Honours Specialization

Honours Specialization in English Studies

Graduation Requirements:

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must also satisfy the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree requirements, which include regulations on first year and subject maximum and breadth requirements.

Program Requirements:

Students will need to achieve a minimum 70% average in the 60 credits presented for the Honours Specialization in English Studies.

Students must complete the required three credits of introductory English Studies with a minimum grade of 60%.

Students must complete 120 credits including 60 credits in the Honours Specialization as follows:
ENGL 1000 level		3 cr.
ENGL Literary History I		9 cr.
ENGL Literary History II		9 cr.
ENGL		33 cr.
ENGL Honours Seminars		6 cr.

Breadth Requirements and Electives:

ACAD 1601		3 cr.
Social Science and/or Professional Studies		6 cr.
Science		6 cr.
Electives		45 cr.

Note:

Students are limited to a maximum of 6 credits of English Studies Topics courses at the 1000 level.

An average of at least 70% in the subject is required for enrolment in 4000 level courses.

A maximum of 30 credits at the 2000 level may be applied to the Honours Specialization.

A maximum of 6 credits of 1 credit ENGL courses may count towards the Honours Specialization.

A maximum of 6 credits of cross-listed courses may count toward an English Studies Honours Specialization.

Honours Seminars cannot be counted towards the Literary History requirements.

Group Requirements:

Literary History I

ENGL 2006	British Literature Before 1800
ENGL 2256	Early Canadian Literature
ENGL 2266	Adventurers, Outlaws, or Pioneers of the Frontier: Early American Literature
ENGL 2446	Children's Literature Before 1914
ENGL 2536	Shakespeare Before 1600
ENGL 2537	Shakespeare After 1600
ENGL 2717	Here Be Dragons? Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature in Translation
ENGL 3096	Bawdy Politics: Writing the Restoration
ENGL 3097	Vice and Folly: The Age of Satire, 1660-1730
ENGL 3196	Dangerous Liaisons: The 18th Century Novel
ENGL 3246	Desire and Identity in Early Modern Literature
ENGL 3247	Transgressing Boundaries in Early Modern Literature

Literary History II

ENGL 2007	British Literature After 1800
ENGL 2056	North American Drama
ENGL 2257	Contemporary Canadian Literature
ENGL 2267	“Make It New”: Contemporary American Literature
ENGL 2447	Children's Literature After 1914
ENGL 2816	Illness, Death, and Dying on Stage
ENGL 3146	Topics in Postcolonial Literature
ENGL 3176	Falling Apart: British Literature 1900-1950
ENGL 3177	Contemporary British Literature, 1950 and Beyond
ENGL 3276	Indigenous Literatures of North America
ENGL 3346	The Romantics
ENGL 3347	The Victorians

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