Cultural Studies Option

The appearance of a course on these lists of recommended courses does not guarantee that the Department running this course and the instructor will grant permission to a student from Cultural Studies to take this course in 2017-18; please always inquire about the feasibility of taking these courses this academic year. Please also verify the term (Fall or Winter) on the Minerva system, as scheduling may change.

There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Cultural Studies program credit. If you feel you have identified a course with a strong Cultural Studies methodology and/or list of readings, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

Please verify the terms in which courses are offered (Fall or Winter) on the Department of English website: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2017-2018-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)
322: Theories of the Text (Winter)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Fall)
352: Theories of Difference (Fall)

Major Figure:

315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
383: Studies in Communications – The Kennedys (Winter)
408: Al Purdy and Don McKay (Winter)
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
410: Ondaatje/Atwood (Fall)
417: Wordsworth (Winter)
481: A Film-Maker 2 – Joss Whedon (Fall)

Canadian Component:

228: Canadian Literature (Fall)
229: Canadian Literature (Winter)
313: Canadian Aboriginal Theatre (Fall)
333: Intro to Canadian Poetry (Fall)
395: Community and Politically Engaged Theatre (Winter)
408: Al Purdy and Don McKay (Winter)
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
410: Ondaatje/Atwood (Fall)
419: Purdy/McKay (Winter)
441: Canadian Literary Cuisine (Fall)
527: Canadian Modernism (Fall)

Historical Dimension:

315: Shakespeare (Winter)
326: American Innocence (Fall)
348: Great Writings of Europe (Fall)
354: Queer Screens (Winter)
370: Theatre History, The Long 18C (Winter)
371: Theatre History – US Popular Entertainments (Fall)
374: American Film and Television of the 1950s (Winter)
382: African Cinema (Winter)
383: The Kennedys (Winter)
385: Solitude in Literature and Film (Winter)
395: Community and Politically Engaged Theatre (Winter)
407: Montage, Modernism, and the Dialectical Image (Winter)
409: Leonard Cohen (Winter)
414: Raw, Cooked, and Rare – Bloodlines in Contemporary American Poetry (Fall)
416: Shakespeare’s Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
419: Postwar Poetry of the British Isles (Winter)
441: History of Canadian Literary Cuisine (Fall)
456: Middle English Material Culture (Winter)
461: Autobiography and the Novel (Winter)
472: The Mute in Literature and Film (Fall)
503: 18C The Villain-Hero (Fall)
587: Contemporary Memoire (Fall)

400-level theoretical component:

390: Political and Cultural Theory (Winter)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Fall)
458: Theories of Text and Performance (Fall)
484: Contemporary Narrative Film and Literature (Winter)

Additional courses:

(others may count as well: please consult an advisor in Cultural Studies)

204: English Literature and the Bible (Fall)
297: Introduction to Postcolonial and World Literature (Winter)
313: Canadian Aboriginal Theatre (Fall)
314: 20C Drama – Realism and its Discontents (Winter)
322: Theories of the Text – Close Reading 1920-1960 (Winter)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
347: Virgil and Ovid (Winter)
361: The Making of Modern Poetry, 1900-1960 (Fall)
422: The Development of the American Short Story through the Long 19th Century (Fall)
438: The Literary Fairy Tale (Winter)
492: The Graphic Novel (Fall)