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The Cultural Studies option concentrates on analysis of forms of cultural expression and symbolic interaction, and of the various media through which these may be disseminated and transformed. Such study concerns symbolic form, aesthetically based forms of analysis, and the various modes of criticism and theory relevant to media which contain both verbal and non-verbal elements. The aim is above all to hone students' analytical and interpretive skills while introducing them to specific critical approaches to cultural studies. This is not a major in journalism or communications; and while many of our graduates go on to do creative work in a variety of media, instruction in film and video production is not part of the curriculum.
For the most up-to-date information on Department requirements and detailed course descriptions, please see the English Department Handbook at .
These courses should be taken in the first two terms of the program.
English (Arts) : A survey of cultural studies, its history and subject matter, presenting key interpretive and analytic concepts, the aesthetic and political issues involved in the construction of sign systems, definitions of culture and cultural values conceptualized both as a way of life and as a set of actual practices and products.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Nystrom, Derek; Orhero, Mathias; Ritchie, Jay (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Required of all U1 Cultural Studies students
English (Arts) : An introduction to key concepts in film studies. Exemplary works from the history of film will be studied to introduce students to such topics as the aesthetics of film; sound's production of meaning; film as narrative; film and genre; period and national cinemas; film's role in culture.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Schantz, Edward (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Restriction: Cultural Studies Major and Honours program students.
English (Arts) : This course examines contemporary debates about the aesthetic dimensions as well as social roles of pictorial, theatrical, cinematic, and other representations, the meanings, effects, and aesthetic significance of which depend on their having visually recognizable features.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Greenwood, Steven (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
Restriction: Limited to students in the English Major Concentration, Cultural Studies Option
27 credits selected as described below.
Note on Topics Courses: The Department of English offers courses which change topic from academic year to academic year. Depending on the topic in a specific year, these courses may count toward different program requirements. At the time they register for a topics course, students should confirm with their program adviser the program requirement it fulfils for that academic year.
3 credits from a list of courses on Major Figures in Cultural Studies:
English (Arts) : A study of the major works of Shakespeare.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Borris, Kenneth H; LeBel, Frédérique; Chenier, Riv (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
English (Arts) : Studies in the history of film: the works of a major director. Topic varies each year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major programs
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a writer important for Modernism, such as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Hepburn, Allan (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
English (Arts) : Studies in the history of film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Restriction: Permission of instructor required
3 credits from a list of courses in Cultural Studies with a Canadian component:
English (Arts) : A study of Canadian cinema.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Thain, Alanna Michael (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
English (Arts) : An introduction to Inuit and First Nations literature and media in Canada, including oral literature and the development of aboriginal television and film.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Stenbaek, Marianne A (Fall)
English (Arts) : Advanced study of a specific area of Canadian culture or Canadian cultural theory.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Stenbaek, Marianne A (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
3 credits from a list of courses on Theory or Criticism:
English (Arts) : Philosophical approaches.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Hensley, David C (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs
English (Arts) : Socio-Historical approaches.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Manshel, Alexander (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs
English (Arts) : Cultural theory now.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Nystrom, Derek; Hill, Adam (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs
English (Arts) : A course focusing on textuality (as opposed to, say, intentionality and interpretation) and on how specific effects are made - how texts work and produce meaning, including rhetoric and form.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.
English (Arts) : Writing, printing, distribution, marketing, and placement within canon-making institutions; the influence of material forms of production and transmission on the creation and reception of literature, film, and theatre.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.
English (Arts) : Introduction to a selection of theories that have influenced thinking about difference across the humanities and social sciences, including gender, sexuality, race, class and hierarchical structures, language, religion, ethnicity, and personal identity.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Nigam, Sunita (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Restriction: Limited to students in English Major and Honours Programs.
3 credits from a list of 400-level courses in Cultural Studies with a theoretical component.
6 credits from a list of courses in Cultural Studies with an historical dimension:
English (Arts) : Developments in proto-cinema and early cinema through the silent era.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
English (Arts) : Developments in the Hollywood Studio Era, including rivals, imitators, and alternatives.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Schantz, Edward (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
English (Arts) : Developments in post-1958 cinema, from the European New Waves to contemporary global and independent cinemas.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
English (Arts) : Study of a significant movement or period in film history.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
English (Arts) : In-depth examination of a significant historical period in cinema's development, early silent era to present.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
English (Arts) : Studies in the history of film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
9 additional credits from the option's offerings which includes all the courses specifically listed in the Cultural Studies categories above and the courses listed below. Any ENGL course not on these Cultural Studies lists, such as courses in Literature, may not count toward the Major Concentration English - Cultural Studies.
English (Arts) : An introduction to film's social, historical, and technological contexts, including its relationships to other mass media.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Students will be required to pay a screening fee.
English (Arts) : Topics on representations of sexuality with reference to its cultural contexts.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Greenwood, Steven (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Priority will be given to English Major/Honours students in second year of program
English (Arts) : A discussion of an individual genre of cinema; concept of genre.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
English (Arts) : An introduction to the study of television and its distinctive aesthetic, generic, and discursive features.
Terms: Fall 2022
Instructors: Stenbaek, Marianne A (Fall)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Prerequisite: ENGL 275
English (Arts) : Topics in film studies. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
English (Arts) : Historical, formal, and thematic analysis of non-fictional and documentary works within cinema, television, and radio.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
English (Arts) : Studies in the history of film by period or nation. Topic varies by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
English (Arts) : Studies in the relationships between the media and culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
Restriction: Permission of instructor required
English (Arts) : A topic in literature and film. Topics vary by year.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
English (Arts) : History and development of important forms of popular culture. Topics may include traditional ballads; fairs; carnivals and popular festivity; material culture; popular fiction; mainstream television.
Terms: Winter 2023
Instructors: Stenbaek, Marianne A (Winter)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
English (Arts) : History and development of important forms of popular culture.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Winter
English (Arts) : The intersection between theories of culture and theories of society.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
English (Arts) : Current issues in cultural studies. Topics will include contemporary debates on high culture and the literary canon, and the question of aesthetic value and aesthetic judgment.
Terms: Winter 2023, Summer 2023
Instructors: Winchcombe, Zachary (Winter) Greenwood, Steven (Summer)
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
English (Arts) : The relationships between theatre and forms of popular culture, including but not limited to cinematic and televisual adaptations of theatrical works.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Prerequisite: ENGL 275
English (Arts) : Study of alternative uses of contemporary media with particular emphasis on the forms of independent video and community television and their relationship to mainstream television and film.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Fall
Workshop course. Departmental permission required
English (Arts) : Intensive study of a particular tradition or movement in international cinema.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2022-2023 academic year.
For the most detailed and up-to-date descriptions of course and seminar offerings please see the Department of English website at .
Students are normally permitted to count 6 credits from other departments toward their English programs. In exceptional circumstances, an adviser who is approached by a student with strong academic grounds for including a third such course may grant permission (to a maximum of 9 extra-departmental credits) and must so indicate in advance by signing the departmental program audit sheet.