Subject Course Section Course Title Course Description Instructor Files Term
ENGL 310B 001 Chaucer 2

A study of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales".

 Norm Klassen PDF icon 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 PDF icon 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 PDF icon ENGL 251-002_N.Klassen_Winter 2020.pdfPDF icon 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 PDF icon 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 PDF icon 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 PDF icon 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 PDF icon 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 PDF icon 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.

 PDF icon ARTS 140-004_L.Jang_Winter 2020.pdf Winter 2020