Cultural Studies Option

This list comprises 2022-23 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 2022-23. 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/2022-2023-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: Literary Institutions (winter)
ENGL 319: Theory of English Studies 3: Cultural Theory Now (winter)
ENGL 352: Theories of Difference (winter)

Major Figure:

ENGL 315: Shakespeare (winter)
ENGL 329: English Novel: 19^th Century 1: Charlotte Brontë (winter)
ENGL 393: Canadian Cinema: David Cronenberg (winter)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Don McKay and Canadian Ecopoetry (fall)
ENGL 418: A Major Modernist Author: Virginia Woolf (winter)
ENGL 421: African Literature: Tanure Ojaide: Writing the Postcolonial Condition (winter)
ENGL 440: First Nations and Inuit Literature: Alootook Ipellie (fall)

Canadian Component:

ENGL 228: Canadian Literature 1 (winter)
ENGL 313: Canadian Drama and Theatre (fall)
ENGL 378: Media and Culture: Introduction to Canadian Inuit, Métis and First Nations Literature, Video, and Film (fall)
ENGL 388: Studies in Popular Culture: Canadian Inuit Film and Television (winter)
ENGL 393: Canadian Cinema: David Cronenberg (winter)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Don McKay and Canadian Ecopoetry (fall)
ENGL 440: First Nations and Inuit Literature: Alootook Ipellie (fall)
ENGL 441: Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies: Canadian Inuit Literature (winter)

Historical Dimension:

ENGL 279: Introduction to Film History (winter)
ENGL 297: Special Topics of Literary Study: 21^st Century American Fiction (fall)
ENGL 314: 20^th Century Drama (winter)
ENGL 326: 19^th Century American Prose: American Fiction after the Civil War (fall)
ENGL 332: Literature of the Romantic Period 2: The Shelley Circle (winter)
ENGL 336: 20^th Century Novel 2: Contemporary British Novel (winter)
ENGL 351: Studies in the History of Film 2: Films of the Forties (winter)
ENGL 371: Theatre History, 19^th to 21^st Centuries: 19^th Century Popular Entertainments (winter)
ENGL 388: Studies in Popular Culture: Canadian Inuit Film and Television (winter)
ENGL 394: Popular Literary Forms: Spy Fiction (fall)
ENGL 405: Studies in 19^th Century Lit 2: British Lit of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (fall)
ENGL 414: Studies in 20^th Century Lit 1: Women and Modern Poetry (fall)
ENGL 422: Studies in 19^th C. Am. Lit: Development of the American Short Story (fall)
ENGL 423: Studies in 19^th Century Literature: British Romanticism, Local and Global (winter)
ENGL 472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2: Contemporary Narrative Film and Literature (winter)
ENGL 492: Image and Text: The Graphic Novel (fall)

400-level theoretical component:

ENGL 438: Studies in Literary Form: Literature and the Environment (fall)
ENGL 454: Topics in Cultural Studies and Gender: Gender and Sexuality Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean (winter)
ENGL 461: Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (fall)
ENGL 472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2: Contemporary Narrative Film and Literature (winter)
ENGL 489: Culture and Critical Theory 1: Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory (winter)

Additional courses:

ENGL 290: Introduction to Postcolonial and World Literature (winter)
SOCI 318: Sociology of the Media (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.