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 2020-21; 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/2020-2021-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: Socio-Historical Approaches (Fall)
319: Cultural Theory Now (Winter)
322: Theories of the Text (Winter)
346: Materiality and Sociology of Text (Fall)

Major Figure:

316: Milton (Fall)
345: Literature and Society – Is Shakespeare Modern? (Fall)
357: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Winter)
381: A Film-Maker 1: Agnes Varda and the Feminist Filmmaker (Fall)
403: Studies in the 18th Century: Jonathan Swift: Satirist, Parodist, Poet (Fall)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Michael Ondaatje’s Poetry and Fiction (Winter)
416: Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Transformation (Fall)
418: A Major Modernist Author: T.S. Eliot (Winter)
421: African Literature: Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Fall)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature: Whitman and Dickinson (Fall)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Alootook Ipellie (Fall)
452: Studies in Old English: Reading Beowulf (Winter)
481: A Filmmaker 2: Godard/Akerman (Fall)

Canadian Component:

228: Introduction to Canadian Literature 1 (Winter)
229: Introduction to Canadian Literature 2 (Fall)
313: Canadian Drama and Theatre: Contemporary Canadian Indigenous Theatre (Winter)
327: Canadian Prose Fiction 1 (Winter)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Fall)
378: Media and Culture: Introduction to Inuit, Métis, and First Nations Literature (Fall)
388: Studies in Popular Culture - Indigenous television in Canada, 1965-present (Winter)
408: The 20th Century: Canadian Ecopoetry (Winter)
410: Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Michael Ondaatje’s Poetry and Fiction (Winter)
413: Special Topics in Canadian Drama and Theatre: Contemporary Canadian Political and Community-Engaged Theatre (Winter)
419: Studies in 20th Century Literature: Canadian Inuit Literature after 1950 (Winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media: Alootook Ipellie (Fall)
527: Canadian Literature: Four Major Contemporary Canadian Poets – Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, and Karen Solie (Winter)

Historical Dimension:

279: Introduction to Film History (Fall)
314: 20C Drama: Realism and its Discontents (Winter)
326: 19C American Prose: The Emergence of the Modern American Short Story (Fall)
345: Literature and Society: Is Shakespeare Modern? (Fall)
351: Studies in the History of Film 2: Films of the Forties (Fall)
363: Studies in the History of Film 3: American Film of the 1960s (Fall)
366: Film Genre: Horror Film (Winter)
371: Studies in Drama: 19th to 21st Centuries: 19C US Popular Entertainments (Winter)
378: Media and Culture: Introduction to Inuit, Métis, and First Nations Literature (Fall)
385: Topics in Literature and Film: Shakespeare on Film (Winter)
388: Studies in Popular Culture - Indigenous television in Canada, 1965-present (Winter)
390: Political and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (Winter)
414: Studies in 20C Literature 1: 20th Century African American Literature (Winter)
423: Studies in 19C Literature: Mothers, Fathers, and Monsters – Forms of Reproduction in 19th Century British Literature and Culture (Fall)
431: Studies in Drama: Black Theatre and Drama (Winter)
438: Studies in Literary Form: Global Realisms (Fall)
461: Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (Fall)
472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2: Contemporary Television Narrative (Winter)
484: Seminar in the Film: Contemporary Narrative Film and Literature (Fall)
486: Special Topics in Theatre History: History of Costume, 1800-1969 (Fall)
492: Image and Text: The Graphic Novel (Fall)
512: Contemporary Studies in Literature and Culture: Contemporary British Theatre (Fall)
530: Literary Forms: Early Modern Sex Differences and Discursive Forms (Fall)

400-level theoretical component:

390: Political and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (Winter)
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2: The Actress – Theory/History/Practice (Fall)
461: Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (Fall)
472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2: Contemporary Television Narrative (Winter)
481: A Filmmaker 2: Godard/Akerman (Fall)
484: Seminar in the Film: Contemporary Narrative Film and Literature (Fall)
490: Culture and Critical Theory 2: Bodies and Ecologies (Winter)
530: Literary Forms: Early Modern Sex Differences and Discursive Forms (Fall)
540: Literary Theory 1: The Rise of the World Literature Paradigm (Fall)
566: Special Studies in Drama: The Trans* Eighteenth Century (Fall)
585: Culture Studies: Film: Image/Sound/Text (Winter)

Additional courses

All of the above courses can count as additional courses on the audit sheet if they are not fulfilling another particular requirement.