1. Areas of the Canon (examples)
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.
Summer and Fall 2018
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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)
Summer and Fall 2018
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3. English Dept. Categories
Category A: Approaches, Theories, Methods
Category B: Genres & Modes
Category C: National Literatures
Category D: Popular Genres
Each category is further divided into streams and depending on the kind of undergraduate degree you’re doing (honours, double major, major minor, specialized) there are requirements for certain numbers of courses in each category and stream.
Summer and Fall 2018
Paolucci

4. 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."
Summer and Fall 2018
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5. 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.
Summer and Fall 2018
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6. 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
Summer and Fall 2018
Paolucci