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

FREN 372: Littérature québécoise 1: Réjean Ducharme (winter) (taught in French)
GERM 358: Franz Kafka (fall)
ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (winter)

Canadian Component

ARTH/CANS 315: Indigenous Art and Culture (fall)
CANS 310: Canadian Cultures: Issues and Contexts (winter)
CANS 415: Black Canada (fall)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 372: Littérature québécoise 1: Réjean Ducharme (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine: La poésie actuelle au Québec (winter) (taught in French)

Historical Dimension

ARTH 336: Art Now (fall)
COMS 340: New Media (winter)
COMS 361: Media and Culture of the Night (winter)
EAST 364: Mass Culture and Postwar Japan (winter)
EAST 375: Korean Media and Popular Culture (winter)
EAST 454: Chinese Cinema: Reinventing Cinema and Media in Post-Mao China (winter)
FREN 311: Cinéma francophone (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine: La poésie actuelle au Québec (winter) (taught in French)
GERM 373: Weimar German Cinema (fall)
HISP 340: Latin American Cinema (winter) (taught in Spanish)
HISP 341: Spanish Cinema (winter) (taught in Spanish)
ITAL 375: Cinema and Society in Modern Italy (fall)
ITAL 477: Italian Cinema and Video (winter)
JWST 309: Jews in Film: The Jewish Documentary (fall)
JWST 312: Modern Jewish History: Mizrahim in Israel: A Cultural History (winter)
JWST 370: Israeli Popular Culture (winter)
MUAR 392: Popular Music after 1945 (fall)
RUSS 347: Late and Post-Soviet Culture (winter)
RUSS 395: Soviet Cinema: Art and Politics (fall)
RUSS 430: High Stalinist Culture (fall)

400-Level Theory Requirement

ANTH 408: Sensory Ethnography (winter)
ANTH 412: Topics: Anthropological Theory (fall)
ARTH 440: The Body and Visual Culture (fall)
COMS 411: Disability, Technology and Communication (winter)
COMS 425: Urban Culture and Everyday Life (winter)
COMS 491: Special Topics in Communication Studies (fall)
COMS 492: Power, Difference, and Justice (winter)
GERM 385: Critical Theory (fall)
GSFS 401: Food, Gender, and Environment (winter)
GSFS 404: The Politics of Identity (fall)
PHIL 481: Topics in Philosophy: The Frankfurt School (winter)

Other courses

ANTH 202: Socio-Cultural Anthropology (fall)
ANTH 206: Environment and Culture (fall)
ANTH 304: Chinese Culture in Ethnography and Film (fall)
ANTH 355: Theories of Culture and Society (winter)
ANTH 370: Anthropology and the Image (fall)
ARTH 360: Studies in the Photographic (winter)
CLAS 306: Classics in Modern Media (winter)
CLAS 350: Special Topics in Classics: 21st Century Odysseys (winter)
COMS 310: Media and Feminist Studies (fall)
COMS 330: Media in Cultural Life (fall)
COMS 350: Sound Culture (fall)
FREN 461: Enjeux littéraires et culturels 1: Humanités numériques: littérature et technologie (winter) (taught in French)
GERM 351: Berlin (fall)
GERM 367: Topics in German Thought (winter)
GERM 379: German Visual Culture (winter)
GSFS 250: Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies (fall)
GSFS 303: Gender and Disability (fall)
GSFS 305: Critical Race and Social Justice Theories (fall)
GSFS 306: Queer Theory (winter)
GSFS 307: Indigenous Feminisms (winter)
HISP 345: Contemporary Hispanic Cultural Studies (winter) (taught in Spanish)
ITAL 295: Italian Cultural Studies (fall) (taught in Italian)
JWST 202: Introduction to Jewish Music: The Interactivity of Jewish Folk Music across History, Cultures, and Musical Styles (winter)
LLCU 255: Introduction to Literary Text Mining (winter)
LLCU 300: Cinema and the Visual (winter)
LLCU 301: Topics in Culture and Thought: AI, Data, and Literature (fall)
LLCU 311: Digital Studies/Citizenry (winter)
MUAR 374: Music and Colonialism in Global History (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 331: Religion and Globalization (fall)
RELG 358: Religion and Cinema in India (fall)
RELG 368: Japanese Religions in Pop Culture (winter)
RUSS 213: Introduction to Soviet Film (winter)
RUSS 218: Russian Literature and Revolution (winter)
RUSS 350: Central European Film (winter)
RUSS 398: Soviet Women Filmmakers (winter)

Drama & Theatre

CLAS 400: Ancient Drama and Theatre (fall)
HISP 333: Theatre, Performance and Politics in Latin America (winter) (taught in Spanish)
ITAL 290: Commedia Dell’Arte (winter) (taught in Italian)
PHIL 242: Introduction to Feminist Theory (fall)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (fall)
PHIL 436: Aesthetics 2 (winter)
RUSS 382: Russian Opera (winter)

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)
EAST 350: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (winter)
FREN 250: Littérature française avant 1800 (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 251: Littérature française depuis 1800 (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 252: Littérature québécoise (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 355: Littérature du 20e siècle 1: Les descriptifs littéraires (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 364: Littérature du 18e siècle 1: La Régence littéraire (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 366: Littérature de la Renaissance 1: Un siècle d'innovations littéraires (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 372: Littérature québécoise 1: Réjean Ducharme (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 375: Théories littéraires 2: Rhétoriques (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 380: Littératures francophones 1: Le roman d'enquête (fall) (taught in French)
FREN 391: Savoirs de la littérature 1: Des mages romantiques à Sartre et Blanchot (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 444: Questions de littérature moderne (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 458: La littérature du 17e siècle 2 (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 461: Enjeux littéraires et culturels 1: Humanités numériques : littérature et technologie (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 480: Littérature québécoise contemporaine: La poésie actuelle au Québec (winter) (taught in French)
FREN 482: La littérature du 19e siècle 2: La littérature “fin de siècle” (fall) (taught in French)
GERM 259: Introduction to German Literature 1 (fall)
GERM 260: Introduction to German Literature 2 (winter)
GERM 335: Science and Literature (fall)
GERM 351: Berlin (fall)
GERM 358: Franz Kafka (fall)
GERM 369: The German Novel (winter)
HISP 320: Contemporary Brazilian Literature and Film (winter)
HISP 326: Spanish Romanticism (fall) (taught in Spanish)
HISP 356: Latin American Short Story (fall) (taught in Spanish)
HISP 432: Literature - Discovery and Exploration, Spain and the New World (winter) (taught in Spanish)
ISLA 388: Persian Literature (winter)
ISLA 488: Tales of Wonder in the Islamic World (winter)
ITAL 355: Dante and the Middle Ages (winter)
JWST 206: Introduction to Yiddish Literature (fall)
JWST 325: Israeli Literature in Translation: Jews and Muslims in Conversation (fall)
JWST 327: A Book of the Bible: The Book of Job and its Retelling Across Time (fall)
JWST 330: Topics in the Hebrew Bible: Esther and Ruth (winter)
JWST 351: Studies in Modern Jewish Literature: Jewish Children’s Literature (fall)
JWST 381: God and Devil in Modern Yiddish Literature (winter)
JWST 386: American Jewish Literature (winter)
JWST 387: Modern Jewish Authors: Holocaust Memoirs (winter)
JWST 445: The Poetry of Nationalism (fall)
LLCU 255: Introduction to Literary Text Mining (winter)
LLCU 301: Topics in Culture and Thought: AI, Data, and Literature (fall)
MGPO 434: Topics in Policy 1: Narrating Life: Fact, Fiction, and Modelling Possible Worlds (winter)
PHIL 336: Aesthetics (fall)
PHIL 436: Aesthetics 2 (winter)
RELG 203: Bible and Western Culture (fall)
RELG 302: Literature of Ancient Israel 1 (fall)
RELG 303: Literature of Ancient Israel 2 (winter)
RUSS 218: Russian Literature and Revolution (winter)
RUSS 223 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 1 (fall)
RUSS 224 Russian 19th Century: Literary Giants 2 (winter)