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ENGL 010 - Language Skills

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This is an intensive course in fundamental writing and reading skills. It is not transferable to university, but successful completion guarantees admission to English 100.

Prerequisites: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.

ENGL 100 - University Writing Strategies

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This university writing course introduces students to foundational strategies for critical reading, analytical thinking, and clear writing. Through the exploration of topical questions in local and global contemporary culture, the course teaches core skills for active reading and discussion, and provides students with opportunities to write in a range of forms and genres from blog posts to critical analysis to research projects. Revision and detailed individual feedback are fundamental components of the course. Modules on research literacy are taught in collaboration with the university library. Modules on editing, revision, and digital literacy are taught in collaboration with the Capilano Writing Centre.

Prerequisites: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.

Notes:

  • ENGL 100 is an approved Literacy course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 103 - Introduction to Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course introduces students to a rich variety of literature in both traditional and new genres, including novels, plays, poems, screenplays, memoirs, and graphic novels. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.

Prerequisites: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.

Notes:

  • ENGL 103 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.

ENGL 107 - Introduction to Indigenous Literatures and Film

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course focuses on Indigenous poetry, plays, screenplays, films, novels, and memoirs across national boundaries. The course may also include work by some non-Indigenous writers on Indigenous subjects. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.

Prerequisites: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.

Notes:

  • ENGL 107 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 107 is an approved Self and Society course for Cap Core requirements.

ENGL 109 - Literature and Contemporary Culture

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course explores contemporary issues as represented in literature, film and music. The specific issue investigated differs between sections, instructors and years. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.

Prerequisites: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.

Notes:

  • ENGL 109 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.

ENGL 112 - Reading, Writing, Dialogue: Entering Global Conversations

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course will support first-year students in their development as writers in a university context, targeting skills in attentive reading, thoughtful writing, and dialogical exchange through the study of short texts (literary, popular, and multimedia) about global cultures and issues.

ENGL 190 - Introduction to Creative Writing

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

In this introductory Creative Writing workshop, students sharpen their writing craft by writing and workshopping in multiple genres while also studying contemporary practice. All sections of ENGL 190 involve creation of writing through prompts and exercises, editorial feedback through a variety of means, and the curation of a substantial written portfolio.

Prerequisites: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.

Notes:

  • ENGL 190 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 191 - Creative Writing: Contemporary Practices

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

In this course, students develop their writing craft by writing and workshopping in multiple genres while studying contemporary practice. All sections of ENGL 191 involve creation of writing through prompts and exercises, editorial feedback through a variety of means, the curation of a substantial electronic portfolio with an artist statement, and a focus on writing "the series", or long project. This project will provide students with the skills needed to research and write a coherent and comprehensive serial or longer form work, which will form a significant portion of the curated ePortfolio.

Prerequisites: See information on English Diagnostic Test in the Registration section of the University Calendar.

Notes:

  • ENGL 191 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 200 - Beginnings: The Story of English Literature Before 1700

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

There is no single beginning to the story of Literature in English. The literary arts of the British Isles between the 10th and 17th centuries rise from tangled roots: mass migrations, linguistic and cultural borrowings, political and religious crises, colonial occupations, and philosophical revolutions. The bewildering variety of literary artforms from these centuries challenge modern notions of history and fiction, spirituality and the secular, selfhood and society. Reading widely across this long period, students will consider what it means to tell the story of literary history: whose voices count? Who gets left out? How does our sense of the past shape our present, and vice versa?

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 200 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 201 - Disruptions: The Story of English Literature After 1700

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

Our sense of the modern world has been shaped by radical changes in how people tell stories that arose between the late-seventeenth and early-twentieth centuries, including (but not limited to) the invention of the modern novel, revolutions in poetic language, and the rise of cinema. In this course, students will consider how these and other genres responded and contributed to historical disruptions both massive and intimate: global wars, colonial resistance movements, scientific advancements, and new ways of experiencing sexuality, citizenship, and selfhood. Explorations of course readings will be animated through visual art, music, film, manuscripts, and digital archives.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 201 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 203 - Introduction to Canadian Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course provides an introduction to Canadian literature from early European contact to the twenty-first century by examining a variety of storytelling genres that address prevalent themes and debates surrounding the complex, contested notion of "the nation". Students will consider how the context of ongoing settler-colonialism informs Canada's diverse literary cultures and understandings of "the nation".

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 203 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 205 - Introduction to American Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course introduces students to the study of American literature and culture. What has been the contribution of US writing to the histories of the novel, poetry, theatre, and film, in conversation with a broader range of artforms? How has America's literary imaginary been shaped by its colonial and revolutionary history, slavery and postslavery, Indigenous dispossession, consumerism, industrialization/deindustrialization, and US geopolitical hegemony? Students will explore these and other questions through a sampling of some of the most exciting works in US literary history and criticism.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 205 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 207 - Literary Theory and Criticism

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course introduces students to the dynamic history of literary theory and criticism, focusing on the last century and approaches such as formalism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, Marxism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, critical Indigenous theories, queer theory, ecocriticism, and critical races studies.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 207 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 208 - Studies in Fiction

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course deepens knowledge of storytelling genres by exploring selected works of narrative fiction, such as novels, novellas, short stories, and graphic novels. Students will examine the literary, cultural, and historical qualities and contexts of these texts.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 208 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 213 - World Literature in English

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course examines literature from a variety of countries, cultures and traditions around the globe, either written in or translated into English.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 213 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 217 - Literature on the Edge

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course examines experimental and/or radical texts, genres, and topics. Students will study cultural and literary figures, movements, and art that resist mainstream society and that exist on the margins of traditional literary culture.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 217 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 218 - The Art of Children's Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course explores the rich variety of children's literature, from picture books to YA (young adult) novels, and considers how writing for children delights, instructs, and subverts. The course will explore oral traditions such as Indigenous storytelling and folklore and critically examine Anglo-American dominance within the canon of children's literature. Attending to constructions of gender, sexuality, race, and class within books intended for children, we will also consider complex questions of audience in a body of work written for children primarily by adults.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 218 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 219 - Reel Lit: Literature into Film

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course examines works of literature alongside their film or television adaptations, exploring the textual and visual as distinct modes of expression while considering what is lost or gained in the translation of content from one medium to another.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 219 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 220 - Research Voices: Clarity and Style for the Academic Writer

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course will help students from diverse fields improve the clarity and style of their writing. Students will read widely across scientific, social-scientific, and humanistic disciplines, applying strategies from a range of writers to their own written work. Drawing connections between academia and community, students will practice writing from their own fields of study with care, depth, and craft, experimenting to find their own unique voices while adapting to audience and context.

Prerequisites: 24 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including ENGL 100

Notes:

  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 260 - Writing Communities

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course introduces students to the practices, networks, and traditions that sustain the work of writing and storytelling in their myriad forms. Bridging the divide between creative and academic literary contexts, the course explores a range of histories, methods, and critical interventions to illuminate what it means to write within and for a given community. Examining key institutions of literary culture, scholarship, and community building (e.g., archives, movements, readings, journals, conferences), students will become familiar with the social processes that support literary research and will collaborate on final creative-scholarly projects.

Prerequisites: 6 credits of 100-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 260 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 290 - Creative Writing: Letter and Line

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This is an intensive workshop in the writing of poetry, concentrating on understandings of poetic forms, voices, styles, and communities. Students will have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of traditional and innovative forms, such as the short lyric, the long poem, narrative verse, digital poetics, prose poetry, and expand their writerly voices.

Prerequisites: ENGL 190 and ENGL 191

Notes:

  • ENGL 290 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 291 - Creative Writing: Narrative Fictions

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This is an intensive workshop in the writing of fiction, concentrating on narrative techniques in student writing and in a variety of published works of contemporary fiction. Students will have the opportunity to develop an awareness of voice, rhythm, dialogue, diction, character, and point-of- view as well as important cultural and decolonial contexts for reading and producing creative work.

Prerequisites: ENGL 190 and ENGL 191

Notes:

  • ENGL 291 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 292 - Creative Writing: Children's Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This is an intensive workshop in writing literature for children of various ages. Students will work on such forms as text for picture books, poetry and nonsense rhymes, and chapters of young adult novels. Critically examining gendered and settler colonial biases that have historically shaped creative writing workshops and the field of children's literature, students will respond to diverse artistic voices on their own terms and manifest self-awareness about their positionality as it relates to the learning environment and the kinds of children's literature they produce.

Prerequisites: ENGL 190 and ENGL 191

Notes:

  • ENGL 292 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website. ENGL 218 is recommended.

ENGL 293 - Creative Writing: Creative Nonfiction

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This is an intensive workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction, concentrating on contemporary nonfiction forms, such as magazine articles, memoir, personal narrative, literary journalism, lyric essay, etc., as well as professional aspects of writing, such as "the pitch", book proposals, and the editing process. Students will have the opportunity to explore important cultural and decolonial contexts for reading, developing, and distributing creative work.

Prerequisites: ENGL 190 or ENGL 191

Notes:

  • ENGL 293 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 295 - Special Topics in Creative Writing

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

The focus of this Creative Writing course is determined by the individual instructor in consultation with the department. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.

Prerequisites: ENGL 190 or ENGL 191

Notes:

  • Recommended course follow-up: ENGL 290, 291, 292, 293

ENGL 296 - Creative Writing: Writing for the Stage

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This is an introductory workshop in playwriting, covering fundamentals such as dramatic structure, characterization, and dialogue. Students will develop, edit, and rewrite works through readings and feedback. They will explore a variety of approaches to play creation and dramaturgy, which may include but are not limited to Indigenous, Euro-Western, and feminist practices.

Prerequisites: ENGL 190; or ENGL 191; or ACTR 100 and ENGL 100

Notes:

  • ENGL 296 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 297 - Introduction to Screenwriting in Fiction

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This is an intensive introduction to the writing of screenplays and scripts that builds and draws extensively on the literary arts. Focusing on short-form works, students will learn the fundamental key concepts of scriptwriting and the film production process, including the roles of the director, cinematographer, and other creative collaborators in the film and televisual arts. Students will explore the basic theory and formal aspects of story, dramatic structure, character development, and dialogue. Assignments may include original short screenplays and/or screenplay adaptations of one or more literary works.

Prerequisites: ENGL 190 and ENGL 191; or MOPA 106 and MOPA 206

Notes:

  • ENGL 297 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.

ENGL 300 - Writing, Rhetoric, Style

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

Building on writing, research, and revision skills introduced in ENGL 100, this course will deepen the writer's knowledge of rhetorical choices and awareness of current essay genres. Students will learn to effectively take the investigative project through all stages of composition - from inception and handling of research to revision and stylistic editing - and will gain confidence in writing in a variety of modes.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 300 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 305 - Special Topics in Canadian Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course studies selected works of Canadian literature in any genre(s) that are important for their artistic, cultural, and/or historical content and contexts. Depending on the term, iterations of the course may focus on specific approaches, critical issues, and/or literary periods. Sample course titles: Canadian Ecocritical Literature, Postcolonial and Decolonial Literatures in Canada, Canadian Literary Urban Fiction, the Canadian Graphic Novel.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 305 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 320 - Global Literatures

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course will focus on a specific topic in postcolonial, transnational, diasporic, or global Indigenous literature and poetics. Students will explore how writers around the world have recrafted their art in response to the forces that have shaped our global society. Readings may include both historical and contemporary works as well as texts in translation.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 320 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 323 - Special Topics in Genre

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course focuses on the emergence and persistence of a specific literary or non-literary genre, such as the gothic novel, lyric poetry, modernist elegy, tragic drama, detective story, travel narrative or memoir/autobiography. The course is intended to develop a deep critical awareness of the formal techniques and social contexts of a given genre's representation of experience.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 323 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 329 - Literature and Performance

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course examines literary performances, plays, and practices, as well as the performative dimensions of other types of expression. Students will be introduced to, and will use, a range of theoretical perspectives and methods to analyze a variety of performance texts and contexts. This might include studying theatre, film, dance, gesture and physicality, gender, the internet and online performances, and everyday site specific performances.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 329 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 332 - Literature and Politics

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course engages students in the study of literature from the standpoint of politics. Questions to be explored may include the following: what can literary study teach us about justice, freedom, and sovereignty? What role has literature played in political struggles such as those connected to settler colonialism, inequality, and climate change? How do the techniques of literary criticism draw from or contribute to political analysis? What would it meant to read a literary artwork as a form of political theory - or as a political act?

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 332 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 332 is an approved Self and Society course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 338 - Literature and Media

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course explores literary art criticism within the framework of media studies. Students will consider the diverse forms and technologies that have shaped written and oral literature, and will situate literary texts within our increasingly diverse landscape of media forms.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 338 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 344 - Literature and the Environment

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course explores literature in the context of recent environmental and ecological thought.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 344 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 344 is an approved Self and Society course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 352 - Before Literature: Topics in Literary History I

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

Pre-modern poetic cultures were characterized by a dizzying variety of literary and interpretive practices, encompassing oral and written poetry, political rhetoric, prose narrative, dramatic performance, fable, history, confession, and philosophical speculation. But these practices were not understood to belong under a single unifying idea of "literature" as a distinct discipline of fiction-making and interpretation. How did such works fit in their historical worlds, and what can they teach us about our own moment?

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 352 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • This special topics course focuses on a specific literary-historical period or movement prior to the mid-seventeenth century. For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 353 - Inventions of Literature: Topics in Literary History II

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

The invention and institutionalization of "literature" as we know it occurred between the late-sixteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, alongside vast political and cultural changes - the rise of settler-colonial empires, a reading middle class, women's entrance into the literary marketplace, scientific and industrial revolutions, and the first truly global wars. How were literary innovations in realism, character, diction, prosody, and performance shaped by these historical contexts, and what do they reveal about the world we live in now?

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 353 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • This special topics course focuses on a specific literary period or movement between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 354 - Literary Transformations: Topics in Literary History III

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

The idea of literature as a distinct discipline developed side-by-side with the capitalist world system, which from the mid-nineteenth century onward has faced a series of crises that have revealed violent global interdependencies and prompted radical social change. The literary arts correspondingly underwent profound transformations in form, language, and media that persisted through to the end of the twentieth century. How can we understand these innovations in relation to historical shifts in sexuality, decolonization, race, science, technology, and the environment?

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 354 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • This special topics in literary history course will focus on a specific period or movement between the mid-nineteenth and late-twentieth century. For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 358 - Special Topics in Contemporary Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course studies distinctive features of contemporary culture through works of literature written from roughly 1970 to the present day.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 358 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 359 - Indigenous Resistance Narratives

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course focuses on the diverse and creative survival, resistance, and healing strategies Indigenous peoples have developed in the face of systemic oppression. Reading lists may include Indigenous literatures from around the world, and may focus on a single author, a literary movement, or a theoretical perspective.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 359 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 359 is an approved Self and Society course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 363 - Words in The World I: Genre and Form

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course investigates key genres of English literature and the processes of their formation and transformation. In a seminar setting foregrounding accountable reading, shared inquiry, and collaborative critical dialogue, students will study a wide range of prose, poetry, and performance texts - from the classical to the modern to the contemporary - exploring the ways in which the formal conventions of genres and subgenres have been shaped and reshaped by the particular contexts in which they emerge.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 363 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 365 - Words in the World II: Cultures, Networks and Traditions

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course investigates literary and cultural traditions and countertraditions with a focus on their local, global, and postcolonial contexts. In a seminar setting foregrounding accountable reading, shared inquiry, and collaborative critical dialogue, students will study how a wide range of writers, artists, and other thinkers have imagined, articulated, critiqued, and in some cases revised such concepts as personhood, citizenship, justice, and community through varied uses of narrative, storytelling, and other modes of representation.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 365 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 365 is an approved Self and Society course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 367 - Land School

3.00 credits

(2,0,2)

15 wks

This course offers experiential study of the literature, history, and culture of a Land School location, with a focus on introducing students to Indigenous ways of knowing. The Land School may be organized around critical approach, historical period, decolonizing practices, or geographical and cultural area. The course has three parts: classroom time, a one- to two-week immersive Land School experience that encourages students to consider place as a form of learning, and opportunities for reflection.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 367 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 367 is an approved Self and Society course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 367 is an approved Experiential course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 369 - Foundations in Writing Pedagogy

3.00 credits

(3,0,1)

15 wks

This course is designed for students in any discipline who wish to learn about some of the philosophies and practices involved in the teaching of writing and revision. With a special focus on preparing students for roles in peer-tutoring contexts, the course offers a hands-on, experiential approach to a range of writing and revision pedagogies that will not only equip students for future positions as writing tutors but also help them sharpen their own writing skills.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 369 is an approved Experiential course for Cap Core requirements.

ENGL 390 - Advanced Poetry and Poetics

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course focuses on developments in poetry and poetics since the 1970s such as the long poem, serial forms, procedural writing, language-centred writing, ecopoetics, conceptual writing, visual poetry, prose poetry, documentarian forms, poet's theatre, guerrilla poetry, dialect and patois, and new media. See the Department of English website for the focus of the course in a specific term.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

ENGL 391 - Advanced Narrative Forms

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course focuses on developments in fiction and narrative since the 1970s such as new narrative, genre fiction, graphic novels, microfiction, the city-novel, appropriated narratives, biofiction, new media, and other forms and modes.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

ENGL 392 - Creative Writing: Writing Places

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course offers students an opportunity to write and read about the different ways of interacting with place. The course will explore the world's histories, landscapes, violence, decay, marvels, and futures through diverse geographical, cultural, aesthetic, and thematic outlooks. The workshop component of the course will allow students to critically and creatively engage with the world they inhabit and transform their engagement into powerful stories.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 392 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 393 - Creative Writing: Advanced Practices

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course presupposes that students have current portfolios. It addresses advanced practices, methods, and techniques used by writers working in a variety of literary genres. Topics include conceptualizing large projects, research methods in the literary genres, global restructuring of manuscripts, examining the writing process, and experimenting with new procedures. In addition to lectures and workshops, local guest writers will visit the class to discuss these aspects of their practice.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 393 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 394 - Creative Writing: Performance

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

Students will adapt material (such as short stories, poems, and essays) from other writing classes, as well as from other sources, for text-based performance genres such as the screenplay, the radio drama, poets theatre, "movie telling", and/or the podcast. Collaboration will be encouraged.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 394 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 395 - Creative Writing: Special Topics

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

The focus of this Creative Writing course is determined by the individual instructor in consultation with the department. Examples might include New Media, Writing and the Body, Transmissions, or Writing from the Land.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 395 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 396 - Literary Publishing

6.00 credits

(4,0,0)

30 wks

This course in Literary Publishing will focus on the creation and production of a print and online publication, from concept to design to publication to launch. This studio-style class will provide opportunities for students to fill multiple roles in literary publishing - in publicity, acquisitions, editorial and event planning. Assignments will reflect the multiple roles on a production team, including marketing, design, writing and editing. The year will culminate in a public reading and launch event for the print edition of the publication.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100 or 200-level coursework including ENGL 190, ENGL 191, and one of ENGL 290, 291, 293, 296 or 297

Notes:

  • ENGL 396 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • ENGL 396 is an approved Experiential course for Cap Core requirements.

ENGL 398 - Creative Writing in the Digital Age

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course focuses on digital genres of creative writing. Engaging with texts in a range of forms, students will learn to analyze and model sources that emerge specifically from online communities of writers. The outcome of this class is greater writing versatility through a deep engagement with the online literary archive and hands-on experimentation with diverse written forms.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 398 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 399 - Multi-Genre Creative Writing

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This upper-level course focuses on versatility and cross-pollination in creative writing genres. Students will read diverse literary samples, from the traditional to the experimental, to examine how form is connected to the cultural and societal impact of literary texts. Students will then attempt multiple creative experiments by modeling and adapting form with a range of cultural and societal considerations in mind.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 399 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 400 - Major Authors

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course offers an in-depth study of a single author.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 400 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 420 - Special Topics in Literary Theory

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course offers an in-depth study of a selected topic in literary-critical theory.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 420 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 435 - Electronic Literature

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course examines electronic literature (literature created exclusively on and for digital devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones). Students will consider the genre as a form possessing computer-driven aesthetics - such as speed, animation, and multimodal semiotics - that produce different literary effects and reading practices.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 435 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • ENGL 435 is equivalent to ENGL 335. Duplicate credit will not be granted for this course and ENGL 335. For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 463 - Words in the World III: Critical and Creative Formations

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

This course investigates histories and modes of criticism and the relation between theory and other creative and cultural formations. In a seminar setting foregrounding accountable reading, shared inquiry, and collaborative critical dialogue, students will survey a wide range of critical and literary theories, analyze the social and institutional contexts of their emergence, situate them in relation to each other, and evaluate their impact on both scholarly and creative practices in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 463 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 463 is an approved Self and Society course for Cap Core requirements. ENGL 463 is an approved Experiential course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 464 - Capstone Project

3.00 credits

(3,0,1)

15 wks

In this course, students will refine a creative or critical work of their own making as well as collaboratively produce a professional-quality anthology publication for both print and web formats. Beginning with a brief history and assessment of the anthology form itself, the course will guide students through every stage of the production process, inviting them to try a variety of tasks and allowing them to specialize in the publishing-related role of their choice.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 464 is an approved Capstone course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 465 - Words in the World Practicum

3.00 credits

(1,0,3)

15 wks

This is a work-experience course that connects students with a host organization in a relevant field or industry. The Practicum is conducted under the mentorship of a Capilano faculty member and a supervisor from the host organization. Students gain valuable experience applying their skills in research, writing, critical thinking, and imaginative problem-solving in a unique real-world setting, discovering how their training and knowledge can be used in various business, education, research, or cultural contexts.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 465 is an approved Experiential course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.

ENGL 466 - Directed Reading

3.00 credits

(0,0,4)

15 wks

Students will work with an English faculty member and be guided in the development of a research-based project. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the English Department Coordinator.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 6 credits of 100 or 200-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 466 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.

ENGL 467 - Honours Thesis

6.00 credits

(4,0,0)

30 wks

In this course students in the English Honours program undertake a research project culminating in a graduating honours thesis. The course is delivered over two terms, the first devoted to reading and research for the project, the second to the drafting and completion of the written thesis.

Prerequisites: 15 credits of 300 or 400-level coursework including 9 credits of 300-level ENGL

Notes:

  • ENGL 467 is an approved Capstone course for Cap Core requirements.
  • This course is only open to students who have been accepted into the English Honours program.

ENGL 490 - Directed Studies

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

Students will work with an English faculty member and be guided in the development of a research-based project. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. See the Department of English website for complete details on the application process. Admission is by permission of the instructor and the department.

Prerequisites: 15 upper level credits including one 300-level English course

ENGL 491 - Creative Writing: Directed Studies

3.00 credits

(4,0,0)

15 wks

Students will work with an instructor to guide them with a topic-based analytical/creative project, approved by the student's advisor. Specific course details will be arranged between individual students and faculty members. Registration is by permission of the instructor and the Creative Writing Convenor.

Prerequisites: 45 credits of 100-level or higher coursework including 3 credits of 300-level Creative Writing coursework

Notes:

  • ENGL 491 is an approved Culture and Creative Expression course for Cap Core requirements.
  • For the focus of the course each term, see the "Courses" page on the English Department website.