Cultural Studies Option

NB: Students in an English program who wish to take an introductory Shakespeare course must take ENGL 315 and not ENGL 215.  If you took ENGL 215 prior to declaring your English program on Minerva, however, that course may count retroactively towards your program requirements in one of:  Major Figure; Cultural Studies with an Historical Dimension.

Major Figure in Cultural Studies

• ENGL 315 Shakespeare (Protean Shakespeare) (Fall)
• ENGL 316 Milton (Fall)
• ENGL 357 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales (Winter)
• ENGL 381 A Filmmaker 1 (Billy Wilder and the Edges of Comedy) (Winter)
• ENGL 383 Studies in Communications 1 (The Kennedys in Media, Literature and Film)  (Winter)
• ENGL 391 Special Topics in Cultural Studies 1 (Cronenberg) (Fall)
• ENGL 409 A Canadian Author (Leonard Cohen) (Winter)
• ENGL 489 Culture and Critical Theory 1 (Marxism and After) (Fall)
• ENGL 516 Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s Art of Personation) (Fall)

Cultural Studies with a Canadian Component

• ENGL 378 Media and Culture (Fall)
• ENGL 391 Special Topics in Cultural Studies 1 (Cronenberg) (Fall)
• ENGL 409 A Canadian Author (Leonard Cohen) (Winter)
• ENGL 440 First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media (Winter)

Theory and Criticism

• ENGL 318 Theory of English Studies 2 (Socio-historical Approaches to Literature) (Winter)
• ENGL 346 Sociology and Materiality of Text (Winter)
• ENGL 352  Theories of Difference (Fall)

Cultural Studies with an Historical Dimension

• ENGL 320 Postcolonial Literature (Familiar and Unknown Scapes) (Winter)
• ENGL 351 Studies in the History of Film 2  (War Films in U.S. Cinema) (Winter)
• ENGL 363 Studies in the History of Film 3 (American Film of the Sixties) (Fall)
• ENGL 366 Film Genre (The Musical) (Winter)
• ENGL 370 Theatre History: Staging the ‘Other’ in U.S. Popular Theatre and Performance, 1850-1930 (Winter)
• ENGL 371 Theatre History (Experiments in Dance since 1960) (Winter)
• ENGL 374 Film Movement or Period (American Film and Television of the 1950s) (Fall)
• ENGL 381 A Filmmaker 1 (Billy Wilder and the Edges of Comedy)  (Winter)
• ENGL 383 Studies in Communications 1 (The Kennedys) (Winter)
• ENGL 388 Studies in Popular Culture  (Arden and Osborne) (Winter)
• ENGL 389 Studies in Popular Culture (Shakespeare on Film) (Winter)
• ENGL 394 Popular Literary Forms (The Historical Novel) (Fall)
• ENGL 458 Theories of Text and Performance 1 (Movement Theory) (Fall)
• ENGL 459 Theories of Text and Performance 2 (Theatrical Spectatorship) (Winter)
• ENGL 489 Culture and Critical Theory 1: Marxism and After (Fall)
• ENGL 545 Four Media of the American Uncanny (Fall)

Cultural Studies 400-level with Theoretical Component

• ENGL 444 Women's Writing and Feminist Theory (Gender and Postcolonial Literature) (Fall)
  
• ENGL 458 Theories of Text and Performance 1 (Movement Theory) (Fall)
• ENGL 459 Theories of Text and Performance 2 (Theatrical Spectatorship) (Winter)
• ENGL 476 Alternative Approaches to Media 1 (The Matter at Hand) (Fall)
• ENGL 488 Special Topics in Communications & Mass Media 2 (Theorizing the Spectator) (Fall)
• ENGL 489 Culture and Critical Theory 1 (Marxism and After) (Fall)
• ENGL 490 Culture and Critical Theory 2 (Memoire and Memory (Winter)

Additional Courses from the Cultural Studies Option’s Offerings

This category includes all the courses listed above except required courses, as well as the courses listed below. Note that any English course not on this list—such as unlisted courses in Literature—may not count towards your Cultural Studies program.

• ENGL 512 Contemporary Studies in Literature and Culture (Solitude in Literature and Film) (Fall)
• ENGL 545 Topics in Literature and Society (Four Media of the American Uncanny) (Fall)
• ENGL 566 Special Studies in Drama (Queer Theatre and Perforance in North America) (Winter)
• ENGL 587 Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Studies (Winter)

July 2012