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 2019-20; 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 initialed 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/2019-2020-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:

318: Theory of English Studies 2 – Socio-Historical Approaches (Fall)
322: Theories of the Text (Fall)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Winter)
352: Theories of Difference (Fall)

Major Figure:

315: Shakespeare (Winter)
316: Milton (Fall)
345: Literature and Society - Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
381: A Film-Maker 1 - Walt Disney (Winter)
388: Hitchcock (Winter)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author – Cohen (Winter)
416: Shakespeare and Transformation (Winter)
417: A Major English Poet – Spenser (Winter)
452: Studies in Old English – Reading Beowulf (Fall)
481: A Filmmaker 2 – Women Filmmakers (Fall)

Canadian Component:

229: Canadian Literature 2 (Fall)
313: Quebec Theatre (Fall)
320: Asian American and Asian Canadian Literature (Winter)
328: Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (Winter)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Fall)
378: Canadian Inuit, Metis, and First Nations Literature, Video, and Film (Fall)
389: Studies in Popular Culture - Creative Arts and Canadian Reconciliation (Winter)
409: Studies in a Canadian Author – Cohen (Winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature (Winter)
440: Canadian Inuit Literature after 1950 (Fall)
527: Canadian Literature (Fall)

Historical Dimension:

280: Intro to Film as Mass Medium – Film and Revolution (Winter)
320: Asian American and Asian Canadian Literature (Winter)
326: 19C American Prose – Fiction after the Civil War (Fall)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Winter)
374: Film Movement or Period – American Film/Television of 1950s (Fall)
378: Canadian Inuit, Metis, and First Nations Literature, Video, and Film (Fall)
382: International Cinema - Arab Cinema (Winter)
383: Studies in Communications 1 – The Mute (Fall)
385: Topics in Literature and Film – Solitude (Winter)
388: Hitchcock (Winter)
389: Studies in Popular Culture - Creative Arts and Canadian Reconciliation (Winter)
390: Political and Cultural Theory – Private and Public (Fall)
407: The 20C – Contemporary Narratives of Slavery (Fall)
415: Studies in 20C Literature 2 – British 1930s (Winter)
437: Studies in Literary Form – Memoire (Fall)
440: Canadian Inuit Literature after 1950 (Fall)
472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2 – Love and its Complications in Lit and Film (Winter)
484: Seminar in the Film – Contemporary Narrative Film and Literature (Fall)
492: Image and Text – The Graphic Novel (Fall)
506: Studies in 20C Literature – Multi-Ethnic American Histories (Winter)
529: Topics in American Studies – Hollywood’s Great Depression (Winter)
586: Cultural Studies – Other Media (Fall)

400-level theoretical component:

390: Political and Cultural Theory – The Private and the Public (Fall)
391: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 1 – Ecologies of Existence (Fall)
444: Women’s Writing anf Feminist Theory – Gender and Postcolonial Literature (Winter)
459: Theories of Text and Performance – Theatre and Feeling (Fall)
490: Culture and Critical Theory 2 – Intro to Digital Humanities (Winter)
566: Special Studies in Drama – Feminism and the Theatre (Winter)
587: Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Studies – Archives/Anarchives (Fall)

Additional courses

(please consult an advisor in Cultural Studies)

380: Non-Fiction Media (Winter)