Course Search

ENGD14H3 - Topics in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

An advanced inquiry into critical questions relating to the development of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and culture. Focus may include the intensive study of an author, genre, or body of work.
Pre-1900 course

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in ENG courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGC10H3 or ENGC32H3 or ENGC33H3 or ENGC34H3 or ENGC35H3

ENGD18H3 - Topics in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1830

Topics in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Topics vary from year to year and might include a study of one or more authors, or the study of a specific literary or theatrical phenomenon.
Pre-1900 course

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGC37H3 or ENGC38H3 or ENGC39H3

ENGD19H3 - Theoretical Approaches to Early Modern English Literature and Culture

An in-depth study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature together with intensive study of the theoretical and critical perspectives that have transformed our understanding of this literature.
Pre-1900 course

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in ENG courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGC10H3 or ENGC32H3 or ENGC33H3 or ENGC34H3 or ENGC35H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD22H3 - Special Topics in Creative Writing II

This multi-genre creative writing course, designed around a specific theme or topic, will encourage interdisciplinary practice, experiential adventuring, and rigorous theoretical reflection through readings, exercises, field trips, projects, etc.

Prerequisite: [0.5 credit at the B-level in Creative Writing] and [0.5 credit at the C-level in Creative Writing]
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD26Y3 - Independent Studies in Creative Writing: Poetry

Advanced study of the writing of poetry for students who have excelled at the introductory and intermediate levels. Admission by portfolio. The portfolio should contain 15-25 pages of your best poetry and a 500-word description of your project. Please email your portfolio to creative-writing@utsc.utoronto.ca by the last Friday of April (for Independent Studies beginning in either the Fall or Winter semesters).

Prerequisite: ENGB60H3 and ENGC86H3 and [additional 0.5 credit at the C-level in Creative Writing] and permission of the instructor.
Note: Students may normally count no more than 1.0 full credit of D-level independent study towards an English program.

ENGD27Y3 - Independent Studies in Creative Writing: Prose

Advanced study of the writing of fiction or creative nonfiction for students who have excelled at the introductory and intermediate levels. Admission by portfolio. The portfolio should contain 30-40 pages of your best fiction or creative nonfiction and a 500-word description of your project. Please email your portfolio to creative-writing@utsc.utoronto.ca by the last Friday of April (for Independent Studies beginning in either the Fall or Winter semesters).

Prerequisite: [ENGB61H3 or ENGB63H3] and [ENGC87H3 or ENGC88H3] and [additional 0.5 credit at the C-level in Creative Writing] and permission of the instructor
Exclusion: (ENGD27H3)
Note: Students may normally count no more than 1.0 full credit of D-level independent study towards an English program.

ENGD28Y3 - Independent Studies in Creative Writing: Open Genre

Advanced study of the writing of a non poetry/prose genre (for example, screenwriting, comics, etc.), or a multi-genre/multi-media project, for students who have excelled at the introductory and intermediate levels. Admission by portfolio. The portfolio should contain 20-30 pages of your best work composed in your genre of choice and a 500-word description of your project. Please email your portfolio to creative-writing@utsc.utoronto.ca by the last Friday of April (for Independent Studies beginning in either the Fall or Winter semesters).

Prerequisite: [[ENGB60H3 and ENGC86H3] or [ENGB61H3 and ENGC87H3]] and [additional 0.5 credit at the C-level in Creative Writing] and permission of the instructor.
Exclusion: (ENGD28H3)
Note: Students may normally count no more than 1.0 full credit of D-level independent study towards an English program.

ENGD29H3 - Chaucer's Early Works

Advanced study of Chaucer’s early writings, from The Book of the Duchess to Troilus and Criseyde. Consisting of dream visions, fantastic journeys, and historical fictions, these works all push beyond the boundaries of everyday experience, depicting everything from the lifestyles of ancient Trojans to a flight through the stars. This course will explore the forms and literary genres that Chaucer uses to mediate between the everyday and the extraordinary. We will also consider related problems in literary theory and criticism, considering how scholars bridge the gap between our own time and the medieval past. Texts will be read in Middle English.

Pre-1900 course.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in ENG courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGC29H3 or ENGC30H3 or ENGC40H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD30H3 - Topics in Medieval Literature

Topics in the literature and culture of the medieval period. Topics vary from year to year and might include a study of one or more authors.
Pre-1900 course

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGC29H3 or ENGC30H3

ENGD31H3 - Medieval Afterlives

Medieval authors answer the question “what happens after we die?” in great detail. This course explores medieval representations of heaven, hell, and the afterlife. Texts under discussion will include: Dante’s Inferno, with its creative punishments; the Book of Muhammad’s Ladder, an adaptation of Islamic tradition for Christian readers; the otherworldly visions of female mystics such as Julian of Norwich; and Pearl, the story of a father who meets his daughter in heaven and immediately starts bickering with her. Throughout we will consider the political, spiritual, and creative significance of writing about the afterlife.

Pre-1900 course.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in ENG courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGC29H3 or ENGC30H3 or ENGC31H3 or ENGC40H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD42H3 - Studies in Major Modernist Writers

Advanced study of a selected Modernist writer or small group of writers. The course will pursue the development of a single author's work over the course of his or her entire career or it may focus on a small group of thematically or historically related writers.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD43H3 - Topics in Romanticism, 1750-1850

Topics in the literature and culture of the Romantic movement. Topics vary from year to year and may include Romantic nationalism, the Romantic novel, the British 1790s, or American or Canadian Romanticism.
Pre-1900 course

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGC42H3

ENGD48H3 - Studies in Major Victorian Writers

Advanced study of a selected Victorian writer or small group of writers. The course will pursue the development of a single author's work over the course of his or her entire career or it may focus on a small group of thematically or historically related writers.
Pre-1900 course

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in ENG courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD50H3 - Fake Friends and Artificial Intelligence: the Human-Robot Relationship in Literature and Culture

This course will explore the portrayal of the human-robot relationship in conjunction with biblical and classical myths. The topic is timely in view of the pressing and increasingly uncanny facets of non-divine, non-biological creation that attend the real-world production and marketing of social robots. While the course looks back to early literary accounts of robots in the 1960s, it concentrates on works written in or after the 1990s. The course aims to analyze how a particular narrative treatment of the robot-human relationship potentially alters our understanding of its mythical intertext and, by extension, notions of divinity, humanity, gender, animality, disability, and relations of kinship and care.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C- level in ENG courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD53H3 - Studies in Popular Genres

Advanced study of a genre or genres not typically categorized as “literature”, including different theoretical approaches and/or the historical development of a genre. Possible topics might include science fiction, fantasy, gothic, horror, romance, children’s or young adult fiction, or comics and graphic novels.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credits at the C-level in ENG courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD54H3 - Comparative Approaches to Literature and Culture

An in-depth examination of a theme or topic though literary texts, films, and/or popular culture. This seminar course will be organized around a particular topic and will include texts from a variety of traditions. Topics might include, for example, “Disability and Narrative” or “Technology in Literature and Popular Culture.”

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD55H3 - Literature, Politics, Revolution

This advanced seminar will focus on a selected writer or a small group of writers whose literary work engages with themes of politics, revolution and/or resistance. The course will pursue the development of a single author's work over their entire career, or the development of a small group of thematically or historically related writers, and may include film and other media. Topics will vary year to year.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD57H3 - Studies in Major Canadian Writers

Advanced study of a selected Canadian writer or small group of writers. The course will pursue the development of a single author's work over the course of his or her entire career or it may focus on a small group of thematically or historically related writers.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Exclusion: (ENGD51H3), (ENGD88H3)
Recommended Preparation: ENGB06H3 or ENGB07H3

ENGD58H3 - Topics in Canadian Literature

Topics in the literature and culture of Canada. Topics vary from year to year and may include advanced study of ethics, haunting, madness, or myth; or a particular city or region.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Exclusion: (ENGD51H3), (ENGD88H3)
Recommended Preparation: ENGB06H3 or ENGB07H3

ENGD59H3 - Topics in American Poetry

This seminar will usually provide advanced intensive study of a selected American poet each term, following the development of the author's work over the course of his or her entire career. It may also focus on a small group of thematically or historically related poets.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGB08H3

ENGD60H3 - Topics in American Prose

This seminar course will usually provide advanced intensive study of a selected American prose-writer each term, following the development of the author's work over the course of his or her entire career. It may also focus on a small group of thematically or historically related prose-writers.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGB09H3

ENGD68H3 - Topics in Literature and Religion

Topics might explore the representation of religion in literature, the way religious beliefs might inform the production of literature and literary values, or literature written by members of a particular religious group.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses

ENGD71H3 - Studies in Arab North-American Literature

A study of Arab North-American writers from the twentieth century to the present. Surveying one hundred years of Arab North-American literature, this course will examine issues of gender, identity, assimilation, and diaspora in poetry, novels, short stories, autobiographies and nonfiction.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD80H3 - Women and Canadian Writing

A study of the remarkable contribution of women writers to the development of Canadian writing. Drawing from a variety of authors and genres (including novels, essays, poems, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and travel writing), this course will look at topics in women and Canadian literature in the context of theoretical questions about women's writing.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Recommended Preparation: ENGB06H3 or ENGB07H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD84H3 - Canadian Writing in the 21st Century

An analysis of features of Canadian writing at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first century. This course will consider such topics as changing themes and sensibilities, canonical challenges, and millennial and apocalyptic themes associated with the end of the twentieth century.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in ENG courses.
Recommended Preparation: ENGB06H3 or ENGB07H3
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD89H3 - Topics in the Victorian Period

Topics vary from year to year and might include Victorian children's literature; city and country in Victorian literature; science and nature in Victorian writing; aestheticism and decadence; or steampunk.
Pre-1900 course

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in ENG courses
Exclusion: ENG443Y

ENGD90H3 - Creative Writing: Genre Bending and Other Methods of Breaking Form

Feminist scholar, Gloria Anzaldua writes in Borderlands/La Frontera, “I cannot separate my writing from any part of my life. It is all one.” In this class, students will engage with a genre-expansive survey of non-linear and experimental forms of life writing in which lived experience inspires and cultivates form. Some of these genres include flash fiction, auto-theory, auto-fiction, book length essays, ekphrasis, anti-memoir, performance texts, and many others. This course is rooted in intersectional feminist philosophy as a foundational tool for interdisciplinary practice. Throughout the semester, we will explore theoretical approaches that center decolonial literary analysis. We will pair these readings with literature that exemplifies these approaches. In this class, “the personal is political” is the fertile center for our rigorous process of writing and craft excavation.

Prerequisite: [0.5 credit at the B-level in Creative Writing] and [0.5 credit at the C-level in Creative Writing]
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD94H3 - Stranger Than Fiction: The Documentary Film

The study of films from major movements in the documentary tradition, including ethnography, cinema vérité, social documentary, the video diary, and "reality television". The course will examine the tensions between reality and representation, art and politics, technology and narrative, film and audience.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at C-level in ENG or FLM courses
Exclusion: INI325Y
Recommended Preparation: Additional 0.5 credit at the B- or C-level in FLM courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD95H3 - Creative Writing as a Profession

A practical introduction to the tools, skills and knowledge-base required to publish in the digital age and to sustain a professional creative writing career. Topics include: the publishing landscape, pitching creative work, and employment avenues for creative writers. Will also include a workshop component (open to all genres).

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the C-level in Creative Writing courses
Breadth Requirements: Arts, Literature and Language

ENGD98Y3 - Senior Essay and Capstone Seminar

An intensive year-long seminar that supports students in the development of a major independent scholarly project. Drawing on workshops and peer review, bi-monthly seminar meetings will introduce students to advanced research methodologies in English and will provide an important framework for students as they develop their individual senior essays. Depending on the subject area of the senior essay, this course can be counted towards the Pre-1900 requirement.

Prerequisite: Minimum GPA of 3.5 in English courses; 15.0 credits, of which at least 2.0 must be at the C-or D-level in ENG or FLM courses.
Exclusion: ENG490Y
Recommended Preparation: 0.5 credit at the D-level in ENG or FLM courses