3000-Level Course Descriptions

FALL 2026 | FALL WINTER 2026-27 | WINTER 2027

ENGL-3110-770 | Writing Creative Nonfiction | J. Wills
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS

ENGL-3114-770 | Writing Poems | S. Pool
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS

ENGL-3169-001 | Films for Young People | H. Snell
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3709-001 | Topics in Canadian Literature and Culture | D. Wolf
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3719-001 | Literatures of Manitoba | C. Russell
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3723-760 | Topics in Indigenous Literature and Culture | P. DePasquale
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3725-490 | Topics in Cultural Studies | K. Ready
Course Delivery: Stony Mountain Institution

ENGL-3742-001 | Topics in Caribbean Literature | K Sinanan
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3756-001 | Topics in Ancient Literature: Ancient Folklore | C. Tosenberger
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

In this course, we will study popular narratives and beliefs in the Greek and Roman world, through the lens of folklore studies. We will examine some well-known works of literature, some that originate in oral culture and others written as novels (The Golden Ass); we will also look at how widespread folk beliefs about sex, death, and magic affected literature, art, politics, religion, and everyday life. We will pay special attention to narratives of magical transformation, and the role they play in the development of the European fairy tale tradition. Of particular interest will be stories and folk beliefs concerning concepts of the Other—in terms of gender, sexuality, social class, national origin, or religious practice—and their impact on Greco-Roman culture.

ENGL-3980-001 | TOpics in Comics and Graphic Narratives | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

FALL/WINTER 2026-27

ENGL-3151-001 | Critical Theory | A. Brickey
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3724-770 | Topics in Race and Ethnicity | J. Wills
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

WINTER 2027

ENGL-3104-770 | Hybrid Genre Writing | S. Pool
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3160-001 | Topics in Young People's Texts and Culture: Imagning Salem | C. Tosenberger
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

The Salem witch hunt occupies a key place in the American imagination. Despite the fact that the 1692 trials were small-scale, and far less lurid than their European analogues, their imagery—particularly of the howling “afflicted” girls—has become central to Western ideas not just of the early modern witch hunts, but also of the dangers of intolerance, misogyny, religious fanaticism, and judicial malfeasance. In this course, we will examine both historical documentation and literary/media interpretations of the Salem trials, with a special focus on the young people at the centre of the trials as both accusers and accused.

In the first part of the course, we will closely examine the trial documents themselves, to hear the voices of the participants in their own words; through focusing on specific individuals—such as Tituba, Abigail Hobbs, Ann Putnam Jr., and Mercy Lewis—we will see how early New Englanders, and Puritans specifically, constructed and interpreted categories of gender, race, age, class, and ability. Particular attention will be paid to the Puritans’ white supremacist theology, and the impact of ongoing war against Indigenous peoples, on the trials. The second part of the course will study modern creative responses to the trials, in both literature and film, that centre young people; we will be especially concerned here with how Salem has been imagined and invoked as a cultural touchstone.

ENGL-3403-001 | Canadian Drama | Riley
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3725-001 | Topics in Cultural Studies | A. Burke
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3756-002 | Topics in Ancient Literature | Amaral
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3812-001 | History of English | Z. Izydorczyk
Course Delivery: IN PERSON

ENGL-3923-001 | Topics in Women Writers | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON