crucial for understanding much of how English literature develops in subsequent centuries. Students read most works in the original Middle English. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 324 - Chaucer
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course focuses on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest poets in English literature. Chaucer's place in English literature is central; his poetry in its rich diversity has influenced writers in English from Shakespeare to Tolkien. The Canterbury Tales are justly considered his masterpiece, but just as accomplished and equally influential are the early dream visions and the great love poem Troilus and Criseyde. Despite the passage of time, Chaucer's works in their humour, compassion, and beauty remain fresh, accessible, and, in many ways, surprisingly contemporary. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111, and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 336 - Studies in Shakespeare
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course introduces students to the range and depth of Shakespeare's drama through the attentive reading of a variety of plays. Comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances allow students to understand Shakespeare's thought and the dramatic genres in which he wrote. Note: Not to be taken by students with credit in the former English 239 or 338. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 337 - English Renaissance Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course explores the literature of the English Renaissance from about 1485 to about 1603. The course begins with a consideration of the early Tudor Period, including the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (1485-1548), as well as selections from the mid-Tudor and Elizabethan periods (1549-1603). Besides surveying the poetry of the period starting with Wyatt, Surrey, and Skelton, the course can include selected Renaissance prose works such as Thomas More’s Utopia and Sidney’s Defence of Poetry. At the discretion of the instructor the course may also include one or more Non-Shakespearean Renaissance English Plays. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 340 - Studies in 17th Century English Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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The seventeenth century was a period of revolution and remarkable literary experimentation. The decades between 1600 and the restoration of the monarchy experienced dramatic social change, religious upheaval, a regicide, scientific discovery, and expanding colonization of the “New World.” This period also produced some of the most influential works of English literature. The course examines a representative range of poetry and prose by writers as diverse as Donne, Jonson, Marvell, Herbert, Wroth, Bacon, Bunyan, Behn, Hobbes, Burton, Cavendish, Walton, and Winstanley. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 341 - Augustan Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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Students study the authors, works, and genres that were predominant in the Augustan Age and broader Neoclassical Period, between 1660 and 1785. This course includes a selection of drama, fiction, essays, and poetry by eighteen-century writers such as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Samuel Johnson. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 342 - Topics in the Long 18th Century Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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Students focus on a single topic in eighteenth-century literature, such as a particular genre (drama, poetry, the novel, prose), author, group of authors, region, or theme. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 348 - Milton
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course examines the achievements of John Milton, in both prose and in verse. The course primarily focuses on the major works of Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes, but it also examines a select number of Milton's minor poems and prose works. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 350 - Topics in Romantic Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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Conventionally book-ended by the French Revolution in 1789 and the beginnings of modern democratic reform in 1832, the Romantic period in Britain was a time of intense social and political upheaval. This course acquaints students with the diverse literature of the period in relation to its complex and volatile literary, intellectual, and historical contexts. Each iteration of this course focuses on a single topic within Romantic literature, such as a single genre, theme, or generation of authors. The specific topic and approach depends on the expertise of the instructor. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 352 - Early Victorian Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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In the literature of this earlier Victorian period marked by energetic and momentous change, writers conveyed a multitude of doubts about religious faith and changing gender roles, while also voicing moral quandaries about class privilege and imperial rule. This course explores selected fiction, poetry, and non-fiction (from 1832 to 1870) in the context of the dominant ideological concerns which show Victorians as self-consciously modern and engaged in vigorous self-scrutiny. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 353 - Later Victorian Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course focuses on the late nineteenth-century reaction to the aesthetic, religious, and sexual mores of the preceding ""high"" Victorian period. The closing century's apocalyptic tenor finds expression in metaphors and themes of the period's literature, concerns embodied discursively in response to the New Imperialism, the New Woman, and the Aesthete or Decadent. The course looks at selected fiction, poetry, and non-fiction (from about 1860-1900) in the context of contemporary cultural anxieties about social upheaval, gender crisis, and moral turmoil, the dialectic of change enacted in Pre-Raphaelitism and the Aesthetic and Decadent movements of the 1890s. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 358 - 19th Century American Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course is a study of representative literary texts from the period by a variety of major authors. Novels, poetry, and essays are all represented. Authors include some of the following: Philip Freneau, J. F. Cooper, J. R. Lowell, E.A. Poe, R.W. Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Fanny Fern, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry Adams, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 361 - Early 20th Century American Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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In this course, students study representative American texts spanning from the early twentieth century to the cold war. A broad range of early to mid-twentieth century genres is considered – e.g., novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films. The works are analyzed closely and placed within their historical and cultural context – especially the wars and development of “the American Century.” Students are exposed to authors as varied as Chesnutt, Lowell, Larsen, Dreiser, Eliot, Faulkner, Moore, Hemingway, Hurston, Stein, Wharton, Ellison, and O’Connor. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 362 - Contemporary American Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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In this course, students study representative American texts spanning from the Cold War to the present moment. A broad range of late-twentieth and twenty-first century genres are considered – e.g., novels, short stories, poems, plays, comics, and films. The course focuses on narrative innovations as well as the persistence of traditional American styles in a rapidly changing social, cultural, and ideological environment. Students are exposed to authors as varied as Ginsberg, Barth, Plath, Reed, Brooks, Pynchon, Barthelme, Kingston, Erdrich, Morrison, Acker, Mamet, Franzen, Miller, Tarantino, Eggers, and Danielewski. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 364 - Topics in 20th and 21st Century Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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By maintaining a focus on a single topic related to literary and narrative production in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this course allows students to supplement ENGL 361, ENGL 362, ENGL 365, ENGL 366, ENGL 376, & ENGL 381. Each iteration of the course is organized around a single author, group of authors, genre, region, or theme. The specific topic and approach, in any given year, depends on the expertise of the instructor. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 365 - Early 20th Century British & Anglophone Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course involves a close study of representative British and Anglophone texts from the first half of the twentieth century, the modernist period. A broad range of genres is considered, such as novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films. Works are situated in terms of their engagements with the cultural, social, political, scientific, and technological changes of the period. Writers studied may include but are not limited to Mulk Raj Anand, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bowen, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Henry James, James Joyce, Hugh MacDiarmid, D. H. Lawrence, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, George Bernard Shaw, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 366 - Contemporary British and Anglophone Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course surveys representative British and Anglophone texts from the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. A broad range of genres may be considered, such as novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films. These works are situated in terms of their engagements with the cultural, social, political, scientific, and technological changes of the period. Writers studied may include but are not limited to Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, A. S. Byatt, Anthony Burgess, Angela Carter, Ian Fleming, Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi, Doris Lessing, David Lodge, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Naipaul, Harold Pinter, Salman Rushie, Zadie Smith, Muriel Spark, and Tom Stoppard. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 368 - Topics in Race and Gender
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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By focusing on a broad theme or topic, this course allows students to look closely at the way in which issues of race and/or gender inform and are informed by narrative representations. While students may consider theoretical debates associated with problems of race or gender, the course concerns itself primarily with literary works that engage in, run alongside, or frustrate those debates. Each iteration of the course is organized around a single, author, group of authors, genre, period, locale, and/or theme. The specific topic and approach is, in any given year, dependent on the expertise of the instructor. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 374 - Early Canadian Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course involves a close study of representative Canadian texts from the beginnings of Canadian literature through first half of the twentieth century. A broad range of genres may be considered, such as novels, short stories, poems, plays, and films. Works are situated in terms of their engagements with the cultural, social, political, scientific, and technological changes of the period. Students study Canadian authors from a variety of backgrounds. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 376 - Contemporary Canadian Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course covers key developments in Canadian culture and literary works during this period when our literature came of age. Major authors achieved international acclaim, a rich diversity emerged in literary themes and forms, and marginalized narratives of class, race, gender, and the environment moved to the literary centre. These developments occurred against the backdrop of the maturing of Canada into one of the globe's most peaceful and economically stable multicultural nations. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 377 - Studies in Indigenous Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course covers a number of works of indigenous literature, ranging from collected oral folk tales and myths of the pre-contact period to print literature and films of the post-contact period. The course covers how indigenous works of the pre-contact period convey indigenous cultural world-views that contrast sharply with that of settler or colonial culture. The course examines indigenous texts and films of the post-contact period as resisting colonial culture and promoting the survival of tribal cultures and languages. The course clarifies indigenous perspectives on historical issues such as residential schools, missing and murdered indigenous women, and the treatment of indigenous peoples in the non-indigenous justice system. The course also considers the approaches advocated in indigenous texts on the way forward, for indigenous and non-indigenous peoples, toward restitution and reconciliation. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of university ENGL , except ENGL 108, ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 381 - Topics in Post-Colonial Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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By focusing on a theme or topic, this course allows students to closely read literature from one or more regions that have experienced colonization. The course primarily concerns itself with literary works, although some introductory readings in postcolonial theory may supplement and/or complement the selected literature. Each iteration of the course is organized around a single author, group of authors, genre, theme, geographical area, or literary or linguistic tradition. The specific topic and approach is, in any given year, dependent on the expertise of the instructor. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. Note: This course may be taken up to two times, provided the course topic is different. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of university ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 382 - Topics in Literary Studies
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course gives students the opportunity to study works that deal with a single theme, such as the outsider or the child in literature, or works that exemplify a single tradition, such as naturalism or the lyric poem. Each iteration of the course is organized around a single author, group of authors, literary tradition, region, or theme. The specific topic and approach, in any given offering, depends on the expertise of the instructor. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. This course may be taken twice if the topic is different. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of 100-level university English except ENGL 108, ENGL 111, and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 383 - Topics in World Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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By focusing on a theme or topic, this course allows students to closely read world literature: either literature in translation from one or more literary traditions outside of English, or Anglophone literature from areas or regions outside of North America, the United Kingdom, or Australia. The course primarily concerns itself with translated literary works and/or Anglophone world literature, although some introductory readings in theory of world literature and/or translation may supplement and/or complement the selected literature. Each iteration of the course is organized around a single author, group of authors, genre, theme, geographical area, or literary or linguistic tradition. The specific topic and approach is, in any given year, dependent on the expertise of the instructor. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. Students may take this course up to two times provided the topic is different. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of 100-level university English not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 388 - Topics in Film Studies
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course provides students an opportunity to explore (in-depth) a specific theme, topic, or problem related to film narrative and criticism. Each iteration of the course will define and sustain a specific focus – on, for instance, a specific region or era of film production, specific forms of animation, the evolution of a single genre (science fiction, horror, comedy, etc.), the process and problems of adaptation, the works of a single auteur or group of auteurs, etc. Note: While not required, it is recommended that students take ENGL 288 before taking this course. This course may be taken twice for credit if the topic is different. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in six credits of university ENGL, not including ENGL 108, ENGL 111, or ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 389 - Topics in Children's Literature
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course offers various studies in the realm of Children's literature. Individual iterations of the course can focus on classics of children's literature, folktale and children's literature, or the child in literature. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. |
| Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 100 level University
ENGL except ENGL 108, ENGL 111 and ENGL 199. |
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ENGL 391 - Topics in Literary Theory
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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By focusing on a broad theme or topic associated with literary and cultural theory, this course encourages students to consider the way in which theoretical debates inform the practice of narrative production and study. In any given iteration of the course, students are exposed to a broad range of primary texts by influential theorists—e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Freud, Kristeva, Mulvey, Said, Butler, Hayles, and Žižek. Each iteration also functions as both an historical survey of influential theoretical texts and an introduction to theory as a tool for literary interpretation. The specific topic and approach is, in any given year, dependant on the expertise of the instructor. For detailed information about the current course offering, please consult the English Department. |
| Prerequisites: A minimum grade of C- in 6 credits of 200 or 300 level university courses. |
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ENGL 398 - Independent Study
| Hours:0:0:45 |
Credits:3 |
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This course permits an intermediate-level student to work with an instructor to explore a specific topic in depth through research or directed reading in primary and secondary sources. The student plans, executes and reports the results of their independent research or study project under the direction of a faculty supervisor. To be granted enrolment in the course, the student must have made prior arrangements with a faculty member willing to supervise his or her project. This course can be taken twice for credit. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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