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Prerequisite:听None
Not open to students who have taken ENGL 200.听 Open only to students in English Major and Minor programs.

听Description: 听Taken in the same term as ENGL 311, Poetics, ENGL 202 is foundational to further study in the department of English. Through readings of and lectures and discussions on a range of non-dramatic听 works from the Anglo Saxon period to the 18^th century, it introduces students to English literary history, as well as challenging them to reflect upon the concept of literary history and idea of the canon. Particular attention will be placed on the development through time of specific literary forms and genres, including lyric, epic, satire, sonnets, romance, and pastoral, and to the dynamics between authors in relation to historical and cultural changes. Through this course, students will develop a knowledge of early literature in English that will prepare them for more advanced and specialized study in the department. Class discussions especially in conference groups and written assignments will help students develop speaking and writing skills of interpretation and communication.

Texts:听(required texts are available at 平特五不中 Bookstore); TBA

Evaluation:听25% mid-term; 40% 5 page term paper; 25% formal final exam; 10% class/conference participation

Description:听This is a survey of British and Anglophone literature from the 18^th century to the present. As this period covers a rich range of texts and authors from various backgrounds, we will focus on writers who, until a few decades ago, were seldom considered to be part of the canon: women, writers of color, outsiders (Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Derek Walcott, Angela Carter). In the case of the well-established writers (William Blake, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot) we will focus on texts that showcase the plight of the working classes, distant imaginary or real landscapes, gender and sexuality, and less explored themes. We will study the characteristics of various literary genres, identify the historical and cultural concerns specific to each period, and read the themes and formal elements of poetry, prose and essays against the social and political background of each era.

Texts:

• Course pack
• The Norton Anthology of Literature, Major Authors, Volume 2, 9^th edition
• Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
• Sam Selvon: The Lonely Londoners

Evaluation听(tentative): Paper 25%, Midterm 25%, Final exam 40%, Short assignments and participation 10%

Format:听Lectures and听weekly conferences

Description:听A representative sampling of Shakespeare鈥檚 plays will provide an introduction to the scope and variety of his drama as it relates to his cultural context and to the main genres of his writing.

Texts:听

• A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream
• As You Like It
• King Lear
• The Winter鈥檚 Tale
• The Tempest

Evaluation:听term paper, 50%; take-home final exam, 40%; conference attendance and participation, 10%

Format:听lectures and weekly conferences

Prerequisite: None.

Description:听 A survey of American literature from its beginnings to the Civil War (1860). While we may begin with early writing鈥擭ative Americans, explorers, Puritans, or 18th-century figures such as Benjamin Franklin, for example鈥攖he main emphasis will be on literature from the first half of the 19th century: authors such as Irving, Douglass, and Stowe, with a special focus on the major writers of the 鈥淎merican Renaissance鈥�--Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, Whitman, and Dickinson. Particular attention will be paid to representative American themes, forms, and literary techniques. No attempt will be made to cover all major writers or writings.

Texts:

• Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography and Other Writings
• The Norton Anthology of American Literature: 8th edition, Vol. B (1820-1865).

Evaluation:听(Tentative): 20% mid-term exam; 25% essay; 15% conference participation; 40% final exam. (All evaluation鈥攐n exams as well as essays鈥攖ests abilities in literary-critical writing and analysis; none involves short-answer or multiple-choice exams graded by computer.)

Format:听Lectures and discussion sections.

Average Enrolment: 180 students.

Prerequisites:听None

Description:听An introduction to Canadian prose and poetry in English from its beginnings through the Second World War. Written in an international language and shaped by publishing centres in Britain and the United States, early Canadian literature in English comprises a rich array of achievements reflecting the coming into being of a complex country. In this course, students will be exposed to major movements and genres, including the literature of exploration and settlement, Confederation Poetry, nineteenth-century social realism, and modernism. Thematic emphasis will be placed on the culture and legacy of the fur trade, the representation of First Nations, Canadian authorship and publishing history, and theories of the nation. Students will read, interpret, orally discuss, and learn to write critically about the assigned readings. We will strive to understand why early Canadian authors wrote as they did, meeting them on their own ground and assessing their relevance to our society today.

Texts:

• Robert Lecker, ed. Open Country: Canadian Literature in English (Thomson Nelson)
• David Thompson. The Writings of David Thompson. Vol. 1, The Travels, 1850 Version. Ed. William E. Moreau (平特五不中-Queen鈥檚)
• Sara Jeannette Duncan. The Pool in the Desert. Ed. Gillian Siddall (Broadview)
• Sinclair Ross. As For Me and My House (New Canadian Library)

Evaluation:听Short assignments and quizzes (10%); midterm (25%); essay (25%); final exam (30%); participation in conferences (10%)

Format:听Lecture and Conferences

Prerequisites:听None

Description:听This course provides a critical introduction to Theatre Studies, in its branches of dramatic literature, dramatic theory, and theatre history.听 Our point of departure for this introduction to the field will be plays drawn from the major episodes of world theatre history, beginning with Ancient Greek drama through contemporary Canadian and postcolonial performance, and including the Department of English mainstage show. Through the plays, we will examine what 鈥渢heatre鈥� is in different periods and places, how it is constituted by the material conditions of performance, codified in dramatic genres, and conceptualized in dramatic theory.听 NB: This course is introductory in the sense of 鈥榝oundational鈥�; it offers the fundaments to the study of theatre and prepares students for further study in Drama and Theatre.

鈥淚ntroduction to Theatre Studies鈥� is divided into units and ordered according to chronology. Each unit is built around a representative play or performance and explores a particular question or issue in theatre studies, for instance, the actor鈥檚 body, theories of genre, or women on stage.

Texts:听Available at the 平特五不中 Bookstore and on Reserve听Gainor, J. Ellen, Stanton B. Garner, Jr. and Martin Puchner, ed. The Norton Anthology of Drama, Shorter Second Edition.

Required Event:听Department of English mainstage play 鈥� Moyse Hall Theatre, end of November

Evaluation:听Midterm exam (25%); final exam (35%); participation (10%); close-reading assignment (15%); theatre production analysis (15%)

Format:听Lecture (2 hours/week) plus discussion sections (1 hour/week)

Enrolment Cap: 140

Prerequisites:听Open to Drama and Theatre Majors. All others must seek permission of myrna.wyatt.selkirk [at] mcgill.ca

Description:听The focus in this course is on the actor as communicator. Spontaneity and freedom from self-consciousness will be just two of the goals of the work. The class will test and explore ways for students to become more engaged, more open and more focused. Emphasis will be placed on exploration of the actor's resources - voice, body, imagination, emotion, intellect and the senses.

Texts:听

• The Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder, et al. (Vintage Books, 1986).听
• Actions: The Actor's Thesaurus by Marina Calderone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams (Drama Publishers, 2004).听 Plays TBA.

Evaluation:听Class Participation 20%; Rehearsals and Presentations 55%; Written Analysis, Journals and Critiques 25%

Format:听Improvisation; games; movement exercises; text interpretation; background research; scene work; warm-ups; discussion; presentations.

Prerequisites:听None

Description:听This course, a required course for Cultural Studies majors and minors, will introduce various critical efforts to theorize the aesthetics, semiotics, and politics of popular culture over the past century. Beginning with a few crucial theoretical touchstones (Marx, Freud, structuralism), we will survey such movements as the Frankfurt School, the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, critical race studies, queer theory, affect theory, and various feminisms, as they each formulate critical frameworks to explain how popular culture works. Along the way, we will consider the following questions: What does the 鈥減opular鈥� in 鈥減opular culture鈥� mean? Does the distinction between 鈥渉igh鈥� and 鈥渓ow鈥� culture have a political dimension? Furthermore, when we do cultural studies, whose culture should be investigated? What is the role of the critic? Finally, how can we grasp the meanings of popular culture: by examining the texts themselves, or by studying the audiences鈥� interpretations and uses of these texts?

Texts:听Roland Barthes, Mythologies.听Essays by Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Andreas Huyssen, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Louis Althusser, John Fiske, Janice Radway, Laura Kipnis, Constance Penley, and others听

Evaluation:听short papers, midterm quiz, conference participation, final exam

Format:听lecture, weekly TA-led conferences

Prerequisite:听 Restricted to Cultural Studies majors/minors and Film Studies minors

Description:听This course is designed to prepare students for future film courses at 平特五不中.听 It is therefore dedicated to three main goals: establishing a frame of reference for the history of film and film theory, introducing key analytical concepts and skills, and inspiring an ongoing interest in film.

NOTE: This course is for Cultural Studies majors/minors and Film Studies minors only, and to maintain fairness no exceptions can be made.听

Required Texts:听coursepack

Evaluation:听quiz 10%, 3-4 page paper 15%, 5-6 page paper 25%, conferences 15%, posted class notes 5%, final 30%.

Format:听Lecture and conferences plus weekly screenings

Prerequisite:听None

Description:听This course offers an introduction to Canadian Inuit, M茅tis and First Nations literature, video and film. It should be stressed that this is only an introduction: Canada is a vast and varied country with over 600 different First Nations tribes, four distinct Inuit regions and several M茅tis groups who all have different traditions, often different languages, and quite different histories.

We will address works either originally written in English or translated into English.

The course will consider oral literature, story-telling and legends handed down through generations as well as contemporary 鈥渃ollaborative life stories,鈥� novels, essays and one play. The common themes are a 鈥渞evolt鈥� against colonialism, in whatever form this may take, and a search for a renewed or continued identity in the contemporary world. Creations in modern media such as television and film have been both forceful and successful: some are included in the course.

Required Texts:

Inuit:

• Wachovich: Saquiaq
• Excerpts from Voices and Images of Nunavimmiut volume 1. Edited By Stenbaek and Grey
• Legends, to be distributed in class.

惭茅迟颈蝉:

• Maria Campbell: Half-Breed

First Nations:

• Tomson Highway: The Rez Sister.
• Richard Wagamese: Indian Horse.

Other articles will be distributed in class.
Most books have been used in other courses, so you may be able to find them second-hand, but they will also available at Paragraphe Bookstore, southwest corner of 平特五不中 College and Sherbrooke.
Excerpts from films and videos will be shown in class and are considered an integral part of the class material for which you are responsible.听 You should have access to watching APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) either on line or on television.

Evaluation:听TBA

Format:听Lecture and duscussion