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English Core Elective Table II

Students admitted Fall 2020 and after must complete 11 courses from Table II.

NOTE: Every course will not be offered every semester. Students may opt for depth by selecting courses within thematic categories, or may opt for breadth by sampling broadly across those categories.

Students considering Graduate studies are strongly advised to meet regularly with the Program Director to plan their course of study to ensure sufficient breadth and depth requirements.

Media + Cultural Studies  

  • ENG 590 Studies in Word and Image
  • ENG 611 Film and Literature
  • ENG 703 Popular Literatures
  • ENG 705 Studies in Visual Cultures
  • ENG 706 Shakespeare and Performance
  • ENG 921 Narrative in a Digital Age
  • ENG 941 Gender and Sex in Literature and Culture

World Views + Experiences

  • ENG 142 Black Arts, Black Power
  • ENG 223 Literatures of Exile and Migration
  • ENG 409 Literatures of the City
  • ENG 413 Literature, Empire, and Colonization
  • ENG 416 American Literatures
  • ENG 417 Special Topics in American Literatures
  • ENG 620 Literatures of the Caribbean
  • ENG 621 Women's Texts, Global Contexts
  • ENG 623 Film/Literature: Middle East, North Africa
  • ENG 640 Literatures of Asia and its Diasporas
  • ENG 650 Indigenous World View
  • ENG 653 Black Literatures and Cultures
  • ENG 701 Canadian Literatures
  • ENG 710 Special Topics in Canadian Literatures
  • ENG 942 Decolonizing Literature

Literary Histories + Movements  

Creative Writing

  • ENG 230  Creativity, Writing and Everyday Life
  • ENG 406  Visionary Poetics
  • ENG 407  Writing Short Stories
  • ENG 517  Techniques and Topics in Creative Writing
  • ENG 577  Getting the Word Out: Publishing
  • ENG 662  Shiny Writing: The Editing Process
  • ENG 680  The Art of Oral Storytelling

Rhetoric, Writing + Culture

  • ENG 200 Writing as a Cultural Act
  • ENG 520 The Language of Persuasion
  • ENG 529 Controversies in Public Discourse
  • ENG 730 The Social Life of Books

Genre Studies

Independent Study