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Cultural Studies Option

NB: Students in an English program who wish to take an introductory Shakespeare course must take ENGL 315 and not ENGL 215.  If you took ENGL 215 prior to declaring your English program on Minerva, however, that course may count retroactively towards your program requirements in one of:  Major Figure; Cultural Studies with an Historical Dimension.


Theory and Criticism
317: Philosophical Approaches (Winter)
319: Authorship, Performance, and Reception (Fall)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Winter)
352: Theories of Difference (Fall)

Major Figure
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
418: Major Modernist Author—HD and Modernism (Fall)
381: A Major Filmmaker—Todd Haynes (Winter)
383: The Kennedys (Winter)
483: Seminar in the Film—David Lynch (Fall)

Canadian Component
297: Introduction to Inuit, Métis and First Nations Literature, Video and Film (Winter)
393: Canadian Cinema (Fall)
333: Dev of Canadian Poetry 2 (Fall)
327: Development of Canadian Prose Fiction (Winter)
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Ipellie (Fall)
441: Special Topics in Canadian Literature—Canadian Literary Fare (Winter)

Historical Dimension
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
326: 19C American Prose—Fiction After the Civil War (Winter)
371: Theatre History—19C US Popular Performances (Winter)
383: The Kennedys (Winter)
393: Canadian Cinema (Fall)
437: Eros, Confession and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (Fall)
467: Advanced Studies in Theatre History—The American Musical (Fall)
481: A Year in Film—1950 (Fall)
486: Special Topics in Theatre History After 1900 (Fall)

400-level Theoretical Component
458: Theories of Text and Performance 1 (Fall)
481: A Year in Film—1950 (Fall)
489: Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory (Winter)
490: Silence and the Mute Figure in Literature and Film (Fall)
492: Image and Text—The Graphic Novel (Fall)

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