Honours/Graduate Courses

 

ENGLISH HONOURS & GRADUATE COURSES - Main Campus

 

*400-level courses are intended for advanced English majors and English honours students only.  For admission to the courses, students must have completed a minimum of 60 credit hours and have an average of at least 70% both overall and in English courses.  They must also have successfully completed a minimum of 18 credit hours in ENGL courses, at least 3 hours of which must be at the 300-level.*

**Note: 4XX aa-ZZ will be restricted to students formally accepted to the Honours program or permission of the department head.**

Fall 2023

 

31406/31416 -  ENGL 430AI - 806AI  

Inventing England: Myths of Nationhood and Nationalism in the Long 19th Century

S. Johnston    M    17:30-20:15   CL 417

From 19th century map samplers and Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle to Dickens and Tennyson, this course examines the emergence of modern ideas of "England" in the context of theories of nationhood and nationalism.

 

31407/31417 -  ENGL 445AJ - 809AJ - Cormac McCarthy

M. DeCoste    W    11:30-14:15   AH 309

An intensive study of an extraordinary novelist and stylist, tracing his development through five decades and several genres. Beginning with his gothic explorations of the American South, we follow him to the Southwest, and backwards and forwards in time, as he reworks the Western, the thriller, and apocalyptic dystopia.

 

 ENGL 475AL/475CL - 815AP/815CP - Experimental Memoir - Academic or CW

 

M. Trussler   R    11:30-14:15   AH 309

This course introduces students to the creative non-fiction memoir and personal, lyric essay. It is a hybrid course; both academic and creative writing students can enroll. There is no workshop component. *Note: Students may receive credit for one of ENGL 815AP, ENGL 475AL, ENGL 475CL, or ENGL 815CP.*