Complementary Courses in Other Departments

The appearance of a course on these lists does not guarantee that the department running this course and/or the instructor will grant permission to a student from English to take this course; please always inquire about the availability of taking these courses.

There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive English program credit. If you feel you have identified such a course that is not on this list, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he/she/they agree(s), get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

Finally, recall that majors are allowed to claim only two courses from outside the department to their English degree; if you wish to claim a third non-department course, you must receive advance approval from your advisor. (Minors may claim only one course from outside the department.)

Cultural Studies:

Major Figure Requirement

HISP 301: Gabriel Garcia Márquez (fall)
HISP 454: Almodovar’s Cinema (fall) (taught in Spanish)
ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (winter)
RUSS 330: Chekhov without Borders (winter)
RUSS 337: Vladimir Nabokov (winter)
RUSS 357: Leo Tolstoy (fall)
RUSS 395: Tarkovsky: Cinema and Philosophy (winter)

Canadian Component

ARTH/CANS 315: Indigenous Art and Culture (fall and winter)
ARTH 411: Canadian Art and Race (winter)
CANS 310: Canadian Cultures: Issues and Contexts (winter)
CANS 404: Critical Museology and Heritage in Canada (fall)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 315: Cinéma québécois (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 382: Littérature québécoise 2 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine (winter) (taught in French)
QCST 300: Quebec Culture and Society (winter)

Historical Dimension

ARTH 339: Critical Issues in Contemporary Art (fall)
COMS 340: New Media (winter)
COMS 361: Media and Culture of the Night (fall)
EAST 314: Cold War Cultures in Korean Fiction and Film (winter)
EAST 353: Approaches to Chinese Cinema (winter)
EAST 361: Animation and New Media (fall)
EAST 362: Japanese Cinema (fall)
EAST 375: Korean Media and Popular Culture (winter)
EAST 377: Transnational Asian Culture (winter)
EAST 454: Chinese Cinema (fall)
FREN 310: Cinéma français 1 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 315: Cinéma québécois (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine (winter) (taught in French)
GERM 337: Literature and Revolution (fall) (taught in German)
HISP 341: Spanish Cinema (winter)
HISP 347: Queer Iberia (winter)
HISP 357: Latin American Digital Literature and Culture (fall)
ITAL 362: Post-World War II Literature and Society (fall) (taught in Italian)
ITAL 374: Classics of Italian Cinema (fall)
ITAL 477: Italian Cinema and Video (winter)
JWST 309: Jews in Film (Winter)
MUAR 392: Popular Music after 1945 (fall)
RUSS 347: Late and Post-Soviet Culture (fall)

400-Level Theory Requirement

ANTH 407: Anthropology of the Body (fall)
ANTH 408: Sensory Ethnography (winter)
ANTH 412: Anthropological Theory: Subjectivity and Desire (fall)
CLAS 500: Classics Seminar: Identities (winter)
COMS 400: Critical Theory Seminar (winter)
COMS 411: Disability, Technology and Communication (winter)
COMS 491: Special Topics in Communication Studies: Queer Time (fall)
COMS 492: Power, Difference, and Justice (winter)
EAST 477: Media and Environment in Asia (winter)
FREN 491: Langage et littérature 2: le plurilinguisme bakhtinien (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 496: Savoirs de la littérature 2 (fall) (taught in French)
GSFS 406: Trans*Feminisms (winter)
PHIL 442: Topics in Feminist Theory (winter)

Other courses

ANTH 202: Socio-Cultural Anthropology (fall)
ANTH 204: Anthropology of Meaning (winter)
ANTH 355: Theories of Culture and Society (winter)
ARTH 421: Bodies in Contact: Body Arts & Cultural Encounters (winter)
CLAS 306: Classics in Modern Media (winter)
COMS 300: Media and Modernity in the 20th Century (fall and winter)
COMS 301: Core Concepts in Critical Theory (fall)
COMS 310: Media and Feminist Studies (fall)
COMS 362: Environmental Communication (winter)
COMS 425: Urban Culture and Everyday Life (winter)
EAST 368: Asian Genre Cinemas (fall)
EAST 369: Gender and Sexuality in Asian Media (fall)
FREN 337: Textes, imaginaires, sociétés (winter) (taught in French)
GERM 372: Topics in German Cinema (winter)
GERM 379: German Visual Culture (winter)
GERM 381: Topics in German Thought (winter)
GSFS 250: Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies (fall)
GSFS 305: Critical Race and Social Justice Theories (winter)
GSFS 307: Indigenous Feminisms (fall)
GSFS 308: Sex and Gender Minority Cultures (fall)
ITAL 295: Italian Cultural Studies (winter) (taught in Italian)
JWST 202: Introduction to Jewish Music: The Interactivity of Jewish Folk Music across History, Cultures, and Musical Styles (winter)
LLCU 230: Environmental Imaginations (winter)
LLCU 255: Introduction to Literary Text Mining (winter)
LLCU 300: Cinema and the Visual (winter)
LLCU 301: Topics in Culture and Thought (fall)
MUAR 374: Music and Colonialism in Global History (fall)
MUAR 382: Introduction to World Music (winter)
MUAR 393: Introduction to Jazz (winter)
PHIL 242: Introduction to Feminist Theory (fall)
PHIL 327: Philosophy of Race (fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (fall)
PHIL 436: Aesthetics 2 (winter)
RELG 358: Religion and Cinema in India (fall)
RELG 368: Japanese Religions in Pop Culture (winter)

Drama & Theatre:

GERM 360: German Drama (fall)
PHIL 242: Introduction to Feminist Theory (fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (fall)
PHIL 436: Aesthetics 2 (winter)
RUSS 385: Russian Drama from Pushkin to Chekhov (fall)

Literature:

CLAS 203: Greek Mythology (winter)
CLAS 301: Ancient Greek Literature and Society (fall)
CLAS 302: Roman Literature and Society (winter)
CLAS 402: Hellenistic Literature and Society (winter)
CLAS 500: Classics Seminar: Identities (winter)
EAST 350: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (winter)
EAST 351: Women Writers of China (fall)
EAST 352: Critical Approaches to Chinese Literature (fall)
EAST 453: Chinese Literature (winter)
EAST 461: Inventing the Modern Japanese Novel (winter)
EAST 491: Modern and Contemporary Women Writers of Korea (fall)
FREN 250: Littérature française avant 1800 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 251: Littérature française depuis 1800 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 253: Oeuvres repères de la culture occidentale (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 333: Questions de littérature d'Ancien Régime: Roman et antiroman au Moyen Âge (et sous l'Ancien Régime) (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 335: Théories littéraires 1 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 337: Textes, imaginaires, sociétés (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 360: Littérature du 19e siècle 1 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 362: Littérature du 17e siècle 1 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 381: Littératures francophones 2 (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 382: Littérature québécoise 2 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 453: Littérature du 20e siècle 2 (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 456: Littérature médiévale 2 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 457: Littérature de la Renaissance (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 461: Enjeux littéraires et culturels 1 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 485: Littérature française contemporaine (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 491: Langage et littérature 2: le plurilinguisme bakhtinien (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 496: Savoirs de la littérature 2 (fall) (taught in French)
GERM 259: Introduction to German Literature 1 (fall)
GERM 260: Introduction to German Literature 2 (winter)
GERM 337: Literature and Revolution (fall) (taught in German)
GERM 344: Realism (winter)
GERM 362: 20^th Century Literature Topics (winter) (taught in German)
HISP 301: Gabriel Garcia Márquez (fall)
ISLA 370: The Qur’an: History and Interpretation (winter)
ISLA 388: Persian Literature (winter)
ITAL 345: Romanticism in Italy (winter) (taught in in Italian)
ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (winter)
ITAL 362: Post-World War II Literature and Society (fall) (taught in Italian)
ITAL 363: Italian Women Writers (fall)
ITAL 383: Women’s Writing since 1880 (winter)
JWST 205: Introduction to Jewish Literature: The Gathering Storm, 1918-19 (winter)
JWST 206: Introduction to Yiddish Literature (fall)
JWST 226: Contemporary Israeli Fiction (fall)
JWST 318: Judaism and Environment: Moral Dilemmas in Literature (winter)
JWST 351: Studies in Modern Jewish Literature: Is There a Women’s Literary Tradition? (fall)
JWST 386: American Jewish Literature (fall)
JWST 387: Modern Jewish Authors: The Novel as Family Saga (winter)
MDST 400: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Medieval Studies (fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (fall)PHIL 436: Aesthetics 2 (winter)
RELG 203: Bible and Western Culture (winter)
RELG 302: Literature of Ancient Israel 1 (winter)
RELG 303: Literature of Ancient Israel 2 (fall)
RELG 411: New Testament Exegesis (winter)
RELG 482: Exegesis of Greek New Testament (winter)
RELG 492: Biblical Hebrew Poetry (winter)
RUSS 223 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1 (fall)
RUSS 224 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2 (winter)
RUSS 327: Reading Russian Poetry (winter) (taught in Russian)
RUSS 330: Chekhov without Borders (winter)
RUSS 337: Vladimir Nabokov (winter)
RUSS 357: Leo Tolstoy (fall)
RUSS 365: Supernatural and Absurd in Russian Literature (winter)
RUSS 454: Narratives of Desire (winter)