GRADUATE SEMINARS

Students in the literature MA are required to take 1 course each in 4 of the following 5 categories, over the course of their degree program:

CATEGORY A - English Literature to 1700
CATEGORY B - Literature in English from 1700 to 1900
CATEGORY C - Literature in English from 1900 to the present
CATEGORY D - Transhistorical/ Cultural Studies
CATEGORY E - Theory, Rhetoric and Language

Students in the Language MA are required to take every 507 (“Studies in the History of the English Language”), 508 (“Studies in Structure of the English Language”), and 509 (“Studies in Rhetoric and Theory of Composition”) seminar offered while they are pursuing course work, unless otherwise advised.

Students in the Language MA are also encouraged to take relevant literature seminars. For example, History of English students whose focus is the medieval period should enroll in ENGL 510, 511, and/or 512; students whose focus is the Early Modern period should enroll in ENGL 515, 519, and/or 520. Students studying dialects of English should enroll in the appropriate Canadian, British, and/or American literature seminars. Students whose focus is Rhetoric should enroll in ENGL 553.

See Section 4.4 of the Handbook.

2012 summer

Course Number	Course Name	Instructor
ENGL 535A	Studies in the Victorian Period "Victorian Spaces" CATEGORY: B	Deanna Kreisel
ENGL 545A	Studies in Canadian Literature “DissemiNation”: Multicultural Canada in Theory and Practice CATEGORY: C	Lorraine Weir
ENGL 553A	Studies in Literary Theory "Exposures: Biopolitics in the Practice of Truth" CATEGORY: D	Dina Al-Kassim

2012-2013 Academic Year

* * SUBJECT TO CHANGE * *

Term 1

Course Number	Course Name	Instructor
ENGL 500A	Research Tools	Sandra Tomc
ENGL 509A	Studies in Rhetoric CATEGORY: E	Judy Segal
ENGL 512A	Middle English Studies An Introduction to the Spatial Turn in/and Medieval Literature: Space, Place, Geo-criticism CATEGORY: A	Robert Rouse
ENGL 530A	Studies in the Romantic Period CATEGORY: B	Miranda Burgess
ENGL 535A	Studies in the Victorian Period CATEGORY: B	Suzy Anger
ENGL 541A	Studies in American Literature Since 1890 Poetry and the Public: Modern American Poetry and Politics 1910-1945 CATEGORY: C	Mary Chapman
ENGL 545A	Studies in Canadian Literature Collective Memory and the Culture of Canada CATEGORY: C	Richard Cavell
ENGL 546A	Studies in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature CATEGORY: C	Dina Al-Kassim
ENGL 561A	Topics in Science and Technology Studies Discourses of Science, Race, and Health CATEGORY: D	Margery Fee

Term 2

Course Number	Course Name	Instructor
ENGL 500A	Research Tools	Vin Nardizzi
ENGL 508A	Structure of the English Language Topic: How the mind uses language to produce a text CATEGORY: E	Barbara Dancygier
ENGL 514A	Studies in the Renaissance Renaissance Poetry and the Idea of Use CATEGORY: A	Stephen Guy-Bray
ENGL 539A	Studies in the Twentieth Century Ruin, Reconstruction, and Revolution: The Anglo-American Novel Between the Wars CATEGORY: C	Marlene Briggs
ENGL 540A	American Literature to 1890 CATEGORY: B Fashion and Image in the American Scene, 1790-1900	Sandra Tomc
ENGL 545A	Studies in Canadian Literature CATEGORY: C	Larissa Lai
ENGL 546A	Studies in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature Post-multiculturalism; Immanent Cosmopolitanism CATEGORY: C	Sneja Gunew

2013 SUMMER

ENGL 508A

Structure of the English Language

CATEGORY: E

Jessica de Villiers

ENGL 525A

Studies in 18th Century

Imaging the Other in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Ethnicity, Race and Nationhood, 1660-1830

CATEGORY: B

Nicholas Hudson

ENGL 546A

Studies in Commonwealth and Post-colonial Literatures

CATEGORY: C

Laura Moss