1. Some Areas of Literary Study
Postcolonial, Caribbean, African, South Asian, Jewish
National (Canadian, American*, British*)
Regional (Caribbean, African, Commonwealth)
Classical (Roman, Greek)
Special Focus (Women’s, Feminist, Children’s, Gay, Queer, Indigenous, Environmental, Jungian, Global, African)
Criticism* & Theory, Style & stylistics, Linguistics*/history of the language*, Rhetoric*
Genres (Horror, SciFi, Detective, Comics/Cartoons, Travel)
Creative and Professional writing
* Denotes courses available in the early 1970s: everything else is new since then.
Fall 2017
EN 1001AF Paolucci

2. Periods in British Literary History
Old English ( )
Medieval (Middle) English ( )
Renaissance aka "Early Modern" ( )
Interregnum ( )
Restoration ( s)
18th century or “Age of Reason” (1730s-1790)
Romanticism ( )
Victorian ( )
Early Modern ( )
Modern ( )
Post-modern ( )
Contemporary ( now)
Fall 2017
EN 1001AF Paolucci

3. Logic of the Curriculum
1000 Level Fundamentals of the Discipline
2 Mandatory 3-credit courses
2000 Level Introductions to …
Category A - Approaches, Theories & Methods 
Category B - Genres & Modes
Category C - Literatures
Category D - Popular Genres
"Second-year courses introduce students to significant texts, constitutive discourses, and fundamental questions of various methods and fields. Every course in the major/minor at this level is trans-historical in design, in that each aims to provide students with an understanding of how various national and area literatures, genres, or theories have developed over history."
Fall 2017
EN 1001AF Paolucci

4. Logic of the Curriculum
3000 Level Focus in…
Category A: Approaches & Methods: Theory & Culture
Category B: Trans-historical/national: Styles & Movements
Category C: Literatures in and Across History
Build on introductory knowledge with a focus in more specific approaches, critical issues, and literary periods level EN courses are designed to provide greater focus on those areas of English studies to which you were introduced at the level; select 3000-level courses based on the 2000-level courses you took.
Fall 2017
EN 1001AF Paolucci

5. Logic of the Curriculum
4000 Level Inquiry & Specialization (Honours only)
Category A: Inter- and Multidisciplinary
Category B: Trans-National and/or Historical Genre/s
Category C: Literatures in and Across History
Fall 2017
EN 1001AF Paolucci