Cultural Studies Option

This list comprises 2023-24 courses in the Department of English that will be accepted for credit towards your Cultural Studies program.

This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2023-24. These courses in a different year may not necessarily count towards your Cultural Studies program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.

Courses are listed below by the program requirements they fulfill.

Course descriptions may be found here: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2023-2024-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:

ENGL 317, Theory of English Studies 1: Philosophical Approaches (fall)
ENGL 318, Theory of English Studies 2: Socio-Historical Approaches (fall)
ENGL 319, Cultural Theory Now (winter)
ENGL 322, Theories of the Text: Concepts of Criticism, 1850-1950 (winter)
ENGL 472, Cultural Studies 2: Feminist Cultural Studies - Video and Performance (fall)

Major Figure:

ENGL 315, Shakespeare (fall)
ENGL 316, Milton (fall)
ENGL 381, A Filmmaker 1: Zacharias Kunuk (fall)
ENGL 409, Studies in a Canadian Author: Alice Munro (fall)
ENGL 417, A Major English Poet: Spenser’s Faerie Queen (fall)
ENGL 418, A Major Modernist Writer: Elizabeth Bowen (winter)
ENGL 440, First Nations and Inuit Literature: Alootook Ipellie (winter)
ENGL 467, Advanced Studies in Theatre History: Bertolt Brecht (fall)
ENGL 481, A Filmmaker 2: Todd Haynes (winter)

Canadian Component:

ENGL 229, Canadian Literature 2 (fall)
ENGL 313, Canadian Drama and Theatre (fall)
ENGL 333, Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (winter)
ENGL 378, Media and Culture: Introduction to Canadian Inuit, Métis and First Nations Literature, Video, and Film (fall)
ENGL 381, A Filmmaker 1: Zacharias Kunuk (fall)
ENGL 388, Studies in Popular Culture: Canadian Inuit Film and Television (winter)
ENGL 393, Canadian Cinema (winter)
ENGL 409, Studies in a Canadian Author: Alice Munro (fall)
ENGL 410, Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Curating Canadian Foodways (winter)
ENGL 431, Studies in Drama: Latin American and Caribbean Theatre (winter)
ENGL 440, First Nations and Inuit Literature: Alootook Ipellie (winter)
ENGL 441, Special Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies: Feminist Media in Montreal (winter)

Historical Dimension:

ENGL 227, American Literature 3: American Fiction after 1945 (winter)
ENGL 301, Earlier 18th C Novel (winter)
ENGL 330, 19th Century Novel 2: Women’s Novels in the Victorian Period (fall)
ENGL 335, 20th-Century Novel 1: British Fiction (fall)
ENGL 366, Film Genre: The Teen Film in U.S. Cinema (winter)
ENGL 371, Theatre History, 19th to 21st Centuries: U.S. Popular Entertainments, 1820-1940 (winter)
ENGL 388, Studies in Popular Culture: Canadian Inuit Film and Television (winter)
ENGL 414, Studies in 20th C Lit 1: Women in Modern Poetry (winter)
ENGL 418, A Major Modernist Writer: Elizabeth Bowen (winter)
ENGL 419, Studies in 20th C. Lit: Breaking the Sequence: Narrative Interventions in Early Twentieth-Century Modernist Fiction (fall)
ENGL 424, Irish Literature (winter)
ENGL 431, Studies in Drama: Latin American and Caribbean Theatre (winter)
ENGL 443, Contemporary Women’s Fiction (fall)
ENGL 472, Cultural Studies 2: Feminist Cultural Studies - Video and Performance (fall)
ENGL 481, A Filmmaker 2: Todd Haynes (winter)

400-level theoretical component:

ENGL 437, Studies in Literary Form: The Concept of the Great American Novel (winter)
ENGL 441, Special Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies: Feminist Media in Montreal (winter)
ENGL 443, Contemporary Women’s Fiction (fall)
ENGL 460, Studies in Literary Theory: Theorizing the Comic (winter)
ENGL 461, Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (fall)
ENGL 467, Advanced Studies in Theatre History: Bertolt Brecht (fall)
ENGL 479, Philosophy of Film (winter)
ENGL 490, Culture and Critical Theory 2: Introduction to Digital Humanities (winter)
PHIL 445, 19th C. Political Theory: Hegel, Marx, and Universal Emancipation (winter)

Additional courses:

ENGL 225, American Literature 1: African American Literature before the Harlem Renaissance (fall)
ENGL 290, Introduction to Postcolonial and World Literature (fall)
ENGL 320: Postcolonial Literature: What is Decolonization? (fall)
ENGL 380, Non-Fiction Media: Cinema, Television, Radio (winter)
ENGL 391, Special Topics in Cultural Studies: Menu Matters (winter)
ENGL 421, African Literature: South African Fiction and Histories of the Novel (winter)
ENGL 438, Studies in Literary Form: Critical Race Readings of American Children’s Literature (winter)
MGPO 434, Narrating Life Fact, Fiction, and Modelling Possible Worlds (fall)

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