Subject | Course | Section | Course Title | Course Description | Instructor | Files | Term |
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ENGL | 310B | 001 | Chaucer 2 |
A study of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales". |
Norm Klassen | ENGL 310B_N.Klassen_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ENGL | 306A | 001 | Introduction to Linguistics |
Introduction to linguistics and the principles of linguistic analysis through an examination of English phonology, forms, syntax, and discourse. |
Elena Afros | ENGL 306A_E.Afros_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ENGL | 251 | 002, 003 | Literary Theory and Criticism |
What exactly are we doing when we study literature? By examining a selection of critical methods and theoretical approaches, this course will enhance understanding of the many different emphases, values, and priorities critics bring to literature, and the many available perspectives on what constitutes literature's significance. |
Norm Klassen, Chad Wriglesworth | ENGL 251-002_N.Klassen_Winter 2020.pdf ENGL 251-003_C.Wriglesworth_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ENGL | 208B | 001 | Science Fiction |
Various examples drawn, for instance, from Utopian and anti-Utopian science fiction, social science fiction, "gadget" science fiction, parapsychology, and alternate worlds and beings will be considered. Some attention will be given to the historical development of the genre. |
Andrew Deman | ENGL 208B_A.Deman_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ENGL | 206 | 001 | Writing Lives |
This course studies the ways the self is constructed through text by examining a variety of life-writing approaches, organized from youth to old age, along with theories of identity, memory, gender, narrative, cultural studies, and autobiography as a genre. |
Carol Acton | ENGL 206_C.Acton_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ENGL | 200B | 001 | Survey of British Literature |
An historical survey of major figures, types, and trends in British literature from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century. |
Tristanne Connolly | ENGL 200B_T.Connolly_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ENGL | 119 | 001, 002, 003 | Communications in Mathematics and Computer Science |
This course aims to build students' oral and written communication skills to prepare them for academic and workplace demands. Working independently and in collaboration with others, students will analyze and produce various written and spoken forms of communication. Projects and assignments will draw on materials for Mathematics and Computer Science students. |
Mark Spielmacher, Sylvia Terzian, Andrew Deman | ENGL 119-001_M.Spielmacher_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ENGL | 108X | 001 | Literature and Medicine |
How can literature help us understand the body, illness, and healing? The course considers the perspectives of patients and medical practitioners across a range of works, including poetry, fiction, medical texts, and other nonfiction. |
Carol Acton | ENGL 108X_C.Acton_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |
ARTS | 290 | 001 | Second-Year Topics in Arts Disciplines: Disruptive Leadership |
This topics course will be offered from time to time by particular disciplines in Arts, to cover areas of emerging research and teaching interest. |
Scott Kline, Cristina Vanin | Winter 2020 | |
ARTS | 140 | 004 | Information and Analysis: How the Sausage is Made |
This course introduces students to diverse ways of finding, examining, and using data and information in the social sciences and humanities. In a small seminar setting, students will explore a variety of topics based on instructor expertise in order to understand quantitative and qualitative methods of data gathering and build competencies in conceptualizing, contextualizing, and comprehending methods of information analysis. Students will be expected to investigate, use, and assess the presentation of information in their own work and the work of others so that they can better understand the range of social, ethical, and political challenges of our world. |
ARTS 140-004_L.Jang_Winter 2020.pdf | Winter 2020 |