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 2018-19; 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/2018-2019-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 (Fall)
319: Theory of English Studies 3 (Winter)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Winter)
352: Theories of Difference (Winter)
460: Studies in Literary Theory – Theories of Comedy (Winter)

Major Figure:

315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
381: A Filmmaker – Todd Haynes (Fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author – Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature – Ondaatje and Atwood (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare – Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
417: A Major English Poet – Byron (Winter)
418: A Major Modernist Writer – TS Eliot (Winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature: Alootook Ipellie (Fall)
503: 18C Samuel Johnson (Fall)
516: Shakespeare: The Sonnets (Fall)
586: Cultural Studies: Other Media – The Kennedys (Winter)

Canadian Component:

229: Canadian Literature 2 (Winter)
313: Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre – Quebec Theatre (Fall)
327: Canadian Prose Fiction (Winter)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry (Fall)
378: Media and Culture – Canadian Inuit, Métis, and First Nations Literature, Video and Film (Fall)
388: Studies in Popular Culture – Indigenous Media (Winter)
395: Cultural and Theatre Studies – Community- and Politically-Engaged Theatre (Fall)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author – Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature – Ondaatje and Atwood (Winter)
413: Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre – Contemporary Aboriginal Theatre (Fall)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature – Alootook Ipellie (Fall)

Historical Dimension:

227: American Literature 3 – The American Novel after 1945 (Fall)
320: Postcolonial Literature – Canadian-Asian and American-Asian Novel (Winter)
363: Studies in the History of Film 3 – American Film of the Sixties (Fall)
366: Film Genre – The Horror Film (Winter)
378: Media and Culture – Canadian Inuit, Métis, and First Nations Literature, Video and Film (Fall)
383: Studies in Communications 1 – The Mute in Literature and Film (Fall)
385: Topics in Literature and Film – Solitude in Literature and Film (Winter)
388: Studies in Popular Culture – Indigenous Media (Winter)
389: Studies in Popular Culture – Teen Film
390: Political and Cultural Theory – The Private and the Public (Fall)
391: Special Topics in Cultural Studies – Media Ethics (Winter)
395: Cultural and Theatre Studies – Community- and Politically-Engaged Theatre (Fall)
408: The 20C – The Novel in South Asia (Winter)
437: Studies in Literary Form – Memoire (Fall)
472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2 – Data and Culture (Winter)
480: Studies in the History of Film – A Year in Film: 1950 (Winter)
481: A Filmmaker 2 – Women Filmmakers (Fall)
489: Cultural and Critical Theory – Marxism (Fall)
530: Literary Forms – Adaptation: Intermedial Literary Forms (Fall)
531: Literary Forms – The Graphic Novel (Fall)
545: Topics in Literature and Society – Four Media of the American Uncanny (Fall)
585: Cultural Studies: Film – Image/Sound/Text (Winter)
586: Cultural Studies: Other Media – The Kennedys (Winter)

400-level theoretical component:

390: Political and Cultural Theory – The Private and the Public (Fall)
391: Special Topics in Cultural Studies – Media Ethics (Winter)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2 – Theatre and Feeling (Fall)
460: Studies in Literary Theory – Theories of Comedy (Winter)
461: Studies in Literary Theory 2 – Autobiography and the Novel (Winter)
472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies – Data and Culture (Winter)
489: Cultural and Critical Theory – Marxism (Fall)
490: Culture and Critical Theory 2 (Winter)

Additional courses

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

301: Earlier 18C Novel (Fall)
312: Victorian and Edwardian Drama (Winter)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
326: 19C American Prose (Fall)
329: 19C English Novel 1 (Fall)
336: 20C Novel 2 – Postwar British Fiction (Fall)
348: Great Writings of Europe (Fall)