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Literature

NB: Students in an English program who wish to take an introductory Shakespeare coursemust 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:  pre-1800 courses; Major Author; Shakespeare; Renaissance.

Please verify the terms in which courses are offered (Fall or Winter) on the Department of English website: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2016-2017-undergraduate-courses

Other ENGL courses than those listed here may sometimes fulfill the program requirements given below. If you note a course not listed that seems to fulfill a given requirement, please see an advisor.


Theory and Criticism:
317: Theory of English Studies 1: Philosophical Approaches (Winter)
318: Theory of English Studies 2: Sociohistorical Approaches (Fall)
319: Theory of English Studies 3 (Fall)
352: Theories of Difference (Winter)

Major Author:
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
357: Chaucer (Winter)
403: Samuel Johnson (Winter)
409: Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Ondaatje and Atwood (Fall)

Literature Before 1800:
301: Earlier 18C Novel (Fall)
305: Elizabethan Romance (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
342: Introduction to Old English (Fall)
357: Chaucer (Winter)
403: Samuel Johnson (Winter)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
424: Early Irish Literature (Fall)

Canadian Literature:
229: Introduction to Canadian Literature 2 (Winter)
297: Introduction to Inuit, Aboriginal, and Metis Literature and Film (Fall)
327: Canadian Prose (Fall)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Winter)
410: Ondaatje and Atwood (Fall)
411: Asian-Canadian Literature (Fall)
440: First Nations, Inuit Lit and Media (Winter)
441: History of Canadian Cuisine (Fall)

American Literature:
227: Introduction to American Literature 3 (Fall)
324: 20C American Prose (Winter)
326: 19C American Prose (Fall)
407: What is the Contemporary? (Winter)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature (Winter)
415: 1920s American Fiction (Winter)
530: American Confessional Poetry (Fall)

Backgrounds of English Literature:
204: English Literature and the Bible (Fall)
347: Great Writings of Europe (Winter)
348: Great Writings of Europe—20C European Novel (Fall)
438: The Literary Fairy Tale (Winter)
461: Autobiography and Novel (Winter)

Old English:
342: Intro to Old English (Fall)

Medieval:
357: Chaucer (Winter)
424: Early Irish Literature (Fall)
500: Medieval Literature (Fall)

Renaissance:
305: Elizabethan Romance (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Shakespeare and Modernity (Fall)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)

18C Literature:
301: Earlier 18C Novel (Fall)
403: Samuel Johnson (Winter)
461: Autobiography and the Novel (Winter)
485: David Garrick (Fall)

Romanticism:
331: Romantic Literature (Winter)

Victorian:
312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
330: 19C British Novel (Winter)
404: Studies in the 19C (Fall)
405: Studies in the 19C (Winter)
423: Literature of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (Winter)

19C American:
326: 19C American Prose (Fall)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainment (Fall)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature (Winter)

Early 20C
327: Development of Canadian Prose Fiction (Fall)

Modern:
314: 20C Drama (Winter)
324: 20C American Prose (Winter)
336: Postwar British Fiction (Winter)
414: Women in Modern Poetry (Fall)
415: 1920s American Fiction (Winter)

Contemporary:
320: Postcolonial Encounters (Fall)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Winter)
407: What is the Contemporary? (Winter)
408: Novel in South Asia (Winter)
409: Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Atwood and Ondaatje (Fall)
411: Asian-Canadian Literature (Fall)
421: African Literature (Winter)
437: Studies in a Literary Form—Memoir (Fall)
440: First Nations, Inuit Literature and Media (Winter)
444: The Female Public Intellectual (Winter)

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